Christ, well that’s not surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less horrific. As you mentioned several times in the quotes, the UN is meeting with the Taliban this Sunday to discuss Afghanistan as a whole, and the Taliban has demanded that no Afghani women be present for this meeting. This report really calls into question the point of the meeting. If the Taliban are treating Afghani women this way, and the Taliban deny that they are even arresting women for “bad hijab”, then what is there to even talk about?

Ugh so grim. This genocide just keeps on rolling and it feels like no one can do anything about it

i bring it up because there was a discussion at some point about whether beehaw as a whole should allow bots. I think the agreement was that some users still find them helpful. I’m just questioning if that is still the case, as the summary doesn’t strike me as particularly useful. But if others disagree, then i have no beef with it.

i gotta say, this AutoTL:DR seems kind of…bad. “she tells NPR” is a pronoun attached to person that is not named elsewhere in the TLDR. Maybe Beehaw should look into banning this one? I’m not sure how to offer feedback to the bot’s author.

Taranum, who only has one name and guesses her age at 34, sleeps here with her three daughters. She was recently diagnosed with typhoid, an illnessmore prevalent during heatwaves when water contaminates more easily. She said at the peak of her illness, she felt like she would die. She’s terrified at the thought.

“I can’t die,” she says. “We are homeless. Who will take care of my daughters?” She shakes her head: “But I can’t complain. Other people have it harder. Two babies died in this heat.”

Absolutely grim. Homeless single mothers stricken with typhoid that say “I can’t complain because others have it worse.” Remind me again, why are billionaires allowed to exist in a world where this happens?

Great explainer about the changes, and reasons why it actually behooves Google to continue to allow ad blockers in some form. All that said…this still reaffirms my decision to go Firefox, always and forever, to get the most complete privacy options.

They’re taking on the entire Republic of Gamers, all by themselves? Those madlads!

I hate how the Atlantic will publish well-thought pieces like this, and then turn around and publish op-eds like this that are practically drooling with lust for AI.

on the mobile version they forbid this :(

at least they allow addons on mobile. i think mobile Chrome STILL doesn’t

This was posted in c/Environment yesterday. I bring that up to point you over to that thread, where @Powderhorn@beehaw.org had some great insights into why this move is more regressive than it sounds.

Why does the title focus on 3D pipes specifically?

The developer kicked off a screen saver contest among the Windows OpenGL team, with 3D Pipes being one of the entries alongside 3D Maze, 3D Text, and 3D Flying Objects. The team was supposed to vote for a single winner to be included with Windows NT 3.5, but when a person on Microsoft’s marketing team saw them, he said, “You can call off the vote. We’re adding all of them to the product!”

I feel like I hear about 3D Maze way more when people are reminiscing about old screensavers. Just sorta weird titling

how much more evidence do we need that Israel are the bad guys? Every reasonable nation in the world is pressing for a ceasefire because of the obscene casualties, and Israel said “nah we came to finish this genocide don’t be too mad okay?”

love to get science confirming things that we mostly already suspect. like genuinely, it’s nice to have evidence to back up things that we want to believe.

On an unrelated note, the VR device they created to test this is kind of fascinating. Like…

The rat is harnessed in the VR system, designed by Shinsuke Tanaka, a postdoc in the Lee Lab. As the rat walks on a spherical treadmill, its movements are translated on the 360-degree screen. The rat is rewarded when it navigates to its goal…In the second task, the “Jedi” task—a nod to Star Wars—the rat moves an object to a location by thoughts alone. The rat is fixed in a virtual place but “moves” an object to a goal in the VR space by controlling its hippocampal activity, like how a person sitting in their office might imagine taking a cup next to the coffee machine and filling it with coffee.

They made an interface that allows a rat to control a virtual avatar with brain activity alone? I did not expect that to be how this test worked.

you’re right i’ve got a premium product on my hands

he can pay me $1 for a taste of deez nuts.

Camelcamelcamel already has an extension.

I wouldn’t say that nothing has changed. Maybe you have to be a former daily user to notice, but most of the subs have gone downhill. Quality of posts is at a 10-year low, likely due to the mass exodus of power users and mods. I’m not saying that every valuable user has left, and I’m not saying that reddit is dead. But the quality-to-shit ratio went from 60/40 to 40/60, and it is noticeable.

i took their comment as more of a call to action, to highlight that there will be no “breaking point” unless we make one. if there are examples in other, similar countries where people simply did nothing rather than rising up, then it’s not hard to imagine it happening here. folks who talk about how we will reach a “breaking point” often don’t imagine themselves being part of the change.

we are quickly careening towards a world where textbooks cost $500 a pop and the majority of students obtain their books illegally. Piracy is a pain in the ass, but if students need their textbooks and the publishers make it impossible to obtain textbooks without taking out a loan, then publishers are effectively paying students to spend the time figuring out piracy. If a student makes $15 an hour at their job, then they could spend 30 hours researching and downloading their textbook and it would still be a better use of their time than actually buying a $500 textbook.

I think that’s something on your end, but more likely it’s some way that Lemmy decided to disagree with your specific app and hardware. The codebase underlying Lemmy is a buggy mess that is largely outside of the control of server admins.