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I appreciate this piece, but I want to correct the record on one point. I don't talk about LLMs as making "collages" but rather as making papier-mâché, and the difference matters!
When an artist uses materials with text on them to create a collage, it's natural to assume that they chose the materials in part for the meaning of the text they include. Papier-mâché, on the other hand, uses paper (usually newsprint) simply for its physical properties. The text is incidental.
I use this metaphor to highlight, yet again, that LLMs don't work with the meaning of the text they process & extrude -- just the form.
"As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen."
The Fed Gov Demands Data from #SNAP —But Says Nothing About Protecting It
part of a larger effort by #Trump admin to gain “unfettered access to comprehensive data from all state programs that receive federal funding,” thru #EO14243. While the order says this data sharing is intended to cut down on fraud, it is written so broadly that it could auth almost any data sharing…flies in the face of well-established data #privacy practices & places people at considerable risk.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a troubling order to all state agency directors of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP): hand over your data.
They only pay authors 30% in royalties (even if they price above 2.99) when someone buys a book through Amazon COM while not actually living in the US.
That's right. Amazon "steals" 40% of my royalties because the customer is in a different location that the USA.
Why?
Because they can. Because we authors let them get away with that. No other store does this.
Hannah Steenbock is a German writer of fantasy and science fiction. She uses both her native German and English as languages for her tales, as she loves English and tends to think in that language when plotting Fantasy.
Je viens d'entendre sur une chaîne YouTube (qui commence toujours en ce moment ses vidéos par demander une aide financière car ses comptes bancaires ont soit disant été bloqués sans avertissement) «qu'elles font le déplacement à bord d'un "yacht" où elles diffusent des photos indécentes de leurs vacances.» une critique un peu facile venant d'un bureau en France, qui ne comprend pas plus la cause de l’activisme engagé, que la différence entre un yacht et un voilier.
@Américo DA SILVA ah ah ça doit être ces connards de TV Libertés. De gros fachos. De toute façon c'est assez basique : si tu n'admets pas le principe de base que les Palestiniens ont le droit de vivre, tu es un enculé de sale nazi.
Alors les fachos de merde qui chient sur des gens qui risquent leur vie pour en aider d'autres, franchement je les encule avec du gravier, après quoi je leur chie dans la bouche et je leur pisse dessus.
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"Die Bundesregierung hat bisher KEINE israelischen Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza abschließend festgestellt. Dabei prüft das Auswärtige Amt die endlosen Beispiele angeblich seit vielen Monaten."
Unterstützt unsere Arbeit ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaivDiskutiert im Jung & Naiv Forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/ Bundesregierung für Desinteressierte ...
@bifouba Die Aussagen von der Bundesregierung sind wirklich nur noch Gaslighting.
Ich freue mich aber, dass innerhalb der Linkspartei langsam der Wind dreht. Dass sie jetzt die JDA statt die IHRA nehmen und dass nun eben Menschen wie Köktürk im Bundestag sitzen, ist eine gute Entwicklung.
Meinem Eindruck nach liegt das vor allem auch an den jungen Leuten, die neu in der Partei sind und inzwischen so große Mehrheiten bilden, dass sie die Antdeutschen (und die Reformer) überstimmen können.
Looking at some clothing in the archives today. Here's a jumpsuit worn by Thalia Campbell on the 1981 march from Wales to Greenham Common in protest at proposal to site cruise missiles at the US army base. She dyed it purple, inspired by the colours of the women's suffrage movement.
And here's peace activist and CND campaigner Pat Arrowsmith's jacket. It was her father's Civil Defence warden's jacket which Pat wore in the 50's and 60's, and has attached a peace badge to it.
Pat, ineligible to inherit her father's money unless she was married to a man (she was a lesbian), married an anarchist poet for one day to qualify for the inheritance, then had the marriage annulled and donated the money to Sappho and Gay Pride Week 1979.
Update – US Approved Moderna’s CARCINOGENIC Next-Gen COVID sa-mRNA Vaccine. FDA & CDC Shady Moves vs RFK Jr.
American cardiologist Peter McCullough and epidemiologist Nicholas Hulsher, who published many study on Covid vaccines, confirmed that are the dangerous new sa-mRNA technology
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO The latest articles published by the most authoritative American medical bloggers are destined to stir up a huge hornet's nest all over the world for various reasons: FDA (Food and Drug Administrat…
Israel's defense exports jumped over 13% in 2024 to $14.8 billion, even as overall Israeli exports contracted 5.6%. The defense sector now represents nearly 25% of Israel's goods exports and approaching 10% of total exports.
Europe became the dominant market, accounting for 54% of defense exports (up from 35% in 2023) as countries increased military spending amid the Ukraine war. Air defense systems, missiles and rockets comprised 48% of exports, with Israeli technology proving effective against drone and missile threats.
However, industry sources report that images from #Gaza are complicating deal closures. #Spain recently froze a nearly $300 million Spike missile deal due to the situation in Gaza. Defense companies face parliamentary opposition in European countries and competitors using the Gaza war to discourage purchases of Israeli systems.
Sales to Abraham Accords countries reached $1.8 billion (12% of total exports), while Asian exports dropped from $6.3 billion to $3.4 billion due to major 2023 deals with India and Azerbaijan not repeating.
היצוא הביטחוני נהפך לדומיננטי במיוחד במשק, נוכח זינוק של 13% בו ב-2024, ל-52 מיליארד שקל ■ העוסקים בתחום מדווחים כי התמונות מעזה מקשות על סגירת עסקות, אך יש המאמינים ש-2025 תהיה אפילו טובה יותר
#Palestine / 12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank
Diplomatic missions from #UK, #Germany, #France and 9 other nations issued joint statement expressing solidarity with residents of Mughayir a-Deir who were forced to abandon homes due to settler violence and Israeli authorities' failure to provide protection.
As has been common practice for years, Israeli settlers established an outpost meters from a Palestinian village. The community was forced to flee after escalating violence and threats. Seven neighboring communities have already been displaced following the same pattern. Tens of thousands in Area C face "high or imminent risk" of forcible transfer.
These countries demand Israel dismantle the outpost and allow safe return. They call this a violation of international law and demand Israel respect the prohibition on forcible transfer.
**JOINT PRESS STATEMENT** **WEST BANK, JUNE 2025**
**DIPLOMATIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN MUGHAYIR A-DEIR**
The undersigned diplomatic missions express their strong solidarity with the Palestinian community of Mughayir a-Deir. The community's long-standing residents were recently forced to abandon their homes and belongings due to escalating settler violence and a prevailing climate of impunity.
Israeli settlers have established an outpost just metres from the community, which is a clear violation of international law. Mughayir a-Deir was one of the last remaining Palestinian communities in the area. Seven neighbouring communities have already been displaced amid a broader and deeply troubling pattern of violent settler attacks and a lack of protection by the Israeli authorities.
We therefore urge the Israeli authorities to dismantle the outpost immediately and to take urgent and effective measures to enable the safe return of the displaced residents. It is imperative that the community is protected from further violence and intimidation.
Mughayir a-Deir is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of displacement in Area C of the West Bank, where a coercive environment marked by repeated settler violence, movement restrictions, land confiscation, demolitions and inadequate access to essential services is making life unbearable and pushing communities to leave. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Area C face a high or imminent risk of forcible transfer. This alarming trend gravely undermines prospects for a just and lasting peace.
We call on Israel to respect its obligations under international law, including the prohibition of forcible transfer. We also reaffirm our clear and consistent opposition to settlements, which are illegal under international law. We emphasise Israel's responsibility to protect all Palestinian communities in Area C.
*The Consulates General of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Representative Offices of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, as well as the Office of the European Union Representative to the West Bank and Gaza*
Houthi attacks are forcing major operational changes:
[...] He [Colonel (Res.) Yair Kulas, head of SIBAT - the Defense Export and Defense Cooperation Directorate at Israel's Ministry of Defense] also referred to supply chain challenges: 'The supply chain is challenging due to shipping routes that have been changed under the Houthi threat, Ben Gurion Airport which has been blocked at times due to missile launches. So if we need to be more flexible, we are being flexible. And if there is a demand from the purchasing country for local production on its territory, we establish manufacturing activity there.'"
While Israeli defense companies acknowledge supply chain challenges from Houthi attacks on shipping routes Operation Prosperity Guardian , European naval missions provided free security for Israeli exports. Rather than diverting resources to Red Sea security, Israel can maintain focus on high-value defense production for the European market surge. While European militaries absorb the costs and risks of confronting Houthis and Israeli arms companies profit from the resulting demand.
#Nestlé-Lobbyistin Klöckner, #CDU, eine Partei, die #Israel für deren #Genozid und Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza und #Westbank Waffen liefert, die Haftbefehle des #IStGH gegen #Netanyahu und #Galant untergräbt - ein Merkmal rechtsextremer, verfassungsfeindlicher Politik - wirft Casin #Köktürk, #Linke aus dem Bundestag, weil sie einen Pullover mit der Aufschrift "#Palästina" trägt.
Die CDU / #CSU ist rechtsextrem und demokratiefeindlich.
Cansin Köktürk hat im Bundestag eine T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift »Palestine« getragen. Das war für die Parlamentspräsidentin zu viel: Sie schmiss die Linken-Abgeordnete aus dem Plenum.
"Wadephul im Plenarsaal: #Deutschland wird weiterhin an #Israel Waffen liefern. Kein Wort zu über 50.000 Toten und verletzten Kindern. Ich werde von Frau #Klöckner aufgefordert den Plenarsaal zu verlassen, weil auf meinem Shirt „Palestine“ steht. Ihr habt alle dermaßen versagt." #Linke
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00:00 Intro 00:37 Sponsor: 100$ off your own Linux, or gaming server! 01:29 What does THAT mean? 02:03 Fedora Pushes Toward the Future of Linux 04:19 The Excitement Factor 05:22 Fedora keeps stability while being current 08:06 Fedora has the default experience 09:46 Fedora has a big community 10:27 Parting Thoughts 11:42 Sponsor: Get your Linux laptop or desktop with Slimbook 12:07 Support the channel
Just to be clear, when I say that Fedora is the new Ubuntu, I mean that Fedora now occupies the place that Ubuntu used to have in terms of Linux distributions. It's a GOOD thing.
One of the things I really enjoy about using Fedora, is that they push the Linux desktop towards the future. Some call it bleeding edge, but it's not. It's cutting edge: you don't get the absolute latest, but you get the best that's also stable.
Fedora was among the first to adopt Wayland, the first to adopt Pipewire, to push Flatpak, portals, the first mainstream distro to push immutable filesystems in Fedora Silverblue.
This drive towards modern tech was what Ubuntu was doing back in the day: they were implementing the latest versions of GNOME, adopted newly developed programs at the time, like Banshee, or F-Spot, they pushed to have better driver integration, and more software available.
Using Fedora, I got that same excitement I used to get when I was using Ubuntu: every 6 months, there's a new drop of amazing updates. You get more modern technologies, you get improved security, you get new features right as they're being released, and you get that sense of really taking advantage of all that new stuff the Linux community talks about.
Fedora is a "current" distro, which means that you get the latest release of all the interesting stuff, like the desktop environments, the linux kernel, the graphics drivers, or wayland. And they do this without sacrificing stability.
Fedora, in my experience with it, has been rock solid. In general, I didn't have many problems with any Linux distro that I daily drove, but all of them tended to exhibit small issues after a while.
My experience with Fedora has been fantastic thanks to this: Flatpak is wonderfully integrated in the GNOME Software app, it's all a one click install, all updates are handled there, I just never think about my system anymore, I just use it. That peace of mind is something I never truly achieved with any other Linux distro
Another thing I really like is that Fedora has the DEFAULT experience. They ship the desktop as is, without any meaningful extensions, themes, configurations, or tweaks.
It's just productivity central. GNOME, for me, doesn't need anything else than the default experience. It is extremely efficient once you wrap your head around how it works, and providing me with a crutch, like an always visible dock, or desktop icons, would just compromise that productivity.
Moving to Fedora also had me learn a few things, especially how to use dnf. I didn't need to use it, but I wanted to; and since I was a lot more familiar with APT, I had no idea what I was doing.
Turns out, Fedora has a huge community as well, something Ubuntu has had since it began, so it's another checkmark next to my "Fedora is the next Ubuntu" checklist
Jean-Luc Mélenchon est intervenu sur Al Jazeera pour un échange avec Rima Hassan qui est à bord de la Freedom Flotilla, aux côtés de Greta Thunberg, l’équipa...
Une évaluation des mois passés par Trump à la Maison Blanche par un éminent commentateur de CNN.
Stephen Collinson a déclaré :
Au cours de ses quatre mois à la Maison Blanche, Trump s’est livré à des menaces de droits de douane, à des déclarations sur son désir d’annexer le Canada et le Groenland et à la destruction de programmes humanitaires dans le monde entier.
Le résultat, selon lui, est :
« À l'heure actuelle, les dirigeants chinois, russes, israéliens, européens et canadiens ont constaté que Trump n'est plus aussi puissant qu'ils le pensent. Ils en concluent donc qu'il est possible de lui désobéir sans conséquences. » (E)
Seuls les Arabes prennent au sérieux ses bêtises quotidiennes, achètent ses faveurs et lui offrent des concessions, tout en soulignant nécessairement leur rejet de son plan de déplacement de Gaza, mais sans prendre de positions qui contrecarreraient son potentiel ultérieur.
Were the covid gene therapy injections selectively targeted at people of a non-Indian heritage? If you look at Mark Crispin Millers posts I don't recall seeing many Indians there. Could be wrong but majority by far of fatalities were people of European or African descent.
Have additionally been trying to understand for quite some time why I was being nagged via text messages during covidhoax to update my 'ethnicity' with my local general practitioners office. I got about six messages telling me to do so all of which I ignored. It was a high priority item for them for reasons I still don't quite understand.
There was also the paper that came out of India indicating that the novelty flu pathogen selectively biased certain 'ethnicities' toward poorer outcomes. Europeans and Africans came off worst I believe. RFKjr mentioned this paper which was reported on widely and immediately became controversial - so it was obviously meant to be seen by as many as possible.
Novelty pathogen with ethnicity bias coupled with novelty injections with an ethnicity bias. Would be so easy to conflate the two and thereby validate the conclusion of that paper from India.
And while all this was happening Africans and Europeans across the west were supposed be engaged in a terrible 'race war' thanks to Pierre Kory thereby depleting their ranks, assets and resources etc. Indians were fully exempt from this supposed whacky racer war aside from helping to stir it all up.
The timing of it all matches perfectly with the progression of the corona hoax. I actually think this very plausibly was the original plan which didn't meet expectations by quite some wide margin. Left everyone puzzled and confused more than anything else which was then followed by an awkward pause like it was now fully off-script so no one was really sure what to do next.
Then Ukraine happened and like right out of nowhere AI became the newest current thing. It just blew up exactly as you'd expect if someone had been sitting on it waiting for exactly the right moment.
It was going to change everything then didn't except get everyone talking about it. Perhaps the controllers of the corona hoax were a little too overconfident into its potential as a labor saving gimmick. Now we find out that a big AI project being run out of India was a giant hoax. So that stymied the AI takeover.
> At the same time, we observe that lower-income individuals, despite having smaller ecological impacts, often express stronger pro-environmental attitudes.
> The very economic processes that enable societies to develop environmental consciousness simultaneously intensify their physical impact on ecosystems, creating a disconnect between stated environmental values and actual environmental outcomes.
> At the individual level, a different dynamic emerges. Despite their greater environmental impact, affluent groups exhibit less environmental concern and prioritize economic growth over ecological protection. This highlights the limitations of post-materialist narratives, which assume that affluence inherently fosters environmental responsibility. In contrast, lower-income individuals within the US—despite their smaller carbon footprints—consistently exhibit stronger pro-environmental attitudes
@FediThing Might be. There's certainly some research that might support that.
The writers of the paper argue that because lower-income groups are more exposed to the impacts of environmental degradation. More volatile weather and pollution have a material impact on their lives in ways that the richer classes do not experience.
IMO, it probably a mix of both and other factors and incentives (i.e. the rich are more likely to fall for propaganda about ethical and pro-environmental consumption)
Israel’s decision last week to create 22 new settlements in the West Bank was reported as somewhat uneventful news in the media. The reality is, however, that it’s the latest in a series of moves to cement Israeli control of the occupied territory.
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
"a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets [WebRTC]. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts."
similar to what ebay does. seems like facebook wants another maximum GDPR fine (which should be increased btw). these attacks should be mitigated by disabling (e.g. uBlockO), blocking tracking scripts (e.g. uBlockO), android without Android Advertising ID (GrapheneOS) and avoiding facebook and yandex sites and apps or better yet all proprietary spyware apps (f-droid.org)
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
The tracking technique described at https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/ is prevented by Vanadium's default "Disabled non-proxied UDP" value.
Seems to be a kind of online conference. For being open source focused it's opening is very salesy/buzzword salad-ish.
"Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.
After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.
FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web."
Edit: unexpectatly we are back online. Will share how we found a solution later. There might be still some federation issues though.
Alt account of poVoq@slrpnk.net here.
Our instance is currently down and I can't get remote access to the servers. It appears that there might have been a hardware failure of the main firewall, which is the one thing I can't work around remotely.
I am still trying a few things, but I am not very optimistic that I can get access.
The really unfortunate part is that just now I am on one of my rare work deployments abroad, so I also can't access it physically during the next few weeks and my usual back up that could restart it is not available either.
As something like that never happened in 3 years operating the servers, I thought I can risk it, but murphy's law seems inescapable 😓
I will try to keep you posted here on any updates, but probably there will not be much I can do for a while. Really bad timing 😥
Edit: we might use this "opportunity" to migrate the instance to Piefed, which has been an idea for quite some time now. I will keep you posted on that.
Very very bad timing. I just moved to that server and now it is just gone. I have moved to another server. I guess I am glad that it happened now so I know how poorly Slrpnk.net is managed.
Out of 3 years of reliable service, this is the one time the server has been down for any length of time, and only due to the admin not being able to be physically present for a wildly unlikely and unexpected problem.
I know, I'm the one who approved your application.
You happened to sign up right before we've had our first particularly bad issue in 3 years. Unlucky, yes, but it's a bit out of order (IMO) to say we're a poorly managed instance based on that, especially seeing as you lost nothing besides the time it took to write your application. :\
Alt of ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net chiming in, thanks for giving us the sitrep, poVoq!
This is an unusually unlucky set of circumstances, but for the Solarpunks who find their way here, let's try to make the best of it. If you don't already have an alternative account somewhere, you may want to create one to use until we're back up and running. lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, or lemmy.cafe are some solid choices to consider. After that, you may want to favorite poVoq's post here so you can check back on any news.
Even without our home base, we can still share the solarpunky stuff we find and create around the threadiverse (though as Tofu mentioned, maybe this could be a time to take a breather to be refreshed when we come back 😄).
Besides, if the past is any indication, time will fly by and we'll be back before you know it!
Well, on the plus side lots of lessons learned and I think I might move at least the xmpp server to an external vps to have a backup communication channel.
Not sure about your area, but a wireguard accessible OOB connection is a great piece of kit to keep handy. I use a cheap 768kbps SIM in an Ethernet connected switch into my personal systems. It's saved my skin numerous times.
I'm sure this is obvious, especially in hindsight, but just mentioning because the existence of IoT LTE data plans for a minimal fee ( $100/year for me in Midwest US) was NOT obvious to me until 2 years ago.
Yeah I had plans to set up something like that, but always other priorities and in this specific case I could maybe access other internal servers but i would need KVM access to reboot the firewall or some other way to cut physical power. And exfiltrating hundreds of GBs of lemmy database wouldn't work over such a small pipe either.
Hey fellow slrpnk.net refugees... if you're looking to recreate your list of subscribed communities, here's a good place to start:
::: spoiler click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.
Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they're not the focus.
::: spoiler click here for a list of (mostly non-political) meme communities
MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR
Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that's not the sole focus.
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!196@pawb.social
!19684@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!2meirl4meirl@lemmy.world
!4chan@lemmy.world
!4chanFails@feddit.nl
!absoluteunit@sh.itjust.works
!ancientinternet@lemmy.world
!animemes@ani.social
!antimeme@lemmy.world *
!atbge@lemmy.world
!antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
!are_the_straights_ok@lemmy.blahaj.zone *
!atheistmemes@lemmy.world
!badrealestate@feddit.uk *
!bonehurtingjuice@lemmy.ca
!coaxedintoasnafu@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
!comedyheaven@lemmy.world
!Couplememes@sh.itjust.works
!crumbgrabber@lemm.ee *
!curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
!dankchristianmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!dankmemes@lemmy.world
!ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works
!ExplainTheJoke@spaffel.social
!fbstolencontent@lemmy.ca *
!fediashitpost@fedia.io
!fedimemes@feddit.uk
!femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!funny@sh.itjust.works
!funny@lemmy.world
!furry_irl@pawb.social
!garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone *
!gifconversation@lemm.ee
!greentext@sh.itjust.works
!gunmemes@lemmy.world *
!high_quality_gifs@lemmy.sdf.org
!hq_memes@lemmy.world
!imgoingtohellforthis@lemm.ee
!internetfuneral@lemmy.world
!humor@beehaw.org *
!iamverybadass@lemmy.ca *
!justpost@lemmy.world
!kemper_loves_you@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works *
!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online
!mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!me_irl@lemmy.world
!memes@jlai.lu
!memes@lemmy.world
!memes@slrpnk.net
!memes@sopuli.xyz
!memes@lemmy.ml
!metalmemes@lemmy.world
!microblogmemes@lemmy.world
!MoldyMemes@spaffel.social
!NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz *
!nocontextpics@lemmy.world
!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk *
!nonsense@moist.catsweat.com *
!okmatewanker@feddit.uk
!potatoism@lemmy.world *
!pokemonmemes@lemmy.world *
!programmer_humor@programming.dev
!reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world *
!relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
!roughromanmemes@lemmy.world
!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
!RichardScarryPosting@sh.itjust.works
!shitty_million_dollar_ideas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!SighFi@quokk.au
!science_memes@mander.xyz
!shera@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world
!shitposting@lemmy.ml
!shittylifeprotips@lemmy.world
!shittytattoos@lemmy.ca
!spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
!surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works *
!tech_memes@lemmy.world *
!tantes_linksqueer@feddit.org
!the_pack@lemmy.world
!TwoGoobers@lemm.ee
!wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works *
!wholesomememes@lemmy.world *
!wizards@lemmy.world
!witchymemes@lemmy.world
!wlw_memes@lemmy.world
!yurimemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!youtubeclassics@sh.itjust.works
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(luckily I was posting this to newcomers whenever I had the chance...)
I this it’s a law that servers run 100% perfect until the literal day one leaves town with zero way to return home. One of the many reasons I got all my services off of unraid.
Very cool to learn you’re running your own machines. Do you go into detail about this anywhere?
We have a small write up about the hardware on our wiki, but it is also down right now.
I think we will share a post-mortem write up of the actual improvements we will do to avoid this in the future.
One thing I will definitly do is to add a KVM remote management console to one of our server boards and move the main firewall into a VM with hardware passthrough of the NICs (this was anyways planned for a 10gbit network upgrade for the second half of 2025). This way I should be able to reboot and even reinstall the main ingress point remotely, so that only the fiber gateway remains as a failure point that requires physical access.
As email in profile is an optional feature on our instance about 50% of the userbase opted to not share one so we would only reach some people. But yes, getting spam filtered would be another problem of mass-mailing.
But I found a way to put up a simple html error page and will add this later to inform our members and link to this thread.
I am a slrpnk user. Oh well, shit happens. What makes me a bit sad was that a few months (?) ago something similar happened. Slrpnk.net was down for aa day or two? Don't remember the exact amount of time. What I do remember is asking if there was intention of adding a second admin and making the point that it would be good to create that sort of redundancy. I was ignored.
Mid of july is basically 1 and a half months from now. Hopefully a new solarpunk instance emerges, one that is safer from such scenarios.
Enjoy your vacation and don't stress too much! Shit happens.
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course.
WARNING: [youtube] KheSE_280a0:
Some tv client https formats have been skipped as they are DRM protected.
The current session may have an experiment that applies DRM to all videos on the tv client.
See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 for more details.
Google is starting to use DRM on all it's videos so that only the official youtube clients on devices and big browser brands can play them. It also kills all the systems like invidious.
Tokyo (AFP) – The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.
The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 -- 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899.
Japan has the world's second-oldest population after tiny Monaco, according to the World Bank.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.
Wednesday's health ministry data showed that Japan's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman is expected to have -- also fell to a record low of 1.15.
The ministry said Japan saw 1.6 million deaths in 2024, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier.
Ishiba has called for the revitalisation of rural regions, where shrinking elderly villages are becoming increasingly isolated.
In more than 20,000 communities in Japan, the majority of residents are aged 65 and above, according to the internal affairs ministry.
The country of 123 million people is also facing increasingly severe worker shortages as its population ages, not helped by relatively strict immigration rules.
In neighbouring South Korea, the fertility rate in 2024 was even lower than Japan's, at 0.75 -- remaining one of the world's lowest but marking a small rise from the previous year on the back of a rise in marriages.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.
Nah dude it's over. Not just in Japan but in most developed countries. Changes were needed decades ago. The only way to survive it is to relax immigration, not by "maybe" cutting work hours.
How about giving families struggling to pay for child numero uno (like me) a stipend? Per child. Not even going to consider having more until Japan starts respecting full-time parenting as a legitimate occupation.
In the three and a half years my son has been alive, the Japanese government has given us a grand total of ¥120,000 ($834 USD). That covers about a month’s worth of childcare now thanks to soaring grocery prices.
- "Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star....News becomes sports."
- "In the name of rooting out corruption and supposed bias, fascist politicians attack and diminish the institutions that might otherwise check their power."
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.
Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.
Ukraine could attack Russian bombers like sitting ducks because the New START treaty. That's why US nuclear bombers (B-1Bs, B-2s, B-52s) are also parked visibly at Diego Garcia and elsewhere; China, who didn't sign the treaty, hides its bombers away in underground concrete shelters.
So of course the US must feign ignorance, else it would obviously constitute unilateral break of a treaty, that could call for thermonuclear retaliation. That's how close we come to global annihilation but, hey, "the good guys scored a point". Morons.
The man thinks (or at least says) empathy is a bad thing. There's no guilt without a conscience, and no conscience without empathy. Obscenely unfathomable wealth takes care of the rest.
I'm a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I'm also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I'd like some practical advice.
All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the "topic-specific" network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.
"Nucléaire : la relance de l’atome rejetée en commission à l’Assemblée à la suite d’un imbroglio
Mais un amendement de la députée (Isère, Parti socialiste, PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel @BattistelMarie a déposé, semble-t-il d’abord par erreur, un amendement supprimant la construction de six nouveaux EPR2 d’ici à 2026 et de huit autres ainsi qu’un petit réacteur modulaire d’ici à 2030. Elle a finalement maintenu cet amendement, qui a été adopté. Le rapporteur du texte, le député (Haute-Savoie, Renaissance) et ancien ministre Antoine Armand @antoine_armand , lui a alors signifié son erreur, l’invitant à retirer son amendement, mais celle-ci a finalement décidé de le maintenir. Il a donc été adopté, supprimant les objectifs de relance pour les cinq prochaines années."
ouf ! une connerie de moins ! C'est criminel de vouloir construire des nouvelles centrales nucléaires alors qu'on ne sait que faire de leurs déchets et qu'on laisse se détériorer les anciennes !
📝 Other Changes
chore: set default instance to lemmy.zip, remove lemm.ee
PR: #2034
(I'm still on vacation; this is a hotfix for lemm.ee shutting down on June 30th, 2025.)
Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.
Liberalism flourished after WW2 due to the US's unparalleled economic advantage, which was built on the massive expansion of its industrial base during the war while the rest of the world burned.
The economic supremacy that legitimized western system has now faded and liberal democracies face a crisis of confidence while China's model is emerging as a successful alternative.
'Indeed, the Soviet bloc, having started from a position of post-war devastation, was never able to close the economic development gap with the massive head start enjoyed by the United States.'
I beg to differ... the gap was closing, and had it not been for the subversion of the USSR, it most likely would have been closed by now.
@Arindam I'm not saying USSR economy was inferior in nature, merely that the US had a massive head start. The US leveraged this advantageous position during the Cold War to pull of the world economy into its orbit which further shifted the balance of power in its favor.
The problem USSR had was that it was stuck in an ideological struggle with the US where countries were forced to pick bloc allegiance. China managed to avoid falling into that trap.
(Not just Vietnam, but also the defeat of Pakistan by India in 1971 were indicative of declining American power).
The ideological struggle wasn't the problem - especially since the existence of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates that countries didn't have to pick sides. The problem was that the Soviets made a few critical mistakes (the Sino-Soviet split, the war in Afghanistan, the failure to push forward in IT, etc...) - and were subverted. The latter is of utmost importance.. and a key source on it is:
Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System
From its vantage point outside Earth’s atmosphere, more than 36 000 km above Earth’s surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail.
![A photograph of a dishevelled, dark blue jacket. It has a "CD [Civil [Defence] Torbay", with insignia sewn on it. On the other side is an early CND badge attached it, with the classic peace symbol There's also an ARP [Air Raid Precautions] badge attached to the lapel.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7428918 "A photograph of a dishevelled, dark blue jacket. It has a \"CD [Civil [Defence] Torbay\", with insignia sewn on it. On the other side is an early CND badge attached it, with the classic peace symbol There's also an ARP [Air Raid Precautions] badge attached to the lapel.")
(e.g. uBlockO), blocking tracking scripts (e.g. uBlockO), android without Android Advertising ID (GrapheneOS) and avoiding facebook and yandex sites and apps or better yet all proprietary spyware apps (f-droid.org)
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •When an artist uses materials with text on them to create a collage, it's natural to assume that they chose the materials in part for the meaning of the text they include. Papier-mâché, on the other hand, uses paper (usually newsprint) simply for its physical properties. The text is incidental.
I use this metaphor to highlight, yet again, that LLMs don't work with the meaning of the text they process & extrude -- just the form.