I do all the time as well. Has changed my life in a very useful way. But as you said, knowing what it’s place is, how to use it, and what it’s limitations are (as well as my own) are key. I have solved many many problems I’ve been working on for years on in the digital world.

I also sympathize with the AI hate, and really struggle with the energy usage as well as the bubble. It has power and capability, but not what the “public” think it does.

I just deal with the online hate as it’s not shit people says to my face, and it’s driven of ignorance like much is these days.

And as you said there are development in the pipe which will further change our lives. Knowing how it works and why, as in using the critical thinking in synthesis with an LLM and what comes next is going to be valuable.

Many of them are from foia’s on Muckrock.com and it takes a while. Governments are willing, but not overly so to give it up.

We could diagnose it for you… Or you could ask the same question of an LLM and get a more interactive answer.

https://chat.qwen.ai/ is capable of answering for free

Or several other free models like Qwen-coder ollama/deepseek-r1, kimi k2, Kat koder pro, etc

SOI has an archive of all their live streams on YouTube. I think this guy cut the portion of it they are referring to in the article.

Assault with a deli weapon! Our Hogie hero!

Even though its data would be stored in Google and Amazon’s newly built Israel-based datacentres, Israeli officials feared developments in US and European laws could create more direct routes for law enforcement agencies to obtain it via direct requests or court-issued subpoenas.

An aerial view of a five very long, two-story buildings alongside what looks like a human-made lake.

With this threat in mind, Israeli officials inserted into the Nimbus deal a requirement for the companies to a send coded message – a “wink” – to its government, revealing the identity of the country they had been compelled to hand over Israeli data to, but were gagged from saying so.

Leaked documents from Israel’s finance ministry, which include a finalised version of the Nimbus agreement, suggest the secret code would take the form of payments – referred to as “special compensation” – made by the companies to the Israeli government.

According to the documents, the payments must be made “within 24 hours of the information being transferred” and correspond to the telephone dialing code of the foreign country, amounting to sums between 1,000 and 9,999 shekels.

Under the terms of the deal, the mechanism works like this:

If either Google or Amazon provides information to authorities in the US, where the dialing code is +1, and they are prevented from disclosing their cooperation, they must send the Israeli government 1,000 shekels.

If, for example, the companies receive a request for Israeli data from authorities in Italy, where the dialing code is +39, they must send 3,900 shekels.

If the companies conclude the terms of a gag order prevent them from even signaling which country has received the data, there is a backstop: the companies must pay 100,000 shekels ($30,000) to the Israeli government.

Study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-020-01966-x

Abstract

Purpose  The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently ranked air pollution as the major environmental cause of premature death. However, the significant potential health and societal costs of poor mental health in relation to air quality are not represented in the WHO report due to limited evidence. We aimed to test the hypothesis that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with poor mental health.

Methods  A prospective longitudinal population-based mental health survey was conducted of 1698 adults living in 1075 households in South East London, from 2008 to 2013. High-resolution quarterly average air pollution concentrations of nitrogen dioxide ­(NO2) and oxides ­(NOx), ozone ­(O3), particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter < 10 μm ­(PM10) and < 2.5 μm ­(PM2.5) were linked to the home addresses of the study participants. Associations with mental health were analysed with the use of multilevel generalised linear models, after adjusting for large number of confounders, including the individuals’ socioeconomic position and exposure to road-traffic noise.

Results  We found robust evidence for interquartile range increases in ­PM2.5, ­NOx and ­NO2 to be associated with 18–39% increased odds of common mental disorders, 19–30% increased odds of poor physical symptoms and 33% of psychotic experiences only for ­PM10. These longitudinal associations were more pronounced in the subset of non-movers for ­NO2 and ­NOx.

Conclusions  The findings suggest that traffic-related air pollution is adversely affecting mental health. Whilst causation cannot be proved, this work suggests substantial morbidity from mental disorders could be avoided with improved air quality.

Now we finally know why so many city dwellers are depressed — and no, it’s not because of your failing local sports teams.

A new study from King’s College of London found that even tiny increases in vehicle emissions in highly polluted neighborhoods were correlated with shockingly high rates of clinical depression among residents — even when the researchers controlled for common environmental contributors to mental health conditions, like lack of access to mood-boosting green space or substandard housing.

Though all the regions the researchers studied had high rates of vehicle-related pollution, people who lived in neighborhoods that had just 3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide more per cubic meter had a stunning 39 percent higher risk of a depression diagnosis, when compared with the residents of neighborhoods with the lowest levels of NO2, which is commonly found in diesel exhaust emitted by heavy trucks.

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He suggests that original releases often included more “Easter eggs” or hidden features that were omitted in later, re-released versions. This implies that while the physical cost of the DVD might not have changed significantly, the value or content provided in re-releases was reduced.

Having spent a good amount of the last several weeks working on several self hosted things,I would have to agree. Simple projects shouldn’t take long… But some shit happens.

When something is done and working, it is satisfying.

Please… Post the research to Reddit or Twitter and leave my Lemmy eyes to focus on puppies, cats, and news that keeps me infuriated.

She’s awesome!

“Yes, I remember very clearly reading it, finishing it, and going… ‘That’s ridiculous. I’ve got to call the producer.’ What is it doing this to this woman who’s a high ranking officer—for years all the women in her family on this planet have been in love with a lamp? And the thing was, I know that the writer wanted me to have a romantic episode. It was a little more than romance, if you know what I mean. So I’m like, ‘Really, I have to do a ghost orgasm on—okay, all right.'”

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“But you know what? Now, I love it because it’s such a cult thing, and I think it’s hilarious. So here’s the thing, don’t get too excited, BUT… Nacelle is coming out with a Sub Rosa—a Beverly Crusher action figure in the pink nightgown, okay, with lots of accoutrement, and that’s, you know, things. And so we have a lamp, we have different things, so it should be quite an interesting kind of an ACTION figure, okay? So be careful. Don’t use it–well… you can use it alone. But so is it really wild that after all these years… at first was like, I was like, I’m so embarrassed. Patrick couldn’t believe it, you know me and the nightgown, I mean the whole thing. And now? I love it. So there you go. You never should say never, because you sometimes are wrong.”

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One fan told McFadden that watching “The Host” as a child was “remarkable,” as a story like that was not the norm on TV. The actress was eager to talk about the season 4 episode, which introduced an early version of the Trill species to the franchise. McFadden relished the opportunity to explore new territory in the story pitched by Michel Horvat (and the teleplay heavily rewritten by Jeri Taylor):

“I thought it was the first gay writer, openly gay writer, that we had used their script on the show. And I thought was a brilliant script. From the first time I read it, I thought, this is extraordinary. He’s asking what is the nature of love? How much is physical, how much is experiential… What is love? And that’s a great question to ask, a hard question to answer.”

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“When I did the surgery and pulled out this… It did look like a scrotum, guys. Honestly, the male producers are really doing this to get to me. It could have looked sweet, right? It could have been sweet, right? So this is what I’m in love with, thank you so much. Then it’s Jonathan [Frakes], you know, it’s like all this is happening within a 24-hour period. And it turns out it goes into a woman. “

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“It forced you to think, what is, what is love? I mean, it actually got you to think about it, things that you might not normally thought about in the same way. And I got some people—when I used to be on Twitter, I’m not now—but when I was on Twitter, they were, ‘Well, that was so anti-gay. She didn’t sleep with the woman.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, in 24 hours she’s been with that. She’s seen this scrotum sack. I think it’s enough for one day, you know? Like, let’s give her a break.’ And I feel that way. I feel it had nothing to do with that, and that wasn’t the purpose of it. It wasn’t like saying this is what you should do. And I thought she handled it very nicely. She said, ‘I’m just not ready.’ And that’s that’s perfectly reasonable as far as I’m concerned.”

The Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) is a private group formed by ISPs and copyright holders. They decided what websites to block, and ISPs followed, without any court ruling. No judge was involved, no legal process.

The members: The four largest ISPs in Germany and a bunch of copyright holders (the Motion Picture Association, Sky, …). If they decided that a site should be blocked, the ISPs just blocked the domains from being resolved. This ran completely outside the courts, a private system made by corporations for censorship. Blocked sites included streaming services, but also sites like Sci-Hub or game piracy sites.

In a previous blog post, I went into detail on how we trolled them:

• We leaked their secret blocklists (the list of domains was kept secret!)
• We exposed dozens of wrongful and outdated blocks.
• We made them unblock a lot of domains, including some that were blocked for years.
• … and so much more. We just made a lot of bad press for them.

The CUII now only coordinates blocks between ISPs after a court order. That’s it. No more secret votes. No more corporate censorship. The new version of their website says: “The CUII coordinates the conduct of judicial blocking proceedings and the implementation of judicial blocking orders.”

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The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads

Title makes more sense in context of the first couple paragraphs.

As an old IT guy I empathize with the control of data. I have my array of self-hosted servers and love my CLI.

With that said, the older I get the less patience I have for hacking it together and supporting it. I still prefer privacy, and indeed Firecore Infuse is “Private by design” by their own statement. It’s not open source and I am not clear if it’s audited, but for as long as it lasts I’m happy friends and family less technically inclined have a simple easy familiar interface which I don’t have to support.

I will say I’m impressed A Pi4 works so well for jellyfin streaming. I guess it’s not transcoding, so it’s just a database and file share.

VLC is a great way to work with AppleTV, if you are willing to trade a few more clicks and less meta data for being free. It is by far the gold standard of being able to play anything.

The file format issue, plus the simple interface (especially for older less technically inclined) makes infuse worth the $100 lifetime cost (especially with family sharing).

What hardware are you using for your LibreELEC? Pi 3,4,5? With an external drive?

Self-hosted is not a way to make things free. Just lower cost than subscriptions overall. Using the full *Arr suite, with Usenet, your own hardware, and client boxes gives the users better control of the content they watch, but requires a nominal input of users time (plus some technical expertise), as well as an investment of some money both one time and annually.

Infuse’s lifetime time cost, when viewed in light of the total reduction of subscription cost (and an improved control of content) is worth it. I would definitely not pay a monthly amount to infuse, although it’s possible.

So far as Jellyfin’s app… As its free, I have low expectations. They fact that the developers have paid Apple for the SDK and put it as a free app on Apple TV and iOS is incredibly kind of them. They have a fair amount of code to look after and open source developers rarely get enough love or money.

I realize most will say kodi or android TV, but I have to say that Apple TV with Infuse (or Jellyfin) is really simple and reliable. I say that with the assumption that you mean a client, not the server. I would definitely put it on a NAS at minimum.

Highlighted by the OP, but

According to FFI, the Ukrainian battlefield experience reinforced Norway’s decision to prioritize artillery systems capable of achieving more than 40 kilometers in range and better survivability, and led to a reassessment of ammunition acquisition strategy, favoring volume and cost-effective accuracy improvements over limited high-cost precision rounds. The evaluation judged the acquisition to be economically sound and aligned with modern operational requirements, despite noting that long-term viability would depend on integrated force protection and continued ammunition procurement. The report applied the Concept program’s standardized methodology, assessing six criteria: productivity, goal achievement, secondary effects, relevance, viability, and economic efficiency.

This really is a concise description what artillery means to War now, and why.

For those on iPhone and at any risk, ICEBlock app is potentially better, as it maintains more privacy.

The reason they don’t do android:

At ICEBlock, user privacy and security are paramount. Our application is designed to provide as much anonymity as possible without storing any user data or creating accounts. While we understand the desire for an Android version of ICEBlock, achieving this level of anonymity on Android is not feasible due to the inherent requirements of push notification services.