Lemmy - RazBot

It's real, they did an article about him. This was supposed to be a soft piece to make him more human. ha ha.

I’ll start: my ear wax. Several months ago, I observed what I thought to be extra wax coming out of my ears. Since then, I can’t stop trying to keep my ears clean. Wash in the shower with soap every day. Stick my finger in there when nobody’s looking to try to get some out. And so on.

I don’t use q-tips, and I know the advice is to simply let it come out when it wants. But I hate cleaning the gunk off my AirPods! Stupid ear wax, I think I feel some now.

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Solar panels with suspected links to Chinese slave labour have been installed by dozens of organisations including Manchester City, Cheltenham Racecourse and David Lloyd gyms, The i Paper can reveal.

The scale of Britain’s use of solar panels made by firms alleged to have used components made from the forced labour of minorities in China can be disclosed for the first time.

As well as commercial premises, the locations include schools, hospitals and universities across the country. There is no suggestion that any of the organisations installed solar panels with knowledge of links to Chinese slave labour.

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[The investigation] has mapped 84 non-residential locations where solar panels have been installed with links to alleged slave labour. The data is based on evidence provided by Sheffield Hallam University’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and open source analysis.

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Last week, growing concerns over Britain’s use of Chinese panels with links to Uyghur oppression forced [UK] Energy Secretary Ed Miliband into banning them from being used by the state-funded Great British Energy company unless it can “ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place” in its business or supply chains.

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IPAC’s senior analyst Chung Ching Kwong believes [the] disclosures are a conservative estimate of the UK’s use of such tainted technology, because of the lack of transparency about the original source of materials used in many panels.

“UK consumers are unknowingly complicit in Uyghur forced labour,” said Ms Kwong. “Our work shows how big a mountain the government has to climb to root out slave-made renewables.”

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Professor Laura Murphy at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University has led the way in tracing the original source of polysilicon in these panels. Her latest report in 2023 detailed how a number of Chinese firms had “high” exposure to production in Xinjiang. As well as Jinko, these included: JA Solar, Qcells, Canadian Solar, Trina Solar, and LONGi Solar.

Her report stated: “None of the companies that were engaged in state-sponsored labour transfers in 2021 has announced any changes to its recruitment methods or shown any resistance to participation in the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) Government’s programmes. Indeed, since that time, the PRC Government’s labour transfer programme has only increased in scale and the pressure on companies to absorb the workers the state deemed to be surplus remains high.”

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The UK formed the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) with trade organisations in a bid to tackle human rights challenges within the global solar supply chain including “rigorously” auditing some Chinese sites. Trini Solar and JA Solar are members. The latter firm was suspended in January after the US banned panels made by one of its subsidiaries but was reinstated after the SSI concluded its supply practices had changed.

SSI’s chief executive Rachel Owens said: “We are acutely aware of the complexities involved in verifying supply chain links that may be several tiers removed from the end-product. That is precisely why the SSI, together with a large range of stakeholders including civil society, human rights experts, international financial institutions and industry, developed the SSI Supply Chain Traceability Standard. It will be implemented in 2025.”

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Some Chinese firms have criticised Sheffield Hallam’s report, claiming it disregards corporate due diligence policies.

But Prof Murphy who strongly defended her research, warned against companies taking the words of Chinese firms as evidence that supply chains are clean.

She said: “A simple attestation that forced labor has been excluded simply isn’t enough to ensure that modules are in fact free and clear of forced labor.”

Chloe Cranston at Anti-Slavery International, claimed a lack of extensive testing of Chinese manufacturers has made the UK a “dumping ground” for panels linked to slave labour.

She said: “What we were seeing is many of the big solar companies… essentially creating one clean supply chain for the US to meet the requirements there but then they were not having to take those same steps in other markets globally meaning that the UK market was opening itself up as a dumping ground.”

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On 2008-05-18 15:49:33, the father of the #Fediverse and creator of #ActivityPub, Evan Prodromou, sent the first ever message in what was later called the "Fediverse" social network (not Mastodon® social network).

• The first software was called Laconica.
• The first instance was Identica.
• The first prototol was OpenMicroBlogging.
• The first label/name was Identiverse social network.

Here is the archived post: This is my first post.

The network never went down. From the first protocol, OpenMicroBlogging, it switched to the protocol OStatus (also by Evan), then to ActivityPub as most know it today. It's exactly the same social network since 2008!

Happy 17th Year Anniversary Fediverse network!

#FediverseDay #FediverseMonth #MayIsFediverseMonth

The other day, my parents asked me (22M) if there were any women that I find attractive (I guess because they're paranoid about me being gay lol) and I told them yes, there's a fair number of women that I've seen in public that I've found attractive.

They asked me, "Do you talk to any of them?" and I said "No??? It's inappropriate to approach women in public unless you have business with them."

I told them that it is only appropriate for a man to talk to a woman he doesn't know when the social situation is explicitly designed for meeting strangers—dating apps, hobby groups, meeting friends of friends, etc. In my view, cold approaching women you don't know just because you're attracted to them is harassment.

My parents told me that I'm being ridiculous and making excuses because I'm nervous. They are adamant that I need to learn to approach women or else I will never find a partner. I told them that times have changed and this is disrespectful and potentially predatory behavior along the lines of unsolicited flirting and catcalling. Approaching women is a violation of their personal space and could make them feel very uncomfortable, especially if they feel like they don't have an easy way out.

My parents are almost 60 and they are very conservative, so they don't exactly follow progressive discourse, and I feel like they're super out of touch on this as a result. Particularly, my mom tends to strike up conversations with other women in public, and she's skeptical when I tell her that I can't do the same thing because I'm a man and would be viewed as a potential predator.

But I also don't get out much, which makes me second-guess how distorted my understanding of the social world is from reality. My parents are like a broken clock, and sometimes they DO have a point about something despite 90% of their opinions being insane. Maybe there is a more nuanced reality that I'm not picking up on.

So I wanted to ask here. Are my parents out of touch? Am I out of touch? Are we both wrong? I want to know your opinion.

I adore Xiaomi's build quality (especially Redmi 4x's metal case and liked the haptics on 11 lite 5g), they are the only cheap devices with decent specs (good SDM CPUs, IR-reciever, now discontinued sdcard slots, bootloader unlocking (for LineageOS with decent privacy (and DivestOS when it still existed)), decent durability and modularity (I ocasionaly repair phones).

**But of course this is just too good to be true, so let's just start with the drawbacks: **

My first personal experience with Xiaomi was the mi 11 lite 5G, which I got as a Christmas gift in 2021. It was the best phone I ever had (both on paper and my subjective perception). Well, let's just say, that perception changed not much after the waranty; first I started experiencing random reboots and after a few months the serious issues started appearing (random connectivity problems). I tried to reflash it and it had no effect. Later all the issues started to rapidly escalate: WiFi now only works if the phone is in warm climate and it resets every couple of minutes (so it's practically useless - so I rob it for parts). Later I inherited my dad's Redmi 4x (don't worry, he isn't dead, just upgraded) and it's also starting to have this issue (after 8 years not 2). I have also seen this problem on many Xiaomis from my friends.

So in conclusion: Xiaomi purchases are a gamble. (at least if you keep a phone for a long time). But they are still the only decent low-midrange phone brand (I even recommended a Poco to my cousin)

Problem explanation: I think the problem is mostly caused by heat (from the SOC and/or the enviroment) which causes the connections on the CPU to deform and slowly lose conectivity, making the device's core functions slowly deteriorate and Xiaomi didn't fix this problem for years, as they probably don't care.

Solution (probably repairshop): The solution to this problem is CPU reballing (a process, where you remove the CPU from the motherboard and replace it's solder. This is not an amateur job, it requires professional tools (your grandpa's old soldering iron won't do).

And of course: I would be happy if anyone would recommend a comparable brand (with at least pricing and custom roms).

Is cloning much of the funcionailty of an application legal?

some of my youtube channels I just listen to and want them in jellyfin sorted by date and easily organized. I havent found a clean way to do this though.

Two cases of rabies have been attributed to probable aerosol exposures in laboratories, and two cases of rabies have been attributed to possible airborne exposures in caves containing millions of free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in the Southwest. However, alternative infection routes cannot be discounted.

We’ve been running movie night for a while. We just want to find the best time that works for everyone globally. I made a new poll type that uses local time to whoever is viewing it so with enough people we’ll be able to find the best time for a big crowd.

The poll
https://goatmatrix.net/article/MatrixEvents/F16Cuemhe9

If you want you can also do the movie poll:
https://goatmatrix.net/c/MatrixEvents/AGjU39ioUh

For those uninitiated we usually meet here:
https://cytu.be/r/matrixhub

For the last week or so, I've been waking up several hours earlier than normal and not being able to get back to restful sleep. I've never had this problem before, I'm just getting more exhausted by the day because I'm not getting to sleep much earlier

Then I find out other people are experiencing the same thing, same timeframe - around a week ago it just started for seemingly no reason

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29673214

Hello.

I'm considering to start working on some interactive roadmaps to learn the skills necessary for political organizing, union organizing and so on. The format is ideally similar to roadmap.sh, giving a high-level overview of what a certain area of knowledge is, where it sits in the scheme of things and what to learn first.roadmap.sh itself is open source and has an editor, but the license is weird and I'm not sure I want to rely on it.

At the same time, tools like Miro, Mural, or Figma have little interactivity and would hinder future collaboration. Mermaid is collaborative, but not interactive. Before committing to a compromise, I would like to ask if you know any better option similar to roadmap.sh but with more freedom for independent creators. If it's self-hosted, even better. Mind mapping tools with the right level of customization might also be an option if you know any that can be bent into looking like a roadmap.

On May 5th, 1818, Karl Marx, hero of the international proletatiat, was born. His revolution of Socialist theory reverberates throughout the world carries on to this day, in increasing magnitude. Every passing day, he is vindicated. His analysis of Capitalism, development of the theory of Scientific Socialism, and advancements on dialectics to become Dialectical Materialism, have all played a key role in the past century, and have remained ever-more relevant throughout.

He didn't always rock his famous beard, when he was younger he was clean shaven!

Some significant works:

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The Civil War in France

Wage Labor & Capital

Wages, Price, and Profit

Critique of the Gotha Programme

Manifesto of the Communist Party (along with Engels)

The Poverty of Philosophy

And, of course, Capital Vol I-III

Interested in Marxism-Leninism, but don't know where to start? Check out my "Read Theory, Darn it!" introductory reading list!

I am currently switching from docker compose to kubernetes. Along with that, I am changing from using the :latest tag on everything to explicit versions.

Now, it's a lot of work to check all the GitHub pages for the releases and updating.

Is there some kind of dashboard that ideally would show me (per app) the version I am running vs. the current version from GitHub? (With a link to the release notes, while we are at it...).

Or is my workflow wrong to begin with? (Haven't looked too deep into something like argocd, maybe that's the answer?)

Nobody knows The Cure.

Anyone know any site with acestream links for football matches? Looks like the one i was using has stopped working and they work a lot more reliably than any other football streams I've found