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[Agiel]

 

[Malcador]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/

 

[bugarup]

I was thinking whether to put this here or in Funny:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo

 

[rjshae]

31 minutes ago, bugarup said:

I was thinking whether to put this here or in Funny:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo

It's more disturbing than funny to think that somebody has found a way to make the lithium battery explode remotely. I hope there's another explanation.

[Malcador]

1 hour ago, bugarup said:

I was thinking whether to put this here or in Funny:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo

 

Not sure what would be funny, sabotage operation would be here or the politics thread I assume.  Hopefully no civilians injured (as if Blue team would care that much, heh) although maybe unlikely considering the device.  Edit : Ok, apparently a girl was killed. 

Might not be the batteries being made to explode rather than just the pagers being rigged in the first place.

 

 

Edited September 17 by Malcador

[Zoraptor]

Gaza thread would probably be most appropriate. There isn't really any doubt who is behind it.

Certainly not the funny thread. One can only imagine the reaction if someone put a similar attack aimed at, say, Israel, Ukraine or the CIA in there...

[Gfted1]

Huh, I legit didnt know that pagers were still in use as a technology.

[Zoraptor]

They're still used a lot in medical services for example. I think they were phased out here only a couple of years ago (no, apparently they are still used here as well).

[Malcador]

Wrong thread

Edited September 18 by Malcador

[Amentep]

French dig team finds archaeologist's 200-year-old note

[Gfted1]

One free bottle of Volkswagen brand ketchup (including shipping) can be acquired here: Volkswagen Gewürz Ketchup Brand - VW Retail

[Hawke64]

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220720-do-octopuses-feel-pain

While the answer is obvious, the article is interesting.

[Gorth]

Sabine's assessment of the current state of physics (warning, swearing and profanity with a German accent)

 

 

[Hawke64]

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/sep/23/heaven-17-v-rockstar-are-games-being-fair-to-music-artists

On music licensing in games. I have not been listening to non-gaming/non-LGBTQ+ related music, so cannot comment whether including recognisable tracks boosts sales or not.

[Raithe]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

[Azdeus]

4 hours ago, Raithe said:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

Death threats are horrible, but James Spann is a ****ing great man and anyone that threatens men such as him deserves a bullet in the brain pan.

[Gorth]

4 hours ago, Raithe said:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

Maybe eugenics isn’t such a bad idea after all

[Hawke64]

To add to the ecology-related articles:

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/sep/24/where-does-the-uks-fast-fashion-end-up-i-found-out-on-a-beach-clean-in-ghana The reinforcement of the gender stereotypes aside, it is interesting, though unsettling.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/earths-vital-signs-show-humanitys-future-in-balance-say-climate-experts Not sure whether the acceleration to the hard-to-recover point is overestimated, but even now, the climate change is noticeable.

I was trying to find an article about the effects of animal farming (aka those torture-murder factories) on the environment (very negative, including air; the prices of the properties around also go down by up to 75%), but the search engines did not favour me today.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/23/long-shadow-life-under-the-veiled-grasp-of-factory-farming-in-europe This one.

TLDR: go vegan, use less bandwidth, buy less physical items, recycle what you can, and do not reproduce, so maybe we will not die from the global warming.

Edited October 11 by Hawke64

[Azdeus]

3 hours ago, Hawke64 said:

To add to the ecology-related articles:

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/sep/24/where-does-the-uks-fast-fashion-end-up-i-found-out-on-a-beach-clean-in-ghana The reinforcement of the gender stereotypes aside, it is interesting, though unsettling.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/earths-vital-signs-show-humanitys-future-in-balance-say-climate-experts Not sure whether the acceleration to the hard-to-recover point is overestimated, but even now, the climate change is noticeable.

I was trying to find an article about the effects of animal farming (aka those torture-murder factories) on the environment (very negative, including air; the prices of the properties around also go down by up to 75%), but the search engines did not favour me today.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/23/long-shadow-life-under-the-veiled-grasp-of-factory-farming-in-europe This one.

TLDR: go vegan, use less bandwidth, buy less physical items, recycle what you can, and do not reproduce, so maybe we will not die from the global warming.

I don't know if you like to look at videos, but More Perfect Union on youtube has quite a few videos about those subjects, they're quite good.

You shouldn't necessarily go vegan though, the farming practices of the big producers are wrecking their soil, and have other bad practices ontop of that. It's better to ensure that what you buy comes from sustainable farming practices. Alot of vegan foods are ontop of that highly processed stuff, so if you go down that route you should be wary of that too.

[Malcador]

17 hours ago, Raithe said:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hurricane-milton-misinformation-meteorlogist-death-threats-1235130352/

The Internet was a mistake.

[Raithe]

For something more upbeat:

 

[Hawke64]

On 10/11/2024 at 10:50 AM, Azdeus said:

I don't know if you like to look at videos, but More Perfect Union on youtube has quite a few videos about those subjects, they're quite good.

You shouldn't necessarily go vegan though, the farming practices of the big producers are wrecking their soil, and have other bad practices ontop of that. It's better to ensure that what you buy comes from sustainable farming practices. Alot of vegan foods are ontop of that highly processed stuff, so if you go down that route you should be wary of that too.

Thank you for sharing. The videos on workers' rights and water there are interesting (and concerning) as well (though, some of the titles are slightly clickbait-y).

Regarding highly processed food, most vegan food, such as grains and vegetables, is not processed, same for the older vegan recipes (e.g. Indian cuisine), the rest are at the same level as animal-based products (e.g. cakes or sauces). Also, the plant-based food is cheaper and easier to store (source: 10 years of personal experience without a fridge (got one now, though) - grains and spices last for months without refrigeration, reduced-price vegetables can usually last for a few days to a week, and potatoes specifically several weeks).

Then there is the ethical part (at this point, humans do not have to kill animals for our survival), so here is a video of a happy rescued cow playing with a ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaR9CMnJpU .

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On an unrelated note, here is an article on top-level domains: https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain.

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On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. The islands would be handed over to the neighboring island country of Mauritius, about 1,100 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa.

The story did not make the tech press, but perhaps it should have. The decision to transfer the islands to their new owner will result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry’s preferred top-level domains: .io.

Itch.io should be fine: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/could-a-surprise-uk-territory-handover-spell-the-end-for-itch-io-

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In an email to Game Developer, site creator Leaf Corcoran said that users shouldn’t worry about the site going away. "We're keeping an eye on how things pan out," he wrote. "No plans to do anything at the moment but switching domain names is always an option should the .io domain no longer exist."

 

Edited October 13 by Hawke64

[Azdeus]

2 hours ago, Hawke64 said:

Thank you for sharing. The videos on workers' rights and water there are interesting (and concerning) as well (though, some of the titles are slightly clickbait-y).

Regarding highly processed food, most vegan food, such as grains and vegetables, is not processed, same for the older vegan recipes (e.g. Indian cuisine), the rest are at the same level as animal-based products (e.g. cakes or sauces). Also, the plant-based food is cheaper and easier to store (source: 10 years of personal experience without a fridge (got one now, though) - grains and spices last for months without refrigeration, reduced-price vegetables can usually last for a few days to a week, and potatoes specifically several weeks).

Then there is the ethical part (at this point, humans do not have to kill animals for our survival), so here is a video of a happy rescued cow playing with a ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaR9CMnJpU .

Nemas problemas, as you say the titles are clickbait, but unfortunately that is the way youtube works, and if you want to reach people, you have to play the algorithm game.

Sure, if you make everything from scratch it's simply produce, but most people I've come about buy things like vegan sausages and similar things.

I'm grown up on the countryside here in Sweden and know lots of farmers, and admittedly there is a helluva cultural difference, but the dairy and meat cows I've come across are as happy as he is. And they taste alot better than those animals that are raised in those monstrous conditions that there are in those permanently locked barns.

Not quite as cute, but yearly cow-release after winter; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BggwEPzEsbE

 

[ShadySands]

On 10/13/2024 at 4:12 AM, Azdeus said:

Sure, if you make everything from scratch it's simply produce, but most people I've come about buy things like vegan sausages and similar things.

I'm grown up on the countryside here in Sweden and know lots of farmers, and admittedly there is a helluva cultural difference, but the dairy and meat cows I've come across are as happy as he is. And they taste alot better than those animals that are raised in those monstrous conditions that there are in those permanently locked barns.

This is my experience as well and I also grew up in rural farmland.

My experience with vegans, or people considering it, is also similar with most that I've met wanting meat substitutes. Speaking only for my non-vegan self, I like a good bean burger for what it is but an impossible burger is just so much more what I usually want and that is heavily processed and not healthy. I've dabbled with different vegetarian persuasions but I always end up coming back to meat, provided that it is cruelty free, or at least much less cruel, I mean nature is ****ing cruel as **** but that doesn't mean we have to be.

[Azdeus]

56 minutes ago, ShadySands said:

This is my experience as well and I also grew up in rural farmland.

My experience with vegans, or people considering it, is also similar with most that I've met wanting meat substitutes. Speaking only for my non-vegan self, I like a good bean burger for what it is but an impossible burger is just so much more what I usually want and that is heavily processed and not healthy. I've dabbled with different vegetarian persuasions but I always end up coming back to meat, provided that it is cruelty free, or at least much less cruel, I mean nature is ****ing cruel as **** but that doesn't mean we have to be.

Yup, they're about as much pets to the farmers I know as cats, dogs and such.

That is a better way to put it, looking for meat substitutes. I tried going vegetarian for about 6 months when I was in my teens, and it was some of the worst times I had.

Besides not liking pork, another reason why I stay away from it is that alot of it here is from factory farms.