sshPilot is now on Flathub
I'm excited to let you know that sshPilot is now available on Flathub:
flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.…
It’s an intuitive, fast SSH connection manager with features like terminal tabs, a built-in SFTP file manager, port forwarding, key transfer (ssh-copy-id) and more and is optimized for fast navigation with keyboard.
In addition to the dual-pane file manager, the latest release adds a macOS bundle, a keyboard shortcuts customizer and support for grouping servers.
Technical notes:
The app doesn't use any custom configuration, it loads and saves standard ssh/config files.
It has an optional Isolated (sandboxed) mode which is enabled by default in the Flatpak. With this mode the app keeps its own sshconfig separate, which might be useful if you want to keep things isolated from your regular ~/.ssh/config.
The app is still under heavy development and more features and enhancements are planned.
How to get it?
Downloads for linux and macOS are available from the website or project page on GitHub.
The non-Flatpak versions (RPM, DEB and Arch packages) have extra features including:
- Custom terminal (use your favorite terminal: Ghostty, Kitty, Alacritty, etc are all supported)
- File management with Nautilus/Dolphin etc. using GVFS/GIO (you can still enable and use the built-in file manager)
Homepage: sshpilot.app/
I'd love to hear your feedback/thoughts.
GitHub - mfat/sshpilot: User-friendly, cross-platform SSH connection manager
User-friendly, cross-platform SSH connection manager - mfat/sshpilotGitHub
Germany was billed as Europe's growth driver. Now economists are saying: Not so fast
Germany was billed as Europe's growth driver. Now economists are saying: Not so fast
Germany was a hub of excitement earlier this year amid high hopes of an economic rebound — domestically, and across Europe.Sophie Kiderlin (CNBC)
Israel’s opposition remains its own worst enemy
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36484465
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025
Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.
Israel’s opposition remains its own worst enemy
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187409
Israel’s opposition remains its own worst enemy
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36484465
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025
Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.
Israel’s opposition remains its own worst enemy
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187409
Old laptop suddenly won't recognize Linux boot drive
I'm in a really weird situation, yesterday I installed Linux (Fedora Kinoite) on my mothers laptop (An old Asus F550C) and it worked perfectly fine. Great! Or so I thought.
We needed a few files from Windows 10, so I put that drive in, put the files on a USB stick, put the Linux drive back in and... Nothing? It recognizes the drive, but not the Linux boot option.
I put the drive in my pc and it works fine, the boot drive is also still detected in the laptop just fine.
What the hell could it be??
- The laptop is fine (Windows drive works perfectly)
- The drive is recognized in bios (But not the boot option)
- The drive works fine in my desktop and can boot to Fedora
- The laptop can boot to the USB drive I used to create the install
- Yesterday it worked just fine
- I went through the bios, but can't find any settings related to this (Secure boot did not fix it)
Update: the issue is solved! Windows somehow wiped the efiboot entry.
I mounted the drive from a live usb and ran
sudo efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --label "Fedora" --loader '\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi'
After rebooting, the system works again!
I've dealt with something similar to this on a lenovo ideapad.
The BIOS picks up UEFI info from windows and messes up the boot config and order. I solved it by using grub2 rescue, booting to the correct Linux entry and using grub to update UEFI and write the config correctly again.
Super pain in the a**.
This ended up being the issue! Booted up a live USB, mounted the disk and ran
sudo efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --label "Fedora" --loader '\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi'
After rebooting it worked again!
Now to never plug a windows drive into that PC again...
Cosmic Beta on September 25th!
I was very excited for COSMIC but I have kind of moved on the Niri now. I am not sure it will lure me back.
That said, I have been using COSMIC Term and COSMIC Panel with Niri. So they still have their hooks in me.
Pre-Flight Check
This may seem like edging towards paranoia, however, how many of you do a pre-flight check of your network before you use your devices?
Every morning when I start up my computer, I do a pre-flight check against sites like DNSLeakCheck, and several others. It's a back check to make sure my network is operating in as private, secured, and an anonymous manner as possible, and perhaps give me a little more peace of mind.
To facilitate this in an expedient manner, I wrote a simple bat script to do just that.
@echo off
echo Opening websites in succession...
:: List of websites to open
set "websites=grc.com cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni browserleaks.com/dns dnscheck.tools ipleak.net"
:: Delay between opening each website (in seconds)
set "delay=5"
:: Loop through each website and open it
for %%i in (%websites%) do (
echo Opening %%i...
start "" "https://%%i"
timeout /t %delay% /nobreak >nul
)
echo All websites opened.
# pauseCritique, input always welcomed.
Well, I'm working on a python script that could be called with a cron. I'm also contemplating automating it with N8N since I selfhost it. However, tho I can code in basic terms in several languages, I am not the most competent coder, so it takes me a while. LOL
But again, I do appreciate your first comment and that you were concerned about my well being. I assure you I am a stable genius. lol Hey, it worked for one nut bag.....
Quality info on the aid situation in Gaza
Really great maps and info on how the aid stations are distributed and operate.
You hear that basically no aid is getting distributed, but the details of the aid stations being hours away and only open 20 minutes a day if at all really clarifies how performative and meaningless the "aid" is.
Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday was the deadliest attack on journalists in the last 16 years.Israel struck a newspaper complex in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, which housed three Houthi-connected media outlets on 10 September. At the time, members of the Yemeni army’s press arm were finishing the weekly print edition, according to the publication’s editor-in-chief, which increased the number of journalists present during the strike.
At least 35 people were killed in the attack, including one child who accompanied a journalist to the office, and 131 were wounded, according to the Houthi ministry of health. All of the journalists worked for either the Houthi-affiliated 26 September newspaper or Yemen newspaper.
The attack was the second-deadliest against journalists that the CPJ had ever recorded, after the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines in 2009.
Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in PhilippinesWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
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The problem with Bernie Sanders’s ‘it is genocide’ admission - The US senator recognises the genocide of the Palestinian people but ends up blaming them for it.
History will judge us for whether we could see genocide for what it is, without asterisks, without exceptions, without the comfortable lies that let the powerful sleep while children starve to death or get torn to pieces. If we fail to grasp this fundamental truth, we do not just fail Palestinians. We fail every occupied, colonised, and oppressed people who might one day be told their resistance justifies their extermination.
The problem with Bernie Sanders’s ‘it is genocide’ admission
The US senator recognises the genocide of the Palestinian people but ends up blaming them for it.Ahmad Ibsais (Al Jazeera)
Six lessons I Learned From the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
Six lessons I Learned From the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
By now you have likely heard the news that, under pressure from the Trump administration, ABC has suspended late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely over his comments on how the Trump administration has reacted to the assassination of Charlie Ki…Chris Bowers (Wolves and Sheep)
Or would they sacrifice Doland to avoid further investigation and others getting caught?
Freed Israeli-American captive to rejoin army and resume role in Gaza genocide
Former Hamas captive Idan Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier, has announced he will return to the Israeli army to take part in its ongoing genocide on Gaza.
"Next month I will return to Israel and once again wear my [Israeli army] uniform, serving proudly alongside my brothers. My story doesn't end with survival – it continues with service. Until victory," Alexander declared at a Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) event in the United States earlier this week.
Alexander was freed in May after Hamas said it would release him as a goodwill gesture to advance ceasefire talks and open the way for urgently needed humanitarian aid. Since Hamas’ gesture, the Trump administration has hardened its stance against Palestinians, backing the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and promoting ethnic cleansing.
My story doesn’t end with survival – it continues with service. Until victory,” Alexander declared at a Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) event in the United States earlier this week.
I can imagine a much funnier ending to the story
New to Proxmox, Facing Issues with Homelab Setup - Need Advice
cross-posted from: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/5454
Hello everyone, I’m fairly new to Proxmox and struggling with my homelab setup. I have two machines running Proxmox 9: an HP EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini (Core i7-9700) and a Dell OptiPlex 7070 Micro (Core i3 9th gen). I’m running into several issues and would appreciate your insights.
- Networking Issue on EliteDesk: I have two VMs (both Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS) on the same bridge (default vmbr0, I haven't modified any network settings in proxmox). If I stop or shut down one VM, the other loses internet connectivity. I can still access the applications from my home network using IP address (192.268.x.x).
- Backup Setup on OptiPlex: I’m running a Proxmox Backup Server VM with Backblaze B2 as an S3 datastore. This is working fine so far.
- Backup Problems on EliteDesk: I’m using default LVM-thin for VMs. Backups take a very long time and often freeze at 1-2%. Shutting down the VM cleanly afterward is nearly impossible. I’ve tried both Stop and Snapshot modes, but the issue persists. When a VM becomes unresponsive, it triggers the networking issue above. Would switching to ZFS help? If so, how can I migrate without losing any data?
- Hardware Acceleration for Jellyfin: On the EliteDesk, I’d like to enable hardware acceleration for a VM running Jellyfin (in Docker) using the i7-9700’s UHD 630 iGPU. Can anyone recommend a clear guide specific to this CPU? The Proxmox documentation isn’t very detailed for Intel GPUs.
The networking issue is the most frustrating. Has anyone encountered similar bridge problems? Any advice on fixes or next steps would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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FLX1s is Launched
Mobile phone Debian based
Edit: more alternative sailmates.net/actors/
Companies selling phones with alternative mobile OSes
Name URL Available pre-installed OSes
Furi Labs furilabs.com/ FuryOS
Murena murena.com/ /e/OS
Pine64 pine64.org/, pine64eu.com/ postmarketOS, Mobian, Manjaro+Plasma Mobile
Purism puri.sm/ PureOS
Volla volla.online/ Ubuntu Touch, Volla OS
Jolla/Reeder jolla.com/ Sailfish OS
FLX1s is Launched - FuriPhone FLX1s Linux Phone
It is with great excitement that we can now release the FLX1s. Pre-sales are open and the phone is in production which is due to complete end of October 2025. Following that we can start shipping.…wayne (Furi Labs: Planned Permanence)
NOT ON THAT PAGE:
- a description as to what the FLX is.
I can make a guess, but it's easier to hit Next.
Always excited to see more "buy here" alternatives rather than "just" an OS or custom ROM. Obviously we need that too but all too often we get stuck having to buy another phone we do not want (e.g. Pixel because Google) or hardware that's not supported enough for daily driving (e.g. PinePhone with camera still not supported properly on Pro, years later, power management unable to handle a day of use).
Unfortunately "FuriOS" doesn't look like a reliable alternative just based on the number of eyes, and hands, on it, cf github.com/FuriLabs so unless they can somehow pull all that weight on their own then I'd let others try before me and read reviews on the whole experience, not solely the quality of the hardware or the architecture of the software.
Israel's Biblical myth is burying the West Bank alive
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6188824
How ‘Judea and Samaria’ became state doctrineSuch remarks are part of a wider strategy adopted by Israel and its western allies to impose new facts on the ground, legitimized through religious and historical narratives to justify the gradual annexation of the occupied West Bank. For years, Tel Aviv has pursued an aggressive expansionist policy built on illegal settlement construction, creeping annexation, and the erasure of the Palestinian land’s geographic and political identity. Most recently, Israeli authorities approved a new settlement project in the heart of Hebron (Al-Khalil), consisting of hundreds of housing units next to the Ibrahimi Mosque, which is now mostly a synagogue under Israeli control.
Israel’s strategy in the occupied West Bank is a complex, multi-layered one that far exceeds the parameters of temporary military administration. It is a long-term blueprint for de facto annexation – what could be termed “creeping annexation.” Through legal warfare, archaeology, settlement expansion, and political engineering, Tel Aviv is redrawing the region’s geography and demography to erase any possibility of Palestinian sovereignty. The aim is to impose irreversible facts on the ground and absorb the territory into the so-called “Biblical Land of Israel” – a supremacist strategy that works toward dismembering the Palestinian national project and the consolidation of permanent Jewish-Israeli control.
At the heart of Israel’s colonization strategy lies the foundational myth that “Judea and Samaria” are the ancient birthright of the Jewish people. This religious-nationalist narrative, central to the Zionist project and championed by settler and far-right factions, is the ideological engine driving Israel’s land theft. In this warped worldview, the seizure of Palestinian territory is seen as a righteous reclamation rather than an occupation, justified as a divinely sanctioned 'return' that cloaks a settler-colonial enterprise in biblical language and fabricated heritage.
However, even within Israeli academic circles, this ideological claim faces serious scrutiny. Renowned Israeli archaeologist Professor Rafi Greenberg of Tel Aviv University harshly criticizes what he calls “the weaponization of archaeology.” He notes that the archaeological record in Palestine offers no exclusive evidence of a single group’s historical claim.
Israel's Biblical myth is burying the West Bank alive
With full western backing, Tel Aviv is entrenching a one-state apartheid system and extinguishing any prospect of Palestinian sovereignty.thecradle.co
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ED doctors across the country plead for help in letter to Health NZ
ED doctors across the country plead for help in letter to Health NZ
A doctor in Christchurch’s emergency department said the hospital was at breaking point and hits code red almost every day.1News Reporters (1News)
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Palestine Speech at the Draw The Line protest in Toronto Canada
Speech for Palestine at Draw The Line Protest in Toronto
Northbound's P2P video platform based on PeerTube!NorthTube
Proposal for improved COSMIC apps:
So, I think cosmic apps should support whatever the global menu protocol is called, and have the top bar be ssd. The ssd would use the global menu protocol to add the already existing menu bar to the titlebar.
This would have quite a few benefits, including
- Making every third party app with a menu bar look more native, with them getting a COSMIC-style titlebar.
- Making COSMIC apps integrate nicer with other desktops, especially for people who use a mac-style global menu.
- A more unified and flexible desktop experience overall.
Obvious problems being what to do with other buttons in titlebars(I propose to just move them to wherever else would make sense) and what to do on desktops with no server side decorations like GNOME. Also, on other desktops that have ssd, but don't put the global menu anywhere, there would have to be a more classic, less elegant menu bar.
This proposal definitely has downsides, but I think it'd be a definite improvement and align with COSMIC's philosphy, so tell me what you all think!
Also, if any system76 employees are reading this, pretty please 🥺 ?
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What does "ssd" mean in this context? I'm guessing it's not solid state drive since that doesn't make any sense in these sentences, but searching that acronym isn't very helpful.
Edit: I guess it means "server side decorations". I see that OP did use the full phrase once, but it didn't click with me initially.
Wikipedia says that means the window manager draws titlebar buttons, as opposed to client side decorations which enables the app developer to control the titlebar of their app.
Oops, shouldve probably explained it in the post.
ssd= server side decorations
server side decorations is when the system draws the titlebar, as opposed to client side decorations (csd) where the applications draws it.
for example, gnome uses csd, but kde uses ssd.
There's debate over which is better, but the main difference is that csd allows applications to put anything in the titlebar, which can make the design nicer, and ssd allows the titlebars on all apps to be consistent, which I personally value more.
I’m going to provide the counter opinion here: I prefer CSD. SSD gives you a consistent title bar across applications, but it can cause a wildly inconsistent look within a single app. Part of the application is being themed by a different piece of software that doesn’t know anything about it.
I also like apps being able to make use of some of the extra space in the titlebar if they want to.
You, as a developer, make a user interface, not a piece of art.
I’m a user. Why do you assume I’m a dev?
From a user perspective I don't understand how wasting a bunch of screen space on an ugly, non-functional bar across every window is better. I get that from a software development perspective it's basically one less thing to deal with. But I absolutely prefer to have a functional use for the space.
The title bars in KDE felt so antiquated, especially for such a foundational thing. For a while I removed the title bars and used a "move window" key and minimize/maximize/close shortcuts.
Eventually I just switched to Gnome.
But I still think CSD are awkard to work with, we need the best of both worlds in my opinion
The realistic answer IMO is that SSD should be the default with client overrides being available.
Yes consistency is important but if someone wants to do something weird, let them. Open software ecosystems should prioritize flexibility like that.
Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state
Starmer announces formal UK recognition of Palestinian state
Canada, Australia and Portugal also announced the move on Sunday, with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accusing leaders of giving a "huge reward to terrorism".Harry Farley (BBC News)
Is my adblock list pretty overkill/redundant?
I have this setup for like a year now, and I didn't really encounter any problems as far as I know. (or did I?) However, I just thought I would ask about it because I've been experiencing YouTube slowdowns recently via the mobile website (like video plays and video stops, and like my data won't exceed 500k/s usage most of the time), even though I never experience any of this in YouTube Revanced Extended.
I just enabled every filter that looked good in the Brave settings and added every starred/recommended list in yokkofing's filter list. (I used this list because it was heavily recommended)
I also have the Brave configurations set up with the PrivacyGuides's recommended configuration, and I'm also using Mullvad's DNS server (the base version; see all versions) both in my browser and in my Android device via the Private DNS feature.
So, is it overkill/redundant? If yes, what should I remove?
GitHub - yokoffing/filterlists: Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps
Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps. Contribute to yokoffing/filterlists development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Are you employing these lists on your phone or a PC, or other device? There can be a performance cost associated with large IP blocklists. On most modern PC, the cost is usually minimal. On my dedicated firewall, just the DNSBL_Firebog_Malicious list clocks in at 1,004,966 entries, and I have most of Firebog's IP Blocklists, which are usually large, in addition to many others, because in my mind, you cannot block enough.
I cannot speak inteligently enough as to doing so on a mobile device. Additionally, YT is in a state of chaotic flux implimenting all manner of weirdness to make you have to hear their unskippible ads and slop all over the screen just to watch 30 seconds of a tutorial and find out it's not what you were looking for. So, that might be some of it too.
Are you employing these lists on your phone or a PC, or other device? There can be a performance cost associated with large IP blocklists. On most modern PC, the cost is usually minimal.
Yep, I have this exact filterlist in both my laptop and my phone. I don't really notice any performance problems besides YT (in mobile it sucks, in desktop it's just fine). Also as you can see I'm using just the lightweight version of these filterlists if there is one available (HaGeZi's filterlist for example) because I'm not using a dedicated device for adblocking like Pi-hole.
Additionally, YT is in a state of chaotic flux implimenting all manner of weirdness to make you have to hear their unskippible ads and slop all over the screen just to watch 30 seconds of a tutorial and find out it’s not what you were looking for.
I heard some stuff about that, but well, I still see no ads so that's that. I wonder why YouTube Revanced Extended is not experiencing any of it though.
After decades on Windows, so long and thanks for all the phish
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I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn't so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.
While I'm not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.
Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27
Opening my weather app this morning I was greeted by this warning:
Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices
will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google.
Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no longer
work on certified Android devices after that time.
It's the first time I hear about this, seems to be about:
Cirrus app:
Github
Was this a big thing I somehow missed? I hope more devs will follow suit.
Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Google is giving us more reasons to switch to a custom ROM
Israel’s Strike on Yemen Newspaper Offices Was ‘Deadliest Global Attack’ on Journalists in 16 Years: Press Freedom Group
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/49108510
Israel's attack on two newspaper offices in Yemen last week killed 31 journalists, making it the single largest massacre of the press in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Israel’s Strike on Yemen Newspaper Offices Was ‘Deadliest Global Attack’ on Journalists in 16 Years: Press Freedom Group
Israel's attack on two newspaper offices in Yemen last week killed 31 journalists, making it the single largest massacre of the press in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Israel’s Strike on Yemen Newspaper Offices Was ‘Deadliest Global Attack’ on Journalists in 16 Years: Press Freedom Group
The Committee to Protect Journalists said Israel's attack on a media complex in Sana'a last week killed 31 journalists.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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Marxism plus Leninism
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Leninism,
is in fact, Marxism-Leninism, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Marxism
plus Leninism. Leninism is not an ideology unto itself, but rather another free
component of a fully functioning Marxist ideology made useful by the
『Manifesto』 , 『Capital』 and vital ideology components comprising a full
ideology.
Many communists run a modified version of the Marxism ideology every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Marxism
which is widely used today is often called Leninism, and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the Marxism ideology, developed by Marx and
Engels.
There really is a Leninism, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the ideology they use. Leninism is the methodiology: a set of working
methods for achieving the goal of communism. The methodiology is an essential
part of an ideology, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context
of a complete ideology. Leninism is normally used in combination with the
Marxism ideology: the whole ideology is basically Marxism with Leninism added,
or Marxism-Leninism. All the so-called Leninism distributions are really
distributions of Marxism-Leninism!
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'Fuck ICE and Free Palestine': Hannah Einbinder's Emmy Moment
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/54240
From Common Dreams via this RSS feed
'Fuck ICE and Free Palestine': Hannah Einbinder's Emmy Moment
"I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the State of Israel," said the award-winning actress.jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Plasma Crash?
https://privatebin.net/?faa1cf29ae4b4a73#GNXD2BhKVAXxHpc7sC8htrScmzL7C4Vj3ywzkTVTb6qi
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Time usually means Heat or Memory issues.
1) What are your system specs?
2) How much times passes before it crashes?
3) Does this happen with a brand new user you e created and logged in as, or just this one user?
4) There are errors for core apps in those logs. Do Kontact and Discover actually launch?
Venezuela Announces Capture of Alleged DEA Agent With Massive Drug Shipment
According to Cabello, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug trafficking and justify external aggression. "The four detainees are saying they work for the DEA," Cabello told state television, calling the alleged plan a "maneuver for destabilization."Authorities said the boat originated in Colombia's Guajira region and was connected to a trafficking group called "Los Orientales," allegedly led by Gersio Parra Machado. Cabello argued that the operation demonstrated Venezuela's commitment to combating narcotics without resorting to lethal force. "We don't apply the death penalty," he said, drawing a contrast with U.S. military strikes on alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean.
Venezuela Announces Capture of Alleged DEA Agent With Massive Drug Shipment
According to the country's Interior Minister, the detainees confessed the shipment was part of a "false flag operation" designed to incriminate Venezuela in international drug traffickingPedro Camacho (Latin Times)
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Okay sure, they are a bunch of idiots, yes men, and fascists. I'm happy to agree on that.
But how would that even fit into the plans? They are currently just sinking drug ships and calling that a win, ignoring due process and international outcry like usual. They don't need a false flag bust for that strategy, nor does it make sense to assume they'd suddenly use a more complex plan than "lob rocket uga buga" which has so far been the cleverest they came up with in terms of foreign policy.
And then, assuming someone with some planing capability stuck around and actually came up with this international false flag drug smuggling operation for some indecipherable reason, why would they immediately after go back to brain-dead-mode and start sending a fresh-hire teenager to pose as a hardened Venezuelan smuggler?
The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.Shawn Musgrave (The Intercept)
This is another cut, among thousands. It's bad because we can see the motivation behind it. Free speech only for one team.
I don't want to be victim-blaming when I say expecting any big US corp to protect your privacy is futile. I know they want the reach of Insta and that's of course not a bad thing. But it's a threat considering who runs it. Another threat is editorializing the content. Don't put music on it, don't opine on the shamefulness of what the jackboots are doing, just post it. It's the best chance of this dying in the courts before the independence of the judiciary has completely gone. Constant dripping wears the stone and the MAGAs are pissing on it full force.
Another consideration must be at this point to host or mirror your content on servers outside the US. Countries that already didn't give an eff about the US or cooperating with its authorities. If you run your digital opposition on US-run/controlled infrastructure, you'll be shut down soon.
Ehab from Northern Gaza — My Family Has Lost Everything, We Sleep on the Streets — Please Help Us Survive
My name is Ehab, from northern Gaza. I have a family with four children — we have lost everything. Our home was destroyed, and I lost parts of my family: my sister and her children are among the dead and wounded. Now, we sleep on the streets, with no shelter and no safety.
The warplanes never leave the skies above us — we cannot sleep from the noise and fear. Tanks and raids are frighteningly close, and the gunboats fire from the sea. The situation is terrifying — the children cry from fear, and the elderly cannot endure the cold and hunger.
I have lost so much weight from hunger and this genocide. We have no source of income, no money to evacuate to the south where it may be safer. We desperately need funds to move my family to safety, and to buy food and medicine. You are our only hope.
Please, share this story and donate if you can. Every amount, no matter how small, can save us right now..
May God protect us and our families. From the depths of my heart, thank you to anyone who reaches out a hand to help.
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Is there a phone I can buy that out the box is rooted, private, and does not install bloat apps?
The Fairphone (Gen. 6) now with privacy-first /e/OS
Stay in control of your data with /e/OS, a deGoogled Fairphone experience with all the functionality of Android, and none of the privacy concerns.Fairphone
Tar did a weird thing today
I'm so baffled I had to ask – why this behaviour?
cd /var/www/html
tar czf ~/package.tgz admin/* api/* mobile/*I do this, and the resulting package doesn't include a couple of hidden files – api/.htaccess and admin/.htaccess. However...
cd /var/www/html
tar czf ~/package.tgz *This time the hidden .htaccess files are there.
Does anybody have enlightenment to offer as to why?
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This is potentially a great 'weeder' question for junior Unix admin interviews, as it requires some knowledge about shell globbing and tar dir traversal.
I admit it took me a sec (and a second read) before I got it, so it was a fun "hey what" exercise.
Excellent question.
A 1978 promo for Intellivision—just a year before it hit shelves
Even 47 years later, this thing gets me hyped. The “Master Component” had a 16-bit microprocessor?! Three-part harmony music? A display they called an “extraordinarily high level of resolution”? That sounded like the future. Sign me up.
And when they start hyping up ROM cartridges to a general audience, most people probably had no clue what that meant. But it must have felt like home electronics had just landed on the moon.
This was the first real console war: Intellivision vs Atari 2600. And wild to think—two years ago, Atari finally bought Intellivision.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Software taking the principle of Track-Me-Not and AdNauseam further?
Is there more software that, like TrackMeNot and AdNauseam, generate random internet activity so as to reduce the accuracy of any profiles tracking companies keep about you? E.g. software that carries out complete plausible-looking surfing journeys in the background: not just issuing searches (like TrackMeNot) and following ads (like AdNauseam), but also clicking on other links, scrolling, going back, perhaps even watching a YouTube video every once in a while and browsing Facebook? (All this, of course, respectful of the environment and the limited resources of small projects.) Or apps for the smartphone to generate false but plausible-looking position data and the like?
(Background: As many of you know, trackmenot is a browser extension that enhances your privacy by generating random search queries in the background, watering out the profiles that Google, Microsoft (and Yahoo, Baidu and AOL) have of you. It's available in the Firefox extension store; whereas for Chrome, Google has banned it from its store for unfathomable reasons. There's also AdNauseam, which works towards the same goal by randomly clicking ads in the background.)
TrackMeNot – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download TrackMeNot for Firefox. An artware browser add-on to protect privacy in web-search. By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.addons.mozilla.org
I'm actually not in favour of obfuscation methods, as recent events have shown - authorities questioning a dude for wearing the same innocuous shirt?
Random traffic might turn out to be 'traffic of interest' for just being the at the wrong place, wrong time. I would prefer actual strong cryptography and isolation.
authorities questioning a dude for wearing the same innocuous shirt?
Why wouldn't they tho? Both persons had the same shirt on. That seems like a no brainer to me. Maybe I'm missing something. It's one of the reasons when I go out in public, I do not wear clothing that are emblazoned with logos, graphics, words, etc. For one, it doesn't do anything for me to wear logos, graphics, words. To me, it's akin to having a political yard sign or bumper sticker. What do you gain from it? What's it do for you? Some guy wearing a t-shirt with a cannabis leaf across the front, again why?, and it's an easy identifier and puts another tick mark for complimentary evidence.
I’m actually not in favour of obfuscation methods
I'm a big fan of it all.
Maybe I should clarify - I'm not a fan of human noise (there's probably a more precise term) - I'm more in favour of privacy/anonymity in the midst of actual, randomized noise, that isn't just random human activity.
I don't even mean t shirts with a logo. It could've been a pair of jeans on a specific date at a place in conjunction with 5 other (random obfuscated) things that a poi also happened to do. Like googled 'how to fold a swan' or whatever.
Even if you didn't do these things but was instead random generated traffic, it would generate unnecessary attention.
One might argue that if enough people adopted such methods, authorities would have too many leads to follow up. But then again, the chances of a random string of generated activity coinciding with that of a poi isn't high, so there likely will be a manageable number of leads.
Even if the number were higher, they have proven to have no qualms about skipping due process. As long as they might've gotten the actual poi, they have no problems subjecting many more unrelated to the same treatment because everyone is some sort of terrorist now.
They could also arrest you just because you have higher than normal randomized traffic and activity that you can't or won't answer for.
"Why did you search how to fix a sink leak and then how to fold a parachute within 2 minutes of each other?? You must be a terrorist generating random activity to hide your true actions. What do you have to hide?" - "found coke stuffed in all the couches and beds boss"
They could also arrest you just because you have higher than normal randomized traffic and activity that you can’t or won’t answer for.
I hear what you're saying, and I'm not going to call it paranoia, however, that isn't in my threat model. Entities that can come into your home, arrest you, and ship you off to Guantanamo for buying a parachute and a drain kit for the sink are not in my scope. Frankly speaking, that is probably not in 90% of most people's threat model, who care about privacy, anonymity, and security. Those entities don't even need to fabricate an excuse like a couch full of coke, to give you that full Guantanamo experience.
To tell the truth, I probably couldn't account for 75%+ of the websites I've visited just today. When I get to researching something, it's usually pages and pages, from many, many different sites. Highlight, search, read, nothing here, go back, highlight, search, bingo! Now for more in depth reading. Highlight, search....ad nauseam. This process happens very quickly. I don't watch TV at all, and I don't read fiction. 99.99% of what I do read tho, comes off the internet. So, they'd have to sift through a bunch of data.
Even if you didn’t do these things but was instead random generated traffic, it would generate unnecessary attention.
I'm quite certain that all of my privacy, anonymity, security, and obfuscation efforts has put me on someone's list, but again, that's not in my threat model. I'm not hiding from the government. I send them tax forms every year. I vote prolifically in both local and nationwide elections. I pay property taxes, etc. They know who, and where, when it comes to finding me. If I were a person of interest, they'd come visit. Now, I'm certainly not going to overshare with them in the least either. Hell, I'm not hiding from anyone. I'm just preventing unauthorized access. That is what keys and locks do.
Rock on bro!
There’s also AdNauseam, which works towards the same goal by randomly clicking ads in the background.)
Funny thing that I found out is that you actually have to have advertisements allowed on your network for it to work. LOL
Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
MP Zarah Sultana says she is a victim of a "sexist boys' club" in row over setting up new left wing party.Sam Francis (BBC News)
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Formatting test [Because I don't understand how some images show up as links while others reflect the image themselves also extra long title test inbound
HTML GUESS:
BB GUESS:
Thumb HTML GUESS:
Thumb BB GUESS:
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Developer / Potential Contributor Question: how to add a custom post/comment ranking algorithm to Lemmy?
How would I add a new ranking algorithm to Lemmy as a contributor? I'm a developer by trade, but unfamiliar with Rust and the codebase of Lemmy specifically. It doesn't seem like Lemmy has a concept of 'ranking plugins', so whatever I do would have to involve an MR.
Specifically, I'd like to introduce a ranking system that approximates Proportional Approval Voting, specifically using Thiele's elimination methods, like is used in LiquidFeedback.
I'm pretty sure that with a few tweaks to Thiele's rules, I can compute a complete ranking of all comments in a thread in O(ClogC + E + VlogC), where C is the number of comments, E is the total number of likes, and V is the number of users. This would also support partial approvals, upvotes could decay with age.
I believe this would mitigate the tendency towards echo chambers that Lemmy inherits from Reddit. Lemmy effectively uses Block Approval Voting with decays to rank comments and posts, leading to the same people dominating every conversation.
I was thinking of it as a drop-in replacement for "hot" just so that it doesn't require any changes on the UI to implement. I'm a bit rusty with UI development, lol. The frontends wouldn't have to add a new button, and the Lemmy API wouldn't need to add a new sort type. That said, maybe that sort of thing is easy to do?
As far as it would work, Thiele's elimination rules is computed roughly as follows (I'm assuming that only upvotes are counted; I haven't considered yet if the process works if disapprovals count as a vote of "-1" or how the process could remain scalable if an abstention counts as a vote of "0.5":
begin with the list of posts, list of users, and list of votes
# initial weighting, takes O(E)
for each post:
for each vote on the post:
lookup the user that voted on the post
based on the number of votes the user has given, determine how much the user would be made "unhappy" if the current post was removed
# the basic idea here is that if the user didn't vote for a post, then they won't care if its removed
# if the user did vote for a post, but also voted for 100 others, then they probably won't care if one gets removed as long as 99 remain
# if the user did vote for a post, but only voted for 2 or 1 others, then they'll care more if this one gets removed
# if this is the only post the user voted for, then they'll care a lot if it gets removed
# LiquidFeedback uses a formula of "1/r", where r is the total number of votes the user has given
# as posts get removed, the votes get removed too, so surviving votes get more weight
# for the sake of efficiency, I'll probably use a formula like "if r > 20 then 0 else 1/r" so that users only start to contribute weight to posts once they only have 20 approvals left. Replace 20 with a constant of your choice
add the user's resistance to the post being removed to the post
# initial heap construction, takes O(C)
construct a min-heap of the posts based on the sum of the users' resistances to the post being removed
# iterative removal of posts
while posts remain in the heap: # O(C)
remove the first post in the heap - this has the least resistance to this post being marked 'last' in the current set # O(logC)
yield the removed post
for each vote for the removed post: # in total, O(E) - every vote is iterated once, across the entire lifetime of the heap
lookup the user that voted on the post
compute this user's resistance to this post being removed
remove this vote from the user
based on the number of remaining votes the user has given, compute the user's resistance to the next post being removed
compute how much the user's resistance to their next post being removed increased (let this be "resistance increase")
if "resistance increase" is nonzero (based on my formula, this will happen whenever they have less than 20 votes remaining, but not if they have more than 20 votes remaining):
for each vote for a different post by this user:
increase the post resistance to removal by "resistance increase"
perform an "increase_key" operation on the min-heap for this post # this will be O(logC)
# worst-case, each user will perform 20 + 19 + 18 + ... "increase_key" operations -
# they only begin once there are 20 votes remaining
# when they have 20 votes remaining, they have 20 increase_key's to do
# when they have 19 votes remaining, they have 19 increase_key's to do
# etc.
# because this is a constant, it doesn't contribute to the time complexity analysis.
# so each user performs at worst a constant number of O(logC) operations
# so the overall time complexity of the "increase_key" operations is O(VlogC)For this algorithm, the
yield the removed post statement will return the sorted posts in reverse order. So worst to best. You could also interpret that statement as "Give the post a rank in the final sorting of count(posts) - (i++)".Thiele says that process can be used to elect a committee of size N by stopping your removal when N votes remain. But because it's a "house monotonic" process (electoral speak for "increasing the size of the committee by one and re-running an election is guaranteed not to cost any existing members their seat), I figure it could be repurposed to produce a ranking as well - the top one item is "best one", the top two items are the best two, the top three are the best three, etc.
To make the above process work for approvals that decay over time, we'd just treat a decayed approval as a partial approval. I still have some work to do on how exactly to integrate partial approvals into the "resistance to removing each post" calculations without ruining my time complexity. But basically it's a proportional score voting election instead of proportional approval.
Adding a new sort type is not a big deal, so dont worry about it. And a new admin setting for this would also require UI changes, so the new sort type is easier overall.
The current sort options calculate the rank for each post only from the data on that post (number of votes, creation time). Your suggested algorithm looks much more complicated than that, as it requires two iterations and needs to access data from multiple posts at once. Im not sure if this can really be implemented in a way thats performant enough for production use. Anyway feel free to open a pull request, then hopefully other contributors can help you to get it working.
How to protect my identity while running an online store?
Hello, Sorry if this is the wrong place for this.
I am looking to start an online store for some art projects/crafts/stickers mostly as a creative outlet for some of my current frustrations.
Since some kinds of people take art way too personally, I want to take precautions from doxxing or being harassed.
What are some best practices for an online shop? Are there any recommended storefronts or something like that? I’m sure there’s a lot of things I’m not even considering.
Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks
Contractor Used Classified CIA Systems as ‘His Own Personal Google’
Contractor Used Classified CIA Systems as ‘His Own Personal Google’
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here.A former CIA official and contractor, who at the time of his employment dug through classified systems for information he then sold to a U.S. lobbying firm and foreign clients, used access to those CIA systems as “his own personal Google,” according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media and Court Watch.
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Do you know anything else about this case? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.Dale Britt Bendler, 68, was a long running CIA officer before retiring in 2014 with a full pension. He rejoined the agency as a contractor and sold a wealth of classified information, according to the government’s sentencing memorandum filed on Wednesday. His clients included a U.S. lobbying firm working for a foreigner being investigated for embezzlement and another foreign national trying to secure a U.S. visa, according to the court record.
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Dale Britt Bendler “earned approximately $360,000 in private client fees while also working as a full-time CIA contractor with daily access to highly classified material that he searched like it was his own personal Google,” according to a court re…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
I'm pretty sure he's far from the only one. Databases with such a vast amount of "forbidden" knowledge will always be misused.
That's why we shouldn't have global surveillance, espionage and "highly classified material" wherever it's possible for agencies to do their jobs without them.
And I'd argue most of the data the contractor had access to was neither relevant for his own work, nor for the work of all of the CIA.
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We’ve known since Snowden that these people browse private info for fun, and exchange anything spicy they find with each other. But this guy was straight up selling classified info to anyone who would buy it.
I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.
I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.
but he didn't try to run or get caught running in russia; so he's ok. lol
Depends which kind of partisan you’re talking to. One kind believes it’s ok to keep them in boxes in a bathroom. The other kind thinks ok to keep them in the trunk of a car or a private server.
Reasonable people want both kinds held accountable.
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