Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%


Ye Gods. @pluralistic goes straight to the heart: advances in surveillance technology make it possible for the oligarchs to push our society deeper into democratic debt. Until... What? 100 families eat UK the world's entire wealth? The guillotines come out?

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11475084โ€ฆ


The "dictator's dilemma" pits a dictator's desire to create social stability by censoring public communications in order to prevent the spread of anti-regime messages with the dictator's need to know whether powerful elites are becoming restless and plotting a coup:

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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What Books did inspire you for your gardening?


My garden has 3 core functions. Recreation and play, Growing vegetables and fruits, and givin nature more room. The so called Controlled Wildernes. I Love to see all the different species the are coming by. But i always want to make it better, especially the combination of space for family and nature. Ive got inspired by the book The Garden Jungle from Dave Goulson. It just gave me more ideas and motivation to protect the smal animals, and make the garden usefull for more. But what about you? What books, articles, documentary etc, did inspire or would give me some ideas to let nature have more space in af garden?
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I wouldn't say any book, but the news. Our planet is failing quickly, with no concerted effort to stop it. My zone has had massive collapses in insect and wildlife year over year, and I aim to help combat that as much as possible by planting native plants, providing extra fruit and vegetables for the wildlife (I keep a decoy garden for them), and doing it all as resource conscious as possible. Nothing but good things can come from having even a few native flowering plants around for bees and hummingbirds, and going a bit of an extra mile to compost to keep the good insects that contribute to that process happy and expanding their colonies.

FedEx is getting in on the war crime money.

"Belgian peace organization Vredesactie filed a criminal complaint on June 26, accusing FedEx of violating international and national law by facilitating the transfer of US-made F-35 components to Israel via Liege Airport. "

"The shipments, linked to Lockheed Martin, arrived between 20 and 24 June from US military hubs and were marked for final delivery to Nevatim air base, from which Israeli jets have taken off to bomb Gaza and, more recently, Iranian territory."
"The complaint, lodged under Belgian criminal law, claims the shipments constitute โ€œpunishable cooperation in war crimes,โ€ referencing the Arms Trade Treaty and Belgiumโ€™s export control regulations."

โ€œ'This transit is in violation of the Arms Trade Treaty,' said Hans Lammerant of Vredesactie, 'and constitutes punishable cooperation in war crimes under Belgian criminal law.'โ€

thecradle.co/articles-id/31595

#Palestine #Belgium #WarCrimes

I like and encourage encryption, especially with communications.

But the thought process below is worth considering when it comes to encrypting your own storage.

#encryption #storage
RT: shortstacksran.ch/objects/3cf9โ€ฆ


@gabriel fundamentally, the issue is that the data requires code execution to access, and that code will require the key material.

A drive that allowed you to approve access levels/modes, and used bio-metric to confirm your identity, I think would be closer to the ideal.

I had the chance to talk with an Offensive Security penetration team, and they more or less told me that, their time in Africa made them realize that, in a physical environment, the person will always be the weak link. (aka rubber hose attack)

And, personally, if I sit down and think about it, I buy very little privacy or protection from encrypting. But, I lose performance, and make the possibility of losing access to my own data much higher.


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The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is a glittering beacon in this image released on June 25, 2025, in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of astronomer Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe. In the 1960s, Rubin and her colleagues studied M31 and determined that there was some unseen [โ€ฆ]

Israeli Channel 13 project that Netanyahu would win an election if it was declared today

Prior to the war with Iran, all polls concluded that he would fail to secure the seats necessary to form a government. The poll claims he would win 62 seats.

The war with Iran has increased the popularity of both #Netanyahu & #Likud Party, while decreasing support for the war in #Gaza

PROBLEM IS NOT NETANYAHU.

IT'S MAJORITY OF ISRAELI SOCIETY.
#SaveGaza #BDS
#palestine #Israel @palestine @israel

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France 24: Nearly a third of Tuvalu citizens seek Australian climate visas to escape rising seas
france24.com/en/live-news/2025โ€ฆ

Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/generalโ€ฆ

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- GE Appliances announced a nearly half-billion-dollar project Thursday that it says will create 800 new jobs and shift production of clothes washers from China to its massive manufacturing complex in Kentucky.

The $490 million investment positions the Kentucky home appliances company to rank as the biggest U.S. manufacturer of washing machines, it said.

#Covid #Corona #Impfung #Schwangerschaften #Schwangerschaft #Zwangsimpfung #Impfzwang

รœbersetzung: Wir haben nun eindeutige Beweise dafรผr, dass die COVID-19- #mRNA - #Impfstoffe die #Fortpflanzungsfรคhigkeit der Menschheit zerstรถrt haben.
In Tiermodellen zerstรถren sie >60 % der begrenzten #Eizellenvorrรคte von #Frauen.
In Daten von Menschen (n=1,3 Mio.) haben geimpfte #Frauen ~33 % weniger erfolgreiche #Schwangerschaften als nicht geimpfte

thefocalpoints.com/p/mrna-shotโ€ฆ

#france #vs #canada

Affaire Loรฏc Sรฉcher (2003โ€“2011)

Les faits :
Accusรฉ de viol par une adolescente.

Condamnรฉ ร  16 ans de prison, malgrรฉ lโ€™absence de preuve physique.

Aprรจs 7 ans, la prรฉtendue victime reconnaรฎt avoir menti.

Il est innocentรฉ et libรฉrรฉ.

Au Canada :
Les tรฉmoignages sans corroboration sont considรฉrรฉs avec prudence, surtout pour des condamnations lourdes.

Le contre-interrogatoire aurait peut-รชtre mis en lumiรจre des incohรฉrences dรจs le procรจs initial.



#Windows10 #updates will #cost you $30 - #Linux updates are for free ๐Ÿ‘


Source: windowslatest.com/2024/10/31/mโ€ฆ

#Microsoft #cybersecurity #security #Software #os #update #Problem #fail #news #freedom #change #Windows #Windows11 #money #finance #economy


#france #histoire

โš–๏ธ 2. Affaire Patrick Dils (1989โ€“2002)

Les faits :
Patrick Dils, 16 ans, est accusรฉ du meurtre de deux enfants.

Il avoue sous pression (puis se rรฉtracte), et est condamnรฉ ร  perpรฉtuitรฉ, malgrรฉ l'absence de preuve matรฉrielle.

Aprรจs 15 ans de prison, il est finalement acquittรฉ : un tueur en sรฉrie dรฉjร  connu รฉtait en fait prรฉsent sur les lieux.

#france๏ปฟ ๏ปฟ#vs๏ปฟ ๏ปฟ#usa๏ปฟ ๏ปฟ#canada๏ปฟ

Il est souvent plus difficile de condamner une personne au Canada ou aux USA qu'en France, surtout dans des cas oรน les preuves sont circonstancielles ou ambiguรซs. En France, on fait davantage confiance ร  lโ€™intime conviction du juge ou des jurรฉs, tandis quโ€™en Amรฉrique du Nord, on insiste sur une prudence extrรชme pour รฉviter toute erreur judiciaire.



Meta vous espionne mรชme en mode incognito ! | Rรฉseaux sociaux | Le site de Korben korben.info/meta-localhost-traโ€ฆ

"Things to Do This Weekend with the Kids in NYC"

newyorkfamily.com/best-things-โ€ฆ

COUNT HOW MANY OF THE EVENTS ON THIS LIST FOR CHILDREN ARE "PRIDE" RELATED.

This is a link from AM NY website.

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gรคste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gรคsten an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt
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I'm trying not to to be an asshole about it. She knows my stance and I'm not budging. That said, I don't throw it in her face. In fact, I only told her once that I won't do the vow renewal until she quits. We have an otherwise perfect marriage.

We haven't had the vape conversation, but I'm not in favor of that either. You don't quit drinking by switching from beer to vodka. I honestly don't know how I would feel about her switching to vape. I hate the smell of her addiction but that's not my biggest issue. I hate the effect on her health but that's not the complete picture either. I hate the concept of a smoking addiction. It's not my identity, and I don't want it to be the identity of us as a couple. We are blue collar AF, but I still feel like her smoking diminishes us.

I used to be proud of her for quitting and staying quit. Now I'm not anymore.

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That identity thing seems counterproductive. The way addictions works, you generally kind of stay addicted indefinitely even if you manage to quit and stay off the substance forever. And in contrast to beer vs. vodka, vapes are healthier than cigarettes - even if that doesn't actually change anything for you, it's definitely better for her.
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China is a force for peace and progress, thatโ€™s why the world needs China socialistchina.org/2025/06/25/โ€ฆ

Call Me GNU: The GNU/Linux Naming Debate, Revisited

The majority of people call the worldโ€™s most popular free software-based operating system, โ€œLinux,โ€ after the kernel that is most often used with it. Some call it, โ€œGNU/Linux,โ€ but it should simply be called, โ€œGNU.โ€

The once common flame wars over what to call the worldโ€™s most popular free OS have been reduced to dying embers, with most deciding to call the system, . . . gnuguru.wordpress.com/2024/04/โ€ฆ

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Facebook started out as a college kiddo platform. Then rapidly aging females started creating accounts to helicopter mom over their kiddos away at uni. By 2011, FB had become a service for middle aged Females to show off status with photos of grand kids, vacations, newly bought houses, and then of themselves.

Younger females opted for Instagram, which, itself, as become almost a soft core version of OnlyFans and (P)orn Hub.

โ€œEven now, Israeli Forces are continuing to demolish homesโ€ฆThis is not just destruction: it is part of systematic forced displacement, a violation of intโ€™l law, and a form of collective punishment,โ€ โ€”Roland Friedrich, UNRWA. #GazaGenocide
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