Virtual reality can help people understand and care about distant communities
For many of us, climate change feels like a distant threat—damage that will happen in the future somewhere far away to people we know little about. A new Stanford University-led study reveals how virtual reality can close that distance, enabling users to explore faraway places, develop a sense of attachment to those places, and care more about how a warming world is wreaking havoc on people’s lives. ⌘ Read more
Looks like ICE recruits are a hot mess
Lisa Needham, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
Stephan: Creating the Trump Gestapo is turning out to be harder than one might think, but one option, which Trump is playing, is just to reduce the qualifications and integrity of the people you recruit, as this article describes. Of course, it helps to have a corrupt Gestapo leader, say someone like Tom Homan.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, we like to be paranoid. We’ve been right so many times. Unfortunately.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. 😅 I wouldn’t want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I don’t think I like this. 🫤 Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, it’s about “security”/“safety” … it always is.
OpenBSD 7.8 released
Like clockwork, every six months, we have a new OpenBSD release. OpenBSD 7.8 adds support for the Raspberry Pi 5, tons of improvements to sleep, wake, and hibernate, the TCP stack can now run in parallel on multiple processors, and so much more. DRM has been updated to match Linux 6.12.50, and drivers for the Qualcomm Snapdragon DRM subsystem and Qualcomm DisplayPort controller were added as well. The changelog is, as always, long and detailed, so head on over for the finer details. OpenBS … ⌘ Read more
Getting Started with Offload: Automating Everyday Workflows with Docker
Every developer eventually hits a wall with their local machine. Maybe it’s training an AI model that drains your CPU, compiling a massive codebase that makes your fan sound like a jet engine, or simply trying to run GPU workloads on a laptop that doesn’t have one. The result is the same: slow builds, limited… ⌘ Read more
10 Common Misconceptions About the Renaissance
The Renaissance roughly spanned the 15th and 16th centuries and saw the revival of classical antiquity, with European scholars dedicating themselves to studying art and literature from Ancient Greece and Rome. It’s when William Shakespeare wrote his plays, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, and later thinkers like Isaac Newton continued the spirit of inquiry into […]
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I don’t know exactly what she caught but she’s walking like she’s awfully proud. ⌘ Read more
Streaming live video as a macOS screensaver using AVFoundation and yt-dlp
I built this to play live HLS streams as a screensaver on macOS. It supports both direct .m3u8 URLs and YouTube
links (via yt-dlp extraction with caching).
The interesting bits:
- Cross-screen synchronization: All displays show the same frame of the video by syncing to a shared timestamp,
making it feel like one continuous stream across monitors
- Handles the unreliable macOS screensaver lifecycle (stopAnimation doesn’t always get called when … ⌘ Read more
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Like these Car Manufacturers, like GWM, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and whoever else does this stupid shit™ need to pull their heads out of their asse. :O
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Obviously none of this requires an Internet connection, let alone a Network connection. All of it can be done over Bluetooth! Just like Carplay itself!
Mike Johnson says Trump was ‘using satire to make a point’ with AI poop-bombing video
Meredith Lee Hill, Senior Congress Reporter - Politico
_Stephan: I have not been able to get the Trump video of him wearing a crown as a pilot and shitting on Americans demonstrating for “No Kings.” There is no precendent for anything remotely like this in the entire history of the United States. Indeed, I can recall no precedent in any country. You woul … ⌘ Read more
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A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these complex systems work ⌘ Read more
Grab the 17 Different iPhone 17 Default Wallpapers
The iPhone 17 series is now in the wild, and along with the new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Air, we have new default wallpapers for those devices too. Depending on the device model, you’ll find some star-like designs for the standard model, or futuristic glassy designs that spell out “AIR” or … Read More ⌘ Read more
F-Droid Hides Bible Apps as “NSFW” & “Promotes Porn”
The Open Source Android App Store warns users that Bible Apps have, “features you may not like. ⌘ Read more
The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona
Gayoung Lee, Staff Reporter - Gizmodo
_Stephan: In my remote viewing study of the future, some viewers describe something like this. Their comments seemed so strange to me, I didn’t even know how to ask questions about what they were describing. However, it is now clear that there are going to be a number of breakthroughs that are going to redefine physics as … ⌘ Read more
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You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would “feel cheap” otherwise.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where the heck did you find that? What is that thing? Yeah, totally looks like an attempt to make some garbage feel more solid. Unless this steel plate is actually used for attaching bolts from the other side or something like that. Which I highly doubt, given that there are muuuuuch cheaper options to install various types of nuts in plastic.
Yeah, this goo makes it just harder to disconnect. I bet it doesn’t add water protection to the connections at all.
Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road
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dirstack.vim plugin adds a directory stack (like in Bash or Zsh) to Vim ⌘ Read more
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ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
Gregory Royal Pratt, Reporter - Chicago Tribune
_Stephan: Do you always have your papers on your person? If you immigrated from another country, even if you are a White person, it might be a good idea to do so. Like everything else dictator Trump is doing, having his Gestapo stop people and demanding t … ⌘ Read more
Windows 11, now with even more “AI” where you don’t want it
Microsoft has posted a blog post about detailing its latest round of additions to Windows 11, and as will surely not surprise you, it’s “AI”, all the time, whether you like it or not. I’m not even going to detail most of these “features”, as I’m sure most of them will just become yet another series of checkboxes on whatever debloating tool you prefer. Still, there’s one recurring theme running throughout Microsoft’s … ⌘ Read more
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Everything in the realm of “smartphones” is such an incomprehensible clusterfuck. I want to throw this thing out the window.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de he sure does! LOL. It is more like incomprehensible stuff that comes out. Sometimes I manage to get what he was trying to say, but more often than not I have no idea. 🤣
️ Spring Boot API Security Like a Pro: Rate Limiting, Replay Protection & Signature Validation…
Learn how to secure your Spring Boot APIs using rate lim … ⌘ Read more
10 Days of Humiliation When the Person Should Have Stayed in Bed
Humiliation is one of the most powerful human emotions. We never forget it when it happens to us, and when channeled effectively, it can help us to become the best versions of ourselves. However, humiliation is an extremely uncomfortable experience; we don’t like it when it happens to us, and we certainly don’t like to […]
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Adopted these two from the shelter last month. Just found them like this. 😭🥹❤️ ⌘ Read more
You Can’t Downgrade from iOS 26 to iOS 18 – But a Goofy Workaround Has Been Found
When there’s a will, there’s a way. And in this case, some iPhone users are so committed to finding a way back to iOS 18, that they’ve come up with a fairly unconventional yet creative workaround to get away from iOS 26. As you likely know, there’s no longer any way to downgrade an iPhone … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/16/you-cant-downgrade-from-ios-2 … ⌘ Read more
How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert
If alone time is your love language—don’t worry, it’s ours too—you can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how.
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Time crystals could power future quantum computers
A glittering hunk of crystal gets its iridescence from a highly regular atomic structure. Frank Wilczek, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics, proposed quantum systems––like groups of particles––could construct themselves in the same way, but in time instead of space. He dubbed such systems time crystals, defining them by their lowest possible energy state, which perpetually repeats movements without external energy input. Time crystals were experimentall … ⌘ Read more
10 Surprising Ways Game Theory Rules Your Daily Life
Every day, we perform tiny rituals, make awkward choices, and engage in behaviors that seem completely normal—until you step back and realize they’re secretly battles of strategy. From holding the elevator door in silence to double-texting someone you like, from fighting over toilet paper orientation to hoarding office snacks, our mundane actions often metaphorically mirror […]
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After taking most of the year off from role-playing, I’ve got 3 one-shots coming up in the next month, all of which need some tweaking before I can run them (as do my homebrew rules).
Plus there’s a “build a game” code challenge at work, a pair of media boxes I need to rebuild, a pair of dead machines I need to diagnose, and I’d like to (eventually) get my twtxt apps to a “releasable” state.
So many projects, so little (free) time…
Australian wine labels feeling the pinch as Chinese buy and drink less
Cheaper bulk wine has been struggling in the market, but now even prestigious labels like Penfolds are feeling the pinch off the back of changing drinking habits and a reported crackdown on lavish banquets for civil servants. ⌘ Read more
Why the next generation of mRNA vaccines is set to be even better
Scientists are designing mRNA vaccines to produce virus-like nanoparticles, which should lead to a more robust immune response with even fewer side effects than either of these immunisation approaches on their own ⌘ Read more
Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer
When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that can subsequently damage critical molecules like DNA. Now, Professor Petr Slavíček and his bachelor’s student Jakub Dubský from UCT Prague (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague) have described in detail one of the key mechanisms for the creation … ⌘ Read more
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** Encrypt & Decrypt Database Fields in Spring Boot Like a Pro (2025 Secure Guide)**
“Your database backup just leaked. Is your data still safe?”
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