Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34252866
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025
Ahead of the meeting, Hamas is vigorously rejecting Israel’s allegations that Palestinian forces in Gaza are abusing Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by Drop Site. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025Ahead of the meeting, Hamas is vigorously rejecting Israel’s allegations that Palestinian forces in Gaza are abusing Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by Drop Site. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Hamas blasted Israel for gaslighting the world on its forced starvation policy.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34252866
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025
Ahead of the meeting, Hamas is vigorously rejecting Israel’s allegations that Palestinian forces in Gaza are abusing Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by Drop Site. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025Ahead of the meeting, Hamas is vigorously rejecting Israel’s allegations that Palestinian forces in Gaza are abusing Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by Drop Site. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Hamas blasted Israel for gaslighting the world on its forced starvation policy.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025
Ahead of the meeting, Hamas is vigorously rejecting Israel’s allegations that Palestinian forces in Gaza are abusing Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by Drop Site. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Hamas blasted Israel for gaslighting the world on its forced starvation policy.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula
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Aug 04, 2025
Gaza’s health care system has been systematically targeted by the Israeli military and is struggling to cope without medical supplies, with Palestinian doctors and medical workers suffering from hunger and malnutrition themselves. On Monday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said at least 38 people died after arriving at the facility over the previous 24-hour period, and many hundreds more are being treated for injuries.
A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula
Aug 04, 2025Gaza’s health care system has been systematically targeted by the Israeli military and is struggling to cope without medical supplies, with Palestinian doctors and medical workers suffering from hunger and malnutrition themselves. On Monday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said at least 38 people died after arriving at the facility over the previous 24-hour period, and many hundreds more are being treated for injuries.
A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula
Elidalis Burgos, a critical care nurse from the U.S. who has been volunteering at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, discusses what she has witnessed in Gaza over the past four weeks.Drop Site News
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A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula
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Aug 04, 2025
Gaza’s health care system has been systematically targeted by the Israeli military and is struggling to cope without medical supplies, with Palestinian doctors and medical workers suffering from hunger and malnutrition themselves. On Monday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said at least 38 people died after arriving at the facility over the previous 24-hour period, and many hundreds more are being treated for injuries.
A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula
Aug 04, 2025Gaza’s health care system has been systematically targeted by the Israeli military and is struggling to cope without medical supplies, with Palestinian doctors and medical workers suffering from hunger and malnutrition themselves. On Monday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said at least 38 people died after arriving at the facility over the previous 24-hour period, and many hundreds more are being treated for injuries.
A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula
Elidalis Burgos, a critical care nurse from the U.S. who has been volunteering at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, discusses what she has witnessed in Gaza over the past four weeks.Drop Site News
Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland
Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland
Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with '--ozone-platform-hint=auto' functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland.www.phoronix.com
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
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Google says hackers stole its customers’ data by breaching its Salesforce database
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Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform
The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, a joint investigation reveals.The Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare unit is using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store masses of intelligence on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — information that has been used to plan deadly airstrikes and shape military operations, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
Unit 8200, roughly equivalent in function to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has transferred audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories onto Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, operationalizing what is likely one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group. This is according to interviews with 11 Microsoft and Israeli intelligence sources in addition to a cache of leaked internal Microsoft documents obtained by the Guardian.
In a meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle in late 2021, the then-head of Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, won the support of the tech giant’s CEO, Satya Nadella, to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the army’s mass surveillance project. According to the sources, Sariel approached Microsoft because the scope of Israel’s intelligence on millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is so vast that it cannot be stored on military servers alone.
Microsoft’s immense storage and computing power capabilities enabled what multiple Israeli sources described as the project’s ambitious goal: to store “a million calls an hour.”
Following the 2021 meeting, a dedicated team of Microsoft engineers began working directly with Unit 8200 to build a model that would allow the intelligence unit to use the American company’s cloud services from within its own bases. According to one intelligence source, some of these Microsoft employees were themselves alumni of Unit 8200, which made the collaboration “much easier.”
According to the Guardian’s reporting, the leaked documents suggest that 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data — equivalent to roughly 200 million hours of audio — were being stored on Microsoft’s servers in the Netherlands by July of this year, while smaller portions were being stored in Ireland and Israel. It is not possible to tell how much of this data belongs specifically to Unit 8200; as a previous investigation by +972, Local Call, and the Guardian revealed earlier this year, dozens of Israeli army units have purchased cloud computing services from Microsoft, and the company has a footprint in all major military infrastructures in Israel.
"מיליון שיחות בשעה". המאגר של 8200 על שרתי מיקרוסופט בחו"ל - שיחה מקומית
בנובמבר 2021 התקיימה פגישה יוצאת דופן במטה חברת מיקרוסופט בסיאטל. מצד אחד, מנכ"ל מיקרוסופט סאטיה נאדלה ובכירי החברה, ומצד שני יוסי שריאל, אז מפקד יחידת 8200, ובכירים ביחידה.יובל אברהם (שיחה מקומית)
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Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform
The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, a joint investigation reveals.The Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare unit is using Microsoft’s cloud servers to store masses of intelligence on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza — information that has been used to plan deadly airstrikes and shape military operations, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
Unit 8200, roughly equivalent in function to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has transferred audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories onto Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, operationalizing what is likely one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group. This is according to interviews with 11 Microsoft and Israeli intelligence sources in addition to a cache of leaked internal Microsoft documents obtained by the Guardian.
In a meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle in late 2021, the then-head of Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, won the support of the tech giant’s CEO, Satya Nadella, to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the army’s mass surveillance project. According to the sources, Sariel approached Microsoft because the scope of Israel’s intelligence on millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is so vast that it cannot be stored on military servers alone.
Microsoft’s immense storage and computing power capabilities enabled what multiple Israeli sources described as the project’s ambitious goal: to store “a million calls an hour.”
Following the 2021 meeting, a dedicated team of Microsoft engineers began working directly with Unit 8200 to build a model that would allow the intelligence unit to use the American company’s cloud services from within its own bases. According to one intelligence source, some of these Microsoft employees were themselves alumni of Unit 8200, which made the collaboration “much easier.”
According to the Guardian’s reporting, the leaked documents suggest that 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data — equivalent to roughly 200 million hours of audio — were being stored on Microsoft’s servers in the Netherlands by July of this year, while smaller portions were being stored in Ireland and Israel. It is not possible to tell how much of this data belongs specifically to Unit 8200; as a previous investigation by +972, Local Call, and the Guardian revealed earlier this year, dozens of Israeli army units have purchased cloud computing services from Microsoft, and the company has a footprint in all major military infrastructures in Israel.
"מיליון שיחות בשעה". המאגר של 8200 על שרתי מיקרוסופט בחו"ל - שיחה מקומית
בנובמבר 2021 התקיימה פגישה יוצאת דופן במטה חברת מיקרוסופט בסיאטל. מצד אחד, מנכ"ל מיקרוסופט סאטיה נאדלה ובכירי החברה, ומצד שני יוסי שריאל, אז מפקד יחידת 8200, ובכירים ביחידה.יובל אברהם (שיחה מקומית)
VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer for VSCodium-based IDEs
I recently published a new extension for installing VSIX extensions from the VSCode Marketplace straight from any VSCodium based IDE that uses open-vsx.org for the extensions marketplace. Bear in mind that extensions like “ms-vscode.cpptools” won’t work anyway, since they are proprietary binaries that only work on MS VSCode. Other than that, any extension that is in the VSCode marketplace but not in open-vsx will be available for download.
You can find the extension from the extensions manager under “VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer” or download the VSX file from open-vsx.org/extension/cooligu…
This extension is still very new, so expect some bugs here and there (especially when making very generic queries like “theme” instead of being specific like “One Dark”).
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer for VSCodium-based IDEs
I recently published a new extension for installing VSIX extensions from the VSCode Marketplace straight from any VSCodium based IDE that uses open-vsx.org for the extensions marketplace. Bear in mind that extensions like “ms-vscode.cpptools” won’t work anyway, since they are proprietary binaries that only work on MS VSCode. Other than that, any extension that is in the VSCode marketplace but not in open-vsx will be available for download.
You can find the extension from the extensions manager under “VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer” or download the VSX file from open-vsx.org/extension/cooligu…
This extension is still very new, so expect some bugs here and there (especially when making very generic queries like “theme” instead of being specific like “One Dark”).
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.
Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
Armed with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity, Unit 8200 began building a powerful new mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and intrusive system that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Revealed here for the first time in an investigation by the Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the cloud-based system – which first became operational in 2022 – enables Unit 8200 to store a giant trove of calls daily for extended periods of time.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.
Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
Armed with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity, Unit 8200 began building a powerful new mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and intrusive system that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Revealed here for the first time in an investigation by the Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the cloud-based system – which first became operational in 2022 – enables Unit 8200 to store a giant trove of calls daily for extended periods of time.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeHarry Davies (The Guardian)
James Gunn svela, tutti i rumor sul film dei Teen Titans sono infondati
Negli ultimi giorni, il web è stato letteralmente invaso da ipotesi, speculazioni e presunti leak sul progetto live-action dei Teen Titans targato DC Studios. Ma a riportare tutti con i piedi per terra è stato direttamente James Gunn, co-CEO della nuova era del DCU, che ha smentito categoricamente qualsiasi voce riguardante la trama o i personaggi coinvolti.
James Gunn svela, tutti i rumor sul film dei Teen Titans sono infondati
James Gunn chiude il caso: tutti i rumor sul film dei Teen Titans sono infondati.Redazione (Mister Movie)
I repubblicani temono che i dazi di Trump stiano incidendo negativamente sull'economia
I repubblicani a Capitol Hill sono preoccupati per l'economia dopo che l'ultimo rapporto sull'occupazione ha mostrato che negli ultimi tre mesi l'economia ha creato molti meno posti di lavoro rispetto a quanto stimato in precedenza.
Il presidente Trump e il suo team economico insistono sul fatto che l'economia sta andando forte e si prepara a una crescita significativa, ma le loro proiezioni ottimistiche incontrano lo scetticismo di alcuni esponenti del partito repubblicano, preoccupati che il regime commerciale di Trump stia creando ostacoli all'economia.
"È sicuramente indicativo di un'economia indebolita, un'economia che non si sta comportando in modo solido. Ho sempre avuto la sensazione che ci fosse un ritardo tra i dazi e l'effettiva recessione economica", ha affermato il senatore Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Lo stesso giorno in cui è stato pubblicato il rapporto sull'occupazione, Trump ha annunciato una nuova serie di dazi, tra cui forti aumenti tariffari su Canada e Brasile.
Paul ha sostenuto che l'impatto delle tariffe è spesso ritardato perché le aziende solitamente firmano contratti per stabilire i prezzi delle importazioni con mesi di anticipo.
Una volta scaduti tali contratti, i prezzi più elevati delle materie prime importate o dei prodotti finiti si riflettono nel successivo ciclo di accordi commerciali
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5435741-trump-tariffs-economic-uncertainty/
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The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/21481987
More precisely, GitHub Pages to Codeberg + statichost.eu, not Codeberg Pages.
The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
How to migrate (multiple) static websites from GitHub to Codeberg.www.arscyni.cc
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misschiavanza senza chiavina = trasformazione squalotica (nuova mia istanza Sharkey!!!)
Visto che ormai si sa che ho il piacere di fare tanta e spessa roba inutile, mi è venuta in mente la possibilità per un nuovo progetto semi-segreto assurdo — “distopico”, se lo chiedete ai pallosi — che per ora chiamerò con il nome in codice di D.I.T... Della serie che, se il mio Regno […]
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misschiavanza senza chiavina = trasformazione squalotica (nuova mia istanza Sharkey!!!)
Visto che ormai si sa che ho il piacere di fare tanta e spessa roba inutile, mi è venuta in mente la possibilità per un nuovo progetto semi-segreto assurdo — “distopico”, se lo chiedete ai pallosi — che per ora chiamerò con il nome in codice di D.I.T... Della serie che, se il mio Regno del Terrore Octoso non si è mai adeguatamente concretizzato ai tempi dei miei primi social federati hostati su quella merdaccia di Raspino, e né tantomeno lo ha fatto allo stato recente con la Spacc BBS, con una cosa del genere non ci sarà praticamente scampo alcuno per l’umanità sfortunata abbastanza da entrarci in contatto!!! 😇😈Senza entrare già troppo nel merito, allora, avevo chiesto al mio compare Claudio Antropico (che lui è bravo a programmare intere cose tutto da solo) di farmi una app al volo per istituire e gestire il terrore e, almeno per iniziare a vedere un po’ il tutto nella pratica teorica, gli ho detto di usare NodeBB… ma non sembra funzionare, banalmente, ci sono rogne (la parte admin della app funziona, ma il punto principale no). E allora, visto che comunque probabilmente per questa cosa sarebbe meglio una struttura social a microblog, nonché un flusso in ingresso di dati non indifferente da una rete di informazione globale perlopiù informale, quindi la Spacc BBS sarebbe comunque un ripiego imperfetto… se devo fare la fatica di sistemare io il programma, allora tanto vale che metto su ‘sto Misskey. 🔑
Ed ecco che mi sembra già di riassaporare quei tempi col Raspino… molto agrodolci, perché la speranza era reale, ma l’hardware era da buttare… e invece oggi siamo più in una situazione opposta, ops. Vabbé, in sostanza è stato un vero bordello, contemporaneamente sia peggio che meglio di come mi ricordavo… perché in questo caso potevo usare Docker, ma il
Dockerfiledi Misskey a quanto pare è rotto (e te pareva). Ma vabbé… ho evitato di perdermi d’animo e ho provato invece Sharkey, che è un fork… e quello si è installato, ma la federazione non pareva funzionare (e te pareva). Ovviamente a causa di ciò ho perso tempo a vuoto, ho perso mezz’ora di sonno per niente, e stamattina per disperazione ho provato un altro fork invano, IceShrimp… per poi accorgermi che il problema era lo stesso che avevo avuto con NodeBB tempo fa, e cioè che avevo mancato una (1) riga di configurazione in nginx. Mannaggia!!! 🥴
Comunque ecco qui, ora c’è shark.octt.eu.org — che fortunatamente non è andata giù dopo aver aggiunto soli due (2) relay, a differenza dei tempi bui di miss.octt.eu.org (rest in miss, you will NOT be pissed…) — e per ora io sarò lì a parlare probabilmente da sola… quindi, se mi gira, dopo imposto l’inoltro verso Telegram. Ma ancora non so in realtà se userò normalmente il profilo appena creato, se ne creerò uno aggiuntivo in italiano (visto che questo ormai è ufficialmente viziato dall’inglese), o aspetterò di avere i miei spiriti virtuali pronti sotto il mio controllo ad essere scatenati malamente… l’infrastruttura di base è già pronta, e non ho dovuto chiedere un singolo centesimo di tasse ai miei sudditi per realizzarla, a differenza dei regnanti del nostro paese. 💥#fediverse #Fediverso #instance #istanza #Misskey #octospacc #Sharkey
Denmark zoo asks for people to donate their pets to feed its predators
Denmark zoo asks for people to donate their pets to feed its predators
The request created a backlash online with many disagreeing with the practice.Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
An investigator examines debris at a train station damaged following a drone strike in the town of Lozova, Kharkiv Oblast, on Aug. 5, 2025. (Genya Savilov / AFP via Getty Images)
Ukraine obtains classified data on Russia’s newest nuclear submarine, intelligence claims. K-555 Knyaz Pozharsky is a Project 955A Borei–A–class vessel, a crucial component of the Kremlin’s nuclear triad.
Zelensky says mercenaries from Asia and Africa fighting for Russia in northeastern Ukraine. “The soldiers on this front are recording the participation of mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries in the war. We will respond,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement.
‘No other choice‘ — Syrskyi says Ukraine must mobilize to counter growing Russian forces. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi warned on Aug. 5 that Russia is accelerating mobilization efforts, with plans to form 10 new military divisions by the end of the year. In response, Ukraine has “no other choice” but to intensify its own mobilization.
‘Productive‘ phone call with Trump focused on ending war, sanctions, drone production, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has already prepared a draft agreement on drones and is ready to finalize what he called “one of the strongest agreements this could be.”
Russia considers air truce proposal to Trump without ending war, Bloomberg says. According to Bloomberg, Russian officials are exploring options ahead of a visit by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow this week.
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Over $1 billion secured for US weapons via NATO program, Zelensky says. “This is evidence that NSATU (NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine) is working, and the decisions of the NATO Summit in The Hague are being implemented,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
2 Russian oil refineries cut production after Ukrainian drone attacks, Reuters reports. Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery halved its production and the Novokuibyshevsk refinery halted it completely on Aug. 2 after Ukrainian drone attacks, Reuters reported, citing undisclosed sources.
‘His economy stinks,’ — falling oil prices could force Putin to end war, Trump says. “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin will stop killing people if you get (the price of) energy down another $10 a barrel. He’s going to have no choice, because his economy stinks,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
Kremlin confident in the face of Trump’s sanctions threats, doubts real impact, Reuters reports. Putin is reluctant to provoke Trump and recognizes that pressing ahead with the war could jeopardize a potential thaw in relations with Washington and the West, but his military objectives remain the top priority, two sources told Reuters.
Witkoff’s plane reportedly lands in Moscow ahead of key talks on avoiding Trump’s sanctions. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who had no diplomatic experience before joining the current administration, is seen as more sympathetic to Moscow than many other members of Trump’s team.
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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine obtains classified data on Russia’s newest nuclear submarine, intelligence claims
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has obtained classified internal documents on Russia’s newest strategic nuclear submarine, K-555 Knyaz Pozharsky, the agency claimed on Aug. 3.
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Humanitarian crisis in Kherson escalates but Russian river crossing remains unrealistic
After enduring a Russian occupation, a manmade flood, and drone attacks that turned its streets into a human safari, the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson could soon be made completely unlivable.
Photo: Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
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‘Last chance’ — Witkoff effort in Russia unlikely to change Trump’s course, analysts say
As U.S. President Donald Trump trades barbs with Russian officials amid growing tensions, he has announced he may send his special envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia this week.
Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
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‘Food shortage is coming’ — experts warn Russia’s war on inflation risks Soviet-style economy collapse
Amid high inflation, Russia is preparing to cap prices on staple food items, a move analysts say signals a shift toward a command economy that could trigger shortages and public discontent.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Railway hit in Kharkiv Oblast as Russian attacks kill 10, injure 17 in Ukraine over past day. Russian forces launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Russia’s Bryansk Oblast and 46 Shahed-type drones from Kursk, Bryansk, Orel, and Primorsk-Akhtarsk against Ukraine overnight, according to Ukraine’s Air Force.
Over 330 Russian troops killed in failed attack in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine’s intelligence claims, shows footage. Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) special forces fought off a Russian attempt to advance in Sumy Oblast, “destroying more than eight Russian companies” during the battle, the agency said on Aug. 5
International response
Trump weighs sanctions on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet‘ if Putin refuses ceasefire, FT reports. If enacted, the measures would represent the first U.S. sanctions targeting Moscow since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January.
US greenlights $104 million M777 howitzer support deal for Ukraine. The package includes technical assistance, training, and other logistical support. BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, the U.K., is the main contractor.
Three Nordic countries to fund $500 million in US weapons for Ukraine. The funding will be channeled through NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), which enables fast-track purchases of U.S. arms to meet Ukraine’s most urgent defense needs.
In other news
Two arrested in major drone funds embezzlement case involving MP, ex-governor. Colonel Vasyl Myshanskyi and former Rubizhne Military Administration head Andrii Yurchenko were arrested in a corruption case involving the purchase of electronic warfare equipment and drones.
Belarusian drone in Lithuania carried explosives, officials say. A drone that entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus on July 28 was carrying explosives, Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed Aug. 5.
Russia’s oil and gas revenues fall for third consecutive month. Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas giant, has seen its exports to Europe hit lows not seen since the 1970s, according to the Moscow Times.
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Russia's oil and gas revenues fall for third consecutive month
Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas giant, has seen its exports to Europe hit lows not seen since the 1970s, according to the Moscow Times.Anna Fratsyvir (The Kyiv Independent)
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Found an AI bro making an incoherent defense of AI slop today (fitting that he previously shilled NFTs):
Needless to say, he's getting dunked on in the replies and QRTs, because people like him are fundamentally incapable of being punk.
In more low-key news, the New Yorker's given public praise to Blood in the Machine, pulling a year-old review back into the public spotlight.
Its hardly anything new (the Luddites' cultural re-assessment has been going on since 2023), but its hardly a good sign for the tech industry at large (or AI more specifically) that a major newspaper's decided to give some positive coverage to 'em.
With that out the way, here's a sidenote:
When history looks back on the Luddites' cultural re-assessment, I expect the rise of generative AI will be pointed to as a major factor.
Beyond being a blatant repeat of what the Luddites fought against (automation being used to fuck over workers and artisans), its role in enabling bosses to kill jobs and abuse labour in practically every field imaginable (including fields that were thought safe from automation) has provided highly fertile ground for developing class solidarity.
ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !
ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !
OpenAI closes gap, but another opens of 110.000 chatsHenk van Ess (Digital Digging with Henk van Ess)
How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights.haxrob
Can magnet damage hard disk?
But the consern is it has a magnet on botom side, so it sticks to metal surfece inside the case. Wery usefull again but my hard disk is under that metal surfice. So i wonder can it corupt data or damage hdd itself..?!
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Desktop app for Lemmy?
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Neonmodem looks really cool and support multiple backend. TUI is cool and definitely earns its place. Excellent for my old laptop.
But on the other hands, I wish we have a proper complicated non electron liked desktop gui. My browser probably has 1000+ tabs. So able to open multiple threads are must. But building this sophisticated desktop app is hard. I am really being spoiled by open source apps. And I am always thankful to devs' hardwork.
GitHub - lemmygtk/lemoa: Native Gtk client for Lemmy
Native Gtk client for Lemmy. Contribute to lemmygtk/lemoa development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Is Tor browser on Mullvad DNS a bad idea?
I set secure DNS to Mullvad DNS.
Since I can't afford a VPN, I do my web searches on Tor browser.
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No. It's fine.
Tor uses its own DNS system to my recollection. It's true there is DNS as part of fingerprinting and DNS leaks are a concern for VPNs (see for example dnsleaktest.com/) but Tor is not vulnerable to this and it's more a problem of you're using a VPN to appear to be in NYC but your DNS shows Phoenix so that's a big discrepancy that raises the uniqueness of your fingerprint on a VPN and even lets threat actors guesstimate where you actually are. As I said though this is not an issue on Tor.
So understand that the DNS from Mullvad will only affect other programs not Tor. It will prevent say your ISP's DNS from seeing your video games calling their domains that way. Your ISP can still see you're connecting to infrastructure for as an example Genshin Impact when you launch the game because they can see where your traffic is flowing and the IP addresses as well as traffic patterns, ports, etc. It somewhat limits the data and visibility they get but there is something called SNI snooping as well as of course the fact they know the IP addresses where your connections go. So it's perhaps better than nothing but understand the limits of it as they still have a lot of visibility though they shouldn't be able to see your web searches regardless just that you're accessing google or bing or duckduckgo as those sites use HTTPS.
DNS leak test
DNSleaktest.com offers a simple test to determine if you DNS requests are being leaked which may represent a critical privacy threat. The test takes only a few seconds and we show you how you can simply fix the problem.www.dnsleaktest.com
More context please. Where did you set the DNS? Smartphone, desktop? In browser or on system settings?
Assuming the following: You set the general DNS on your AOSP based smartphone to Mullvad and use Tor bowser simultaneously.
This is perfectly fine as Tor browser uses its own DNS. They won't interfere.
Domain names for catch all email aliases
I'm looking into getting some domains for email, so I don't need to use the same few addresses for everything. In doing this, the domain name itself becomes the identity, but it's also entirely arbitrary.
What is a good method to choose domain names so that they look more or less normal? Catch all addresses can of course be detected in SMTP, but the idea is just to not look suspicious. Would anyone be comfortable sharing the constructions they use? (though not the domains themselves, for obvious reasons) Should I use subdomains for the things that can safely be correlated, (as spam defense) or is it better to only use different mailboxes on one domain?
Something you can remember...
Catch alls are most useful when you are away and you need to give an email out. If you can't remember the domain that becomes a pain.
I’m looking into getting some domains for email, so I don’t need to use the same few addresses for everything.
Getting a custom domain for email is smart. It’s a necessary step given how data is treated these days. The domain becomes your identifier, but it's essentially arbitrary. I switched from sharing a single email address (which predictably led to breaches and spam) to creating dedicated emails for each service. Now, when an account gets compromised, I just redirect that email to oblivion. It’s a clean break, and a strangely revealing look at how online identities get resold and repurposed. Worth considering.
Announcement video of Deepmind Genie 3
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Kalamazoo Linux Users Group
Tonight in #kalamazoo is the weekly Kalamazoo #Linux Users Group. I have been going again lately. It is a nice old group that has been holding on for more than 10 years by the one and only Lynden Kirk.
If you happen to be in #swmi, #westmi, #battlecreek come out and join us.
So it is tuesday nights at 6pm(18 for the rest of the world) at
Kzoo Makers
1102 E. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49048
Kalamazoo Makerspace - Kzoo Makers
We are a Makerspace community interested in designing things, building skills, and getting creative! Use our community tools in the areas of metalshop, woodworking, lasercutting, 3D printing, electronics, craftmaking and more!Kzoo Makers
From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5757723
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.
But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.
Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
On top of all this, I’m also struggling with serious health issues.
I suffer from a urinary tract infection caused by the lack of access to clean drinking water.
Here in Gaza, we’re forced to drink water mixed with sand and other contaminants — there’s simply no other choice.
It’s affecting my health badly, and I need treatment I can’t afford in these conditions.
I’m sharing my story with honesty and hope, praying it reaches a kind heart — someone who can help, or even just share it with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here’s my GoFundMe link:
Every share, every kind word, and every small donation could be a lifeline for us.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
I completely understand your doubt — the world is full of scams, and it’s your right to question things.
But my story is real, and unfortunately, what my family and I are living through in Gaza is beyond words.
The photo is real, the account is real, and the GoFundMe link was created by a friend in Germany because I’m unable to create one from Gaza.
All I ask is for you to consider sharing it if possible — or even just a prayer.
Thank you for your compassion, even if you’re still unsure.
Thank you for replying, and I’m sorry that bad actors on the internet make people like me have to be a little suspicious of posts like this.
Have you considered providing photographic proof that you are the person in the picture, such as providing a photo of you holding a piece of paper that says “Hello Lemmy” with the current date and time on it? Things like that are usually typical when you are proving your identity in a post like this because it allows people to analyze it for signs of photo manipulation. With nothing but a few photos of you in Gaza, it is impossible to tell if it is really you or if someone has stolen those photos and is impersonating you for money.
Assuming that you are the man in the photo, I do want to say how horrible I feel about the genocide happening in your country. Nobody deserves that, and most of the world sees the crimes happening against your people, even if those in power are too cowardly to do anything.
From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
My name is Soliman a young man and student from Gaza carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times
We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops but dreams
That farm was our only source of income and more than that it was a place full of memories of hope and of the laughter that once made life a little easier
But in a single moment everything was gone
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes
We lost our source of living our stability and with it a part of our souls
Now despite the pain I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength dignity and sense of humanity
I share these words with honesty and hope hoping they reach a kind heart someone who can help or even simply share my story with others who might be able to
If you’re able to support us in any way here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign
Every share every kind word every small donation could be a lifeline for us
From the bottom of my heart thank you for taking a moment to read my story
Congratulations to Linux on recent victories!
They see you clearly on the world stage.
Be strong. Be Vigilant. Stay safe.
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'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
“India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security,” the MEA said in a statement, while pointing out that the US and European Union have themselves continued trade with Russia, including in energy and critical commodities, despite publicly opposing the Ukraine conflict.
'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
India News: NEW DELHI: India on Monday pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s threat to “substantially” raise tariffs on Indian goods over its continued .TOI News Desk (The Times Of India)
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That means it's ready.