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  • 'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Sound Over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto

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  • Is it that technology is evil though, or is it the people who own the technology, or the economic system in which this all takes place?

  • Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing - EFF

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  • Just once I'd like to see the world's companies react to dumb local laws by refusing to sell their products where the laws apply. Problem is, other states and countries always introduce matching stupid laws soon enough. California, for example, is introducing a similar restriction on 3D printers.

  • GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims * TorrentFreak

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  • I don't really understand why people with repositories that are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns persist in hosting them with Microsoft. But then I don't really understand why so many open-source projects opt for Microsoft's Git hosting anyway, when there are alternatives without the Microsoft.

  • The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

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  • I'm all for challenging Adobe, but the journalist should ask how and why these competing products are free. What are the implications of that in the long run? I was happy to pay a reasonable price for the Affinity suite, and it becoming free actually worries me. Free isn't something a company does unless they're going to crank up the price later, or carry ads, or spy on you, or steal your creations, or lock you in, or all of the above. It's pretty shallow how the article just stops at "free is great".

  • Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

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  • Sounds good but $60 per month is a lot of money.

  • Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

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  • I agree in general about self-hosting, but backup seems like a special case. Where do you back up your self-hosted data? An offsite copy of the backup is needed, and it should be automatic. For most people (who only have one site, their home) that's not easy to arrange except through a cloud backup service.

  • Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge

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  • I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.

  • Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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  • "Not malware": is this the skill they call prompt engineering?

  • Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge

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  • They're just making themselves look trashy and desperate.

    What might work is making their software better than everyone else's. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.

  • Iran says Strait of Hormuz will close again amid US blockade

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  • So today Iran said it was open, then Trump said it was open, then Trump said the USA was still blockading it so it was closed, then Iran said it was open but would close again because of the US blockade? And somewhere in the middle Trump might have said another time that it was open. Does anyone know what's going on?

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  • They think he staged his own fake assassination, while also blaming Jews and remaining staunch Trump supporters. So just the usual incoherent cultish mumblings, not any actual insight or any movement away from him.

  • Trump says gas prices 'not very high' as most U.S. voters blame him for price spike

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  • Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.

    In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA's attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President's fault than it usually would be.

  • Captcha for landing on Mars...

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  • Or all the ones at the top, since if you go far enough there's probably something living or formerly living in each square.

    Or all of them because if you can see them it's a sign you're alive.

    Or just switch off the computer and walk away because you're starting to take joke Captcha memes way too seriously and you've had enough internet. Sorry. Time for a break.

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • Microsoft and Apple. The internet will only allow OSs from large American corporations.

    I'd like to see the rest of the world say "fuck it" and carry on as before, leaving the Americans to censor themselves. But governments around the world are suddenly rushing to implement very similar terrible laws. It smells very coordinated.

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • Would this bill ban the use of all operating systems released before it became law? That seems unlikely.

    So then how about OSs released before it became law, with patches released afterwards? That also seems unlikely.

    So then how about my computer's current OS, which is a heavily patched version of a little hobby OS called Linux, originally released in 1991?

  • The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought

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  • Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400%

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  • I guess bullshit is easier to make than shoes.

  • Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”

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  • The only criterion is: are billionaires into it, or does it threaten them?

  • The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

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  • The FCC ruling prohibits the sale of new models of consumer router. It doesn't forbid the continuing use of existing routers or, if I understand it right, the continued sale of models that were already on sale. So you can continue to use existing models as WAPs or routers. But when the tech and the security moves on the FCC wants the USA to be left behind.

  • science @lemmy.world
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    Russia’s Enteromix cancer vaccine shows promise in early trials

    www.forbesindia.com /article/news/explained-russias-enteromix-cancer-vaccine-which-shows-promise-in-early-trials/2987139/1
  • The Epstein Files @lemmy.world
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    Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama?

    talkingpointsmemo.com /edblog/is-this-the-hidden-part-of-the-trump-epstein-drama
  • News @lemmy.world
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    U.S. Nonprofit Fundraising to Buy Drones for Israeli Military in Gaza Genocide

    www.dropsitenews.com /p/us-nonprofit-fundraising-gaza-idf-drones-american-friends-judea-samaria
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump’s DOJ Wants to Deprive Trans People of the Right to Self-Defense

    theintercept.com /2025/09/05/trans-gun-ban-trump-doj/
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2025/09/eric-schmitt-white-nationalism-national-conservatism-conference.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin

    www.democracynow.org /2025/9/5/greg_grandin
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Far-right AfD surges to 39% in German state, one year before election

    dpa-international.com /politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:250904-99-922720/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2025/09/doj-plans-to-label-trans-americans-as-mentally-defective-to-take-away-their/
  • Space @mander.xyz
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    The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is wrapped in carbon dioxide fog, NASA space telescope reveals

    www.space.com /astronomy/comets/spherex-spots-carbon-dioxide-coma-around-comet-3i-atlas
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Watch: Trump's military flyover interrupts Epstein survivors' press conference

    www.rawstory.com /anouska-de-georgiou-flyover/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Watch: Trump's military flyover interrupts Epstein survivors' press conference

    www.rawstory.com /anouska-de-georgiou-flyover/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump administration has backup plan if Supreme Court rules tariffs are illegal, Bessent says

    www.theglobeandmail.com /world/article-trump-supreme-court-tariffs-scott-bessent-plan/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

    www.wired.com /story/big-tech-companies-in-the-us-have-been-told-not-to-apply-the-digital-services-act/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Scientists could soon lose a key tool for studying Antarctica's melting ice sheets as climate risks grow

    www.nbcnews.com /science/science-news/scientists-soon-lose-key-tool-studying-antarcticas-melting-ice-sheets-rcna227312
  • News @lemmy.world
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    In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Among the Hardest Hit | President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees

    www.nytimes.com /2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-federal-work-force-black-women.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    What to know about "Workers Over Billionaires" protests on Labor Day

    www.axios.com /2025/08/30/workers-over-billionaires-protests-trump-labor-day
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater

    www.zmescience.com /ecology/japan-just-switched-on-asias-first-osmotic-power-plant-which-runs-24-7-on-nothing-but-fresh-water-and-seawater/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

    lwn.net /Articles/1029767/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently

    newatlas.com /computers/cornell-microwave-brain/
  • Privacy @lemmy.world
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    US Government Seeks Medical Records of Trans Youth

    www.wired.com /story/us-government-seeks-medical-records-of-trans-youth/