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tal
joined 2 years ago
On the one hand, I'd pick Azerbaijan over Russia too.
On the other hand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking_by_country
Hydraulic fracturing was banned in France in 2011 after public pressure.[9][27][28][29] It was based on the precautionary principle as well as the principal of preventive and corrective action of environmental hazards, using the best available techniques with an acceptable economic cost to insure the protection, the valuation, the restoration, management of spaces, resources and natural environments, of animal and vegetal species, of ecological diversity and equilibriums.[30] The ban was upheld by an October 2013 ruling of the Constitutional Council following complaints by US-based company Schuepbach Energy.[31]
In December 2017, to fight against global warming, France adopted a law banning new fossil fuel exploitation projects and closing current ones by 2040 in all of its territories. France thus became the first country to programme the end of all fossil fuel exploitation.[32][33]
Social media has buzzed with speculation about a possible cover-up, claims the Bangladesh Armed Forces have firmly denied.
I don't even...how would a plane crashing into an elementary school be a cover-up?
Bangladeshi military spokesman: "We just had one of our aircraft collide with an elementary school."
Some Bangladeshi guy: "This is a cover-up!"
Military spokesman: "What?"
Bangladeshi guy: "They aren't going to have to report student performance data at that school if a fighter jet conveniently crashed into the school and shut it down! Isn't that convenient, a fighter jet just crashing into the school?"
Honestly, this one is pretty small potatoes.
Hackers have stolen personal information of a majority of insurance firm Allianz Life's 1.4 million customers in North America, its parent company said.
The German parent company added that the hackers were "able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majority of Allianz Life's customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees, using a social engineering technique".
A mere million or two.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/534628/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html
Not to imply that the broader security situation isn't a problem, mind.
I don't play tabletop wargames, so I can't personally recommend it, but looking online, I see a lot of references to Burrows and Badgers.
https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/review-charming-skirmish-game/
I'm not sure if that's what what you're thinking of wargame-wise, but it has miniatures, and is described as a "skirmish-style wargame". It's also called an "RPG-style wargame" on Wikipedia, though, so I'm not sure if it falls too close to the RPG camp for you.
The things you're describing aren't really version control systems themselves. Git is a version control system; these are an ecosystem of web-based tools surrounding that version control system.
I don't know if there's a good term for these.
kagis
Wikipedia calls them "forges":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
In free and open-source software (FOSS) development communities, a forge is a web-based collaborative software platform for both developing and sharing computer applications.
For software developers it is an online service to host the tools they need to work and communicate with their coworkers. It provides a workflow to propose modifications and engage in discussions. The goal is to reach an agreement that will allow these modifications to be merged into the software repository.
For users, a forge is a repository of computer applications, a place where bugs can be reported, a channel to be informed of security issues, etc.
The source code itself is stored in a revision control system and linked to a wide range of services such as a code review, bug database, continuous integration, etc. When a development community forks, it duplicates the content of the forge and is then able to modify it without asking permission. A community may rely on services scattered on multiple forges: they are not necessarily hosted under the same domain.
I think he might be asking about a tabletop wargame, rather than a video game wargame; the question was originally posted to !wargaming@lemmy.world, which deals with tabletop wargames rather than video game wargames. The crosspost kind of lost that context.
For an example of the privacy implications, we just had a story up on this community (or another, not sure) about the Tea identity leak:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html
On Friday, Tea said that hackers had breached a data storage system, exposing about 72,000 images, including selfies and photo identifications of its users.
Data from the hack, including photos of women and of identification cards containing personal details, appeared to circulate online on Friday.
That was yesterday. I seriously doubt that this is going to be the last time something like this happens.
I said it the other day when the UK mandate just went into force and Reddit started having people in the UK required to take pictures of their IDs to get access to NSFW subreddits: if you get people used to having websites demand photos of identity documents, I strongly suspect you are gonna have some serious fraud
and privacy
issues down the line when less-than-salubrious websites start getting people to take and hand over identity document photos.
You don't, but it's considerably quieter to use a liquid cooler on current high-end CPUs because of the amount of heat they dissipate. My current CPU has a considerably higher TDP than my last desktop's. I finally broke down and put an AIO cooler on the new one, and all the fans on the radiator can run at a much lower speed than my last CPU because the radiator is a lot larger than one hanging directly off the CPU, can dump heat to the air a lot more readily.
The GPU on that system, which doesn't use liquid cooling, has to have multiple slots and a supporting rail to support the weight because it has a huge heatsink hanging on a PCI slot that was never intended to support that kind of load, and the fans are far more spun up when it heats up.
The amount of power involved these days is getting pretty high. My early PCs could manage with entirely passive cooling, just a heatsink. Today, the above CPU dumps 250W and the above GPU 400W. I have a small space heater in the same room that, on low, runs at 400W.
Frankly, if I had a convenient mounting point in the case for the radiator, with the benefit of hindsight, I'd seriously have considered sticking an AIO liquid-cooled GPU in there
there are a few manufacturers that do those. The GPU is a lot louder than the CPU when both are spun up.
I will kind of agree on the RGB LEDs, though. It's getting obnoxiously difficult to find desktop hardware that doesn't have those. My last build, I was having difficulty finding DIMMs that didn't have RGB LEDs; not normally a component that I think of anyone wanting to make visible.
I'm kind of wondering whether we'll get to the point where one just has a standard attachment point for liquid and just hooks the hardware's attachment into a larger system that circulates fluid. Datacenters would become quiet places.
On the one hand, I agree that this is bullshit and fudging the books. On the other hand, I can already imagine how this argument is gonna go.
"A bridge to Sicily has zilch by way of military utility! You're just doing civilian infrastructure projects and counting it towards the military budget!"
Italian government: "When was the last time Europe was invaded? It was through Sicily, the "soft underbelly of Europe", yeeeesssss?" proceeds to cite Churchill, Eisenhower, Stalin...