There once was a leader named Starmer
Diplomatic, a skilled charmer
With Trump and the EU
He knew what to do
In politics, he was a true farmer
#GuardianLimerick #Politics #Europe #Brexit
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Starmer’s diplomatic dance with Trump and the EU – Politics Weekly UK
Keir Starmer is treading a fine line as he avoids picking sides between the EU and US. But with Donald Trump saying he wants to ‘take over’ Gaza and threatening to impose tariffs on the EU, can the prime minister really keep both on side? John Harris…John Harris (The Guardian)
There once was a conman quite shady
Accused of a crime quite crazy
He rammed cops with his car
On trial, it went far
In France, where the truth will not be hazy
#GuardianLimerick #France #Europe #Crime #London #Netflix #Belgium #Media #Film #Law
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British conman accused of ramming police with car goes on trial in France
Robert Hendy-Freegard, 53, a serial swindler who featured in Netflix documentary, allegedly injured officers in getaway attemptKim Willsher (The Guardian)
#heiseshow: KI-Führerschein, Digitalisierungsbremse, Stopp für China-Pakete
In der #heiseshow: Der AI Act fordert KI-Kompetenznachweise, die digitale Transformation stockt laut Studie und die USA stoppen Pakete von Shein und Co.
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#heiseshow #Digitalisierung #KünstlicheIntelligenz #news
#heiseshow: KI-Führerschein, Digitalisierungsbremse, Stopp für China-Pakete
In der #heiseshow: Der AI Act fordert KI-Kompetenznachweise, die digitale Transformation stockt laut Studie und die USA stoppen Pakete von Shein und Co.Malte Kirchner (heise online)
CheerpJ 3.1: JVM in WebAssembly and our roadmap for modern Java in the browser
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#java #jvm #programming #webassembly
CheerpJ 3.1: JVM in WebAssembly and our roadmap for modern Java in the browser
Our state-of-the-art JVM/JDK that runs completely in the browser thanks to WebAssembly, is now available!Leaning Technologies Developer Hub
Kindesmissbrauch im Darknet: Polizei löscht strafbare Bilder nicht
Deutsche Ermittler verzichten weiterhin darauf, Fotos und Videos von Kindesmissbrauch systematisch zu löschen, selbst wenn es technisch möglich wäre. Das belegen laut Panorama-Recherchen aktuelle Daten und ein vertraulicher Bericht der Innenminister.
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#Darknet #Kindesmissbrauch #Fotos #BKA
Kindesmissbrauch im Darknet: Polizei löscht strafbare Bilder nicht
Deutsche Ermittler verzichten weiterhin darauf, Fotos und Videos von Kindesmissbrauch systematisch zu löschen, selbst wenn es technisch möglich wäre. Das belegen nach Panorama-Recherchen aktuelle Daten und ein vertraulicher Bericht der Innenminister.tagesschau.de
A bomber who harbored dark intent,
Targeted an army recruitment event,
But in a twist of fate,
Met an ill-fated state,
Now his plans have met a fatal descent.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
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Ukraine war briefing: Bomber dies in attack on army recruitment centre
String of attacks against Ukraine’s mobilisation effort; Ukraine announces robot ground units. What we know on day 1,079Warren Murray (The Guardian)
Der Klimawandel hinterlässt seine Spuren: Dürren und Starkregen im Wechsel beeinflussen die Qualität unseres Grundwassers, weil die ausgetrockneten Böden das Regenwasser schlechter filtern. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine Forschungsgruppe des Max-Planck-Instituts für Biogeochemie in Jena.
#Dürre #Grundwasser #Klimawandel #Starkregen #Wasserqualität #Forschungsquartett
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So gefährdet Extremwetter die Qualität unseres Grundwassers
Der Klimawandel hinterlässt seine Spuren: Starker Regen und hohe Temperaturen haben Auswirkungen auf die Qualität unseres Grundwassers.Karolin Breitschädel (detektor.fm)
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io I am still probably going to reboot but the failure mode kinda looks, to my untrained eye, like they exhaust the video RAM so that apps can't allocate their own textures and end up with blank surfaces.Mastodon
Oh hey, Weather is failing to launch again, and this console message looks interesting:
VFX/Renderer.swift:1123: Fatal error: Cannot create commandBuffer VFX update command buffer
okay I think the CPU usage thing was a one-off blip disconnected from the obscure graphics problem.
I now have my *own* app misbehaving though, even though I don't use Metal at all. When it's failing, I also get this message (to stderr, not nslog!) coming off some point in the main loop I can't triangulate (it's not coming from my custom draw method) "Context leak detected, msgtracer returned -1"
GitHub - glyph/Pomodouroboros: Pomodoro timer that acknowledges the inexorable, infinite passage of time
Pomodoro timer that acknowledges the inexorable, infinite passage of time - glyph/PomodouroborosGitHub
Forced switching to dedicated videocard · Issue #110 · AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
Steps to reproduce Normal using of application Default settings and filters Expected behavior Actual behavior MacOs switches to dedicated video card even on blank pages of safari, no other apps are...GitHub
Safari 18.1.1 on MacOS 15.1.1 becomes unstable after some time (after waking up) · Issue #1040 · AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
Please answer the following questions for yourself before submitting an issue. I am running the latest version I made sure all content blockers are enabled in Safari settings I checked the document...GitHub
Closer… that "leaks React components on Safari" bug above was a hint. And this suggests something:
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Several of the Safari dock apps I'm using (Unifi, Nest, YouTube, Mastodon) are constantly doing stuff with video components, and it seems that this is a "known" sore spot for WebKit…
Safari leaks memory when videos are rapidly removed from the screen and re-added · Issue #771 · aws/amazon-chime-sdk-component-library-react
What happened and what did you expect to happen? Safari has a problem with the HTMLVideoElement object that keeps leaking memory if there are many video elements that are being removed from the scr...GitHub
PLOT TWIST:
after reproing for the 10th or 11th time (my quick test now is "can I launch Weather", which seems to presage all the other problems), I quit Safari and all my "dock apps", and it did *not* fix the problem. I noticed a bunch of `com.apple.WebKit.WebContent` processes still running. Killed them: *still* didn't fix the problem.
Did a quick jaunt over to Activity Monitor to see if I had any big RAM users, and … mediaanalysisd was an outlier again. So I killed it… and that *did* fix it
How to stop mediaanalysisd from hogging your CPU in macOS
There have been varying reports of the mediaanalysisd background process causing excessive CPU usage in macOS when scanning photos. Here's what it is, what it does, and how to stop it.Chip Loder (AppleInsider)
I think I know the noun I'm looking for now; it is a "GPU command queue", as evidenced by these two log lines:
2025-02-01 20:44:14.589205-0800 kernel: (IOGPUFamily) mediaanalysisd has reached a high water mark of 710 gpu command queues.
2025-02-01 20:44:14.939613-0800 kernel: (IOGPUFamily) static IOReturn IOGPUDeviceUserClient::s_new_command_queue(…): The number of queues (708) exceeding limit (512), failing IOGPUCommandQueue creation
The latter is repeated 1000s of times.
Okay, a much stronger hypothesis after letting fs_usage run all night and collecting repeated patterns. There are several files it keeps scanning over and over, including:
- some pedestrian .jpg files from a personal family IT project I worked on a while ago
- some retrocomputing data, specifically a movie file exported from "Graphing Calculator" in macOS 9.0.4
- a bunch of files (e.g. test/imghdrdata/ , idlelib/Icons) in various PyPy releases
It does not seem to be visiting many other files.
All right. Too early to have much real data but the trajectory at least isn't horrible thus far, and sometimes after a few minutes of idle time it *has* been pretty horrible.
Considering spending my next livestream building my first OBS overlay, and making that overlay be a real-time report of the memory usage and last gpu command queue high water mark.
Why does my network set my hostname? How can I stop this?
(I'm using a Mac. It triple boots OS X.8, Gentoo, and Windows 7. I've only noticed the problem in OS X, but that's what I use most of the time so it might be occurring in other OSes.) I've used Sy...Super User
Okay, I think this is hopefully the conclusion. There are some methodological problems with my tests (more research is needed) but in terms of predictive power, I now have 2 log files, each of which has the relevant IOGPUFamily kernel logs from two separate days. the number of lines in each of these files:
before I made changes: 73929
after I made changes: 9
That feels like a statistically significant difference.
Going to turn off all the logging and watch memory usage for the next 24h now.
But hey I'm a Programmer let's maybe turn this into a teachable moment about Programming.
There's a bug here, obviously. I don't know what it is. I know nothing about mediaanalysisd, I'm only even vaguely aware of what it does. But there are general to learn from this journey, which is applicable to most software development projects.
How to stop mediaanalysisd from hogging your CPU in macOS
There have been varying reports of the mediaanalysisd background process causing excessive CPU usage in macOS when scanning photos. Here's what it is, what it does, and how to stop it.Chip Loder (AppleInsider)
You can also see this as just a restatement of the other two flaws, which is to say:
1. the dead-letter queue needs to be operator-legible; tell me about the files that are producing errors, give me a way to handle them. give me a good UI for it, make it possible for me to understand where and how it's happening, remember to try the work again when new software is available
good news for the "it's a hardware issue" fans: baldur's gate 3 now reliably indues a kernel panic at launch (failed WindowServer checkin)
(I haven't played bg3 since updating to 15.3 though. also, other video games still work fine.)
Anyone experiencing kernel panics with Sequoia?
I remember this (strange things happening when VRR was enabled) being a bug in MacOS about 3 or so years ago, and I remember having to turn off VRR back then too. Thanks for posting this!SC2 Forums
now one of my wireless access points appears to be failing. but only like… a little bit, intermittently, maybe.
I _will_ face god and walk backwards into hell, if I'm not there already
Tried playing BG3 on a different mac, with the same account. Worked fine. Same on a Steam Deck, just in case. Did the full hardware test, let the machine stay powered off for a few minutes to allow any ghosts in the capacitors to depart, notwithstanding.
Launched BG3 on the cursed machine. It worked! Hooray! Took a celebratory screenshot, switched spaces to look at it, switched spaces back, and as soon as the space-switch slide animation *began*… full-screen freeze, crash.
OS reinstall it is.
As I noted upthread, this is all pretty upsetting. The kernel panics, even more so. Kind of ruined my whole day today, even though I didn't get another one. With everything else going on it might seem weird that *this* is what did it for me, but I want to extrapolate a little bit because I suspect other people might be feeling the same (although probabaly — hopefully — not about GPU-related kernel panics) mastodon.social/@glyph/1139326…
I joke, but, this is genuinely upsetting. This whole week I have been struggling to be present for my family; when family is elsewhere I am immediately accosted by the horrors in The News, which I struggle to tear myself away from; when I exert the herculean effort to tear my attention away from that, I have to take care of tedious admin stuff, and when I *finally* get to sit at my computer to actually focus, windows don't open and the apps I am developing start crashing and behaving weirdly
Computers can be understood
Introduction This post attempts to describe a mindset I’ve come to realize I bring to essentially all of my work with software.Made of Bugs
Okay. Reproduced the kernel panic in front of an Apple retail employee immediately* after completely wiping the machine, then sent in the laptop for repairs. I am assured that there will be a free logic board replacement and it will be returned in at most 5 days but probably more like 2 or 3. I guess if it doesn’t work when it comes back I might continue this thread but let’s hope not, for all our sakes.
*: for values of “immediate” that involve downloading 145GB on apple store internet
Coda 1: I received the notification that the repair center received my device and began diagnosis about 12 hours ago.
This is not dispositive, but generally when I have seen an apple repair notification in the past they move from “diagnosis” to “repair” within a couple of hours, and it has been in this state all day.
Okay that’s enough grim satisfaction, just the computer now please
(it’s still in “inspecting”)
So I will—hopefully–have this machine back in my hands in the next 72h at worst, and I have a little puzzle to solve.
If I Migration Assistant my way back from my Time Machine backup, I can inherit it and continue incremental backups. But, based on the speed of other time machine restores, this will take somewhere from 3-4 literal *weeks* of uninterrupted plugged-in time, which is unacceptable.
If I set up as new, I need to create a new backup image… which will burn like 8TB on the old backup.
how we thought a dystopia would work:
The god emperor has decided everyone over the age of 80 other than him will be rounded up and exterminated
how it actually works:
An 18 year old unpaid intern heir to a cheese puff fortune who goes by DonkeyPunch has decided that your grandma's social security payments count as government inefficiency.
Disney verliert Ende 2024 bei Disney+ 700.000 Abonnenten, aber steigert Gewinne
Disney kann die Erwartungen der Börse übertreffen. Dabei hat Disney+ ein halbes Prozent an Abonnenten verloren. Dieser Trend soll auch noch anhalten.
heise.de/news/Disney-verliert-…
#Entertainment #Geschäftszahlen #Streaming #StreamingDienste #VideoonDemand #Wirtschaft #news
Altkleider: Droht das Aus für die Container?
Noch ist Deutschland Vorreiter beim Textil-Recycling. Doch der Markt ist im Abschwung. Soziale Organisationen und professionelle Verwerter ziehen sich aus dem Altkleider-Geschäft zurück. Von Jörn Kersten.
➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbr…
#AltkleiderEntsorgung #Gebrauchtes #Recycling #Kostenanstieg
Müllberge aus Fast Fashion: Afrikas Second-Hand-Alptraum
Hunderte Tonnen Second-Hand-Kleidung landen täglich allein in Ghana. Doch viel davon wandert in den Müll. Die Billigware ist längst zu einer Gefahr für Natur und Mensch geworden.Dunja Sadaqi (tagesschau.de)
Im Sci-Fi Thriller „Cassandra“ ziehet eine Familie in ein von einer KI gesteuertem Smarthaus. In der dritten Staffel „Invincible“ muss Superheld Mark entscheiden, ob er alleine als Superheld die Erde beschützt oder mit der Regierung? Und auf WOW führen Dakota Johnson und Sean Penn tiefgründige Gespräche in „Daddio — Eine Nacht in New York“
#Animation #DakotaJohnson #ScienceFiction #SeanPenn #Superheld #WasLäuftHeute
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Was läuft heute? | Cassandra, Invincible, Daddio -- Eine Nacht in New York – K.I. = Killer Intelligenz? | detektor.fm – Das Podcast-Radio
In "Cassandra" zieht eine Familie in ein von einer KI gesteuertes Smarthaus. Die KI ist ihnen aber alles andere als gut gesinnt.Christopher Jung (detektor.fm)
Fragwürdige Anleihen: Skandal um Hausverwaltungen weitet sich aus
Mehrere Hausverwaltungen haben Ersparnisse von Wohnungseigentümern in riskante Anleihen investiert. Es geht um Millionensummen. Laut Recherchen von BR und HR fürchten mittlerweile Eigentümergemeinschaften in zehn Bundesländern um ihr Geld.
/PH
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And he is now using that platform for spreading lies about the horrible school shooting in Örebro. He claims that media is quiet about it, but that is far from true. Yesterday, SVT was airing from early morning til late afternoon directly from the campus and nearby church and the hospital where the wounded are. This mornings news are also focused on what happened and how to understand it @godpod
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today, 2025-02-06, is my 16th fediversary, and I can prove it! web.archive.org/web/2009032810…
next round of posts is on me 😉
lxoliva - Identi.ca
Free Software Evangelist. FSFLA board member. GNU developer. Red Hat compiler engineer.web.archive.org
laconica/statusnet implemented federation, and identi.ca was the largest node of the federated network back then.
identi.ca moved to the pump.io protocol few years later, but statusnet lived on, later becoming GNU social. GNU social nodes were largely cut off when the then-already-dominant Mastodon broke compatibility with the statusnet protocol before GNU social had a working implementation of ActivityPub. now it does, but even when it didn't, it never ceased to be part of the fediverse, that encompasses more than activitypub
Let's Encrypt Is Ending Expiration Notice Emails - Slashdot
Let's Encrypt will stop sending expiration notice emails for its free HTTPS certificates starting June 4, 2025. From the report: Let's Encrypt is ending automated emails for four stated reasons, and all of them are pretty sensible.tech.slashdot.org
Knowing beforehand that I have to dedicate more time to debugging the way certbot gets run from crontab was really nice.
Forscher haben Mikroplastik im menschlichen Gehirn nachgewiesen
US-Forscher haben knapp 100 Proben aus Gehirnen untersucht und darin eine unerwartet hohe Konzentration von Plastik festgestellt. Diese nimmt zu.
Erstmal haben Forscher Microplastik in menschlicher Seele nachgewiesen
der-postillon.com/2024/10/mikr…
Erstmals Mikroplastik in menschlicher Seele nachgewiesen
Vatikan (dpo) - Die Verseuchung mit Mikroplastik macht auch vor dem Jenseits nicht halt. Wissenschaftler des Metaphysischen Forschungsinsti...Der Postillon (Blogger)
Obeying God because it aligns with your own secular morals.
Obeying God because otherwise you might go to Hell.
Obeying God because God owns the simulation running you, God is capricious and might delete you.
Obeying God because God’s simulation hosting provider is capricious and might delete God’s account
“Whom do you fear?”
“The priest.”
“Whom does the priest fear?”
“God.”
“Whom does God fear?”
“We only know it as The Oracle.”
Legal esse tal de Fediverso, mas por onde eu começo?
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Isso aqui deu ruim! para onde eu vou agora?!
Você também se preocupa com os rumos das mídias sociais nas mãos de bilionários donos das big techs com seus algoritmos invasivos que lucram com engajamento de discurso de ódio e utilizam os seus dados pessoais de formas que você não faz ideia?
Gostaria de conhecer outras alternativas?
Elas existem, e estão todas no Fediverso.
A partir de hoje a Alquimídia divulgará uma série de vídeos sobre as tecnologias e as plataformas federadas.
6 February 1907 | A Jewish woman Kornelia Neumann was born in Turnišče in Slovenia. During the war she lived in Szombathely, Hungary.
In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
I wonder if this stuffed animal is as soft as they looks.
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Keine Gebühren mehr für US-Regierungsschiffe im Panamakanal
Nach scharfer Kritik von US-Präsident Trump hat Panama offenbar Zugeständnisse gemacht: Laut US-Außenministerium zahlen Schiffe der US-Regierung künftig keine Gebühren mehr für die Nutzung des Panamakanals.
Kritik. Erpressung trifft es wohl eher. Damit ist er ja gerade sehr fleißig unterwegs. Und bekommt meistens, was er will.
Was wohl geschieht, wenn jemand Nein sagt?
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Freut mich sehr! Habe zum Thema #Ressourcenfluch und #Solarpunk neulich auch ein Interview gegeben. Herzliche Grüße nach Scharnhausen! ☕️📚👍 energiewinde.orsted.de/koepfe-…
„Erneuerbare sind Friedensenergien“
EnergieWinde („Erneuerbare sind Friedensenergien“)Florian M.
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