Hundreds of US marines arrive in LA as large protests are planned across US
Federal troops continued to be on duty in the streets of Los Angeles on Friday after a series of court rulings, and more arrived, with large protests planned in California and across the country this weekend against the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration raids and a big military parade in Washington DC.
About 200 US marines arrived in LA on Friday morning. This followed Donald Trump’s extraordinary decision to deploy national guard troops to LA last weekend, over the objections of the governor of California, Gavin Newsom. The marines were to take over protecting a federal building, US Army Maj Gen Scott Sherman, who commands the taskforce of marines and national guardsmen, said.
The streets had been mostly calm overnight going into Friday morning, marking the seventh day of protests across various areas and the third day of an overnight curfew in a small part of the huge downtown area.
Hundreds of US Marines arrive in LA as large protests are planned in California and across US
Marines arrive on seventh day of protests in Los Angeles, following Trump’s extraordinary decision to send National Guard troopsMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
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Iran’s UN ambassador says 78 killed, 320 wounded in Israeli strikes
The death toll comes after Israel’s attacks across Iran which hit dozens of targets in and around Tehran including nuclear facilities and official headquarters.
Among those killed by Israeli airstrikes include scientists and commanders.
As reported by the Guardian’s Jason Burke and Deepa Parent, Iranians described chaotic scenes where they saw windows shaking and people screaming.
“Traffic jams and clueless crowds are still trying to make sense of what’s happening,” witnesses told the Guardian, adding: “Smoke is still billowing from residential streets and there’s debris around homes. The sky is red and we fear there will be more attacks.”
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Iran fired over 100 missiles at Israel; over 40 wounded around Tel Aviv, two critical
Iran fires over 100 missiles and drones at Israel; over 40 wounded in Tel Aviv area, two in critical conditio
Iran fires some 150 missiles at Israel ■ Israel struck dozens of targets, including nuclear ones, throughout Iran on Friday ■ Iran confirms Revolutionary Guards chiefs, army's commander killed in attacks ■ Trump endorses 'excellent' Israel strikes on…Haaretz
Air defenses over Tehran intercept MAVs
Air defenses over Tehran intercept MAVs
TEHRAN - Air defense systems were activated over central and western Tehran late Friday night, intercepting what eyewitnesses and unofficial reports identify as MAVs (Micro Aerial Vehicles) operated by Israel.Tehran Times
This is sad and says a lot about the dems...
People speaking out against the Israel-Iran war:
Marjorie Taylor Green
Tucker Carlson
Alex Jones
Steve Bannon
Matt Gaetz
People who are silent:
Obama
Biden
Hillary
Kamala
How drones change everything, and nothing Meduza’s in-depth examination of Russian–Ukrainian unmanned warfare and where it’s leading this bloody conflict
How drones change everything, and nothing
Meduza’s in-depth examination of Russian–Ukrainian unmanned warfare and where it’s leading this bloody conflictMeduza
New study warns of risks in AI mental health tools
New study warns of risks in AI mental health tools
AI therapy chatbots may fall short of human care and risk reinforcing stigma or offering dangerous responses.news.stanford.edu
ICE Barbie Went on Bungled Raid Storming Pregnant Mom’s Home
ICE Barbie Went on Bungled Raid Storming Pregnant Mom’s Home
Home security cameras recorded masked ICE agents going room by room while holding rifles.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.
GNU coreutils - useful flags and obscurities | Bread on Penguins
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Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course
Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course
Within a couple of years, 50 percent of the organizations that had planned to replace their customer service personnel with AI models are expected to reverse their...Alfonso Maruccia (TechSpot)
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Alarm as Republicans Launch Probe of 200+ Immigrant Charity Groups
'Fear Is the Point': Alarm as Republicans Launch Probe of 200+ Immigrant Charity Groups
"An attack on civil society is an attack on us all," said Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez. "We must dissent."jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
Get an audio overview of Search results in Labs, then click through to learn more.Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries. Searching for a topic you’re not familiar with? An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you're multitasking or simply prefer an audio experience.
Want to explore a topic further? We display helpful web pages right within the audio player on the search results page so you can easily dive in and learn more.
To try it out, opt into the experiment in Labs. When our systems determine it might be useful, you’ll see the option on the search results page to tap to generate a short audio overview on the topic of your query. You can give a thumbs up/down on each discussion, and the experiment as a whole in Labs.
Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast
Get an audio overview of Search results in Labs, then click through to learn more.Today, we’re launching a new Search experiment in Labs – Audio Overviews, which uses our latest Gemini models to generate quick, conversational audio overviews for certain search queries. Searching for a topic you’re not familiar with? An audio overview can help you get a lay of the land, offering a convenient, hands-free way to absorb information whether you're multitasking or simply prefer an audio experience.
Want to explore a topic further? We display helpful web pages right within the audio player on the search results page so you can easily dive in and learn more.
To try it out, opt into the experiment in Labs. When our systems determine it might be useful, you’ll see the option on the search results page to tap to generate a short audio overview on the topic of your query. You can give a thumbs up/down on each discussion, and the experiment as a whole in Labs.
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
WASHINGTON—After he was forcibly removed from a press conference held in Los Angeles yesterday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Democrats in the House of Representatives backed a resolution Friday that thanked federal agents for handcuffin…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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MLS over ActivityPub Draft
Good news in privacy for ActivityPub. The first early draft of the MLS over ActivityPub specification went out this week. It’s been part of my work on our E2EE for ActivityPub project at the Social Web Foundation.
Messaging Layer Security (MLS) is an IETF standard for end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging. It lets people on laptops and phones communicate with each other in a secure way that no one in between can see.
MLS is designed to use pluggable lower-level protocols. This specification defines an envelope format for distributing MLS messages through the network, and an Activity Streams 2.0 profile for the packets of application data stored inside the messages.
This specification is ready for review from both ActivityPub developers and security analysts. It’s time to start making proof-of-concept implementations and testing interoperability.
The best place to make comments or report problems is on the ActivityPub E2EE GitHub repo issues list. I’m looking forward to these next steps!
End-to-end Encryption (E2EE) over ActivityPub
Encrypted direct messages supply the confidence that people need to connect with family, friends and colleagues privately over a social network. As part of the Summer of Protocols 2024, we explore …Social Web Foundation
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The use case seems clear: actual DMs on the fediverse. How does this interop with existing implementations that utilise direct addressing (and intentional omission of as:Public) as a form of direct messaging?
As usual I am assuming we will have to support both.
6 Android apps that are so slick, I thought Google made them
6 Android apps that are so slick, I thought Google made them
Not all Android apps are created equal: here are 6 of my favorites that embrace the Material design language so well, they could pass for Google apps.John Kanellakos (Pocket-lint)
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Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs.
The Apple and Google app stores continue to offer private browsing apps that are surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies, more than six weeks after they were identified in a Tech Transparency Project report. Apple and Google may also be profiting from these apps, which put Americans’ privacy and U.S. national security at risk, TTP found.The apps are virtual private networks (VPNs), which promise to mask a user’s identity as they browse the internet. But Chinese-owned VPNs raise serious privacy and security concerns for Americans because Chinese companies can be forced to share user data with the Chinese government under the country’s national security laws. VPNs have access to particularly sensitive user data since they see all of a person’s web activity.
TTP - Spot Check: Apple and Google Still Have a Chinese VPN Problem
The Apple and Google app stores offer VPNs without revealing they’re owned by Chinese companies. That keeps Americans in the dark about privacy and national security risks.www.techtransparencyproject.org
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Ukraine is paying civilians up to $2,400 a month to shoot down Russian drones with whatever they can find
Ukraine to pay civilians up to $2,400 a month to shoot down drones
The new measure says paid volunteers have the right to use their personal cars, drones, or even hunting guns to fight off drones.Matthew Loh (Business Insider)
Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel lran fight
Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel-Iran fight
Israel's attacks on Iran are also putting pressure on the Gulf states, who worry they too could be drawn into the escalating conflict.Kersten Knipp (Deutsche Welle)
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Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters
Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
The budget proposal is the Trump administration's latest attack on services supporting abuse survivors.Mother Jones
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France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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1337x.to seems to be playing up - here's some alternative domains
According to 1337x-status, they own the following domains:
Official domains (May 2024):
1) 1337x.to
2) 1337x.st
3) x1337x.ws
4) x1337x.eu
5) x1337x.se
6) x1337x.cc NEW May 2024
1337x Status Page - Official Domains - News
Get latest news, official domains and status of 1337x torrent website.1337x-status.org
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Where are the videos from the Iranian perspective?
Why are we giving Israel a stage, but not Iran?
[Live] Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli Strikes
Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli Strikes
Israel has launched a massive attack on Iran, striking dozens of nuclear and military facilities across the country, raising fears of a potential all-out war between the two countries.RFE/RL
Identity is aquired naturally. National Identity isn’t.
In other systems our core identity might be city, or village, or lake, or mountain range, or tribe, or class, or job, or beliefs, or culture, or relgion, or clan, or langauge, or dialect etc.
National Identity (Nationalism) is a rather new thing to be mainstream. Only a couple centuries.
Every one really shits on brave so i decided to use Fennec from now on
I'm on android
So i downloaded fennec today and it seems to be pretty good, and quick aswell. But the settings are kinda confusing, for now tho!
I have already enabled ublock, Clearurls and Privacy Badger.
What other settings would you recommend to make fennec even more privacy hardened?
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If you really want privacy than have a look at Ironfox, its a continuation of Mull.
gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
They implement the settings from this project, like arkenfox's user.js but with regular updates:
IronFox OSS / IronFox · GitLab
Privacy and security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. https://ironfoxoss.org/GitLab
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia Il ritorno della guerra dei dazi sotto l...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
No, Freddy Mars, the Western Allies Did Not Liberate Your Country from the Nazis—They Saved Your Nazis from the Soviets.
No, Freddy Mars, the Western Allies Did Not Liberate Your Country from the Nazis, They Saved Your Nazis from the Soviet Union, Ask Adolf Heusinger
By Мочка comrade@mochka.cc
President Trump struggled with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's name during their June 5, 2025 White House meeting, calling him "Friedrich Mars" instead of Merz. An
appealing nickname for the dull atlanticist, Deadly Freddy Mars. When the conversation turned to D-Day, the mispronunciation became the least of the diplomatic awkwardness.
"May I remind you tomorrow is June 6, the D-day anniversary when the Americans once ended a war in Europe," Merz told the President. Trump, in his characteristic bumbling manner, responded that D-Day was "not a pleasant day for you... This was not a great
day."
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill that opens the door to automated IP-address blocking. This legislative push is bolstered by a parallel, "secret" agreement between sports rightsholders and major ISPs, which aims to automate anti-piracy efforts and streamline direct blocking requests. Rightsholders hope these new powers will help to tackle the "mafia-like" piracy economy.
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad.
PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now
This is bad, folks. Very bad.James Pero (Gizmodo)
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H&M entra da Galerie Lafayette — Ma la Francia non era pronta a fare la guerra al fast fashion?
Lo sbarco di H&M nei corner delle prestigiose Galerie Lafayette a Parigi sembra stridere con la recente approvazione al Senato francese di una legge contro l’ultra-fast fashion (come riportato nel nostro post).
La mossa conferma le contraddizioni nel contrasto al fenomeno: da un lato, si colpiscono marchi low-cost come Shein (accusati di dumping ambientale e sociale), dall’altro si accoglie un gigante del fast fashion "tradizionale" in un tempio del lusso.
Protezionismo o incoerenza?
Il governo francese giustifica la legge come lotta allo sfruttamento, ma questa notizia aggiunge dubbi: sembra proprio una mossa per proteggere il mercato dalla Cina (Shein e Temu sono nel mirino). Intanto, H&M — europeo ma con supply chain globale — sembra sfuggire alla retorica anti-fast fashion.
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Il Senato francese approva una legge contro l’ultra-fast fashion: un attacco alle pratiche di sfruttamento o protezionismo contro la Cina?suite123
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
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"This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say."
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is res...Elena Rossini on PeerTube
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NixOS printing problems
A friend and I are trying to get a machine set up to work as my school's library's printing computer instead of Windows ones. It is running NixOS. We got it bound to active directory, applications installed, etc., but the issue is that we can't get it to print. It'll say that it's printing but the print job never reaches the print server. To access the print server you're supposed to authenticate, but it doesn't ever give a prompt to. I tried turning off the firewall temporarily to see if that was the issue but it made no difference.
In configuration.nix, services.printing.enable=true and services.printing.drivers = [ pkgs.cups pkgs.hplip ]; (it is an HP printer that we're currently testing on).
I'm thinking that either SAMBA is configured incorrectly and/or the syntax that I put into CUPS for the printer is incorrect.
Current SAMBA config:
services.samba = {
enable = true;
openfirewall = true;
settings = {
public = {
path = "/srv/public";
browseable = true;
writable = true;
"guest ok" = true;
In CUPS it shows the syntax for a Windows printer via SAMBA as follows: smb://[workgroup/]server[:port}/printer
The issue is that I don't know what it means by that. I know the print queue, domain, IP, and port (although I'm under the impression that I don't need the port for this case), but I don't know how it would fit into this. I tried looking around on the CUPS wiki but it was vague and confusing to me. Any help with this is much appreciated.
1) Verify CUPS can actually print from that machine
2) If that's your samba config, it seems a bit light
3) Enable guest_ok and see if it works then. If so, you need to delve deeper into your access permissions
documentation.ubuntu.com/serve…
You also just share print targets via CUPS without Samba: cups.org/doc/sharing.html
Set up Samba as a print server
Another common way to network Ubuntu and Windows computers is to configure Samba as a print server. This will allow it to share printers installed on an Ubuntu server, whether locally or over the n...Ubuntu Server
Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks' | NPR
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'
In Copenhagen, meteorologists predict the city will receive 30% more rainfall by the end of this century.
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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
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This article is terrible.
In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.Instead, the northern state will turn to [an unnamed, gaping information hole] open-source software to "take back control" over data storage and ensure "digital sovereignty", its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.
"We're done with Teams!" he said, referring to Microsoft's messaging and collaboration tool and speaking on a video call -- via an [unnamed, gaping information hole] open-source German program, of course.
What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.
And don't say it's TBD; they're not going to say they're "done with Teams" without knowing what they're switching to. Or, even if they haven't put the final nail in the decision, they have a short list.
What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.
Whole bunch of shit going by different sources and the state itself from german, to supplement here
MS Office -> LibreOffice
Exchange / Outlook -> Open-XChange / Thunderbird
Sharepoint -> Nextcloud
Windows -> Linux
MS Active Directory -> Unknown, but currently Testing things
Telephones use, among others, Kamailio, RTPEngine, Asterisk, GenieACS, Loki and Grafana
For all the Software to do like specific work, i.e. the software that helps manage industrial permits or whatever, it's case by case with them trying to replace them with mostly web based solutions so they're OS-Agnostic.
They're doing this together with Dataport, which is a sort of special government structure in the sense that it does IT for the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt who share the costs. They've been at this whole thing of trying to make a FOSS standard software enviroment for years now, steadily improving, so things might actually be happening. Video conferencing should be Jitsi, that's already in the portfolio, the chat components will in all likelihood be based on the Matrix Protocol which is aswell, I think they offer an offshoot of Riot.
It's a good thing. That said, the way the german government works this only really includes the actual state level bureaucratic engines. Everything at the county and municipal level will also have to make the switch themselves so that's 83 more government entities that would have to do this before the state runs on FOSS.
And like with all of them in germany they're all flat out broke and can't get personnel for this so this type of project, if attempted at all, is usually headed by a 60 year old who's also the equivalent of a CIO because he once built an excel table with pivot functions and the general level of digital competency of the workforce is dire, as in people are printing out excel tables to do the calculations with a calculator and things of that nature.
Thanks! That's all great information.
I'd bet there are a bunch of college students involved in the implementation, too. I don't see ongoing maintenance taking much more manpower than MS; we certainly had dedicated teams for it at my last company, so maybe that will be a budgetary wash, and what they save will be the probably significant licensing.
Thanks. I wonder why both jitsi and Matrix. Someone in the thread said it was too bad Matrix's video conferencing wasn't good enough that they had to add an extra software component, but I wonder what, exactly, the evaluation found wrong with it.
I have a lot of issues with Matrix, but the video conferencing didn't seem worse than the horrible key management.
An external shareholder wouldn't need to create a matrix account just to talk to you.
That's a really good point. I have forgotten whether there are anonymous accounts in Matrix for rooms, but even if so it wouldn't be the same as scheduling a meeting and sending a specific meeting link a-la Zoom.
Yeah, this is the reason.
Ah. Also, such a large organization probably doesn't want to bet the farm on a relatively new and unproven feature.
I'm guessing they have some minimum standards for age and stability.
Not Matrix itself, but the new call mechanism.
They've chosen Matrix; they've just chosen something else for the video calling. Maybe because the anonymous video call link feature is too recent an addition, and is unproven.
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