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I'm tired of the febreze plugins not lasting very long and the scent seems to disappear after 3 or 4 days.

The wires will show in black and white the connection between Trump and Epstein, without an any doubt. Trump cannot effectively cast doubt upon a bunch of bank records that can be validated. No excuses, no ability to cast blame, and a solid connection. “The list” may be a distraction from the money trail

Victims were unlikely to have received wire transfers, so they can’t be hurt by the release. If there are victims listed just redact or maybe just release wires over $5k as these cheap bastards never paid anyone much.

it would be super interesting if Trump finally released his that he promised to us 10 years ago, so we can compare the funds in the wires to the returns.

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He doesn't know how to tell their children where she went.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/114266

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This post kinda fits (and kinda does not) both !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !privacy@programming.dev. please forgive if it feels out of place.

I used to host a "drive" for my collegemates (and juniors), which consisted of all the courses and related material (lecture notes (official, or what i made), software, code, research articles, assignments, media, video lectures, books, test, etc...). Earlier I used sharepoint (onedrive) which our college had made a deal with ms to get (1 tb for everyone). But at some point sharepoint started "faultering" (while I am almost certain it was not realted to pirated books and stuff, but there was a small chance that it was), and I then switched to proton ( i got a yearly plan with student discount - coming to something around $2/month for mail and 15 GB storage). Earlier this year, I switched to posteo for mail provider (multiple reasons, but one of the primary ones was cost ($1 without discounts), a simple imap setup), but kept the stuff on proton drive. Now my subscription for proton has ran out, and do not plan to renew it.

I am not the only one who does this kinda stuff, but I was first in our department. Other departments (older than us) already had some other long running drives, which essentially become useless when original maker graduates, so new stuff has to be made for each batch. Also, most other drives are hosted on google drive, or sharepoint. I could consider the college sharedrive again, but recently microsoft broke the deal, stating our college was using too much storage (something like 50-60 TiB), and then froze acceess for everyone. this was sorted, with weeks of down time, and our limit decreased to 15 GB (1.5% of previos limit). I do not want that to happen with my drive. I also take some prestige in my drive, because it is arguably the best organised, and has the most stuff (i find many books, if not available, get them from library, or purchase them, then scan and ocr, or assignments, which you are not meant to share with others, but i do mostly because for end sems they serve as practice).

I want a "semi anonymous" (anyone can see/upload stuff without accounts) (semi because tonnes of stuff has my personal identity (name on assignments and tests), somewhat private and "piracy friendly" (so no mainstream stuff like google and onedrive works, especially because i currently do not have a account for either to upload), and non public (or at least, be something like a very long and random url, stuff which will likely not end up on search engine indices). I am willing to pay too, provided, once i get access to drive, others can upload/download stuff without accounts (people will likely not sign up for random stuff, yet another step of friction)(sharepoint was good in this aspect. you could make a public link to which anyone could upload. they did not have edit access (delete/modify existing files) without login, but those operations are relatively rare).

*What I have considered, but can not be done - *

• a private git repo, with some hosted webui (something like forego) - the actual size of stuff is not that large (5gib if consider stuff only related to course work, 80gib if i include other stuff(like offline wiki/stack overflow/other wikis backups)), so i could just get something like a 128 or 256 gib ssd, connect to a sbc (which i would have to buy, but practically a 1 time cost).

• a private torrent

• a google/onedrive, but i compress and/or encrypt the stuff, so they will not practically check content

• our college's existing infra (made by student welfare body), which already hosts tests for some of the courses, and another website, which hosts "some" (barely anything) other resources, likely useful websites, or lecture notes

*Why not possible? *

• intended audience is essentially tech illiterate - many of them do not know much about what files/folders are. they usuallly do not dowwnload stuff (so they keep going back to drive, to view stuff in browser previews). they can not download stuff and then extract. they most definitely can not do that for the compression i usually use (it is a zstd in squashfs (as to why specifically this - it effectivelly uncompresses only the stuff it needs, like a pdf from a folder containing pdfs, so storage space saving at cost of slight cpu increase (zstd helps to lower that usage)), for windows - you need 7zip, which most do not have). they can not decrypt stuff. they can not torrent (like 95+% have no idea how torrenting even works. to them, that is just a way to acquire "linux isos"). out of 5%, maybe 4.5% will not be able to work with priavte torrents (something they have no experience with)

• our college's infra forbids most of copyrighted material. they forbid tests which were not allowed to leave exam premises. (In those cases, I used ot memorise the questions, and recreate the tests, or when we went to check our answersheets, I would try to take pictures of question paper/answer sheets)(this was not the case for majority of courses, but a significant minority for sure)(this was done mostly by professors who teach a course multiple times, and do not want to design questions every year, and they just rehash old stuff). They forbid any executable stuff. (they have allowed file types of common multimedia formats. but from my minimal testing, they just do a stupid extension check, and not file metadata or headers, so i can fool this shit, by making zips and then appending a .txt or .pdf at end).

is there some other drive provider I can consider? which has good usability, and mostly anon? there is mega drive/pcloud, icecloud, and many others, who provide somewhat private/anonymous viewing. some of them have quite generous free plans too, so I can use some of them as backups. but most do not have a "qol" features (for example, afaik, mega drive does not do previews, they download in a wierd way in browser memory, and then to your filesystem, others have little information available).

I could consider maybe something like archive.org, if I do a very tedious task of making most of stuff not have my names, and making a archive.org account is easy , but that is still a deterrent.

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PS: For anyone wondering about legality or ethics of this drive - it is a mixed bag. I definitely have copyrighted works which I did not acquire properly. I share stuff which I am not supposed to. hence i decided to post on piracy subreddit.

on to ethics - many of our professors know about this. most are fine with it. some complain that I am ruining future students, by providing most stuff in a easy single spot, and that leads them to not go to classes or stuff. But i disagree with them. kids not going to classes is only weakly dependent on availability of notes, but stongly dependent on the nature of course, for example teachers interactivity or teaching style. Some professors even like the drive, and also use it (as a reference for what was taught earlier, or questions they have already used.) IMO, their tests become better (less rote learning type stuff, and more applications based stuff, for which you can come up with questions for).

A funny side story - My drive was used in a "mass cheating" case. In one of our programming related courses (we are not studying computer science, and this course was a effectively - how to use python to do some scientific computation). Our prof was very chill, and allowed people to use internet freely, and even allowed using chatgpt (at that time, it was like a few months old) to write the programs (essentially, we were expected to know the "science", and formulate a good set of equations, and then use python (or any other language for that matter). so allowing use of internet/gpt was just to allow people not good at programming, but good at the actual science to perform well too.). He also knew about my drive, and encouraged people to check it. (I got most of the packages setup for most people, also had a good relationship with the prof prior to course). During midsem, a "eureka" like moment hit. My drive would largely automatically sync stuff once a day. what if, during exam, my drive would sync, lets just say, every 10 minutes, then my solutions (as i write them) would be avaialable on the drive in during the exam, and somewhat frequently updated. But it would feel odd for everyone to check a single drive, the same file, at the same time. So I also wrote small curl scripts for windows and mac folks, which would pull the required file every 10 or so minutes from the drive. Now it would feel as if everyone was checking some other code (probably old code from class)(ot was a open book/notes/internet exam). Was what i did technincally rule breaking ? - no, people were allowed to use my drive, i just made much of that process automated. Was it ethical ? - definitely not. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I was doing it one part for the giggles. Also, I was not the one who actually came up with the idea (someone gave a rough proto-idea, upon which i further developed upon). What was the result? No one caught the cheating. Teaching instructors (tas) find it normal for people to check otheer files, or a terminal process running. Not everyone used it. I was not checking from others, but roughly 80+% of class was using it. But someone snitched (i got to know did that fairly soon. he also cheated). Luckily, no disciplinary action was taken against me (I could have been suspended, or even rusticated, since it was a mass cheating), but the prof was very chill. He did scold me a lot. did not talk with me in his usual jovial manner for few weeks, but it eventually got ok. NOBODY (including me) got any punishment or point deduction.

edits 2 PS2: while reading the last part again, I realised what i had done was something close to implementing a adblock. you are allowed to close the ads manually (like checking drive manually). It is only frowned upon, if a program (like ublock) closes all the ads (in this case, by blocking ads from being even fetched, in the background) (like using a curl script to fetch the file in background).

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I'm sure I'd be preaching to the choir if I told you that it's time for us to immigrate from übercorp owned social media and services. All of you have done so, so that's not the point of this post. Even though we are on these new platforms, the fediverse is still sensitive to requests from governmental bodies and organizations. Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same. Due to the size of Matrix's biggest homeserver matrix.org, the admins of said homeserver are beginning to follow the OSA and have already raised their minimum age to 18+. And instances who don't follow the Act could be subjected to insurmountable paperwork and even blocked from the UK, Australia and other countries enacting these outrageous laws soon.

Blocking UK users to avoid this is almost a necessity, and as Labour is attempting to get lawmakers to outlaw VPNs, we could be seeing the equivalent of the UK Great Firewall soon. However, it will take significant amounts of time, money and paperwork to outlaw VPNs and to get ISPs to block sites and protocols. This is where federated and open source platforms have an advantage, without being shackled by bureaucracy they are able to quickly adapt. But this is not sustainable, and eventually the UK will become even more overreaching in order to gain more control over people's Internet usage.

Darknets such as Tor, I2P and Yggdrasil are a potential solution, however they have multiple issues. Tor is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers. I2P is scattered in implementation and cannot handle high load. ~~Yggdrasil is alpha software and requires IPv6, which in many countries is simply not possible to use~~. Whilst these darknets are extremely resistant to censorship from other countries, with the only way to fully dismantle them would be to shutoff all access to the Internet, they still are not capable of handling modern Internet usage.

We might need new completely independent mediums seperate from the Internet to avoid this. Physical bluetooth mesh networks or other technology is an example. Maybe even a new version of dial-up. All I know is that governments will not stop here. I might seem like I'm overreacting here, but we need to be prepared for what is coming.

CORRECTION: I was told by a peer that Yggdrasil peers must have IPv6, however one does not need an IPv6 enabled network to use it, they just need an IPv6 operating system/device, which virtually every modern operating system including Windows and Linux does. Yggdrasil is actually Beta software.

Hi, I'm not sure what community (or subreddit if it still only exists on Reddit somewhere), but I have been working on this story idea of mine. It is about my personation on here that is Konala Koala, who is known as Koala Mother to the koalas since she cares for them all. It takes place within the great forest in a location near Mount Warning in Australia, similar to the onsetting of Ferngully the Last Rainforest, and there is also a lost boy who wears a footed koala suit outfit that has an open faced koala hood there named Jonly.

The idea is Konala Koala originally resided in Koalawalla Land, a parallel dimension of koalas (like the one from the old Noozles cartoon), but then she crossed over to Earth through a portal or rift that opened in the dreaming skies of Koalawalla Land. When she attempted to return there, the inter-dimensional bridge known as the Great Axis of Eucalyptus Light shuddered. It was in that moment, as the connection to Earth began to break, Konala attempted to leap through the fading portal, but failed.

Konala, who is the gentle Mother of All Koalas, has light grey fur kissed by moonlight and eyes deep with remembering. She carried within her the Dreamsong of Koalawalla Land, a melody that could awaken life or soothe sorrow. She ended up in the heart of Yurra Gungal, which is what the name of the great forest is. Konala built no home, for the forest was her home. Her koala children, both mystical and ordinary, climbed the ancient eucalyptus trees and began to hum the lost harmonies of Koalawalla Land.

It was said the sound of a mother koala’s call, when heard in the deepest part of Yurra Gungal, can still open the ears of the spirit. But Konala wept at night because the Axis was gone. The way back home was sealed. So she sang. Each night she climbed to the highest branch of the oldest gum and sang the Old Way Song, hoping the tones would stretch beyond worlds and reweave the broken thread between the dimensions. Some say the forest responded, growing more alive with each note. Flowers that bloom nowhere else bloom there.

She also carries the grief of what is actually happening to the koalas in Australia, and you will fell that is she chooses to embrace her. There are other ideas I have which involve Jonly the Lost Boy where his koala outfit is more than just clothing, it is a blessing cloak crafted from enchanted bark-fiber and fae-spun thread, tailored by Konala herself to shield his identity and protect his fae aura. This is because Jonly is part of two worlds where he is not fully of either, and his koala fae blood hears what his human heart cannot name.

There is also the old bridge over the gorge at the edge of the forest that has collapsed somewhat, and a glyph called the Tether Mark, one of the last physical remnants of the axis-thread that once bound Earth and Koalawalla Land. A seam between worlds. And it also features an evil being that is cat shaped and wears a coat full of pockets, and is after the glyph for nefarious reasons, but I had been running into various issues trying to put all of this together in writing.

When I tried to ask about this in a Discord Server for story writing, I ended up getting muted and then muted again, and I'm still muted there. So, I'm just wondering if there is someplace where I can talk about this story without issues or somehow being in violation of that place's rules. If you are interested in this and know of someplace where I could seek further help, please let me know.

To set the stage: I've heard the recent news about layoffs with Intel. Before that I read from their new CEO "On training, I think it is too late for us". Lastly there has been some offhand comments (from LTT) that they're preparing to sell the company.

Yet while I have no doubt that they are behind; their revenue is about 55 billion since 2023, down from the high of 78-80ish Billion during the pandemic, but about the same as the plateau leading up to the pandemic 2015-2019.

Maybe i'm naive about the way businesses work; but if your still profitable, and you know you need to "catch up" why lay off people and close sites? Maybe that works for a consumer goods company; if your overhead is too high and your not making a profit: slim down.

However for a company where RND is really where the value is, like Intel, it just doesn't seem to make sense; your not going to get better designs and processes by reducing your experienced staff and letting them go work for the competition. Maybe some restructuring, (in the engineering sense not the euphemism for layoffs).

Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm's real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone's global headquarters.

Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands

An overview of the fediverse clients I'm paying the most attention to.

For the Threadiverse readers, I'd love to hear more about what I've missed for threadiverse clients. Ill admit that I've paid less attention to those, so tell me what I've missed!