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Ludicrous0251

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  • China arrests Indian woman at Shanghai airport claiming her place of birth - the state Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India - is 'Chinese territory'

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  • What? Even if you take the argument, which is full of shit, at face value, tons of people are citizens to countries other than their birth county. Born or married into a family that grants you citizenship rights? Moved somewhere and changed citizenship?

    It's up to India, not China, to determine who gets Indian passports, and it's China, not India's, fault for not issuing a Chinese passport to this woman if they view her place of birth as Chinese territory.

  • New Zealand says it’s going to eradicate feral cats

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  • Cats are remarkably capable predators, and cat owners are remarkably irresponsible.

    Letting your cat be an "outside" cat is bad enough for the environment. Not spaying/neutering said "outside cat" is how we get feral cats everywhere.

    That said, I dont love the vague "eradicate feral cats" language. Would greatly prefer a broad spectrum spay/neuter/tag program to naturally reduce their population.

    Predator-free NZ was always destined to ruffle some feathers though.

  • Hytale gets a cheap price point, all because its devs don't think the game is good yet

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  • Which you'd think would be incredibly easy to do

    Minecraft has a gigantic base of players and modders, a "better" Minecraft would need to draw a similar crowd or convince them all to give up years of customization and optimization to switch en masse.

    Hard to imagine any game pulling it off without going F2P, which, bleh.

  • Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

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  • And, as with any standardized hardware, it's a lot easier to ensure games and services (like Proton) perform reliably.

    Time will tell if this sells enough, but it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing.

  • Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source

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  • Attack Troll with Nasty Knife

  • D please. Final answer

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  • Me, about once a month. "It's only 3 things, not worth writing down, I've got this"

    Narrator: he didn't got this.

  • D please. Final answer

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  • This is reminding me - I need to pay the bill from my psychiatrist. But they're closed right now... Can someone repost this tomorrow during business hours, maybe I'll see it then?

  • D please. Final answer

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  • I'll take the mail. 50/50 shot I can address it now and toss it. All others are impossible.

  • Why Does Development Slow?

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  • Technical debt aside of course the development process looks like that - what's the alternative? Infinite feature growth? No one benefits from that.

    As an example, I've got signal on my phone- it started with texting features, added images, calls, video calling, but at some point there's a limit on the number of useful ways to communicate.

    I don't need it to be another social network.

    I don't need it to tell me my horoscope, order a pizza, or organize my photos.

    I don't need it to track my health, play games, read my work emails, or drive my car.

    It doesn't need to integrate with VR, or AI, or whatever 2-letter buzz acronym comes up next week.

    It's a secure messaging platform, I need it to send messages. Sure, there's always a cat and mouse game of encryption to keep ahead of, but infinite feature growth? It's not practical or necessary. Things can exist to do one thing reliably and well.

  • ‘Healthy’ snack choices loaded with hidden sugar, new study reveals

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  • Wait, so you're telling me that "health" bar with 30g of sugar actually was secretly concealing 30g of sugar? Who could have seen this coming??

  • Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts

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  • You could do PR with the ballot of potential Reps distributed by district. When the election is settled the district Reps are assigned starting with the highest-skewed district. E.g.:

    Overall vote: 60:40 (red:blue)

     
        
D1: 80:20
D2: 40:60
D3: 70:30
D4: 45:55
D5: 30:70

    You can go randomly, round Robin, or winner-first to divvy up the districts, but essentially you would expect D1, D3, and D4 to be assigned their local red Rep (even though red "lost" in the close D4 race) and D2 & D5 to go blue

    With more parties, random or round robin are a little more "fair" for the third party - winner first allocation could result in 3rd party getting the "whatever's left" district where they didn't actually get any votes.

    It's not perfect, but neither is the current system.

  • Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts

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  • A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers

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  • When WIRED asked Meta what rate-limiting measures it instituted over the last eight years to prevent the technique Kloeze demonstrated, the company responded that it has, in fact, implemented evolving defenses against scrapers, including rate-limiting and machine-learning techniques to ban scrapers. Yet the University of Vienna researchers were able to not only replicate Kloeze's work, but take it further, actually enumerating all 3.5 billion registered WhatsApp phone numbers—far more than the service had in 2017.

    A generous rate limit of 1 query per second would have taken 111 years to churn through 3.5 billion users (with 100% success rate on guesses). Meta's rate limit seems to be "the rate at which our servers can query our contact database".

  • A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers

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  • I'm guessing the next biggest example of this exact same flaw was when this happened on Facebook like 8 years ago. Who could possibly have seen this coming?

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • Windows Vista would like a word.

  • What is the highest level of mathematics that should be expected to graduate high school?

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  • In terms of utility for the average person, statistics >>>>> calculus.

    I work in an engineering field, and can count on one hand the number of times I've had to do an integral in the last year. But I run into glorified statistics problems virtually every day both in personal and professional situations.

    Having to constantly remind people of error bars, statistical significance, and the difference between correlation and causation, it would have been nice if those things were hammered home more thoroughly in school.

  • Scrutiny grows over LA fire origins after bombshell report: ‘Our Pearl Harbor moment’

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  • So... Does this mean... We're gonna... Nuke the fires?

  • Kagi is featuring a community-driven reporting system for AI-Slop

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  • The only AI feature of theirs that I've used is their Translate tool and I've been pretty satisfied with the results in comparison to others.

  • Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss

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  • In theory you could lease your server capacity to the big AI players, but then they would have to trust you -a noted crypto grifter - with their data.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

    blog.kagi.com /slopstop
  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Voyager PiFed Bug - "Hide all NSFW" doesn't work

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    Lobster population falls off New England, leading regulators to declare overfishing

    apnews.com /article/lobster-fishing-seafood-overfishing-maine-59de07164a73812172029de41dd040a9
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    Vietnam flood death toll rises to 37 as a new typhoon threatens to worsen devastation

    apnews.com /article/vietnam-floods-typhoon-rains-1d0f0ed7931f6e06a3d5b63375d25eaa
  • Wildlife Conservation and Protection @slrpnk.net
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    Much like a nursing home, penguins at a Boston aquarium can age with dignity

    apnews.com /article/new-england-aquarium-penguins-geriatric-451b962c7e39ebf65eaa76fbf64249ec
  • Wildlife Conservation and Protection @slrpnk.net
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    Endangered loggerhead sea turtle released to Atlantic Ocean from Florida beach

    apnews.com /article/sea-turtle-release-florida-94775ce3f221f9d1849de6df1d4d89bc
  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them

    www.latimes.com /science/story/la-timeless/a-retired-teacher-found-some-seahorses-off-long-beach-then-he-built-a-secret-world-for-them
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries

    news.mit.edu /2025/mit-engineers-solve-sticky-cell-problem-bioreactors-and-other-industries-1015