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A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.

Trump’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline.

The group of attorneys general said the directive “usurps the States’ constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat.” The White House has defended the order as “standing up for free, fair and honest elections” and called proof of citizenship a “commonsense” requirement.

Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts said in Friday’s order that the states had a likelihood of success as to their legal challenges.

Demonstrations at roughly 2,000 sites planned for Saturday, same day as US president’s military parade and birthday

Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstration dubbed “No Kings”, planned for the same day as the president’s military parade and birthday.

Interest in the events has risen since Trump sent national guard and US Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles to tamp down mostly peaceful protests against ramped-up deportations.

“We’ve seen hundreds of new events on the No Kings Day map since the weekend,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups behind the “day of defiance”. “We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of people register for those events.”

Mozilla Petition> Meta: Help Users Stop Accidentally Sharing Private AI Conversations

Meta recently launched its own AI app, like ChatGPT. The Meta AI app comes with a “Discover Feed” — a public stream of real user AI conversations posted by users. Meta says that users know that they're sharing their AI conversations publicly. But a number of posts suggest otherwise. You can find posts that appear to show users' personal data, medical issues, work problems, and calendar reminders in the Discover Feed.

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Changes

This release includes various minor improvements and bug fixes.

Backend

• Fix Peertube federation by @flamingos-cant in #5652
• Show NSFW content by default if content_warning exists by @xaegit in #5655
• Register users in a transaction by @Nothing4You in #5608
• Fix email notifications for denied applications by @Nutomic in #5641
• Dont run scheduled tasks at startup by @Nutomic in #5732
• Only use HTTP/1 for federation by @flamingos-cant in #5744
• Update user count from local_user table instead of person table, and only count users with accepted application by @dullbananas in #5495
• Decrement fail_count instead of reset to 0 by @Nutomic in #5737
• Fix opentelemetry by @MrKaplan-lw in #5702
• Fix post listing in nsfw communities by @Nutomic in #5698
• Add missing post_read / hide / saved post_id indexes by @dessalines in #5689
• Improve media deletion logic by @Nothing4You in #5677
• Include published in VoteView order by for more consistent pagination by @MrKaplan-lw in #5676
• Mark posts in NSFW communities as NSFW by @Nothing4You in #5646
• Use version from git to indicate unreleased changes by @MrKaplan-lw in #5622

Frontend

• Add Rblind theme by @travis-jeans in #3159
• Remove browser cache by @SleeplessOne1917 in #3150
• Show registration denial reason on login by @dessalines in #3175
• Always escape HTML attributes in emoji autocomplete and custom emoji markdown renderer by @Nothing4You in #3169
• Fix missing user badge for deleted users by @MrKaplan-lw in #3162
• Add hungarian language by @dessalines in #3158
• Fixing cache-control header. by @dessalines in #3148
• Disable blur for NSFW images by default if content_warning exists by @xaegit in #3128
• Add Vary: Cookie Header (fixes #3117) by @xaegit in #3119
• Use alert-info for donation dialog by @dessalines in #3115
• Optimize Dockerfile by @Nothing4You in #3090
• Add support for using Lemmy UI with an external Lemmy instance by @SolninjaA in #3041
• Only show View registration button to admins on profiles of local users by @Nothing4You in #3072

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

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Ok I know the title is weirdly said but I will explain more here. I tried using reddit but all of the subs and topics I wanted to speak on were gated by Karma, so I searched reddit for no karma sub so I just posted on ask reddit,nostupid questions and I made one post on r/advice which I cross posted to relationship advice after which my account glitched. Turned out I had been shadow banned and I have no clue how. My theory is I posted to much and copy and pasting a post tripped the alarm but the post was a bit different on relationship advice and I did it once, I saw reddit from like youtube videos and tiktok and people cross post to subs all the time why is that an issue ?

But to get to the main ponint of this, why is reddit run the way it is ? In the sense why do they ask so much of their users hurting both the user expirience and the site's ability to grow. The Karma system forces you into a position where to get to the content you want you have to interact with and post content you don't care about.So you have a ton of disengaged user's just punching their time card to get to what they actually care about. Imagine if other social media sites did this, imagine if you wanted to listen to sabrina carpenter on spotify but to do that you had to listen to 100 hours of Conway Twitty, what sense does that make ?

Reddit's karma and age gate systems resemble a mobile game and while annoying when it's done there you understand why it's designed to get you to pay to skip it, but reddit doesn't let you pay to skip it at east not directly.

Every other social media site wants to get users the content they want as easy as possible. TikTok is the best example the reason it's popular is because it's the best at getting you what you want with as little work required on your part as possible. The for you page fetches you videos your interested in, if your a creator the format of the app increases your chance of being seen and going viral.

Reddit on the other hand leaves so much of the user experience up to weather or not your post on ask reddt go gets upvotes or if you happen to know if a good sub with a karma limit since subs do not disclose their karma limit

Again for the last time, why ? Even from a selfish business standpoint this seemingly makes no sense so what am I missing

This Black Walnut is quite old. I didn't have a measuring tape with me but I would guess nearly 150 years. It has marks from a barbed wire fence that was here when this woods was a pasture decades ago.

I was looking back at some old lemmee posts and came across GPT4All. Didn't get much sleep last night as it's awesome, even on my old (10yo) laptop with a Compute 5.0 NVidia card.

Still, I'm after more, I'd like to be able to get image creation and view it in the conversation, if it generates python code, to be able to run it (I'm using Debian, and have a default python env set up). Local file analysis also useful. CUDA Compute 5.0 / vulkan compatibility needed too with the option to use some of the smaller models (1-3B for example). Also a local API would be nice for my own python experiments.

Is there anything that can tick the boxes? Even if I have to scoot across models for some of the features? I'd prefer more of a desktop client application than a docker container running in the background.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23254672

GOP leaders claim that repealing power plant pollution rules and tax breaks for renewables will fuel an energy boom. Experts say they’re doing just the opposite.

Archived

European Union companies will be required to disclose details of their Russian gas deals to the EU, under upcoming European Commission proposals to ban Russian gas imports by the end of 2027, an internal Commission document showed.

The Commission is preparing to propose legal measures to completely halt the EU's Russian gas imports by the end of 2027, and ban new Russian gas deals by the end of this year. The proposals are due to be published on June 17.

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An internal European Commission analysis of its upcoming proposals, [...] said to enforce the ban, the Commission will require information including the duration, annual contracted volumes, destination clause and date of conclusion of their Russian gas contracts.

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Gas importers will also be required to disclose the origin of their imports, to ensure it is not Russian, the document said. The disclosures aim to ensure the EU and countries' customs and energy authorities can ensure the ban is enforced.

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The deadline to stop providing these services under long-term contracts with Russia will be December 31, 2027, it said.

Miami authorities are reportedly seeking out former NFL player Antonio Brown to arrest him on the charge of attempted murder with a firearm, according to the Washington Post. The charge is related to an altercation at a Miami boxing event in May.

A warrant obtained by the Washington Post calls for Brown to post $10,000 bond and stay under house arrest until a trial. The warrant was signed by a judge Wednesday, but attempts to reach Brown on Thursday evening were unsuccessful, per the Washington Post.

The incident took place May 16, with police responding around midnight after receiving an alert from a gunshot detection system.