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In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and technology at MIT. “We do a lot of spatial and data analytics. We sit on academic papers and research that could have a huge impact on the way we plan and design our cities,” she says of her profession. “It wasn’t getting communicated.” Shortly after joining MIT in 2012, Williams created the Civic Data Design Lab to bridge that divide. Over the years, she and her colleagues have pushed the narrative and expository bounds of urban planning data using the latest technologies available—making numbers vivid and accessible through human stories and striking graphics. One project she was involved in, on rates of incarceration in New York City by neighborhood, is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Williams’s other projects have tracked the spread and impact of air pollution in Beijing using air quality monitors and mapped the daily commutes of Nairobi residents using geographic information systems. Cities should be transparent in how they’re using AI and what its limitations are. In doing so, they have an opportunity to model more ethical and responsive ways of using this technology. In recent years, as AI became more accessible, Williams was intrigued by what it could reveal about cities. “I really started thinking, ‘What are the implications for urban planning?’” she says. These tools have the potential to organize and illustrate vast amounts of data instantaneously. But having more information also increases the risks of misinformation and manipulation. “I wanted to help guide cities in thinking about the positives and negatives of these tools,” she says. In 2024, that inquiry led to a collaboration with the city of Boston, which was exploring how and whether to apply AI in various government functions through its Office of Emerging Technology. Over the course of the year, Williams and her team followed along as Boston experimented with several new applications for AI in government and gathered feedback at community meetings. On the basis of these findings, Williams and the Civic Data Design Lab published the Generative AI Playbook for Civic Engagement in the spring. It’s a publicly available document that helps city governments take advantage of AI’s capabilities and navigate its attendant risks. This kind of guidance is especially important as the federal government takes an increasingly laissez-faire approach to AI regulation. “That gray zone is where nonprofits and academia can create research to help guide states and private institutions,” Williams says. The lab’s playbook and academic papers touch on a wide range of emerging applications, from virtual assistants for Boston’s procurement division to optimization of traffic signals to chatbots for the 311 nonemergency services hotline. But Williams’s primary focus is how to use this technology for civic engagement. AI could help make the membrane between the government and the public more porous, allowing each side to understand the other a little better. Right now, civic engagement is mostly limited to “social media, websites, and community meetings,” she says. “If we can create more tools to help close that gap, that’s really important.” One of Boston’s AI-powered experiments moves in that direction. The city used a large language model to summarize every vote of the Boston City Council for the past 16 years, creating simple and straightforward descriptions of each measure. This easily searchable database “will help you find what you’re looking for a lot more quickly,” says Michael Lawrence Evans, head of the Office of Emerging Technology. A quick search for “housing” shows the city council’s recent actions to create a new housing accelerator fund and to expand the capacity of migrant shelters. Though not every summary has been double-checked by a human, the tool’s accuracy was confirmed through “a really robust evaluation,” Evans says. AI tools may also help governments understand the needs and desires of residents. The community is “already inputting a lot of its knowledge” through community meetings, public surveys, 311 tickets, and other channels, Williams says. Boston, for instance, recorded nearly 300,000 311 requests in 2024 (most were complaints related to parking). New York City recorded 35 million 311 contacts in 2023. It can be difficult for government workers to spot trends in all that noise. “Now they have a more structured way to analyze that data that didn’t really exist before,” she says. AI can help paint a clearer picture of how these sorts of resident complaints are distributed geographically. At a community meeting in Boston last year, city staff used generative AI to instantly produce a map of pothole complaints from the previous month. AI also has the potential to illuminate more abstract data on residents’ desires. One mechanism Williams cites in her research is Polis, an open-source polling platform used by several national governments around the world and a handful of cities and media companies in the US. A recent update allows poll hosts to categorize and summarize responses using AI. It’s something of an experiment in how AI can help facilitate direct democracy—an issue that tool creator Colin Megill has worked on with both OpenAI and Anthropic. But even as Megill explores these frontiers, he is proceeding cautiously. The goal is to “enhance human agency,” he says, and to avoid “manipulation” at all costs: “You want to give the model very specific and discrete tasks that augment human authors but don’t replace them.” Misinformation is another concern as local governments figure out how best to work with AI. Though they’re increasingly common, 311 chatbots have a mixed record on this front. New York City’s chatbot made headlines last year for providing inaccurate and, at times, bizarre information. When an Associated Press reporter asked if it was legal for a restaurant to serve cheese that had been nibbled on by a rat, the chatbot responded, “Yes, you can still serve the cheese to customers if it has rat bites.” (The New York chatbot appears to have improved since then. When asked by this reporter, it responded firmly in the negative to the nibbling rat question.) These AI mishaps can reduce trust in government—precisely the opposite of the outcome that Williams is pursuing in her work. “Currently, we don’t have a lot of trust in AI systems,” she says. “That’s why having that human facilitator is really important.” Cities should be transparent in how they’re using AI and what its limitations are, she says. In doing so, they have an opportunity to model more ethical and responsive ways of using this technology. Next on Williams’s agenda is exploring how cities can develop their own AI systems rather than relying on tech giants, which often have a different set of priorities. This technology could be open-source; not only would communities be able to better understand the data they produce, but they would own it. “One of the biggest criticisms of AI right now is that the people who are doing the labor are not paid for the work that they do [to train the systems],” she says. “I’m super excited about how communities can own their large language models. Then communities can own the data that’s inside them and allow people to have access to it.” Benjamin Schneider is a freelance writer covering housing, transportation, and urban policy. From MIT Technology Review via this RSS feed
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This is today’s edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028 The news: IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029. What is it? The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips, housed within a new data center in Poughkeepsie, New York.Why it matters: IBM claims Starling will be a leap forward in quantum computing. In particular, the company aims for it to be the first large-scale machine to implement error correction. If Starling achieves this, IBM will have solved arguably the biggest technical hurdle facing the industry today. Read the full story. —Sophia Chen The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems The Trump administration’s chainsaw approach to federal spending lives on, even as Elon Musk turns on the president. As part of a string of moves, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has cut the size of the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in half. The group was established in the 1980s after criticisms that the Pentagon was fielding weapons and systems that didn’t perform as safely or effectively as advertised. Hegseth is reducing the agency’s staff to about 45, down from 94, and firing and replacing its director. It is a significant overhaul of a department that in 40 years has never before been placed so squarely on the chopping block. Here’s how defense tech companies stand to gain (and the rest of us may stand to lose). —James O’Donnell This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Conspiracy theories are spreading about the LA protestsMisleading photos and videos are circulating on social media. (NYT $)+ Donald Trump has vowed to send 700 Marines to the city. (The Guardian)+ Waymo has paused its service in downtown LA after its vehicles were set alight. (LA Times $) 2 RFK Jr has fired an entire CDC panel of vaccine expertsThe anti-vaccine advocate accused them of conflicts of interest. (Ars Technica)+ He claims that their replacements will “exercise independent judgment.” (WSJ $)+ RFK Jr is interested in using a toxic bleach solution to treat ailments. (Wired $)+ How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it. (MIT Technology Review) 3 A new covid variant is spreading across Europe and the USWhile it’s considered low risk, ‘Nimbus’ appears to be more infectious. (Wired $) 4 White House security cautioned against installing Starlink internetBut Elon Musk’s team ignored them and fitted the service in the complex anyway. (WP $)+ Trump isn’t planning on getting rid of it, though. (Bloomberg $) 5 Developers are underwhelmed by Apple’s AI effortsIts WWDC announcements haven’t been met with much enthusiasm. (WSJ $)+ The company is opening up its AI models to developers for the first time. (FT $)+ Where’s the overhauled, AI-powered Siri we were promised? (TechCrunch) 6 Meta is assembling a new AI research labResearchers will be tasked with beating its rivals to achieve superintelligence. (Bloomberg $)+ There’s no doubt that Meta is feeling the heat right now. (The Information $) 7 Vulnerable minors are increasingly becoming radicalized onlineThe sad case of Rhianan Rudd illustrates the ease of access to extremist material. (FT $) 8 Our nerves may play a central role in how cancer spreadsResearchers believe they may help tumors to grow. (New Scientist $)+ Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer. (MIT Technology Review) 9 An end is in sight for the video game actors’ strikeMajor labels have reached a tentative deal with the SAG-AFTRA. (Variety $)+ How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI. (MIT Technology Review) 10 The UK is planning a robotaxi trial next nextMany years behind other countries. (FT $) Quote of the day “At the end of the day, what they need to do is deliver on what they presented a year ago.” —Bob O’Donnell, chief analyst at Technalysis Research, tells Reuters where Apple went wrong with its lacklustre WWDC announcements. One more thing The great AI consciousness conundrumAI consciousness isn’t just a devilishly tricky intellectual puzzle; it’s a morally weighty problem with potentially dire consequences that philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers alike are currently grappling with.Fail to identify a conscious AI, and you might unintentionally subjugate a being whose interests ought to matter. Mistake an unconscious AI for a conscious one, and you risk compromising human safety and happiness for the sake of an unthinking, unfeeling hunk of silicon and code.Over the past few decades, a small research community has doggedly attacked the question of what consciousness is and how it works. The effort has yielded real progress. And now, with the rapid advance of AI technology, these insights could offer our only guide to the untested, morally fraught waters of artificial consciousness. Read the full story. —Grace Huckins We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or skeet ’em at me.) Rest in power Sly Stone, truly one of the funky greats.+ Did you know there’s an Olympics for scaffolding? Well, you do now.+ Just one man is responsible for some of the greatest film artwork of all time—Drew Struzan.+ That’s one dramatic pizza maker. From MIT Technology Review via this RSS feed
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All sequels have to live up to their predecessors in some form, but few have as daunting a task as Mario Kart World. It’s a follow-up to the best-selling game across Nintendo’s last two console generations, and a game that eventually doubled in size thanks to an ambitious array of downloadable add-ons. So instead of following Mario Kart 8 with another release that simply adds more, Nintendo shifted in a slightly different direction. Mario Kart World is still Mario Kart; it has a daunting Rainbow Road to speed across and frustrating blue shells to steal victories away from you. But it also introduces an open-world structure that makes the game feel larger and more cohesive. This makes it the ideal game to show off what the Switch 2 is capable of at launch. The biggest change for World is its structure. In all past Mario Kart games, racetracks were discrete entities. Baby Park and Bowser’s Castle had nothing to do with each other. But for World, the entirety of the game takes place on a singular landmass with different areas and biomes, like the map in Fortnite. And because of this, everything is connected. When you race through Grand Prix mode, you go through four tracks that cut … Read the full story at The Verge. From The Verge via this RSS feed
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This is today’s edition of The Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics —Jon Keegan As a child of an electronic engineer, I spent a lot of time in our local Radio Shack as a kid. While my dad was locating capacitors and resistors, I was in the toy section. It was there, in 1984, that I discovered the best toy of my childhood: the Armatron robotic arm. Described as a “robot-like arm to aid young masterminds in scientific and laboratory experiments,” it was a legit robotic arm. And the bold look and function of Armatron made quite an impression on many young kids who would one day have a career in robotics. Read the full story. If you’re interested in the future of robots, why not check out:+ Will we ever trust robots? If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes? Read the full story. When you might start speaking to robots. Google is only the latest to fuse large language models with robots. Here’s why the trend has big implications.+ How AI models let robots carry out tasks in unfamiliar environments. Read the full story.+ China’s EV giants are betting big on humanoid robots. Technical know-how and existing supply chains give Chinese electric-vehicle makers a significant head start in the sector. Read the full story. Why we still need AM radio The most reliable way to keep us informed in times of disaster is being threatened. Check out Ariel Aberg-Riger’s beautiful visual story illustrating AM radio’s importance in uncertain times. Both of these stories are from the most recent edition of our print magazine, which is all about how technology is changing creativity. Subscribe now to get future copies before they land. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Protestors set Waymo robotaxis alight in Los AngelesThe groups clashed with police over the Trump administration’s immigration raids. (LA Times $)+ Much of the technology that fuels deportation orders is error-ridden. (Slate $)+ Immigrants are using a swathe of new apps to stay ahead of deportation. (Rest of World) 2 What’s next for Elon Musk and Donald TrumpA full breakdown in relations could be much worse for Musk in the long run. (NY Mag $)+ Trump’s backers are rapidly turning on Musk, too. (New Yorker $)+ The biggest winner from their fall out? Jeff Bezos. (The Information $) 3 DOGE used an inaccurate AI tool to terminate Veteran Affairs contactsIts code frequently produced glaring mistakes. (ProPublica)+ Undeterred, the department is on a hiring spree. (Wired $)+ Can AI help DOGE slash government budgets? It’s complex. (MIT Technology Review) 4 Europe’s shrinking forests could cause it to miss net-zero targetsIts trees aren’t soaking up as much carbon as they used to. (New Scientist $)+ Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal. (MIT Technology Review) 5 OpenAI wants to embed ChatGPT into college campusesThe ultimate goal? A personalized AI account for every student. (NYT $)+ Meanwhile, other universities are experimenting with tech-free classes. (The Atlantic $)+ ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it. (MIT Technology Review) 6 Chinese regulators are pumping the brakes on self-driving carsThey’re developing a new framework to assess the safety of autonomous features. (FT $)+ The country’s robotaxis are rapidly catching up with the west. (Rest of World)+ How China is regulating robotaxis. (MIT Technology Review) 7 Desalination is finally becoming a realityRemoving salt from seawater is one way to combat water scarcity. (WSJ $)+ If you can make it through tons of plastic, that is. (The Atlantic $) 8 We’re getting better at fighting cancerDeaths from the disease in the US have dropped by a third since 1991. (Vox)+ Why it’s so hard to use AI to diagnose cancer. (MIT Technology Review) 9 Teenage TikTokers’ skin regimes offer virtually no benefitAnd could even be potentially harmful. (The Guardian)+ The fight for “Instagram face” (MIT Technology Review) 10 Tech’s layoff groups are providing much-needed supportWorkers who have been let go by their employers are forming little communities. (Insider $) Quote of the day “Every tech company is doing similar things but we were open about it.” —Luis von Ahn, chief executive of the language-learning app Duolingo, tells the Financial Times that his company is far from the only one adopting an AI-first strategy. One more thing How to break free of Spotify’s algorithmSince the heyday of radio, the branding of sound has evolved from broad genres like rock and hip-hop to “paranormal dark cabaret afternoon” and “synth space,” and streaming has become the default.Meanwhile, the ritual of discovering something new is now neatly packaged in a 30-song playlist. The only rule in music streaming is personalization.What we’ve gained in convenience, we’ve lost in curiosity. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Read the full story. —Tiffany Ng We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or skeet ’em at me.) Happy birthday to Michael J Fox, who turns 64 today!+ Whenever you need to play the world’s smallest violin, these scientists can help you out + An early JMW Turner oil painting has been rediscovered.+ Watching robots attempt to kickbox is pretty amusing. From MIT Technology Review via this RSS feed
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Yeah lol the URL doesn’t match the page title which doesn’t match whatever wosonhj.com is. According to their DNS, some Chinese organization. It links to a fake version of libgen populated with ads (And sadly instead of re-hosting all 550+ TB of libgen for downloads they force the downloads through libgen’s servers while throwing ads on top of their fake UI) It links to a fake version of sci hub populated with ads (Most of these all flowing into mobang.top, another throwaway url with Chinese DNS) I’m sure it’s a helpful site, but I’d recommend people accessing it: Don’t use your actual personal email Don’t reuse a password you’ve used elsewhere Access it through a VPN so your IP isn’t exposed Ensure you are running malware protection (the built in malware protection on windows or mac is likely fine) (and otherwise yes, I know you use arch, and if you use nix you’re too busy modifying one of your .nix files to even read this) Anything you download, upload to https://www.virustotal.com just to be safe Realistically you should follow steps 1-5 for most online services, but here we are
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this is another curated video. Dr. GGamer here is someone who i realize genuinely suffered and wants to help people by giving away the relevant knowledge from the other side of the academical gates. former incel and gamer addict turnt public educator. i downloaded all of his videos and listen to them in a playlist when i feel like i’m stuck and wanna figure out what bothers me in life. then i pick out that video and make notes of the always well-articulated (albeit less sympathically so) key-takeaways of each situation. here are my notes from the video for executive dysfunction specific to screen addicts/gamers. these are my key take-aways with some anecdotes from my point of view, if you have more take-aways- hey i’ll always read & reply to your comments and posts in c/screen_addiction. blood flow to hippocampus lessens, divergent (open-ended) problems become near impossible to break down since that’s not what we were doing while we gamed; convergent (close-ended) problems means everything spelled out in-game or we’d get frustrated and quit that game. blood flow to amygdala lessens, negative emotions are literally muted. un-muting (leaving the screen/game) un-mutes us emotionally only to hear an overwhelming queue of negative-emotions which we lost track of how to deal with orderly… a societally ignored or mocked feedbackloop of increased perceived need to game for the real benefit of actually muting negative emotions that do pile up: this ultimately acts like an XP-debuff and life goes on hardmode. serotonin aversion, no sense of accomplishment ever with lower serotonin. more screen & games -> less serotonin in every part of life. feels like hollowing out all meaning until a gnawing hole forms in the bottom of my stomach to right below my chest, in my own words for the daily experience. dopamine dependency, the dopamine-hits we’re all struggling with. visual flares and audio queues that induce catharsis under the guise of being just for the mere kinaesthesic sensation of weight in a cyberspace.
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tl;dr: You download files from a server you pay to access. Faster and more secure (assuming you trust the server host). I use Eweka and NZBGeek as my indexer. If you don’t have access to fancy private torrent networks then this is a much less painful experience than having to navigate torrent sites these days. Combine with *aar and life is pretty sweet.
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I’m looking into 3D-printing some props for a cosplay and stumbled upon a pretty handy listing on Etsy (if I’m not allowed to post the link, I’ll edit it out). Now, I’m a complete beginner to 3D printing and know barely anything, so I’ve got a couple of questions. How safe is it to buy files off Etsy? Apparently, STL files are a little too large to be uploaded to Etsy, so upon making the purchase I’d get sent a txt file that includes a download link to the required files. Is that trustworthy? Are there any file types that I should steer clear off for commercial 3D printing places? I’ve got a place to go in my city, I think, but I’m not sure if there are any limitations to which file types can be printed at all. How likely is it that the arm prop won’t fit? The listing does not specify if there are different sizes, and I’m not sure if they are even needed in the first place. In case it wouldn’t fit out of the box, how difficult is it to scale the file to fit my arm proper? How expensive would printing be? Probably hard to answer unless I know where I’m going and what they are charging, but I’d imagine the cost of material is probably not too high, right? I think the seller also has the same files over on Cults 3D. Would buying there be preferable to Etsy for any reason (apart from pricing)? That should be it. I hope my post is an ok fit for here - I’ll post somewhere else if it isn’t. Thank you guys in advance!
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Exactly what I’m talking about. It reminds me of the time microsoft introduced memory compression to compensate for every application bringing it’s own DLLs But I still think flatpak is superior to windows way of doing things because it actually has dependency management. I kinda like the idea of having multiple versions of the same library but I wish they did not come in big bundles (runtimes), but instead, came in small 1-2MB pieces. download random binaries from non-trusted distributors that contain a copy of every library that software needs to run This is overexaggeration. Flatpak, unlike places windows users get software from, is moderated, and flatpak (although chunky) has shared dependencies
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I’m trying to find a cracked version of Tableau Desktop, but none of the DDL sites I looked at in the megathread had it. 1337x has some older versions, but I’m not sure if I trust them. I had downloaded and installed the 2020.1.3 release on 1337x by FTUApps, but apparently they’re unsafe since they released an infected crack a couple years ago. Is that specific release, dated two years before that announcement, safe? I only installed the application itself without implementing the crack file before seeing the announcement, but I did of course have to run it as admin, so I imagine I’m safe if potential malware is only in the crack file but infected if it’s in the installer. Either way, what’s the most recent crack of Tableau that can be trusted?
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G‐d, what a fucking mess. Okay, so first off, the troublemaker responsible for publishing this is somebody called Bodo Hechelhammer, whose Wikipedia article says that he ‘confirmed for the first time on behalf of the BND that the Nazi war criminal Walther Rauff was a BND source from 1958 to 1962 and published all of the BND documents’, and has three citations to back that up. Sound pretty exciting? It gets even better: from 1956 to 1968 the president of the BND was none other than Reinhard…fucking…Gehlen…and if you don’t know the significance of that, read Christopher Simpson’s Blowback (specifically ch. 5): According to Cox, the Gehlen Organization was the primary source of intelligence that claimed that “the Soviets were about to attack [West] Germany. . . . [That was] the biggest bunch of baloney then, and it is still a bunch of baloney today.” Basically, a war hawk and former Axis official who repeatedly tried to bullshit people into starting a sequel to Operation Barbarossa (and some have gone so far as to blame him for the Cold War). As Hechelhammer’s paper itself says: Furthermore, then BND President Reinhard Gehlen was personally interested in the developments in Cuba. In the late fifties, in light of the growing threat Cuba represented to the United States, and again in 1960/61, he reportedly held the opinion that the United States should respond with a preemptive military attack. His advice for the United States was „to swiftly annex this dangerous communist stronghold that serves also as perfect platform for Latin America‘s communist infiltration […]“ Gehlen dismissed concerns that a US military action against Cuba might trigger a third Word War. And, just to top off this game of telephone, I couldn’t find any corroborating sources about the Republic of Cuba knowingly recruiting Ernst-Wilhelm Springer, Otto Ernst Remer, or anybody else who worked for the Schutzstaffel, which means that we probably have no option but to take the BND’s word for this. Fun! So, what do you think? Does this sound trustworthy enough to you? You tell me.
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Valve isn’t going to remove your purchases unless Valve goes bankrupt. But make no mistake, they will do other anti-consumer and anti-competitor bullshit once Gabe leaves and the company becomes publicly traded. Things like throttling your download speed unless you pay their subscription. Being forced to watch ads whenever you browse your library. This is why we should NEVER put so much trust in a company that they can build up a monopoly, like all those Gabe stans are doing.
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Keep in mind that: Anonymous mode doesn’t really do anything, but it also doesn’t hurt having it on. Disabling DHT and PeX will make you unable to download torrents from certain platforms, like TPB, unless they are also registered in other trackers. In addition, I’d also set it to only allow encrypted connections, which for some reason they don’t say there. Either way, Mullvad is not a good VPN for torrenting, because it can’t do port forwarding anymore. You already know this, but you’ll have a lot of issues with low torrent availability, low speeds and a difficulty to seed. If you already don’t mind paying for a VPN, why not look into seedboxes? They also hide your IP when torrenting, they can have port forwarding and better speeds than your VPN or home internet, they’re online 24/7 so you can seed a lot, and you can connect to them with a VPN to get the torrented files if you really want. Additionally, you can also buy a VPN with port forwarding and bind only your torrent client to it, so that no other traffic or information is flowing through it. This works if you don’t trust any VPN offering port forwarding. If you want an explanation on the private tracker logic: Private trackers usually have requirements to join. That way, companies can’t plant fake seeds that identify you and snitch to the ISP. They’re also relatively small, so not closely monitored. When you get a torrent from a private tracker, DHT, PeX and local peer discovery are disabled on that torrent. As long as you have encryption enabled, you’ll be relatively safe from ISP letters. However, this only applies if you’re getting your torrents only from private trackers.
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/31779742 cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/31779724 Here you can download the report: Building a Global Minerals Trust for a Just Green Transition [pdf] UN scientists, experts propose “Global Minerals Trust” - a cooperative, multilateral governance mechanism to ensure sustainable, conflict-free access to critical minerals Key points: Today, more than 70% of global production for key critical minerals is concentrated in just a few countries, raising serious concerns about supply security, market volatility, and geopolitical risk. Achieving a just and sustainable energy transition hinges on fair and reliable access to critical minerals—materials key for low-carbon technologies. However, global supply chains remain environmentally damaging and vulnerable to geopolitical tensions, creating systemic risks for both climate and economic goals. A Global Minerals Trust offers a new multilateral model to promote responsible stewardship, fair pricing, and secure equitable access to strategic minerals–balancing national sovereignty with planetary responsibility. The Trust can advance a just and circular transition by enabling pooled investment, transparent trade, mineral recycling, and benefit-sharing with resource-producing nations, particularly in the Global South. Global cooperation through platforms such as the G7, G20, IGF, and United Nations is essential to coordinate action and build a resilient, inclusive, and future-proof minerals governance system. The Trust would include independent audit mechanisms—similar to those used by the International Atomic Energy Agency—to ensure environmental and social safeguards. Countries would retain full sovereignty over their resources while committing to prioritize mineral flows for green technologies and avoid politicized supply disruptions. Canada’s 2025 G7 presidency offers a strategic opportunity to facilitate early-stage consensus around the Trust, drawing on its strengths in environmental diplomacy and multilateral engagement, the report says. [Edit to insert the correct link.]
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There are some viruses that have targeted Linux, but they’re rare compared to other platforms and their ability to spread is relatively low. One of the main reasons is just down to how software tends to be installed on each platform. Viruses have an easier time spreading on Windows or OSX where users are more accustomed to downloading an executable and running it. Once there’s a malicious running process, it has a comparatively high chance to spread because it can attempt to escalate its privileges either by exploiting a bug or socially engineering the user to click through a privilege escalation prompt. That entire workflow is practically nonexistent on Linux, users just don’t tend to download and execute random binaries. Instead most Linux software gets delivered in one of these ways, each of which has impediments that reduce the chance a virus could spread: through an OS repo; it would be difficult for a malicious actor to get a virus through the release process and into a trusted repo through a public source like Github; again it would be difficult for a malicious actor to get a virus into public source code without someone noticing through a container image from an image library like DockerHub; I believe a malicious container would be sandboxed, making it hard if not impossible for that container to take over the host system through an application image like a snap, flatpak or appimage; again, I believe these run in their own sandbox from which they would have difficulty breaking out There are some exceptions, for example some companies like Hashicorp will distribute their stuff as precompiled binaries. Even in that case you’re probably fine as long as you don’t run the downloaded binary as root. Users in the habit of downloading strange binaries from sketchy places and running them as root just aren’t very common among the Linux userbase. I’m sure there are some (and they should really stop doing that), but there aren’t enough of them to allow a virus to spread unchecked.
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mander.xyz
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/31779724 Here you can download the report: Building a Global Minerals Trust for a Just Green Transition [pdf] UN scientists, experts propose “Global Minerals Trust” - a cooperative, multilateral governance mechanism to ensure sustainable, conflict-free access to critical minerals Key points: Today, more than 70% of global production for key critical minerals is concentrated in just a few countries, raising serious concerns about supply security, market volatility, and geopolitical risk. Achieving a just and sustainable energy transition hinges on fair and reliable access to critical minerals—materials key for low-carbon technologies. However, global supply chains remain environmentally damaging and vulnerable to geopolitical tensions, creating systemic risks for both climate and economic goals. A Global Minerals Trust offers a new multilateral model to promote responsible stewardship, fair pricing, and secure equitable access to strategic minerals–balancing national sovereignty with planetary responsibility. The Trust can advance a just and circular transition by enabling pooled investment, transparent trade, mineral recycling, and benefit-sharing with resource-producing nations, particularly in the Global South. Global cooperation through platforms such as the G7, G20, IGF, and United Nations is essential to coordinate action and build a resilient, inclusive, and future-proof minerals governance system. The Trust would include independent audit mechanisms—similar to those used by the International Atomic Energy Agency—to ensure environmental and social safeguards. Countries would retain full sovereignty over their resources while committing to prioritize mineral flows for green technologies and avoid politicized supply disruptions. Canada’s 2025 G7 presidency offers a strategic opportunity to facilitate early-stage consensus around the Trust, drawing on its strengths in environmental diplomacy and multilateral engagement, the report says.
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Here you can download the report: Building a Global Minerals Trust for a Just Green Transition [pdf] UN scientists, experts propose “Global Minerals Trust” - a cooperative, multilateral governance mechanism to ensure sustainable, conflict-free access to critical minerals Key points: Today, more than 70% of global production for key critical minerals is concentrated in just a few countries, raising serious concerns about supply security, market volatility, and geopolitical risk. Achieving a just and sustainable energy transition hinges on fair and reliable access to critical minerals—materials key for low-carbon technologies. However, global supply chains remain environmentally damaging and vulnerable to geopolitical tensions, creating systemic risks for both climate and economic goals. A Global Minerals Trust offers a new multilateral model to promote responsible stewardship, fair pricing, and secure equitable access to strategic minerals–balancing national sovereignty with planetary responsibility. The Trust can advance a just and circular transition by enabling pooled investment, transparent trade, mineral recycling, and benefit-sharing with resource-producing nations, particularly in the Global South. Global cooperation through platforms such as the G7, G20, IGF, and United Nations is essential to coordinate action and build a resilient, inclusive, and future-proof minerals governance system. The Trust would include independent audit mechanisms—similar to those used by the International Atomic Energy Agency—to ensure environmental and social safeguards. Countries would retain full sovereignty over their resources while committing to prioritize mineral flows for green technologies and avoid politicized supply disruptions. Canada’s 2025 G7 presidency offers a strategic opportunity to facilitate early-stage consensus around the Trust, drawing on its strengths in environmental diplomacy and multilateral engagement, the report says.
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I understand what you are saying and usually never post or bother with her rants, I was just trying to look for updates on the Dead island 2 crack and this popped up and for some reason I found this too funny to not share. As for not downloading her content, we don’t really have an alternative she is the only person who cracks Denuvo. If there were someone else who cracked Denuvo, trust me I wouldn’t download her shit even if you paid me. Also part of why she is so unhinged is because she knows this,you can hate her but can’t ignore her.
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I expected this to be “another one of those” but actually from what my instance has about you, you were indeed correct. Gaming distros with exclusive features lmao. IMO that’s some of the gamer logic bleeding over in the Linux side, now that Linux gaming is taking off. They’ll do anything including install dubious Linux distros barely hanging together with duct tape for a perceived extra 2 FPS. Download software exclusively distributed on Discord? Hell yeah. I’m sure at least one of them boots with mitigations=off and it’s not clearly indicated that it does. We’re seeing the same thing on the Windows side with modified Windows ISOs like the whole AtlasOS, that rightfully made some security experts sound the alarm. Some did things like completely strip off the updates, antivirus and firewall. Unless your system is exclusively running Steam and firewalled off the network, this is a certified bad idea. I’d probably trust Nobara because the guy clearly knows his shit, but some of them really are just some other guy’s riced up Arch snapshot. They may give the impression everything just works at first but I’ve definitely seen examples of it falling apart. Even bigger distros like Pop_OS! had major snafus like the whole Steam uninstalls your DE thing, and Manjaro still fucks up something basic every now and then. I tried some of them in a VM and they didn’t even install or boot correctly. Oh my fault that one only works for NVIDIA graphics cards not AMD, my bad. It’s not worth arguing, it’s a user base with vastly different goals than I do, just let them have their Bedrock Linux completely blow up in multi package manager hell and soon enough they’ll come running for a saner more reliable distro.