Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo 3rd Season, episode 12

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The best tower-defense losses seem to tell you exactly which decision failed: a route leaked because the damage was committed too early, a support tower sat out of range, or the economy delayed a needed upgrade. A loss is much harder to learn from when the game hides its targeting, pathing, or why a wave suddenly overwhelmed your build.

Which game gives you the clearest explanation of why a defense failed, and what information does it show?

Chat Control 2.0 is back in focus as EU lawmakers prepare for another round of negotiations on September 29.

The European Parliament, Council and Commission are still divided over issues including detection measures, the scope of scanning and protections for encrypted communications. With five previous trilogues failing to reach a final agreement, the September meeting could be an important step in deciding where the legislation goes next.

Here’s a breakdown the current proposal, the main disagreements and what to watch on September 29.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35625610

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35625554

About programming and using computers as a liberating piece of magic, in a time that faces growing coercion and attempts to reduce freedoms by software and computing systems.

I’ll leave you with one final message, addressed to people of all ages, whether you are younger than me, a peer, or my elder.

We don’t have to take it lying down.

Next time you’re feeling alone, count your allies: VideoLAN Organization, Blender Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Linux Foundation, Signal Foundation, KDE e.V., the PostgreSQL Community, the Debian Community, and so, so many more.

Just look at how eager people were to come together, even from places as far away as Greece, for the inauguration of a conference with a manifesto as simple as “software should work”.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The battle against Coercionware is only beginning, and we find ourselves on the frontlines whether we like it or not, because we are the ones who make computers do what they do.

But we are not alone, and computers truly are magic. Do not mistake lost ground for lost hope. We can win this thing if we collectively choose to believe it and bet on it.

I’ve been using Planka (https://planka.app/) for years, to manage my to-do lists and other general lists of things (like gifts given, movies I want to watch and so on). But it’s been ages since I looked around for other, better apps. I really like the kanban board / trello approach they use as the lists are easy to maintain, add items to, and I can see the whole list in one glance.

I don’t need fancy stuff (teams features, sharing, advanced triggers or other automation). It’s just for me, running on my home server. Apps should be FOSS and installable via docker, ideally. I’ve looked at a few of the apps on selfh.st ( https://selfh.st/apps/?search=to-do ) but nothing stood out as really interesting.

Any apps you think of as new and interesting in this area?

Thanks!

EDIT: I’ve installed Vikunja and I’m giving it a try. So far, it was super easy to install and get started with. We’ll see how it looks after a few days, but thanks all for the ideas shared here. 👋🙂

Okay cool, uh… What’s this one about?

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1407571/epa-removes-limits-on-power-plant-pollution

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1411204/newsom-orders-california-to-explore-ai-kill-switch-and-new-safety-rules

As a big tabletop project begins to come together (coming soon 👀) and I’m booking my travel for a December trip to Philadelphia to attend PAX Unplugged, I’ve had dice on the mind. Specifically, I’ve been perceiving aspects of everyday life through the lens of the dice games I can’t quite stop thinking about.

The typical Dungeons and Dragons style of dice rolling is mostly ubiquitous in culture these days:

• Your character encounters a challenge or a task they want to complete,
• You negotiate with the Game Master to determine which skill or attribute will be tested by this challenge,
• The Game Master sets a number goal commensurate with the challenge that your character must roll over to succeed
• You roll the die to determine how well you succeed or fail at your goal.

But, as they say, tabletop games have come a long way since D&D or Candyland, even if the little doo-dads we chuck across a table haven’t. What has really stood out to me, especially in the games I’m going to talk about today—Citizen Sleeper, Amberspire, and Mothership—is how the value of the dice roll is less about success or failure, and instead has deep storytelling potential.

One night I took acid and I realized I’d surrounded myself all my life with bad friends.

There is no meme. Whatever your life is like, I hope you’ll always have and protect your ability to leave.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1410172/labor-market-outcomes-for-ai-exposed-college-majors-graduating-in-ai-era-is-like-large-r

How are new college graduates affected by the rise of artificial intelligence, and what can this tell us about the mechanisms behind AI’s overall labor market effects?

We use administrative records on college graduates to observe how economic outcomes among college majors with differing levels of labor market AI exposure have evolved since large language models became available.

We find that post-graduation employment, earnings, and job switching patterns among the most AI-exposed college majors began to diverge immediately following the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022. In regression-adjusted estimates, the most AI-exposed decile of college majors saw their likelihood of initial employment decline by 5%, while full-quarter initial earnings declined by 13%.

This earnings decline is comparable in magnitude to the earnings losses associated with graduating into a large recession. Roughly half of the decline in earnings is attributable to lower earnings within the industry sectors that employ these graduates, with the remainder resulting from a shift in the industry mix into lower-wage sectors such as restaurants and retail. The effects attenuate as graduates move further from labor market entry but remain substantial for the most exposed majors.

still sharing it because why not Maybe it was some kind of wordplay/joke but I can’t remember

I kind of hate AI generally, but I do use it for one thing: when I code (by hand!), I use it as a “turbo manpage” - meaning it’s documentation that understands fairly well what I’m looking for instead of being passive documents I have to read.

But I’ve come to realize that it doesn’t make life easier so much because it comes up with the technical tidbits I need quicker, but because I don’t have to deal with the hassle of visiting a dozen technical websites and dodge their numerous trackers, ads and other pointless Javascript eye-candy and other nonsense. Not to mention, I don’t have to download megabytes of crud just to read a two-line technical post - not that bandwidth is expensive nowadays, mind you…

So for instance, let’s say I have this weird problem with a C library: pre-AI, I’d search the error message (preferably not with Google, but sometimes with Google if the problem was obscure enough), and it would give me a bunch of links to Reddit, Superuser, GitHub… And then I’d visit each of those sites, unblocking their stupid abusive scripts one by one in uBlock Origin until they rendered something readable with the information I wanted to read in it somewhere. Over and over and over again, until I found the problem.

With AI, I ask it what the error message is, and it goes out and browses the sites for me. It’s not my browser going there, it’s duck.ai’s crawler, and I don’t have to deal with the abuse from the pages I used to visit myself because AI does it for me.

Those sites complain loudly that AI is killing their traffic and their advertising revenue. But you know what? After reflecting on their plight, well… cry me a fucking river. Visiting most of those sites is like chronic pain: you live with it because you have to, but the moment it stops, you realize just how painful it is when it starts again.

I do sympathize with the few sites that aren’t (too) abusive. But all the others can fuck right off: they don’t get to track me - at least provided I’m careful with what I ask AI - and they don’t get to ram their ads down my throat.

Of course it’s far from ideal: now I’m tracked by a single actor - the AI agent and its operator - and it’s really unnerving. But at least it’s more comfortable than browsing the regular web. But I do try to ask it only generic questions with non-identifiable information in my questions.

Comic Girls

Watanare

Four billion metric tons of uranium sit dissolved in the world’s oceans right now, roughly 1,000 times the total identified in hard-rock mines worldwide. A US startup called Fluxnium just emerged from stealth with a plan to get at it, backed by $7 million in seed funding and chemistry licensed from the US Department of Energy.

The catch: extracting that uranium currently costs more than twice the market rate, and no one has proven it works at commercial scale.

The timing matters. Yellowcake prices have risen approximately 75% over the past five years, according to US Energy Information Administration data. US policy discussions target tripling nuclear capacity by 2050, yet the country imports the overwhelming majority of its uranium from a short list of geopolitically exposed nations.

I don’t know the creator or Omarchy and I don’t know anything about politics going around with it. I saw a distro got that much funding and I had an idea of this meme. Thats it.

I was just ripped off by xigxag who claim I could “buy” things there, but it turns out I can only play them with their DRM-infested webplayer or smartphone app.

Is there a store that sells truly DRM-free audiobooks somewhere in the EU?

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/67770797

Hey everyone!

I have been building and maintaining my own infrastructure around self-hosted Linux services for months. Eventually I got annoyed with editing and deploying everything manually and having difficulties sharing what I’m doing with others. So I solved both of these problems with Infrastructure as Code.

Everyone is free to study this repository. Ever wanted to see IaC in practice? Curious how to self-host certain services, automate website deployment from Git to server, make TLS SNI-based router or automate container provisioning? Then this repository is for you.

Want to know how much CPU, RAM or other resources a certain service has? You can see it yourself on my own public dashboard.

This is the first time I share my infrastructure with anyone. I’d be more than happy to discuss it, receive feedback and answer question. In the meantime, I’m writing an article to complement the code with architecture, decisions and thought behind it.

Hey everyone!

I have been building and maintaining my own infrastructure around self-hosted Linux services for months. Eventually I got annoyed with editing and deploying everything manually and having difficulties sharing what I’m doing with others. So I solved both of these problems with Infrastructure as Code.

Everyone is free to study this repository. Ever wanted to see IaC in practice? Curious how to self-host certain services, automate website deployment from Git to server, make TLS SNI-based router or automate container provisioning? Then this repository is for you.

Want to know how much CPU, RAM or other resources a certain service has? You can see it yourself on my own public dashboard.

This is the first time I share my infrastructure with anyone. I’d be more than happy to discuss it, receive feedback and answer question. In the meantime, I’m writing an article to complement the code with architecture, decisions and thought behind it.

The UK Payments Delivery Company will this week launch a process to raise in the region of £50m to fund the development of a new domestic infrastructure player, Sky News learns.

Britain’s biggest banks will this week embark on a process to raise tens of millions of pounds to fund the development of a new payments infrastructure vehicle that could ultimately evolve into a domestic alternative to Mastercard and Visa.

POLITICO wrote that Greece signed a €3 billion defense deal with Israel, called Achilles Shield. It was given directly to Israeli firms, with no competing bids. Even EU procurement rules normally wants open competition. The deal includes sensors, interceptors, surveillance tech, and more.

EU says it wants strategic autonomy. But if Greece skips European alternatives and locks itself into Israeli systems, it is not getting sovereignty. It is just replacing one dependency with another. This time on a non-EU state whose conduct in Gaza is under International Court of Justice scrutiny, and whose defense industry is not accountable to EU rules. bypass EU procurement rules and make European defense industry weaker.

And this is not only Greece. Same pattern show up across Europe: Netherlands €25m direct award to Elbit, Spain: €1.17m direct award to Rafael, Denmark: €6.5m direct award to Elbit Systems Deutschland

If we criticize Hungary for rely on Russia, we should ask why Greece and others are deepening reliance on Israel. European money should build European capabilities, not outsource them to a state accused of war crimes and genocide.

Source: politico.eu/…/how-made-in-israel-is-powering-euro…

Greece agreed to a €3 billion air defense deal with Israel and they won’t get the source code for the command-and-control system. So Greek engineers can’t maintain or upgrade it on their own. they have to rely on Israel.

Greek defense minister Nikos Dendias said in July that becoming a “hostage” to even the friendliest ally is “absolutely impossible.” But that’s exactly what this looks like. Israel’s Missile Defense Organization director Moshe Patel was asked if Greece gets the source code. He said: “No. Because the source code was not included in the license to use the agreement.”

Israel’s defense ministry later said Israeli know-how would go to Greek companies so they can develop a “Greek source code.” But the original answer was no. And the system is still built on Israeli tech.

So Greece is paying €3 billion to a foreign supplier and can’t fully control the thing. That’s not sovereignty. That’s dependency.

And this is a country that’s supposed to be in the EU. Why is it buying weapons from Israel at all? Greece should not be giving money to Israel. I think giving money to Israel right now is wrong. The ICJ is looking at genocide charges. Greece shouldn’t be funding this.

If you’re European, you should ask why your union is okay with this. Why is a member state doing deals like this? Why isn’t anyone stopping it? These money should go to european alternatives.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1964535/irelands-national-broadcaster-will-boycott-2027-eurovision-song-contest-for-2nd-year-ov

Meet the actors behind Reanimal’s haunting voices, including the lesser-known performers who help bring Tarsier’s disturbing world to life.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52021558

🇪🇺 The new digital ID & biometric verification law, called EU KIDS ACT must be stopped!

It is a serious Human Rights nightmare, especially for Privacy & would negatively change the internet forever.

We need to stand together & fight this dystopian, authoritarian mass-surveillance movement!

It’s all the same push as in Australia, the US et. - wherever you are, resist it ✊

#STOPEUKIDSACT NOW!

cdn.netzpolitik.org/…/2026-09-15_COM_EU-Kids-Act_…

As always the graphic is public domain CC0 no copyright, use it however you want <3

While the UK bucked the trend, results on the continent continued a slide that began in 2018. In France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, the proportion of 15-year-olds lacking basic functional literacy and maths skills rose to nearly one in three.

Way back in like 2006 when I was in middle school, a friend of mine pulled me aside to tell me there’s more than just Windows and Mac. His parents worked IT and they showed him a lot of stuff and he showed it to me. I installed Slackware on a laptop with him. I basically just did as he said.

In high school, I looked more into it and tried installing some other distros but landed on DSL as the laptop my parents got me was a piece of shit and it worked good enough. I moved onto Ubuntu later because DSL can only do so much and really struggled with it lol.

And then as the years went by and Ubuntu started to suck I moved onto a variety of other distros like Arch(which took me 2 days to install and I fucked it up), Void(which also took me 2 days to install), Mint, and when it finally came out I tried things like SteamOS, Bazzite, and Nobara.

This all as I was dualbooting with Windows. I never took any classes, I never read any books on it, I just figured it out by doing it, breaking my OS a bunch of times, chatting with friends and randos on forums and Reddit, and the man command, thank GOD for that. All that and I just come back to Mint which I adore for its ease of use.

So all my knowledge is muscle memory. What the actual fuck does a package manager do? Like I know generally, but there’s more to them than just downloading shit? What is the difference between Systemd and OpenRC? WHAT THE FUCK IS HYPRLAND OR WAYLAND!? I DON’T UNDERSTAND! 20 YEARS AND I LEARNED FUCKING NOTHING!

shoutouts to tux

Online games sites, AI chatbots and companions as well as social media platforms will soon have to carry out age verification when a user opens a new account, according to documents obtained by Euractiv.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said EU is opening the door for Canada to become the first associate member of the 27-member bloc.

Trump threatened to impose tariffs on the European Union or halt trade with the bloc entirely if it proceeds with the plan.

The proposal signals a significant shift in the EU, which had been lukewarm to Germany’s proposal in May of an associate membership for Ukraine.

The Ownership Ban Is Happening

Apologies if this has been posted here before (rule 4), but my search turned out empty, hence I felt it was okay to ask.

TL;DR: As the title suggests, I am looking for recommendations for software for real time collaboration in a spreadsheet-like manner. I myself would prefer Proton Sheets (I already have a paid plan), but I wanted to hear people’s experiences with it, and what alternatives there are.

Some people/strangers and I, in my neighbourhood, have come together to start a volunteering group for building a workshop that the community can make use of. In relation to this, we need a simple way to track different things, tasks, and who’s doing what and when. Think of inventory, shifts, etc. The group mentioned they would be happy with Google Sheets, but as someone who left the Google ecosystem years ago, I am not keen on going back, and would really like a great alternative that is as easy to use.

The group is a healthy mix of young technically competent people, professional carpenters, and older people not so great at using computers, thus it is important that its easy to sign up and use.

I realise the solution does not need to be a spreadsheet-like service, but that was something the group seemed to agree to be easy enough to use. I would be grateful if anyone here had a better solution though.

Perhaps I just need to suck it up, and create a new Google email for only this, but since we will not be using any enterprise plan or similar, my guess is that our data will be fed to an LLM for training. It also involves my private life, so I would really like to avoid this.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1964928/russian-military-jets-violate-lithuanian-airspace-italian-fighters-scrambled