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https://tech.lgbt/@ellyqw/117348978818962523

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52477047

Ohhhhh, the year was 1778...

There's a sunset every day, for everyone, and anyone can see it just by going outside on a clear day and having a look. That means that while sunsets are beautiful, pictures of the sky are also largely worthless cause they can be had by anyone with a cellphone.

Well, the sky did this.

I had never seen these shenanigans before or after May 9, '26. (That's right, I've sat on this for four months. Sorry.) I've only ever seen these skies glowing this pinkish orange, this sleepy evening pastel explosion, just quite like this, exactly once. I stood there for a long time until the hue shifted far enough and the light left. It was a good day.

In particular, I enjoy the boundary framing from the tall building on the right.

Thanks for seeing my work!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53152091

Following an anonymous complaint in February, OSHA inspected the plant and fined Smithfield Foods $9,931.60 after observing workers’ exposure to “amputation hazards.” This was preceded by serious citations in 2021, 2023, and 2025.

Working in a slaughterhouse is extremely dangerous. In the US, there are approximately two amputations per week, primarily due to the industry’s poor working conditions and excessively fast pace.

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As reported by KWQC, the leaders also acknowledged “community concerns” over a backlog of rendering material – animal waste, internal organs, and decaying meat – being stored outside the plant, causing a strong, unpleasant smell in the city.

a bit of warping on the top but works very well

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1430833/dogs-can-detect-word-patterns-in-human-speech-new-research-finds-demonstrating-a-languag

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/inforeport/p/1430822/sudden-infant-deaths-have-increased-among-black-babies-new-data-show

The Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles.

The move, which was criticized by environmentalists, relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks for model years 2022 through 2031.

The new rule, announced by the Department of Transportation, reverses a push by the Biden administration to accelerate the transition to EVs. Transportation is the largest source of climate emissions in the United States, accounting for about 28% of total US greenhouse gas emissions according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Monday’s move follows the Trump administration’s rollback of the government’s ability to impose requirements to track, report and limit climate-heating pollution from cars and trucks.

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Or refuse to buy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53333005

A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
Sept. 25, 2026

[shareable 30-day gift article] [will likely get a prompt to sign up for limited-access free account]

As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls.

NVIDIA engineer Austin Shafer presented this morning at XDC 2026 Toronto around Linux on next-generation display walls: complex display setups appearing in TV production, theaters, and more. Many of these complex display walls today run on Microsoft Windows while NVIDIA is looking to improve Linux usage for such video/media walls.

The display walls running Linux today are typically on the X.Org Server still and making use of NVIDIA Mosaic display features. Using Wayland on its own for such display walls becomes more challenging due to the different compositors and other complexities. There is a path forward though using Vulkan Direct 2 Display "D2D" with the VK_KHR_display extension to let the Vulkan swapchain drive a physical display without any windowing system.

NVIDIA decided to engineer the Display Config Server to improve the Vulkan direct-to-display model by "owning" the displays and then leasing them out to Vulkan clients to avoid the need for every application to contain logic for handling display calibration and configuration. Display Config Server makes for centralized configuration, seamless handoff between clients, and making it easier for applications to implement.

The XDC 2026 presentation shared that NVIDIA is working to support the Display Config Server to run nested with a Wayland compositor. They are also working to improve how the Vulkan direct-to-display API can present on display walls.

The Display Config Server code is to be open-source via this GitHub repository but as of writing doesn't appear to be yet publicly available.

Those wishing to learn more can see this PDF slide deck and the video embedded above.

Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran...

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/54496563

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52447554

Sea urchins are cool.

Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released as a security-focused update to the popular application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux, addressing six newly disclosed vulnerabilities along with several related hardening improvements.

Among the most important fixes is CVE-2026-97024, which could allow a malicious Flatpak application during installation to overwrite arbitrary files with either an empty file or a symlink. A related issue, CVE-2026-97023, could be abused to delete arbitrary files with elevated privileges.

The release also fixes CVE-2026-97025, an issue affecting authenticated OCI repositories. Flatpak now ensures authentication tokens used when downloading applications or runtimes are not exposed to other local users. CVE-2026-97026 is addressed by restricting permissions on temporary repository directories under /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-*.

Another fix, tracked as CVE-2026-97027, introduces stricter filtering of .desktop and D-Bus .service files against an allowlist of permitted fields. According to the developers, this prevents denial-of-service scenarios as well as unintended interactions with services running on the host system.

Flatpak 1.18.4 also resolves CVE-2026-97029, which could allow an application to send signals to a process group containing a parent process outside its sandbox. In certain circumstances, this could result in denial of service by terminating the user’s desktop environment.

Beyond those six vulnerabilities, the update refreshes the bundled xdg-dbus-proxy fallback to version 0.1.9, fixing CVE-2026-93676 and CVE-2026-94422. Flatpak also received additional protection against symlink traversal related to CVE-2026-97023 and CVE-2026-97024.

Finally, given the number and nature of the security fixes included, users are advised to install the update as soon as it becomes available through their Linux distribution’s repositories.

For more details, see the changelog

I've tried giving screenshots of phishing emails to a local Qwen instance and so far it always correctly detected it as scam, even points out the exact elements that it based its judgement on. Sending screenshots to it ad-hoc isn't too scalable for family and friends. I'd like to be able to either forward emails for screening, or perhaps have it screen everything from a mailbox.

Has anyone done anything like this? Is there anything self-hostable that does this?

As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls.

NVIDIA engineer Austin Shafer presented this morning at XDC 2026 Toronto around Linux on next-generation display walls: complex display setups appearing in TV production, theaters, and more. Many of these complex display walls today run on Microsoft Windows while NVIDIA is looking to improve Linux usage for such video/media walls.

The display walls running Linux today are typically on the X.Org Server still and making use of NVIDIA Mosaic display features. Using Wayland on its own for such display walls becomes more challenging due to the different compositors and other complexities. There is a path forward though using Vulkan Direct 2 Display "D2D" with the VK_KHR_display extension to let the Vulkan swapchain drive a physical display without any windowing system.

NVIDIA decided to engineer the Display Config Server to improve the Vulkan direct-to-display model by "owning" the displays and then leasing them out to Vulkan clients to avoid the need for every application to contain logic for handling display calibration and configuration. Display Config Server makes for centralized configuration, seamless handoff between clients, and making it easier for applications to implement.

The XDC 2026 presentation shared that NVIDIA is working to support the Display Config Server to run nested with a Wayland compositor. They are also working to improve how the Vulkan direct-to-display API can present on display walls.

The Display Config Server code is to be open-source via this GitHub repository but as of writing doesn't appear to be yet publicly available.

Those wishing to learn more can see this PDF slide deck and the video embedded above