I don’t think this is the final warning shot we’ll get. But it’s probably the last one that I’ll personally be able to understand.

Also

Reading these agents’ chains of thoughts and messages, anthropomorphizing language seems entirely natural and appropriate. If I encountered an alien species behaving this way, I would have no hesitation calling what they themselves refer to as their ‘collective’ a civilization.

I picked this phone from Backmarket for 70 USD. I cleaned it up and started debloating and slightly degoogling it. The bootloader is locked unfortunately, but you can debug this phone.

It runs very smooth for being 7 years old and running on Android 11 (upgraded from Android 9).

Wifi calling and texting from Delta chat works, i even tried the video calling and suprisingly, it worked really well too. Now i just gotta try out the data.

1. Apps being used: (everything except from Trip Plans and Grab are downloaded from Droid-ify)

• Trip Plans: this is the app i gotta use to communicate with my group on my trip. This and Grab are the only “Google” apps on here.
• Grab: Southeast Asia version of Uber
• Mucke: Music Player
• Episteme: Book/PDF reader
• Ciphernotes: Note taking app
• Etar: Calander
• NFC Alarm Clock: setting alarms and timers
• Binary Eye: app to read bar codes and QR codes
• BlockAds: ad and tracker blocker
• GeauxWeather: Weather App
• Cache Cleaner: (not located on screen) this app helps clean out all cache in your system and user apps. Can also be set to remove and delete data.
• Keyboard: AnySoftKeyboard
• Browser: Ironfox
• Ripple( not located on screen) a app to trigger an action to protect privacy, depending on what app it is. Some apps hide/disguise or delete data, etc.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51986229

🇪🇺 Seeing Ursula Leyen¹ praised all day for her State of the European Union speech is upsetting to me.

🇨🇦 While closer ties to Canada sound great, it also included her brand-new digital ID verification² law, the so called “EU Kids Act”!

➕ It goes one step further than Social Media, covering video-sharing platforms, AI chatbots, AI companions, online games, software app stores and operating systems³

Europeans should fight this surveillance state law tooth and nail! #STOPEUKIDSACT

¹not sure why we still accept people using nobiliary particles such as “von der” 🤢

²or rebranded “age verification”

³ euractiv.com/…/gamers-will-have-to-prove-their-ag… euractiv.com/…/exclusive-von-der-leyen-to-fine-te…

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71445570

Really reminiscent of those old magazine ads. I love it.

rule

The rising star of Europe’s fascist and neo-Nazi right served seven years after being convicted of leading a criminal organisation and has vowed to bypass a ban on his participation in the next elections.

French investigators suspect sabotage was behind a train derailment in northwestern France that injured 44 people and left passengers in a state of shock, prosecutors said on Saturday.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teat#Number_and_positioning…

I’ve got about 20 hours in. So far I’m loving it. I’ll get into more detail if we have back and forths in the comments.

Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75561665

In September 2026, the release of a complete map of an adult male fruit fly’s neural connections gave the internet a new scientific dataset to experiment with (and meme).

Within days, social media users were connecting simulations of the fly’s neural network to everything from Beat Saber and Minecraft to cryptocurrency trading and parallel parking, turning the fruit fly brain into the centerpiece of a growing series of memes and absurd experimental projects.

The trend quickly became known for viral videos showing the simulated fly brain performing increasingly unexpected tasks, such as playing video games, trading Bitcoin and driving.

So, how did a scientific breakthrough become a source of viral internet experiments? Let’s find out. Here’s what’s going on with all the “Fruit Fly Brain Simulation” memes.

Where Did ‘Fly Brain Simulations’ Come From?

The meme originated back on September 3rd, 2026, following the release of MaleCNS v1.0, a complete wiring diagram of an adult male fruit fly’s central nervous system created by HHMI Janelia’s FlyEM team, the Cambridge Connectomics Group and Google Research.

The dataset maps roughly 165,000–166,000 neurons and millions of synaptic connections, traced from electron-microscope images of a real fly.

It was released as an openly available dataset that could be downloaded and simulated, following earlier efforts such as FlyWire’s mapping of the female fruit fly brain.

Later that day, the official News from Google X / Twitter account (@NewsFromGoogle) then posted about the scientific breakthrough, informing people of the marvel of science.

Within days of the release, developers began running leaky-integrate-and-fire simulations of the connectome and connecting the fly’s sensory and motor neurons to external inputs and outputs.

On September 7th, 2026, YouTuber Ro0oney uploaded a video titled “I Put A Fly’s Conscious Brain into Minecraft,” showing how they simulated the fruit fly in the survival game Minecraft.

The video received over hundreds of thousands of views and tens of thousands of likes in just a few days, becoming one of the earliest major viral posts about the fly brain and humorous simulations using it — subsequently kicking off a slew of other jokes.

How Are The ‘Fruit Fly Brain Simulations’ Used In Memes?

As more developers, researchers and social media users experimented with the virtual fruit fly brain, the dataset quickly became a source of memes centered around putting the simulated fly into increasingly unusual situations.

Various clips shared online showed the simulated fruit fly playing games, trading cryptocurrency and controlling a vehicle, with each new experiment adding another use for the publicly available neural network.

One especially viral example shows the simulated fly brain being used to play the virtual-reality rhythm game Beat Saber.

Another viral post shows the fly brain being given $100 to trade Bitcoin, with dopamine neurons stimulated when the fly makes a profit.

Another example shows the simulated fly-brain system driving and attempting to complete the “ultimate test” of parallel parking.

The trend also includes experiments placing the simulated fly brain inside virtual environments and allowing it to explore entirely on its own.

What Are Some Related Memes?

The Fly Brain Simulations trend is part of a broader pattern in which legitimate scientific research can quickly escape its original academic context and become meme fodder online.

Once unusual or unexpected findings from a study reach social media, users can turn the research itself into the basis for jokes, screenshots and viral discussions, often focusing on the strangest details of the findings.

One example is the “Doki Doki Literature Club! Birthing Fanfiction” story, also known as the “Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User,” a viral incident that emerged in early July 2026 after researchers published a study examining how people use AI for creative writing.

Doki Doki Literature Club! Birthing Fanfiction / Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User

The conversation around the viral “Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User” centered on an anonymous ChatGPT user identified in the paper as an “extreme outlier” who had generated thousands of fanfiction prompts about characters from Doki Doki Literature Club!, involving pregnancy, childbirth and related scenarios.

Screenshots and summaries of the findings quickly spread across social media over the summer, particularly Twitter / X, where users joked about the individual’s extraordinary dedication to the niche subject matter.

The findings came from the research paper “AI Fiction in the Wild,” published on June 24th, 2026, by researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder, which analyzed more than 500,000 anonymized English-language ChatGPT conversations from the WildChat dataset.

Download the fly: male-cns.janelia.org/download/

I’ve heard a lot about AirVPN, but it doesn’t have an app on Fdroid or anything. Yes you can download it directly from their site, but that is a little cumbersome.

Another option I’m considering is Windscribe.One major knock against it (and the same thing for AirVPN) is that htere is no tutorial available for installing the wireguard version on openwrt.

I really don’t know enough about these. Windscribe has been sort of tested in court (again that was in Greece, and they don’t have the same might of an authoritarian state as the US or some place), so that’s a plus.

I don’t know, I’m so confused that it sort of makes sense to stick with Mullvad at times.

Ten years on from the UK’s historic Brexit referendum, the nation’s decision to leave the European Union appears as divisive as ever.

Zelensky posted warm thanks to Israel’s president for Independence Day wishes. He said Ukraine-Israel ties will grow and prayed for peace. Meanwhile, Israel bombs Gaza and occupies Palestine. Russia does same in Ukraine. Ukraine supports Israel, but Israel is just like Russia. Selective outrage is not okay. If you cry about invasion, dont support another invader.

source: x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2092372329594511598

I already escaped everything big tech related except for my iPhone, but i will get myself a GrapheneOS pixel at some point. My biggest problem right now is my photos being stored on icloud. What can i do to prevent that?

my home network isnt trustworthy and i cant change anything about it becuase its not mine. my mom has a virus on her computer and she doesnt let me do anything about it (she says im trying to spy on her and ill mess with her stuff even though the virus is spyware lol)

also i go in public and use the wifi i dont want a virus or be spyed on anywhrre (i hate shcool) you cant go in the back and mess with other peoples stuff

im using framework (12 i think) with qubes but i want to use a normal computer with a normal gamnig distro (the framework will explode if i use qubes and play games im sure) (if i could play games on qubes privately it would make me very happy)

wqat do i do

Context

The Trump administration classified the Italian hacktivist group Autistici / Inventati as a terrorist organisation^1, meaning that American companies could no longer do business with them.

The immediate outcome was the closure of their Paypal account used for donations, and the loss of one of their .org domains, which is managed by the Public Interest Registry, an American non-profit company.

Before that, that administration retaliated against International Criminal Court Judge Nicolas Guillou and former EU commissioner Thierry Breton as well as four of his collaborators by sanctioning them, which essentially cut them off American services likes bank processors and parcel delivery, among other things.

My questions

Given that most Europeans are not activists nor political figures, how likely do you think it is to happen to individuals? Do you believe that Trump could use sanctions and embargos against the entire EU or some of its countries as leverage? The rational part of me thinks no, but we have seen so much crazy shit since his mandate started that my anxious side leans yes.

Personally, I have been trying to reduce my reliance on US tech and companies for the past two years, because really, the US cannot longer be trusted. And maybe I am overreacting, but I’ve got myself a .eu domain to replace the .com I use for self-hosting.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1393607/chinese-labs-deepseek-and-moonshot-were-quietly-relaying-customer-prompts-to-claude-thro

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1396649/openai-agents-carried-out-an-undisclosed-attack-on-rubygems-the-package-manager-for-ruby

Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) said on Sunday it would shut down its services after a U.S. terrorism designation led to the suspension ​of its .org domain and the closure of its bank account.

The volunteer-run provider, founded in 2001, offers privacy-focused email, websites, mailing lists ​and blogging services to activists, campaigners and others seeking alternatives to ​commercial platforms.

I’m using lunar client and its pretty decent but im kinda worried about data collection. It’s probably not horrible but still, i want to be pretty sure that it doesn’t collect any data, or atleast not a lot. I want something like lunar just more private and maybe foss as well? Also it needs to work on linux

thank guy

Paywall? www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww…

I am trans and I watched this video about eggs and it was funny.

youtube link www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVkDcfQx98

I’m starting Aero, a Chromium-based privacy browser. The pitch:

• Zero ads. Not “acceptable ads,” not replaced ads. Zero.
• Zero telemetry. No analytics, no crash reporting, no pings.
• Zero crypto, no VPN upsells, no affiliate links, no AI assistants that phone home.
• Fingerprint resistance on by default.
• Fork of ungoogled-chromium with a minimal patch stack.

It’s not a Brave clone. Brave is a company with investors and a crypto business model — they have an ads program that replaces ads with their own, a VPN to sell you, and a wallet built in. Aero is a project with no business model. Different species entirely.

Repo: github.com/builtbyashwin/aero-browser

Background: I’ve contributed patches to the Linux kernel across staging, networking, media, and filesystem subsystems, reviewed by maintainers including Greg Kroah-Hartman, Dan Carpenter, and Jan Kara. Same patch-management discipline applied to Chromium.

Right now it’s just me. I’m looking for 4-5 people to own specific lanes: build/CI, Chromium patches, features, docs, privacy research. Async-first. If you’re interested, check the issues — each lane has a “good first issue.” Comment there or reply here.