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This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

Tons of companies are using imaginary AI efficiencies to get rid of a large part of their workforce, but Microsoft truly went «Hold my beer»

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Marissa Mayer is famous for having so much design taste that shades of blue were selected by A/B tests, so is it any wonder she creates a chatbot to describe her own daughter instead of doing what every sane parent can do themselves? […] [Original post on mas.to]

As others have pointed out, there could be an influx of newcomers to the #Fediverse from #Brazil who are tied of #Meta 's latest shenanigans while meddling with politics. If you see them, be friendly and welcoming, and under no circumstances start with "You are using the Fediverse wrong!" I […]

Monet uutismediat ovat ansaitusti älähtäneet Metan uuden business-sopimuksen ehdoista, joissa Meta vaikuttaa varaavan itselleen laajan oikeuden käyttää julkaisijan omilta verkkosivuilta löytyvää sisältöä omiin tarpeiisinsa, esimerkiksi tekoälymallien kouluttamiseen. Siis yksinkertaistetusti jos […]

Impact to unprotectable IoT workloads unaccounted, because they're not eMudhra customers.

KYIV POST: ‘Enough for Years’: Ihnat Says Patriot Missiles Used in Middle East Could Have Protected Ukraine https://www.kyivpost.com/post/88192 Ukraine could have sustained its Patriot air defense systems for several more years with the missiles expended in the Middle East, Air Force official […]

This LOLA account migration concept sounds very interesting - both because it aims to solve the orphaned posts history problem, and because it does not try to force identities into domain names, an idea which does not align with how people think of identies […]

Zelenskyy said: if you want us to stop hitting diesel facilities and refineries, then they [the russians] must stop striking our power infrastructure. That is fair - an 'energy truce.' www.kyivpost.com/post/88148

russia is better at winning wars they don't fight than those they do. So they're celebrating winning their war against USA, while still mired in an unwinnable war against democracy.

One by one, Moscow’s wish list items are being fulfilled, bringing pure joy to the Kremlin’s favorite experts & state TV pundits. Head of RT Margarita Simonyan proclaimed there would never be another Ukrainian president. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/putins-ghoul...

Make sharing behavioral tracking datavä between websites and apps, even those of one owner, illegal. Make selling ads targeted on behavioral tracking data also illegal. You know, what GDPR could have done, if not for malicious compliance on so called informed consent. That's all it takes. Meta […]

And yes, Meta is the company that Mozilla has decided to work with on an in-browser ad tracking feature. The appeal to Meta is obvious—cut off pro-democracy sites from ad revenue—but I'm still not understanding the decision-making process that got Mozilla into it […]

The russians have just lost their most useful ally in the Balkans. Vucic, who lost the election after students began protesting against the regime following the collapse of a concrete canopy at the Novi Sad railway station, killing 16 people. Can Serbia finally free itself from russian […]

Imagine spending decades telling your population that America is your greatest enemy, only to start begging that same America to help you defeat Ukraine.

It will be interesting to see how Serbia navigates to a working government. The people whose election defeated Vučić are not a coalition with common political agenda beyond getting rid of Vučić. That usually doesn't predict easy cooperation.

When trump loudly complains that something he doesn't control is corrupt, he means it's not corrupt enough for him.

Show sympathy for the invader. Pity those whose dying (in drone strikes, anyway) would stop the moment they'd retreat beyond the internationally accepted border.

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After many obstacles were placed in her way, including by the Trump administration, the leader of the Venezuelan democratic opposition is back in Venezuela

"Launched for public access on October 25, 2001, [@internetarchive's Wayback Machine] allows users to go "back in time" to see how its catalogued websites looked in the past." Happy 25th anniversary! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine […]

A European wide digital, privacy oriented sovereign payment mechanism would be fine, but I'm not yet convinced this one is privacy oriented. It does, however, carry the immediate, non-repudiable features of debit transfer. Online purchases need consumer protections in form of chargebacks, and […]

But it's not "node2shell". It's a normal memory corruption that's blocked by ASLR. It's not easy to exploit. You should fix it, yes. But using the "blah2shell" terminology is misleading. It's misleading because it tells people that it can be trivially […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Baltic audience, if you understand Finnish, you'll want to read this and listen to the recordings of President Koivisto during the early 90s as he was navigating response to Soviet breakup. Why was Finland so late in acknowledging Baltic sovereignty? https://yle.fi/a/74-20241640 #Koivisto #Baltics

We're back from russian time. Hello again, Europe. #noMoreDST #EET

Musk is lying about Ukraine using civilian Starlink on combat drones. Since February, any Starlink terminal operating in motion has needed military Starshield authorization. No Starshield – no connection. Using civilian Starlink on drones was technically impossible. Period.

Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “Our support for Ukraine is not charity. “It is an investment in our own security and in the future of a democratic and peaceful Europe. “We cannot allow Russia to succeed. The fight for freedom must continue.”

*Tough break for that robot in the Barcelona airport. #Desigual *Also ominous that it's become genuinely fashionable to want to destroy them

OTD in 1980 West Germany signed what was then largest ever gas deal with USSR. We had just invaded Afghanistan. But our butchery never gets in the way of profits. A message we noted. Imagine, Germany funding Russian war machine & dismissing warnings about it.

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

KYIV INDEPENDENT: Starshield operations restored to speeds of more than 400 km/h, Ukraine's Defense Ministry says https://kyivindependent.com/starshield-operations-restored-above-400-km-h-ukraines-defense-ministry-says/ "We record a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour, the connection is […]

KYIV POST: Oleshky: The Kremlin’s Next Propaganda Spectacle? https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041 A potential ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky could open the way for a Kremlin-controlled press tour and gaslighting operation designed to shift blame for the humanitarian crisis onto […]

KYIV POST: Zelensky Ready to Freeze Front Line to Halt War, Rejects Land Cession https://www.kyivpost.com/post/88043 President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine is prepared to freeze combat operations along existing front lines to bring an immediate halt to the war, while firmly […]

1/2 Anne-Catherine Magnette, call sign “Ksena,” came from Belgium to help Ukraine. 🇧🇪🇺🇦 After losing a leg, she continued serving with Ukraine’s 37th Marine Brigade. Now she is training to operate interceptor drones. Amputation did not end her mission. Respect.