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This image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons’ color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing […]
This image, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015, is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto. This natural-color image results
This is an original video edit for Lou Gramm's 'Lost in the Shadows' from the soundtrack of the 1987 Joel Schumacher film 'The Lost Boys'. This version of Lo...
Pars Today – A Lebanese scholar stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran is no longer negotiating from a position of weakness or acting defensively, but...
Sailors travel to the Broken Islands for solitude, with the expectation that others will not anchor too closely. For the past 2 days boats have been anchoring very, and I mean very near us(Gulf Islands in August on a weekend kind of close). With a gale on no less.
Seems like Pino attracts both hummingbirds *and* boats.
MPV with yt-dlp lets you stream from all the same services. With yt-dlp, by itself, you can download from them. If Tor is running, you can even use Tor. You have to be careful to keep yt-dlp up to date. You shouldn't install the version in your distro. It's always going to be about 3 years old and mostly useless.
MinusBrowser (you already knew I was a user of it) has this built in. You can use the Gopher service IdiotBox to search YouTube, and just click on the links. You do have to have the dependencies installed: MPV, XTerm, and Zenity. You also need the plug-in script at codeberg.org/giXzkGsc/Minus-Pr… That plug-in script, yt.sh, will install and keep yt-dlp up to date.
I don't use a smartphone, so the phone app is useless to me. I only connect to the Internet with a PC running a Linux distro. I favor Mint, Linux Lite, and MX Linux. I sometimes use Tails, but I don't like using Gnome as my DE.
OK, I found your problem, ma'am. It's right here, in the code that tells Grok to imitate the human sleazebags who are still on Musk's platform: nytimes.com/2025/07/12/technol…
DebConf 25, the annual Debian Linux conference, includes a presentation by Jeremy Bicha, a Debian, GNOME, & Ubuntu developer convicted of "thousands" of acts...
I'm sure they'll patch this out eventually. I've seen a few projects that are making pre-configured Windows installers that completely skip all the setup and just drop you into a desktop with a default user account and all the telemetry disabled,.
Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world need to wake up to the reality that America is gone, and it's not coming back. Not in our generation, maybe not in a few. The world needs to move on, take the hit, handle the recession, and admit we have a new hermit kingdom on Earth.
"But Quinn, you don't know how much that destroys the global economy and global systems!" Yeah I do, it's going to completely horrible. People will suffer and die, but they are doing that right now, and the rich world is ignoring it, because it's USAID for that? It's dead, it's gone, it's not coming back. If America does come back, it won't ever be the same.
It's broken, we're broken, we're breaking the world. If you refuse to acknowledge the situation, you can't cope with it. The king is mad, and Olympus is fallen, the the fortress is breached, whatever metaphor works for you.
What doesn't work is pretending things are normal, or that you can deal with America like it's a normal nation. It's a nuclear super power gone mad.
If you weren't raised in a dangerously abusive house navigating around a deranged and violent relative, well, now is your chance to learn how to do that.
In general it's to get away as much as you can, don't confront them, and slowly but surely cut them out of your life.
It took a few Scottish sci-fi authors to point this out, but it is the most obvious fact about the concept. Money is a technology for triaging scarcity. It is something you only need when you have to…
Hani al-Dali explains to Al Mayadeen how the Palestinian Resistance's actions and conditions are shaping ceasefire talks and challenging "Israel's" plans in Gaza.
The #US has imposed sanctions on #UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca #Albanese for using her position to oppose the most thoroughly documented #genocide in #history.
At the same time, the US has removed #Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise #HTS from its list of designated terrorist organizations, because its leader successfully carried out the regime change in Damascus that the western empire had been chasing for years.
At the same time, the #UK has added nonviolent anti-genocide activism group #PalestineAction to its list of banned terrorist organizations for opposing the #Gaza holocaust.
At the same time, the Israeli prime minister who is carrying out that holocaust has nominated the American president who is helping him perpetrate genocidal atrocities for a Nobel Peace Prize.
At the same time, Israel has continued its ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza, while also arresting the Israeli journalist who helped expose the #IDF officials who cooked up fake atrocity propaganda about burnt babies on# October7.
At the same time, the #Trump administration has enraged its MAGA base by concluding that Jeffrey #Epstein had no client list for any kind of sexual blackmail operation and definitely committed suicide.
The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes.
They do everything they can to make us stupid via #propaganda, Silicon Valley information control, and indoctrination schooling systems, and then they treat us like we’re morons for the rest of our lives.
The empire depends on ignorance. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out. Now here we are watching a live-streamed genocide unfold right in front of our eyes for nearly two years while being tube fed a daily diet of the most ridiculous lies imaginable.
As Aaron Bushnell said, this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
ANYONE WONDER WHY ALL THE FLOODING IS HAPPENING IN PLACES' WHERE THE COUNTRY OR STATES IS NOT ALWAYS ALIGNING WITH HEGEMONY FROM WASHGINGTO DC AND NATO? DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Estamos aquí viendo con horror como cada vez se juntan más nazis en Torre Pacheco pero os voy a decir una cosa: si miráis los canales de Telegram donde se mueven los votantes de extrema derecha (no hablo de los nazis que se van allí a pegar palos a inmigrantes, hablo de votantes) como el canal de Alvise, por ejemplo, tienen montada tremenda máquina de realidad alternativa donde son los inmigrantes quienes se organizan y básicamente van matando por la calle con machetes a todos los españoles con los que se cruzan.
Ponen imágenes que no se corresponden con los sucesos, de otros países, de otros momentos, incluso de casos donde pintan a víctimas de agresiones homófobas por parte de la extrema derecha de víctimas de los malvados comandos magrebíes. Sin vergüenza ninguna.
¿Y sabéis qué? Da igual que les digas que esas imágenes no se corresponden con los sucesos, esas personas han elegido vivir en esa realidad alternativa y en eses canales están pidiendo: SANGRE.
@jozsi en las próximas elecciones generales esta gente va a sacar muchísimos votos, y precisamente porque estos años el "gobierno más progresista desde el pleistoceno" no ha hecho NADA por pararlos, y ahora su maquinaria de propaganda está incrustadísima en el tejido de la sociedad civil. Esto va a ir a peor antes de ponerse mejor.
@jozsi no solo en las urnas. Con el rollo de la seguridad montan esos canales.
En mi pueblo natal ha crecido tanto el fascismo con el rollo de "para protegernos" que tienen un canal llamado "la patrulla". Y anda medio pueblo metido.
Van informando de gente sospechosa.
Me enteré en una comida y no daba crédito. Dicen que es "porque han crecido mucho los robos". Es falso, viven una irrealidad como comenta @Shine_McShine que no lleva a nada bueno para nadie.
@fanta @jozsi hoy me he levantado de la siesta y he visto que alguien (no sé quien) me había metido en un canal de telegram llamado "salvem Manresa". Era un canal de fascistas catalanistas (votantes de Sivia Orriols) y aquello era un hervidero de bulos, desinformación y xenofobia (y, qué cosas, sionismo). Me he enfadado mucho y he abandonado el grupo, pero me he quedado con un regusto horrible.
Y de nuevo: esto no es espontáneo, ni descentralizado, ni al azar. Hay grupos de personas coordinadas para esparcir esos bulos con una finalidad muy concreta.
Grupos que tienen material audiovisual a su disposición para lanzarlo en los canales adecuados y cosechar las tempestades de la indignación nazi.
Gente perfectamente consciente de que estas actuaciones que llevan a cabo pueden tener consecuencias horribles, y hablo de muertes, y aún así no van a dudar ni un segundo en hacerlo otra vez y las veces que hagan falta.
en el libro "El enemigo conoce el sistema" Marta Peirano lo describe muy bien.
Es algo antiguo, pero recomiendo el libro. No dice nada que tú a estas alturas no sepas, pero lo tienes todo junto... y da miedo. Está muy bien investigado.
(@minipetite pero creo no pasa mucho por Mastodon)
es una telaraña difícil de combatir porque hay mucha gente que ha decidido creerse conscientemente las mentiras que se difunden en esos basureros. No les importa en absoluto la verdad, ya tienen la suya y buscan legitimar su racismo cómo sea.
Y ya no hablo precisamente de los nazis que van a apalear inmigrantes, hablo de la gente que mantiene cierta connivencia o directamente disculpan su violencia.
@LostTransposon @jozsi si perrosanxe no se acobarda (cosa que no descarto) y convoca elecciones anticipadas aún nos quedan dos años antes de que pueda pasar eso. Dos años es un margen de tiempo suficiente como para que si hay voluntad política se pueda hacer algo, pero again, si hay voluntad, y yo del psoe me espero entre cero y nada, por no hablar de los socios de gobierno. Veremos qué pasa pero pintan bastos.
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You can't really understand the MAGA base's sense of betrayal on the Epstein Files without understanding "QAnon" and the long-held belief that Trump is secretly at war against a cabal of Democrat child abusers, writes CNN’s Brian Stelter. cnn.com/2025/07/14/media/trump…
One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something
Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl, is not writing the original tool but rather maintaining it over time, it's important to make good choices from the beginning, and at every major version change
Early in my career, I built a system for a customer that made it easier for their university to automate sending invitations and login instructions for new users.
I missed some key differences in some user environments that weren't covered in my testing, and I ended up sending thousands of malformed login invitations... twice.
If I'd been forced to write separate login invitations manually for each segment of the user population, I would also have been forced to do more fine grained testing and take more care to ensure it works and think through the details.
But as a starryeyed new engineer, I was too excited by the idea of automating the whole thing in one go. I made it too easy to distribute the impact of my mistake, and I wasted the time of thousands of users.
Back in the waterfall days we reckoned about 40% design, 10% coding, 50% testing. Which did on occasion result in nervous clients who observed that we were a third of the way through the timescale and hadn't written any code yet ... but we did usually deliver to spec on time and on budget.
not too long ago, elsewhere, I read a post by someone who had vibe coded an app of 60k lines of code, and was looking for a professional developer to "fix the last bugs [they] couldn't fix with genAI". They had a couple hundred bucks to put on the table. I'd be surprised if their app could not be made with less than 10k locs...
I think it's an immature attitude borne out of people resigned to working within languages and frameworks that force a lot of 'boilerplate' on them, who haven't had a chance to develop the understanding that there are better approaches (more expressive *durable* abstractions, etc)
Proponents of the tool seem to extrapolate from the relative increase in ability of these tools in the past 6 months (mostly due to more cleverly wiring them up to the ability to use external tools and edit files) that in another 6 months they'll solve significant issues of design ... and I'm not seeing evidence of it
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m.
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I just read in the Wall Street Journal that certain areas of San Francisco remain a ‘no go zone’, despite the best and most valiant efforts of our amazing ‘only good mayor in a while’, the billionaire whose mama paid for his campaign.
The no go zone, supposedly, includes the place I live in; where in the same article the same mayor says ‘it also has the highest number of children’
And so the reality of running a council & the views of ReformUK have (without much delay) collided, as Kent Country Council discover the sending migrant workers home might have a major impact on the ability of the council to deliver social care..... oh dear, reality has bit them in the bum.
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As Syria’s new rulers exploit wildfire and war to reshape the coastal region, a campaign of arson and forced displacement threatens to extinguish Alawite presence from their ancestral lands
Less than four month…
G. Edward Griffin needs little introduction—at 93, this author, documentary filmmaker and founder of Unfiltered Media has spent more than half a century exposing hidden power, most famously in The Creature from Jekyll Island, where he traced the secr…
Follow-up to Dr Bhakdi’s urgent warning. From Singapore, stats on dramatic death increases and live birth declines. Projected: 50% pop drop within 10 years.
I’m always a bit cautious of the argument that the barriers are a good thing. That easily slips into harmful gatekeeping if we aren’t careful. It’s not good when programming is inaccessible or unwelcoming.
What •is• good is that writing code slows you down and (if you’re good) makes you •think• about what the heck you’re doing — the work @saraislet is talking about — with a depth and detail that no amount of chin-stroking and up-front design work can match. Skipping that work, however you skip it, is a false gain. infosec.exchange/@saraislet/11…
One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and invest…
Code is a confusing engineering object for our human brains. It is a bit like building a bridge or a kitchen utensil: it’s an object without a mind, it has a function, it can fail, people do unexpected things with it. But it can also feel a bit like a person given a task: it has behavior, it •decides•, it •acts•, it •causes•.
(All arguably true of a bridge too, but most of us don’t think of bridges that way!)
The lay understanding of code leans heavily on the idea that programs are anthropomorphic, little homunculi with agency.
Where that understanding goes wrong is that humans have perception and experience and common sense. And yes, people are foolish and fallible — but ultimately humans are the adaptable element of complex systems[1], and when we design processes involving humans, we always, always lean on that adaptability.
If we say “walk out the door,” humans generally will not just walk face first into the wall just because the door is behind it.
So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what •does• happen when the developer runs their own code, but what •could• happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.
That’s really, really hard. It’s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.
And it’s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code •means• — both to the computers and to the humans.
A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
This AI vibe coding (“kids should not go into coding as a career”) era reminds me of that guidance counsellor in high school (circa 1995) warning us to stay away from the computer industry at large b/c he read an article about Moorse’s law (I assume) and figured they can only make these darn computers run so fast and then that’s it… this was before any true adoption of the Internet.
Hands on coding experience as you’re describing would dispense all the theory.
Ref: I’m still gainfully employed fixing mainframe code 🙃
I remember a similar brief panic about offshore outsourcing. All the programming jobs were going to disappear to other countries…until they didn’t. Prediction is hard, especially of the future.
That’s not necessarily the only way to use machine learning to assist coding. It is, however, one of the “magic diet pills” promises at the heart of the current hype bubble.
Whatever the dev tools of the future look like, until we have Lieutenant-Commander Data, difficult human thought will be at the heart of writing code.
In a saner environment, we’d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.
Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)
this is why I always say that the best thing for me as a dev that makes the biggest difference to my productivity and the quality of my work, is to partner with a great tester
Außenpolitische Sprecherin Disoski wünscht sich Konsequenzen für Israels Regierung wegen Lage in Gaza und kritisiert Meinl-Reisingers Begriff "Schreibtischtätertum". Diese will auf Dialog setzen und sieht sich falsch interpretiert
"Advantage over the enemy": Indian Air Force Su-30MKI successfully fired Astra missiles at targets, which are being developed for the advanced LCA AF MK1A fighter en.topwar.ru/267960-preimusche…
The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Air Force have conducted flight tests of the Astra missile. This is an air-to-air missile.
Whatever your problems were, he is obviously a good heart. My ex refused me access to my dogs and gave one away. When she posted in the national register my girl had died, I sent her a copy of her post and thanked her for the kindest words she ever said about my girl. She always hated that girl but took her fom me.
⭕️L'advocat del pres, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, descriu el seu delicat estat de salut i la denegació deliberada de tractament.
⭕️L'advocada del Dr. Abu Safiya, basant-se en la seua última visita, descriu la brutalitat a la qual és sotmés durant els interrogatoris i les constants pallisses.
⭕️El Dr. Abu Safiya, detingut des del 27 de desembre de l'any passat, ha perdut 40 kg i patix hipertensió i debilitat cardíaca.
⭕️ 360 professionals sanitaris han sigut arrestats des de l'inici de la guerra genocida en la Franja de Gaza.
⭕️ Entre els detinguts es troben metges amb experiència i especialitats importants, accés que se'ls ha negat a pacients i ferits.
⭕️ El Ministeri de Salut insta les autoritats competents a intervindre urgentment per a criminalitzar les pràctiques de l'ocupació contra el personal sanitari detingut i pressionar-los perquè siguen alliberats.
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