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t3rmit3

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    148 schoolgirls martyred in Israeli regime's heinous attack in Minab

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  • To be fair, they actually used the verb form of martyr, which means "to put to death for adhering to a belief, faith, or profession", and I am fairly certain that Israel and the US absolutely are killing these people in (large) part for being Muslim.

    In other words, the verb basically reverses the role of whose intention applies; whereas the noun means the person dying intends to do so for their beliefs, the verb means the killer is doing it because of the victim's beliefs.

  • VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can

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  • You can't be sure, but you can use providers and exit nodes that are based in places hostile to whoever you are trying to protect against.

    Also, functional anonymity can exist by different entities having different pieces of data that together would de-anonymize you, but who are unlikely to ever intersect. A good example of this is DMCA requests: if a copyright holder sees a US IP address on a residential Comcast IP range, they're going to file a court case and get a subpoena for the subscriber info.

    If they see a Hong Kong IP from a co-lo datacenter who would need to cooperate to tell them who owned that IP at that time, they're not going to even bother because they don't know how to even start filing a court case in China, and if your VPN has too much data it won't even matter because no one will even have contacted them.

    It all depends on your threat model.

  • VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can

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  • There are people who get VPNs because they hear that they prevent your ISP from snooping on you when configured correctly, and just hear "no one can see what I do", because that's what snooping is, right?

    When I worked at a university IT dept, we'd often get content block hits for adult websites from inside the internal protected network, via the university VPN, because a professor or staff member thought a VPN would route their traffic 'past' us.

  • Hegseth declares Anthropic a supply chain risk, restricting military contractors from doing business with AI giant

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  • This absolutely did not kill them. I've been dealing with federal procurement, including ATOs for DoD, for years, and 99% of companies never even remotely interact with it. Yes, there's a large number that do, especially among Fortune 500s and up, but the actual percentage of companies who have military contracts is tiny. This was meant to intimidate them into compliance, but this doesn't make them any less viable than AIaaS already is or isn't.

    no company wants to become a supply chain risk to potential customers who might have a DoD supplier somewhere down the supply chain

    The order is actually much narrow than that; it only applies to companies who directly have contracts with the military.

    Anthropic software just can't be used to process federal data, but if e.g. Lockheed uses ADP to process internal payroll, and ADP uses a third-party developer to build some software, and that developer uses Claude, that doesn't snake it's way back up the chain and invalidate Lockheed's contracts.

  • AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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  • Would not be surprised if it happened to be trained on the thousands of policy debate "nuclear war terminal impact" arguments on openev.

  • Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours

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  • I'm not arguing against the automation used in this particular case; that sounds perfectly reasonable.

    I'm arguing that the only reason it's newsworthy is because companies want to put a positive spin on automation right now, right as the majority of companies expanding automation aren't doing it to benefit workers.

  • Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours

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  • But what’s newsworthy about this in 2026?

    It's about framing the debate of "robots doing work" in terms of being a positive thing ("see? they're helping us do important SCIENCE!") so that people will be just a little less combative when they get a BigMac handed to them by a robot arm.

  • California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube

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  • They'll likely only target fully assembled 3d printers, which is why just like their firearms laws it will only stop people who aren't actively attempting to circumvent the law.

  • California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube

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  • I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but given that this is an anti-firearms bill, they will probably do the same thing they do when you purchase a firearm magazine cross-state; they'll open the box and check that it is 'compliant' with the 10-round limit (or in this case, has compliant firmware). If it is, they'll ship it on to you. If it's not, they'll ship you the empty box with a notice of seizure. You may also be contacted by CADOJ later, depending how much free time they have.

  • CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price

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  • I'm sure they're quaking at the thought of floating out on their golden parachutes...

  • China’s ‘Rat People’: When Education Can’t Deliver on Its Promises

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  • if people can be happy and fulfilled

    Except a lot of them aren't happy and fulfilled, they're opting out for the same reasons young people in the US are:

    they can’t afford homes, can’t find decent jobs, and don’t see a future worth bringing children into.

    That's not "happy and fulfilled outside the rat race", especially since their solution is closer to hikikomoris. They're not out there building self-sufficient communes.

  • Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

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  • just say 'doggo' and 'w00t' and 'roflmao' a couple times and the AI will peg you as an elder millennial and leave you alone

  • Smart Homes Are Terrible

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  • I'd settle for any home, smart or dumb.

  • Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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  • I'm so mad they've switched from their "protect the children" line for Boomers, to "protect the pets" for us Millennials.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • IRC is still alive and well, team speak for voice chats. Hell, Nextcloud even has these, as well as video calls.

  • Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI

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  • Everyone forgets that "Information Technology" was just a rebrand from the more accurate "Information Systems", which was itself the less accurate rebranding of "Data Processing", which is what computers actually do. There was also the failed push by IBM for Information Communication Technology (ICT).

    It's been hype cycles since the beginning.

  • NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

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  • we’d better be careful to make sure that we aren’t simply giving the federal government (and the shitheads who run it) even more power and control over everything

    You do realize that copyright is solely a function of the federal government, right? There is no state or municipal copyright, it's already the federal government who decides whether your copyright as a creator is valid or enforceable, or whether to just hand it over to another company/ billionaire.

  • ‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn environmental crisis is decades ahead of forecasts

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  • No no, they've now moved on to, "well fine, it's real, but it's too late and/or too expensive to do anything now".

  • World’s oldest monastic brewery to be sold as German beer sales slide

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  • Never been to Weltenburger, but I used to go to Kloster Andechs with my dad and grandmother to get their pork knuckles. Something about going to a kloster (abbey) and seeing the monks living there like it's still the 1500s is very cool. Kloster Andechs was founded in 1458 with an official writ for operating as a tavern, and has been brewing since then. Imagine living in a place that's been around and doing the same thing for 560+ years.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
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    From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America

    www.aljazeera.com /opinions/2025/8/28/from-anti-wokeness-to-the-confederate-states-of-america
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    The Promised LAN

    tpl.house
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    What to know about Israel's major attack on Iran

    apnews.com /article/israel-attack-iran-strike-nuclear-us-news-5adea3ffa51264e0c7c803d8acfde338
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Grim Dawn, one of the best ARPGs, is on sale right now ($2.50)

    store.steampowered.com /app/219990/Grim_Dawn/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.

    theintercept.com /2024/12/04/meta-facebook-terrorism-censorship-speech/
  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

    apnews.com /article/hamas-israel-generals-plan-eiland-gaza-219d7eb9a3050e281ccc032d5a56263c
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside

    apnews.com /article/hamas-israel-generals-plan-eiland-gaza-219d7eb9a3050e281ccc032d5a56263c
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Cyberdeck project progress

    imgur.com /gallery/cyberdeck-progress-hMGKiez
  • Neurodivergence @beehaw.org
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    Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

    www.madinamerica.com /2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Climate Change isn't always something you can see, but when it is, it's frightening

    imgur.com /gallery/just-remembering-time-sf-was-covered-ash-smoke-this-was-5pm-ish-Uxu6nh2
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Need help selecting SBCs for a pair of projects

  • World News @beehaw.org
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    The Hill: US Army intel officer resigns in protest of US-Israel policy; IDF abuse of Gazan prisoners exposed

    thehill.com /hilltv/rising/4662832-rising-may-14-2024/