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  • Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup

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  • It's interesting that they'd offer top-level domains, but not provide a certificate authority to generate (non-self-signed) ssl certs.

  • Explainer: Why is UN warning of 'imminent financial collapse'?

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  • Oh, that's not true /s.

    I'm sure anyone can buy the chairman's veto/vote. For each policy, it'll be auctioned like on eBay. .... a perfect reflection of our modern world /s.

  • Explainer: Why is UN warning of 'imminent financial collapse'?

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  • Under Trump, as well as refusing to make mandatory payments to the U.N.'s regular and peacekeeping budgets, the U.S. has slashed voluntary funding to U.N. agencies with their own budgets, and moved to exit U.N. organizations including the World Health Organization.

    If I fasten my tinfoil hat on, I'd say that this is all going according to plan: The U.S. gets kicked out of the U.N. The U.N. is (financially) destabilized and is unable to focus on developing its sovereignty from U.S. Big Tech and focus on having the military support it needs. Meanwhile, hostile actors are at its boarders waiting to pounce.

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  • I think it's Peppermint Patty with the knife (and probably Lucy is off scene, waiting around the corner).

    Current times have really hit the Peanuts hard....

  • ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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  • I can see it now, Coalie enters the scene:

    "Howdy-coughcoughcough - oh! My back, Kyle"

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • But everything was rolling, pretty goddamn great until...

    I beg to disagree there. Each year Big Tech has become more and more aggressive in taking control from us, the consumer. Microsoft with the requirements of TPM in order to install windows 11. Google with they're delaying open source releases of android, preventing apps from being installed unless it's non-cfw. All tech companies shoveling AI everywhere. John Deere with their vendor lock-in hardware.

    This needed to stop and these companies need to be reminded that "the consumer owns the hardware and that includes functional software (that does not change without the users consent)".

    Unfortunately, the U.S. Government failed it's people in defending consumer rights and tbh, the EU hasn't really done a stellar job either. However, this is certainly the" kick in pants" the EU needs (hopefully) to start to create competition against U. S. Big Tech... and the EU certainly understands that it needs to protect these small EU start-ups as they try to find their footing.

    So, I hope this results in the EU creating laws to "level the playing field". Which, I hope, actually spurs innovate and Open Standards (something Big Tech has been working hard on suppressing), which will be good for all of us (regardless, if you're in the EU, U.S., and beyond).

    You'll notice there is a lot of "hope" in these sentences. I am skeptical, but I can see how this could be "a good thing".

  • Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

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  • Yeah, MS Teams (not my choice) had a pop-up that said that in order for a meeting to be recorded, I needed to accept that my video and what I say will be used by Microsoft for various purposes including training copilot.

    So, that counts as me using copilot, right? /s

    edit: A word

  • Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads

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  • Is this open source?

    (I couldn't find it)

  • Closing programs

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  • Yes you can. You get rid of the zombies by killing the parent process.

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • And as far as I remember: only a hash of your password is sent. So, if the hash you sent matches something on their powned list, they'll tell you. If it's not on their list, then it is just a meaningless hash (your personal information was not exposed)

  • Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia

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  • ... but think of the donations! /s

  • Password manager for a small company

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  • I use 1Password at work. It pretty much ticks your boxes. With 1Password, a collection of passwords are referred to as a vault.

    • you can share passwords, either permanently or temporarily (and even with people outside of your company).
    • vaults can be shared with people in your company (so you just add all your secrets to the vault)
    • by default each person get a "personal vault", which is not shareable (but you can temporarily share secrets in the vault, if you want too).
    • nobody can read the content unless you share it with them (or one of your client apps gets exploited)

    As the OP mentioned, it "just works" with everything.

    My only gripes with it is that it's a bit cumbersome to log into the website (you basically have two passwords, plus mfa)... but if you've got the browser extension installed, it's painless. The other gripe I have is, it's tricky to have an overview of what passwords/vaults already exist. So, if you have enough people, it's inevitable that passwords will be accidentally duplicated - and no one will have a clear idea what was duplicated and who has access to it (unless you're a member/owner of a vault).

    You mentioned you wanted something "hands-off", I think that after the initial setup, you'd get just that.

  • Torrent Index Concept: The RetroTorrents White Paper!

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  • disclaimer: I haven't actually looked... but...

    Historically, it is those large "complete collection" torrents that survive on public trackers... and probably still exist.

    Thus, (sorry to be blunt) why I think this project wouldn't really provide a lot of "additional value".

  • Torrent Index Concept: The RetroTorrents White Paper!

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  • The fundamental problem with using torrents to share small files (which old ROMs are), is that content is only shared while seeding or leeching.

    A torrents health works best, when people are actively leeching. You're not going to get that for 1 MB files.

    You'll basically need to force people to seed and not just seed two copies (the default), but like 10:1, which means forcing all the users to chance their settings - which I'm doubtful of this happening on a large enough scale.

    ... and the pdfs proposed solution is:

    3.2. The Retro Rush Event Torrents will rely on a community of active players and archivists. To prevent obscure games from having slow download speeds or freezing, a weekly community event will be announced and shown to encourage preservation efforts from the community.

    Goal: The community unites to seed their favourite or obscure titles. This creates a predictable time where download speeds skyrocket, ensuring that even the rarest games remain available.

    I don't think a rally of specific games is going to be enough to keep these torrents alive.

    You'd basically need to run this as a private torrent, with upload/download credits and credit "boosts" for struggling torrents.

    Or, as was rejected in the pdf, you use tor and create an "anonymous service" and host these small files, but the pdf is right in that tor is not the best tool for multi-MB files.

    Anyway, I share your concern regarding the archiving of old games, but I'm doubtful this will help in a meaningful way.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • Interesting, I'll take a look at it. It seems to tick all the same boxes as moonreader, but also works on Linux and Mac.

    I was curious if KOreader worked on iPhones (AFAIK, it does not), but a FOSS alternative did, readest. I'll probably take a look at that too.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • Moonreader Pro. It's an ebook readers for Android. The Pro/paid version has any feature you could ask for:

    • reads just about any file format (epub/mobi/pdf/etc)
    • has text-to-speech (everything can now be an audio book)
    • you can add annotations/notes/bookmarks (and color code them)
    • the annotations/notes/etc will sync to a remote server (Dropbox, your own self-hosted webdav, etc)
    • it can pull/fetch books from your own remote server
    • where you are in the book is also synced to the remote server, meaning you can read on your phone, but switch to a tablet and immediately continue.

    Any feature, I wish an ebook reader would have - moon reader delivered (but finding these features is not intuitive).

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • We are well on our way. The EU is holding the manufacturer liable if a cellphone radio is "modded", thus manufacturers are blocking the ability to unlock bootloaders.

    If eventually, that is every phone, then grab a hotspot and get tethering.

    I did have a chuckle at the thought of having a cellphone for your (modded) cellphone... but then I thought about it: "meh, yeah... it's not a bad idea. I'd do it."

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • Speaking of Lineage...

    I wonder, how long will it be before you're not "allowed" to install esims on phones with custom firmware?

    Either due to the esim application not installing/running on modified firmware, or the phone will just not allow it.

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