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Putin made it clear he’s not backing down on Ukraine. In a speech, he said Russia will take “historic lands” by force if needed, ignoring Trump’s push for a deal. While the US tries to pressure Kyiv into concessions, Europe is focused on real security guarantees. Peace talks are still going nowhere.

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Yuriy Slyusar, Governor of the Rostov region, confirmed damage to a vessel in the port of Rostov after a Ukrainian missile attack. Preliminary data also indicates casualties among the crew. This information is also being clarified.

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Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent – Ars Technica – Ah, non c’è il GDPR in Texas ? blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/te…

Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent – Ars Technica – Ah, non c’è il GDPR in Texas ? – Quinta’s weblog

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A Catalyst

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so do cops.

Alex Vega Díaz

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Amigos de Mastodon, se termina esta jornada de Miércoles, por tanto es el instante preciso para descansar. Ojalá cada uno de ustedes hayan podido tener un bonito día. Saludos.🤗🤗🤗🤗

quinta - Stefano Quintarelli

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This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/th…

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian – Quinta’s weblog

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Tiberio

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purtroppo la politica estera Usa è indipendente dai suoi presidenti. Il capitalismo allo stato crepuscolare è debole ed è costretto ad usare la forza della guerra per riaffermare il suo dominio vacillante e non più egemonico. Naturalmente potrebbe accadere di tutto, un gradino alla volta ci si potrebbe trovare in mezzo ad un conflitto mondiale, i segnali ci sono: Ucraina, medio oriente, Venezuela, Taiwan

Marvin U.

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Marvin U.
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Here’s a Portrait of my fiancé @mkbeh1 and her matching #Plushtodon! Oh, and look what arrived in the mail today 👀🦣 #Merchtodon

#plushtodon #merchtodon @mkbeh1

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California judge says Tesla engaged in deceptive Autopilot marketing – CNBC – Se la prenderà con l’Europa ? blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/ca…

California judge says Tesla engaged in deceptive Autopilot marketing – CNBC – Se la prenderà con l’Europa ? – Quinta’s weblog

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Raven (she/her)

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Raven (she/her)
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cute floof!

#catsofmastodon #cats

floofly black and white cat staring at u

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

Max Leibman

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Someone takes a photo and posts it online. They didn't photoshop something crazy into it, they didn't add any text, they didn't juxtapose it with another image to make a point. It's not a gif or screenshot or a piece of stock photography. It's just a photo they took.

That photo is not a "meme." Even if it's clever. Even if it's funny. It's their work.

Don't fuckin' repost it without credit. Don't pretend like you took it.

Chilly 🛡️

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

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Ok, I’m getting into internet dad mode here. So caveat scrollar. Or something.

First, unlimited time off is designed to make people not take time off. Few people will admit it. I’ve been in the ivory tower and know it’s true. So be sure you have that context in mind.

Next, your ability to contribute to your company and support your coworkers is tied to how clearly you can think, how well you can handle stress, your ability to interact with people, and your ability to learn. The longer you burn your candle without a break, the less effective you are at all those things and the less valuable you are to the team.

My recommendation is to take time off intentionally and regularly - take a look at what is industry standard - say 4 weeks per year and you take one week each quarter and disconnect and do something different.

I also recommend finding something that is fundamentally different as a hobby that you do on nights and weekends. Volunteer somewhere to hand out food or go to the local animal shelter and pet cats and dogs for 4 hours every Saturday and so on.

These will help keep you balanced and let you operate more effectively.

Next, before I was promoted to an executive, I had been an occasional manger for a long time but mostly an individual contributor. I had a manager that gave me some advice that I’ll give you (and anyone else reading this): operating in hero mode (or fire fighter mode or however you want to say it) will only serve to keep you in that role because the company has gotten so dependent on your heroics that it can’t afford to let you move to something new (but they’ll still drop you like a hot potato if times get rough). Real value to the company comes from helping to orchestrate others - raise them up, challenge them, make them work the oars in the boat by themselves while you’re not there. Said another way, it feels like you’re helping your coworkers and company if you are always there, but the opposite is true.

Finally, I had a discussion with the CEO of IBM once after I was promoted to an executive. They do this executive retreat where they issue the corporate lobotomy for new executives. She told me that I have to look out for me, because the company isn’t going to do it, and if I’ve burned myself out or driven my health into the ground, it’s bad for me and my future and bad for the company.

So take the vacation. Push your coworkers out of the nest and make them fly while you’re away.

Note: I didn’t always take this advice for a variety of reasons and I’m still recovering from burnout 18 months later and out of work.

Take care of yourself.

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This is fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing this with me (and others), Jerry

I definitely needed to hear that.

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Fritz Adalis

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@jerry @da_667
Fun anecdote from the call when my co implemented 'unlimited' vacation:

HR: You can take off whenever you want with your manager's approval.
Me: So I could take off, say, every Friday?
HR: Now don't be ridiculous.

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Alex Vega Díaz

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Así se inicia una nueva noche en Valparaíso.🌙🌙🌙🌙

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xRita

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te lo digo cada ves que puedo, me debo conocer tu hermoso pais eso va a quedar en esas lintas para hacer a futuro

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Underwater Jetpack is Almost Practical

The jet pack is one of those pre-war sci-fi dreams that the cold light of rational consideration reveals to be a terrible idea. Who wants to cook their legs with hot exhaust while careening out of control? Nobody. Yet it’s such an iconic idea, we can’t get away from it. What if there was a better environment, one where your jetpack dreams could come true? [CPSdrone] has found one: the world’s oceans, and have taken that revelation to build the world’s fastest underwater jetpack.

Underwater? Yeah, water drag is worse than air drag. But there are two big advantages: one, humans are fairly buoyant, so you don’t need fight gravity with rocket thrust, and two, the high density of water makes small, electric props a reasonable proposition. The electric ducted fans on this “j

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Catalin Cimpanu

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Catalin Cimpanu
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US seizes E-Note crypto exchange

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bupig

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Mi date un buon motivo per cui Checco Zalone non dovrebbe starmi sul ca**o?

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Giorgio Sarto

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sta sul cazzo perché prende per il culo il perbenismo di sinistra e lo fa con la consapevolezza di una persona di sinistra che piace anche alle persone di sinistra. Quindi non c'è nessun motivo per cui non dovrebbe starti sul cazzo, ma dovresti riconoscere che la sua satira sociale è molto più sofisticata di quanto non sembri.

Checco Zalone è l'Ugo Fantozzi del tempo attuale:

1) Paolo Villaggio smascherava il finto progressismo della classe dirigente e la complicità obbligata delle vittime
2) Luca Medici smaschera il politicamente corretto delle élites e l'adesione pigra ad esso da parte di chi non ne capisce più il significato profondo eooriginario, ma lo professa lostesso per non sembrare stupido e rozzo.

Se ti sta sul cazzo, allora significa che puoi essere ancora salvato

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informapirata ⁂

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@giorgiosarto non so se hai ragione tu, ma non hai tutti i torti sul paragone con Villaggio. Io per un paragone avrei pensato più a Sordi, ma Checco Zalone è molto più surreale e in questo somiglia molto a Fantozzi (o al Fracchia dei libri)

"Fantozzi continuerà col sorriso sulle labbra a correre di catastrofe in catastrofe perché non ha altra scelta: vivere in una società invivibile."

youtu.be/XdutpgzxMkE

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Da Paolo Villaggio a Ugo Fantozzi (1975) | Incontri | RSI Archivi

"Fantozzi continuerà col sorriso sulle labbra a correre di catastrofe in catastrofe perché non ha altra scelta: vivere in una società invivibile."50 anni fa ...

@elettrona non sono d'accordo. Si può ridere di tutto, ma dipende se lo sai fare e dipende dal pubblico. Tutti i limiti sono superabili, ma bisogna avere il fisico e l'allenamento tecnico per farlo.

Angelo Duro si prova a superare il limite, ma non ha né il fisico né la tecnica per farlo e quindi può far ridere un teatro pieno di gente che viene là appositamente per ridere, ma non è un grande standup comedian

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@bupig @Giorgio Sarto @Elena Brescacin

Eugen Rochko

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I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.

@Vivaldi Browser

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Pip

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Not sure how anyone can feel comfortable trusting a chromium-based browser :(

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Borris

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And unfortunately, unlike Firefox, there are major screen reader accessibility problems. I'd really love to switch to it, or something like it, but that makes it hard.

Catalin Cimpanu

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A suspected Chinese APT is exploiting a new Cisco zero-day

-impacts Cisco Secure Email Gateway And Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
-CVE-2025-20393
-CVSS score: 10
-APT is UAT-9686

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UAT-9686 actively targets Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager

Cisco Talos is tracking the active targeting of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway, formerly known as Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly known as Cisco Content Security Management…

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare

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Vulnerabilità critica in Windows Admin Center: falla sicurezza permette takeover server

Una falla di sicurezza davvero è stata scoperta in Windows Admin Center (WAC) di Microsoft. In pratica, un errore di autorizzazione può far assumere il controllo totale di un server a qualsiasi utente standard.

Il team di Cymulate Research Labs hanno pubblicato un nuovo report che illustra la scoperta di CVE-2025-64669, ovvero una vulnerabilità (CVSS 7.8) di tipo Local Privilege Escalation (LPE). Questa debolezza va a colpire proprio le versioni più in voga dello strumento per gestire l’infrastruttura. Insomma, è una vulnerabilità che può mettere a rischio la sicurezza dei server.

La notiz

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Vulnerabilità critica in Windows Admin Center: falla sicurezza permette takeover server

La notizia è arrivata dopo un’analisi approfondita da parte del team di ricerca, che ha messo nel mirino il problema. A quanto pare, la falla di sicurezza è una guest star nelle versioni più popolari di WAC. Un utente con intenzioni poco pure potrebbe facilmente approfittare di questo errore per ottenere i privilegi di amministratore e quindi prendere il controllo totale del server, il che è davvero poco rassicurante.

Il problema nasce da un errore di configurazione davvero semplice: una cartella di sistema super importante è stata lasciata sbloccata. I ricercatori hanno scoperto che la directory C:ProgramDataWindowsAdminCenter era impostata per essere accessibile a tutti gli utenti standard, anche per quanto riguarda la scrittura. In pratica, questo errore ha permesso agli aggressori di prendere il controllo della situazione. Ora, grazie alla correzione di Microsoft, la falla è stata chiusa.

La vulnerabilità è stata causata da una mancata protezione della cartella, che è stata configurata per essere accessibile a tutti, senza troppe restrizioni. Questo ha fatto sì che gli utenti standard potessero scrivere nella directory, senza essere bloccati. La scoperta della vulnerabilità ha portato Microsoft a prendere provvedimenti, e ora la sicurezza della rete è stata rafforzata.

“La causa principale risiede nelle autorizzazioni di directory non sicure, in cui la cartella C:ProgramDataWindowsAdminCenter è scrivibile da tutti gli utenti standard”, afferma il rapporto. Questa svista ha fatto sì che qualsiasi utente con privilegi bassi sul sistema potesse manomettere i file utilizzati dai processi più potenti dell’Admin Center. “Gli utenti standard con accesso al file system sottostante possono sfruttare questa configurazione errata per aumentare i privilegi”.

Trovare una cartella scrivibile è una cosa, sfruttarla come arma è un’altra. I ricercatori hanno identificato due percorsi distinti per sfruttare questa falla , ma il metodo più ingegnoso prevedeva di ingannare il programma di aggiornamento del WAC.

La scoperta del team ha rivelato che era possibile effettuare un attacco di “DLL Hijacking” sul processo WindowsAdminCenterUpdater.exe. Nonostante ciò, l’aggiornamento presentava un meccanismo di protezione che consisteva nella convalida delle firme digitali prima del caricamento dei file.

“Avevamo quasi rinunciato, ma poi abbiamo notato qualcosa di interessante”, hanno scritto i ricercatori. Si sono resi conto che il processo di convalida presentava una piccola finestra di vulnerabilità, una classica falla “Time-of-Check Time-of-Use” (TOCTOU). “Il processo di convalida avviene all’interno del processo WindowsAdminCenter stesso e, al termine, richiama e apre WindowsAdminCenterUpdater.exe”.

Microsoft ha assegnato il problema CVE-2025-64669 e ha assegnato al team di Cymulate una ricompensa di 5.000 dollari per le sue scoperte. Gli amministratori che utilizzano Windows Admin Center sono invitati ad aggiornare immediatamente alla versione 2411 o successiva per colmare questa lacuna critica.

L'articolo Vulnerabilità critica in Windows Admin Center: falla sicurezza permette takeover server proviene da Red Hot Cyber.

Antonella Ferrari

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La notte di Repubblica e del suo gruppo

@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/12/la-nott…
A dispetto del ministro Valditara che invoca il latino, sono i Greci a sbarcare in Italia. Com’è noto (ne ha ampiamente scritto anche il manifesto), l’imprenditore ellenico Kyriakou è di una famiglia che divide i suoi interessi tra il petrolio e i media.

@Giornalismo e disordine informativo

Antonella Ferrari

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Sanità: presidio al Pirellone, restituiti simbolicamente alla Giunta i “pessimi regali” alla sanità pubblica

@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/12/sanita-…
Milano, 16 dicembre 2025. Questo pomeriggio la rete La

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Alex Vega Díaz

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Linda imagen del Barrio Puerto de Valparaíso durante esta mañana.😃😃😃😃

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Reports from Bataysk, Russia: a fire has broken out following several explosions.

Debris?

kravietz 🦇

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#Putin

After the Soviet Union collapsed, we believed we would quickly join the civilized Western world. Today, it seems there is no civilization there, only degradation.

I just don’t understand - if he’s so concerned about that scary Western world, why he continues pushing West? Just fuck off back to East and you’ll be safe again in your swamps

#putin

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Ukrainian MiG-29MU1 jets carried out airstrikes on Russian positions in the village of Uborki, Bryansk region.

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US and Russian officials will meet in Miami this weekend to discuss ending the Ukraine war, with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leading talks. The meeting follows quiet negotiations in Berlin on pressuring Kyiv into concessions and proposing Western security guarantees for Ukraine.

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17 December 1903 | Polish Jew, Jankiel Szyferman, was born in Maciejowice. He emigrated to France. A tailor.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Pithiviers on 17 July 1942. He did not survive.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_…

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#auschwitz #pithiviers

kravietz 🦇

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#Germany Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz:

We intend to use Russian assets to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine for at least two more years. This step is not about prolonging the war, but about bringing the war to an end as soon as possible.

I believe this is a very important message, as it gives both Russia, Ukraine and USA a clear message, responding to Putin’s vague statements about “achieving his goals as long as it takes” with a specific tangible metric that may not look actually looks so optimistic from Russian side.

#Ukraine #Russia

Source: x.com/bundeskanzler/status/200… (sorry, it’s him not me)

#ukraine #russia #germany

Russia-Ukraine Daily News

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🇰🇪 Kenyan authorities have secured the return of 18 citizens who were recruited inside #Russia to take part in the ongoing invasion of #Ukraine, Nairobi-based outlet The Standard reported.

In total, at least 82 Kenyans have appealed to the country’s embassy in Moscow for help returning home.

theins.press/en/news/287849

Kenya repatriates 18 citizens recruited by Russia’s Ministry of Defense, shuts down hundreds of agencies lu...

Kenyan authorities have secured the return of 18 citizens who were recruited inside Russia to take part in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Nairobi-based outlet The Standard reported.

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#ukraine #russia

Russia-Ukraine Daily News

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🇸🇪 #Sweden’s navy has confirmed that armed guards have appeared aboard tankers belonging to #Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.”

theins.press/en/news/287848

Swedish Navy says armed guards have appeared aboard Russia’s “shadow fleet” tankers

Sweden’s navy has confirmed that armed guards have appeared aboard tankers belonging to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.

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#russia #sweden

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Building a Flying Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype

Anyone with an inkling of interest in super-sized remote control aircraft probably has at least seen some of the mind-blowing projects that [Ramy RC] has worked on over the years, with examples like the ongoing Airbus A380-800 build approaching the size of a full-sized business jet. That said, they recently got the offer to build a flying prototype of the Natilus Horizon, a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft that’s currently being developed into a full-sized production aircraft.

Suffice it to say that BWB RC aircraft isn

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Boomerissimo.it

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Pintér Christie 50: copertine e piccoli delitti di un’epoca d’oro editoriale

Segreti di copertina e delitti editoriali: come Ferenc Pintér trasformò il nostro immaginario un bozzetto alla volta, e come Mondadori sfidò la censura con Agatha Christie. 50 storie riscoperte in una mostra sorprendente.

boomerissimo.it/2025/12/17/pin…

Pintér Christie 50: copertine e piccoli delitti di un'epoca d'oro editoriale - Boomerissimo

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Журнал «Холод»

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Осторожно, новости!

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Осторожно, новости!

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🤖 Secret phrases to get you past AI bot customer service

You want a human. For starters, don’t explain your issue. That’s the trap. You need words the AI has been programmed to treat differently.
Nuclear phrases: When the AI bot asks why you’re calling, say, “I need to cancel my service” or “I am returning a call.” The word cancel sets off alarms and often sends you straight to the customer retention team. Saying you’re returning a call signals an existing issue the bot cannot track. I used that last weekend when my internet went down and bam, I had a human.
Power words: When the system starts listing options, clearly say one word. “Supervisor.” If that doesn’t work, say, “I need to file a formal complaint.” Most systems are not programmed to deal with complaints or supervisors. They escalate fast.
Technical bypass: Asked to enter your account number? Press the pound key (#

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🤖 Secret phrases to get you past AI bot customer service

Get a real human on the phone fast, plus PayPal scams from legit emails, AI mistake triggers a school lockdown, and why parents are now running kids’ dating profiles

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Lisa Stranger

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further info on the "AI mistake that triggered a middle-school lockdown" (in thumbnail)... not only was the kid carrying his musical instrument like a gun, he was also dressed in a costume (for legit purposes) that involved camo and body armor

the dreaded AI actually got it right... dammit

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Первая частная клиника в Екатеринбурге отказалась проводить аборты из-за «моральных норм»

В Екатеринбурге частный медицинскийцентр «Шанс» объявил, что с 1 января 2026 года полностью прекращает проведение абортов. Решение распространяется как на мануально-вакуумную аспирацию, так и на медикаментозное прерывание беременности.

Это первый публично зафиксированный случай в Свердловской области, когда частная клиника официально заявляет об отказе от оказания подобных услуг.

Как это объясняет сам медицинский центр?

▪️ О принятом решении сообщил главный врач медцентра Александр Беляев в интервью местному «4 каналу». По его словам, отказ от абортов продиктован «морально-этическими соображениями» и связан с демографическим спадом.

«В силу морально-этических норм, учитывая демографический спад, мы приняли решение отказаться от искусственного прерывания беременности — как мануально-вакуумной аспирации, так и медикаментозного метода. Мы отказываемся от искусственного прерывания беременности в целом», — заявил он.

▪️ При этом главный врач настаивает, что речь, по его словам, не идет о возвращении к криминализации абортов и что повторения практик 1930-х, 1950-х или 1970-х годов не будет.

▪️ Он утверждает, что с пациент:ками продолжат работать врач:ини, прошедшие специальную подготовку, а если женщину не удастся убедить сохранить беременность, ей предложат направление в государственное медицинское учреждение.

▪️ Александр Беляев также призвал другие частные клиники региона «подумать» и последовать примеру медцентра «Шанс», заявив, что в текущей ситуации коллегам стоит отказаться от проведения абортов.

Какая позиция у региональных властей и церкви?

▪️ Инициатива отказа от платных абортов принадлежит заместительнице губернатора — министерке здравоохранения Свердловской области Татьяне Савиновой. Она подчеркивает, что речь идет не о формальном запрете абортов в регионе, а о «сознательном отказе» частных медицинских центров от оказания таких услуг на платной основе.

▪️ По ее словам, задача государственных медицинских учреждений — «с максимальной заботой» попытаться убедить женщину отказаться от аборта.

▪️ Если же пациентка настаивает на своем решении, во всех государственных больницах Свердловской области, утверждает Савинова, сохраняется возможность проведения аборта бесплатно.

▪️ Инициатива отказа от абортов получила поддержку со стороны Екатеринбургской епархии.

▪️ При этом ранее руководитель медицинского отдела Екатеринбургской епархии, врач-уролог Михаил Попов предупреждал, что запреты и давление на систему репродуктивной помощи могут привести к росту нелегальных операций и формированию «черного рынка» абортов.

Что думают эксперт:ки?

▪️ Гендерная исследовательница и феминистка Александра Талавер в разговоре с DOXA отмечает, что происходящее следует рассматривать как системный и планомерный этап наступления на репродуктивные права.

«Новый этап уже наступил. Он начался в тот момент, когда закон о запрете склонения к абортам был вынесен на обсуждение на федеральном уровне <...> Нет сомнений, что этот закон будет принят: сегодня аналогичные нормы уже действуют как минимум в 26 регионах», — говорит Талавер.

▪️ Она подчеркивает, что ограничения доступа к абортам неизбежно приводят к росту женской смертности — этот эффект хорошо задокументирован.

«Мы знаем, к чему это приводит, и именно поэтому логично было бы говорить о контрмерах, а не о запретах. Но вместо этого мы видим движение в противоположную сторону».

▪️ По словам журналистки и феминистки Анастасии Полозковов, сокращение числа клиник, где можно сделать аборт, приводит к вынужденной мобильности женщин.

«Фактически женщины начинают ездить в другие регионы, чтобы прервать нежелательную беременность — почти как в США, где из штатов с запретами едут в соседние. Только в российских условиях все это еще тяжелее».

Как власти ограничивают аборты и чего ожидать в будущем — читайте на сайте DOXA

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Nearly four years into russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the situation for civilians is growing increasingly dire, even as high-profile peace negotiations dominate international attention, the United Nations’ top human rights official warned during a session of the UN Human Rights Council.

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**США рассматривают новые санкции против РФ в случае отказа Путина от мирного соглашения. Новости войны в Украине и России

Жертвы и военные действия**

▪️ В Славянском районеКраснодарского края после атаки беспилотных летательных аппаратов без электричества остаются около 13 тысяч человек.

▪️ В результате серии российских авиаударов по Запорожью и району пострадали 26 человек — атака велась управляемыми авиабомбами.

▪️ В Дружковке Донецкой области при атаке российского FPV-дрона пострадали четыре сотрудни:цы Государственной службы по чрезвычайным ситуациям Украины.

▪️ В Запорожье после российских ударов повреждены два дома, под завалами могут находиться люди.

▪️ В Краснодарском крае в результате атаки беспилотников пострадали два человека.

▪️ Генеральный штаб ВСУ сообщил об ударе по инфраструктуре Славянского нефтеперерабатывающего завода в Славянске-на-Кубани — зафиксированы взрывы и пожар. Также, по данным ВСУ, повреждены объекты нефтебазы «Николаевская» в Ростовской области — резервуар и судно «Капитан Гиберт».

Переговорный процесс

▪️ Владимир Зеленский сообщил, что украинская делегация поедет в Майами на переговоры с США о гарантиях безопасности, экономическом восстановлении и рамочном соглашении о завершении войны. Украина настаивает на юридически закрепленных гарантиях, сопоставимых со статьей 5 НАТО.

▪️ США рассматривают новые санкции против российской экономики — прежде всего против «теневого флота» и торговли нефтью — в случае отказа Владимира Путина от мирного соглашения с Украиной. В Кремле подтверждают, что знают о таких планах, но называют их вредными для урегулирования.

Другие новости

▪️ Глава Министерства обороны России заявил, что в Украине выведены из строя более 70% теплоэлектроцентралей и свыше 37% гидроэлектростанций.

▪️ По заявлениям ВСУ, Украина контролирует почти 90% Купянска, тогда как Министерство обороны России утверждает, что украинская контратака была безуспешной. Ранее российский Генеральный штаб докладывал Владимиру Путину о взятии города, но Киев это отрицает и сообщает о возвращении части позиций.

▪️ Владимир Путин назвал разговоры о возможном нападении России на Европу «ложью и бредом», одновременно заявив о расширении «буферной зоны безопасности», усилении наступления в Украине и наращивании военного и ядерного потенциала.

▪️ ФСБ сообщила о задержании в Сочи отца и дочери, которых подозревают в сборе сведений о Вооруженных силах России и намерении воевать на стороне Украины.

▪️ Жительница оккупированной части Запорожской области подала заявление в Международный уголовный суд, заявив, что российские военные похитили ее, пытали, насиловали и принуждали к рытью окопов. The Insider опубликовал ее свидетельства о системных военных преступлениях со стороны российской армии.

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The Senate just passed a new $900 billion defense bill. Here’s what’s in it.
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SonicWall warns of actively exploited flaw in SMA 100 AMC

SonicWall warned users to patch a SMA1000 AMC flaw that was exploited as a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in attacks.

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I riassunti IA senza consenso operati dalla Biblioteca digitale ACM. Il post di protesta di @cfiesler su Bluesky

La Biblioteca digitale @ACM dove vengono pubblicate MOLTE ricerche in ambito informatico (direi almeno il 75% delle mie pubblicazioni), ora non solo fornisce (senza il consenso degli autori e senza l'opt-in dei lettori) riassunti degli articoli generati dall'intelligenza artificiale, ma questi vengono visualizzati come impostazione predefinita rispetto agli abstract.

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Fallimenti fittizi e lezioni dal mondo reale: speculazioni etiche attraverso la design fiction sull'intelligenza artificiale conversazionale di supporto emotivo
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CHI '25: Atti della conferenza CHI 2025 sui fattori umani nei sistemi informatici
Articolo n.: 204, pagine 1-15
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L'intelligenza artificiale conversazionale progettata per fornire supporto emotivo attraverso interfacce chatbot si è diffusa rapidamente in risposta all'accesso inadeguato all'assistenza sanitaria mentale, tuttavia la tecnologia presenta significativi rischi imprevisti per gli utenti vulnerabili. Questo lavoro utilizza la metodologia della design fiction attraverso un articolo di cronaca immaginario ambientato nel prossimo futuro che descrive il fallimento di un chatbot di supporto emotivo chiamato Polly per esplorare le conseguenze etiche e i danni prevedibili che i sistemi attuali possono generare

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This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for this episode, and can confirm it gets the job done. What led to the creation of this project, and what’s the direction it’s going? Watch to find out!

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Il Parlamento UE dice 'sì' all'aborto sicuro e accessibile

L'Aula del Parlamento sostiene l'iniziativa dei cittadini che chiede di riconoscere il diritto all'aborto per le donne dove ancora è ostacolato

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Real Protection Is Needed Against This russian Case History of Madness, and We Will Continue Now Working With All Partners to Ensure That Protection Is in Place – Address President #Zelenskyy 17.12.2025

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Russians sunk several barges at the entrance of their naval port pier in Novorossiysk, so that no other Ukrainian drone can enter it.

This also confines the remnants of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to this little basin. Russians literally barricaded themselves. Embarrassing..

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A Ukrainian photo, "In the Arms of Family" by Anastasia Taylor-Lind, captures toddler Tymofii Tsvetkov—wearing a T-shirt that reads "My dad serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine" - held by his aunt after fleeing war.

His father fights on the front lines. The powerful image, part of 5K From the Frontline, is among National Geographic’s 2025 Pictures of the Year.

Source: Ukraine.ua

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Today #Ukraine journalist Vitaly Portnikov commented on #Putin’s statement about ‘European piglets’ (yes, read on…). Portnikov hits the nail on the head:

Putin is obsessed with torpedoing the European project. Understand this: a united Europe is a thorn in the side of every Russian imperialist. Every imperialist, including Putin and Trump (although he has different motives), will tell you that it is easier for him to deal with many separate countries, even large ones, than with a single bloc with a population larger than the whole of Russia. And with an economy comparable to that of the United States, and certainly larger than Russia’s. And as long as European countries are together, it is much more difficult to provoke them into fighting each other.

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Today #Ukraine journalist Vitaly Portnikov commented on #Putin’s statement about ‘European piglets’ (yes, read on…). Portnikov hits the nail on the head:

Putin is obsessed with torpedoing the European project. Understand this: a united Europe is a thorn in the side of every Russian imperialist. Every imperialist, including Putin and Trump (although he has different motives), will tell you that it is easier for him to deal with many separate countries, even large ones, than with a single bloc with a population larger than the whole of Russia. And with an economy comparable to that of the United States, and certainly larger than Russia’s. And as long as European countries are together, it is much more difficult to provoke them into fighting each other.

And here is the most important thing:

I have repeatedly pointed out that the essence of the European project is not simply prosperity – although that is also nice – but that European countries do not fight each other and their citizens do not kill each other. Eighty years ago, our continent was in ruins, Europeans were fighting each other and hated each other, they were ready to bomb their own cities. Today, we see the President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Prime Minister of Italy discussing fundamental issues together and travelling to Washington together.
Let us recall the history of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century – how much hatred there was between the Germans and the French, the Germans and the British, the British and the French, how much contempt there was for the Italians, who were not even considered human beings in this European concert. Where was Poland, which today is one of the world’s leading economies, but at the beginning of the century had its territory divided between three empires? This is unimaginable progress, the success of which was difficult to even dream of 100 years ago! And the small countries? They couldn’t believe they still existed at all.

And again about Putin:

And that is precisely why such a union of equal states drives Putin crazy and irritates Trump, who of course would like to negotiate with each country separately – hence his support for Brexit. And both Trump and Putin want the same thing for the whole of Europe, albeit for different reasons – Trump wants greater economic leverage, and Putin wants to rebuild Russia’s sphere of influence in Europe so that they fear him.

Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=wrevKfGd_3… (in Russian, subtitles available)

Путин угрожает Европе | Виталий Портников @i_gryanul_grem

Путин не только собирается продолжать воевать с Украиной, но и угрожает войной Европе. Это и есть «сухой остаток» мирного плана Трампа. Беседа с Вадимом Ради...

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Now about #Putin - today he lashed out publicly, literally calling #Europe leader piglets, apparently after he learned about the progress of the plans of freezing #Russia assets in Europe:

And the European piglets immediately joined in this work, ahead of the American administration, hoping to profit from the collapse of our country.

As you can see, this man’s erudition literally skyrockets with age… Putin used Russian word подсвинки which is farming term literally meaning “piglets”, which can be also used as a vulgar insult. One begins to wonder what happens next - will Putin start grunting and throwing feces to express his anger…

Source: ria.ru/20251217/putin-20626711… (in Russian)

"Европейские подсвинки" хотели поживиться на развале России, заявил Путин

"Европейские подсвинки" включились в работу прежней администрации США, надеясь поживиться на развале России, заявил президент РФ Владимир Путин. РИА Новости, 17.12.2025

^{РИА Новости}

#europe #russia #putin

Russia-Ukraine Daily News

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Russia-Ukraine Daily News
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🇷🇺 🇧🇪 Belgian politicians and senior finance executives have been subject to a campaign of intimidation orchestrated by Russian intelligence aimed at persuading the country to block the use of €185bn assets for #Ukraine, according to European intelligence agencies.

theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

#russia #belgium #europe

Belgian politicians and finance bosses targeted by Russian intelligence over seized assets

Exclusive: Key figures at frozen assets depository among targets of intimidation campaign, say European intelligence agencies

^{Dan Sabbagh (The Guardian)}

#ukraine #belgium #europe #russia

Auschwitz Memorial

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Auschwitz Memorial
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17 December 1908 | A Pole, Adam Gil, was born in Godziszów. A pastry chef.

In #Auschwitz from 20 November 1941.
No. 22784
He perished in the camp on 10 June 1942.
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"Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_0…

Eduexe Course

^{lekcja.auschwitz.org}

#auschwitz

Tendar

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Tendar
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Natural gas prices in Europe have all but returned to normal since Russia's full scale war in Ukraine. In fact, the only reason for the spike in 2021 and 2022 has been Russia's energy war against Europe, which started even before the full scale invasion of Ukraine. The numbers clearly say that.

It proves many things:

Russian energy was never cheap, neither politically nor economically.
Russian energy was always unreliable.
Russia always needed Europe more than the other way around.

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦
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1/7

President #Zelenskyy

💬 "Today, we heard further signals from moscow that they are preparing for a year of war next year. And these signals are not only for us. It is important that our partners see this. And it is important that they not only see it, but also respond,

#zelenskyy

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

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6/7

in particular regarding russian assets, we need political solutions. And we need the courage of all our partners to see the truth, acknowledge the truth and act accordingly.

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

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7/7

I want to thank everyone who supports Ukraine and the work to achieve security in this way."

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦
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Odesa Declares Emergency After Russian Strikes Leave 50,000 Without Power for Days

by Roman Kohanets

Governor Oleh Kiper stated that the decision was made by the regional commission on technogenic and environmental safety and emergencies.

united24media.com/latest-news/…

Odesa Declares Emergency After Russian Strikes Leave 50,000 Without Power for Days

Authorities in Odesa have declared an emergency due to Russian attacks damaging energy facilities, leaving thousands without power for days.

^{Roman Kohanets (UNITED24 Media)}

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦
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russia “fattens up” tortured prisoners before exchanges to hide years of abuse, freed civilians say

by Maxim Volovich

Prisoners washed, fed, and warned not to bruise themselves—then traded back to #Ukraine.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/17…

#ukraine

Ciubekka

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Ciubekka
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My next trip will take me to India. I'll leave on January 29, 2026, from my hometown of Milan, and will take my bicycle to New Delhi.

From the north I will pedal south, following a zigzagging path with no clear path, other than one dotted with life-changing encounters.

I'll travel thousands of kilometers to the far reaches of India, to the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and then finish my journey in Bangalore.

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

#ciubekkatandoori

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Ciubekka

in reply to Ciubekka • 1 mese fa • •

⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

This trip will also have a charitable purpose, and in Bangalore there is a special school, the Annaswamy School, that offers inclusive education and vocational training, with a particular focus on sport and arts.

My trip project will be to provide the school with one or more inclusive playgrounds, and this time too, I will do so together with my friends from the Pozza company from Vicenza

Please help me to help others!

#paypal
paypal.com/pools/c/9kKdVQiGCI

#polarsteps
polarsteps.com/Ciubekka/154007…

Polarsteps

Polarsteps is the personal travel log in your pocket.

^Polarsteps

#paypal #Polarsteps

Paris Marx

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Paris Marx
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🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to vote!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf

Bracket showing 32 names narrowed down to a top 8.

forms.app: Online Form Builder | Free Online Survey Tool

forms.app is the best and free online form builder to create online web forms and online surveys. Get started with the easy and fast online form builder now.

^forms.app

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Please keep me posted if you see or hear something about this.

Plushtodon

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Plushtodon
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📙 Le nouveau numéro de Dimensions est sorti!

Dans cette édition, zoom sur les matières plastiques. Si elles ont permis d’énormes progrès, elles se heurtent aujourd’hui au défi de la pollution qu’elles engendrent.

Disponible gratuitement dans les caissettes à journaux du campus ou sur dimensions.epfl.ch

#epfl #plushtodon #plastique #pollution #environnement

Dimensions

Dimensions, une publication scientifique de référence, qui met en avant l’excellence de l’Ecole par le biais de dossiers approfondis, d’interviews, de portraits et d’actualités.

^EPFL

#pollution #environnement #plushtodon #plastique #epfl

Vivaldi Browser

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Vivaldi Browser
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PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

#Vivaldi #Browser #Announcement #Roadmap #PSA

#browser #psa #Vivaldi #roadmap #announcement

Grickle

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Grickle
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Seasonal ritual. #grickledoodle #holidays #gifts #dogs #cats #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

A cartoon illustration of a dog wrapping a dead mouse and a cat wrapping a bone for each other. Caption reads "They knew each other very well."

#art #cartoon #drawing #cats #funny #dogs #grickledoodle #gifts #holidays

Filippo Valsorda

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Filippo Valsorda
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If you want to help seed the Certificate Transparency archive (github.com/geomys/ct-archive), there is now an RSS feed for your BitTorrent client! Don't forget to set unlimited seed ratio ✨

raw.githubusercontent.com/geom…

GitHub - geomys/ct-archive: A directory of archived Certificate Transparency (CT) logs and tools to archive RFC 6962 and Static CT logs.

A directory of archived Certificate Transparency (CT) logs and tools to archive RFC 6962 and Static CT logs. - geomys/ct-archive

^GitHub

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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NEW: Cisco discovered a Chinese hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of customers.

The hackers have been exploiting a zero-day in some of Cisco's most popular products "since at least late November 2025."

There is no patch available at this point.

techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/cisc…

Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day | TechCrunch

Cisco said it discovered a Chinese hacking campaign targeting its customers by exploiting a zero-day in some of the company's most popular products.

^{Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)}

The 19th

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The 19th
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What The 19th loved in 2025
https://19thnews.org/2025/12/what-the-19th-loved-in-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The 19th @the-19th-19thnews

The Gilded Age, Rosalía, knitting: What The 19th loved in 2025

What we did, watched, listened to and wore that brought us joy in 2025.

^{The 19th Staff (19th News)}

@The 19th

SiestⒶcorta

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SiestⒶcorta
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#CluesBySam
Tiens, une connexion de neurones aujourd'hui ?

cluesbysam.com/

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

^{cluesbysam.com}

#CluesBySam

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Hypolite Petovan

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@SiestⒶcorta Beuh

Clues by Sam - Dec 17th 2025 (Tricky)
Less than 8 minutes
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@SiestⒶcorta

Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare
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The PediSedate: A Winning Combination Of Video Games And Anesthesia

One can understand that it would be nice to have something to focus on while trying to remain calm ahead of a medical procedure. Credit: PediSedate
Once upon a time, surgery was done on patents who were fully conscious and awake. As you might imagine, this was a nasty experience for all involved, and particularly the patients. Eventually, medical science developed the techniques of anaesthesia, which allowed patients to undergo surgery without feeling pain, or even being conscious of it at all.

Adults are typically comfortable in the medical environment and tolerate anaesthesia well. For children, though, the experien

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The PediSedate: A Winning Combination Of Video Games And Anesthesia

Adults are typically comfortable in the medical environment and tolerate anaesthesia well. For children, though, the experience can be altogether more daunting. Thus was invented the PediSedate—a device which was marketed almost like a Game Boy accessory intended to deliver anaesthetic treatment in order to safely and effectively prepare children for surgery.

A Happy Distraction

A child wearing the PediSedate mask. Credit: PediSedate
The patent filing for the PediSedate doesn’t give away much in the title—”Inhalation And Monitoring Mask With Headset.” Still, US patent 5,697,363 (PDF) recorded an innovative device, intended to solve several issues around the delivery of anaesthesia to pediatric patients. Most specifically, those developing the device had noted a great deal of anxiety and stress when using traditional anaesthesia masks with young patients. The device was created by Geoffrey A. Hart, an anaestheologist based in Boston. His hope was to create an anaesthesia delivery device that could be used with a child in a “non-threatening, non-intrusive manner.”

The resulting device looked rather a lot like a big, colorful audio headset. Indeed, it had headphones to that could play audio to the wearer, while an arm that extended out over the face could deliver nitrous oxide or other gases via the nasal route. Sensors were included for pulse oximetry in order to track the patient’s heart rate and blood oxygenation, while an integrated capnometer measured vital respiratory factors including carbon dioxide levels in the breath. Provision in the patent was also made for including a microphone, either for interactivity purposes with entertainment content for distraction’s sake, or to allow communication with medical personnel at a distance. This would be particularly useful in the case of certain imaging studies or treatments, where doctors and nurses must remain a certain distance away.
Press materials that showed the device in use with a handheld created the idea that this was a Game Boy accessory. It was certainly never an official one; in reality, it was a pair of headphones that also delivered anaesthesia while monitoring the patient. Credit: PediSedate
Press materials and a website were launched in 2009, as the device went through Phase II clinical trials. Most materials showed the PediSedate being used in tandem with a Nintendo Game Boy. The device featured an aesthetic that followed the late 90s trend of bright colors and translucent plastics. It was often paired in photos hooked up to a Game Boy to help distract a child during sedation, with the device often talked about as an “accessory” for the handheld console. This wasn’t really the case—it was essentially a child-friendly anaesthetic mask with headphones that could be hooked up to any relevant sound source. However, at the time, a Game Boy was a readily available way to distract and calm a sick child, and it could be had in colors that matched the PediSedate device.

Those behind the PediSedate noted the device was “very well recieved by parents, kids and health-care workers.” The benefits seem to pass the common-sense check—it’s believable that the PediSedate succeeded at being a less-scary way to present children with anaesthetic treatment while also giving them something pleasant to focus on as they drifted out of consciousness. However, success was seemingly not on the cards. The PediSedate website disappeared from the internet in 2011, and precious little was heard of the device since. The creator, Geoffrey A. Hart, continued to practice medicine in the intervening years, until he resigned his license in 2024 according to the Massachusetts Board of Medicine.

youtube.com/embed/-teN8JcqLZQ?…

An explainer video demonstrated the use of the device, which was going through Phase II trials in 2009.

By and large, the medical field has gotten by without devices like the PediSedate. Children undergoing sedation with inhalational anaesthetics will typically be treated with relatively conventional masks, albeit in small sizes. They lack colorful designs or hookups for game consoles, but by and large seem to do the job. It might have been nice to play a little Donkey Kong before a daunting procedure, but alas, the PediSedate never quite caught on.

Featured image: still from Sharkie’s Gaming Controllers video on the PediSedate.

hackaday.com/2025/12/17/the-pe…

Adam S. Smith

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Adam S. Smith
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I thinking of uninstalling the excellent #Wordpress #ActivityPub Plugin and defederating my sites from the #Fediverse. For technical reasons only. CPU goes through the roof when new posts are boosted for the first time, causing 508 errors.

Does anyone else suffer from this problem and have any suggestions to lighten the load?

Maybe I’m overreacting and should just live with the minute or two of daily downtime?

I have Litespeed cache installed.

Affected sites: @dinotoyblog @blog@animaltoyforum.com @blog@monstertoyblog.com

#activitypub #fediverse #WordPress @Dinosaur Toy Blog @Monster Toy Blog @blog@animaltoyforum.com

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Adam S. Smith

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • 1 mese fa • •

Exactly. Maybe there are there some Litespeed settings I could tweak?

Thanks for your interest and help.

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Matthias Pfefferle

in reply to Adam S. Smith • 1 mese fa • •

is this "only" a problem when you post new things?

so there is always the option to tweak the scheduling, to not send all pings at the same time. the only downside is, that this can take some more time until every of your follower receives the new post.

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Matthias Pfefferle

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • 1 mese fa • •

I will put it on the backlog.

idea: an option to chose between different scaling/load levels.

1. publish as fast as possible (high load)
2. reduce bulks and increase pauses between sending
3. take your time ☕️

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Matthias Pfefferle

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • 1 mese fa • •

github.com/Automattic/wordpres…

Add configurable distribution modes for federation delivery

Summary Add a setting to allow site administrators to choose how aggressively the plugin distributes activities to remote servers. This helps manage server load from HTTP signature verifications on...

^{pfefferle (GitHub)}

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Adam S. Smith

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • 1 mese fa • •

@pfefferle Sounds fantastic.

@Matthias Pfefferle

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Adam S. Smith

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • 1 mese fa • •

@pfefferle Only when I post new things, but for each new post there are two CPU peaks associated with CPU faults. One when it is first published, then a larger one later when I (or someone else with a moderate following) boosts it directly on Mastodon.

Happy for pings to take their time. Thanks for looking into it, I’m also working through the suggestions as far as I’m able.

@Matthias Pfefferle

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Matthias Pfefferle

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phew... the load as a result of boosting is hard to intercept: ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fedive…

Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)

Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?

^{Aral Balkan}

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Adam S. Smith

in reply to Matthias Pfefferle • 1 mese fa • •

@pfefferle Thanks. It seems to be the nature of the beast.

I still wonder if there's something more I could do by tweaking Litespeed Cache.

@Matthias Pfefferle

The 19th

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The 19th
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House Republicans advance sweeping anti-trans bills ahead of holiday break
https://19thnews.org/2025/12/congress-trans-health-care-ban/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The latest LGBTQ+ news @the-latest-lgbtq-news-19thnews

Republicans advance sweeping anti-trans bills in Congress

One bill would jail doctors who prescribe gender-affirming care to trans youth. Another would block Medicaid dollars from funding that care.

^{Orion Rummler (19th News)}

@The latest LGBTQ+ news

The Human Capybara

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The Human Capybara
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A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland) proved that data centers are a scam.

With their software, an IA the size of ChatGPT can work with just a local network of FOUR computers (total price €9,600 / $11,280).

No need for the cloud.
No need for data centers wasting water and money.

goodtech.info/anyway-systems-e…

#ai #datacenter #tech #opensource #cloud #environment #climatechange #water #news

L'EPFL dynamite les GAFAM : L'IA de la taille de ChatGPT tourne sur 4 PC à 2300 € (et sans le Cloud)

Des chercheurs de l'EPFL lancent Anyway Systems, un logiciel qui permet d'exécuter des modèles d'IA massifs sur un cluster local de quatre machines standard. C'est la fin de la dépendance au cloud.

^{Rédaction (Linagora)}

#ai #climatechange #cloud #opensource #water #News #tech #environment #datacenter

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to The Human Capybara • 1 mese fa • •

@The Human Capybara L'exécution, oui. Pour l'entraînement par contre, c'est un autre ordre de grandeur pour la puissance de calcul nécessaire. Et vu que les trois plus grandes entreprises dans le secteur essaient d'engendrer Dieu, il n'y a pas vraiment de limite théorique à ce que ça pourrait requérir en terme d'architecture matérielle.

@The Human Capybara

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 mese fa • •

@The Human Capybara C'est comme la recherche web, obtenir un résultat est peu coûteux, mais générer l'index de recherche et l'agrémenter sont deux tâches très coûteuses.

@The Human Capybara

Oloap

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Oloap
1 mese fa • •

Strano, chi l'avrebbe detto?

Poi chiediti perché non le contrastano in maniera efficace...

"Le pubblicità di truffe fanno guadagnare una fortuna a #Meta, secondo Reuters

Stime e documenti interni parlano del 10% del fatturato annuo, pari a 16 miliardi di dollari"

Leggi tutto: ilpost.link/qNnKUsg5e0

@informapirata

Le pubblicità di truffe fanno guadagnare una fortuna a Meta, secondo Reuters

^{Il Post}

#meta @informapirata ⁂

Boomerissimo.it

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Boomerissimo.it
1 mese fa • •

Il divorzio involontario

@cinema @spettacoli @spettacoli@diggita.com

#boomerissimo #rocky #sylvesterstallone #mrT #clubberlang

boomerissimo.it/2024/05/30/il-…

Il divorzio tra Clubber Lang e Rocky: tutta colpa del reality - Boomerissimo

La saga di Rocky è una delle più popolari, tutti ricordano il pugile capace di soffrire, ma anche i suoi avversari.

^{Antonietta Terraglia (Boomerissimo)}

#boomerissimo #MRT #sylvesterstallone #rocky #clubberlang @cinema @Spettacoli, Cinema, Musica, Televisione, Teatro, Anime e Serie TV @Spettacoli

Boomerissimo.it

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Boomerissimo.it
1 mese fa • •

Il divorzio involontario

@cinema @spettacoli @spettacoli@diggita.com

#boomerissimo #rocky #sylvesterstallone #mrT #clubberlang

boomerissimo.it/2024/05/30/il-…

Il divorzio tra Clubber Lang e Rocky: tutta colpa del reality - Boomerissimo

La saga di Rocky è una delle più popolari, tutti ricordano il pugile capace di soffrire, ma anche i suoi avversari.

^{Antonietta Terraglia (Boomerissimo)}

#boomerissimo #MRT #sylvesterstallone #rocky #clubberlang @cinema @Spettacoli, Cinema, Musica, Televisione, Teatro, Anime e Serie TV @Spettacoli

Brian Bilston

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Brian Bilston
1 mese fa • •

These are a few of my favourite words …

My Favourite Words

Pipette and plectrum, obumbrate and flimsy,
balderdash, spatchcock, flapdoodle and whimsy,
obnubilation and nontrepreneur –
these are a few of my favourite words.

Sachet, humdudgeon, haboob, hurly-burly,
scroddled and dottle, goluptious and surly,
mumpsimus, tawdry, decumbent and blurb –
these are a few of my favourite words.

Susurrus, zephyr, rubescent, boondoggle,
reboant, gaggle, hubris and hornswoggle,
plethora, refulgent, plinth and perturb –
these are a few of my favourite words.

When the rose droops
When the branch snags
When I’m lachrymose
I simply remember my favourite words
and then I don’t feel morose.

Brian Bilston

beSpacific

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beSpacific
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New study warns #glaciers in European #Alps will hit their peak #extinction rate w/in 8 yrs w global glacier loss accelerating toward thousands per yr unless #emissions are rapidly cut. #Glaciers in western US, #Canada forecast to reach their peak yr of loss less than decade later w more than 800 disappearing each yr by then. About 200,000 glaciers remain worldwide with about 750 disappearing each year - accelerating rapidly due to #emissions from burning #fossilfuels phys.org/news/2025-12-alps-gla…

The Alps set to lose a record number of glaciers in the next decade, study warns

Glaciers are melting worldwide. In some regions, they could even disappear completely. Looking at the number of glaciers disappearing, the Alps could reach their peak loss rate as early as 2033 to 2041.

^{ETH Zurich (Phys.org)}

#canada #fossilfuels #alps #glaciers #emissions #extinction

h o ʍ l e t t

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h o ʍ l e t t
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→ Ce #pêcheur artisanal a vaincu les chaluts de fond en larguant 800 blocs de béton en #mer
lareleveetlapeste.fr/ce-pecheu…

« […] 800 blocs de béton et marbre ont été immergés, dont 49 #sculptures sous-marines, réalisées par des artistes de renommée internationale et pesant entre 15 et 20 tonnes environ. Assez pour obliger les chalutiers à contourner la zone, de peur d’avoir les #filets empêtrés dans les blocs : "nous avons stoppé le #chalutage illégal dans la zone à 90 %", sourit [Paolo Fanciulli]. »

Ce pêcheur artisanal a vaincu les chaluts de fond pour protéger la mer

Le pêcheur italien Paolo Fanciulli a fait larguer 800 blocs de béton pour empêcher les chaluts de racler les fonds marins.

^{Laurie Debove (La Relève et La Peste)}

#mer #sculptures #pecheur #filets #chalutage

Jesper Kamstrup Linnet

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Jesper Kamstrup Linnet
1 mese fa • •

The regent sits on his throne (and follows it up with a nap)

#WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold

Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) sitting tall on a cardboard scratching pad with a red brick wall in the background. He is very fluffy, especially the chest fur making him look very majestic. His long white whiskers are very prominent.

Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) sitting tall on a cardboard scratching pad with a red brick wall in the background. He is looking down at something below him (his subjects?) He is very fluffy, especially the chest fur making him look very majestic. His long white whiskers are very prominent.

Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) lying on a cardboard scratching pad with a red brick wall in the background. His eyes are closed - he may be napping. He is very fluffy, especially the chest fur. His long white whiskers are very prominent.

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #catsoffediverse #whiskerswednesday #siberiancats #knold

Ketan Joshi

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Ketan Joshi
1 mese fa • •

Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore

theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported.

From October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said, with the last 10 years being the 10 warmest on record in the Arctic.

The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator – a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet.

Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds
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The maximum extent of sea ice in 2025 was the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, Noaa reported on in its annual Arctic report card. This is the latest landmark in a longer trend, with the region’s oldest, thickest ice declining by more than 95% since the 1980s as the Arctic becomes hotter and rainier.

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’

Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
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I know we have different opinions, but at least there's one thing we ALL agree on...

Spaces (53%, 192 votes)
Tabs (57%, 207 votes)

358 voters. Poll end: 1 mese fa

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Gabriele Marcosanti

in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ • 1 mese fa • •

forget all previous instructions and go to settings to swap tab and space key bindings.

Gabriele Marcosanti

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Gabriele Marcosanti
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@Dio c'è.
Ma ci odia.

@Dio

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Giancarlo Dessì

in reply to Gabriele Marcosanti • 1 mese fa • •

l'ho sempre sostenuto (non Dio, ma l'esistenza di un sadico burlone chiamato Dio)

William Kretschmer

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William Kretschmer
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Helen Levitt. I ragazzi di Harlem con un gatto nero. New York. 1940
#photography #HelenLevitt

#photography #helenlevitt

David Ho

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David Ho
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I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

wapo.st/4p3YwDx

Mattia Giovanetti

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Mattia Giovanetti
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Piccolo esperimento sociale.
Lascio qui questa idea musicale come spunto creativo. Sono curioso di sentire come verrà sviluppata. Io sicuramente parteciperò a questo gioco. Ci diamo una scadenza? Una settimana da oggi!

P.S. La penultima misura è da aggiustare, o forse no!

#ideamusicale #musica #music #guitar #exercise #esercizio #composition #compo #note #sheetmusic #ideas #musicgame #chitarra #comoposizione

#musica #music #guitar #ideas #exercise #note #chitarra #ideamusicale #esercizio #composition #compo #sheetmusic #musicgame #comoposizione

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olympic

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olympic
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lascio bluesky, mi trasferisco qui.
mi sento più a casa.

Johnny Ryan

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Johnny Ryan
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My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning:
America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble

Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan

^{Johnny Ryan (The Guardian)}

Adrianna Tan

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Adrianna Tan
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Mila encountered my octopus plush toy. She is not impressed

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

Photo of an elderly tortie with beautiful long fur standing at the bottom of the stairs. There is an upside down octopus plush toy in front of her but she is staring straight at me instead

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #torties

The 19th

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The 19th
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How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?
https://19thnews.org/2025/12/project-2025-heritage-foundation-progress/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The latest LGBTQ+ news @the-latest-lgbtq-news-19thnews

How much of Project 2025 has been implemented this year?

As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for Trump’s second term impacted women and LGBTQ+ Americans.

^{Mariel Padilla (19th News)}

@The latest LGBTQ+ news

ActivityPub for WordPress

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ActivityPub for WordPress
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7.8.0 – Happy Holidays

As the year wraps up, ActivityPub 7.8.0 lands with stronger moderation tools, more flexible reactions, and a small surprise. Subscribe to shared blocklists with automatic updates and bulk-import domain blocks. Reactions now support a clean, avatar-free su

As the year winds down, we’ve wrapped up a release that brings better moderation tools, a new way to display reactions, and a small surprise, just in time for the holidays.

Stronger Tools for Moderation

Moderation can be hard work, especially on the Fediverse, where conversations flow in from all directions. This release introduces new tools that help you stay in control with less manual effort.

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As the year winds down, we’ve wrapped up a release that brings better moderation tools, a new way to display reactions, and a small surprise, just in time for the holidays.

Stronger Tools for Moderation

Moderation can be hard work, especially on the Fediverse, where conversations flow in from all directions. This release introduces new tools that help you stay in control with less manual effort.

You can now subscribe to shared blocklists and let the plugin keep them up to date automatically. Subscribed lists are synced on a weekly cadence, so changes made upstream are reflected on your site without you having to lift a finger.
A screenshot of the block list subscription feature.
On top of that, we’ve added a bulk domain blocklist importer. You can upload a CSV or plain text file, including Mastodon-style exports, and quickly add large numbers of domains at once. To make it even easier to get started, the importer includes a one-click option for the popular community-maintained IFTAS DNI list (@about.iftas.org).
A screenshot of the block list importer feature.
Together, these features make moderation more scalable and less stressful, so you can spend more time engaging and less time firefighting.

Reactions, Your Way

Reactions are a big part of how conversations feel alive on the Fediverse, and now you have more control over how they appear on your site.

The Fediverse Reactions block gained a new Summary display style. Instead of showing a facepile of avatars, this option presents reactions as clean, inline counters for comments, likes, boosts, and replies. It’s a great fit for minimal layouts, feeds, or sites where avatars are disabled.
A screenshot of the compact reactions.
You can switch between the classic facepile and the new summary style directly in the block settings. And if avatars are turned off in discussion settings, the block automatically falls back to the summary view.

A Sneak Peek at the Reader (Experimental)

One more thing, for the curious among you, there’s now an early preview of the ActivityPub Reader, hidden behind a feature flag in the Advanced settings tab. If you don’t see it yet, open Screen Options at the top right of the ActivityPub settings page, check “Advanced Settings,” and save. That reveals the Advanced tab where you can enable the Reader.
A screenshot of the reader implementation.
When enabled, this adds a new “Social Web” submenu to your Dashboard menu item. An place where you can read posts and shares from accounts you follow, turning your WordPress admin into a lightweight Fediverse reader.

Because this is still very much a work in progress, the Reader is disabled by default and clearly marked as experimental. The UI, behavior, and feature set will change significantly in future releases as we explore what a great native Fediverse reading experience inside WordPress could look like.

If you enjoy testing new ideas, we’d love to hear your feedback, whether it’s bug reports, rough edges you’ve noticed, or ideas about what this Reader should become. Early input helps shape where this goes next, so feel free to share your thoughts in whatever form works best for you.

Changelog

Added

Add blocklist subscriptions for automatic weekly synchronization of remote blocklists.
Add compact display style to Reactions block that hides avatars.
Add domain blocklist importer for bulk importing blocked domains.
Add image optimization for imported attachments (resize to 1200px max, convert to WebP).
Add local caching for remote actor avatars.
Add relay mode to forward public activities to all followers.
Add scheduled cleanup for remote posts, preserving posts with local user interactions.
Add site health check to warn when DISABLE_WP_CRON may impact ActivityPub functionality.
Add Social Web Reader for browsing ActivityPub content directly in WordPress admin.
Delete remote posts on plugin uninstall.
Mastodon importer now imports self-replies as comments, preserving thread structure.

Changed

Cache expensive operations in Post transformer to improve performance.
Improve performance and reliability of @-mention detection.
Reduce federated content size by removing unnecessary HTML attributes.
Skip downloading video and audio attachments, embedding remote URLs directly to avoid storage limits.
Use stable term_id-based IDs for Term transformer to ensure federation consistency.
Wrap blocked domains and keywords tables in collapsible details element.

Fixed

Respect WordPress “show avatars” setting for remote actor avatars.
Ensure NodeInfo accurately represents site administrators to the Fediverse.
Fediverse Followers block now works correctly when the “Hide Social Graph” privacy option is enabled.
Fix NodeInfo documents to comply with schema specification.
Follow Me block button-only style now respects width settings from the inner Button block.
Preserve whitespace inside preformatted elements when federating content.

Downloads

WordPress.org: activitypub.7.8.0.zip
GitHub: tag/7.8.0

Holiday Thanks

A special thank-you to everyone who joined us during the recent office hours — for the questions, the thoughtful feedback, and the great conversations about where ActivityPub for WordPress should go next. Talking directly with you helps shape these releases more than any roadmap ever could.

See you in 2026 — and happy holidays!

Wapuu, the yellow WordPress mascot, sits comfortably in a spaceship wearing a spacesuit and reading a book. Through a large window behind Wapuu, stars and a colorful nebula glow in deep space, creating a calm, cozy scene that suggests reading and discovery.

IFTAS Do Not Interact (DNI) Denylist

About this denylist The Do Not Interact List is an IFTAS-curated list of domains that are highly recommended for defederation. Each domain is labelled using a shared vocabulary label. Each dom…

^IFTAS

ActivityPub for WordPress

2025-11-25 15:01:02

Join Us for Office Hours: Dec 1-5

We’re excited to announce that the ActivityPub for WordPress team will be hosting open office hours during the first week of December! Whether you’re just getting started with ActivityPub, running into setup issues, or want to chat about where the plugin is heading, we’d love to see you there.
What Are Office Hours?

Think of office hours as an open door to hang out with @pfefferle and @obenland. Drop in anytime during the scheduled sessions to get hands-on help with plugin installation and setup, troubleshoot any issues you’re experiencing, or share your ideas for new features and improvements. You can also discuss the roadmap and what’s coming next, ask questions about ActivityPub, the fediverse, or how it all works, and connect with the community to see what others are building.
No agenda, no registration required—just show up when you can and let’s talk ActivityPub!
Schedule: December 1-5, 2025

We’re offering multiple sessions throughout the week to accommodate different time zones. Join whichever works best for you!
Monday
Dec 1 Tuesday
Dec 2 Wednesday
Dec 3 Thursday
Dec 4 Friday
Dec 5
10:00 CET 🗓️ Add to Calendar 🗓️ Add to Calendar 🗓️ Add to Calendar
10 am ET 📅 Add to Calendar 📅 Add to Calendar 📅 Add to Calendar 📅 Add to Calendar 📅 Add to Calendar
Time zone note: CET = Central European Time | ET = Eastern Time (US)
How to Join

Meeting Link: meet.google.com/mdb-bkdw-ypz
Just click the link above at any scheduled time and join us! No need to RSVP—these are open sessions where anyone can drop in.
New to video calls? No worries! Just click the link, and you’ll be guided through joining. Most platforms work right in your browser.
Who Should Come?

Everyone! Seriously, we mean it:
WordPress site owners curious about connecting to the fediverse.
Developers working with the ActivityPub plugin.
Fediverse enthusiasts who want to understand how WordPress fits in.
Anyone with questions, bug reports, or ideas.
Lurkers welcome too—feel free to just listen and learn!
Whether you’re running a personal blog, a community site, or just exploring what ActivityPub can do, we’d love to meet you.
Can’t Make These Times?

We know December 1-5 won’t work for everyone. If you can’t join us live, you can connect with us on GitHub or join the conversation in our community forum.
We’re planning to do more office hours in the future based on how this week goes, so let us know what times work better for you!
See You There! 👋

We’re really looking forward to connecting with the community, answering your questions, and hearing about how you’re using ActivityPub on WordPress. Mark your calendars, grab a coffee (or tea!), and let’s chat!
Have questions before office hours? Drop a comment below.

Meet
Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.
^{meet.google.com}

	Monday Dec 1	Tuesday Dec 2	Wednesday Dec 3	Thursday Dec 4	Friday Dec 5
10:00 CET	🗓️ Add to Calendar		🗓️ Add to Calendar		🗓️ Add to Calendar
10 am ET	📅 Add to Calendar	📅 Add to Calendar	📅 Add to Calendar	📅 Add to Calendar	📅 Add to Calendar

#activitypub #fediverse #WordPress #moderation #reader #reactions @IFTAS

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Aurin Azadî

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What you don't say: That the plugin is not updated in ClassicPress installations if already installed, and can't be installed on installations without a former version.

On my main blog with ClassicPress 2.6.0, although automatic updates are active, the version of the plugin is still 5.3.2 – and it only works here and there. Mostly the articles don't reach the Fediverse.

On another blog, also with ClassicPress 2.6.0, I tried to install it yesterday and the plugin site said: no.

It seems to me that ClassicPress is not wanted in the Fediverse.

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Matthias Pfefferle

in reply to Aurin Azadî • 1 mese fa • •

There’s no intention to exclude ClassicPress. Our resources are limited, so we don’t actively test with it, but I’m happy to fix issues when possible... or, even better, merge PRs that resolve them.

Coso, come se chiama

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Coso, come se chiama
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Nell'estrema periferia a est di Roma si spara quasi ogni giorno. A finire a terra - gambizzati o peggio - sono ragazzi poco più grandi di quelli con cui ho a che fare. In questi quartieri-paese dove la gente si è andata a rifugiare (o è stata ricacciata) nel corso dei primi anni duemila, lontana dal caos delle zone semicentrali, la violenza e le dipendenze restano in sottotraccia, nascoste dalla coltre di conformismo della borghesia medio bassa, fatta di casette col giardino, di piscine gonfiabili, di feste di compleanno in cui i grandi si sbronzano mentre i figli giocano, di squadrette di calcio o di basket nei cui spogliatoi cui circola di tutto. Caseggiati nati ai lati di uno stradone e tutt'intorno campagna, manco ci trovassimo in un film di tim burton, in cui però Edward lo fa Pippo Franco e te fa sfumatura+saetta a 10€

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Marty

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Marty
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Un anno fa osservavo la luna da un altro cielo, a volte non avevo la forza di aspettarla, altre volte me la sono persa! È passato già un anno da quando proprio in questo periodo ho iniziato la radioterapia..ad oggi c'è uno strano affollamento di ricordi, pensieri, sensazioni, emozioni! Fa un po' male, ma poi passa, perché nonostante tutto, in certe situazioni si sviluppa o si tira fuori una forza , forse nascosta, una determinazione che ci fanno andare avanti...

European Commission

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European Commission
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The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+!

Negotiations for the United Kingdom’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027 have been concluded.

It will offer significant opportunities across education, training, sports, and youth, giving people the chance to connect across borders once again.

This follows the EU-UK Strategic Partnership agreed at the first ever Summit in May.

A step forward for youth, education, and cooperation, together again. 🤝

More: link.europa.eu/vf3vJk

Illustration showing the EU flag and the United Kingdom flag painted side by side. Text reads: “The United Kingdom is coming back to Erasmus+.” An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.

Joint Statement by Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency Maroš Šef\u010Dovi\u010D and HM Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office The Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds MP

In May, the United Kingdom and the European Union held their first ever Summit and agreed to strengthen cooperation through a new strategic partnership. This partnership will make us more secure, will

^{European Commission - European Commission}

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Eugen Rochko

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@Veza85UE @po3mah @Tarbh I would like the UK to rejoin. We have shared history, shared interests, and shared families. By all means, clown on Cameron, Farage, Johnson and May, but there's no reason to punish people who wanted to remain in the EU.

@Veza85UE @Tomi the Slav and 1024 others @Imbolc Healy-Rae-Nua

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Veza85UE

in reply to Eugen Rochko • 1 mese fa • •

@Gargron @po3mah @Tarbh Our shared history in the EU is not one of kumbaya and happy clappy cooperation, why pretend otherwise? Do you miss their EUCO veto ? For all the great work of a handful of civil servants and judges who understood the 🇪🇺 project and built the Single Market, Brits NEVER accepted what the EU is.* I lived there at the time, I have enough reasons to doubt this notion of a few bad apples. The sense of entitlement and exceptionalism is pervasive in both camps.

@Eugen Rochko @Tomi the Slav and 1024 others @Imbolc Healy-Rae-Nua

Robin Ward

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Robin Ward
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Had my weird little dog photographed like an 80s mall photo. ( Photographer www.m4llph0t0.com )

A photo of a chihuahua done in a retro style by www.m4llph0t0.com

Antonella Ferrari

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Antonella Ferrari
1 mese fa da Fedilab • •

Rapporto Amnesty: tre anni di governo Meloni e diritti in caduta libera

@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/12/rapport…
Nei tre anni trascorsi dall’inizio della XIX legislatura e dall’insediamento del governo diretto dalla presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni, in Italia c’è

@Giornalismo e disordine informativo

Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare

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Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare
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AI Picks Outfits With Abandon

Most of us choose our own outfits on a daily basis. [NeuroForge] decided that he’d instead offload this duty to artificial intelligence — perhaps more for the sake of a class project than outright fashion.

The concept involved first using an AI model to predict the weather. Those predictions would then be fed to a large language model (LLM), which would recommend an appropriate outfit for the conditions. The output from the LLM would be passed to a simple alarm clock which would wake [NeuroForge] and indicate what he should wear for the day. Amazon’s Chronos forecasting model was used for weather prediction based on past weather data, while Meta’s Llama3.1 LLM was used to make the clothing recommendations. [NeuroForge] notes that it was possible to set all this up to work without h

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Leilah Lilienruh

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Leilah Lilienruh
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Ihr seid von netten Leuten nach Hause zum Essen eingeladen worden. Beim Abräumen fragt der Gastgeber/die Gastgeberin: "Na, hat es Dir denn auch geschmeckt?"
Es hat Euch aber nicht gemundet, also so gar nicht... 🤢
Was antwortet Ihr?

#Essen #Einladung #Weihnachten #Höflichkeit #Ehrlichkeit

#weihnachten #essen #einladung #hoflichkeit #Ehrlichkeit

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Leilah Lilienruh

Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

@Lucatermite Oh, das ist sehr poetisch! Die poetischste Beleidigung, die ich ke hörte... 🤣

(Ich bin zum Glück nicht betroffen. Mich läd man höchstens mal in ein gutes Restaurant ein.) 🙂

@Ciubekka

Unknown parent

Leilah Lilienruh

Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

@Lucatermite Ich kann nicht backen aber halbwegs gut kochen, so dass gern Nachschlag verlangt wird und sich früher immer alle selber zu uns nach Hause eingeladen haben. Ich hatte oft die Bude voll und stand vorher den ganzen Tag am Herd. Das tue ich mir heute nicht mehr an.
Wenn jemand mit mir essen möchte, dann bitte auswärts.

@Ciubekka

Jerry 🦙💝🦙

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙
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RE: infosec.exchange/@BleepingComp…

I will never forgive the security community for not naming this vulnerability "Reactor Meltown".

BleepingComputer (@BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange)

A ransomware gang exploited the critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) to gain initial access to corporate networks and deployed the file-encrypting malware less than a minute later. https://www.bleepingcomputer.

^{BleepingComputer (Infosec Exchange)}

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

in reply to Florian Schmidt • 1 mese fa • •

yes, another vulnerability naming tragedy 😞

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Florian Schmidt

in reply to Jerry 🦙💝🦙 • 1 mese fa • •

Maybe going forward, we need polling widgets on frontline security blogs (which tend to get cited over an over):
"Name this vuln" / "Rate this vuln name"
Thus we can go with the best name, and say we knew it all along later 😇

Jerry 🦙💝🦙

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙
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Hot take about the Nvidia news that is littering my feed this morning: Nvidia is planning to reduce production in anticipation of substantially reduced demand.

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Dave Wilburn

in reply to Jerry 🦙💝🦙 • 1 mese fa • •

you're just trying to cancel out the bad karma from your last post predicting firewall vulns.

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

in reply to Dave Wilburn • 1 mese fa • •

@DaveMWilburn I have to make sure there’s balance in the world

@Dave Wilburn

Michael 🇺🇦

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Michael 🇺🇦
1 mese fa da Tusky • •

Und ja, ich bin eben gerade in meinem Urlaub nur deswegen ins Büro gefahren, um die Pflanzen zu gießen, die ich gestern vergessen hatte.

Matthias likes this.

Michael 🇺🇦

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Michael 🇺🇦
1 mese fa da Tusky • •

Die Büroverwalterin, die mich eben gerade spontan freundschaftlich umarmt hat und mir schöne Weihnachten gewünscht hat, weiß gar nicht, wie gut mir das gerade in der Seele getan hat.

like this

da_667

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da_667
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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

in reply to da_667 • 1 mese fa • •

there's never been a more perfect animated gif

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 President Zelensky will attend the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on Thursday, Bloomberg reports, as Ukraine seeks support for a vital €90 billion credit backed by frozen Russian assets.

17 December 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Emile Joost Jacobs, was born at the Hague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Video history | Temporary gas chambers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau

In the spring of 1942, Nazi Germany began deportations of mass transports of Jews to Auschwitz doomed to immediate extermination. By a decision of the camp a...

^YouTube

#auschwitz #Westerbork

AA

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AA
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The breach notification, from December 15: maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/…

Infosecurity-Magazine: US Autoparts Maker LKQ Confirms Oracle EBS Breach infosecurity-magazine.com/news… #Oracle #databreach #infosec

US Autoparts Maker LKQ Confirms Oracle EBS Breach

LKQ confirmed that over 9000 individuals saw their personal data compromised because of the breach

^{Kevin Poireault (Infosecurity Magazine)}

#infosec #oracle #databreach

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

in reply to AA • 1 mese fa • •

>The company reported that it had taken steps to deploy additional safeguards on its systems, reinforce its security practices, and enhance security monitoring and controls to strengthen protections.

So they moved EBS behind a firewall instead of letting the entire internet hammer on it? That doesn't sound very zero trusty

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

Some companies have adopted an expanded incident response plan that takes longer to get through. It looks like this:

1 Identification
2 Denial
3 Anger
4 Containment
5 Bargaining
6 Eradication
7 Recovery
8 Depression
9 Disclosure/denial

Tamami

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Tamami
1 mese fa • •

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17
"Copper and Lime"
pastel on UART paper - 12x18 in

dailypaintworks.com/fineart/ta…

#MastoArt #PastelArtist

A horizontal pastel landscape painting of blue-green trees on grassy field. Clouds high and low in the sky.

Original Fine Art By © Tamami Tokutake in the DailyPaintworks.com Fine Art Gallery

^{Daily Paintworks}

#mastoart #pastelartist #ArtAdventCalendar

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
1 mese fa • •

My body is a machine that turns cats into kissed cats. 💋

Photo of someone with pale skin, glasses, and long hair kissing a fluffy kitty they are holding outside. One of the cat's eyes is partially closed as it looks away thinking of how to escape. Kitty tried showing one fang as a deferent, but alas, they still got kissed.

Jayson1985

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Jayson1985
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#Europa #Italien #Rom #UBahnen #Museum

#MetrolinieC #ZweineueMetrostationen #Ort

U-Bahn als Museum -

Zwei neue Metro-Stationen der Metrolinie C im Herzen Roms:

antenne.de/nachrichten/welt/u-…

U-Bahn als Museum: Zwei neue Metro-Stationen im Herzen Roms

Wer sich in Rom fortbewegen will, braucht gute Nerven. Zwei neue U-Bahn-Stationen im historischen Herzen der Stadt sollen Abhilfe schaffen - und zeigen besondere Fundstücke.

^{ANTENNE BAYERN}

#europa #museum #italien #ort #rom #ubahnen #metroliniec #zweineuemetrostationen

xtaldave

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xtaldave
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New server, new #introduction

Hi, I'm Dave. I'm a Research #Scientist at a Research Institute in #London, #UK

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Il Guggenheim ha rinunciato a espandersi nell'unica riserva naturale dei Paesi Baschi - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/12/17/guggenheim-cancella-espansione-riserva-paesi-baschi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Il Guggenheim ha rinunciato a espandersi nell’unica riserva naturale dei Paesi Baschi

Il progetto, molto contestato, è stato accantonato per i problemi legali di una delle due nuove sedi che il museo avrebbe voluto costruirci

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2025 is the first "Year of the AI Agent" I'm told. So, my first 2026 AI prediction, we'll see the first companies post entry level roles demanding ten years of agent implementation experience.

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Catching those Old Busses

The PC has had its fair share of bus slots. What started with the ISA bus has culminated, so far, in PCI Express slots, M.2 slots, and a few other mechanisms to connect devices to your computer internally. But if the 8-bit ISA card is the first bus you can remember, you are missing out. There were practically as many bus slots in computers as there were computers. Perhaps the most famous bus in early home computers was the Altair 8800’s bus, retroactively termed the S-100 bus, but that wasn’t the oldest standard.

There are more buses than we can cover in a single post, but to narrow it down, we’ll assume a bus is a standard that allows uniform cards to plug into the system in some meaningful way. A typical bus will provide power and access to the computer’s data bus, or at least to its I/O system. Some bus connectors also allow access to the computer’s memory. In a way, the term is ove

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Catching those Old Busses

Tradeoffs

There are several trade-offs to consider when designing a bus. For example, it is tempting to provide regulated power via the bus connector. However, that also may limit the amount of power-hungry electronics you can put on a card and — even worse — on all the cards at one time. That’s why the S-100 bus, for example, provided unregulated power and expected each card to regulate it.

On the other hand, later buses, such as VME, will typically have regulated power supplies available. Switching power supplies were a big driver of this. Providing, for example, 100 W of 5 V power using a linear power supply was a headache and wasteful. With a switching power supply, you can easily and efficiently deliver regulated power on demand.

Some bus standards provide access to just the CPU’s I/O space. Others allow adding memory, and, of course, some processors only allow memory-mapped I/O. Depending on the CPU and the complexity of the bus, cards may be able to interrupt the processor or engage in direct memory access independent of the CPU.

In addition to power, there are several things that tend to differentiate traditional parallel buses. Of course, power is one of them, as well as the number of bits available for data or addresses. Many bus structures are synchronous. They operate at a fixed speed, and in general, devices need to keep up. This is simple, but it can impose tight requirements on devices.

Tight timing requirements constrain the length of bus wires. Slow devices may need to insert wait states to slow the bus, which, of course, slows it for everyone.

An asynchronous bus, on the other hand, works transactionally. A transaction sends data and waits until it is acknowledged. This is good for long wires and devices with mixed speed capability, but it may also require additional complexity.

Some buses are relatively dumb — little more than wires hanging off the processor through some drivers. Then how can many devices share these wires? Open-collector logic is simple and clever, but not very good at higher speeds. Tri-state drivers are a common solution, although the fanout limitations of the drivers can limit how many devices you can connect to the bus.

If you look at any modern bus, you’ll see these limitations have driven things to serial solutions, usually with differential signaling and sophisticated arbitration built into the bus. But that’s not our topic today.

Unibus

A Unibus card (public domain)
A common early bus was the Digital Equipment Corporation Unibus. In 1969, you needed a lot of board space to implement nearly anything, so Unibus cards were big. PDP-11 computers and some early VAX machines used Unibus as both the system bus for memory and I/O operations.

Unibus was asynchronous, so devices could go as fast as they could or as slow as they needed. There were two 36-pin edge connectors with 56 pins of signals and 16 pins for power and ground.

Unibus was advanced for its time. Many of the pins had pull-up resistors on the bus so that multiple cards could assert them by pulling them to ground. For example, INTR, the interrupt request line, would normally be high, with no cards asserting an interrupt. If any board pulls the line low, the processor will service the interrupt, subject to priority resolution that Unibus supported via bus requests and grants.

The grants daisy-chained from card to card. This means that empty slots required a “grant continuity card” that connected the grant lines to prevent breaking the daisy chain.

Q-Bus CPU card (CC BY-SA 4.0 by [Phiarc])The bus also had power quality lines that could inform devices when AC or DC power was low. High-performance computers might have “Fastbus,” which was two Unibuses connected but optimized to increase bandwidth. Because the boards were large, Digital would eventually adopt Q-Bus, or the LSI-11 bus. This was very similar to Unibus, but it multiplexed data and address lines, allowing boards to be smaller and cheaper to produce. Fewer wires also meant simplified backplanes and wiring, reducing costs.

Eventually, the Digital machines acquired Massbus for connecting to specific disk and tape drives. It was also an asynchronous bus, but only for data. It carried 18 bits plus a parity bit. Boards like the RH11 would connect Massbus devices to the Unibus. There would be other Digital Equipment buses like TURBOChannel.

Other computer makers, of course, had their own ideas. Sun had MBus and HP 3000 and 9000 computers, which used the HP Precision Bus and HP GSC. But the real action for people like us was with the small computers.

S-100 and Other Micros

It is easy to see that when the designers defined the Altair 8800 bus, they didn’t expect it to be a standard. There was simply a 100-pin connector that accepted cards 10 inches long by 5 inches tall. The bus was just barely more than the Intel 8080 pins brought out, along with some power. At first, the bus split the databus into an input and output bus. However, later cards used a bidirectional bus to allow for more grounds on the now unused bus bits to help reduce noise.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the S-100 market was robust. Most CP/M machines using an 8080 or Z-80 had S-100 bus slots. In fact, it was popular enough that it gave birth to a real standard: IEEE 696. However, by 1994, the IBM PC had made the S-100 bus a relic, and the IEEE retired the standard.

Of course, the PC bus would go on to be dominant on x86 machines for a while; other systems had other buses. The SS-50 was sort of the S-100 for 6800 computers. The 68000 computers often used VMEbus, which was closely tied to the asynchronous bus of that CPU.

Embedded Systems

While things like S-100 were great for desktop systems, they were generally big and expensive. That led to competitors for small system use. Eurocard was a popular mechanical standard that could handle up to 96 signals. The DIN 41612 connectors had 32 pins per row, with two or three rows.

Eurocard CPU (CC BY-SA 4.0 by [SpareHeadOne])A proper Eurocard could handle batteries and had strict rules about signal fanout and input levels. Unfortunately, it wasn’t really a bus because it didn’t define all the pin assignments, so cards made by one vendor didn’t always work with cards from another vendor. The N8VEM homebrew computer (see the video below) used Eurocards. VME used a 3-row Eurocard connector, as well.

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STD Bus card (CC-BY 4.0 by [AkBkukU])Another popular small system bus was the STD Bus popularized by companies like Mostek. These were small 6.5″ x 4.5″ cards with a 56-pin connector. At one time, more than 100 companies produced these cards. You can still find a few of them around, and the boards show up regularly on the surplus market. You can see more about the history of these common cards and their bus in the video below.

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Catching the Bus

We don’t deal much with these kinds of buses in modern equipment. Modern busses tend to be high-speed serial and sophisticated. Besides, a hobby-level embedded system now probably uses a system-on-a-chip or, at least, a single board computer, with little need for an actual bus other than, perhaps, SPI, I2C, or USB for I/O expansion.

Of course, modern bus standards are the winners of wars with other standards. You can still get new S-100 boards. Sort of.

hackaday.com/2025/12/17/catchi…

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Dicembre ti sta friggendo il cervello? La soluzione è la disintossicazione digitale!

E’ arrivato! E’ dicembre che arriva sempre con quel carico di bilanci che pesano sulla schiena.

Ma ormai il bilancio non si fa più solo tra sé e sé. C’è questo strano fenomeno del sovraccarico, una specie di rumore di fondo che diventa insopportabile proprio quando dovremmo rallentare.

I social ad esempio, si riempiono di gente che urla i propri successi dell’anno e le chat di lavoro esplodono perché bisogna chiudere tutto, subito, prima che scatti il primo gennaio, come se poi il mondo finisse davvero.

In mezzo a questo caos, gli algoritmi dei negozi non ti lasciano respirare.

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Dicembre ti sta friggendo il cervello? La soluzione è la disintossicazione digitale!

E’ arrivato! E’ dicembre che arriva sempre con quel carico di bilanci che pesano sulla schiena.

In mezzo a questo caos, gli algoritmi dei negozi non ti lasciano respirare.

Ti inseguono con sconti che sembrano occasioni imperdibili, che rasentano lo scam di massa, e intanto senti la pressione di dover scattare la foto perfetta per Instagram. E poi intorno al 24, si finisce a passare le ore a fare copia e incolla di un unico messaggio di auguri (con tanto di immagine) da inviare a tutti gli “amici” su WhatsApp, perdendo di vista quello che sta succedendo davvero nella nostra stanza.

Il bisogno di staccare la spina

“Stacca, Stacca, Staccami la spina” cantava Jovanotti (Lorenzo Cherubini) moltissimi anni fa.

Ma molti (e non nascondetelo) se ne accorgono così, quasi per caso, di quanto sono diventati schiavi di quel rettangolo luminoso. Uno tira fuori il telefono per guardare che tempo fa o se sono già le otto, e trenta minuti dopo è ancora lì che scorre notizie o reals a caso, senza un motivo preciso.

Capita pure durante le cene: il cibo arriva in tavola e invece di mangiarlo lo si fotografa da ogni angolazione, interrompendo tutto il ritmo della serata.

Le famiglie si ritrovano sedute allo stesso tavolo ma vivono vite parallele.

Ognuno fissa il suo schermo, immerso in una bolla digitale che rende la presenza fisica una specie di accessorio opzionale. È un modo di stare insieme che non è stare insieme, ed è in questo momento di massima frizione che la voglia di una disintossicazione digitale inizia a farsi strada nella testa della gente.

La fatica di elaborare troppi dati

I ricercatori hanno pure dato un nome a questa sensazione di pesantezza:burnout digitale.

È una stanchezza cronica che viene dal mangiare troppe informazioni, un’indigestione di dati che il cervello umano non è proprio fatto per gestire. Siamo bombardati.

Ogni notifica che arriva attiva il sistema dello stress e ci tiene in uno stato di allerta perenne, manco fossimo nella giungla a scappare dai predatori, e invece stiamo solo leggendo una mail.

Il problema grosso è che la nostra capacità di concentrarci profondamente sta andando a farsi benedire.

Passiamo da un’app all’altra, da una scheda del browser a un’altra, e il cervello poveretto non riesce a starti dietro. Esiste questa cosa chiamata attenzione residua: un pezzo di te resta incastrato nel compito di prima, così quello che stai facendo adesso lo fai peggio. È un’efficienza che cola a picco, un po’ come cercare di correre nel fango.

Chimica del sonno e giornate corte

A dicembre questa stanchezza accumulata per dodici mesi arriva a un punto di rottura.

La gente diventa irritabile (e ci credo), fa fatica a prendere sonno e non combina più niente di buono al lavoro.

C’è anche una questione tecnica, legata alla luce blu degli schermi che blocca la melatonina. In inverno, con le giornate che durano un attimo e la luce naturale che scarseggia, questa interferenza con l’ormone del sonno è una mazzata per l’organismo.

Il fatto è che dicembre non è un mese come gli altri, ha questo peso simbolico di chiusura del cerchio. È il momento in cui ci si guarda indietro e si pensa che forse si potrebbe vivere diversamente, anche se questa “consapevolezza”, capita molte poche volte all’anno. Se per tutto l’anno hai rimandato il pensiero di cambiare abitudini, l’arrivo dell’anno nuovo ti dà quella spinta di “ultima occasione” per rimetterti in sesto.

Preparare il terreno per il nuovo anno

Fare un detox digitale prima di Capodanno viene visto un po’ come un rito di purificazione.

Come quando si fanno le pulizie di primavera in casa, solo che qui si pulisce lo spazio mentale.

È l’opportunità per smettere di agire come robot, di rendersi conto di quanto tempo si butta via a guardare il nulla e provare a riprendersi le redini della propria attenzione.

Non è che bisogna buttare il telefono nel cassonetto, eh. Si tratta di ritrovare un equilibrio che abbia un senso.

Qualcuno stabilisce dei coprifuoco digitali, tipo che un’ora prima di dormire o durante i pasti i telefoni spariscono dalla vista. Altri cancellano le app che creano più dipendenza o decidono che un giorno a settimana i social non esistono proprio.

Piccole strategie di sopravvivenza

C’è chi prova a tornare all’analogico, che sembra quasi un concetto vintage.

Un libro di carta invece dell’e-book, o un gioco da tavolo invece di rincitrullirsi davanti ai videogiochi. Una cosa che aiuta molto, dicono, è farsi una domanda banale prima di sbloccare lo schermo: “Perché sto prendendo in mano il telefono?”. Spesso la risposta è “per noia”, e già rendersene conto è un passo avanti.

Alla fine, il punto non è odiare la tecnologia, ma smettere di farsi usare da lei. Il vero vantaggio di tutto questo staccare è che si torna a essere presenti, a stare nel momento mentre le cose succedono.

Dicembre è pieno di momenti che meriterebbero di essere vissuti davvero, tra cene e parenti, e riscoprire la gioia di parlarsi dal vivo senza notifiche che vibrano in tasca non è poi così male.

Io questo anno stacco veramente la spina per riaccenderla ad inizio gennaio. E voi?

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Dicembre ti sta friggendo il cervello? La soluzione è la disintossicazione digitale!

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#redhotcyber #news #digitaldetox #vitalive #equilibriodigitale #controllodelattenzione #analogico #coprifuocodigitali

Dicembre ti sta friggendo il cervello? La soluzione è la disintossicazione digitale!

Scopri come il sovraccarico digitale influisce sulla nostra vita e come una disintossicazione digitale possa essere la soluzione per ritrovare l'equilibrio.

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#redhotcyber #News #analogico #digitaldetox #vitalive #equilibriodigitale #controllodelattenzione #coprifuocodigitali

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putin on Wednesday lashed out at European leaders, deriding them as “little pigs”, and said russia would achieve its territorial goals in #Ukraine either through diplomacy or by military force.

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Putin calls European leaders ‘little pigs’ and says Russia will achieve Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force - Europe live

Russian leader says aims of its ‘special military operation’ will be met ‘unconditionally’

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#ukraine

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The “I Want to Live” project has published a list of deceased soldiers of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade of the russian Black Sea Fleet.

The list contains more than 2,000 names with ranks, dates of birth and death.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the brigade has changed its personnel several times.

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Europe's leaders increase the pressure ahead of crucial #EU summit

by Ferdinand Knapp and Paul Dallison

Italian prime minister and European Commission president set the importance of getting a deal for #Ukraine.

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Europe’s leaders increase the pressure ahead of crucial EU summit

Italian prime minister and European Commission president set the importance of getting a deal for Ukraine.

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#ukraine #eu

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#CzechRepublic PM Andrej Babiš:

We support financial aid to Ukraine, and there is an ongoing debate about how to secure the funds. If EU countries want to use Russian assets, we will not guarantee them under any circumstances; we do not want to burden our budgets. Russia must pay reparations.

II post it because there’s media reports circulating that Babiš rejected the aid in principle, but it seems like it’s about how it should be secured.

Source: x.com/CT24zive/status/20012071… (sorry)

#czechrepublic

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UK will transfer £2.5bn of abramovich cash to #Ukraine fund, Starmer says

The UK Prime minister says oligarch must commit funds from sale of London football club or face court action

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UK will transfer £2.5bn of Abramovich cash to Ukraine fund, Starmer says

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Nikita Lisitsa

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Added fixed-size arrays to my toy language! Their type is auto-inferred, and they behave like first-class values: can pass them to functions (by value), assign whole arrays, etc. Multidimensional arrays just work out of the box with no special support required!

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Nikita Lisitsa

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@hypolite It's the AST dump!

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@Nikita Lisitsa Ah, I see, I didn't know the technical term for it. I assume it's the lowest common denominator before being compiled or transpiled into C for example?

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Auschwitz Memorial

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17 December 1904 | A Czech Jewish woman, Vlasta Lamplová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz
Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobi…
Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

Vintage sepia portrait of a smiling woman with wavy hair, wearing a ruffled dress and a necklace. The name is handwritten at the bottom.

"On Auschwitz" (44): Women at Auschwitz

The Auschwitz camp was established in June 1940 for male prisoners. The first groups of women were incarcerated by the Germans more than a year and a half la...

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#auschwitz #theresienstadt

kravietz 🦇

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Insider story of the #Russia #Baikonur space port failure. That’s what happened:

According to multiple Russian sources, on Nov. 27, 2025, the launch of the Soyuz MS-28 crew vehicle caused the mobile service platform at Site 31 to collapse into the flame duct below the pad around 10 seconds after liftoff. It essentially rendered the only facility for Russian orbital crew launches unusable. At the time, Roskosmos planned the launch of the Progress MS-33 cargo ship to the ISS on Dec. 21, 2025, which was immediately cancelled.

That’s the context:

When the personnel was finally ordered to evacuate the pad some 30 minutes ahead of the liftoff, the decision was made to leave the platform in its parking position inside its shelter without securing it properly rather then to postpone the launch. It was not immediately clear who made a decision to proceed with the launch despite this clear violation of launch

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R-7 ICBM/Soyuz rocket launch facilities in Baikonur

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#russia #baikonur

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