Pro-Israel Democrats try breaking with Netanyahu to stop party’s shift amid Gaza crisis
Fearing Zionism could die among Democrats, many party leaders are explicitly breaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to stop anti-Israel attitudes from becoming a litmus test for next year’s midterms and the 2028 presidential primaries.
Leaders of multiple Jewish and pro-Israel groups told CNN privately that they have grimly determined their best and most practical approach is essentially to quietly wait out the trauma and hope the politics turns. There’s another Israeli election next year, and while Netanyahu is now in a minority coalition, he has been counted out before.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wrote the military aid resolution but also cautioned Mamdani when they huddled last month to be more deliberate about making clear he wasn’t anti-Israel or antisemitic, told CNN he thinks his colleagues risk losing an authentic connection to voters if they don’t rapidly change what they’re doing and saying on Israel.
“To be anti-Netanyahu, anti-a-right-wing-racist-extremist government, that’s anti-Israeli government,” Sanders said. “If you’re against Trump, you’re not against America.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/03/politics/democrats-netanyahu-israel-gaza
How China’s oil strategy seeks to cut the U.S. out
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Trump envoy to visit Moscow this week before deadline for ending Ukraine war
Trump said Steve Witkoff would visit Moscow on Wednesday or Thursday. When asked on Sunday what message Witkoff would take to Russia and what Vladimir Putin could do to avoid new sanctions, the US president answered: “Yeah, get a deal where people stop getting killed.”
In Kyiv, there is little expectation that Witkoff will make a breakthrough with Putin, but a hope that Trump’s changed rhetoric and tougher stance on Moscow may lead to a real change in US support for Ukraine.
Trump came into office convinced he could do a deal with Putin, but in recent weeks appears to have become increasingly frustrated with Russia’s actions. On Thursday he described its continued attacks on civilian areas in Ukraine as “disgusting” and on Sunday said that two nuclear submarines that he ordered to be deployed after online threats from the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev were now “in the region”, without giving further details.
Trump envoy to visit Moscow this week before deadline for ending Ukraine war
Steve Witkoff to travel to Moscow before US president’s Friday deadline after which new sanctions could be imposedShaun Walker (The Guardian)
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Return of the Dumb-arse!
As requested, – here is an update on my Linux adventure - the first week has gone by without incident and I'm not turning back!
The tl:dr summary: OMFG. This is probably the EASIEST OS install I’ve ever had – and that’s saying something - since most modern Linux distros are easy!
Reminder of who you’re reading right now – I’m a Windows veteran for the past 25 years and between work and home, I’ve used and supported every flavour from Win95 to Win11 and Server 03 to Server 22. I have installed well-north of 1000 instances in my time, deployed from Floppy, CD, USB, Ghost, WDS and more.
I have dabbled in Linux on-and-off over the years but always on secondary PCs so this is my first time rocking Linux on my primary. I’ve spent the last 12 months experimenting with Linux in preparation for the End-of-10 and this very moment. Testing different distros, Desktop Environments and philosophies while digging into proper Linux learning (not just ‘best Distro’ lists or reviews on YouTube). I’ve had several ‘lightbulb’ moments as I’ve come to learn more about Linux that make me feel like a n00b all over again and I’m loving it. You can read my other lightbulb moment in here.
The remainder of my home gear is already Window-free. Home server: (Unraid), laptop and TV box (Fedora Gnome & KDE respectively). These have all been cut over and running well for the past 6-months as I’ve really sunk my teeth into this new learning. Now that my last hurdle - Windows-only software requirement - is no holding me to Windows, I’m free at last!
Current state: Brand-new parts purchased - and since I couldn’t wait, it’s all hosted in a temporary case while I wait for stock of the exact case I want. Core7 Ultra, B860 and 5060ti for those that care.
Summary: This must be the easiest Linux distro I’ve ever used. Here is a breakdown of what happened:
- Installed Bazzite
- Log into the desktop
- Sign into Steam
- Download Doom 2016
- Play Doom 2016 in glorious ultra widescreen.
It really was that easy. No Drivers to install, no endless Windows updates, no mountains of software to install and configuration to remove all the garbage and regain privacy. Once I got eaten by a Pinky then I quit the game to continue my setup, just a handful of flat pack software installs required to fill the gaps but all that was done in about 20mins. In fact, downloading Doom took longer than the rest of it combined!
And fast! The new hardware helps obviously but I've forgotten how bloated office has become. Libre Office by comparison opens in half a second and everything feels so snappy. Nothing is snappy on Win11, not even notepad anymore.
I watched a very timely video on the weekend featuring a guy with fancy chest-hair and this really hit me where I lived (and worked). So many of Window’s ‘quirks’ are normalised while the same (or less) on Linux is seen as a problem. To paraphrase: we think nothing of editing registry, running PowerShell scripts or sacrificing small woodland creatures to remove built-in functions and apps, and endless other utilities to give us control over our system and yet, if we do anything like this in Linux, it's "too hardcore, not ready for mainstream".
I haven't touched the terminal at all, yet I have to the software I need and my entire PC is ready to use.
If you're someone who's been on the fence about Linux, please don't be. If you last tried it 5+ years ago, I encourage you to revisit. I honestly think Linux is about ready for the mainstream and I genuinely didn't think Bazzite would be this easy getting games going. A huge thank you to the Bazzite team and everyone who contribute to making Linux better and easier!!
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The desktop version of Bazzite is such a hidden gem in the Linux scene. Polished, fast, and no fuss. I rate it the best distro by a good margin, and I have tried many many distros.
How are you dealing with the immutable side of things? Was it easy to get your head around?
So far, so good but I haven't really thought about it since. It may not suit a purist, hardcore or someone who tweaks their system endlessly but for someone like me, I don't want to spend me free time fiddling, breaking, then fixing my home gear.
Until Win10, I never liked to "upgrade" any OS, preferring a clean slate approach and from what I understand, that's what I'll get here. A clean new OS with each upgrade that eliminates any gradual degradation due to a build up of clutter and abandoned packages. All while the flat packs and my data/config reside safely in the use partition (anyone, let me know if I've got this wrong!)
Gnome article on same topic: blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024…
You can test the more strict focus stealing prevention on Gnome with: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows 'strict'.
And to unset it: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows 'smart'
Firefox should also now have proper support for it in 141, but I think for Gnome you might need to wait for a bug fix in Gnome 49:
Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention
Focus stealing prevention exists for two main reasons: One is security, since we need to prevent rogue apps from deceiving users into e.g. typing their password into another window. If apps can...jsparber (GNOME Shell & Mutter)
Amazon requires gov-ID photo before refund.
So I bought a product for €200 on Amazon.com. I am slightly ashamed of doing so but I did, didn't know where else to find this type of product. So after a few days they told me they would not be sending me the product for whatever reason. So I would be getting a refund. They said if I hadn't gotten the refund within 5 days I should contact support. So after 5 days I contacted support. And as soon as I did that, they sent me an email claiming that they require me to upload a picture of my "government issued identity document". They write that if I don't do that "You may continue shopping on Amazon, but you will no longer be eligible for a refund on the order ". Surely they have no right to do so right? They claim they've noticed some suspicious behavior on my account, but all I did was order a product, pay for it in advance, which they decided not to ever deliver to me. It's not me who's being suspicious here.
Anyone else had this experience? This a clear dealbreaker for me. I feel shame for ever having bought something from their store.
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Do not stop contacting Amazon customer support. Occupy their resources to the maximum.
Phone > Chat > Email
Record time spend and demand immediate compensation at your billing rate. Never accept contacting them back again at a later date.
Always demand their names, transcripts and email confirmation of any promises with exact match wording and check before hanging up. Then, use their own words against them.
That would vary from one jurisdiction to another, but I'm sure you can find guides best suited for your local laws.
As inspiration, here's what I sent to Amazon & Samsung last year (in a formal cease & desist format):
Amazon .com .ca ULC
40 King Street W 47th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3Y2Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.
2050 Derry Road West
Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 0B9Montreal, April 26, 2024
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Dear Madam or Sir,
I purchased a Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB drive (model MZ-V8P2T0) on Amazon .ca on March 3, 2022, which broke on April 4, 2024. This product was used under normal conditions, and I believe it should be covered by the manufacturer’s 5-year warranty.
Several chat sessions with Amazon and Samsung support have failed to provide a solution, with each party referring the matter to the other.
I am requesting that you repair or exchange the product under the Consumer Protection Act regarding the legal warranty of the reasonable durability of a product. I am also requesting reimbursement of $25 to cover the cost of sending this letter.
Therefore, I am formally notifying you to resolve the above-mentioned issue within 10 days. Failing to do so may result in legal action against you without further notice or delay.
Lemon, ginger and lemon balm beer
Happy days! My new beer is done. This is a battle-tested recipe with lemons and ginger. This time I also had 10 g of fresh lemon balm in the seasoning infusion. This guy:
Works really great as a beer component, sharing to spotlight this herb with you all! There's a Wikipedia page that describes the many aromatic compounds it imparts. It's perennial (pic is from my garden), grows in a slightly invasive manner so you only need to plant very little to get enough for many brews. This was a warning 😀
Another new twist was a helping of Weyermann spelt wheat malt. I expected the nutty spelt flavour from it, but the taste profile ended up so multi-faceted that I'll need more tastings to pinpoint it 😁 All in all, a distinctive flavour to this beer. Fermented to bone dry very smoothly.
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Absolutely! On mobile so I'll make this tight...
Mash is 18 L water, 6,7 kg of mostly blond malts, including 1 kg of Weyermann Spelt and 1 kg of Simpsons Premium English Cara for a little sweetness. 60 min BIAB mashing with strike temp at 71,2 °C.
Then there's the infusion: 3 L water heated to boil, off the hob, in with ingredients and let sit with lid on. This had 2 large organic lemons sliced thin, one smallish ginger sliced thin, 10 g lemon balm leaves and growth tips, 30 g Simcoe and 30 g Amarillo hops (pellets). It had about an hour and half to infuse.
One more thing was the yeast starter - 2 L water, 1 dL white sugar, 1 dL sugarcane syrup, pinch of yeast nutrient. Extra sugar there to feed the starter and offset the diluting effect of 5 L water added on top of the mashing.
Boiled the wort for 50 min, added 60 g Challenger hops at 45 min to go. The 3 L infusion went into the boil at about 10 min to go, flame up to allow a little boiling for that too.
One thing I might have changed in hindsight is a little less of the Amarillo and Simcoe in the infusion to leave more room for the lemony notes.
Would be great to hear how it went if you try this 😀
Thoughts on social media device?
I have been trying to de-google and de-meta my life, but although i haven't had facebook for a year and a half, i need it for work. Also i do miss marketplace, and some niche groups.
i have been thinking to setup a used android phone, that runs a new google account, that is not related to my (still at use google account). (as hard as i try, some profiles can't be unlinked to google once you have linked them).
Anyway - my concern is, that i'd still be trackable, even if i leave it at home and only use it when i need to use it. Won't meta eventually be able to link my identity to my nework, IP, location etc?
What would be the best way to go around this?
And what to do with secutiry verifications where they as for your phonenumber or to confirm, your ID with an SMS?
If you are leaving it at home, consider a WiFi-only tablet to eliminate any chance of data leaking through the cell modem. Or perhaps an Android emulator on a laptop, but that does come with its quirks. Better yet, also set up a router with router-level VPN at home just for your Facebook-connected devices. Get a cheap prepaid phone for the SMS activation. Don't boot anything up until you're ready and pay with cash or a prepaid gift card at a store you don't frequent or something like Craigslist if possible.
Normally, there's a chance of Google/Facebook asking for SMS confirmation again down the road, maybe long after your burner phone plan has expired. But you should be able to prevent this by adding a FIDO/U2F security key as your 2FA method. No idea if this can be set up on the mobile app, but if not, bring an unimportant laptop with a Linux live USB too.
Since you've already used Facebook in the past, and considering your use case and the nature of Facebook accounts, they most likely have your home location readily on file. Assuming that your main objective is to keep it from correlating your named accounts to pseudo/anonymous accounts and devices, first step would be to isolate it from your real IP address and browser fingerprint.
Now take everything to a library/cafe/somewhere you can access the internet anonymously. Leave your regular devices behind or at least have them in airplane mode and disconnected from the public WiFi. Set everything up, add your security key for 2FA, install a VPN client if Google/Facebook will allow it. Power everything down before leaving. Only power up the Facebook device once you are back home, ideally connected to a dedicated router with router-level VPN.
I don't really know how it all works, but sometimes I do think about all the times I've logged into accounts with my real name without a VPN. And wonder how many of those companies phone home to Meta with my real IP, letting them establish connections with my pseudonymous accounts I've also logged in to without a VPN.
It's a game rigged in their favor and the slightest mistake can blow your cover. Think carefully if Facebook is your only choice or if you can get by with an alternative. If you must use it, I would agree that a dedicated device, even if imperfect, is still one of the best measures for your privacy.
VPN + DeGoogled Privacy Android ROM would be the most practical. That way you should br free from most if not all cross device tracking.
In general having a seperate device for that stuff makes total sense.
Get some sort of device that is compatible with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, like an older Pixel
not sure what would be best to handle verification.
You also have to be careful to use totally new accounts for everything on this new device, different number, different email, different device, different sim etc
App for downsizing MP3s automatically when copying to a phone?
I'm ditching streaming services and just going with local music. However all my CDs are converted to either flac or 320kbps mp3 files on my PC and thus far too large for the limited storage I have on my phone.
I was hoping there might be an app that would automatically downconvert to something like 128kbps and then copy over to the Music directory on my phone. A bit like how Calibre can automatically convert eBook files (e.g. mobi to epub) and then send them to your ereader?
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I'm in a similar boat to you. I ripped almost all of my CDs to 320kbps mp3s for portability, but then I wanted to put all of them (a substantial number) plus a bunch more (my partner's collection) on a physically tiny USB stick (that I already had) to just leave plugged into our car stereo's spare port. I had to shrink the files somehow to make them all fit, so I used ffmpeg and a little bash file logic to keep the files as mp3s, but reduce the bitrate.
128kbps mp3 is passable for most music, which is why the commercial industry focused on it in the early days. However, if your music has much "dirty" sound in it, like loud drums and cymbals or overdriven electric guitars, 128kbps tends to alias them somewhat and make them sound weird. If you stick to mp3 I'd recommend at least 160kbps, or better, 192kbps. If you can use variable bit rate, that can be even better.
Of course, even 320kbps mp3 isn't going to satisfy audiophiles, but it sounds like you just want to have all your music with you at all times as a better alternative to radio, and your storage space is limited, similar to me.
As regards transcoding, you may run into some aliasing issues if you try to switch from one codec to another without also dropping a considerable amount of detail. But unless I've misunderstood how most lossy audio compression works, taking an mp3 from a higher to a lower bitrate isn't transcoding, and should give you the same result as encoding the original lossless source at the lower bitrate. Psychoacoustic models split a sound source into thousands of tiny component sounds, and keep only the top X "most important" components. If you later reduce that to the top Y most important components by reducing the bitrate (while using the same codec), shouldn't that be the same as just taking the top Y most important components from the original, full group?
If your files are flac and you just want to.copy some files you could try Mp3fs
That'll make your files appear to be MP3 when you access them
You could them use a file transfer mechanism to read them from the mp3fs location onto your phone with - kinda - one step.
GitHub - khenriks/mp3fs: FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3
FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3 - khenriks/mp3fsGitHub
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postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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I hope it will be daily drivable in a few years.
US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
Connections between sex trafficker and spy agencies have been long teased. But few are covering them.The Electronic Intifada
This is inaccurate. The piss goes on Americans and America.
He helped align Iran to Russia during his first term and does the same with India now.
What Are Your Experiences With Crypt.ee?
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I use it for docs only and quite like it. My biggest complaints are that it doesn't support the dark mode setting server-side, which is quite annoying, and that you have to convert to PDF to print dark mode files, aaaand that if you type in your encryption key it will automatically log you in before you're able to tick the "save this device" setting.
Very minor, really. But I use Immich for photos so I can't speak to that. I'd probably opt for Ente if I were looking for managed hosting.
So I tried windows tiling...
And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
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🐝 Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Indian auto parts billionaire Sunjay Kapur died after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match at the Queen’s Cup in Windsor.Luis Prada (VICE)
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There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
Do upvotes even matter? They are just indicators of good/bad but that doesn't prove anything. It's up to the perceiver to declare.
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and morewww.phoronix.com
I've had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).
I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure.
The only issue I've had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use.
It didn't use it and recommended a different library.
When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely).
That caught me off-guard. I shouldn't have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something.
I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.
As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.
Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it's an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.
two PMOS installs with LUKS
So I'm trying to setup peppermint os , I have two disks and I want them both to have full disk encryption. After a couple of reinstalls using different approaches, searches and llm questions , still can't get it to work.
First boot gets to encryption of SDA (I believe) , then to grub menu and I'm able to load the first one.
Managed to get new entries but then I get: server error you need to load the kernel first.
I believe both installs are fine and that it is a LUKS thing. UEFI, disabled secure boot.
Sda1 EFI
Sda2 root
Sdb1 EFI
Sdb2 root
Maybe EFI should only be on one of them?
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound AI, Inc., a California-based innovator in voice artificial intelligence, has quietly accelerated the future of in-car communication.Bryan Johnston (auto connected car news)
Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45358033
Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocatesThe software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.
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I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.
Great.
I stand with Israel
Whether or not an ethnostate is good depends on the ethnicity of the people of the ethnostate.
(/s, it is POV of a racist)
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The American civil war was about states rights (states right to white supremacy)
Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
States rights people hate it when pointing out slavery was enshrined in the state constitutions as a requirement for being part of the confederacy.
Or when showing the south was pushing the north to ignore their states rights by forcing them to only follow southern slavery laws
this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors
73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank
21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")
[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]
In a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue, some of the judges on the panel discussed demography, and were inclined to accept that demography is a legitimate consideration in devising family reunification policies that violate the right to family life.Those in favor of the law say the law not only limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as Ze'ev Boim asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but also its Jewish nature" (i. e., its Jewish demographic majority).
Ethnically diverse? Motherfucker, they're all kinds of WHITE EUROPEANS. It occupies Palestine with that in mind, using religion to hide behind it and justify it.
The other 30 percent were either kidnapped children from various operations (with the help of the West) that grew up to be dogs of the Euroanglo-zionazis and become Zionazis themselves or straight up opportunist compradors from all around the world. Oh and to top it off, they sterilize them no matter how much they try to be a good dog, because they're not white enough.
That's not diversity, that's a settler-colonial ethnostate playing population control, trying to get just enough brown to justify their occupation to the public, but not too much to maintain Pan-Europa whiteness.
considering Israel is more ethnically diverse
Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.
Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.
It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.
While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.
Context and nuance is important.
it started inthe 70's and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that's how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.
in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.
the democrats kept control of the house for the entirety of biden's tenure as president while they had control of the senate for half of it and the aca fell apart anyways despite the democrats having a majority .... again.
no one expects the republicans to follow through on welfare programs, so it's silly to hold them to account on it on something like the equal rights amendment; the democrats do claim to care and that's why we expect progress from them.
maybe your expectations for Republicans are too low
i almost forgot why i had instance blocked .ml on my lemm.ee account and neglected to do so on my piefed account. my bad. i keep getting reminded what a waste of time it is to talk to tankie chuds.
Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader Medvedev
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Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.
- If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
- If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
- In either case, they know you've fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes
How can ufw do me like that?
EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!
Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like
To Action From
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip
To Action From
-- ------ ----
22/tcp ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
53 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
80 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
9091 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # Transmission
2049 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # nfs
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0
192.168.2.77 22 ALLOW OUT Anywhere
2049 ALLOW OUT Anywhere # nfsSo how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?
TIA
GitHub - kefir500/apk-editor-studio: Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac.
Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac. - kefir500/apk-editor-studioGitHub
People have mentioned NextDNS (just a DNS setting) and TrackerControl (connects as a VPN on android/grapheneos)
I can mention also DNSNet (which actually also uses a VPN) and PCAPdroid
There are other options, with more features. Lists exist online
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve [Please first read, then comment]
By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
E: Please read the article before commenting.
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve
Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (The Atlantic)
The article says that Hamas wants Israel to starve Gazans, it doesn't say that Israel doesn't starve Gazans.
It literally says Israel uses hunger as weapon (against Hamas and against –or at least not caring about– civilians): "Hamas has benefited from Israel’s decision to use food as a lever against the terror group, because the catastrophic conditions for civilians have generated an international outcry, which is worsening Israel’s global standing and forcing it to reverse course."
E: You partly approve the article yourself and I'm aware of the fact it's Israel committing the genocide.
Not I nor the article have said that Israel isn't committing genocide. The only thing said is that Hamas profits by it and that Gazans are furious about looters and the Hamas. I don't understand why so many people downvote this, claim I would be paid, claim I would deny the genocide or write 6 comments where 1 would be enough, if not you want to deny Hamas is a terrorist organization which only cares about its own survival.
So why did Hamas agree to a ceasefire in March which Israel broke?
Why is Hamas bending over to accept ceasefire conditions? You are spreading Zionist blood libel and genocide propaganda.
France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student
France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student
French authorities have halted evacuations from Gaza after a Palestinian student, Nour A., was found to be under investigation for antisemitic content on social media.Sophia Khatsenkova (Euronews.com)
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites.Aaron Boxerman (The New York Times)
Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State
Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility
Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility
The online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported that hundreds of protesters joined the rally, while police put the number at 80. The police then arrested some of the demonstrators.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
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multi boot - Hibernating and booting into another System or Distribution: will my filesystems be corrupted?
Short answer is: yes, as soon as more than one OS mounts a file system in read-write mode.
The kernel of a modern OS (I am generously including Windows here) caches file system data structures in memory. When you hibernate the computer, the content of that memory is written into a large file because that speeds-up a later restart.
Now, if you boot up another OS, and modify these partitions (without mounting them read-only), you alter the file systems data structures. That happens already when you view folders because this modifies access times stored in the inodes.
When you now shut down the second OS, and resume the first OS, the restarted kernel will have and use cached file system metadata which id loaded from the image into the kernel, that does not match that of the files on disk. And this causes file system corruption by definition.
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No, I mean hibernate, with the PC turned off. In sleep state, you return to the running kernel/OS, so no possibility to boot into another distro, therefore no risk of filesystem damage.
The crucial thing is that file systems need to be unmounted before they can be accessed by another distribution or OS.
see
askubuntu.com/questions/55527/…
Dual boot and sleep/hibernate issues?
I set up a dual boot before, but I've never thought about how or if putting a laptop to sleep or hibernate will affect grub or the OSes. For example, if I dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu, then use w...Ask Ubuntu
Changes according to the new UK, USA, EU laws?
So, im kinda curious ~~(preocupied)~~, regarding how is the feddi-verse standing in regards to this new threath to freedoms and privacy in general. To the point in which some of us are seriously considering leaving the "clear" net altogether in favor of freenet, tor (even if already kinda compromised by the feds), etc.
So... what now?
Ik, but even then is better than having' no privacy at all. I got kicked from my first university for participating in protests regarding the "grape" of a student by a faculty member, i was one of the unlucky ones selected to be "examples", hell its even a law now that all protest are illegal and reason to inmediate expulsion.
So yeah, liberty and privacy, nothing less.
geneva_convenience
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •This is a propaganda by the way. Netanyahu is the perfect representation of Israel.
eldavi
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to eldavi • • •Devolution
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Ummmm apparently to tankies, it already was a litmus test, hence Trump being elected. So... Dems have five choices:
Dems are screwed all around. But at least Chuck Schumer can sleep at night knowing he did absolutely nothing to stop this catastrophe.
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geneva_convenience
in reply to Devolution • • •At least the Dems will have their base blaming the left because they support genocide and sell out to billionaires.
Funny how Democrats said that they needed to support genocide to win the election. Then they lost the election supporting genocide and they still blame "Tankies"
Also funny how Dems think the word Tankie is worse than supporting a literal mass child starvation Holocaust.