The retreat is scheduled for August 12–16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.

The original version of the source article identified the location as the Powerscourt Hotel; in an act of journalistic cowardice (to be expected from a Condé Nast Publication) Wired later edited their article to remove that detail "to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative".

Esquire is unsurprisingly sticking with Wired's "near Dublin" description of the location, but fortunately it looks like some Irish media outlets (eg this and this) are reporting where it actually is so hopefully there will be some local opposition present.

btw OP's image is a screenshot of (a small excerpt of) this tweet https://xcancel.com/... and also, fyi:

https://news.meaww.com/...

The existing chess community on lemmy.ml/c/chess seems to be dead

it looks like !chess@lemmy.ml is averaging a few posts per month this year and has 2.4k subscribers; not very active but i wouldn't call it dead.

moderators are not reachable

the mods do seem inactive; i and other lemmy.ml admins remove spam if/when it gets reported (which has happened four times this year). if someone (with some posting history) wants to be added as a mod of it just let me know and i'll add you.

and is hosted on .ml which is defederated by many instances

huh? which instances have defederated lemmy.ml?

This led to a few larger instances blocking it (.world I think is the kargst to have done so) blocking it, so their users cannot access *.ml communities.

Huh? Lemmy.world has not blocked lemmy.ml, nor have (correct me if i'm wrong?) any other large instances.

Here is this very comment from me (on lemmy.ml) viewable on lemmy.world, btw.

And I never got the actual reason

imo the reason is pretty clear in the modlog you're linking to. the ban duration was disproportionate though, so, i just unbanned you. (please do not advocate for the use of telegram in !privacy@lemmy.ml though! lmao)

see also previous thread in this community on this topic from a month ago

Beyond that, I recommend that you post on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world or somewhere similar if you need people to explain why telegram is offtopic in communities about privacy technology. (This discussion is very offtopic in this thread so I won't reply further here. If you really feel the need to argue about the above I recommend you do it in a new thread somewhere it isn't offtopic; if you tag me maybe i'll reply there.)

Yeah, but at least it has the OG Zealand.

in the nether region

For each participant, Dialog logs a membership status, every retreat the person has attended, a biography, a home city, and a private access token. WIRED is not publishing the tokens, which function as login credentials, or the personalized account links that contain them.

This is an odd thing to say given that neither Wired nor their source ("the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew") appear to be publishing any of the actual data whatsoever, beyond the handful of mostly nonspecific references to it in the article text. (Eg, lots of sentences like "The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies." - omitting names of any of these people.)

Also, the linked archive says:

Update 6/16/2026, 5:47 pm EDT: WIRED updated this article to correct a conflation of two people named Jeff Epstein. A small revision was also made to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative.

Someone helpfully had already made an earlier archive before that, so we can see what information Wired journalists Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova removed at the request of a Dialog representative: where it now says "The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin" it originally said "The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at the Powerscourt Hotel outside Dublin".

For each participant, Dialog logs a membership status, every retreat the person has attended, a biography, a home city, and a private access token. WIRED is not publishing the tokens, which function as login credentials, or the personalized account links that contain them.

This is an odd thing to say given that neither Wired nor their source ("the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew") appear to be publishing any of the actual data whatsoever, beyond the handful of mostly nonspecific references to it in the article text. (Eg, lots of sentences like "The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies." - omitting names of any of these people.)

Also, the linked archive says:

Update 6/16/2026, 5:47 pm EDT: WIRED updated this article to correct a conflation of two people named Jeff Epstein. A small revision was also made to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative.

Someone helpfully had already made an earlier archive before that, so we can see what information Wired journalists Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova removed at the request of a Dialog representative: where it now says "The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin" it originally said "The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at the Powerscourt Hotel outside Dublin".

No, SVG files are not HTML.

Please change this post title (currently "today i learned: svg files are literally just html code"), to avoid spreading this incorrect factoid!

I suggest you change it to "today i learned: svg files are just text in an html-like language" or something like that. edit: thanks OP

SVG is a dialect of XML.

XML and HTML have many similarities, because they both are descendants of SGML. But, as others have noted in this thread, HTML is also not XML. (Except for when it's XHTML...)

Like HTML, SVG also can use CSS, and, in some environments (eg, in browsers, but not in Inkscape) also JavaScript. But, the styles you can specify with CSS in SVG are quite different than those you can specify with CSS in HTML.

Lastly, you can embed SVG in HTML and it will work in (modern) browsers. You cannot embed HTML in SVG, however.

via this comment from @Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml

i don't recommend Arch smh