Just been told we're recruiting for a new Senior Architect permanent role at the BBC working across TVs & other devices for iPlayer and Sounds content.

* Hybrid: 1-2 days/week in London/Salford/Newcastle office
* 35 hour working week
* Salary: £75-85k
* Up to 10% pension contribution + loads more benefits
* 26 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Very inclusive & flexible work environment

More info:
careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-A…

#BBC #FediHired #Recruitment

"Mehr als 80% [der #Bürgergeld-Bezieher/innen] sagen nämlich, dass sie sich der Gesellschaft nicht zugehörig fühlen [...]. Ein Drittel verzichtet auf Essen, um sich andere notwendige Dinge zu leisten und mehr als die Hälfte der befragten gibt an, auf Essen zu verzichten, um etwas für die Kinder kaufen zu können."

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Das ist, was Ines #Schwerdtner, #Linkemeinte mit "Sie verachten unsere Leute."
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#Klassismus #Armut #Hartz4 #BürgerHartz

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No matter how much Google ask to install "Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent" for your terminal on macOS, Linux, Unix or other oses, do not install it. Here is a snippet from their policy:

Google collects your prompts, related code, generated output, code edits, related feature usage information, and your feedback to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and ML technologies.

All your data on disk will be the part of AI training which is privacy nightmare

Exclusive: After Attacking Kari Lake, AZ Democrat Greg Stanton Refuses to Say Whether 60% of Machines Failing in Lake’s 2022 Election was Fair, Says Maricopa County has “Some of the Best Elections in the United States of America”

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Boeing and Airbus in a tizzy as C929 flawlessly completes 12,000km test flight

China's newest wide-body jet, the C929, is now officially airborne and ready to challenge the decades-long dominance of Boeing and Airbus.
Developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or COMAC, the C929 is not just an airplane—it's a testament to China's shift away from the West.

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I'm of the belief that to be revolutionary, in a personal or institutional sense, one needs to completely walk away from... reject...untenable systems.. not mimick them. But that's just me. I live in an area where it's literally impossible to live a 'normal life' without a car, and as a revolutionary planet saving act haven't owned one for 30 years now. Not everyone can do that, but everyone can do something. Otoh China seems to be literally coercing it citizens into a technocracy

DWEP technical update


Just added #brotli compression to the #DWEP PWA web app. It can compress javascript by 80-90%. So using this significantly reduces the need of minifying #javascript. And if minifying is avoided then the app is more transparent since the user can see the actual code that is being run

This line can be used (for example in a CI file) to create brotli-compressed files: find public -type f -regex '.*\.\(htm\|html\|xml\|txt\|text\|js\|css\|svg\|md\)$' -exec brotli -f -k {} \;

#WebDevelopment #FreeSoftware #compression #transparency

PS: The project is now hosted on gitlab: gitlab.com/dwep-app/dwep-app.g… (It's not quite ready for users yet though)



PNG is back!
After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released. Jokes aside, this is exciting news. PNG is back to its former glory after its progress stalled for over two decades. Did you know the U.S. Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Archives of Australia recommend PNG? It is important that we keep PNG current and competitive. After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!



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Elokapina osoitti eilen mieltä Tampereen Naistenlahden voimalaitoksen edustalla. Osana mielenosoitusta laitoksen sisäänajoväylät blokattiin. Jostain kumman syystä poliisi päätti itse sulkea alueen ohi vievän Kekkosenkadun kevyen liikenteen väylän. Näin itse, kun he käännyttivät väkeä pois ks. väylältä, eivätkä päästäneet kulkemaan läpi. Elokapinassa ei luonnollisesti blokata kevyen liikenteen väyliä. 2/ 👇
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Yle kertoi iltapäivällä uutisessaan (yle.fi/a/74-20169457?utm_sourc…) aivan oikein, että poliisi oli sulkenut kevyen liikenteen väyliä. Uutisen jälkeen Sisä-Suomen poliisi kiirehti tiedottamaan (poliisi.fi/-/tampereella-on-ka…), että poliisi ei olisi sulkenut kevyen liikenteen väyliä. Yle ”oikaisi” pian oman juttunsa tämän tiedotteen myötä. 3/ 👇

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"The essence of war is violence.
Moderation in war is imbecility."

-- John A. Fisher
[Lord John Arbutnoth Fisher of Kilverstone] (1841-1920) English first sea Lord of Admiralty and writer
Source: Macaulay "Essay on Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden"

6.8 SPC vs. 300 Blackout: Powering Up the AR Platform
Thinking of upgrading your AR-15? We break down 300 Blackout vs 6.8 SPC

From recoil to home defense, hunting, and suppressor use. Which one fits your style and shooting needs best? Make the right choice before you hit the range 🎯

Read now: ammo.com/comparison/6.8-spc-vs…

#AR15 #300BLK #GunsAndAmmo

As NASA prepares for its Artemis II mission, researchers at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland are collaborating with The Australian National University (ANU) to prove inventive, cost-saving laser communications technologies in the lunar environment. Communicating in space usually relies on radio waves, but NASA is exploring laser, or optical, communications, which can send […]

🗨️ Hear hear!

#amman #jordan 📢 The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs strongly denounced the terrorist attacks against Palestinians by settlers, including the most recent one that killed 🕯️ three Palestinians and injured others in the village of Kafr Malik, east of #ramallah

🔹 The Ministry blames these attacks on Israel, the occupying force

#genocide #palestine #westbank

📰 Report: JNA Petra JUN-26

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Trafficking στην Ηλιούπολη: Ένοχος και ελεύθερος ο αστυνομικός για εμπορία ανθρώπων αλλά... όχι κατ' επάγγελμα

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'Israel' may have used depleted uranium bombs in Iran strikes: Probe

Iran suspects “Israel” used depleted uranium munitions in its June 13 strikes on Iranian facilities, as per initial investigation findings.

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@palestine@a.gup.pe

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"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe…

Trump demands CNN reporter be fired for revealing Iran strike failure english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

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“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”

~ General Omar Bradley
(1893-1981) Five Star General of the US Army, headed the Veterans Administration, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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From Air Europa Bailout To Influence Peddling: Spain’s Political Landscape Tarnished By Corruption Scandals orientalreview.su/2025/06/26/f…

The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2025)


Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
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Despite the growing technological and industrial capacity of countries in the Global South, countries and corporations in the Global North continue to own intellectual property patents on key products, locking the South into indefinite patent payment regimes. These include patent payments for pharmaceuticals, digital technologies (such as licensing fees for software and telecommunications infrastructure), and agricultural goods (such as genetically modified seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, and equipment). Scientific and technological advances have indeed accelerated in the Global South, with several countries – particularly in Asia – developing sophisticated high-speed rail, green technologies, and telecommunications infrastructure. Yet even in these sectors, most countries continue to pay large rents to Global North firms that own patents on key components.


There are five sectors where the imbalance in patent-related payments is most severe (in other words, where Global South countries pay significantly more in royalties and licensing fees than they receive in return):

  1. Pharmaceuticals. Drug patents are largely owned by firms based in Europe, Japan, and the United States. A recent example of the high price of access to essential medical technologies was the cost of importing mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several countries in the Global South, such as South Africa and India, faced delays and inflated costs in vaccine procurement due to patent restrictions and limited technology transfer. (South Africa eventually opted to purchase vaccines from India’s generic producers – such as Cipla and the Serum Institute – which saved the country approximately $133 million over three years.)
  2. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Every component of ICTs – from software and hardware to semiconductors and mobile networks – costs Global South countries a king’s ransom. This is not only because of the price of the physical products themselves, but also because of the high licensing fees for the underlying technologies, which are often controlled by exclusive patent pools (consortia of firms that jointly manage and license essential patents).

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Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB
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A couple of months ago I bought the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock, the latest and greatest in USB-hub-with-RGB-LEDs-and-hooks-for-gadgets technology. This invention unfortunately only supports the real gamer operating systems of Windows and macOS, which necessitated the development of a Linux driver.

Over the past few posts I’ve set up a Windows VM with USB passthrough, and attempted to reverse-engineer the official drivers, As I was doing that, I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips. The docs mostly confirmed what I had already discovered independently, but there were a couple of other minor features as well (like power and brightness management) that I did not know about, which was helpful.

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Alarm puller: "The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day." minds.com/newsfeed/17849275631…

Germany: Police Target 170 People for Insulting Politicians Online
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If you call Chancellor Merz a “drunk” or Green leader Robert Habeck an “idiot” in Deutschland you could get a visit from law enforcement.

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ICC is about human rights, but we don't see it — Sara Duterte, Philippines' Vice odysee.com/Duterte-June-25:515…

🐝 The dating platform #Bumble sends user data to #OpenAI without their consent. We have therefore filed a GDPR complaint against the company.

📰 Read more on our website: noyb.eu/en/bumbles-ai-icebreak…

#AI #law #MakePrivacyReality

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