Br23.7bn of capital investment utilized in Belarus in H1 2025
In January-June 2025, Br23.7 billion of capital investment was utilized in Belarus, BelTA learned from the National Statistical Committee of BelarusBelarusian Telegraph Agency
In January-June 2025, Br23.7 billion of capital investment was utilized in Belarus, BelTA learned from the National Statistical Committee of BelarusBelarusian Telegraph Agency
The government was once a steady partner for nonprofits. That's changing
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Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces
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World markets are mixed and Japan's shares dip after election leaves Ishiba's future in doubt
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27 inmates are still at large following an Israeli airstrike during the 12-day war, Iran says
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And there you have it. A ragbag of fascist thugs. That's all they are.
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The Reform council leader said police should have ‘the proper backing’ to shoot peopleArchie Mitchell (The Independent)
And that from a Tory...
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Tory MP Kit Malthouse has condemned foreign secretary David Lammy for his and the government's complicity in Israel's crimes in Gaza.Charlie Herbert (The London Economic)
Still, politicians, media, and profiting corporations in the West remain silent or worse still support a genocidal regime that is out of control. Enough.
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Head of UN Palestinian Refugee Agency says health workers, journalists and humanitarians are fainting while performing dutiesJoe Coughlan (The Guardian)
Drivers on a busy Florida highway were in for a surprise when police pulled over an intoxicated man behind the wheel — of a lawn mower.Richard Pollina (New York Post)
Three Palestinian citizens, including two elderly people, were injured early Monday morning after being assaulted by Israeli occupation forces in the Dhnaba suburb, east of Tulkarm.www.saba.ye
More Palestinians are now dying of hunger than in Israeli strikes. The Israeli blockade of Gaza has plunged the Strip into a severe malnutrition crisis.In th...YouTube
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Vuelvo brevemente para ver si podéis echarme un cable. Un amiguito está buscando piso/habitación en Valencia. ¿Sabéis de algo? ¿Alguien que busque un compi de piso? ¿Algún hashtag que pueda usar para darle a esto más alcance?
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The brother of martyred scientist, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Seddighi Saber, said, My family members were martyred only for trying to make Iran grow and proud.iranpress.com
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I'm looking for work in Berlin, or Germany, or remote. I'm especially experienced in programming language/compiler front end design, and working with DSLs, as well as all the usual backend and database skills in high level languages. I can also do basic frontend work. I'm also especially passionate about electronic engineering, with a degree in the subject and a lot of hobby work, especially around low-EMI board layout and design for manufacture.
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@brettm it’s pretty different. with CGI the web server runs a program, sets env vars for it, pipes the request body into it, sends its stdout as the response, then the program’s life is over. with FastCGI a similar protocol is simulated, but the web server doesn’t run programs, it instead talks with a persistent FastCGI application server over a socket and goes like “hey server new request here is env vars here is stdin run the thingy and gimme stdout” and the fcgi server acts like it runs a program as requested and sends its stdout. The “Fast” of FastCGI is obtained from the fact that the fcgi server doesn’t actually need to exec
a real executable and can be specialized for an application’s needs; php-fpm for example doesn’t need to run the php interpreter from scratch and parse and compile the php code every time, it can instead initialize it once and cache the compiled bytecode across requests, saving time
Some web servers like nginx support FastCGI but not CGI; it shouldn’t be difficult to make a fastcgi server that translates it to normal cgi, but having to run a fcgi server in addition to the web server might be a slight inconvenience
Yeah, let's give an American company access to loads of government data and pay them a load of money to run the government for us using software that systematically fabricates false information and has nasty racial biases. That'll surely stimulate the UK economy.
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The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to 'deliver prosperity for all'.Mitchell Labiak & Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)
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For discipline. For knowledge. For inner strength.
Panic kills faster than radiation.
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Bright flash? Don’t look. Drop down. Cover your ears and mouth.
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Organizers stated that they had video footage of the individuals responsible for the delivery and called for an immediate investigation.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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With VERT you can quickly convert any image, video and audio file. No ads, no tracking, open source, and all processing (other than video) is done on your device.vert.sh
Palestinian sources: Death toll from yesterday’s aid seekers massacre in Al-Sudaniya, northwest Gaza, rises to 99english.masirahtv.net
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I know av1 is even better than h.265, h.265 being better than h.264
However, I don’t know where to put vpP09, vp9 and avc1
Audio formats: what’s better? m4a or webm?
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Ogham script is an early Medieval alphabet with an obscure history. It was used to write the Irish language between the 4th and 9th centuries CE.TheCollector
Great page to consult Ogham and any other writing system
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The Ogham alphabet was used in Ireland and Britain between about the 4th and 7th centuries AD to write Irish, Welsh, Latin and Pictish.www.omniglot.com
The strategy that the United States and its European allies have adopted to use Ukraine as their military proxy in a war to weaken Russia has always involved a sizable element of risk.Antiwar.com
Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years.Antiwar.com
On COI #821, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from Israel and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.Antiwar.com Blog
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Nombreux articles sur Gaza, ce matin dans Le Monde. Si vous n’êtes pas abonné, ça peut valoir le coup d’acheter Le Monde papier de l’aprèm.
Et puis, il y a cet article sur le tourisme d’Israéliens à la longue-vue : À Sderot, chaque jour, des Israéliens viennent contempler, d’un promontoire transformé en mémorial du 7-Octobre, la guerre qui ravage l’enclave palestinienne. « C’est le meilleur spectacle en ville ! »
“Not all Israelis” sûrement, et ceux de Sderot ont souvent des proches victimes du 7 octobre, mais ça fait mal.
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Chaque jour, des Israéliens viennent contempler, d’un promontoire transformé en mémorial du 7-Octobre, la guerre qui ravage l’enclave palestinienne et fait, quotidiennement, des dizaines de morts.Lucas Minisini (Le Monde)
The European Union has decided not to take any action to hold Israel accountable for the genocide, despite finding that Israel is in breach of the human righ...YouTube
"If they keep their promises, by the end of 2025, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Tesla will have spent over $560 billion in capital expenditures on #AI in the last two years, all to make around $35 billion."
Just imagine if all that money were invested in making their businesses carbon neutral.
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We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation
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CherryTree Computers has made the conscious choice not to continue paying for accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). We realize that this may raise questions among our customers, and we want to explain why we made this decision.Consetta Parker (CherryTree Inc)
What will become of the CIA?
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I feel obliged to be very clear. I am not a luddite. I’m not anti-technology. In any case it would be a losing battle. I can see a lot of areas in which #AI has an important place and where it could make our lives much, much better.
The fact that it is being applied in areas that rob us of our voices, of our creative expression, of the need to build skill to attain the proficiency that engenders pride….
Wow. How fucking self-hating is that?
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Not when the contemporary English is fully established malicious history-distorting propaganda, it isn't.
What the UK needs are *mass protests* with hundreds of thousands of people holding those “I OPPOSE GENOCIDE – I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION” signs.
They can arrest 50.
They can arrest 100.
They cannot arrest 100,000.
They cannot arrest a million.
#Palestine #PalestineAction #FreePalestine #UK #protest #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #YourGovernmentHasFailed #powerToThePeople
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Mount Rainier earthquake swarm of July, 2025
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The PNSN is the authorative seismic network for Washington and Oregon state.Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
Learned about that one in a college geology class. Summary: don't be one of the 150K people living on the lahars from past eruptions.
Sounds like one county has evacuation drills and limitations on development in the danger zone, but another doesn't. And insufficient funding for any of it.
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Yep, it's a mess.
The world is full of people putting houses where they oughtta damn well know they really, really shouldn't.
That really stuck with me after years of hiking with my parents, and them pointing out the geological and forestry details so many times, "Yep, this is a flood plain." etc.
He knows this line works on our racists. IMO we should still know how to refute it.
Thousands of non-combatants were held in Israeli torture facilities such as Sde Teiman. Their imprisonment was unlawful and a greater injustice. So Hamas took innocents, but Israel took many more. To demand one-sidedly they let go of their bargaining chip, shows Israel are again forcing their racism on the Palestinians, and that they kill random non-combatants when even some of them don't submit to it.
I just blocked and reported this (German) guy who argued the same way:
"Palestinians are starting war after war since 80 years and are constantly loosing the wars they started. Maybe, since they 'keep running against a wall' since 80 years, they should just accept what Israel 'offers' them. Also, it's their own fault if they're genocided, since they won't release the hostages."
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@Rainer_Rehak@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org Die Antwort auf die vielen Warums ist, dass es eine vollkommen andere Situation ist. Der Ukraine ist vertraglich Souveränität versichert worden. Von Seiten Russlands, GBs und der USA.Mastodon
Sheffield activists blockade arms factory
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"Forged Solutions produce parts for Israeli F-35 fighter jets ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Sheffield group Stop Arming Israel says its activists early this morning (22 July) blockaded weapons parts manufacturer Forged Solutions in the Meadowhall industrial area. They plan to remain until 10am and expect this to result in the factory being shut down for
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Forged Solutions produce parts for Israeli F-35 fighter jets ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Sheffield group Stop Arming Israel says its activists early this morning (22 July) blockaded weapons parts manufacturer Forged Solutions in the Meadowhall industrial area…anarchy (Freedom Press)
Russian attacks in Ukraine kill a child and wound 24 before planned direct peace talks
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This is an interesting project.
I think I would switch to a simple laser pointer with perhaps a pinhole in front of it to narrow the beam, and I would make the eye stationary and move the laser instead.
This has the additional benefit of measuring angle, which makes it equivalent to an autocollimator - but it's actually better because it becomes more precise the further you place the eye from the emitter.
He says it has a 3 micron pixel size, and if we just assume that's the resolution, then putting the sensor 2 meters from the emitter will give you 1/3 of 1 arc-second graduation. Putting it 4 meters away will give 1/6th of an arc-second. Putting it behind a rifle scope or telescope would result in an insane amount of angular precision, more than you can ever hope to actually make a part to.
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Because of how image sensor technology has progressed, we can use that as the basis of a highly accurate measurement device. This tool works by reading the l...YouTube
It strikes me that you can make very high quality surfaces using only a low fidelity CNC router and a high precision flatness measuring technique.
What you do first is modify the CNC router so that it is able to spring on the Z axis, so that Z position in fact corresponds to downforce.
Then you need to derive a surface height map, and put that into an algorithm which can output a polishing tool path. The correct amount of downforce and time for removing a specific number of microns must be determined, for the tool, grit, and material.
But with that information known, you can put the map of high spots into a tool path plotting algorithm and it should give you a tool path that is believed will knock down the high spots.
Assuming the algorithm does actually remove the high spots and doesn't just make the problem worse, you can zero in on the goal by switching to more and more gentle polishing tools.
When you're down to nanometer scale diamond grit on a fuzzy pad making a mirror finish, you've basically gone as far as you can go.
You probably need to build a small random-orbital tool for the router because simple rotation does not do the right thing.
The real limitation on laser angle measurement is dynamic range. If you put a 10x scope in front of a camera with a 5mm wide optical receiver, that's the equivalent of now having an 0.5mm wide optical receiver. But you only need 1 meter of distance for better than 1/10th of 1 arc-second graduations, which is very good.
Arc-seconds are small, about 5 microns per meter. If you had a mile long wrench and you pushed the far end of it by about 3/8ths of an inch, that will rotate the bolt 1 arc-second.
To aid in alignment, there can be a cover over the aperture with a hole the size and shape of the aperture itself, so that if the laser is missing the target, it is obvious whether it's missing left, right, high, or low.
Also 1/2 mm is a really small aperture, so you would think the laser also needs to be a 1/2 mm beam, but that's not how lenses work. The lens takes every ray of light with the same *angle* and directs it to the same point on the receiver, so the laser only needs to emit *parallel* light rays, it doesn't need to emit a point. Industrial lasers with adjustable focus are like 5$ online.
Putting a cover over the lens will still work because the lens tells the camera sensor exactly what *angle* the light comes from even if it's only catching 10% of it. In addition, it can help keep stray light out of the camera, and avoid the laser light from washing it out.
Minor errors in focus are a blessing in disguise because they spread the light over more pixels which gives you more confidence when you solve for the where is the center of the light.
In order to establish that a surface is flat, you need 2 optical receivers at a right angle from each other. In theory you could setup one and then move it, but it's not worth it to not be able to come back to your measurements because you dislocated the receiver.
To realistically set something up for measurement, the receivers need to be able to be adjusted up and down, but this does not require precision in any way, and it's just meant to bring them close enough that the laser hits the aperture, then they can be locked in place.
The measurement process would begin by leveling up the workpiece by eye, then verifying that the X receiver can pick up the laser at the 4 corners of the work - or at least 3 of them (in case of a very high corner). Then, without moving the part, you adjust the Y receiver until it can pick up the 4, or at least 3 corners that the X can pick up. Then you just start working over the part, collecting points and angular deviation which can be resolved into a height map.
Putting a "normal" camera above the workspace can help because then the computer can know where on the work you measured when you got a specific measurement, no need to manually record the results...
Bangladesh mourns 31 dead in jet crash as students protest to demand accountability
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As Azerbaijan-Russia relations cool, discussions emerge in Baku about the potential deployment of a Turkish military base. Is this a random development —Александр Сваранц (New Eastern Outlook)
It's politicians and those profiting from the genocide that are letting it happen
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A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick MaynardNick Maynard (The Guardian)
Just had a video call with @Aseelsehwel from Gaza. Like every family there, they need your help to survive.
Our governments have failed us, we are the only ones who can help. Your donations go directly to keeping families like Aseel’s alive as they struggle to survive Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
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Even if the western media convinced us that german population is pro-genocide it seems like the opposite. German population is against the aid given to zionist entity, but all the parties (maybe some exception) are pro-#genocide. #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #GermanComplicity #EuComplicity #GovernmentAsEnemy
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‘I Just Couldn’t Stop Crying’: How Prison Affects Black Men’s Mental Health Long After Their Release
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"Mike returned home to Philadelphia after a 15-year prison sentence and suffered an emotional breakdown. “I just couldn’t stop crying … I don’t know. It was the anxiety. It was just a lot,” he said. “I was under a lot of pressure and it just came crashing
Led By Donkeys have carried out a powerful protest outside Labour HQ, objecting to the government supplying weapons to Israel.Charlie Herbert (The London Economic)
Germany: CALL TO DEFEND SÜNDI + HAMBI, AUTUMN 2025
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"The Megamachine spreads its devastating skewers in all directions: towards the ocean floor, other planets, and the last remaining areas of wilderness on Earth. There are many places to take a stand against a suicidal culture which, if not thwarted, will not stop before all known lifeforms have been consumed by runaway technological expansion. Not …
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Guilty of the ‘Crime’ of Being Palestinian, Punishment: Execution
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"My long solidarity with Palestine and Palestinians is well-known. I have written two books and countless articles on this topic, and have spoken publicly about it for years. During that time, I connected through social media with many people in Palestine, and established friendships with a few, who I never actually met in
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