Playing SimCity as a child really confused me. Letting people live near where they worked and shopped seemed obvious and like every city I’d been to. Being penalised for that and instead being required to build huge roads between massive residential areas and distant commercial areas made no sense. Then I went to the USA for the first time and saw cities that looked like the dystopias I’d built in the game.
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
It is definitely Orwellian. Question: Are high school students still reading Orwell? Are people using the word "Orwellian" without reading 1984? I mean, we all know the basic premise of the book, but it also helps to read (or reread) the whole book to get a broader sense of what Orwell predicted and how close we are to that world.
This is so insane and completely out of the question on so many levels, the mere fact that one can push for this without immediately losing one's political credibility and influence and becoming a laughing-stock (and subject to parliamentary investigation) is still frightening to me, after all those years of fighting this.
How EXACTLY would AI scan the messages we send/receive?
I know the Google system on most Android phones sends your notification previews through its servers..
So my notification previews for my messengers are turned off. I only enable dots, badges, & sounds.
Headlines like these aren't worth shit if the technical aspect of the very system we read them on isn't broken down to the public. Its fearmongering until it is broken down in detail.
What happened to the EU who implemented all of those privacy policies?? That even some of them affected companies here in the US?? What other countries are exmpt from this? I heard Switzerland and Austria but I am not sure.
Is not a coincidence that they are implementing all of this after the online safety act around europe to silence its users and for surveillance.
implementing a backdoor to disable encryption is the worst thing you can do.
If there is a weakness build in, even if the reason for that is a real good one bad actors will get access to that weakness and use it.
if this weakness is enforced on all devices and apps this will be a huge issue for the security of all devices used. This is like if every private conversation is forced to be done inside the Parliament with cameras recording it.
or… do we just abandon the devices of the surveillance state? We liberate ourselves from phones and wearables. We hand each other folded notes on paper. We whisper kindly face to face.
I can't help but think of the Turkish ice cream man every time Trump and Putin talk. Putin and Lavrov must have laughed so hard on the plane back to Russia.
This Turkish ice cream man has gotten the act of trolling down to an art. His tricks combined with his delicious ice cream always attract a crowd in Istanbul...
Frankly I'm so impressed that it was not straight 1938 Munich. At this point I would be least surprised if Trump would just straight yank the floor under Zelensky.
My Midnight Battle with a curl Command
A story of PowerShell, a annoying bug, and what stood between me and a dream internship in Japan.
Obviously every problem has its own background story,
It was …
I am surprised but not shocked that M$ saw fit to alias your program name to one of their own.. more surveillance possibly?
I suppose it does mean that 'curl' is a synonym for making a web request, similar to 'hoover' for vacuuming something, or 'google it' for making a search. Nice 🙂
Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní sebranko! 🙋♀️🐈🐶 Omlouvám se za svou delší nepřítomnost, ale druhý týden desítek se mnou poněkud zamával. Domů jsem se vracela pravidelně v šest, v sedm večer a to už jsem nebyla schopná udržet myšlenku. Ale teď! ☝️Teď! Mám! Dovolenou!! V pondělí míříme do Jizerských hor. Spolu s lordem Archibaldem. Byli jsme kvůli tomu za paní doktor. Že se mladý pán zadýchává, tak jak je na tom a co srdíčko, páč cesta je to dlouhá. A dobře víme, jaké bylo cestování s Maxem. 🧵
I love @FrOSCon. It was the first conference I ever went to 2̶0̶ 19 years ago. But damn those start times are not hacker friendly. I'm so tired I just tried to put whole beans in my portafilter. Anyway see you there soon. #XMPP #froscon #Conversations_im
hah. so i haven't lost my memory yet. never found one when j was a car enthusiast. however i had an acura nsx which in a way was like a lotus. but j also think the honda s2000 has a lot of lotus vibe
Mississippi writer and bestselling author Greg Iles has died at the age of 64 after battling multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer. His passing marks the end of a remarkable literary career deeply rooted in the American South, yet reaching readers worldwide. magnoliastatelive.com/2025/08/…
Mississippi writer and New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles died Friday morning at the age of 64 after a courageous battle with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
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For system information tools, I still love Astra32. It shows info like S.M.A.R.T status for hard drives and reads them through its own driver, not Windows hardware probing only, and I could not find other tools that do this and present it in a nice accessible list with tree views. Ram speed, even CPU feature breakdown and manufacturing info, all there. astra32.com/
ASTRA32 is a powerful tool providing diagnostics and complete information about your computer system. It scans the actual hardware, not the Windows Registry. It also offers such features as a HDD Health Status checker and Drivers Troubleshooter.
Is it supposed to cause my USB audio device to abruptly disconnect upon clicking continue, hold for a while, and then restart my computer? Or was that a crash?
@x0 ahaha haven't seen that one! What odd behavior for that. Sometimes the window can look like it's frozen as it scans, but that's about the only side effect I've seen, and a slight hang if you stay in it as it does so. The other tool I tried is SIV (System Information Viewer) 5.82 - but a lot more sparce, everything is one menu and less readable since it's just dumped in as text and not a list to the window. Still good for some of that detailed info and I think they also use a low-level driver to do the trick.
It caused NVDA to not just stop talking about an actual audio drop-out, which is indicative of the signal to this headset being lost. But it never said disconnected. I've also used HWInfo322, which lets me view everything in a tree, but yeah I think it might have crashed my computer.
@x0 huh, I didn't even realize it generate a log? I've run it on like, a dozen of laptops over the last ten or so years but never saw such oddness! very interesting and baffling in a way, unless it's pausing on some sort of, nonstandard controler it can't read and the driver bales, taking the system with it, because we all know how stable kernel-level drivers are on Windows and the amount of amazing unfettered access they have to things. :D
@media_dept UK citizens and residents are free to continue using the matrix.org homeserver. We continue refining our approach to complying with the Online Safety Act, and we'll continue to do our best to stick with approaches that don't involve handling anyone's government-issued ID or biometrics -- as we view those as at significantly at odds with our commitment to protecting privacy.
@archos včera jsem zkoušel taky, ale byl v oparu, takže to nešlo. Chci ještě vyzkoušet 2x Barlow čočku, mělo by to ještě 2x přiblížit. Máme teleskop od dubna a až teď jsem měl večer energii to konečně rozjet! 🙂
Heading down to the MIDI room to pull another file off the shelves. Today's file: po_flaph. Internal title: Flaphead. An interesting experimental electronic track, with heavily pitched, filtered and chorused instruments, making some highly unusual sounds. As played by Nuked SC-55 with the mkII ROM set. Composed by Aphex Twin, remixed by Kenji Tanaka. MIDI: drive.google.com/uc?id=1_YvBQW…. Original zip: web.archive.org/web/1998120208…. Original song: youtube.com/watch?v=j79314QEDD….
Time is running out. Sign up for the Visual Studio Code Course happening tomorrow. We will be sending out notices to attendees at 8:00 PM Eastern. Late submissions will be sent information by 11:00 AM Eastern time on Saturday morning. Here is the link: bits-acb.org/visual-studio-cod…
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I was away all of last week and couldn't post, but just wanted to say a huge thanks to Jeff and everyone else who put this event together. Planning to join BITS soon and look forward to many more events like this in the future.
Daughterr's got a small fridge for drinks in her bedroom. Also uses it for the occasional ice pack after a dance or gym injury. But today it's full of ...
@mcourcel ha it has been a quieter-than-usual summer vacation, I'll admit. Hoping she'll join me for a horror movie or something together at the weekend before the next stage of our home renovations kicks back into gear next week.
Native support for large attachments is the only main pain point in day to day usage.
Once you start using DeltaChat you quickly forget the technical architecture that people get so upset about (oh no, email!!!) because it works so damn well.
Fast, reliable, you can send messages even if you're in an elevator, a cave, under the sea, in the woods with bad signal coverage, etc. None of this "message could not be delivered" garbage like with other messengers. The message will be successfully delivered when there's connectivity just like you expect.
Like an outbox. From email. Remember writing and sending emails without being dialed up yet?! Yeah, like that. Just works. RT: chaos.social/users/delta/statu…
What are the main obstacles for you to adopt usage of #deltachat apps with your families, friends or communities?
if you have other issues than the poll options please add to the replies.
2012: "Secure boot is a plot by Microsoft to kill Linux" 2025: EA's insistence on invasive anti-cheat results in a bunch of Windows users managing to get their secure boot configuration into a state where their GPUs no longer work and there's no recovery path: reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comme…
Microsoft would have to be *very* bad at this for a plot to have backfired this badly
@usul I told my brother after we succeeded getting both his gaming PC BIOSes upgraded and Windows successfully running SecureBoot for the BF6 beta that this game is going to make the SecureBoot statistics skyrocket
They had like 550,000 players online during the *beta*. It was nuts. Great game too
I did see however that there was a stupid incompatibility some people hit where they were unable to play BF6 until they uninstalled Valorant (?) because of an incompatible anti-cheat detected
Microsoft really needs to just throw the Xbox team at this problem and build a unified kernel-level anticheat framework into Windows which every game can utilize... this is just getting ridiculous
Když se tu teď tolik řeší teploty - pro zajímavost dávám grafy z Home Assistanta. Tohle je teplota z vnitřního senzoru, ten vnější je už nějaký čas mimo provoz. Nemá to teď hezký trend, navíc je i vysoká vlhkost 😝
@sesivany Tu vlhkost celkem závidím, my držíme dům celkem nizko, mezi 23 a 24 st. ale za cenu toho, že větráme jen přes noc a okolo deváté se zavírá. Pak zase až pozdě večer, vlhkost tedy stoupá a stoupá, už jsme skoro na 70%. Chtělo by to rekuperaci s chlazením. Snad se už ochladí.
@electricCZ to zavírání dělá hrozně moc. My máme otevřené na terasu, protože děcka v jednom kuse běhají na zahradu. Kdybychom to měli zavřené, myslím, že bychom měli doma pořád kolem 22.
@sesivany U nás je to v domě hodně rozličné. Ve většině přízemí (hlavně v zadní části, která je částečně utopená pod zemí) je pořád okolo 20 °C. V patře je to horší, půda samozřejmě pekelná (neměřil jsem, ale bude tam během dne určitě dost přes 40).
chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?
developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.
chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...
unfortunately this is written in C# which is going to be a pain in the ass, but I'll see if I can make it work. Otherwise I'll just throw an LLM at this and get it rewritten in some language where I can just have a static binary to push around
PgOutput2Json is a lightweight .NET library that uses PostgreSQL logical replication to stream row-level changes as JSON messages to RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, or your own .NET Core application. - PgO...
Gitlab does not provide any system auditing webhooks on the free tier. If you want to be able to get alerts for things like new users, groups, snippets, projects etc so you can detect spam/bot accounts, you're screwed.
So I'm going to use this as a workaround and build my own solution.
it's crazy because this functionality is supported natively and is documented, they just won't give all of them to the plebes. The screenshot shows the limited options on the free tier.
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Why should anyone in their right mind donate to a foundation which works on an awful desktop for the benefit of usa big tech IBM Red Hat and Canonical, oh nearly forgot annother comercial company SuSe.
All support trump IBM RHEL very openly.
Those companys are also influential on the gnome foundation board.
My donations go to small companys or direct to developers not big dollars big tech.
I currently donate to @kde and several FOSS other projects like @usebottles and money is a bit tight given I cannot get work, but I do wish GNOME well! (Even if I don't use it.)
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