Sunk Iranian warship attended Indian Naval exercise with United States also in attendance


The United States attended India's International Fleet Review and MILAN 2026 training events, just days before attacking an unarmed Iranian warship that had also been in attendance.

India held their first MILAN event in 1995, and has since hosted additional events every two years. The event requires vessels be unarmed or carrying minimal munitions. The United States had also previously attended in 2022 and 2024.

The Iranian ship was attacked on March 4, less than a week after the conclusion of MILAN 2026 on February 26.

Having frequently attended these exercises, the United States likely knew the IRIS Dena was not carrying munitions as they torpedoed the returning Iranian vessel.

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OPNsense Mini PC Suggestion + Switch + AP? (And running cables)


Hi, it's me again. I like to think that my endless questions help fuel community engagement to feel less bad :sweat_smile:

So like the title says, I'm interested in running an OPNsense router for my home network so I can do better firewall filtering for both security and privacy (ad-blocking, phoning home, etc.) purposes. I found this video by Dave's Garage that talks about running OPNsense in Transparent Filtering Bridge mode. I also researched that it's better to use a switch and APs for any wireless traffic rather than having the router/firewall combo do it, so any hardware suggestions there? Here's info about my network:

  • 500 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload speeds (stick with 1 Gbps ports right?)
  • My Proxmox homelab is wired connection only, so I need to use one of the switch ports for it
  • We do have a door camera (I pray it's not Ring...), so I should set up VLANs right?
    • VLAN ideas: Guests, Family/Home, IoT, Homelab specifically? (any others suggestion VLANs/segmentation???)
    • Maybe I'll do selfhosted IoT devices in the future because of this? ~~The homelab must grow~~


  • My mom watches a lot of YT on our FireTV, so any guides on what IPs to block for that?

So what Mini PC should I stick with (just 2 ports for WAN & LAN is fine right)? Do I need to avoid any specific brand NICs (do Mediatek cards suck)? What 4-port switch would be good? What wireless AP is recommended? Furthermore, how do you go about running cables in your home? The coax plate that my modem is connected to is literally in the corner of my house. The Wifi is bad in some spots because of this, so we've thought about extenders. But if I do my homelab and have a wireless AP, I can just run an Ethernet cable from the switch to a properly placed AP (I guess I'd need PoE then...) right? My mom is afraid of tripping on wires and while I say to just run them along the baseboard, she's doubting me.

Ukraine to help US and its allies counter Iranian drones in Middle East, says Zelenskyy


Ukrainian president orders equipment and expertise to be provided to US in return to diplomatic support against Russia, saying ‘we help to defend from war those who help us’

The United States and its allies in the Middle East are seeking Ukraine’s expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Various countries, including the US, have approached Ukraine for help in defending against the Iranian drones, Zelenskyy said late on Wednesday. He said he has spoken in recent days to the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait about possible cooperation.

Ukrainian assistance in countering Iranian drones will be provided only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s own defences, the Ukrainian president said, and if it adds leverage to Kyiv’s diplomatic efforts to stop the Russian invasion.

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in reply to breakfastmtn

Fuck this guy. I’m entirely in support of Ukraine, but Zelenskyy can take his ‘let’s bomb more schoolchildren, genocide supporting ass’ straight to hell.

After the US and Israel drive up the price of oil and gas so high that Europe is motivated to purchase more from Russia, I hope that Zelensky enjoys funding the death and destruction of his own people. Goddamn, what an asshole.

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in reply to xenomor

Oh, whatever. The dude is between a rock and a Russian meat grinder. He doesn't support killing kids, but I'm sure Iran being a Russian friend last I checked. I bet he was more thinking, "Now Iran will be too busy to help Russia out."

Not "oh boy I get to kill kids." Out all the political folks I've seen over the past 15 yrs Zelensky has been the only decent cocksucker outta all of em. If there's any of em whose shit doesn't totally stink, it's him. So piss off with that bullshit.

in reply to Salamanderwizard

Let me get this straight. The guy’s job is to make the case to the world that his country is being victimized by the unwarranted offensive violence of a massive nation for their own self enrichment. So, he provides support for the unwarranted offensive violence of a massive nation for their own self enrichment. I guess all the moralizing about injustice was just marketing and it’s really just my team good, your team bad. If so, no wonder we live in a world where monsters like Putin and trump get to do whatever they want.

Maybe Iran wouldn’t be so allied with Russia if the US wasn’t so determined to fuck around with it. Ukraine allying with the US is cool and sensible because meat grinder, but Iran allying with Russia is somehow a problem.

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Ukraine war latest: 200 Ukrainian POWs return home in latest exchange, Zelensky says


Ukraine has brought home 200 soldiers held in Russian captivity in the latest prisoners of war (POW) exchange on March 5, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed releasing 200 Ukrainian POWs in exchange for the same number of Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine, in a swap brokered by the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates.

. . .

Among the POWs who returned are soldiers who defended Mariupol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, serving in the Armed Forces, the State Special Transport Service, the Border Guards, or the National Guard, according to Zelensky.

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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base


The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating.

The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.

But a body of evidence assembled by The New York Times — including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos — indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

And official statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where the I.R.G.C. base is located, suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike.

. . .

Determining precisely what happened has been impeded by the lack of visible weapons fragments and the inability of outside reporters to reach the scene. The total death toll has yet to be independently confirmed, but Iranian health officials and state media said the strike had killed at least 175 people, many of them children, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school.

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CMG exclusive: Iranian FM spokesperson says US 'betrayed diplomacy' #worldnow


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In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with China Media Group in Tehran on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei addressed the regional situation and the latest developments in the ongoing conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran.

"We were for diplomacy; they betrayed diplomacy," Baghaei said. "I think this is the manifestation of organized bullying at its finest."

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US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say


U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed ​their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

Reuters was unable to determine more details about the investigation, including what evidence ‌contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have struck the school.

Self-hostable multiplayer Parchis game 🎲


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Hey everyone 👋. I just wanted to share a little personal project that grew a bit more than I initially planned.

The original idea was simply to build a game so I could play Parchis (Ludo) with my family, as it’s a classic in our household. I ended up building the whole thing entirely through "vibecoding" (AI-assisted coding) because I wanted to see how far I could push current AI tools.

The result is a full web multiplayer game (React/Vite frontend + Node/Express/Socket.io backend with SQLite to store game data).

If anyone is curious or wants to spin it up on their local network to play with friends/family: 🔗 Repo: codeberg.org/baner/parchis (it has a docker-compose.yml ready to go in seconds).

⚠️ A big warning about security: As I mentioned, I completely built this relying on AI, and it was initially meant as a home project. I am not a cybersecurity expert by any means. While I have briefly exposed it to the internet a couple of times to play with remote relatives, my absolute recommendation is to host it ONLY on your local network (LAN) or behind a VPN (like Tailscale/Wireguard). The nature of AI-generated code means it's probably full of vulnerabilities that I haven't caught. Play at your own risk if you decide to open ports to the wild web! 😅

This is also my first project using a monorepo structure and publishing a Docker image for others to deploy. If you take a look and see something horrible (or something that works surprisingly well haha), all feedback is super welcome. I hope someone finds it fun for a local game night!

We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43801404

Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.

I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.

You can however opt out by emailing arbitration-opt-out@zed.dev with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.

I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.



We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch


Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.

I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.

You can however opt out by emailing arbitration-opt-out@[url=did:plc:h4nlizncnhhcq7mwpz3uuvzk]Zed[/url] with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.

I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.


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in reply to talkingpumpkin

It seems you’re right. I may be confusing it with another license.

It is intended for software designed to be run over a network, adding a provision requiring that the corresponding source code of modified versions of the software be prominently offered to all users who interact with the software over a network.

Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry


We built Umbra by forking, updating, and improving the ghostery browser build script, fern.js

Umbra removes all telemetry and outgoing requests except for codec requests ( netfix works!) All non-browsing features like AI, pocket, and profiles are also removed,

The idea behind umbra is usable privacy. By default RFP is off because it breaks websites.

You can build Umbra yourself but using the build script at github.com/openconstruct/user-…

Or downod binaries for Linux/WIn at github.com/openconstruct/umbra…

in reply to jerry

I came here to ask the million dollar question, they answered it on their GitHub.

How we are differnt from Librewolf? Umbra uses the built in firefox password manager instead of recommending extensions. Netflix works, and we do not enable RFP ( resist fingerprinting ) by default as it breaks many web pages. We also have an Umbra Control Center ( about:umbra or bottom left in setting menu) that allows you to set many privacy settings and set profiles for individual web sites. ( may be more differences just the top of my head)

do you think after the age verifcation bs computers will just have locked bios like phones and only boot windows?


i think they will. or worse yet they can make it without bios at all just device tree and all that garbage that phones do. then make it subsction based,filled with ai,cloud streamed only. no apps outside store. but thats too much orwellian stuff for now,i think what will happen is the locking bios thing for now.

what do you think?

in reply to workgood

The end goal of the elites is eliminating access to actual computers from the masses and using software to manipulate, spy on and control the masses.

That is why libreboot and the Free Software community need active support.

None of us can be free if any of us can’t choose freedom.

in reply to workgood

The computers in the store, yes. I expect all computers in the store to be phones and the cell company will verify.

Open Source computers will be more important. Might need to brush up on wire wrapping... (Implication being that chip supplies might become dedicated to only those manufacturers that lock the product down.)

Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'


Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters ​in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operation was his priority.

"I don't have any concern about it," he said, when asked about the higher prices at ‌the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit."

The comments mark a shift in tone for the president, who touted a drop in gas prices in his State of the Union address last month and at a Texas rally focused on energy that took place just hours before the U.S. launched its air strikes ​on Saturday.

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It was a joke. I assure you: I read.

Books are good.

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The wearers of these glasses probably don’t want that footage seen by third parties. And the contractors sure seem like they’d rather not watch it—though they risk losing their job if they decide not to label something. “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” an employee told the papers. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”


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The behavior of /24 vs /32 addresses when using iptables


I added a rule to accept connections from 192.168.1.135/24, since my router is configured to hand out /24 addresses. Then, iptables -L -v showed that connections from 192.168.1.0/24 are accepted. When I change the rule to accept connections from .135/32 - or from .135 without specifying the subnet -, it not only works as intended, but it also resolves the hostname correctly.

Why?

unsolicited "why do you still use iptables" advice not welcome 😁

in reply to kittykillinit

Don't worry and don't mind the downvote. It took me two years, this guy youtube.com/channel/UCJQJ4GjTi… and this guy youtube.com/channel/UCKmU-GKiu… to get an elementary grasp.
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in reply to emotional_soup_88

You need to understand subnetting. Allowing 192.168.1.0/24 also allows 192.168.1.135/24 In fact 192.168.1.135/24 shouldn't be valid syntax at all, but it is easier to accept it and then let subnet math fix the mistake.

I assume your router is 192.168.1.135 for whatever reason, so as long as your router is contained in the configured iptables allowed network, it'll work with all of the following networks.

192.168.1.135/32
192.168.1.134/31
192.168.1.132/30
192.168.1.128/29
192.168.1.128/28
192.168.1.128/27
192.168.1.128/26
192.168.1.128/25
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.0.0/23
... And 22 even larger networks.

If you don't configure a subnet mask for the rule, iptables will accept the IP address you put in as a single host, the /32 is implied. The same behavior would be seen using any kind of network filter, though they may not allow you to specify
192.168.1.135/24, they may require a bit boundary, but mathematically, it's the same.

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On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states


La “lezione americana” di Papa Leone XIV e certo complottismo cattolico


C’è un noto giornalista romano – celebre per la sua costante avversità a Papa Francesco e per la tesi, ormai nota, secondo cui Benedetto XVI non avrebbe mai realmente abdicato – che in questi giorni ha iniziato a colpire anche Papa Leone XIV. Come se non bastassero i problemi che il Pontefice deve affrontare sul fronte americano, gli rimprovera perfino di fare l’Angelus ovvi .
in reply to fossilesque

This looks more complex than it needs to be. We can just merge those two IFF soundnesses at the top and remove transitive implications and we are left with a straight line with a couple bifurcations to cul de sacs.

Also... I only know constructive logics and abstract interpretation with Galois connections... Where do they fit in this? 🥺

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Israel's propaganda directorate being sued by unpaid activists claiming millions


Former employees of Israel’s national public diplomacy directorate, which oversees Israeli propaganda, are demanding millions of shekels for unpaid work carried out since October 2023, according to Israeli daily Calcalist.

Known by its Hebrew name, Hasbara, the national public diplomacy directorate is being sued by companies and contractors who provided their services in the first months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which followed the Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023.

‘Beyond Evil’: Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike


Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux


Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and...

'Cowardly and Despicable': Hegseth Condemned for Sinking of ‘Defenseless’ Iranian Ship


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Israelis back war with Iran despite uncertainty and fatigue


Support for the war is strong in this country. A poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute on Wednesday suggested that 93% of the Jewish public were in favour of it, compared with 26% among Israeli Arabs.

"This is actually a consensus," Prof Tamar Hermann, a senior research fellow who helped carry out the survey, said. "Even during the last campaign against Iran, we didn't have such high numbers."

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester


I saw this over on reddit and people complaining that they "betrayed" their user base. It's amazing how many people think just because they're privacy based that means they won't respond to a lawful court order.


Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester


Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped.

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in reply to ItWasntMe

Proton has recently partnered with proxystore, so you can pay for proton services with monero to avoid this risk

dys2p.com/en/2025-09-09-proton…

Exportations Chine vers l'Europe : "C'est l'absolu rouleau compresseur et ce n'est que le début"


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Trump fires Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary


Katz: Decision to kill Ali Khamenei was made in November | The Jerusalem Post


The negotiations were cynical bullshit in an attempt to make anyone in Iran who believed peace was possible or that the US would act in good faith look like a fool. This ensures only those who wanted war from the beginning in Iran look wise coming out of this catastrophe, which is mission accomplished right?
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BYD in F1? Il colosso cinese sfida il motorsport: scenari e possibilità


BYD in F1? Il colosso cinese sfida il motorsport: scenari e possibilità

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Opnsense, tailscale and headscale


Hey guys, so I've been self hosting for 2 years, making small upgrades until I reached this point where I replaced my router with one of those Chinese fanless firewalls running Intel n150 and running a proxmox homelab.

I am self hosting headscale with many of my buddies connected, including ny own services. Everything was working great until I setup OPNsense.

The firewall was not easy to setup, but after I set it up, I discovered odd behaviors from tailscale.

The firewall was blocking all connections from the ip 100.60.0.0/24, I had to explicitly allow it and change the forewall state to hybrid

What happens is that my LXC containers running tailscale would receive requests from tailscale0 interface but respond via LAN.

Apparently as I understood, consumer routers have assymetric NAT so that works fine, but not with opnsense.

Every guide I read online talks about installing tailscale on the opnsense router directly but I do not want to expose it to the tailscale network.

For now temporarily I set an ip route to tailscale0 and resolved it that way temporarily, but I still cannot get a solution that can help without compromising the firewall.

It's also very cumbersome to do this for 50+ LXC containers over and over, even with running systemd scripts a problem might happen in the future

If you guys have any experience with this it would help a lot.

in reply to irmadlad

It doesn't make sense to me to expose it to the tailnet even with ACL, on opnsense there is a bug where it would request re-authentication on each restart so that's an added negative for me when it comes to adding it.

But what exactly do I benefit from adding the firewall directly part of the tailnet? It's kinda weird when you think about it, this bad boy is the highest tier device where internet comes from and having it to connect to my homelab that depends on it for internet and having the firewall depend on the homelab for tailscale

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in reply to thehamzan6

But what exactly do I benefit from adding the firewall directly part of the tailnet?


Protection of the firewall via it's overlay VPN characteristics, and communication to the server behind the firewall via an encrypted tunnel.

Have you considered using Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust? With Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero trust, you don't need to open or close ports, fiddle with NAT, or any of that. You install it on your server, connect to Cloudflare, it punches a hole for the encrypted tunnel. I personally use Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. Their free tier is quite generous and has many options like Anti-AI scrapers, etc. The caveat to using Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust is that you have to have a domain name that you can edit the nameservers thereof to Cloudflare's assigned nameservers for obvious reasons. Cloudflare will sell you a domain name, but a lot of people just get a cheapy from NamesCheap or Pork Bun. I got one for less than $5 USD that renews at $15 USD annually.

So, in the scenario that I described in my first response:

modem —>wireless router —> managed switch —> pFsense with Tailscale overlay —> server (separate VLAN) with Tailscale overlay

.....is all done through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust with Tailscale on the server and Tailscale on the standalone pFsense firewall as an overlay VPN protection. Additionally, Tailscale makes for a very secure, emergency 'backdoor' to your server should you ever screw up and lock yourself out.

on opnsense there is a bug where it would request re-authentication on each restart so that’s an added negative for me when it comes to adding it.


I'll have to defer to someone more experienced with Opnsense.

Middle East crisis live: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to flee Beirut


Violence always begins in response to impossible expectations and demands.
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in reply to ParlimentOfDoom

What’s crazy is that I remember watching a stock trader/YouTuber back in (I think?) September, and the fucking guy was talking about how we’re witnessing the largest wealth transfer in human history unfolding before us now. He was drawing connections between now and all kinds of stuff… the Federal Reserve, the fluctuation in gold pricing during the fall of Rome, the debasement of currency, removing the gold standard in Nixon era, … all kinds of shit. The idea being, this makes the ultra rich even wealthier. For completely different reasons than we’re mentioning here in this thread, he predicted the circumstances we find ourselves in.

Edit: got some links
- youtu.be/dcgCdIZjL-Y
- youtu.be/Y1rDIYRYrmM
- youtu.be/TSA23nmkGyU
- youtu.be/l40wglG1RKA
- youtu.be/Iy8cXKUMDhA
- youtu.be/p8ZTmaPqXbE
- youtu.be/LMy3BAJYi54
- youtu.be/9Qk1O_-3bOk
- youtu.be/6eaC-hzmCWc
- youtu.be/d__pH5Wt3Ms
- youtu.be/LhWZcnsnWBQ

… damn, and I suddenly realize that I am a cooc.

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AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles


AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

The issue in this case starts with an organization called the Open Knowledge Association (OKA), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms.

Wikipedia editors investigated how OKA was operating and found that it was mostly relying on cheap labor from contractors in the Global South, and that these contractors were instructed to copy/paste articles to popular LLMs to produce translations.

For example, a public spreadsheet used by OKA translators to keep track of what articles they’re translating instructs them to “pick an article, copy the lead section into Gemini or chatGPT, then review if some of the suggestions are an improvement to readability. Make edits to the Wiki articles only if the suggestions are an improvement and don't change the meaning of the lead. Do not change the content unless you have checked that what Gemini says is correct!”

Lebleu told me, and other editors have noted in their public on-site discussion of the issue, that these same instructions previously told OKA translators to use Grok, Elon Musk’s LLM, for the same purpose. Grok, which also produces an entirely automated alternative to Wikipedia called Grokepedia, is prone to errors precisely because it does not use humans to vet its output.

“Following the recent discussion, we have strengthened our safeguards,” [OKA's] Zimmerman told me. “We are now rolling out a second, independent LLM review step. Translators must run the completed draft through a separate model using a dedicated comparison prompt designed to identify potential discrepancies, omissions, or inaccuracies relative to the source text. Initial findings suggest this is highly effective at detecting potential issues.”

Zimmerman added that if this method proves insufficient, OKA is considering introducing formal peer review mechanisms.

Using AI to check the output of AI for errors is a method that is historically prone to errors. For example, we recently reported on an AI-powered private school that used AI to check AI-generated questions for students. Internal testing found it had at least a 10 percent failure rate.

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Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya – and is answerable to no one