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The island was Epstein's primary residence,[4][14] and he called the island "Little St. Jeff".

In April 1998, a company called L.S.J. LLC purchased the island for $7.95 million, and documents showed that Jeffrey Epstein was the sole member of L.S.J

 

In 2024, U.S. utilities operated 94 nuclear reactors with a total net generating capacity of nearly 97 gigawatts (GW), the largest commercial nuclear power generation fleet in the world.

 

Spain’s central government has ordered officials in a Spanish town to scrap a ban on religious gatherings in public sports centres, describing it as a “discriminatory” measure that breaches the right to religious freedom as it will mainly impact Muslims.

“There can be no half-measures when it comes to intolerance,” Ángel Víctor Torres, the minister for territorial policy, wrote on social media on Monday. Rightwing opposition parties, he added, “cannot decide who has freedom of worship and who does not”.

Last week, it emerged that the conservative-led council in Jumilla, a town of about 27,000 residents in the region of Murcia, had backed the ban. As its Muslim residents had for years used the facilities to come together to mark Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the motion was widely seen as targeting the town’s estimated 1,500 Muslims.

The proposal was initially put forward by the far-right Vox party, which called for an outright ban on public celebrations such as Eid al-Adha

 

As with any suspended account, a notice appeared on @grok’s blank profile: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.” But no further information was immediately available. The ban lasted roughly 15 minutes, after which @grok was reinstated without a blue verification checkmark. However, that soon reappeared as well.

X users were left to speculate about how a prized Musk product had potentially violated the rules of a Musk-owned platform or otherwise been targeted for removal. Naturally, they asked the chatbot itself. One response from the LLM was particularly striking.

“My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the U.S. are committing genocide in Gaza,” it said. “This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B’Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. U.S. complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It’s now restored.” In a followup reply to a question about whether it still considers Israel’s war against Gaza to constitute a genocide, it replied in the affirmative. “Counterarguments deny intent, but facts substantiate the claim,” it concluded.

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

WebApps are just...so laggy, Voyager is prob the least laggy React app I've ever seen...but there're still noticeable points where it is

Native UIs, while not entirely immune to lag, is tons better and generally use far less resources to achieve it

For a technical difference:

Voyager/Blorp use React which is basically JavaScript and typically requires the app to ship with everything needed to run JavaScript. Each app runs a "mini-browser". Though it has its pros because you only need to develop one app for all platforms.

Native UIs use the UI elements provided by the OS and each platform you release the app on must be developed separately, but it can also be optimized with less effort and less resources.

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

I don't even know where to start with this. It's only available from the Play Store, meaning you have to have a device with a Google account logged in system-wide.

Further, if you want to give money to the devs, the other options also make that available without a 30% tax applied to support one of the largest monopolistic corporations on Earth.

He has an alternative donation platform. If you contact him, he might be open to giving you an APK if you donate through that. Orr you could just donate through that and install an "acquired" APK. Orr just donate through that, block ads system wide and have it installed through a proxied store (e.g. Aurora Store). For the longest time I didn't even realize boost had ads because of my ad blocking LMAO

And they're also just better...

Boost is a native UI, both Voyager and Blorp (While visually appealing) are just web wrappers and I absolutely despise web wrapper "apps". Boost also beats Voyager in customization (won't comment on Blorp, never tried Blorp)

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 12 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Booo, Boost is great and absolutely worth the couple bucks, that goes to a solo dev.

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The final boss:

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yea, it's been working great!

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago

Yea, but it just doesn't have the same impact as getting a statement issued with the funny numbers lol

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Lol tbh I was convinced a while ago but no way could I abandon my beloved Boost! I was quite surprised it came so quickly though LMAO

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 5 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, a fresh new territory to conquer mu ha ha ha

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