Polish government adopts resolution protecting Netanyahu from arrest if he attends Auschwitz event
Polish government adopts resolution protecting Netanyahu from arrest if he attends Auschwitz event
The Polish government has adopted a resolution vowing to ensure the free and safe participation of Israeli leaders who choose to attend commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau later this month.VANESSA GERA (AP News)
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Auschwitz is the German version of the name of Polish town Oświęcim where the camp is located. Poles and many other people too specifically says "Oświęcim" when it's about town and "Auschwitz" when it's about camp, to signify who's responsible for the camp.
Also fun fact, the Polish name means "we will sanctify" in archaic Polish
Specifically, the opposition party Diet Apartheid said they would arrest Putin to appease the 
South Africa of course warned Putin not to arrive in Johannesburg for the BRICS summit due to potential security risks from compradors and threats of much more punitive sanctions than before.
Given they have a massive install base on PopOS GNOME that they've targeted for use friendliness, I think they're going to plan for an in place upgrade.
Pure speculation though
Pro-ISIS Accounts Surge on Meta After Assad’s Ouster
Pro-ISIS Accounts Surge on Meta After Assad’s Ouster
Following years of aggressive content removal, Meta’s platforms now host a growing wave of ISIS-linked posts in the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow.Robert Inlakesh (MintPress News)
Stealing passwords and PINs entered by Apple Vision Pro users
GAZEploit: Remote Keystroke Inference Attack by Gaze Estimation from Avatar Views in VR/MR Devices
The advent and growing popularity of Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions have revolutionized the way we interact with digital platforms.arXiv.org
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The Kenneth fire is burning in the west San Fernando Valley near Hidden Hills, Woodland Hills and West Hills.
Kenneth fire: Evacuation orders, shelters
The Kenneth fire is burning in the west San Fernando Valley near Hidden Hills, Woodland Hills and West Hills. It is burning near a trailhead at Victory Boulevard near the L.A.-Ventura County border.Richard Winton (Los Angeles Times)
China plans to build ‘Three Gorges dam in space’ to harness solar power
China plans to build ‘Three Gorges dam in space’ to harness solar power
Chinese rocket scientist reveals blueprint for ‘incredible project’ to build solar power station in space using super heavy rockets.Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
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Feasibility study of 35 GHz microwave power transmission in space - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
This paper is a study of the feasibility of a 35-GHz microwave power transmission system in space. It was found that a dc to dc transmission efficiency better than 50 percent can be achieved over a distance of 50 km by using a transmitting antenna of…ntrs.nasa.gov
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions on Space-Based Solar Power
ESA PROGRAMMATIC What is SOLARIS?SOLARIS is proposed as a preparatory technology development and maturation programme to advance key aspects of the concept of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) plants.www.esa.int
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Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server,
Wouldn't it be helpful to state that you can also sign up at an existing instance? Or is that less encouraged for friendica? I suppose being so personal that would make sense.
Most software developers aren't interested in being website admins for every Tom, Dick, and Harry. They're building the software for other people to host websites, not to run a social networking site for you.
It's not like the phpBB devs are hosting random car enthusiast websites.
The software might be, but what makes a social network is the network effect, and the biggest public english friendica server has a few hundred users.
I had an account in like 2016, but it got deleted after a few months due to inactivity..
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The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.
The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).
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I know. But that is one of the bigger servers, and there aren't that many at the moment. I think a facebook-style friend-based social network is going to struggle to boot-strap itself into a reasonable network density, at least in the foreseeable future. I don't know what it would take to get non-techy pleb users to leave Facebook en masse.
Generals interest networks like Lemmy and mastodon have a much easier time getting started.
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if you're capable and have a server, i recommend spinning up pixelfed and friendica instances for your parents and families. they're probably the simplest fediverse apps to install too.
it's one thing for you to move, it's another thing to be able to get your parents and family to move over.
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so uh ... I've been sorta contemplating preinastalled hardware. Think a mini pc you plug into your router. Or even a minipc that replaces your router and has a clean UI for picking a handful of curated self-hosted stuff you want.
You could buy the hardware as a simple jumping off point to learn more or (and here is where I am not sure if there's a market) you could pay me (or other sysadmins like me) to support it.
What if self-hosted stuff worked a bit like your HVAC,. electrical or plumbing?
Second that. I consider myself an experienced user by general standards, but I still have certain issues wrapping my head around Docker/Podman.
We cannot expect everyday users to use containers with ease.
If you want to host your own instance, there are also managed hosting offers for Friendica, e.g. by Weingärtner-IT (from 4€/month) or Spacehost (20€).
To get to know Friendica, however, I would recommend simply creating an account and testing it out, first.
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The general concept of Facebook I think is fine
I don't have any problem with the idea of a website where you can go to share things with your friends, family, coworkers, etc.
For me, the biggest problem is that there's way too many opportunities for you to interact with people you don't have any real connection to.
Unless you have mutual friends, you shouldn't see anything someone else is posting, sharing, liking, or commenting on. The only thing you should see from them is a name, profile picture, and a short bio when you search for them.
There shouldn't be public pages for businesses, celebrities, etc. Everything you see on Facebook should be there because someone you actually know thought that it should be shared with their friends.
And if, for some reason there must be public pages, then you should only see what your friends are commenting on those pages, not complete strangers.
There shouldn't be public groups that just anyone can join. Groups should be limited to people you're actually connected to in some way. Not that you necessarily need to be friends directly, but you should be able to trace a clear line of mutual friends connecting any two people in the group together. There shouldn't be a public "we love bowling" (for example) group that anyone can join, but if you started a bowling league and wanted to start a group for it, you might start with Jeff, Walter, and Donny who all know each other, then Jeff adds his friend Smoky who also wants to join, and then Smoky adds his friend Liam who adds his friend Jesús, etc. Jeff may not be directly friends with Jesús, but they're connected by actual people so they can be in the same group. And Jesús and Jeff wouldn't get to see anything each other do outside of that group because they're not friends and don't even have any immediate mutual friends. Their entire relationship is through the bowling league.
Want to talk to, follow, and share things with strangers? Go join a forum, get on Lemmy/reddit, use Twitter, start a blog, publish a book, send an op ed into the local newspaper, etc. That's what those platforms are for. Facebook is for talking to people you know.
Friendica and other Facebook like platforms don't really solve those problems, but since they're smaller and less businesses and such are on them it kind of feels like they do.
That's my 2¢ on the matter anyway.
...users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to Google+, Google Buzz, WordPress, Tumblr, GNU-social, and Libertree.
Well, that's a hell of a pitch. I hope the codebase gets updated more frequently than the blurb.
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Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
An alleged leader in Japan’s Yakuza pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of attempting to traffic nuclear material sourced from war-ravaged Myanmar with the understanding that Iran would use it for a nuclear weapon.
Ebisawa was caught in a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Prosecutors say he boasted to one of the DEA’s sources and the source’s associate, who posed as an Iranian general, that he had access to uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, alongside drugs, from Myanmar.
In 2020, Ebisawa sent the DEA source a series of photographs depicting rocky substances with Geiger counters measuring radiation, as well as pages of what Ebisawa represented to be lab analyses indicating the presence of thorium and uranium in the substances. He continued communicating with the DEA sources in 2021 and 2022.
During the sting operation, including undercover agents, Thai authorities assisted US investigators in seizing two powdery yellow substances that the defendant described as "yellowcake".
The Department of Justice said a US laboratory determined that the isotope composition of the plutonium found in the samples was in fact weapons-grade, “meaning that the plutonium, if produced in sufficient quantities, would be suitable for use in a nuclear weapon”.
Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
An alleged leader in Japan’s Yakuza pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of attempting to traffic nuclear material sourced from war-ravaged Myanmar with the understanding that Iran would use it for a nuclear weapon.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
You are right. I asked Venice AI and that's what it printed back:
Weapon-grade plutonium refers to plutonium that is highly enriched in the isotope plutonium-239 (Pu-239), which is suitable for use in nuclear weapons. It typically contains more than 90% Pu-239, with the remaining percentage consisting of other plutonium isotopes, such as Pu-240 and Pu-241.Plutonium is not typically found in its pure form in nature and is usually produced through a process involving uranium. The production of weapon-grade plutonium involves several steps:
- Mining: Uranium ore is extracted from mines.
- Milling: The uranium ore is processed into a concentrated form called yellowcake (U3O8).
- Enrichment: The yellowcake is then converted into uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6) and enriched to increase the concentration of the U-235 isotope, which can undergo a chain reaction.
- Irradiation: The enriched uranium (typically around 3-5% U-235) is formed into fuel rods and irradiated in a nuclear reactor, where it undergoes neutron-induced reactions.
- Transmutation: During irradiation, some of the U-238 atoms absorb neutrons and undergo a series of radioactive decays, resulting in the formation of Pu-239.
- Reprocessing: After irradiation, the fuel rods are removed from the reactor and reprocessed to separate the plutonium from other radioactive materials.
The resulting plutonium can be further purified and separated into different isotopes using various chemical and physical processes, including solvent extraction, ion exchange, or electromagnetic separation.The production of weapon-grade plutonium requires careful control over the neutron flux and irradiation time to minimize the formation of unwanted isotopes like Pu-240, which can make it more difficult to achieve a nuclear explosion.
It's worth noting that not all plutonium produced through this process has weapons-grade purity. Reactor-grade plutonium, for example, typically contains around 50-60% Pu-239 and is not suitable for use in nuclear weapons due to its higher content of unwanted isotopes.
So someone somehow likely obtained a noticeable amount of already enriched plutonium to sell to this yakuza guy.
New quantum sensing technology reveals sub-atomic signals
New quantum sensing technology reveals sub-atomic signals
Since the 1950s, scientists have used radio waves to uncover the molecular "fingerprints" of unknown materials, aiding in tasks as varied as scanning the human body with MRI machines and detecting explosives at airports.Ian Scheffler (Phys.org)
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World's largest pumped storage power plant fully operational in China
World's largest pumped storage power plant fully operational in China - Energy Storage
The plant features 12 reversible pump-turbine units, each with a capacity of 300 MW, including two variable-speed units, bringing the total installed capacity to 3.6 GW.Marija Maisch (Energy Storage)
Georgia QB Carson Beck expected to enter transfer portal
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck is expected to enter the transfer portal, multiple sources tell On3. He has one year of eligibility remaining.
Cam Newton warns Jason Whitlock 'stay in your lane' over Joy Taylor comments
Cam Newton called out Jason Whitlock over his comments about Joy Taylor and the bombshell Fox Sports lawsuit.
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