Shockingly, Perplexity says ‘the internet is better on Comet.’

US users stuck with AI ad targeting as EU users win more control over their feeds.

All generative AI queries could hit 329 billion per day by 2030. See the big picture on AI's energy use, and how it's reshaping our world.

Meta's text-based platform Threads has taken another page from X's book and launched the Communities feature.

Any idea about a hose-style shower head? I got one at Home Despot last year, worked fine, until a couple nights ago the thread fitting to the water pipe broke and it got water all over the place. The fitting turns out to be made of plastic that is shiny plated to look like metal!

Any idea where to get one made of actual metal? Should look decent but doesn't have to be fancy. All the HD ones appear to be crap like the one that broke. Thanks.

Here is the context: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9313010

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36794491

Latest dev news:

As there have been lots of questions about the legality to run a tenfingers node, I dived deep into the legal protections we have here in the EU, and it is called Safe Harbour Provision.

I'm not a lawyer, all help greatly appreciated! I thought that as the node do not know what it is sharing (because it is encrypted), it falls under the same legislation as internet broadband providers, but even website hosters benefit from this protection. If anyone is aware about the details about similar laws outside the EU, I'd be grateful if you can share them with me.

So you can spin up a tenfingers server node, but it obvious comes with a caveat ; there must be a way to generate takedown requests, and as a node owner, if you get one, you must comply. Much like a website.

You can now generate a takedown request from a link file, it is a simple command line and it generates a takedown file and an address file containing all the nodes carrying the data. All you have to do is to distribute the takedown request with the added takedown file to the users of the IP addresses. This is done all the time with illegal content.

If you, as a node owner, gets a takedown request you just need to execute it with a simple command to comply.

All documented Here

Again, I'm obviously not taking any legal responsibility for anything of this, as per the documentation.

Cheers

Valmond

Latest dev news:

As there have been lots of questions about the legality to run a tenfingers node, I dived deep into the legal protections we have here in the EU, and it is called Safe Harbour Provision.

I'm not a lawyer, all help greatly appreciated! I thought that as the node do not know what it is sharing (because it is encrypted), it falls under the same legislation as internet broadband providers, but even website hosters benefit from this protection. If anyone is aware about the details about similar laws outside the EU, I'd be grateful if you can share them with me.

So you can spin up a tenfingers server node, but it obvious comes with a caveat ; there must be a way to generate takedown requests, and as a node owner, if you get one, you must comply. Much like a website.

You can now generate a takedown request from a link file, it is a simple command line and it generates a takedown file and an address file containing all the nodes carrying the data. All you have to do is to distribute the takedown request with the added takedown file to the users of the IP addresses. This is done all the time with illegal content.

If you, as a node owner, gets a takedown request you just need to execute it with a simple command to comply.

All documented Here

Again, I'm obviously not taking any legal responsibility for anything of this, as per the documentation.

Cheers

Valmond

TL;DR: One injured, no one died thank god.

Wtf meta, what's going on?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4574561

A French court is to try the Chinese captain of a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet" early next year after it was intercepted off France, prosecutors said Thursday, in a move seen as a message to Moscow over its efforts to skirt Western oil sanctions.

The French navy on Saturday stopped the Boracay, a vessel claiming to be flagged in Benin and blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet" of ageing oil tankers, according to the public prosecutor's office in the northwestern city of Brest.

A French court is to try the Chinese captain of a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet" early next year after it was intercepted off France, prosecutors said Thursday, in a move seen as a message to Moscow over its efforts to skirt Western oil sanctions.

The French navy on Saturday stopped the Boracay, a vessel claiming to be flagged in Benin and blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia's sanction-busting "shadow fleet" of ageing oil tankers, according to the public prosecutor's office in the northwestern city of Brest.

Everything is coming together for Larry Ellison. The billionaire co-founder of tech giant Oracle, on-and-off-again the richest man in the world and a staunch supporter of Israel, is set to take a lead role in reshaping TikTok in the United States. His son, David Ellison, is moving to take over large swaths of the media, including CBS News, CNN, Warner Brothers, and Paramount, reportedly bringing in the Free Press’s Bari Weiss to shape editorial direction.

As the nation’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also played a role in the TikTok talks that steered the company toward Ellison, after playing a lead role as a senator in demonizing the app; he was also closely involved in the rollout of Trump’s plan for Gaza’s future, which hands the enclave to Blair. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner tasked the Blair Institute in the spring with coming up with a post-war plan for Gaza, which was recently completed, the Times of Israel reported.

That Rubio finds himself in such a central position is in part thanks to Ellison, who has been a major patron of the Cuban-American former senator from Florida. Ellison first vetted Rubio for his fealty toward Israel back in early 2015, according to previously unreported email correspondence reviewed by Drop Site.

Everything is coming together for Larry Ellison. The billionaire co-founder of tech giant Oracle, on-and-off-again the richest man in the world and a staunch supporter of Israel, is set to take a lead role in reshaping TikTok in the United States. His son, David Ellison, is moving to take over large swaths of the media, including CBS News, CNN, Warner Brothers, and Paramount, reportedly bringing in the Free Press’s Bari Weiss to shape editorial direction.

As the nation’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also played a role in the TikTok talks that steered the company toward Ellison, after playing a lead role as a senator in demonizing the app; he was also closely involved in the rollout of Trump’s plan for Gaza’s future, which hands the enclave to Blair. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner tasked the Blair Institute in the spring with coming up with a post-war plan for Gaza, which was recently completed, the Times of Israel reported.

That Rubio finds himself in such a central position is in part thanks to Ellison, who has been a major patron of the Cuban-American former senator from Florida. Ellison first vetted Rubio for his fealty toward Israel back in early 2015, according to previously unreported email correspondence reviewed by Drop Site.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36992025

https://archive.ph/nun8L

In President Trump’s plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got almost everything he hoped for in the end, despite mounting international isolation.

By David M. Halbfinger and Aaron Boxerman Sept. 30, 2025

Ultimately, Mr. Netanyahu got almost everything he could have hoped from Mr. Trump’s proposal — a demand that Hamas release the hostages immediately and lay down its weapons, without which Israel would have carte blanche to keep pummeling Gaza.

As for Israeli troops, they would get to remain in Gaza’s perimeter for the foreseeable future. There was such a stinting nod to the aspiration of statehood for Palestinians that the proposal all but suggested they just keep dreaming. And the Palestinian Authority would be left playing no role in Gaza anytime soon.

It was a rare moment of triumph that showed Mr. Netanyahu could still get much — if not all — of what he wanted despite Israel’s mounting international isolation. Just last week, several European countries recognized a Palestinian state over Israeli objections, while a diplomatic walkout left Mr. Netanyahu addressing a mostly empty room at the United Nations.