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Kraftig personaltillväxt inom polisen. Sen 2017 har regeringens anslag till Polismyndigheten ökat med 80 procent. Personalstyrkan har vuxit kraftigt. Andelen grova brott som klaras upp har dock inte förändrats.

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Good things are happening in the fediverses! What's on your list?


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Regeringen vill undersöka invandrares inställning i ett natal värderingsfrågor. Många vänstermänniskor har reagerat mot detta och hävdar att det är åsiktsregistreringt. Vilkte förstås är dumheter. En anonymiserad undersökning av åsikter och värderingar är självklart ingen åsiktsregistrering.

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in reply to Neurologist

I'm mostly a "wikipedia reader" type of person, so I don't have good pop sci sources to recommend... Sorry!

in reply to XeroxCool

Any apps that are recommended? (My wife has been interested in spotting the recent comet)
in reply to Corkyskog

I like the UI of Aurora (purple teal logo). I don't remember why, but I paid for Pro. I also have alerts on my phone from the site aurora-alerts.uk/ There's of course the NOAA website but the UI isn't as smooth or I just don't know what I'm doing. Aurora has a nice prediction map that's updated every few minutes. Aurora-alerts/Glendale has good alerts when it detects storm bursts. On 10/10, it alerted me ~20 minutes prior to each of the 3 bursts.

Honorable mention to Aurora Notifier (black green logo). It's map isn't as helpful as Aurora, but it incorporates usergsubmitted settings by location. When Europe has a ton of green dots, I know the activity is at least producing aurora





Good things are happening in the fediverses! What's on your list?


in reply to The Nexus of Privacy

My Harry Potter instance is doing okay, so yeah ... Harry Potter fandom is slowly growing in the Fediverse. A thing that a year ago I thought wouldn't be possible in the Fediverse. Seems really like there is enough room in the Fediverse to let different communities co-exists along with each other even if they don't agree on many things
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in reply to blue_berry

Interesting, my first reaction is that I also wouldn't have expected it but as you say there's a lot of room in the Fediverse. In Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss, Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing talk about the Fediverse as "a site for online agonistic pluralism", and this is a good example - radically different views coexisting.
in reply to The Nexus of Privacy

The article goes in a direction I like: plurality and to allow different communities to develop alongside each other is great. However, I still think we should push for establishing universal human rights. I'm not a fan of moral realitivism. I think every community should be able to get onto the Fediverse, but we don't need to applaud every community to do so, and can also take actions against communities that do bad things (e.g. by defederating).

I would recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graber and David Wengrow, which shows how humans managed to live in different forms of community already throughout history. Maybe in the Fediverse, this could become more easy on the internet, too.

in reply to blue_berry

That's really good news - we need more topic specific instances.


65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21482121

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By Feroze Sidhwa

Dr. Sidhwa is a trauma and general surgeon who worked at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, for two weeks in March and April.
Oct. 9, 2024

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in reply to Peter Link

I just don't understand why Biden hasn't stopped the transfer of military equipment. Everyone, even the coldest psychopath, has a cost-benefit analysis to guide their decisions. I can't see any political, geopolitical or whatever benefit the USA may be getting from this. There must be something else going on that is not public.


AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default


A change queued up last week by AMDGPU driver maintainer Alex Deucher will now default to the fullscreen 3D workload profile for discrete GPUs. AMD APUs with integrated graphics will continue to use the default "bootup" power profile but discrete graphics cards will be running in the "fullscreen 3D" power profile by default.

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in reply to captainkangaroo

I wonder how much this will affect the power usage during boot on my laptop with its integrated AMDGPU. Granted, boot time is fairly short so hopefully this won’t really matter.
in reply to petey

It specifically says the change only applies to dedicated GPUs, not integrated ones.
in reply to Possibly linux

Okay, but the commenter said "my laptop with jts integrated GPU". Obviously, laptops with a dedicated AMD GPU would be affected by this change.







China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws


in reply to Arthur Besse

I mean it was the NSA that sat on eternal blue for something like 10 years.

And just seeing the defaults on Active Directory would make anyone believe they pay Microsoft to keep windows insecure.

Can't wait to run NSA SElinux on a Chinese OEM RISC-V machine in the future.

Double the security

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Or maybe double the backdoors lmao



China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws


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in reply to Arthur Besse

We need widespread adoption and innovation in OPEN ARCHITECTURES like RISC-V. Anything else is just citizens and companies being used as pawns to do the dirty work for rivaling nation states that spy on and stifle the liberties of their own citizens.

The US government has most likely hidden a back door in Intel chips and China has most likely hidden a back door into ARM, ESP8266, ESP32, and other chipsets. No one can ever prove this conclusively without violating NDA’s because these are closed architectures.

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in reply to demesisx

What is stopping a CPU manufacturer from close-sourcing part/most of their CPU built on RISC-V. Even if the CPU is fully open, backdoors can be hidden in plain sight with clever design. And beyond the CPU, other components in our PC will remain closed. A new ISA isnt going to fix the systematic problems of capitalism or facism, where the corporations can exist and act without really feeling with any consequences. We must find a way to hold them accountable.
in reply to tetris11

95% likely China could use them as a DDOS attack vector someday. They’re ubiquitous. Espressif Systems is a Chinese company based in Shanghai.
in reply to demesisx

I keep mine only attached to ad-hoc networks with no outside signal, but there's literally no saying whether it has its own modem

Given the measurable power output, I'd think not, but who's to say what it does when connected to stable power node after X hours.

in reply to Arthur Besse

The CSAC also accused Intel of embedding a backdoor “in almost all” of its CPUs since 2008

Hmmm They couldn't be referring to the extensively researched, reverse-engineered, and years-documented Intel Management Engine, could they?

CSAC is only just now coming across this information? Better late than never, I guess.

Edit: Having now finished the article, yes they are.

in reply to Aatube

Probably just posturing in preparation for trade war escalation or threats around banning Intel chips now that they're ready to take on those markets. ft.com/content/5511d73a-1ada-4…
in reply to leftytighty

You do realize virtually none of this development in isolationism was around in 2008?
in reply to Aatube

I don't understand what you mean. I'm suggesting that China could be making a big deal of old news now that they are offering a viable alternative to Intel chips. Possibly to drum up more business globally, or to have an excuse to ban Intel chips domestically.

It could also be to make that threat in the face of increasing trade war escalation from the United States, as a sort of "watch what you're doing" warning.

in reply to leftytighty

^ Exactly this. First thing I thought because it's so obvious.
in reply to Aatube

this is absolutely the information that needs to be at the top… old news, we know about it, calling it a back door is kinda disingenuous clickbait (or in this case, diplomacy bait?)
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in reply to return2ozma

You sure these kids aren't just getting hit in the head by bullets?
in reply to SpaceNoodle

They tripped on bullets that were peacefully commuting to work at 4000 km/h
in reply to return2ozma

"Children in Gaza are being humanely neutralized to prevent them from being affected by the terrorist acts committed by Hamas"

Added a bit of BBC flair for you




Manyfold joins the Fediverse


Manyfold is a 3D model (mainly for 3D printing) sharing software.


🥳 Manyfold v0.82.0 is out, with two BIG features!

First up, we're joining the #Fediverse proper - you can follow public Manyfold creators on other ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon!

And secondly, Manyfold will now index PDF, TXT and video content as well as models and images!

🗞️ Full release notes: manyfold.app/news/2024/10/13/r…

❤️ Support us on OpenCollective: opencollective.com/manyfold

🏷️ #3DPrinting @3dprinting #SelfHosted


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in reply to poVoq

Damn, just recently I started working on something similar.
in reply to Rikudou_Sage

Why not join efforts then?

I think Manyfold could be adapted to be a bit more generic for things like game art or render movie assets sharing as well.