muh fossil fuels

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The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.

According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.

Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.

American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.

China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the U.S. will now spend on domestic fossil fuels stands at at least $34.8 billion a year.

The increase amounts to “the largest single-year increase in subsidies we’ve seen in many years — at least since 2017,” says Collin Rees, the U.S. program manager for Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuels advocacy organization and author of the report.

The U.S. has been subsidizing fossil fuel production for more than a century. Many of the tax subsidies logged in the report — including a tax break passed in 1913 that allows companies to write off large amounts of expenses related to drilling new oil wells — have been on the books for decades.

Fossil fuel subsidies have proven notoriously difficult to undo, even with a determined administration. After campaigning on ending tax breaks for Big Oil, President Joe Biden’s 2021 budget pledged to raise $35 billion over 19 years by eliminating certain fossil fuel subsidies; one of his first executive orders tasked agencies with getting rid of those subsidies. (“I don’t think the federal government should give handouts to Big Oil,” he at a press conference announcing the order.)

But the phaseouts of these subsidies were nixed during climate legislation negotiations with then-senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who was the key swing vote in the Senate at the time and a recipient of fossil fuel money with lengthy ties to the coal industry. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act — the resulting compromise between Manchin and Democratic leadership, which was passed in August of 2022 — gave additional boosts to the fossil fuel industry in the form of subsidies for oil-and-gas-friendly technologies, like carbon capture and storage and certain types of hydrogen made with natural gas.

“What happens is you have these policies in place, and then you have a constituency that strongly advocates and lobbies for them, it becomes harder and harder to unwind them, which I think is the situation that we’re in today,” says Matthew Kotchen, a professor of economics at Yale University, who was not involved in the new analysis.

That cycle is continuing in the new administration. Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million. Those companies are seeing benefits as the administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, hobbles renewable energy projects, and downplays the importance of climate change. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the president has taken to calling oil CEOs following their appearances on TV.

“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil fuel industry and very much vice versa,” says Rees. “The fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting Republicans and Trump elected. They then presented their wish lists. Nearly everything on those wish lists was fulfilled, and in fact, they got a bunch of additional goodies that weren’t even in those wish lists.”

The new research builds on past work from Oil Change International, which last did the math on national fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, finding then that $20 billion was going out the door to the industry each year. To compile the new report, Rees and his colleagues combed through a variety of federal governmental sources on the amount of money going to the oil, gas, and coal industries each year.

The question of what, exactly, constitutes a federal subsidy is the topic of some debate. Environmental groups tend to have a broader scope in tallying up public money spent on fossil fuels, including federal money not distributed directly to oil companies. Conservative groups, meanwhile, take a much narrower approach. (For its report, Oil Change International used the definitions of subsidies set by the World Trade Organization in calculating domestic funding to fossil fuels.)

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Due to a lack of transparency across the federal government, the calculations in this report are “likely to be an undercount,” Rees says. “There’s probably some things that we missed — some corners of the budget that are funding fossil fuels in different ways.”

The $4 billion in new yearly subsidies comes largely in the form of allocations contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed this summer. One of the biggest new subsidies — an expansion of the tax credit for carbon capture and storage — is, ironically, related to provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Trump campaigned on reversing. (The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did, however, crack down harshly on tax credits for wind and solar, carrying out part of Trump’s campaign promise.)

Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing CO2 emissions and injecting them deep underground. The oil and gas industry has for decades injected CO2 underground to help recover difficult reserves that don’t respond well to traditional drilling methods. Environmentalists have long argued that the logic of replicating an oil and gas technique as a climate solution is seriously flawed — especially considering that a company could reap a climate tax credit from injecting CO2 that will then be used to create more fossil fuels.

In the original Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly expanded the existing carbon capture tax credit, there was a price differential baked into the tax credits: Producers got more money per ton of CO2 they sequestered underground without any oil production involved, and less for CO2 used specifically to produce more oil and gas. But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated this differential, allowing producers to collect on the full credit even if they are using CO2 to produce more fossil fuels. The total expansion of tax credits for carbon capture in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the analysis found, could send out more than $1.4 billion of public money to oil and gas companies each year.

The types of federal subsidies addressed in this report are just one kind of boost the government gives dirty industries. The analysis does not address state and local tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, nor does it add up international financing from publicly funded U.S. entities to overseas fossil fuel companies and projects. (Just before he left office, President Biden backed a limit on funding for dirty investments made by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a part of the executive branch that facilitates the export of U.S. goods and services. President Trump promptly encouraged the Bank in April to resume funding for coal projects abroad.)

The fossil fuel industry also benefits financially from not having to address the negative side effects of their products: Coal companies don’t have to deal with the health impacts from people breathing polluted air, for example, while oil and gas companies don’t need to think about damages from extreme weather juiced up by climate change caused by their product. Kotchen, the Yale economist, calculated in a 2021 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a small handful of U.S. oil, gas, coal, and diesel giants, by not having to pay for the damage they cause, get $62 billion in what he calls “implicit subsidies” per year.

I asked him if, given the major environmental rollbacks overseen by the Trump administration, he’d expect that figure to increase if he redid his analysis in 2025. “The environmental externalities are higher, and production has gone up,” he says. “I think [the number] would be a lot higher.”

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Proton Mail ha sospeso gli account dei giornalisti su richiesta dell'Agenzia per la sicurezza informatica. I giornalisti stavano denunciando presunti hacker nordcoreani. Proton ha ripristinato i loro account solo dopo una protesta pubblica.

Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".

Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.

theintercept.com/2025/09/12/pr…

@giornalismo

macfranc

2025-09-13 22:08:18

Proton Mail ha sospeso gli account dei giornalisti su richiesta dell'Agenzia per la sicurezza informatica. I giornalisti stavano denunciando presunti hacker nordcoreani. Proton ha ripristinato i loro account solo dopo una protesta pubblica.

Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".

Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.

theintercept.com/2025/09/12/pr…

@giornalismo

Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.

^{Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)}

A new piracy study published in Russia has some good news, and some more good news. Due to blocking and lower payouts from advertisers, pirates' revenue fell by 14.5% in the first half of 2025. Search traffic fell too, down 13.9% with some pirates using morse code to thwart detection. With piracy on social media and hosting sites reportedly falling from 12.1% to 1.6% of piracy overall, the tactic of hiding Hollywood movies on RuTube's front page may have been overlooked.

Pirates 'Hide Uploads With Morse Code', RuTube 'Hides' Movies on its Front Page * TorrentFreak

Social media and hosting sites now account for just 1.6% of all piracy in Russia, a new study reports. RuTube may have been overlooked.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

Artists, designers, futurists, environmentalists, and dreamers are invited to make submissions for a Digital Art Exhibition for the forthcoming ‘Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project’ on 4 October 2025.

The call is organised by EnergyLab Asia, a non-profit driving Cambodia’s energy transition, in collaboration with Micro Galleries (a global art collective), Sambor Village hotel in Kampong Thom and Seapunk Studios (a network of creatives around Southeast Asia).

The open call invites artists, designers, and creatives from across Southeast Asia to submit digital artwork for an exhibition to be held at F3 – Friends Futures Factory in Phnom Penh on 4 October as part of Clean Energy Week.

The project seeks to inspire a hopeful, sustainable future through art, countering climate pessimism and empowering local communities.

The proposals should be for digital artworks that envision a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement, close to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualising a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The ‘solar’ represents renewable energy and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the ‘punk’ refers to do-it-yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.

Artists retain full copyright, and printing costs for the exhibition will be covered by the organisers. Works may be toured or shown online in the future, powered by Microgalleries.
Eligibility

Artists of any medium and career level, primarily from Southeast Asia can apply.

Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project digital art exhibition 2025 | ASEF culture360

^{ASEF culture360}

https://apnews.com/article/ai-cheating-school-chatgpt-4f89a552e9093ce2180471b4d4736675

Recent news revealed that Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has been investing heavily in military tech companies, which adds another ethical layer to a platform already criticized for how little it pays musicians !

Spotify only pays artists about $3–5 per 1,000 streams, using a pro-rata model that directs most money toward major stars...
By contrast, Qobuz (≈$18–20 per 1,000 streams) and Tidal (≈$12–13) pay far more fairly!

However Tidal is far from ethical. Most of its revenue is controlled by private investors and founders and small artists still earn very little...

More fair-minded platforms like Bandcamp, Resonate, Ampled, or SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties prioritize musicians over investors.

With these more ethical alternatives available, why do we keep using Spotify?

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/34652626

I recently read New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports and I wanted to read the actual amendment to the Passport Act of 1926 for myself and I thought some others might also.

I have reformatted it for markdown with hyperlinks from law.cornell.edu to laws that the amendment referenced. So that it is easier to read and cross-reference. Let me know if I made any formatting mistakes.

I want to hear everyone's thought on this.

Right now, the bill is still in committe which means that it will either be cancelled (tabled), amended further, or approved (reported). If approved, the bill will be voted on by the House and then the Senate.

Could something like this reclassify dissidents as terrorists? Maybe allow for any and all naturalized citizens to be sent to a concentration camp? Could anyone who sent political aid to the Democrats be considered a terrorist? Like what could the reprecussions be and how far might they go?

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H.R. 5300, page 43

SEC. 226. NO PASSPORTS FOR TERRORISTS AND TRAFFICKERS.

The Act entitled "An Act to regulate the issue and
validity of passports, and for other purposes’’, approved
July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a et seq.), commonly known
as the "Passport Act of 1926’’, is amended by adding at
the end the following:

"SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT TO
INDIVIDUALS PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM.

• "(a) INELIGIBILITY.—
  
  • "(1) ISSUANCE.—Subject to subsection (b), the
    Secretary of State shall refuse to issue a passport to
    any individual who—
  • "(A) has been charged with or convicted of
    a violation of section 2339A or 2339B of title
    18, United States Code; or
  • "(B) the Secretary determines has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the
    Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist
    organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
  • "(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State
    shall, except as provided in paragraph (3)(A), revoke
    a passport previously issued to any individual described in paragraph (1).
  • "(3) EXCEPTIONS.—
  • "(A) RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES.—
    In order to facilitate the return of an individual
    described in paragraph (1) to the United
    States, the Secretary of State may limit a previously issued passport or passport card only
    for return travel to the United States, or may
    issue a limited passport or passport card that
    only permits return travel to the United States,
    prior to revocation under paragraph (2).
  • "(B) HUMANITARIAN AND EMERGENCY
    WAIVER.—The Secretary of State may issue a
    passport to an individual otherwise ineligible for
    such passport or subject to revocation of such
    passport under this subsection if the Secretary
    determines that emergency circumstances or
    humanitarian needs apply.

  
  

• "(b) RIGHT OF REVIEW.—Any individual who, in accordance with this section, is denied issuance of a passport
  by the Secretary of State, or whose passport is revoked
  by the Secretary, may request a hearing to appeal such
  denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving
  notice of such denial or revocation.
• "(c) RIGHT OF RESTORATION.—In the event that an
  individual described in paragraph (1) demonstrates during
  a hearing described in subsection (b) that the individual
  has been acquitted of an act described in that paragraph,
  or the Secretary otherwise changes a determination described in subparagraph (B) of such paragraph, the Secretary may reissue a passport to such individual.
• "(d) REPORT.—
  
  • "(1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary of State
    refuses to issue or revokes a passport pursuant to
    subsection (a), or if, subsequent to a hearing pursuant to subsection (b), the Secretary issues or cancels
    a revocation of a passport that was the subject of
    such a hearing, the Secretary shall, not later than
    30 days after such refusal or revocation, or such
    issuance or cancellation, submit to the Committee on
    Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and
    the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate
    a report on such refusal, revocation, issuance, or
    cancellation, as the case may be.
  • "(2) FORM.—The report submitted under paragraph (1) may be submitted in classified or unclassified form.

  
  

• "(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
  
  • "(1) the term ‘passport’ includes a passport
    card; and
  • "(2) the term ‘material support’ means the provision of any property, tangible or intangible, or
    service—
  • "(A) including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities,
    weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (one or more individuals who may be or
    include oneself), and transportation; and
  • "(B) excluding medicine or religious materials.

  
  

• "(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section may be construed—
  
  • "(1) or applied so as to abridge the exercise of
    rights guaranteed under the first amendment to the
    Constitution of the United States; or
  • "(2) to limit the Secretary’s ability to revoke a
    passport.

  
  

• "(g) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section
  or the application of such provision is held by a Federal
  court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this section
  and the application of such provisions to any other person
  or circumstance shall not be affected.’’.

By MEE staff
Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST

Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.

The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.

'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company

Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36143769

By MEE staff
Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST

Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.

The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.

Peter Link

2025-09-14 15:15:03

'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company

By MEE staff
Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST

Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.

The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.

'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company

Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST

Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."

The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.

US senators say 'America complicit' in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians after Israel visit

US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley released a report on Thursday saying that the US is complicit in Israel’s "ethnic cleansing" of Palestine.

^{Syma Mohammed (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36142552

By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST

Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."

The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.

Peter Link

2025-09-14 14:54:40

US senators say 'America complicit' in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians after Israel visit

By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST

Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."

The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.

US senators say 'America complicit' in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians after Israel visit

US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley released a report on Thursday saying that the US is complicit in Israel’s "ethnic cleansing" of Palestine.

^{Syma Mohammed (Middle East Eye)}

Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer garnered backlash after attacking Charlie Kirk critics despite her ridiculing the right-wing activist months earlier.

“It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund & prosecute every single leftist organization,” Loomer wrote on X after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The left is a national security threat.”

However, responses to her request that the president target US leftists in Kirk's honor were flooded with screenshots of a long post from July 13 in which she denounced the deceased 31-year-old as a "charlatan" and "political opportunist" who "stabs Trump in the back" and engaged in "mental gymnastics."

Kirk had previously opposed Trump's planned military strikes against Iran, which TPUSA had mobilized young voters to support.

Kirk has also been outspoken in his desire for the complete disclosure of documents related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, the former Trump associate who entered a guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

In those days, Loomer also expressed her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him, just a year after Trump had escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

“I don’t ever want to hear [Kirk] claim he is pro-Trump ever again,” Loomer’s post said, adding that TPUSA had only thrived “thanks to the generosity” of the president. “The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.

“It really is shameful. And I am honestly just disgusted by the nonstop flip flopping on the right.” Using screenshots of a passage from the July article, Loomer's responses to Kirk's murder included the following: "Maybe sit this out," "I think you need to shut up," and "You're nothing but a sociopathic hypocrite." Others were on Loomer's side.

Trump ally Laura Loomer dubbed 'sociopathic hypocrite' for flip-flop Charlie Kirk stance

Loomer once voiced her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him

^{Mataeo Smith (The Mirror US)}

Hey! I am looking for an easier way to stream live TV, specifically sports. Currently we access streams via freemediaheckyeah on an Intel NUC which has Linux, Firefox and a keyboard and mouse, HDMI to TV.

I have a proxmox server in another location which has Plex, jellyfin, Debian and some other stuff. We cast from our phones to the Chromecast.

I'm wondering if there's a way I can eliminate the living room NUC and stream from my proxmox server to a Chromecast. Or something similar that removes the keyboard mouse browser combo. Looking for reducing power and heat usage partly and simplicity.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5502547-fox-news-host-apologizes-homeless-remark/

Dopo il presidio di ieri pomeriggio davanti alla stazione di Porta Nuova, continua la campagna di sensibilizzazione contro il genocidio in Palestina.

Non possiamo restare a guardare come se fossimo impotenti di fronte alle prepotenze.

È bello vedere una piazza piena di persone che scendono in strada non per se stesse, ma per un ideale alto di giustizia. Non siamo in piazza per ottenere oggi una fetta più grande della torta, ma perché tutti, oggi e domani, possano avere un pezzo della torta.

Tante voci diverse, che sicuramente non sono d'accordo su tutto, fanno quello che i politicanti hanno smesso di fare: fare Politica, cercare compromessi per il bene comune. Non di pochi, ma di tutti, a cominciare da chi sta peggio.

Manifestazioni a Ivrea e a Torino per la Palestina e per il disarmo nucleare - varieventuali - Rosse Torri

Si moltiplicano le mobilitazioni per fermare il genodicio a Gaza e liberare la Palestina dalla illegale e violenta occupazione israeliana. E a queste si uniscono le iniziative per la messa al bando delle armi atomiche.

^{Cadigia Perini (varieventuali - Rosse Torri)}

NodeBB è la piattaforma software federata alla base di questo sito. Lo trovo interessante per le sue caratteristiche di federazione e opzioni di configurazione.

Una di queste opzioni sono i Widget, dei mattoncini preconfigurati e da completare che si possono inserire nelle pagine del sito. Il titolo e sottotitolo su sfondo blu in alto è un esempio di widget che NodeBB mette a disposizione. Anche i Messaggi recenti a destra sono un esempio di widget.

I Widget mi ricordano un'altra piattaforma software di configurazione e sviluppo di Blog: MovableType, una sorta di CMS (Content Management System) sul quale ho lavorato diversi anni.

Avendo installato NodeBB da poche settimane, non lo conosco ancora bene e lo sto testando. Anche questo post è un test. Ci sono ancora diversi aspetti che vorrei approfondire di questo software, come i plugin, i temi grafici, le classi degli stili.

In questo post intendo provare il plugin dei sondaggi di NodeBB. ActivityPub non ha uno standard nativo per definire i poll o i sondaggi. Quindi ogni istanza va un po' per conto proprio. In questo modo i post che contengono sondaggi non vengono federati bene tra le varie istanze.

[poll title="Sondaggio di prova 2" maxvotes="1" disallowVoteUpdate="true" allowAnonVoting="true" end="1758460800000"]
- prima opzione
- seconda opzione
- terza opzione[/poll]

Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system.

China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

Leaks tie China’s state-grade DPI gear to deployments in Myanmar, Pakistan, and beyond.

^{Luke James (Tom's Hardware)}

Cross posted from lemmy.sdf.org/post/42251606

Archived

Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.

[...]

The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.

The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims that the documents were traced to Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Information Engineering. Both have long been central to the Firewall’s research and development, with Geedge led by Fang Binxing, often called the “Father of the Great Firewall.”

According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.

[...]

The published material is available for download through both BitTorrent and direct links. The package includes a massive mirror/repo.tar file weighing 500 GB, basically an archive of the RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packaging server, alongside compressed document sets from Geedge and MESA. In total, the files contain tens of thousands of pages and repositories, offering a rare window into the infrastructure behind the Firewall.

[...]

Even before digging deeper into the source code, the structure of the leaked archive gives clear insight into things. For example, geedge_docs.tar.zst and mesalab_docs.tar.zst contain thousands of internal reports, project descriptions, and technical proposals. File names like CTF-AWD.docx, BRI.docx, and CPEC.docx suggest connections to Belt and Road Initiative projects and international collaborations.

Project management records, such as geedge_jira.tar.zst, highlight day-to-day coordination between researchers and engineers, while communication drafts, like chat.docx and multiple schedule documents, show the granular planning that went into censorship operations. Even routine administrative files such as 打印.docx (Print) and reimbursement-related proofs indicate how deeply routine and bureaucratic this apparatus has become

[...]

The background included in the leak provides a detailed timeline of MESA’s formation and growth. Established in 2012 at the Institute of Information Engineering, MESA grew quickly through talent programs, research grants, and government contracts. By 2016, it was handling projects worth more than 35 million yuan annually and contributing to national-level awards in cybersecurity.

When Geedge Networks was founded in 2018 in Hainan, Fang Binxing served as its chief scientist, bringing with him a cadre of MESA researchers and students. The company soon became a key private partner to Chinese authorities, supporting censorship operations not only domestically but also as an exporter of surveillance solutions abroad.

[...]

Experts may need months to analyse the source code, but the documents already back up what many observers have been claiming for years. The Great Firewall is not a fixed system; it is a growing network shaped by government contracts, research institutes, and private companies.

The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments. Given the sensitivity of the content, there is always the risk that malware or tracking elements could be embedded in the archives. Still, for researchers and rights groups, the trove offers an opportunity to understand how the Firewall operates and how its influence spreads.

Analysts at Net4People and GFW Report plan to share more findings as they go through the source code. For now, the leak offers an unusual look at how the system operates, and it will take time to understand the full weight of what has been exposed.

[...]

600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet

Hackers leaked 600 GB of data linked to the Great Firewall of China, exposing docs, code, and operations. Full details available on the GFW Report.

^{Waqas (Hack Read)}

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Archived

Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.

[...]

The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.

The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims that the documents were traced to Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Information Engineering. Both have long been central to the Firewall’s research and development, with Geedge led by Fang Binxing, often called the “Father of the Great Firewall.”

According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.

[...]

The published material is available for download through both BitTorrent and direct links. The package includes a massive mirror/repo.tar file weighing 500 GB, basically an archive of the RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packaging server, alongside compressed document sets from Geedge and MESA. In total, the files contain tens of thousands of pages and repositories, offering a rare window into the infrastructure behind the Firewall.

[...]

Even before digging deeper into the source code, the structure of the leaked archive gives clear insight into things. For example, geedge_docs.tar.zst and mesalab_docs.tar.zst contain thousands of internal reports, project descriptions, and technical proposals. File names like CTF-AWD.docx, BRI.docx, and CPEC.docx suggest connections to Belt and Road Initiative projects and international collaborations.

Project management records, such as geedge_jira.tar.zst, highlight day-to-day coordination between researchers and engineers, while communication drafts, like chat.docx and multiple schedule documents, show the granular planning that went into censorship operations. Even routine administrative files such as 打印.docx (Print) and reimbursement-related proofs indicate how deeply routine and bureaucratic this apparatus has become

[...]

The background included in the leak provides a detailed timeline of MESA’s formation and growth. Established in 2012 at the Institute of Information Engineering, MESA grew quickly through talent programs, research grants, and government contracts. By 2016, it was handling projects worth more than 35 million yuan annually and contributing to national-level awards in cybersecurity.

When Geedge Networks was founded in 2018 in Hainan, Fang Binxing served as its chief scientist, bringing with him a cadre of MESA researchers and students. The company soon became a key private partner to Chinese authorities, supporting censorship operations not only domestically but also as an exporter of surveillance solutions abroad.

[...]

Experts may need months to analyse the source code, but the documents already back up what many observers have been claiming for years. The Great Firewall is not a fixed system; it is a growing network shaped by government contracts, research institutes, and private companies.

The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments. Given the sensitivity of the content, there is always the risk that malware or tracking elements could be embedded in the archives. Still, for researchers and rights groups, the trove offers an opportunity to understand how the Firewall operates and how its influence spreads.

Analysts at Net4People and GFW Report plan to share more findings as they go through the source code. For now, the leak offers an unusual look at how the system operates, and it will take time to understand the full weight of what has been exposed.

[...]

600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet

Hackers leaked 600 GB of data linked to the Great Firewall of China, exposing docs, code, and operations. Full details available on the GFW Report.

^{Waqas (Hack Read)}

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

A wounded Ukrainian serviceman rides in a wheelchair at a makeshift memorial for fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers on Independence Square in Kyiv on Sept. 13, 2025. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP via Getty Images)

Romania scrambles jets, Poland closes airport over Russian drone alerts. “Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. “The routes are always calculated. This cannot be an accident, a mistake, or the initiative of some lower-level commanders.”

Zelensky calls for tougher US sanctions, warns Russian drone strikes on Poland are ‘Putin’s war.’ Zelensky remarks come days after Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down in what marked the first known instance of NATO forces directly engaging Russian aerial assets during the full-scale invasion.

Trump says he’ll sanction Moscow if all NATO allies stop buying Russian oil. “NATO’s commitment to win has been far less than 100%, and the purchase of Russian oil, by some, has been shocking,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Russia attacks Ukraine with 164 drones as European officials meet in Kyiv. Ukrainian air defense downed 137 drones in the north, south, east, and center of Ukraine, according to the Air Force.

Ukraine’s drones strike Russian oil refinery deep behind lines, 1,500 km from border. Preliminary assessments indicate that key infrastructure at a major oil refinery in Russia’s Bashkortostan region— including a vacuum column essential for primary oil processing—suffered significant damage.

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Russians break into Kupiansk via gas pipeline, watchdog says. It is the third time Russian forces have used pipelines as a tactic, which they first adopted during the Battle of Avdiivka. Back in March, around 100 troops passed through a gas pipeline to reach Ukrainian positions in Sudzha, in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.

Ukrainian troops regain control of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast village, military says. Units of Ukraine’s 425th Skelya Regiment liberated the village of Filia in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a military spokesperson said. Russia claimed control of the settlement on Aug. 24.

Ukrainian drones attack major Russian oil refinery in Leningrad Oblast, governor says. The Kirishi refinery is one of the largest in Russia and has a processing capacity of over 17 million tons of oil per year. A fire broke out at the facility during a Ukrainian drone attack, Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko claimed.

Ukrainian drone hits chemical plant in Russia’s Perm Krai 1,800 km from border, media reports. The Metafrax Chemicals plant in Gubakha, Perm Krai, is subject to international sanctions by the U.K. and Ukraine.

Railway explosion in Russia’s Oryol Oblast kills 2 National Guard officers. Explosive devices were discovered during an inspection of the tracks, Oryol Oblast Governor Andrey Klychkov said. One of the devices detonated, killing two officers and seriously injuring another.

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Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has no time for Russia’s repeated objections to European troops being deployed on Ukrainian soil. “There’s only one country that’s put foreign troops on Ukrainian soil, and that’s Russia,” he told the Kyiv Independent.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

Russian attacks kill 4, injure 9 in Donetsk, Kharkiv oblasts. Russia launched a tirade of attacks killing three people in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, and killing one in Borova, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian authorities reported on Sept. 13.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,093,730 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 950 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

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International response

NATO launches Eastern Sentry mission after Russian drones violate Polish airspace. “Eastern Sentry is not just a new initiative – it is a clear signal: NATO’s borders are inviolable, and the security of our citizens remains a priority,” Poland’s General Staff wrote on X.

US not sure Russia deliberately launched drones into Poland, Rubio says. “There’s no doubt about the drones were intentionally launched. The question is whether the drones were targeted to go into Poland specifically,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters.

US ‘behind’ Ukraine in drone technology, Trump envoy Kellogg says. “I think we in the United States are behind … I think a lot of nations are behind, and I think to the credit of the Ukrainians, they picked up on that, and they’re the world leaders in it.”

EU must not fall into Russian trap on territorial concessions, Kallas warns. The top European diplomat described Russia’s three-step negotiation tactic: demanding what it never had, followed by ultimatums and threats, finished off by the West ready to concede to Moscow’s demands.

EU to further restrict visas for Russians, Politico reports. The new guidelines, which are still being ironed out, will include general recommendations such as harsher criteria for Russians coming to the EU.

EU weighs bond swap plan to unlock frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, Politico reports. The proposal, described by one source as “legally creative,” would allow Brussels to provide critical financial support to Ukraine without technically seizing the Russian capital—an act that would be fraught with legal risk.

EU to apply ‘unique’ approach to Ukraine’s accession path as Hungary wields veto, official says. There is an agreement in place with the EU to maintain Kyiv’s progress despite Budapest’s veto, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Taras Kachka said.

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