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linuxiac.com OpenStreetMap Now Runs on Debian

OpenStreetMap, an open-source global map database, moved its servers from Ubuntu to Debian 12, solving I/O issues and boosting performance.

OpenStreetMap Now Runs on Debian
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www.thecooldown.com Farmers sound the alarm as pantry staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'Production is at serious risk'

Our warming world is threatening vanilla production. Vanilla is sensitive to heat waves and drought, two extreme types of weather seen this year in Mexico.

Farmers sound the alarm as pantry staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'Production is at serious risk'
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www.pv-magazine.com France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas

France has enacted provisions mandating solar installations on parking areas, detailing calculation methods, exemptions, and fines for non-compliance.

France publishes new provisions making solar mandatory on parking areas
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www.theregister.com The Bing Wallpaper app may decrypt, read your cookies

Microsoft free tool snooping on users? Surely not!

The Bing Wallpaper app may decrypt, read your cookies
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Accepted plasma-desktop 6.2.3 into Debian Sid

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Extreme weather threatens Canada's hydropower future

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www.cbsnews.com Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in

Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American companies.

Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in
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www.theguardian.com Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian article

Peri Pamir given suspended sentence after posting article about UK woman killed fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria

Turkish woman convicted under anti-terror laws for sharing Guardian article
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Flash Drought Gripping US Threatens to Raise Food Prices in 2025

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www.cnbc.com Russian food prices are soaring — but no one dares blame Putin and the war

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied that Russia has exchanged "butter for guns" and blamed the price rises on "unfriendly" countries.

Russian food prices are soaring — but no one dares blame Putin and the war
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'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR

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www.cnbc.com Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities

The growing size of data centers is raising questions about power, land and the environment.

Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities
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Italian food delivery app Foodinho eats another privacy fine

techcrunch.com Italian food delivery app Foodinho eats another privacy fine | TechCrunch

Not for the first time, food delivery firm Foodinho has been spanked by Italy's privacy watchdog. Per Reuters, the Glovo-owned on-demand delivery app has

Italian food delivery app Foodinho eats another privacy fine | TechCrunch
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www.theguardian.com Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz

Ministers also ban government advertising from critical newspaper that is widely respected internationally

Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz
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apnews.com Tens of thousands of Spaniards protest housing crunch and high rents in Barcelona

Tens of thousands of Spaniards are marching in downtown Barcelona to protest the skyrocketing cost of renting an apartment in the popular tourist destination.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards protest housing crunch and high rents in Barcelona
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www.swissinfo.ch Swiss court recognises obesity as a disability under certain conditions

People suffering from obesity are now entitled to social benefits under certain conditions, following a ruling by the Federal Court.

Swiss court recognises obesity as a disability under certain conditions
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'Unsustainable' housing crisis bedevils Spain's socialist govt
  • The title is not wrong, bedevils in this context are burdens / weighs

    The title in French (translate with depl)

    Le gouvernement socialiste espagnol est confronté à une crise du logement "insoutenable

    Translate back to English

    Spain's Socialist government faces an "unsustainable" housing crisis

    The article also mentions that the government is trying to push through laws such as rent caps, punishments for landlords to improve housing.

  • Xi and Mao replace Jesus and Mary in Chinese churches
  • Most religions in China get the same treatment from the CCP.

    Christian communities have had similar experiences.

    In 2016, thousands of crosses were torn down from churches throughout Zhejiang Province. The authorities have also broken up congregations that have not been approved by the state, while church leaders have been arrested and jailed.

    The demolition of domes, crosses and minarets and their replacement by Chinese-styled tiled roofs and Buddhist-styled pagodas. It involves mandatory patriotic education for Buddhist, Christian and Muslim clergy and it entails party-approved sermons and prayers.

    South of Xinjiang in Tibet, the authorities have restricted the practice of Tibetan Buddhism over the last decade. Religious festivals have been banned more frequently and government employees, teachers and students have been barred from participating in religious activities.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/a-jealous-god-china-remakes-religions-in-its-own-image

  • Am I getting banned or something else?
  • The error message is because it hasn't heard of you at all, and isn't going to resolve you because you're not a logged-in local user.

    Apparently there are other users who have the same problem

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
  • It also publicly noted that going NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a tool moderators used to add friction to accessing a subreddit and to make the subreddit ineligible for advertising, was “not acceptable.”

    Easy solution here, post NSFW content in every sub 👍

  • A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests
  • That's the problem there's no common consensus from scientists. What is happening right now is similar to the scenario from The Day After Tomorrow, scientists debate and offer their theories.

    from phys.org today

    Not the day after tomorrow: Why we can't predict the timing of climate tipping points

    A study published in Science Advances reveals that uncertainties are currently too large to accurately predict exact tipping times for critical Earth system components like the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), polar ice sheets, or tropical rainforests.

    These tipping events, which might unfold in response to human-caused global warming, are characterized by rapid, irreversible climate changes with potentially catastrophic consequences. However, as the study shows, predicting when these events will occur is more difficult than previously thought.

    Climate scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have identified three primary sources of uncertainty.

    https://phys.org/news/2024-08-day-tomorrow-climate.html

    Also as Rahmstof said.

    “There’s now five papers, basically, that suggested it could well happen in this century, or even before the middle of the century,” Rahmstof said. “My overall assessment is now that the risk of us passing the tipping point in this century is probably even greater than 50%.”

    While the advances in AMOC research have been swift and the models that try to predict its collapse have advanced at lightning speed, they are still not without issues.

    This research gap means the predictions could underestimate how soon or fast a collapse would happen.

  • Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute
  • I think, what Altman means by Compute is the same as something like Credit Points or Coins. Which you can use to pay bills, rent, buy groceries, etc.

    This is just an excuse from a billionaire to not give you UBI in cash and prefer to use Coins from their digital system and buy their products.