cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61898807

A new EU proposal to freeze safety requirements for small electric cars for up to ten years could put lives at risk and create a two-tier vehicle safety system

ETSC warns that this approach would lock in outdated standards at a time when the EU is already off track to meet its target of halving road deaths by 2030. More than 19,000 people were killed on EU roads in 2025.

Instead of lowering standards, ETSC calls for incentive schemes to promote the uptake of smaller, safer vehicles that comply with the latest safety requirements.

xkcd #3228: Day Counter

Title text:

It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3228/

explainxkcd for #3228

As part of ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization, the final steps to deprecate r/all are being implemented. All links to r/all will now redirect to the Home feed, following the prior removal of r/all entry points. Trending content remains available via r/popular.

Redditors on old.reddit.com, or those with settings that default to the old Reddit experience, will continue to access r/all as expected.

Originally posted by northernlights@lemmy.today in .world Politics, removed by mod, still poignant.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66483588

Minister of "Justice" Akın Gürlek, in a statement he made in Diyarbakır regarding the issue, said the following: “Our negotiations with social media platforms have been completed. Our requests for identity-based login to social media have been accepted. ID verification will begin within approximately 3 months.”

I know nowadays that doesn't matter as much due to most DVD players or disc drives being region free, but I recall the time when I was younger in the late 90's to early 2000's most discs were region locked based on where you bought a copy (basically the same as buying a Japanese N64 cartridge versus an US one) meaning they won't work when in another country.

For instance: I've purchased the first 2 home alone movies in Japan during my trip back then when they're re-released on DVD (encoded as NTSC) while I come from a country where most discs by default are PAL so they didn't work on my normal DVD player, having to purchase a multi region DVD player just to watch them. (This was before streaming sites).

Ibrahim Traoré, who took power in 2022 coup, tells state broadcaster ‘we must tell the truth, democracy isn’t for us’

People in Burkina Faso should forget about democracy as it is “not for us”, the military president, Ibrahim Traoré, told the country’s state broadcaster.

Traoré took power in a coup in September 2022, toppling another junta that had taken power just nine months earlier. He has since stifled opposition and in January banned political parties outright.

A transition to democracy had originally been planned for 2024, but that year the junta extended Traoré’s rule until 2029.

“We’re not even talking about elections, first of all … People need to forget about the question of democracy … We must tell the truth, democracy isn’t for us,” Traoré said in an interview on Thursday with the state broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB).

Yeti never complains!

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most technically complex instruments humanity has ever built. It sits at the L2 Lagrange point, roughly 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, and peers into the universe in infrared light with a precision previously impossible. The onboard computer running all of this is a BAE Systems RAD750, a radiation-hardened processor based on the PowerPC 750 architecture. It has a maximum clock speed of 200 MHz. It is, for all practical purposes, a chip designed at the turn of the millennium.

That is not an accident or a cost-cutting measure. The RAD750 had flown on more than 150 spacecraft before TWST launched. It was proven, space-qualified, and trusted. NASA, as an institution, does not change what is working. The Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers both run the same chip. For missions that cost billions and cannot be repaired, conservatism is rational.

But conservatism has limits. Future mission requirements, covering autonomous planetary landing, real-time AI-driven science processing, and multi-node distributed sensor networks on the lunar surface, cannot be met by a 200 MHz single-core processor. The computational gap between what NASA is flying today and what it needs to fly tomorrow is not incremental. It is, by NASA’s own figures, a factor of at least 100.

That is the problem NASA set out to solve in 2022. The solution reached for was a 12-core RISC-V SoC built around processor IP from SiFive. The chip, now formally branded by Microchip Technology as the PIC64-HPSC, sits at the center of NASA’s High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) program. It is also running behind its published schedule as of early 2026.

• Similar to RAM (DRAM) prices for system memory, SSDs are now plotting an actually worse price increase trajectory by time vs spot price, and we expect contract prices will trail
• Currently, data centers and "AI" are driving the demand for SSDs to be deployed in server solutions worldwide, which reduces consumer demand
• Some SSD NAND suppliers are reducing their production capacity despite high demand

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi was reportedly trying to organize negotiations with JD Vance.

🚨 Israeli jewelry maker uses kidnapped Palestinian man as living ad. Shilo Jewelry posted a photo of a blindfolded Palestinian man — abducted from his home during a West Bank raid — forced to hold a sign promoting "Happy Passover" in Hebrew. This is not a joke. This is humiliation as marketing. #Palestine #ShiloJewelry #WarCrime Follow us | @AlQudsTimes

Cross post from https://kbin.earth/m/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml/t/2548959/Israeli-jewelry-maker-uses-kidnapped-Palestinian-man-as-living-ad

The theme comes in three variants, "Soft Light", "Medium Light" and "Hard Light". Soft and Medium are even yellower. This is so often the case with Gruvbox themes. I just want a white background, is that so unusual? 🫠

(Yes, that's a screenshot of my terminal with the theme applied. Yes, I am one of those monsters that use a terminal with light theme.)

He recorded a rough version of the riff on a cassette player. He had no idea he had written it.

When he listened to the recording in the morning, there were about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes".

My e-book management currently consist of storing a bunch of files, both .epub, .pdf and .azw3 stored either by author (fiction) or by topic (non-fiction), for various sources (purchased e-books, downloaded via University subscriptions, Project Guthenberg and some from Library Genesis/Anna's Archive). For some time I'd been wanting to organize them better, with a web UI to download in a format of my choice and to be able to share with others.

I first found out about and became interested in Booklore, as it seemed to fulfill my needs, and decided to research it more in-depth and oh boy, what drama... I am aware of the Grimmory fork, but I am not touching that with a ten-foot pole until it has matured and can be generally considered to be trustworthy.

So instead I started experimenting with the more established Calibre + Calibre-Web setup (I decided against Calibre Web Automated, as that also seemed a little shady). I find the UI of Calibre-Web to be fine enough for my use, but would have loved to be able to edit more metadata in the UI (it appears I am unable to add a cover for instance). But the Calibre server has so far been very frustrating to work with for me, and does not fit my desired workflow at all. I basically want to be able to dump my files onto my server (and continuously sync local files to the sever), get the metadata mostly automatically sorted with easy options to amend missing metadata (preferably from a web UI and not that screen-share thing that doesn't even work in Librewolf). I have not found a way for it to automatically import new books, and if I reimport from the directory I dump my books in, it will reimport some of the books where the metadata was changed (some it will realize is the same, and ask to skip), so I end up with multiple duplicates. I work under the assumption that its mostly user errors so far, and I will try to master it better, but so far I find it very intuitive.

I will be looking more into Kavita as well, but so far I know very little about it.

How are you setup in your homelab for e-book management? Would love to see some examples of well-established workflows that works for you.

From: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116340012218871207