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The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.

The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.

That’s part of an estimated $45 million total cost for the June 14 military parade, which coincides with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. The cost estimates have fluctuated as planning continues.

The parade itself will include about 130 vehicles, including 28 M1A1 tanks, 28 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 28 Stryker armored fighting vehicles and a number of vehicles towing artillery launchers. More than 50 helicopters will also participate in an “extensive flyover” in the nation’s capital.

The event will also bring more than 9,000 soldiers from around the country to Washington, about 7,000 of whom will march in the parade itself. The event will also include at least eight Army bands, and some troops will ride on the nearly three dozen horses and two mules expected to march as part of a historical section of the parade.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30792652

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!

5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux:

1. No New Hardware, No Licensing Costs
2. Enhanced Privacy
3. Good For The Planet
4. Community & Professional Support
5. Better User Control

Ich muss heute mit dem Zug reisen. ;_; Heiliger /u/zonenranslite@feddit.org beschütze mich.

Bildquelle: By BR 146 (Armin Emde) - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=598972

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/410276

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From Latika Das

Very difficult species to find in the open..... also the smallest owl of Asia and a fierce predator - ** Collared Owlet ** (Taenioptynx brodiei)

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Opinionated piece by Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham, UK.

... the EU’s largest and Nato’s second-largest economy, Germany is now also aiming to turn its Bundeswehr (the German army, navy and air force) into the “strongest conventional army in Europe”. Its most senior military officer and chief of defence, Carsten Breuer, has published plans for a rapid and wide-ranging expansion of defence capabilities.

Germany is finally beginning to pull its weight in European defence and security policy. This is absolutely critical to the credibility of the EU in the face of the threat from Russia. Berlin has the financial muscle and the technological and industrial potential to make Europe more of a peer to the US when it comes to defence spending and burden sharing. This will be important to salvage what remains of Nato in light of a highly probable American down-scaling – if not complete abandonment – of its past security commitments to the alliance.

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From Operation Wildlife

Our cupboards are becoming bare! We are rehabbing over 350+ animals at this time and doing over 1,000 feedings a day.

We are in desperate need of dehydrated mealworms, Pinesol, medium and large exam gloves, blue painters tape, live earthworms & red wrigglers, 1" masking tape, canned caterpillars, unsweetened applesauce, Gerber baby rice cereal, blue ink pens, kleenex, toilet paper, antibacterial hand soap.

Here is the link

Our critters send their love and thank you in advance!!

Sharing this one, not necessarily for you to give to these guys, but to give you an idea of what your local shelter may be in need of!

Time and money are the most helpful overall things you can give as they can be put to near unlimited uses, but if you feel better donating supplies, there is always something we need to care for, and especially clean up after, all these animals.

Find your local rescue and do what you can to benefit the animals where you are!

None of them get tax money, it's all from donations from individuals or businesses. I'll be working out open house all Sunday, and it's one of our biggest fundraising opportunities and a rare chance for the public to see our operation and all the good we do.

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[Opinionated piece by Antonio Aloisi, Associate Professor of European and comparative Labour Law, IE University, Madrid, Spain.]

"Simplify”, “Streamline”, “Scale back”. While EU communiqués often find creative ways to avoid uttering the word “deregulation”, this new European Commission is all about boosting the bloc’s competitiveness by “cutting red tape”. The intention to stimulate the continent’s economy might be laudable, but there is a real risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The Draghi Report, presented in September 2024, laid the foundation for a shake-up of one of the EU’s crown jewels in digital regulation – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to the report, certain regulations present “overlaps and inconsistencies”, leading to fragmentation.

Draghi pinpointed GDPR as a particular source of headaches, thanks largely to its complexity, burdensome national implementation, inconsistent local enforcement, and disproportionately high compliance costs for small and medium enterprises compared to larger corporations. Now the whispers are over: GDPR seems headed for the chop, much like sustainability reporting rules before it.

Yet the world has changed dramatically in recent months, meaning many of Draghi’s proposals are tailor-made for a context that no longer exists. Additionally, the US’ disastrous DOGE experiment offers a stark cautionary tale of deregulation leading to chaos rather than efficiency. Legal institutions, after all, are complex systems designed for the critical purpose of protecting people’s rights.

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Put the chainsaw away

Blaming the GDPR for Europe’s growth woes makes for great clickbait, LinkedIn memes and after-dinner quips, but it ignores the real issues. Looser privacy rules will not fix our problems. On the contrary, a smarter framework for workers’ digital rights could serve as a robust counterbalance, ensuring that AM operates as a tool for efficiency rather than unchecked command-and-control.

By all means, critique the GDPR, but aim at the right target. Its abstract, transactional, individualistic DNA is ill-suited to the collective, lopsided reality of modern workplaces where employees’ data is fed into black-box AI systems.

In those environments the answer is not to prune protections, but to reinforce them by clarifying legal bases, establishing red lines, hard-wiring collective rights, and closing enforcement loopholes. Reform, yes. Regression, no.

From Phil Nind

I've been very lucky these last few months and had the opportunity to see and photograph 3 different local barn owls. They frequently make an appearance at a local meadow which is only 10 minutes walk from my home.

I've been out to see them on 6 occasions and they really have been a joy to photograph.

This is one of my favourite shots from those visits.

Fears that the it will harm the economy, coupled with a mistrust of institutions has led many to oppose the euro. Disinformation campaigns have muddled the debate over Bulgaria's economic transition.

Thousands gathered in Bulgaria's capital Sofia and other major cities on Saturday to reject the country's plans to adopt the euro, the latest move by the eastern European country to strengthen its status in the European Union.

Critics of the move are demanding that the government hold a referendum over whether the country should abandon the lev and adopt the euro as its currency.

It comes months after Bulgaria, along with Romania, were admitted to the Schengen area.

Demonstrators in Sofia carried flags of the pro-Russian Vazrazhdane party. A large banner read "The battle for the Bulgarian lev is the last battle for Bulgaria."

I bought a low-cost e-kit a couple of years ago and was surprised at the simplicity of the individual drums. The trigger itself is just a piezo that you can buy in most electronic-stores for about 1€, and if you are relatively comfortable with a soldering-iron, it's quite easy to connect to a jack-connector to it, and you'll have a drum-trigger, not very practical thou, the hard part is building something that can hold it steady against a drum/mesh-head.

I tried building my own trigger-mounts for mounting inside the drums, but working with metal or wood is absolutely not one of my strong sides.

A more simple approach is to make something like Roland's BT-1 Bar Trigger Pad.
It's just a block of rubber with a piezo attached, and a mount with a female jack, I used double-sided adhesive tape to glue the rubber, piezo and foam together and to the board.

This works on all the modules I have tried from Roland, Alesis and Millenium, and I'm sure that someone with more experience in metal/wood-work can make these themself for a fraction of the cost, and most likely a bit more steady than mine.

Now you just need a drum-module to turn the piezo-signal into MIDI and/or sound, any module will do if you just need the MIDI signal to control a sampler, or some another hardware like a CMX light or even a DAW.

I remember seeing somewhere that it's possible to buy piezos with a presoldered female jack, if you want to avoid soldering completely.

You could even build a drum-module yourself using a microcontroller like arduino. It's a bit more complicated, but if anyone is interested, I would love to make a howto for a Arduino-based MIDI-only drum-module.

Golf With Your Friends is an entertaining, challenging, multiplayer mini-golf game for up to 12 players. A mixture of public and player servers allows you to play with friends no matter where they are in the world!

The international nuclear watchdog said Iran's stocks of 60% enriched uranium have increased to over 400 kilograms. It also criticized Iran for a "lack of cooperation."

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran has increased its production of enriched uranium in recent months, according to a report seen by multiple news agencies on Saturday.

The news comes amid talks between Iran and the US aimed at curtailing Tehran's nuclear program and preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons.

This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

Artist: Yamashita Shun'Ya | twitter | danbooru

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Um Asyl bittet an diesem Tag keiner, auch den Rest der Woche nicht, auch nicht an den benachbarten Übergängen der sächsischen Gebirgsregion, wo im Stundenschnitt nur ein paar Pkws durchrollen. Abgewiesen werden Menschen nur wegen Visa-Vergehen. Wer einige Tage den Kontrollbetrieb der Bundespolizeiinspektion Berggießhübel beobachtet, hat nach kurzer Zeit den Eindruck: Dobrindts Plan wird fehlschlagen, in den ersten Wochen der neuen schwarz-roten Koalition eine vorzeigbare Zahl an Asylsuchenden in die EU-Nachbarländer zurückzuweisen. Das gewollte, sichtbare Signal gegen irreguläre Migration, es wird ausbleiben.

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My current top 3 games are:

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Super Auto Pets

Event Horizon - Frontier

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What's yours?