There is no direct equivalent, system32 is just a collection of libraries, exes, and confs.
Some of what others have said is accurate, but to explain a bit further:
Longer explanation:
::: spoiler spoiler
system32 is just some folder name the MS engineers came up back in the day.
Linux on the other hand has many distros, many different contributors, and generally just encourages a .. better .. separation for types of files, imho
The linux filesystem is well defined if you are inclined to research more about it.
Understanding the core principals will make understanding virtually everything else about "linux" easier, imho.
/lib - Somewhat self-explanatory, holds libraries, lots of things put their libs here, including linux kernel modules, /lib/modules/*, similar to system32's function of holding critical libraries
/etc - Configuration lives here, generally speaking, /etc/<application name> can point you in the right direction, typically requires super-user (root) to edit
/usr - "User installed" software, which can be a murky definition in today's world, but lots of stuff ends up here for installed software, manuals, icon files, executables
Bonus:
/opt - A special location, generally third-party, bundled-style software likes to use this, Java for instance, but historically some admins use it as the "company location", meaning internally developed software would live there.
/srv - Largely subjective, but myself and others I know use it for partitions that are outside the primary disk, for instance we use /srv/db for database volumes, /srv/www for web-data volumes, /srv/Media for large-file storage, etc, etc
For completeness:
/home - You'll find your user directories here, personally, this is my directory I backup, I don't carry much more with me on most systems.
/var - "Variable data", basically meaning any data that will likely grow over time, eg: /var/log
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !selfhost
It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....
Without invoking any analogies, a port is just a number. When an application on your computer sends or receives data, there is a port number associated with it. A server-side application listens for data with a particular port number, and a client side application needs to send data with the same port number to communicate with the right server application. The operating system uses the port number to route incoming data to the right application, and it ensures that only one application at a time can use any given port number.
Some port numbers are assigned to specific protocols (by IANA, I believe), like 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS, so when you see a URL, the default port is usually implied by the protocol, but it can always be specified. For instance, google.com is equivalent to google.com:443. For more obscure protocols without assigned port numbers, you’ll usually see the port number in a URL, and this tends to happen in the same scenarios where you don’t have a domain name, so you’ll also see an IP address in a URL. It also happens when you need to run more than one of the same kind of server on a single machine. For example, when developing an HTTP server app, it’s customary to use port 8080 or 8888 to distinguish it from the “official” server app on the same machine using port 80, so your development server app will have a URL that looks like 192.168.0.1:8080.
Typically ports 0-1023 are reserved by the operating system for programs set up by an administrator, and ports starting at 1024 up to a maximum of 65535 are available to any user, so they’re perfect for, say, a Jellyfin server or an app you’re developing. If someone gives you a URL with a port number, especially if it’s above 1023, make sure you trust the owner of the URL, because it can be a giveaway that someone is doing something shady.
Lemmy users, you can now vote for your favourite song in Lemmyvision’s song contest, an Eurovision-like song contest, in which various instances submitted a song of their choice!...
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Until recently, in all of human history, the number of true cyborgs stood at about 70. Ian Burkhart has kept a count because he was one of them—a person whose brain has been connected directly to a computer.
Burkhart had become quadriplegic in a swimming accident after a wave ran him into a sandbar and injured his spine. He was later able to receive an implant from a research study, which allowed him to temporarily regain some movement in one hand. For seven and a half years, he lived with this device—an electrode array nestled into his motor cortex that transmitted signals to a computer, which then activated electrodes wrapped around his arm. Burkhart now heads the BCI Pioneers Coalition, an organization for the small cohort of other disabled people who have volunteered their brain to push the boundaries of brain-computer-interface technology, or BCI.
Last month, Burkhart, along with perhaps millions of other people, watched the debut of the newest cyborg. In a video posted on X, the first human subject for Elon Musk’s BCI company, Neuralink, appeared to control a laptop via brain implant. Neuralink has not published its research and did not respond to a request for comment, but the device presumably works this way: The subject, a paralyzed 29-year-old named Noland Arbaugh, generates a pattern of neural activity by thinking about something specific, like moving the cursor on his computer screen or moving his hand. The implant then transmits that pattern of neural signals to the computer, where an AI algorithm interprets it as a command that moves the cursor. Because the implant purportedly allows a user to control a computer with their thoughts, more or less, Musk named the device Telepathy.
Read: Demon mode activated
Burkhart watched Arbaugh play hands-free computer chess with a mix of approval and frustration at how clearly the demo was created for investors and Musk fans, not for disabled people like him. It’s no secret that Musk’s real goal is to create a BCI device for general consumers, and not just so we can move a cursor around; he envisions a future in which humans can access knowledge directly from computers to “achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” That dream is ethically fraught—privacy, for instance, is tricky when your thoughts are augmented by proprietary algorithms—but it is also a long way from being realized. Researchers have sort of managed two-way information transfer with rats, but no one is sure how the rats felt about it, or whether it’s an experience they’d be willing to pay for at a mall kiosk.
Yet a more modest vision for a safe, workable neuro-prosthesis that would allow disabled people to use a computer with ease is realizable. The question is whether our social structures are ready to keep pace with our advanced science.
It’s taken decades for BCI tech to get to this point—decades of scientists building prototypes by hand and of volunteers who could neither move nor speak struggling to control them. The most basic challenge in mating a brain and a computer is an incompatibility of materials. Though computers are made of silicon and copper, brains are not. They have a consistency not unlike tapioca pudding; they wobble. The brain also constantly changes as it learns, and it tends to build scar tissue around intrusions. You can’t just stick a wire into it.
Different developers have tried different solutions to this problem. Neuralink is working on flexible filaments that thread inconspicuously—they hope—through the brain tissue. Precision Neuroscience, founded in part by former Neuralink scientists, is trying out a kind of electrode-covered Saran Wrap that clings to the surface of the brain or slips into its folds. Then there’s the Utah Array, a widely used model that looks a little like a hairbrush with its bristly pad of silicone spikes. That’s what Burkhart had in his head until 2021, when the study he was part of lost funding and he decided to have the implant taken out. He was worried surgeons might have to “remove some chunks of brain” along with it. Luckily, he told me, it came out “without too much of a fight.”
Once an implant is in place, the tiny signals of individual neurons—measurable in microvolts—have to be amplified, digitized, and transmitted, preferably by a unit that’s both wireless and inconspicuous. That’s problem number two. Problem three is decoding those signals. We have no real idea of how the brain talks to itself, so a machine-learning algorithm has to use a brute-force approach, finding patterns in neural activity and learning to correlate them with whatever the person with the implant is trying to make the computer do.
None of these problems is trivial, but they’ve been substantially tackled over the past 30 years of BCI research. At least six different companies are now testing applications such as desktop interfaces (like the one that helped Arbaugh play chess), drivers for robotic limbs and exoskeletons, and even speech prostheses that give voice to thought. Proof-of-concept devices exist for all of these by now.
But that only brings us to problem number four—which has nothing to do with engineering and might be harder to solve than all the others. This problem is what Ben Rapoport, the chief science officer at Precision, described to me as “the productization of science.” It’s where engineering successes run into political and economic obstacles. To roll out even a basic point-and-click medical BCI interface, developers would have to win approval not just from the FDA but also from “payers”: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies. This is make-or-break: Medical devices, even ingenious ones, won’t get to consumers if insurance won’t cover them. Few people can afford such expenses out of pocket, which means too small a pool of potential consumers to make production profitable.
Read: I’m disabled. Please help me.
Other devices have cleared this hurdle—cochlear implants, deep-brain stimulation devices, pacemakers—and it’s not unlikely that BCI implants could join that list if insurers decide they’re worth the expense. On the one hand, insurance companies might argue that BCI devices aren’t strictly medically necessary—they’re “life-enhancing,” not “life-sustaining,” as Burkhart put it—but on the other hand, insurers are likely to see them as cost-efficient if their implementation can save money on other, more expensive kinds of support.
Even so, there’s a limit to what brain implants can do and what they can replace. The people who would benefit most from BCI devices, people with major motor impairments like Arbaugh and Burkhart, would still depend on human labor for many things, such as getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing, and eating. That labor can easily cost as much as six figures a year and isn’t typically reimbursed by private health-insurance companies. For most people, the only insurer that covers this kind of care is Medicaid, which in most states comes with stringent restrictions on recipients’ income and assets.
In Ohio, where Burkhart lives, Medicaid recipients can’t keep more than $2,000 in assets or make more than $943 a month without losing coverage. (A waiver program raises the monthly income cap for some to $2,829.) The salary they’d have to make to cover both expenses and in-home care out of pocket, though, is much more than most jobs pay. “A lot of people don’t have the opportunity to make such a giant leap,” Burkhart said. “The system is set up to force you to live in poverty.”
In addition to his work with the BCI Pioneers Coalition, Burkhart also leads a nonprofit foundation that fundraises to help people with disabilities cover some of the expenses insurance won’t pay for. But these expenses would be “nowhere near the size that would pay to get a BCI or anything like that,” he told me. “We do a lot of shower chairs. Or hand controls for a vehicle.”
Starting in the late 20th century, simple switch devices began to enable people with severe motor disabilities to access computers. As a result, many people who would previously have been institutionalized—those who can’t speak, for example, or move most of their body—are able to communicate and use the internet. BCI has the potential to be much more powerful than switch access, which is slow and janky by comparison. Yet the people who receive the first generation of medical implants may find themselves in the same position as those who use switch technology now: functionally required to stay unemployed, poor, or even single as a condition of accessing the services keeping them alive.
Musk may be right that we’re quickly approaching a time when BCI tech is practical and even ubiquitous. But right now, we don’t have a social consensus on how to apportion resources such as health care, and many disabled people still lack the basic supports necessary to access society. Those are problems that technology alone will not—and cannot—solve.
S.I. Rosenbaum is a journalist based in Providence, Rhode Island, who plays the musical saw and has written for The New York Times and Slate.
Hi everyone! I came here for interest to try reddit-like social networks. I’m used to the concept of microblogging (and telegram), and I’m wondering how to post my own here, as well as search for interesting posts and people/communities?
Not a very in-depth guide, but more of a “cliff notes” kind of answer:
There are many lemmy servers (referred to as instances). These are connected together, so you can view content of one instance, even though your username belongs to a different instance.
Instance admins set their own rules. This includes refusing to federate with other instances for reasons that can be ideological, concern of quality, or anything else really.
It doesn’t really matter that much which instance you join. It mostly boils down to if the instance has a strong ideological lean that you may or may not agree with (such as lemmygrad), whether they allow nsfw content, and overall what kind of rules they enforce. Personally I use feddit.nl for no particular reason other than being popular enough to have a reasonably broad userbase and stability. Some instances also have automated censorship of certain words or phrases.
Note that multiple communities can have the same name, as they’re on different instances. This tends to result in one “main” community as well as a handful of smaller less active ones. When posting or looking for a community, you most likely want to make sure you do so in the larger ones. There’s nothing wrong with being subscribed to several seemingly identical communities.
Well, if you don’t link an instance, it won’t work. And you need to know the instances’ name (some of them don’t support account creation, which you’ll need if you want to import your YouTube’s subscriptions).
So, compared to a normal app, like NewPipe where you install it and it just works, they are not wrong on saying that it’s s a bit of a pain.
Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions....
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !tesseract
Everything was good, great in fact. Everything was working, but my OCD weren’t okay with how a few services were set-up, so I cleaned up my yaml, commented my docker compose and felt cushty… right up until it was time to fix Immich....
I don’t understand why you even change the names and ports. If you have a seperate docker-compose.yml file for Immich, the names won’t clash with other services (except if container_name is duplicated, but services like postgres and redis normally get one assigned automatically).
The ports are also limited to the container networks, so running several postgres instances still allows all of them to use the default port (except you pass them through from the host, which you normally shouldn’t do in closed networks like Immich’s or you run all services in network_mode: host, which is often a bad idea).
Opening ports in a postgres instance is not always needed, because you can attach yourself to the container and use the cli interface to do what you need.
Database URL Format: The DB_URL in the .env file is defined as 192.168.0.89:8765, which is unusual for a PostgreSQL connection. PostgreSQL typically uses a connection string format, not a URL starting with http://. The correct format for a PostgreSQL connection string usually looks like: postgresql://username:password@hostname:port/data…. Changing the DB_URL to match this format might resolve the issue of the application not recognizing the username.
Environment Variable Consistency: Ensure that all references to the database, Redis, and other services within both the .env file and the Docker Compose file are consistent with the new names and ports. This includes checking that the DB_HOSTNAME and REDIS_HOSTNAME in the .env file match the container_name of the services in the Docker Compose file.
PostgreSQL Connection String in Docker Compose: The environment variables for the Immich services in the Docker Compose file are focused on POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, and POSTGRES_DB. If Immich constructs its own connection string internally using these components, ensure they’re correctly configured. However, it might be worth directly specifying a full connection string (if supported by Immich) that includes the username, password, host, and database in a single variable, to reduce the chance of misconfiguration.
Network Configuration: Verify that Docker’s network configuration hasn’t been altered in a way that would prevent containers from communicating properly. Docker Compose services communicate over a default network, but if you’ve made network modifications, ensure that these don’t inadvertently block connections between services.
I thought r/piracy was dead but I see is very active, I don’t know if mods changed or something though. Where do you guys think is best to ask questions?
Assuming that is really an issue (depends on who you are, what you’re doing, and the motivation of the actor mounting such spying infrastructure), how is it any different on Reddit? First, being closed source and everything, we can’t rule out that easier and large scale logging isn’t already implemented. Secondly, such actor would probably just pay the API and scrape the same data if not with more details. It would also get extra metadata from brokers, etc.
Ultimately, if you want privacy, I agree that federation is undesired. That’s why there are Lemmy instances that block all other instances by default. AFAIK those were from right extremists and pesos, at least judging by the name of their URLs.
It sounds like the real guy’s story was quite sad. He was apparently mentally ill when he was thrown in jail, and (not stated in the article) possibly freaked out instead of being able to deal with the LE and administrative bureaucracies about the name misuse. So they decided there was nothing to his story and locked him up. Obviously this was triggered by the ID theft, but it also seems like a system failure in that the discrepancy wasn’t solved and the fake guy caught, at that time. The real guy instead went through a court case and served 2 years after pleading no contest for the “ID theft” of using his actual real name.
The fake guy on the other hand did the identity theft in his early 20s, bouncing some checks to steal a car under the other guy’s name (the other guy got in trouble over that, but it’s unclear how much). He got a fast food job under the fake name, and eventually worked his way up to a high paying hospital IT job where he worked and paid his taxes for 10 years til the ID theft fell apart. It’s not stated whether he got up to other bad stuff using the fake name.
The fake guy now faces 2 years in prison for aggravated ID theft and 30 years for “false statement to a National Credit Union Administration insured institution”. That is a pretty surprising difference betwen the two. I wonder what his actual sentences will be. He is 58 now.
It’s worth reading the article in this instance as covers a fair amount of detail. It’s hard to tell whether it’s a story of a mostly-reformed ex-scumbag trying to escape from his past, or if he continued to be up to other stuff as well.
Added: I got confused, the real guy’s arrest was in 2019, not decades earlier. So the fake guy lied to the police with false documents relatively recently resulting in the real guy getting locked up, not so good.
I haven’t seen an app that does it really well like some libraries or ontologies do but I’m certainly not well versed with all of them. Back in the day I used Evernote which was at least a start, as you could create arbitrary hierarchies (nest tags within tags).
So ideally you would want to be able to nest tags like this:
news.politics.europe.denmark
of course another person might prefer the hierarchy
politics.elections.news.denmark
There’s no strict right or wrong here but often over time some consensus forms. Bonus points if there are equivalency classes, ie “recipe”, “recipes”, “cooking recipe”, and even the Spanish versions “receta” and “recetas” all refer to the same thing.
By meta tags I mean the ability to describe and classify certain tag groups. For instance “politics”, “cats” and “Hollywood” are content tags while the tags “English”, “Danish” and “French” are language tags. “PDF”, “MP3” and “HTML” are file format tags but “video”, “music” and “text” are content form tags while “2023”, “2004-04-03” are time-line tags
Meta categories allow you for instance to search for pages that are about the English language, but not necessarily in English and surely not written by people who happen to have the last name ‘English’. Now some systems encode this information inside the string of the tag itself like so: “language = English” or “topic = cats”, but I think the most elegant solution is really to let a tag have categories or tags on its own which describe what it’s used for (thus meta tags).
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !highdeas
The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men....
Do you really want me to list the dozens of instances throughout history where the right to restrict people’s expression has inadvertently caused or helped authoritarians consolidate power? I would think you largely know about those already.
A quite recent example is ironically related to the same topic, namely conservatives and religious zealots wanting to police speech the other way by banning inclusionary language. The other side of the exact same coin. I’m sure you are familiar with that issue since it most prominently happens in america, though plenty of European right wingers are looking to do similar things.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !justpost
Not having to go on an hour-long googling adventure to figure out how to write a simple init script. If you know bash, that’s all you need if you’re running (for instance) OpenRC. Systemd services are a mishmash of obscure setting names.
Federation is when instances exchange information. For example, you posted to lemmy.ml, while using lemmy.world, and I’m seeing this post and replying to you from lemmy.max-p.me. That’s federation in action, in this case with 3 instances involved. It runs on my server entirely in my control, I’m the admin of it. It’s completely independent from lemmy.ml and lemmy.world but they all talk to eachother.
An instance is one website running lemmy. Lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are two examples. There’s hundreds of them, all operating independently and sharing information.
Defederation is essentially when federation is cut off from a given server, think banning an entire instance essentially.
The fediverse is the name of this whole system: it’s federation and universe smushed together, fediverse.
Cross-platform instances would be instances that can talk to multiple platforms. For example, Kbin lets you browse Lemmy threads and Mastodon microblogs from the same place. Mastodon users can somewhat see Lemmy posts. I’ve never seen it referred to as cross-platform though.
Do you have reason to believe any of that is happening?
You could de-anonymize many users with those
Bruh your Facebook username is literally my first and last name. Same goes for most people on most platforms. I don’t particularly care about anonymity.
Any fediverse apps could also get access to contacts or other locally-stored info on your phone.
I’ve never used a Fediverse app that asked for any of that. They have no use for it.
“But I wouldn’t use that app.” Well then you wouldn’t be someone using Facebook either.
You don’t seem to understand the myriad of data that Facebook collects unnecessarily and without user consent. Do a search for Facebook Pixels. They were just caught decrypting traffic from SnapChat. Most Fediverse servers are far too small to even bother with collecting and selling that sort of data.
It’s less about the separation of powers and more about the fragmentation of each power. As in, you should be able to ditch any governing power that you dislike, and curb down its influence on your experience to a bare minimum.
So perhaps the best analogy with RL politics would be a confederation with lax citizenship laws and federated entities being free to choose which other federated entities they interact with. With a key difference:
The Fediverse can be completely acephalous. And the reason becomes evident once you analyse the UN of your example - it’s effectively Europe and USA wearing a bunch of sock puppets, pretending to talk in the name of the “nations” (actually countries, but whatever) of the world. An acephalous Fediverse would not develop a similar problem.
In this case (Threads), it means that, while we should promote defederation, how to deal with it should be, ultimately, up to each instance.
NATO example
I don’t pay taxes to any NATO country so what I’m going to say is solely based on the Fediverse situation, plus whatever I parsed from your example:
We should not need to rely on “trust” on first place. Instead a better approach is to acknowledge that people will fuck it up, they will do things that counter the best interests of the whole, and that the system needs to handle it.
For example through a ActivityPub commitee that exists anyways or a popular meetup of Fediverse servers.
What happens if said commitee becomes hostile, defending its own self-interests in detriment of the ones of the rest of the Fediverse?
I think its good that different moral rule sets can easily develop and implemented; but I think sooner or later it will become a problem, at the latest when more radical parts become pre-dominant.
Or we could leave those moral matters up to each instance to decide. And the ones screwing up on moral matters get isolated.
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Yes, my point remains. Even if a Lemmy instance is federated with masto or threads, the content does not appear here on Lemmy right now. It’s physically impossible. Lemmy literally has no code written to support self posts and to follow users.
For example, here is NPR’s masto account viewed through Lemmy.world. You get their name, avatar, banner, and bio….but zero content.
A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine...
then mark them all the way down to Mixed simply due to sources with no examples of said bad sources other than they have a left bias
They actually cite two examples of poorly sourced articles in their analysis summary. One appears to be an opinion piece that they’re calling news analysis. The other uses social media as its only sourcing. Reading their MBFC page, there’s nothing disqualifying. When reading an article, I’d just pay closer attention to who their sources are.
People (esp. critics) often treat MBFC like it’s a binary good/bad indicator. It’s really good at that at the edges. It’s great at telling you if a source is very good (ex. BBC) or very bad (ex. Sputnik/Fox/InfoWars). The middle is murky. ‘Mixed’/‘Medium’ tells you almost nothing without looking at the reason. It’s a wealth of important information for evaluating a source but ‘Medium Credibility’ should be treated as ‘things to keep in mind’ or contexts where a source may be less trustworthy. Like, I don’t have a problem with this source but I wouldn’t trust them to report straight on something that was counter to Luxury Communism as a viable system. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable position and, again, I don’t think I’m worse off for knowing that part of their mission is to promote that ideology. I don’t particularly mind CBC News having a higher rating for having no agenda beyond reporting the news.
I don’t think MBFC is beyond question but most criticism isn’t assessing their strengths and weaknesses in context. It’s mostly people taking issue with a single metric (most frequently left/right bias in my experience) and claiming they’re “A JOKE” or “HAVE NO CREDIBILITY.” And, honestly, 9 times out of 10 it’s people who just want to share authoritarian propaganda as news. As I said before, metrics aside, there’s a fuckton of valuable information on those pages and no indication that it’s not factual. I’ve never seen an instance where an organization was owned by someone else, based in a different country, or had a different funding model than described. I’ve never seen someone take issue with their fact-checking. We’re definitely not better off not knowing that and there isn’t a better alternative.
There’s also others, such as daily mail and Fox News with same factual rating
They specifically list Fox News as a questionable source. They explain the Mixed Factual rating as being because their beat reporting is factual, which is true – local beat reporters out of, say, Albany aren’t far-right goons pushing conspiracy theories. The Daily Mail is rated low credibility and low for factual reporting. You’re treating all “Mixed Factual” sources as essentially the same but they’re not and aren’t intended to be. There are numerous ways to end up with with a Mixed Factual rating, some more serious than others, including uncorrected failed fact-checks, poor sourcing, and lack of transparency by, for example, obfuscating sources by not citing or linking to them. You need to know the reasons and then assess whether it’s a dealbreaker.
Zandt has no issues with Times of Israel being left and factual.
They rate the Times of Israel as being center-left. That rating is the least important thing on that site and they’re basically trying to do something that’s impossible. Left and Right are relative. They feel objective to everyone but vary considerably over time and space. Many (maybe most) Democrats would be Conservatives here in Canada. Being right-wing in the US means something pretty wildly different today than it did 20 years ago. Being “center-left” usually even means something different at the municipal level than federal. There is no universal definition of center-left. That metric is probably most useful at the extremes, but I typically pay little attention to it and wouldn’t treat it as anything more than a rough ballpark figure.
Do you have examples of Times of Israel not being factual? People seem to hate them right now because they have “Israel” in their name and it’s more asserted as “everyone knows” rather than pointing to any analysis I’ve seen. I’m not aware of any serious retractions or scandals and I’m almost always able to verify their reporting through other sources (there aren’t many English sources reporting on daily goings-on at the Knesset). I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything that doesn’t reinforce MBFC’s assessment. I’d be happy to read whatever you send my way though. Their description of TOI’s slight shift toward government perspective since Oct 7 seems accurate. It’s also not surprising and happens in every country at war. Ukrainian media, for example, is less critical of the government now than before the full-scale invasion; US media was less critical of the government post-9/11. Most of their reporting is just straight-ahead reporting without editorializing. Looking at their site now, I can’t see anything that would even be controversial and their top stories have all been reported by numerous news orgs.
Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...
Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”).
Although it is unprecedented for the Israeli army to attack more than 1,000 power targets in five days, the idea of causing mass devastation to civilian areas for strategic purposes was formulated in previous military operations in Gaza, honed by the so-called “Dahiya Doctrine” from the Second Lebanon War of 2006.
Latest humanitarian food insecurity assessments – the IPC classification index which is used as a reference by aid agencies – indicate that the entire population of Gaza – 2.2 million people – face “crisis” levels of food insecurity, the OCHA spokesperson said. Of that number, around 1.17 million face “emergency” levels of food insecurity, and the plight for another 500,000 is “catastrophic”
So, obviously there’s a big overlap between maths and philosophy, but this conversation feels very solidly more on the side of philosophy than actual maths, to me. Which isn’t to say that there’s anything wrong with it. I love philosophy as a field. But when trying to look at it mathematically, ¬¬P⇒P is an axiom so basic that even if you can’t prove it, I just can’t accept working in a mathematical model that doesn’t include it. It would be like one where 1+1≠2 in the reals.
But on the philosophy, I still also come back to the issue of the name. You say this point of view is called “intuitionist”, but it runs completely counter to basic human intuition. Intuition says “I might not know if you have an apple, but for sure either you do, or you don’t. Only one of those two is possible.” And I think where feasible, any good approach to philosophy should aim to match human intuition, unless there is something very beneficial to be gained by moving away from intuition, or some serious cost to sticking with it. And I don’t see what could possibly be gained by going against intuition in this instance.
It might be an interesting space to explore for the sake of exploring, but even then, what actually comes out of it? (I mean this sincerely: are there any interesting insights that have come from exploring in this space?)
Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!
I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!...
[x-post @[email protected]] Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (lemmy.ml)
(also posted on @selfhost)...
Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?
It’s the one thing when I’m configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn’t, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I’m doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I’m blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....
Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show (www.washingtonpost.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13024669...
Vote for your favourite Lemmyvision songs! (jlai.lu)
Lemmy users, you can now vote for your favourite song in Lemmyvision’s song contest, an Eurovision-like song contest, in which various instances submitted a song of their choice!...
What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) (www.theatlantic.com)
New to this kind of social media format
Hi everyone! I came here for interest to try reddit-like social networks. I’m used to the concept of microblogging (and telegram), and I’m wondering how to post my own here, as well as search for interesting posts and people/communities?
Ad-less Spotify on iOS
Hey-ho!...
What are your complaints about Lemmy?
Please post one top-level comment per complaint about Lemmy. You can reply with ideas or links to existing GitHub issues that could address the complaints. This will help identify both common complaints and potential solutions....
My Overconfidence Killed Me and My Immich Installation
Everything was good, great in fact. Everything was working, but my OCD weren’t okay with how a few services were set-up, so I cleaned up my yaml, commented my docker compose and felt cushty… right up until it was time to fix Immich....
Should we post here or reddit?
I thought r/piracy was dead but I see is very active, I don’t know if mods changed or something though. Where do you guys think is best to ask questions?
Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years (www.thegazette.com)
Slashdot summary:...
Introducing linkblocks, the Federated Bookmark Manager (www.rafa.ee)
Do fingers ever stop growing? Do they shrink as you get older?
Title is pretty much all....
J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say (www.nbcnews.com)
The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men....
I didn't know were to share this, but the lyrics are definitely a showerthought (www.youtube.com)
People who use distros without systemd, why do you do this? (lemmy.world)
What is Federation, Defederation, Fediverse, Cross-Platform Instances etc.?
Edit: I appreciate everyone who took their time to comment and provide explanation. All the comments were really helpful and informative. Thanks.
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without losing its soul in the process? (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine (novaramedia.com)
A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine...
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)
Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...
What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?
The monotheistic all powerful one.