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lemmy.blackeco.com
Here’s the text in the image If you people had half a clue what its like to run and mod a popular torrent site half the comments here would be just thanks. You think 1337x has a huge team of people moderating FREE content for you all? Let me clue you all in, this is most certainly NOT the case. Very few people modding site right now. I can tell you this, NO one and I mean NO one is working with anyone to make money off of people on site involving moderators or admins. The people that are actively modding the site have full time jobs with families and do not look at uploads coming threw 24/7. The torrent in question was removed when it was checked and verified. Please excuse the delay as we were not fast enough for some of you and your free content. What mods are there are there just because of the community no other reason. Getting paid? Please, stop it now. You should be wary of any software or games you download from anywhere. If you dont trust 1337x then dont go there, but to start smashing on what few moderators who are just there to support you people in your quest for good pirated material is just wrong and no where near correct. For the people who think we are in cahoots with anyone involved with site and donations for your information none of the mods like the change that has recently happened involving donations. What sense does it make to take donations to remove ADS when and if you loose the account you are screwed? The password recovery does not work on 1337x as of now and has not for a very long time. As mods/Admins we have zero access to the backed of the site. No control Whatsoever. Never have never will. Site owner barely has any communication with the Mods if you all want to know the truth. Posts like the OP has here makes me want to quit and let fate take its course to be perfectly honest with all the ungrateful comments for FREE CONTENT!
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lemmy.world
I hate when people say things like “research confirms”. That’s not how this kind of science works. They link to ResearchGate, which is fine enough since it has a full download of a pre-print, but here’s the original closed-access article’s page for those who do have institutional access. I categorically do not trust a business magazine like Inc. as a secondary source on sociological scientific literature. The author, Jessica Stillman, is listed as the source of the “Expert Opinion”, but if you look at her bio and even her website, she has zero expertise to be evaluating this. It’s fine to write an opinion; it’s not fine to misleadingly label someone as an “expert”. The thesis of the study as stated in the abstract (of the preprint; I’m too lazy to access through my institution right now) is as follows: Here, results from four studies (total N = 1018) report the construction and validation of the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a novel measure of individual differences in susceptibility to corporate bullshit.[*] Results show that corporate bullshit receptivity is distinct from a general affinity for corporate speech, negatively associated with measures of analytic thinking, and positively related with other bullshit-related constructs in theoretically-consistent ways. Importantly, corporate bullshit receptivity is positively associated with several workplace perception variables and is a robust negative predictor of work-related decision-making. Overall, the findings establish the CBSR as a valid and reliable tool to aid researchers and practitioners in examining the causes, correlates, and consequences of receptivity to bullshit in organizations. * Defined as “semantically empty and often confusing style of communication in organizational contexts that leverages abstruse corporate buzzwords and jargon in a functionally misleading way” I encourage people to read the study('s preprint or print edition) and evaluate its methodology instead of read a headline, think “Yeah, that conforms to my existing biases”, and walk away feeling smug. I’m not remarking on the quality of the study itself, as I’m reading the methodology later when I have time.
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sh.itjust.works
Microsoft is unable to track local accounts as thoroughly. I was finally going to attempt installing Linux Mint only to find out it is not as simple as some say. I know less than nothing about computers and then there are mirrors you have to choose from to download. I have no idea what would be a safe secure mirror. Then you have to install other software I have no knowledge of to make a bootable drive…I am just not intelligent enough I suppose. I was hoping it was a simple download process. I am just a tad bit frustrated!
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lemmy.ca
I couldn’t abide such a wall of text, so I reformatted everything into a Markdown table: | Name | Description | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | LocalSend | Send files on a local network easily | | Obtainium | Alternative to F-Droid, allows installation from more sources | | Aegis | 2FA manager | | CoMaps | OpenStreetMap client | | Tasks | Astrid was a popular cross-platform productivity service that was acquired and discontinued in 2013. The source code from Astrid’s open source Android app serves as the basis of Tasks. | | ZipXtract | A fully open-source Android application designed for comprehensive archive management. It allows you to effortlessly extract and create a wide variety of archive files directly on your device. | | disky | Find your biggest diskspace thieves! | | WallFlow Plus (Alpha) | A wallpaper app for Android with beautiful wallpapers from wallhaven.cc, Reddit. Designed with Material Design 3 and supports wide screen devices like tablets. | | Droid-ify | Alternative to F-Droid, allows installation from more sources | | Aves Libre | A gallery and metadata explorer app. It is built for Android, with Flutter. | | Phone | It’s a phone dialer | | OpenTracks | A sport tracking buddy that respects your privacy. | | Eden | A free and opensource (FOSS) Switch 1 emulator, derived from Yuzu and Sudachi | | DAVx⁵ | CalDAV/CardDAV synchronization for Android (and other features) | | Open Camera | A feature rich camera application | | Obsidian | Alternative store for Android. Not FOSS. | | kitshn | An unofficial multiplatform client for the self-hosted Tandoor recipe management software | | Calculator | It’s a calculator | | Jellyfin | Official Android client for Jellyfin | | Nextcloud | A safe home for all your data. Access & share your files, calendars, contacts, mail & more from any device, on your terms. This is the official Nextcloud Android app. | | WiFiAnalyzer | Interrogate devices on your WiFi network | | Thunderbird | A powerful, privacy-focused email app | | Breezy Weather | A feature-rich free and open source Material 3 Expressive weather app | | addy.io | Easily create and manage your addy.io aliases, recipients and more from your device | | mpv | A video player for Android based on libmpv | | Paperize | A dynamic wallpaper changer that keeps your device’s aesthetic fresh and exciting | | M3U | A simple IPTV player for Android phones, tablets, and TV. | | FairScan | An Android app to scan your documents | | Harmonic | A Hacker News client | | SpamBlocker | Blocks unwanted calls & SMS messages without replacing your default call/SMS app. | | Material Files | An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+ | | FUTO Keyboard | A good modern keyboard that stays offline and doesn’t spy on you | | KeePassDX | Lightweight password safe and manager | | Signal | Privacy-friendly instant messaging software | | Bitwarden | Official client for the Bitwarden password manager | | Audiobookshelf | A self-hosted audiobook and podcast server | | KDE Connect | Integrates your smartphone and computer | | GameNative | Allows you to play games you own on Steam, Epic and GOG directly on Android devices, with cloud saves. | | MJ PDF | A fast, minimalist, powerful and totally free PDF viewer | | Firefox Beta | It’s Firefox | | Summit | A mobile client for Lemmy | | Catima | Card management app | | ArrMatey | A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS. | | OpenKeychain | Encrypt your Files and Communications. Compatible with the OpenPGP Standard. | | NotallyX | Minimalistic note taking app | | WG Tunnel | An alternative FOSS Android client for WireGuard and AmneziaWG | | Bluesky | Alternative to X, developed by the same rich assholes who brought you Twitter (sorry, this is my bias coming through) | | Mental Math | A simple and clean Android app for mental arithmetic training | | Fossify Calendar | Your private & powerful schedule planner | | Moshidon | A fast, highly customizable, up-to-date fork of megalodon adding important features such as a fully federated timeline, unlisted posting, drafts, scheduled posts, bookmarks, and alt text warnings. | | Memories | Photo Management for Nextcloud | | AntennaPod | Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player | | Home Assistant | This is the official Android app for Home Assistant, a powerful open-source home automation platform | | Off Grid | The Swiss Army Knife of On-Device AI | | Tubular | A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike |
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lemmy.ca
whatever resolution I went out of my way to download. Addon Radarr, Sonarr, and Ombi and you won’t even have to do that. Users make requests via Ombi, those get sent to Radarr/Sonarr to search for and download. Most stuff is ready to watch ~15min after requesting, with no interaction from the servers admin needed. (optionally, requests can require approval before downloading, that’s disabled for the users I trust)
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lemmy.ml
How to set up like this with features - Forever full backups/DeDuplication Option Delete changes older than x. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data, Save a “Ghost” for other data (internet data not personal) which is only Filename, Metadata and Folder-Structure. “File Change Tracker” to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed. “File History” where I see previous version of files. Config from inside folders for disks (not OS) with e.g..backupconfigfile containing e.g. backup=1, or have select file backuped/not-backed-up. To Backup External and Internal Disk (files) and OSes to backup, Backup select data from Disks, all separately backup-ed to the same backup disk, . |Software|FOSS|Enterprise|OS|Encrypted|GUI|MultiMachine|Dedup|Snapshots|Scalable|Schedule|Image|Lesson| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Restic Frontends - Resticprofile, 2 , Backrest (garethgeorge), restic-browser) [zerobyte (nicotsx)-Video, Automation, UI, schedule, manage, Monitor]|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|||||||(Seems like is best it’s Old and trusted)| |urbackup (seems Powerful, some people love it some say it’s not reliable) [Backup/Imaging]|🟢||🟢||||||||🟢|Server/Client, ChangeBlockTracker , Lesson , https://christitus.com/urbackup/| |Duplicati|🟢||🟢||🟢|||||||Data issues| |Freefilesync.org|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |Minarca|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |plakar.io|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |syncBKUP (Jim-JMCD)|🟢|||||||||||| |Bacula|🟢|🟢|🟢||🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢||Lesson| |Bareos (Bacula Fork)|🟢|🟢|🟢||🟢|🟢||||||| |Kopia|🟢||🟢||🟢|🟢||||||| |vykar|🟢||🟢|🟢|🟢||🟢|||||Rust, YAML config, Support for S3, Custom REST, SFTP Storage. Inspired by BorgBackup, Borgmatic, Restic, Rustic.| |Pika|🟢||❌Windows|||||||||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo| |Borg (borgbackupserver)|🟢||⚠️Windows)(cygwin/WSL) ⚠️macOS|🟢|||🟢|||||| |Duplicacy github|source-available||🟢||🟢|||||||| |BackInTime (rsync frontent for backups)|||❌Windows|||||||||| |blinkdisk|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |Veeam (Free)||🟢|⚠️macOS||🟢|||||||| |Backblaze|-|-||||||||||| |zfs_autobackup|🟢|||||||||||| |eXdupe (rrrlasse)|🟢|||||||||||| |zpaqfranz (fcorbelli)|🟢|||||||||||| |VaultSync (ATAC-Helicopter)|🟢|||||||||||| |https://bvckup2.com/|Maybe Not|||||||||||| |https://www.nakivo.com/|Free|||||||||||| Dead but FOSS https://github.com/zmanda/amanda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List/_of/_backup/_software Freemium |Software|OS| |:-|:-| |uranium|Windows| |SyncBack Free|Windows| Backup and Imaging |Software|Foss| |:-|:-| |ShadowMaker Free|❌| |Paragon Backup|❌| |MSP360|❌| |Macrium Free|❌| |Acronis Free|❌| Disk Imaging |Software|Foss|Imaging|Backup|OS| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows|❌|||| |Rescuezilla (clonezilla)|🟢|🟢||| Sync Software ||Foss|OS| |:-|:-|:-| |Rsync https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync|🟢|All| |RClone - ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCIi-NxJEo )|🟢|All| |ByteSync|🟢|All| |FreeFileSync|🟢|All| |SyncBackFree||Windows| |Syncthing|🟢|All| Cloud https://www.reddit.com/r/Backup/wiki/index/cloud/_backup/_services/backblaze/ Info ~~Incremental backup method, where I only make full backups once ,~~ ~~Question - as i understand from “grandfather,father,son” method - that Full backups are still necessary when using snapshots/incremental backups, why is that ?~~ “deduplication” is of 2 types Data/Block de-duplication - tech to reduce amount storage required. This breaks files upon into chunks and creates a DB. Data de-duplication is influenced heavily by data type. Data de-duplication is a waste of time with compressed multimedia and encrypted data. Data de-duplication is often incorporated into backup products and can exist in independently, its built into some file system types (Windows server and some Linux). File deduplication - Removing identical files. by comparing the whole file. Homelabers and home users are more worried about this than commercial environments. In commercial environments users and projects are usually allocated a quota storage space and its up to them how they want to manage it. Incrementals Forever and Synthetic Full Backup - incremental may/not have de-duplication. They can also use Change Block Tracking (CBT) to save a lot of backup time. “Forever Full” are simply a variation on synthetic full backups with data deduplication and CBT being optional. Data deduplication occurs when you: Have multiple copies of the same data across multiple machines e.g. the operating system files of the computers you are backing up. Data that has not changed since you last successive backup. This includes files that have partially changed, only new unique data is added to the dedupe database/repository. Old Post about methodology - https://lemmy.ml/post/44433232
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lemmy.world
This is one of the hardest walls for people to jump over mentally, from scavenging the internet for binaries to using a package manager. I think ideally one should understand what they’re doing, I think that if you did you would realise it’s not hard, just different from what you’re used to. Usually you install things using the graphical package manager, of which there are a lot, since I don’t know which one you are using nor have I used any of them in a long while, I’ll use the terminal as an example (same reason the site uses terminal commands), but all of this is almost assuredly possible via GUI. To install things you usually do sudo apt install , this is a huge advantage on Linux, it works similar to your phone in that everything gets updated together but also it installs dependencies separately, which means that instead of having 10 copies of the same library for 10 programs that use it (like on Windows) you get a single one, which is part of the reason binaries are smaller on Linux. The problem with this approach is that some programs are NOT listed there, the only programs there are the ones the maintainers of your distro (Ubuntu in this case) can review and approve. So you can have a lot of different solutions for this: The first and most obvious for Windows users is to download the .deb from the website and just run that like you would a binary on windows, i.e. double-clicking it, or from the terminal you can run sudo dpkg -i . This works, but you lose the advantages of a package installed via your package manager, i.e. you would get the same experience as on windows, so it’s not ideal. The second way is the one they’re describing, essentially you’re adding a new repository to the package manager, that the people who wrote the program are maintaining (instead of Ubuntu guys), this is a two step process, sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc that command is downloading the file https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc and putting it in /usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc, this is needed because repositories are not trusted by default, that would be a security nightmare, you can do this via GUI if your problem is with the terminal , just download the file and copy it to that location, it’s just harder to explain than giving you a command. Then it’s adding the repository to the repository list, the command is echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list that command has a lot to unwrap, in essence it’s editing the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list and writing a line like deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=amd64] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable focal main" there, but because the guy who wrote this doesn’t know your architecture (e.g. amd64) nor your version (e.g. focal) he wrote a command that gets that information from your system, you can instead write the file yourself if you know those. Then install via package manager as normal. There’s a third way which is more recent which is install via snap/flatpak which is similar to install via package manager, except you don’t add new repos. There’s a fourth way which is manually, usually when you compile stuff you install them manually. I know it’s a lot to take in, but I’m of the opinion that if you understand what’s happening it makes things easier.
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sh.itjust.works
Why would you download bing wallpaper app anyways? First rule of computers: only install from trusted sources
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hexbear.net
i was the go on the computer on in my family. nobody else seemed to have the patience for its mysteries and once one of us had the aptitude, they just had me do their fixes. after i moved out/away, they just bought new devices when the old ones weren’t behaving. every new iteration of devices is more duplo and less lego. now they all phone and tablet, so their children are all phone and tablet. i’m the eccentric. phone and tablet are so easy, so they think they are experts now. when something doesn’t behave properly, they buy the new one and send the old one back. they legitimately have no concept of how the underlying technology functions. like i will be on vacation with them and they’ll say, “you download whatever movies you want at home. just do that here so we can watch it on this TV” like at a hotel. to be clear, i never bring tech shit anywhere on vacation. i bring books to read. i get enough screen time at home and work. so no, i didn’t bring a bunch of pirated material on a plane, or a seedbox or a jailbroken streaming device. my phone is pristine. the warhammer 40k shit is close to real. like they know i can do computer, but think that means i am a cyborg that can just touch a screen and hack the gibson and that i was born with this capacity so i should just do it for them. no, i don’t care how, that’s boring. just do the thing you magic fucking elf so i can have my treat. i also taught myself (by learning from/assisting friends and colleagues) to cook, bake, garden, do small engine repair, drive a manual transmission, be handy, do woodworking, and went to school/grad school in the biological sciences… none of these are areas where my family felt like investing any time or effort into. they have money so they find poor people to do everything for them. i don’t even really conceptualize myself as a computer person. i just tinker. i like to fix things rather than replace them. i like to understand how things work and tweak them to suit my needs/wants. i love to show people what i’ve learned, but far too many people (including my family) couldn’t give half a fuck. just buy new and by the time its all set up with pretty colors, you’ll forget what you were even getting frustrated about with the old one you returned. all my friends and chosen-family are tinkerers. i don’t know how to relate to the incurious.
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programming.dev
Two versions of telnyx (4.87.1 and 4.87.2) published to PyPI on March 27, 2026 contain malicious code injected into telnyx/_client.py. The telnyx package averages over 1 million downloads per month (~30,000/day), making this a high-impact supply chain compromise. The payload downloads a second-stage binary hidden inside WAV audio files from a remote server, then either drops a persistent executable on Windows or harvests credentials on Linux/macOS. Stolen data is encrypted with AES-256-CBC and a hardcoded RSA-4096 public key before exfiltration. The RSA key and operational patterns are identical to the litellm PyPI compromise, attributing this attack to TeamPCP with high confidence. No PyPI trusted publisher (OIDC) is configured. Trusted publishers bind PyPI uploads to a specific GitHub repository and workflow, making stolen tokens useless outside that context. Without this protection, anyone with the API token can upload any version from any machine. The most likely scenario is that the PYPI_TOKEN was obtained through a prior credential harvesting operation.
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news.abolish.capital
For more leaked documents (and to support my work finding them) please become a paid subscriber! While ICE agents are temporarily confusing things even more at airports, behind the scenes the Trump administration is paying a posse of local police to carry out its immigration war. An internal ICE financial ledger I obtained shows how the agency is turning local police departments across the county into a vast, decentralized immigration army. This includes payments if cops sign up to be deputized, reimbursements for transportation, salary supplements for cops who process migrant children, and per-arrest-style incentive payments. All of this is taking place under an ICE program called 287(g), part of a 1996 law that granted the Attorney General (and later the Secretary of Homeland Security) the authority to enter into written agreements with state and local governments on immigration. The first agreement under the law was signed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after 9/11; as of last year, the number of agreements has swelled past 1,000. Today, the program employs a “task force model” under which local police are deputized as ICE agents with the authority to carry out federal immigration law. So despite the broad public backlash against ICE, the agency has a way to carry out its mission without drawing attention to itself. An internal ICE diagram I obtained shows that local officers only become eligible for stipends and salary reimbursements after making their first arrest. The document labels that first arrest as the moment a participant becomes “OPERATIONAL.” Leaked ICE diagram The ledger lists over 400 police departments where ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations is currently negotiating new or expanded cooperation agreements with local police departments, including the amount of money currently allocated to buy their cooperation. The largest payouts are to Florida law enforcement. In addition to earlier awards, ICE has set aside an extra $89 million in incentive funding for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Division of Highway Patrol, which already has 1,803 “task force officers” credentialed under the program. Then there’s roughly $5 million for the 719 task force officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’, and nearly $4 million for the 503 task force officers of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ICE 287(g) payouts 2.55MB ∙ PDF file Download Download In addition to Florida, other red states (and they are mostly red states) are taking ICE’s money to become bounty hunters to arrest supposed immigration law violators. Arkansas State Police is receiving a base award of $4,225,025 covering 550 task force officers, with an estimated $8,250,000 more in incentive funding to come. Oklahoma’s Department of Public Safety is getting a $5,380,025 base award covering 704 officers, a $1,650,000 salary modification on top of that, and a staggering $38,220,000 TBD line item still pending. Louisiana State Police is receiving a base award of $880,025 for 104 officers, plus an additional $45,000 salary modification. The money flows well beyond large state agencies, to small and obscure agencies most people (including myself) have never heard of. The Point Comfort Police Department in Texas — a town of fewer than 700 people — has a base agreement of $167,525 to supply nine task force officers, plus an additional $5,000 salary modification. The Key Colony Beach Police Department in Florida is getting $119,000 for a single officer once you add its $107,500 base award to an $11,500 salary supplement. The Coward Police Department in South Carolina, also serving a town of roughly 700, has a base award of $107,520 for one officer, with another $15,000 modification layered on top. Then there are the departments whose payouts have exploded between their initial agreements with the federal government and the later Trump modifications in 2025 and 2026. Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina started with a base award of $542,525; now it has a pending modification that tacks on nearly $3 million more in incentive payments. Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida received $385,015 upfront, and is now slated to receive an additional $2,835,000 in a later modification. Most jarring is Bradley County Constable District 7 in Tennessee: a single officer received a base award of $107,525, followed by a $11,500 salary bump — and now a further modification appears to add $1,820,550 in new funding for that one cop. An ICE source provided me with a screenshot of some of the disbursement categories, which included salaries and benefits for task force officers “conducting enforcement activities” and incentive payments for those “conducting immigration enforcement activities related to the locations of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Child].” Leaked ICE document The ICE source told me that the program had grown so large that simply administering it is taking up a significant amount of the agency’s time. Absent from the list of bounty payments to states and localities are new payments to California, New Mexico, Illinois, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as other “blue” states. The reason? The money is being doled out to cooperative pro-Trump states and departments, affirming that these are political payoffs and hardly a pure national program. Subscribe if you don’t trust this new Posse Comeandgetus army Leave a comment Share — Edited by William M. Arkin From Ken Klippenstein via This RSS Feed.
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ibbit.at
For more leaked documents (and to support my work finding them) please become a paid subscriber! While ICE agents are temporarily confusing things even more at airports, behind the scenes the Trump administration is paying a posse of local police to carry out its immigration war. An internal ICE financial ledger I obtained shows how the agency is turning local police departments across the county into a vast, decentralized immigration army. This includes payments if cops sign up to be deputized, reimbursements for transportation, salary supplements for cops who process migrant children, and per-arrest-style incentive payments. All of this is taking place under an ICE program called 287(g), part of a 1996 law that granted the Attorney General (and later the Secretary of Homeland Security) the authority to enter into written agreements with state and local governments on immigration. The first agreement under the law was signed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after 9/11; as of last year, the number of agreements has swelled past 1,000. Today, the program employs a “task force model” under which local police are deputized as ICE agents with the authority to carry out federal immigration law. So despite the broad public backlash against ICE, the agency has a way to carry out its mission without drawing attention to itself. An internal ICE diagram I obtained shows that local officers only become eligible for stipends and salary reimbursements after making their first arrest. The document labels that first arrest as the moment a participant becomes “OPERATIONAL.” Leaked ICE diagram The ledger lists over 400 police departments where ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations is currently negotiating new or expanded cooperation agreements with local police departments, including the amount of money currently allocated to buy their cooperation. The largest payouts are to Florida law enforcement. In addition to earlier awards, ICE has set aside an extra $89 million in incentive funding for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Division of Highway Patrol, which already has 1,803 “task force officers” credentialed under the program. Then there’s roughly $5 million for the 719 task force officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’, and nearly $4 million for the 503 task force officers of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ICE 287(g) payouts2.55MB ∙ PDF fileDownloadDownload In addition to Florida, other red states (and they are mostly red states) are taking ICE’s money to become bounty hunters to arrest supposed immigration law violators. Arkansas State Police is receiving a base award of $4,225,025 covering 550 task force officers, with an estimated $8,250,000 more in incentive funding to come. Oklahoma’s Department of Public Safety is getting a $5,380,025 base award covering 704 officers, a $1,650,000 salary modification on top of that, and a staggering $38,220,000 TBD line item still pending. Louisiana State Police is receiving a base award of $880,025 for 104 officers, plus an additional $45,000 salary modification. The money flows well beyond large state agencies, to small and obscure agencies most people (including myself) have never heard of. The Point Comfort Police Department in Texas — a town of fewer than 700 people — has a base agreement of $167,525 to supply nine task force officers, plus an additional $5,000 salary modification. The Key Colony Beach Police Department in Florida is getting $119,000 for a single officer once you add its $107,500 base award to an $11,500 salary supplement. The Coward Police Department in South Carolina, also serving a town of roughly 700, has a base award of $107,520 for one officer, with another $15,000 modification layered on top. Then there are the departments whose payouts have exploded between their initial agreements with the federal government and the later Trump modifications in 2025 and 2026. Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina started with a base award of $542,525; now it has a pending modification that tacks on nearly $3 million more in incentive payments. Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida received $385,015 upfront, and is now slated to receive an additional $2,835,000 in a later modification. Most jarring is Bradley County Constable District 7 in Tennessee: a single officer received a base award of $107,525, followed by a $11,500 salary bump — and now a further modification appears to add $1,820,550 in new funding for that one cop. An ICE source provided me with a screenshot of some of the disbursement categories, which included salaries and benefits for task force officers “conducting enforcement activities” and incentive payments for those “conducting immigration enforcement activities related to the locations of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Child].” Leaked ICE document The ICE source told me that the program had grown so large that simply administering it is taking up a significant amount of the agency’s time. Absent from the list of bounty payments to states and localities are new payments to California, New Mexico, Illinois, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as other “blue” states. The reason? The money is being doled out to cooperative pro-Trump states and departments, affirming that these are political payoffs and hardly a pure national program. Subscribe if you don’t trust this new Posse Comeandgetus army Leave a comment Share — Edited by William M. Arkin From Ken Klippenstein via this RSS feed
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“Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients require urgent appointments and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to call it, it’s not a human being making these potentially life and death decisions, and it’s not the same level of care as being assessed by a licensed therapist.” Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest health maintenance organization (HMO) is forcing its therapists onto the streets in the ongoing battle to deny mental health parity with medical in its services to 12 million members. The 2400 striking mental health care workers are members of the National Union of Health Care Workers (NUHW). They walked out on Wednesday, March 18, a “practice” strike, but most likely a taste of what’s to come. In 2022, these workers struck for ten weeks, the longest mental health care workers’ strike recorded. Two issues dominated negotiations from the start: workload for Kaiser therapists and wait time for Kaiser patients. The strikers won on both, forcing concessions until then all but unheard of. The strikers won break-through provisions to retain staff, reduce wait times for patients and a plan to collaborate on transforming Kaiser’s model for providing mental health care. This time, it’s inevitable the fight will be just as hard fought. But the NUHW members are battle-tested; each contract fight with Kaiser thus far has included a strike. More, this time the NUHW members were joined in a sympathy strike by thousands of registered nurses, who shared their concerns about Kaiser’s increasing use of artificial intelligence to the detriment of patient care. This can hardly be over-estimated. Since the 2009 SEIU trusteeship, Kaiser has faced a workforce has been deeply divided. But not so much this time, though thousands of service workers will still cross picket lines. The registered nurses are represented by the National Nurses Association. Stationary Engineers, represented by IUOE, Local 39, will also hold a sympathy strike with mental health workers, who will walk picket lines outside Kaiser medical centers in Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, Santa Clara and Santa Rosa. “We’re proud to strike alongside registered nurses and engineers in the fight for human-centered care at Kaiser,” said Joshua Gibbons, a therapist for Kaiser in Sacramento. “Mental healthcare is about human connection, and Kaiser is recklessly forging ahead with untested artificial intelligence that it sees potentially replacing us and the care we provide our patients.” Kaiser is determined to rescind past concessions, never mind that in 2023, a $200 million agreement with the California Department of Managed Health Care that it lacks sufficient behavioral health providers. Last month, Kaiser entered into a $31 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor over violations of mental health parity laws. Alas, in our new world, “billions” has replaced “millions.” Kaiser has $67 billion in reserves. Kaiser’s CEO Greg Adams, is reported to receive more than $20 million annually. Kaiser must reimburse patients who had to pay out-of-pocket for mental health treatment they couldn’t get from Kaiser. So, fines, no problem. “Kaiser has been punished and fined so many times for mental health violations, we can’t let it get away with more,” says Kaiser therapist Emma Olsen. “Our patients need human therapists, who can work seamlessly with their doctors and have enough time to do our jobs right — and it’s clear Kaiser doesn’t want to pay for that level of care.” Yet Kaiser wants to add AI to its array of extreme proposals – it is demanding “flexibility,” meaning all but a free hand in the introduction of AI. The workers have been without a contract since September. The sides remain far apart, with Kaiser sticking to proposals that would reverse patient care safeguards previously won by therapists and open the door to replacing therapist jobs with artificial intelligence and further outsourcing care. When it comes to AI, Kaiser is setting the stage to not just replace work done by therapists but to replace therapists themselves. Why is Kaiser doing this? The behemoth was once known as union-friendly. Workers supported it and were central in its origins and growth. “It’s a corporation,” says Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the union. “It’s the bottom line. Profit and competition.” Kaiser is a competitor, an empire builder, but this costs money. Kaiser, which began in California and stayed there for decades, now has hospitals and clinics in Hawaii, Washington state, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. It’s like General Motors in the fifties or Amazon today. Healthcare is remaking the US economy. It’s the nation’s top employer, surpassing manufacturing and service. In 38 states, the industry is the biggest employer. Manufacturing cities like Cleveland and Pittsburgh have transitioned to healthcare as the driver of their economies. Hospitals are often the largest employers in small towns and rural settings. The industry will continue to grow (it can’t be outsourced, not like manufacturing), despite looming cuts in federal health care spending. Healthcare is an engine of the twenty-first century economy; its workers are our blue-collar millions. 2,400 workers, not so big, then. But it’s 2,400 in a union that fights, and we need fighters. Their example is incalculable. A note. Seeing daily the rampaging of ICE on our streets and murder of healthcare workers in Minneapolis and in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran as well as the destruction of their hospitals, all the more important that we understand the connections and also support our sanctuaries and the healthcare workers who stand up in the face of repression, especially those healthcare workers who have been discipled or fired for daring to say Genocide. Thanks to Matthew Artz. The post Kaiser Permanente, AI, and the Workers on Strike, Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org. From CounterPunch.org via this RSS feed
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A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica 2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create a plan to take over the development studio and force out its founder, according to court records. The Monday ruling details the bizarre story. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is the studio behind the 2018 underwater survival game Subnautica. The company has since been working on the sequel, Subnautica 2. In 2021, South Korean publisher Krafton bought Unknown Worlds Entertainment for $500 million and promised to pay out another $250 million if Subnautica 2 sold well enough. Krafton’s internal sales projections for Subnautica 2 looked great, and looked like it would be on the hook for the additional $250 million. In an attempt to avoid paying this, Krafton CEO Changhan Kim turned to ChatGPT for help avoiding paying the developers the $250 million bonus. “As Unknown Worlds prepared to release its hotly anticipated sequel, Subnautica 2, the parties’ relationship fractured,” the court decision said. “Fearing he had agreed to a ‘pushover’ contract, Krafton’s CEO consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate ‘takeover’ strategy.” Kim partnered with Krafton Head of Corporate Development Maria Park and the company’s legal team to work out options. He toyed with finding a reason to fire the founders. According to court records, Park pinged Kim on Slack and told him that attempting to avoid paying the bonus would be legally risky. “Hi CEO . . . it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause,” the Slack message said according to court records. “Therefore, there isn’t much that we can practically gain other than punishment with a simple dismissal alone, whereas I am worried that we may be exposed to lawsuit and reputation risk.” But the CEO would not accept defeat. “And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help,” court records said. “When the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be ‘difficult to cancel,’ Kim complained to Park that the [payout] was a ‘contract under which we can only be dragged around.’” Kim pressed the chatbot for an answer. “At ChatGPT’s suggestion, Kim formed an internal task force, dubbed ‘Project X.’ The task force’s mandate was to either negotiate a ‘deal’ on the earnout or execute a ‘Take Over’ of Unknown Worlds. They looked to buy time,” court records said. “Kim sought ChatGPT’s counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a ‘Response Strategy’ to a ‘No-Deal’ Scenario.” This was a piece of ChatGPT’s “Project X” for Krafton: “a. Preemptive Framing - Repeat that protecting quality and fan trust is the highest priority, undermine the ‘Large Corporation VS. Indie’ framingb. Securing Control Points -* Lock down Steam/console publishing rights and access rights over code/build pipeline through both legal and technical aspects.* For the earn-out freeze, keep room for negotiations through provision stating ‘immediate removal if specific development results are achieved’a. Systematic materials for legal defense - Prepare contract interpretation memorandums, log all communications, seek external consultationb. Team retention - Operation of retention packages for key personnel and rapid backfill pipelines in anticipation of resignation/departure scenariosc. Two handed strategy - Create a structure that allows for both hardball (Legal+ Finance) and softball (Support/Incentives) approaches so moderate factions within Unknown Worlds can push for compromise.” Kim followed ChatGPT’s advice rather than his lawyers’ advice, according to the court records. The first step was posting a message on Subanutica’s website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to “secure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy.” He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the game’s original creators and entered into a legal battle with them. The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose. The judge has ordered he reinstate the fired developers and has exposed the CEO’s flailing use of ChatGPT. Krafton told Kotaku that it was “evaluating its options” regarding the ruling and that it “puts players at the heart of every decision.” From 404 Media via this RSS feed
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I like Incremental backup methodology, but it needs frequent full backups (as i understand from “grandfather,father,son” method), How to have version control where i only create full-backup only once ? and I can choose to Delete changes older than 1 month. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data, and a “Ghost” for other data. Ghost is only filename and it’s metadata (also folder structure). Data selected for Ghost is from internet which can be downloaded. Related “file change tracker” to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed. “File History” where I see previous version of files. Software ? Seems like https://restic.net/ is best as it’s enterprise trusted works on all OS, How do I set it up like I described in the Original Post. I have a external disk and internal HDD, I want to backup select data, to a 3rd disk, both backup to the same disk, both separately backup-ed.
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I downloaded the elden ring easy mod. This allowed me to enjoy a souls game for the first time while still teaching me the value of dodging and timing the attacks. Yeah, it was easier, but that is what i needed. About 6 months after this initial experience, the dlc came out. I bought it and played the game on normal. Now, whilst it was still frustrating, I at least knew the basics and got quite far before real life decided to hard mode me. Easy mode is nice to learn the game, that is why roguelites start at ascension 0.
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Universities in the 1990s were sovereign and self-sufficient. Nothing notable was outsourced (just food). It was possible to do research without unnecessary dependencies on shitty corps like Microsoft. Students and non-students could walk into a campus library and use UNIX PCs. Email and usenet was hosted in-house. Universities were independent, which served to demonstrate both competence and leadership. Universities today: Email outsourced to Gmail or MS Library e-books have (US-based) Cloudflare as an exclusive gatekeeper. Conform to Cloudflare Inc’s oversight and access demands or lose access to books. 99.9% of students on Facebook, tiktok, snapchat (they track each others’ realtime location this way), instagram, twitter, etc Facebook officially used by the university, thus excluding the small minority of non-FB students from being informed of campus events/parties, one-off seminars, class schedule changes, info from some departments like foreign exchange, etc MatLAB used instead of GNU Octave, b/c “MATLAB” is the keyword headhunters/recruiters (both robotic and human) want to see on CVs Students collaborate using Google Docs (will not touch anything more sophisticated than WYSIWYG, like emacs, LaTeX, or git) Internal university webpage titled “Free Software” has no FOSS, just proprietary tools that are gratis for students (like MS Office) Campus PC labs no longer exist b/c all students have their own laptops, and the students only run Windows or MacOS (yes, in a college of science & engineering I shit you not) University assumes every student has mobile phone svc & the will to share their number, so the rest are excluded from school resources that require 2FA by SMS Students search the enshitified/paywalled web to do research. Lexis/Nexis subscriptions apparently unheard of – which in the 90s gave ad-free full-text access to decent/reputable sources coupled with a quite powerful search syntax. Although it must be said that the Lexis Nexis company has become a privacy adversary as they snoop on individuals these days. Students must choose between education and privacy w/autonomy. Cannot have all human rights at the same time. But apparently they don’t care. Surveys show that ~50 yrs ago ~80+% students prioritized developing a meaningful philosophy of life above making money. College freshmen have been surveyed every year since then. Gradually, those numbers have completely inverted. I see a connection between universities becoming dependent corporate boot lickers and students becoming money-centric. AI chatbots for research To get to my subject line, I hear friends talk about all the great use they get out of chatGPT. I won’t touch the fuckin’ thing. Not out of some AI phobia or distrust, but because I simply boycott MACFANG (will not feed the oppressive surveillance advertising tech giants). So I am losing touch and likely developing some ignorance because of my principles. In my view of how the world should work, I should be able to experience a decent AI chatbot like chatGPT at a university. The university should be technologically independent. They should have their own in-house research tools built by profs and students for profs and students. Research tools should not be dependent on clicked-ads resulting purchases of phones and selfie sticks or whatever stupid shit they need to sell. And without the underlying corporate greed, an edu chatbot would be designed for transparency (thus sources cited). Universities have become followers. They are no longer ahead of industry. They serve as HR factories to produce workers for corps, as opposed to teaching students what corps are doing wrong and how to do better. Profs choose tools that corps want on CVs instead of the best tool for the job for teaching brand-independent concepts. Students are happy w/this (see ¶3 - they just want a good CV). We need a “Make Universities Leaders Again” (MULA) movement. Well, shit, that’s pronounced as “moolah”… not good for PR, but you get the idea.
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Unity changed the license, so developers have to pay a fee for every install of games made with Unity. Notice that it’s “install”. Not “sale”. Not “download”. They claim they won’t count installs from demos, cracks, charity bundles, re-installs, etc, but absolutely no one trusts them at this point. Several devs have said they’re switching engine, despite the large cost of that.
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With many jurisdictions introducing age verification laws for various things on the internet, a lot of questions have come up about implementation and privacy. I haven’t seen anyone come up with a real working example of how to implement it technically/cryptographically that don’t have any major flaws. Setting aside the ethics of age verification and whether or not it’s a good idea - is it technically possible to accurately verify someone’s age while respecting their privacy and if so how? For an implementation to work, it should: Let the service know that the user is an adult by providing a verifiable proof of adulthood (eg. A proof that’s signed by a trusted authority/government) Not let the service know any other information about the user besides what they already learn through http or TCP/IP Not let a government or age verification authority know whenever a user is accessing 18+ content Make it difficult or impossible for a child to fake a proof of adulthood, eg. By downloading an already verified anonymous signing key shared by an adult, etc. Be simple enough to implement that non-technical people can do it without difficulty and without purchasing bespoke hardware Ideally not requiring any long term storage of personal information by a government or verification authority that could be compromised in a data breach I think the first two points are fairly simple (lots of possible implementations with zero-knowledge proofs and anonymous signing keys, credentials with partial disclosure, authenticating with a trusted age verification system, etc. etc.) The rest of the points are the difficult ones. Some children will circumvent any system (eg. By getting an adult to log in for them) but a working system should deter most children and require more than a quick download or a web search for instructions on how to circumvent. The last point might already be a lost cause depending on your government, so unfortunately it’s probably not as important.