Futurology Today

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cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/6327361

A straightforward product review of two AI therapists. Things start bad and quickly get worse. Choice quip:

Oh, so now I'm being gaslit by a frakking Tamagotchi.

Something about enantiomers or optical isomers

How the hell is it like the standars rescue when half of it is basically fucking you?

Would it be a better idea to replace that with inhaled salmeterol (LABD)? Ive heard LABD (long acting bronchodialators) are not the best choice for rescue but I also know the same is said of Symbicort and I have come to find that is not the case for myself and it is excellent in that regard. It has me just asking questions now, hitherthereto

• (S)-salbutamol (sinistra, left)
• (R)-salbutamol (?)

I already made a post explaining it, but it's in portuguese (feel free to translate it): https://lemmy.eco.br/post/18293426

I totally don't work with it and shill it every time.

Edit: the translation:

I believe this isn't talked about much, so I wanted to give a more technical explanation of how PIX (Instant Payments ~~Twitter~~, I think the X is just there to make the name look cool) works, explaining some of the main messages, the roles of each component, and everything else.

PIX is a messaging system between banks, using Bacen (Central Bank) as a router and system manager. In this system, there's the main part, in my view, which is the ICOM (communication interfaces), through which messages travel.

To send a message to another bank, it's necessary, using rfsn (Bacen's internal network), to connect to the server and send:

POST /api/v1/in/{ispb}/msgs

This way, Bacen sends the message to other banks, which through long polling, using multiparts (to retrieve multiple messages at the same time), pulls the messages for their bank by initializing the polling:

GET /api/v1/out/{ispb}/stream/start

and the actual retrieval:

GET /api/v1/out/{ispb}/stream/{PI-Pull-Next}

This way, any bank can send PIX messages to any other bank. But there are also two channels in PIX: the primary one, which handles instant payments, has administrative messages, etc., and the secondary one, which is used for payment batches, such as income tax refunds, social benefits, etc., which is primarily used during the early morning hours. These two channels are separated so one doesn't affect the other, so your weed PIX doesn't affect someone else's salary payment PIX and vice versa.

In this system, it can also happen that one bank communicates with Bacen (direct participant), while there are other banks registered under that bank (indirect participants). So when you send a payment to a fintech without a direct connection to Bacen, you send that payment to the direct participant who then sends it to that fintech.

But what messages are sent?

There are several, such as payment requests (pacs.008), acceptance or rejection due to business errors (pacs.002), refunds of payment amounts (pacs.004), PIX Automático messages (automatic debit and billing system through PIX), administrative messages (adding new banks, changing a bank's CNPJ/ISPB), etc. All messages are in XML format.

There are also validations that all banks need to perform with the messages (through the XSDs in that zip file), message hashes, verifications with public keys, signing sent messages. All of this to ensure the security that whoever is sending is really the bank that's sending.

There are also catalog changes for additions of new messages, changes to messages, alphanumeric CNPJ exchanges, those kinds of things, which happen according to a Bacen schedule and are made available on the website.

In this regard, there are some statistics about PIX for anyone who wants to see them too.

And how do PIX keys work (DICT)?

Basically, banks register people's accounts with the central bank, with the keys you know, making it so that instead of sending a manual PIX (if you enter the account, branch, bank, CPF, etc., at the time of sending, you can send a payment without a DICT key, the person doesn't even need to have a key for you to send them a PIX), there's a call to Bacen to verify which account belongs to that key, in order to actually send the PIX, it's that little window that opens after you enter the account key in the app.

So that's it, a more technical but basic explanation of how our payment system works, if there are any questions I can answer, let me know!

It got knocked off and theres a minor leak if the water supply is left on but not if its off

Bandcamp

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42162913

The first Skyranger 35 self-propelled air defense system mounted on a Leopard 1 tank chassis is set to arrive in Ukraine next week, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger announced during the Rheinmetall CMD 2025 event, according to monitoring project German Aid to Ukraine on November 18.

The system is being manufactured and integrated by Rheinmetall Italia SpA in Italy.

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Back in September, Rheinmetall confirmed it would supply Ukraine with Skyranger systems under a contract worth several hundred million euros. The deal is funded by an unnamed European Union country using windfall profits from frozen Russian assets.

The exact number and variant of Skyranger systems destined for Ukraine have not been publicly disclosed.

Each Skyranger 35 system can secure a 4-by-4-kilometer area, creating what the manufacturer describes as a fully “drone-free” zone.

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Well, it got taken down (atleast in my country). Also, I kinda degoogled, so...

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When do decorations usually go up and come down? Are there any unique traditions?

US President Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House Tuesday, defended the prince’s bloodstained rule when questioned by reporters about the grisly murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, and then hosted a formal dinner in the prince’s honor, attended by billionaires, corporate executives and Republican politicians.

For four years, bin Salman was unable to visit Europe or North America due to outstanding legal issues stemming from the Khashoggi murder. A team of Saudi assassins, headed by Salman’s security chief, seized Khashoggi when he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey to obtain documents for his marriage to his Turkish fiancée. The journalist was tortured, killed and his body dismembered and disposed of secretly.

During the course of the visit, Trump had an extraordinary exchange with a reporter that exposed the gangsterism and criminality of both governments. When ABC News reporter Mary Bruce raised two pointed questions—asking Trump about possible “incriminating evidence” in the Epstein files, and bin Salman about the Khashoggi murder and the Saudi government’s ties to the 9/11 terrorist attacks—Trump erupted in defense of both himself and the prince.