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This echoes 'safe fracking' claims - and now many people in proximity have gas coming out of their facets. Digging hazardous materials out of sight into a potentially unstable or p…

This might be more about whatsapp poor organisation tools, the general need for private ML-based smart indexing/notifications and efforts at structured community building.

The report states they are not bombing military targets, so you can't explain the numbers away just by saying Hamas may recruit children. > Israeli forces continued to use high-pay…

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This is really sickening - if North Korea or any other less connected country did this, you would quickly see their national (tech) companies being sanctioned by the west. I never …

> we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area. Exactly, and the local layer is actually were we as normal people have the most power of participation, opportun…

Very compelling read on how common people cooperatives were always the only counterweight to the ruling class - and how the elites constantly tried to polarise the common people to…

No one commenting on the fact that oAI is releasing a Claude Mythos-class model - with apparent 0 restrictions or concerns by the US government, while Anthropic's (their competitor…

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Being able to run any windows productivity app on any other OS would be a game changer ! Did you investigate this?

It would of course be a functioning state's responsibility to plan urban/city development and economic incentives to move there. Regarding the ownership vs renter housing debate: I…

The funny thing is: with FOSS you know what's going on attack-wise as they are transparent , but there must be huge upheaval in the closed source (e.g. MS) software that is just ke…

> Pass laws requiring companies that use third party age or ID verification to take full legal culpability for that data. If any of the data is leaked they must pay each party $1 m…

Indeed, the diff: These previous big tech companies where fighting their neo-liberal agenda against a liberal government, now there's an autocratic fascist one fighting a liberal c…

Yes, you'd think that. There are historical precedents of high-civilisation collapse (in South America) and Europe (French Revolution). Sometimes people rise up and something bette…

As usual, the repo ( https://github.com/momo5502/sogen ) should be the HN link. On first look of the linked talk/demo, the German guy behind the project seems of legit DRM-backgrou…

It's the standard privatisation playbook, also used with the NHS: first, politicians (often Conservatives) underfund and fracture a world-class public system (e.g. healthcare). The…

Exactly, I always find it ridiculous how the suits, any layer of mid-managment to executives, are so eager on AI 'outsourcing' everything, but they themselves think the 'outsourcin…

One of the engines of collapse of Rome was the corrupt financial elite extending to the government that designed rules to extract maximum wealth for the elites, ignoring the long-t…

Another entry in the 'Black' villain line, along with BlackStone, BlackRock, BlackWater etc ... really makes you think the world is run by a thinly veiled cult of evil comic style …

To all investigative Journalists: Thank you for your hard work, and for being an inspiration and beacon of hope in these dark techno-feudalistic times.

I was expecting this was a tool to help people who couldn't distinguish sounds in a noisy environment to train their ears. But its for musical training. (which may or may not help?…

> Mondragon, the Basque worker cooperative network founded by a Catholic priest after the Spanish Civil War, employs 90,000 people and is one of Spain's largest companies, spanning…