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  1. Comment on Federal agency emails praising US President Donald Trump may violate ethics laws, experts say in ~society

  2. Comment on Halloween night! in ~talk

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    The kids are old so we are doing an adult party. Hunger games themed — I’m president snow.

    The kids are old so we are doing an adult party. Hunger games themed — I’m president snow.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Extreme poverty in India falls to 2.6% from 27.1%: World Bank in ~society

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    As many as 496 million people moved above the lower-middle-income poverty line of $4.20 a day between 2011 and 2023, according to the World Bank’s October 2026 Poverty & Equity Brief.

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    “This progress was mainly driven by strong consumption growth, rising employment, especially among women, and expanded social transfers, including food subsidies,” it said.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Popular fanfic site "Archive of Our Own" (AO3) down for 2-4 weeks in ~tech

  6. Comment on Popular fanfic site "Archive of Our Own" (AO3) down for 2-4 weeks in ~tech

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    https://www.cvefind.com/en/cve-statistic-date.html Seriously check out this graph of CVEs by month, it’s wild out there. From 1998-2006 they recorded 16000 CVEs. In 2017 there were a total of...
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    https://www.cvefind.com/en/cve-statistic-date.html

    Seriously check out this graph of CVEs by month, it’s wild out there. From 1998-2006 they recorded 16000 CVEs. In 2017 there were a total of 18,114 CVEs.

    October is not even done yet and we are at 16,739 this month alone.

    14 votes

  7. Comment on A shortage of sulphur could hurt mines and farms everywhere – and how we can replace it in ~enviro

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    I wonder what this means for Vancouver’s iconic sulphur pile. Will it change shape in any noticeable way?

    I wonder what this means for Vancouver’s iconic sulphur pile. Will it change shape in any noticeable way?

  8. Comment on Mink farming will end in Denmark by August 2029 after the government decided to drop plans to pursue an exemption to an EU-wide ban on the practice in ~enviro

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    It sounds like an absolute win for furries. Exact fit to your own exact body, in any species real or fantasy? But, not a furry, maybe I don’t quite get it.

    It sounds like an absolute win for furries. Exact fit to your own exact body, in any species real or fantasy? But, not a furry, maybe I don’t quite get it.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on A man rescued a bear cub, now they’re inseparable in ~life.pets

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    I don’t want to be a downer and this is cool, but there’s a non-zero chance this ends in the bear killing this guy.

    I don’t want to be a downer and this is cool, but there’s a non-zero chance this ends in the bear killing this guy.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Serbia's strongman leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shift in ~society

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    It’s kind of true that it doesn’t exactly have much of a foreign policy plan, but it is a real political entity with a fairly specific 11 point plan. That plan is entirely domestically focused and...

    It’s kind of true that it doesn’t exactly have much of a foreign policy plan, but it is a real political entity with a fairly specific 11 point plan. That plan is entirely domestically focused and primarily about corruption, with a lot of what I would broadly classify as left-leaning initiatives.

    A have a lot of Serbian ex-pat friends and they are ecstatic about this. Many of them flew to Toronto just to vote because the Serbian government took measures to make it more difficult for ex-pats to vote locally. The level of commitment is pretty high.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on Mink farming will end in Denmark by August 2029 after the government decided to drop plans to pursue an exemption to an EU-wide ban on the practice in ~enviro

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    I wonder if we will ever see lab-grown fur. Once we nail down meat production, that could be an interesting direction. We might not even need to sew clothes together, just throw your cellular...

    I wonder if we will ever see lab-grown fur. Once we nail down meat production, that could be an interesting direction. We might not even need to sew clothes together, just throw your cellular scaffolding on a mannequin and grow a leather and fur shell in place.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on Tildes exclusive: the Ethoscore Project in ~creative

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    Kind of reminds me of The Good Place where nobody has entered heaven since the Industrial Revolution made every action slightly immoral.

    Kind of reminds me of The Good Place where nobody has entered heaven since the Industrial Revolution made every action slightly immoral.

    20 votes

  13. Comment on Pete Hegseth barred trans troops. US military boards are rejecting those orders. in ~society

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    Nice to see soldiers standing up for their values. Hopefully their votes don’t result in retaliation for not following orders.

    Nice to see soldiers standing up for their values. Hopefully their votes don’t result in retaliation for not following orders.

    23 votes

  15. Comment on These snakes can cartwheel away from danger. Scientists just uncovered how the slithering creatures perform their acrobatic rolls. in ~science

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    Watch the video, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Super cool how their head stays exactly oriented in the same direction while they are flying through the air. Very much like how chicken...

    Watch the video, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Super cool how their head stays exactly oriented in the same direction while they are flying through the air. Very much like how chicken heads lock into place while you move their bodies around.

    19 votes

  17. Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes

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    Not a great example since at least in the west, Muslims are a minority and it feels like “punching down”. However, I expect #YesAllWhitePeople hits about the same mark. Not that I agree with using...

    Not a great example since at least in the west, Muslims are a minority and it feels like “punching down”. However, I expect #YesAllWhitePeople hits about the same mark. Not that I agree with using any of these broad-brush labels. They are divisive and reductive in an entirely negative way.

    10 votes

  18. Comment on PHP warns it plans to release two emergency patches imminently in ~comp

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    This was in my logs, "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 38463 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 php2shell-sidfix" and they dropped a backdoor script at the same time. Not even bothering to even vaguely hide what they're doing.

    This was in my logs,

    "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 38463 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 php2shell-sidfix"

    and they dropped a backdoor script at the same time. Not even bothering to even vaguely hide what they're doing.

    9 votes

  19. Comment on PHP warns it plans to release two emergency patches imminently in ~comp

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    Welp can confirm, exploited in the wild because some PHP sites I host got hit. Fortunately super low impact, already cleaned up, but the speed of spread is crazy.

    Welp can confirm, exploited in the wild because some PHP sites I host got hit. Fortunately super low impact, already cleaned up, but the speed of spread is crazy.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on I survived the certificate expiration of October 19th 2026 and all I got was to make a silly shitpost in ~tildes

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    I’m ashamed to admit that on seeing tildes down I went and checked my own sites and found I had let a letsencrypt expire on the 16th.

    I’m ashamed to admit that on seeing tildes down I went and checked my own sites and found I had let a letsencrypt expire on the 16th.

    10 votes