Futurology Today

Summary

Mexican officials ordered the shutdown of two furnaces at the Zinc Nacional plant in Monterrey after a Guardian investigation revealed hazardous pollution in nearby homes and schools.

Soil and dust samples showed dangerously high levels of lead, cadmium, and arsenic, including 1,760 times the U.S. lead limit at one school.

Residents are demanding accountability, organizing protests, and pushing for government health investigations.

Zinc Nacional claims compliance with regulations but promised operational adjustments if needed.

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The original was posted on /r/sffpc by /u/newT0N100 on 2025-01-20 00:04:08+00:00.

Hi, I have recently found this as an alternative to the great RCX which has been outdated for quite a long time now. RSAF has been updated a few days ago to use the latest version of rclone, 1.69.0. I am just leaving this here in case someone doesn't know about it.

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/RSAF

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The original was posted on /r/okbuddyphd by /u/Rastard431 on 2025-01-19 21:58:22+00:00.

Law passed by Congress forces TikTok to be sold to a U.S. company or banned by Sunday

KERPLOOIE, SNOW! YOUR MOVE!

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern flank.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250118173433/https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/18/hundreds-of-swedish-troops-arrive-in-latvia-to-join-a-nato-brigade

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I have no choice

The Israeli Ministry of Defense has poured more than $3.7 million into developing warfare technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2015, according to a recent report from students and faculty organizing against the war in Gaza.

The report was published last month by the MIT Coalition for Palestine, which represents 19 student and faculty groups on campus, including MIT Divest, MIT Jews for Collective Liberation, and MIT Faculty and Staff for Palestine.

After the student organizers began further probing grant information, the school took down the grant software used for the coalition’s research, said Rich Solomon, a member and MIT graduate student who worked on the report. “MIT has engaged in a sustained and organized campaign of disinformation and propaganda in order to silence and suppress this information,” Solomon told The Intercept.

Actually it's Karelian Beardog. People in Finland use this breed in moose hunting. But she injured her nose and owner had no use for her. So she came to us in December -23

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/MetaKnowing on 2025-01-20 01:02:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Logical_Welder3467 on 2025-01-20 00:34:39+00:00.

Howdy, folks!

I'm teetering on the brink of connecting my Sovol3D S06 ACE to my wireless network, but I'm pausing because this device can make physical real-world actions like:

• record photos and videos using its built-in camera
• shaking so much that it manages to knock itself on the floor
• melting so much plastic that it dribbles all over itself and then all over everything around and beneath it
• consume lots of electricity and cost me a fortune on my utilities bill
• burn the house down

None of this happens in normal usage, of course, but watching it self-calibrate did make me wonder:

• how safe the firmware is?
• is it retrieving instructions from Sovol3D or some other party by itself?
• is it sending records of my print jobs to a 3rd party?
• is it sending photos and videos to a 3rd party?
• how safe the firmware is once its receiving arbitrary network traffic?

All IPv4 traffic from the internet goes through a NAT/firewall that I conceivable control, but my devices all get public-facing IPv6 addresses, and the default SSH password on all of these printers is publicly-documented

It looks like the Sovol3D S06 ACE firmware is https://www.klipper3d.org/ + https://www.obico.io/ + some unknown amount of stuff that Sovol3D adds on top, and it doesn't seem like they've kept the public source code up-to-date: https://github.com/Sovol3d/SV06-ACE

I do already self-host https://www.home-assistant.io/ and plan to integrate the 3D printer with it, avoiding any cloud behaviour as much as possible, but I'm wondering if anyone else has already done this and has any advice on what to avoid?

Cheers! <3

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The original was posted on /r/epicgamespc by /u/TwinSong on 2025-01-19 20:41:46+00:00.

So far, I only really use it for the freebies which is not financially beneficial to them particularly.

• They need to review system so that players can get an idea of the games' quality and pros/cons. The description of the game by the developers is not particularly reliable due to obvious bias
• The link tile in the Libraries screen should direct to the store page so the user can see a description of the game with a button below or inside that to launch the game itself. Again, compared to steam where you can see more about the game such as developer updates posts
• Epic lacks a discussions forum like Steam has, for player Q&A when they're stuck on part of the game, or to request features for updates to the game such as with Space Engineers
• There is a total lack of community features which can feel a bit isolating. Contrast again with Steam where you have, along with the forums, the ability to share screenshots and so on