How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
How the US got left behind in the global electric car race
Despite a recent surge in demand, the US is a laggard in EV sales compared to much of the rest of the world.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
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[RESOLVED] GDM Issues (Fedora 42)
I've recently been unable to use my computer running Fedora 42 with gnome. It boots up, and GDM starts running, however it shows a flat grey screen with no login option. I can pull up a tty and login as normal (although using gnome-session to start a GUI session from there doesn't work). I have tried to use systemctl to restart GDM from the tty, but that l brings me back to square one.
What can I do from here to resolve this issue?
GPU: Radeon 7800xt, Open Source Drivers
Window System: Wayland.
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Talk about choosing "a community", not "a server"
It stroke me that saying things like "First, you have to choose a comunity to join the fediverse" might be a better way to ease onboarding nwecommers than "First, you have to choose a server".
Although the latter might be technically more accurate, the former is what people might
* understand better;
* ends up being what they're really doing;
* frighten them less;
* reinforce the "community" contribution aspect;
* lead them to better understand the federated aspect as they realize that communities are not isolated and can talk to eachother.
What do you think?
"Let me know in the comments bellow..." - just kidding!
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Except you don't have to interact with other users on your server, so why label them as "communities". Communities on Lemmy or subreddits are already more deserving of the term "community" because that's where you actually go to interact with other people.
Edit: Typo
Except you have to interact with other users on your server
Says who? I don't know the server of anyone I'm interacting with. I think "gateway" would be a better choice, but that isn't any less confusing.
Napoli, al via il bando per l’EcoVillaggio dell’Accoglienza: sei beni confiscati alla camorra tornano alla città
Napoli, al via il bando per l’EcoVillaggio dell’Accoglienza: sei beni confiscati alla camorra tornano alla città
I beni confiscati: quattro case di semi autonomia, un centro di accoglienza con HUB dei Servizi e delle Culture, un Giardino Solidale; Il C...Redazione Caserta24ore (Blogger)
think about the children
being bourgueois democrazycomplaining falsely about those evul commies gathering all your data
proceed to gather your data to get big profit from ads
have an important data breach
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
Recently Google decided that in the future for an app to be installable on an Android device, the developer of this app needs to be ID'd and registered at Google. They claim this is in order to "to better protect users". However, I think, this is a move to get more control over the Android ecosystem, and the data they can collect with it. If anyone who wants to develop an app for Android devices has to be registered with Google, this puts all the power of who to allow distributing an app to Google.
Furthermore F-Droid shows, that safe app stores can exist without registration, neither of users nor of developers. There is zero malware or spyware on the F-Droid store. What there is on F-Droid is thousands of beautiful, useful and, most importantly, safe apps. And this entire ecosystem is at risk, because Google wants to gain more control over its users and over the Android operating system.
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...f-droid.org
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about itCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Fucked my computer trying to upgrade processor, please help me unfuck it
Installed a Ryzen 7 5700G processor to a Gigabyte GA-AB350M-HD3 motherboard. Plugged computer back in, hit power button. Computer powered on but no video output. Double-checked cables, then started Googling. Apparently this is commonly a result of an out-of-date BIOS. Got the latest BIOS update on a flash drive with my roommate's assistance, then went to put the old processor (a Ryzen 5 1500X) back in so that I could run the system BIOS and flash the update, at which point I learned that I accidentally bent several of the pins when removing it. Tried to seat the processor out of a sense of wishful thinking, and sure enough, no number of attempts would get the computer to turn on with it inside.
So, in short: I have a new processor my motherboard doesn't recognize, an old processor it does recognize but is now broken, and a BIOS update that would presumably let it recognize the new processor but that I can't install without a working processor. I've read that some Gigabyte motherboards support loading BIOS updates from a flash drive without a processor, but as far as I can tell, the GA-AB350M-HD3 isn't one of them. Not sure what I'm supposed to do here. I could order another Ryzen 5 1500X, but 1) that costs money and 2) I'd have to wait for it to arrive.
Trump administration moves to relax rules on climate super pollutants
Trump administration moves to relax rules on climate super pollutants
The rule required some places to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
The Trump administration, everyone in it and everyone that supports it are never going to be a net positive or, arguably, ever do anything positive for anyone, anywhere, ever. They are self-proclaimed terrorists, racists, misogynists, pro-war, anti-life, pro-suffering, pro-pedophile.
This is where we are now and we either need to fight it or accept it. I would hope the former.
The instance chooser is filling up nicely
It took a few days for instances to be upgraded and admins to fill in their profiles but it's looking much healthier now!
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Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump | As Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise says it needs to battle authoritarianism to protect the climate.
Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump
While Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise has decided that it can’t fight climate change without fighting authoritarianism.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
The prosecution’s case against dozens of Stop Cop City protesters collapsed last month when a judge dismissed most of the charges against them
Well that's great news
Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election
Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election
With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for UkraineGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Rachel Corrie, The American Activist Who Was Crushed By An Israeli Bulldozer While Protesting In Gaza
On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie and several others were protesting against the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. The Israeli government claimed that militants were using the structures to fire on soldiers, but Corrie and her fellow members of the International Solidarity Movement wanted to protect the families who lived in Rafah. When a bulldozer started to approach the home of a family Corrie was staying with, she stepped in front of the machine and began shouting through a bullhorn so it would stop — but the driver continued forward, crushing Corrie to death.
The operators claimed they didn't see Corrie because she was concealed behind a pile of debris. However, others there said Corrie was wearing a neon orange jacket and was clearly visible. One man later recalled, "Her head and upper torso were above the bulldozer's blade, and the bulldozer operator and co-operator could clearly see her. Despite this, the operator continued forward, which caused her to fall back, and out of view of the driver… she tried to scoot back, but she was quickly pulled underneath the bulldozer." Israeli officials ultimately ruled Corrie's death an accident.
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How American Activist Rachel Corrie Died While Protesting In Gaza
Rachel Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003, by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the demolition of homes in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.Kaleena Fraga (All That's Interesting)
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I seem to have somewhat of a knack lately, for positioning astrological bodies at the top center of cool pictures.
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Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
The world is entering an era where identity is no longer a matter of personal relationships, lived experience, or even paperwork. Increasingly, it is reduced...Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control — The Black Alliance for Peace
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
The concept of “crime” is not a fixed, objective reality but a fluid and politically potent construct which has been meticulously weaponized to serve the interests of power.BAP Communications (The Black Alliance for Peace)
Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
The Trump administration is selling out America’s national parks. Keeping them open during the shutdown makes them dangerous, filthy, and easier to seize.Whitney Curry Wimbish (The American Prospect)
America Is Overdue for a General Strike
America Is Overdue for a General Strike - Inequality.org
Workers have the power to bring the whole economy to a halt. Will they use it?Inequality.org
ProtonVPN or Mullvad? Why would you choose one over another?
I'm thinking about paying for a VPN, I currently don't use one.
I'd like to use Mullvad but they don't seem to have regional prices, while Proton does.
I wonder if Proton is still a reliable option, Proton is 60% cheaper in my country, probably because regional pricing (but I didn't check if it's really the case).
If anyone has any other suggestion I'd like to hear it.
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Definitely Mullvad, the whole point of VPN is to stay private and Proton does not accept crypto while Mullvad does.
If the VPN has your payment details then any privacy just goes out the window.
Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital | UN News
Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gaza’s makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly …UN News
Explanation Of New Approach On Security Patches
Our security preview releases provide early access to Android Security Bulletin patches prior to the official disclosure. Our current security preview releases provide the current revision of the November 2025 and December 2025 patches for the Android Open Source Project. We recommend enabling this.The only difference between our regular releases and security preview releases are the future Android Security Bulletin patches being applied with any conflicts resolved. The downside of security preview releases is we cannot provide the sources for the patches until the official disclosure date.
The delay for being able to publish the sources is why we're now going through the significant effort of building 2 variants of each release. Our most recent 3 releases have both a regular and security preview variant:
2025092500 and 20250925012025092700 and 20250927012025100300 and 2025100301
You can enable security preview releases via Settings > System > System update > Receive security preview releases.
Our plan is to keep it off-by-default with a new page added to the Setup Wizard which will have it toggled on as a recommendation. We'll prompt users on existing installs to choose.
We're maintaining the upcoming Android security patches in a private repository where we've resolved the conflicts. Each of our security preview releases is tagged in this private repository. Our plan is to publish what we used once the embargo ends, so it will still be open source, but delayed.
The new security update Android is using provides around 3 months of early access to OEMs with permission to make binary-only releases from the beginning. As far as we know, GrapheneOS is the first to take advantage of this and ship the patches early. Even the stock Pixel OS isn't doing this yet.
During the initial month, many patches are added or changed. By around the end of the month, the patches are finalized with nothing else being added or changed. Our 2025092500 release was made on the day the December 2025 patches were finalized, but we plan to ship the March 2026 patches earlier.
Previously, Android had monthly security patches with a 1 month embargo not permitting early releases. For GrapheneOS users enabling security preview releases, you'll get patches significantly earlier than before. We'd greatly prefer 3 day embargoes over 3 month embargoes but it's not our decision.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
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Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Officers start arresting activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisationRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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Career and privacy
I know this might come across as a very impractical expectation but I wanted to hear from people who have a fulfilling career and also a sense for privacy: How did you do it?
I've recently had trouble finding a new job in the tech sector. So far I've been doing alright without LinkedIn, just directly applying to companies, but it seems less successful now. So I thought what the hell, might have to do this after all. After I've made an account I got quickly banned for logging in once from a VPN connection. Only way to get unbanned is to give my government ID to them - but that really rubs me the wrong way (so many leaks of IDs recently and all).
I'm remaining banned for the moment, contemplating what impact this might have on my career. It gives me a fair bit of anxiety, considering that my sense of where my boundaries are seems to be deemed unacceptable by the monopoly of international job markets. Should I just give in and send my ID? Am I delusional?
As always, I appreciate the discourse of this wonderfully decentralized community we have here on lemmy! ☺️
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I have the rare ability to not attach my career to my self worth. This makes it much easier for me to be happy regardless of what I do to get paid.
Honestly it sounds like you might be making things more difficult then they need to be. Does your threat model actually require you to take the actions you are taking?
fair point. my hobbies aren't expensive either so i could live a modest life.
however I wouldn't consider my anxiety as relating to a threat model - it's more like this:
if i go to a career fair, i might need to show a ticket but often there's no need to show anything.
this is a career site so their request for data should be at the same level. however they request as much data as an airport, which has much higher requirements to achieve passenger safety. i really hate that internet users are just fine with these invasive data requirements these days
“China’s Low Energy Rat Girls – Who and What are They?” — “Le Ragazze-Ratto a Bassa Energia Cinesi – Chi e Cosa sono?”
È davvero lollissimo stasera, che ho scoperto che persino il girlrotting è sfuggito così tanto di mano che in Cina sarebbe diventato una moda… Ma non nel senso solito per cui è bello e divertente e fa figo e allora se ne parla e si ride come faccio io, bensì proprio all’ennesima potenza per cui […]
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“China’s Low Energy Rat Girls – Who and What are They?” — “Le Ragazze-Ratto a Bassa Energia Cinesi – Chi e Cosa sono?”
youtube.com/watch?v=pLLG9OGg3U…È davvero lollissimo stasera, che ho scoperto che persino il girlrotting è sfuggito così tanto di mano che in Cina sarebbe diventato una moda… Ma non nel senso solito per cui è bello e divertente e fa figo e allora se ne parla e si ride come faccio io, bensì proprio all’ennesima potenza per cui delle cosiddette ragazze-ratto (non ragazze-gatto eh, e già qui capiamo il tenore della cosa…) fanno di ciò il proprio stile di vita assoluto, assicurandosi e certificando che i soli momenti posseduti e vissuti nelle proprie giornate siano esattamente quelli di marcitura… Pubblicando video delle proprie giornate in cui non fanno niente, con a schermo gli orari, o in certi casi, a quanto dice il tizio, pure facendo dirette streaming… 🤩
Sarebbe qualcosa che, per quanto mi riguarda, approverei istantaneamente, ma… dove pare esserci il bello, c’è in realtà sempre la puzza, e questa scoperta non fa eccezione. Posso infatti abbattere tutte le belle vibe costruite col paragrafo precedente semplicemente dicendo che, come suggerisce il tizio del canale… molti video sono probabilmente falsi — con alcuni in cui la luce non risulta nemmeno ben coincidente con gli orari mostrati, che può essere un buon indicatore di menzogna — e le dirette, per quanto invece probabilmente legittime, lo sono solo per un motivo: questi ratti hanno i soldi. 💔
Ehh, purtroppo con le cose che si imparano su Internet non si può mai davvero godere, e dispiace in primis a me. Più precisamente, da un lato queste ratte si possono evidentemente permettere di avere davvero un simile stile di vita solo perché hanno i soldi, quindi non devono andare a lavorare (…o, forse, sono semplicemente parcheggiate all’università come me, però io durante le mie giornate non è che marcisco così pesantemente…), oppure, cosa che direi ancora peggiore, avranno ottenuto i soldi proprio creando questo tipo di contenuti (con le piattaforme ma temo anche donazioni)… che, oggettivamente, a parte il gran ridere, sono l’assoluto nulla — quasi peggio dei post che scrivo io quando rotto. E non so a questo punto cosa dire… ma il girlrotting che diventa business è praticamente un controsenso, quindi non mi pare bellissimo; marcite tutti, se lo volete, ma fatelo dal profondo del cuore!!! 👅
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Indigenous resistance in Paraguay forces Peña’s government to back down
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cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72891
For several days, various Indigenous communities have been mobilizing and protesting in Paraguay against recent decisions of the right-wing government of Santiago Peña. Peña hails from the Colorado Party, one of the oldest parties in Latin America, which, incidentally, was the political base of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989), one of the longest-serving dictators in 20th-century history.The protesters are demanding the resignation of the president of Paraguayan Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INDI) and the restoration of the institution’s headquarters.
On October 3, it was announced that this Indigenous struggle in Paraguay had been successful. The leaders of the protests said, “Our heroic resistance has paid off. Today, the first point of our demand was achieved: the dismissal of Ramón Benegas from the presidency of the INDI. Following this measure, we held a meeting with the new president of the INDI, Mr. Hugo Samaniego, to whom we reiterated our demands. The new president agreed to return INDI’s headquarters to Asunción, which will allow for the full reactivation of services to our brothers and sisters.”
In addition, the Indigenous organizations stated: “In light of this situation, we have decided to return to our communities and remain in permanent assembly, ready to take to the streets again if the commitment to reopen the INDI headquarters in Asunción, with all its services fully guaranteed, is not fulfilled. Once again, we have demonstrated the strength of our resistance and our struggle. Long live indigenous resistance! We continue to fight for life and dignity.”
However, the news has been silenced by the dominant national and international media, which have instead attempted to portray Paraguay as a country without significant social conflicts, even amid growing protests against the corruption of the Colorado Party. To better understand this moment of struggle, Peoples Dispatch spoke with Amado Arrieta, a Paraguayan journalist and member of the Popular Party.
Peoples Dispatch: What was the political context of the Indigenous communities’ protest?
Amado Arrieta: The political situation in Paraguay is quite worrying. We are in a state of regression. In Paraguay, narco-politics has taken over the powers of the state. In the last elections, phenomenal fraud was reported, but the institution responsible for the elections did not allow the voting machines and the envelopes where the records were kept to be audited. There were many complaints. In this context, the conditions were created for the Colorado Party movement, called Honor Colorado and led by Horacio Cartes, to have an absolute majority in Parliament. The United States canceled Cartes’ visa and declared him corrupt, among other things, and he is now unable to leave the country. He is practically the president in the shadows. Santiago Peña worked with the company linked to the Cartes family and obviously follows Cartes’ orders to the letter. And the other factor is that the United States evidently reached an agreement with that political movement, and Santiago Peña obeys everything the United States orders him to do.
PD: And what hold does the Cartes group have on Paraguay?
AA: There is a monopoly of all businesses by this political group [Cartes]. They own practically all the gas stations. The large chains, supermarkets, and the most important media chains were acquired by Horacio Cartes. So there is no critical journalism. There are very few alternative media outlets that try to highlight the other Paraguay that is not seen in the mainstream media. In line with this, our organization, the Popular Party, has a citizen media outlet that is about to celebrate its 14th anniversary and is the only left-wing media outlet in the entire country: Radio TV Paraguay. There is a feeling of weariness and hardship among the people, among many people. And within this hardship and mistreatment, Indigenous communities suffer the most.
PD: Why did the Indigenous people protest on this occasion?
AA: INDI, the Paraguayan Institute for Indigenous Affairs, is the government agency responsible for addressing and trying to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples. One day, Santiago Peña decided to close its headquarters in Asunción and supposedly open departmental offices with the excuse that this would facilitate administrative procedures. What the government really wants to avoid is Indigenous people coming to Asunción [the capital of Paraguay], because they often come and stage protests and camp around the INDI headquarters for months. That is why it closed the office. In fact, the government changed the INDI headquarters: it abandoned the historic building where the office had always been located and moved it to a military barracks to prevent Indigenous people from camping there. But it didn’t work, because the Indigenous people closed all the roads around it.
PD: So they requested the reopening of their headquarters…
AA: The Indigenous mobilization began with the demand that the headquarters in Asunción be reopened, basically because all the institutions that can help meet the needs of the Indigenous peoples are in Asunción, not in the departmental capitals. So it makes no sense to open several departmental offices with the excuse that this will facilitate the process, because it is not true. After all, ultimately everything is resolved in Asunción. [The Indigenous people] met, I don’t know how many times, with the president and other government authorities to try to negotiate the reopening, but it was impossible. So the Indigenous mobilization hardened, and what they asked for in the first place was the reopening of the headquarters. [And now] they are calling for the removal of the current president. They are asking for more budget for land acquisition and an end to the evictions and violent abuses suffered by the communities.
The mobilizations lasted 11 days and closed roads in the departmental capitals. [At the protest sites] riot police, prosecutors, and governors appeared, trying to engage in dialogue and threatening to evict them from the roads to allow free transit, which is a constitutional guarantee, but so is mobilization and protest.
PD: Which Indigenous peoples protested?
AA: Basically, they are all Indigenous peoples from the western region, or Paraguayan Chaco, and the eastern region.
PD: What were the Indigenous peoples’ means of protest?
AA: They blocked roads. In some places, it was intermittent, meaning they would close the road for an hour and then open it for 30 minutes. But in other places, they closed the roads for four or five hours. It depends on where the Indigenous people are most numerous, so in those places the measures are also stronger. Some roadblocks last four or five hours and cause traffic jams stretching for miles. Consequently, there were protests against the roadblocks. Only after several days of protests did the media begin to talk about the mobilization, but they said that the Indigenous people were breaking the law and preventing free transit, always criminalizing the measures and never talking about the underlying problem, what the Indigenous people are asking for and demanding.
PD: What was the response of the Peña government?
For several days, the government’s response was absolutely nothing. We have an almost dictatorial government that finds it difficult to engage in dialogue. Suffice it to say that Santiago Peña is currently in Brazil, where he went for two days. He cares little or nothing about what is happening. But the inconvenience caused by the protests, the hellish traffic jams, and the loss of time throughout practically the entire country forced him to engage in dialogue.
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As Israeli Forces Seize Final Sumud Boat, Another Flotilla Sails Toward Gaza
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cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72888
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, October 4, 2025
As Israeli forces on Friday captured the last remaining vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla that aimed to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, another group of boats was headed for the Palestinian territory.
The 11 vessels, most of which started sailing last week, are “carrying over 150 healthcare workers, journalists, and activists,” according to organizers, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and Thousand Madleens to Gaza.
“As journalists and medical professionals, we carry the responsibility to speak truth and preserve life,” said Dr. Ricardo Corradini, a general surgeon from Italy, in a statement. “This mission is an appeal to our colleagues—and to the institutions that represent us globally—to break their silence, uphold their ethics, and stand on the right side of history.”
FFC highlighted earlier this week that the ship ”Conscience, bombed by Israel off the coast of Malta in May 2025, has returned to serve as a vehicle for medics and media determined to reach their colleagues in besieged Gaza.”
Huwaida Arraf, an FFC steering committee member aboard Conscience, said that it “is the latest and largest boat in this historic flotilla—and its name represents not only steadfast resistance to Israel’s illegal blockade, but a call to awaken the conscience of the world.”
Since Israeli forces began intercepting Global Sumud Flotilla vessels late Wednesday, a fresh wave of global protests has occurred. People around the world have repeatedly taken to the streets over the past two years, as Israel has responded to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack by devastating infrastructure across Gaza, including healthcare facilities, wounding at least 169,165 Palestinians, and slaughtering at least 66,288.
Experts warn the true death toll in Gaza is likely much higher. Among the dead are many doctors and nurses—one count, from Healthcare Workers Watch, said at least 1,200 as of February. Israel’s killing of Gaza’s healthcare professionals continued this week with the death of Omar Hayek from Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The Israeli attack that killed Hayek and wounded four others “took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers,” the group said Thursday. “We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir al-Balah.”
Also among the dead are over 200 journalists, with recent tallies ranging from 223 to 270. The Israeli government has prevented international reporters from entering Gaza—and has been widely accused of intentionally killing Palestinian journalists who have reported on the genocide while trying to survive it.
Global press freedom groups have frequently spoken out against Irsael’s treatment of journalists, including this week, when Israeli forces took members of the media into custody while blocking the Global Sumud Flotilla from reaching Gaza.
“Arresting journalists and preventing them from doing their work is a serious violation of the right to inform and be informed,” said Martin Roux, head of the Crisis Desk at Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), in a Thursday statement.
“RSF condemns the illegal arrest of the news professionals who were on board these ships to cover a humanitarian operation of unprecedented scale,” Roux continued. “The Israeli army, which has killed over 210 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, is continuing its media blockade of the Gaza Strip with these illegal arrests at sea, with the obvious goal of covering up the crimes it is committing against the Palestinian population. RSF urges Israel to respect the status of journalists, protect them, and guarantee their safety in accordance with international law.”
Early Friday, the flotilla announced on Instagram that ”Marinette, the last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted at 10:29 am local time, approximately 42.5 nautical miles from Gaza.”
According to the flotilla, whose more than 450 members included politicians, actors, and activists from dozens of countries:
Over 38 hours, Israeli occupation naval forces illegally intercepted all 42 of our vessels—each carrying humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the determination to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza.Marinette sailed forward with the spirit of sumud—steadfastness—even after seeing the fate of 41 boats before her.
But this is not the end of our mission. Our determination to confront Israel’s atrocities and stand with the Palestinian people remains unshaken.
As people rise up in cities worldwide to demand an end to these horrors and to take a stand for humanity, we rise together with one voice.
We will not stop until the genocide ends. We will not stop until Palestine is free.
Until the interception, the flotilla faced repeated attacks widely believed to be from Israel, whose Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday continued to smear the peaceful humanitarian mission as the “Hamas-Sumud provocation” and a “sham.”
“Already four Italian citizens have been deported. The rest are in the process of being deported. Israel is keen to end this procedure as quickly as possible,” the ministry said on social media. “All are safe and in good health.”
In a Friday statement about the Global Sumud Flotilla, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights group in the United States, said that “the detention of these humanitarian volunteers, including American citizens, is deeply troubling and completely unacceptable.”
“These are civilians engaged in delivering essential aid to people in desperate need in Gaza,” he continued. “Denying them legal counsel, holding them incommunicado, and putting them at risk for simply performing humanitarian work is a flagrant violation of human rights and the principles the United States stands for. We urge the US government to act immediately to secure their safe release and make clear that targeting Americans performing humanitarian missions will not be tolerated.”
Under President Donald Trump and his Democratic predecessor, the United States has provided Israel with diplomatic support on the global stage and billions of dollars in military aid. Joined at the White House on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court—Trump unveiled a proposed peace plan for Gaza.
In a long post on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, Trump railed against Hamas and gave the group that has governed Gaza for the past two decades until Sunday at 6:00 pm Eastern Time to agree to his proposal. Trump wrote, “If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.”
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Trump-Netanyahu Joint Remarks Ripped as 'Litany of Lies... Not a Promising Foundation for Peace'
One critic noted Trump's plan for Gaza "contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Is there any point in surfshark VPN besides being able to bypass region restrictions for about $3 per month?
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Blessin: „Was soll ich machen?“ Warum ein Afolayan-Einsatz kein Thema war
Sie lagen zurück, brauchten dringend einen Treffer und hatten beim Spiel nach vorne deutlich Luft nach oben. Dennoch gehörte Oladapo Afolayan nicht zu den
BBC caught rigging Question Time to bar pro-Palestine audience members
This week’s BBC Question Time took place in Belfast, and the Canary has received reports of pro-Palestine prospective audience members being turned away at the door.
BBC Question Time: rigged
Lisa McKee said she was invited to attend, but on arrival at the studio, she was rejected on the basis of her social media posts, and questions she had drafted. She was told by staff that she was “too political”. That seems an odd line of reasoning for a political discussion programme. The questions read:
What will it take for the UK government to change their current policies on sanctioning Israel, and demand a break of the siege on Gaza and an end to illegal occupation throughout Palestine? How is Stormont ensuring that the UK govt fulfils its legal obligation in the event of, what has already been declared, a genocide?
Neither of these are any more political than the first audience question of the night, where a man asked the panel:
Why do the government and left wing politicians continue to call concerned citizens far right when the vast majority are just concern about illegal immigration?
So detailed and specific questions about Britain’s participation in genocide – bad. Unsubstantiated immigration panic about the “vast majority” and how “concerned” they are – good.
Deirdre Linder also reported being refused entry due to an apparent “imbalance in the audience.” BBC Question Time staff told Linder that they had phoned earlier to inform her that she had not been accepted, but no record was present on her phone indicating such a call had been made. This meant a 100 mile round trip from Rostrevor was made for no reason. When she requested a manager to lodge a complaint, she was shepherded away by bouncers.
After then using a quarter of the programme’s time to frame the immigration non-issue as the most salient of our time – ahead of war, genocide, climate breakdown, the crippling cost of living – the discussion latterly moved to Gaza. The question was good – asking whether the current Trump/Blair/Netanyahu stitch-up disguised as a peace plan can work without the involvement of Palestinians. The rightful owners of Palestine have been almost entirely excluded from the proposals, which are currently being reviewed by Hamas.
Western civilisation? “I think it would be a good idea.” c. Gandhi
Trump, for his part, described the moment of its unveiling as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation.” That would imply that civilisation exists in a world where butchers like the US president and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu can stand in an opulent room and pontificate over the corpses of the likely 700,000 people they’ve murdered in Gaza.
On the BBC Question Time panel, Sinn Féin MP John Finucane was first to respond, acknowledging the lack of a Palestinian role in the so-called peace plan. He went on to say “serious questions” must be asked about so-called Israel’s “credibility as a sincere partner for peace.” Host Fiona Bruce was quick to suggest we ought to have similar concerns about Hamas. The latter have shown more willingness for peace than senior Israeli figures, with their 2017 charter accepting a two-state solution if it were to gain the approval of a majority of Palestinians. They have also adhered more strictly to ceasefires, and have continued to engage in peace talks, despite multiple murderous attacks on their negotiators.
Bruce also took issue with Finucane’s correct description of the “kidnapping” of Sinn Féin’s senator Chris Andrews by Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF). Andrews was taken in international waters when the Global Sumud Flotilla he was sailing on was blocked by Israeli naval vessels.
Crawley crawls up Netanyahu’s arse
The BBC then plumbed new depths today, with its flagship radio programme Talkback seeking to blame pro-Palestinian protest for Thursday’s violent attack at a Manchester synagogue, which left three dead. Kicking off, host William Crawley sombrely posed the question:
Should Palestinian street protests be paused…as a mark of respect and solidarity with our Jewish communities?
Crawley put this to Sue Pentel, a Jewish member of the Belfast branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), who responded:
The reason we felt that we could not stand down yesterday is because while we were marching and during the day over 70 Palestinians were killed. Some children died of starvation due to the Israeli blockade.There are thousands of Jews involved in these demonstrations. All over the world, Jewish people are involved in standing up and saying “how can we mark the day of atonement when Israel is bombing and starving people in our name?”
Crawley went on to ventriloquise a hypothetical Jewish population of his own imagining, terrorised by equally fictitious antisemitic pro-Palestine protests:
If a large number of Jewish people around your protest feel threatened by it, feel it is fuelling antisemitism, feel they are living in the real world with the rhetorical or actual violent response that is generated by the atmosphere around those protests…if you were worried about it, then you might have a conversation with them about what it is that’s doing that.If we want to take antisemitism out of the experience of these protests wouldn’t you talk to Jewish people about how you might do that.
Here Crawley – completely without evidence – suggested that Palestine protests are the cause of violence like that seen in Manchester. He had put this grotesque smear to People Before Profit activist Marc Mac Seáin, who responded:
I think that’s starting from a position that’s conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
Crawley then stammered, again without substantiation:
No it’s not, it’s literally not doing that.
When the necessity of putting pressure on one’s own government while it aids genocide was put to Crawley, he followed the standard BBC line of holocaust denial. This is despite the UN, the vast majority of genocide scholars, and Israeli human rights group B’Tselem describing it as such.
Asked by the Canary for comment on the discussion, Pentel said:
Anti-Zionism is as old as Zionism itself and there is a growing movement of Jewish people globally who oppose Israeli war crimes, land theft, starvation and genocide. I am one of many, so it was important to be heard on the radio, but to link peaceful protests against genocide and starvation with the violent aggression in Manchester was absolutely unacceptable and frankly insulting.It was in itself putting those who peacefully oppose Israel, oppose Apartheid, and genocide into the same category as the perpetrator of this attack.
Zionist pile-on as right to protest attacked yet again
The BBC Question Time debacle marks another low in what has been a cynical free-for-all on the Palestine movement since the terrible Manchester attack.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood provided us with the limited contents of her largely vacant head, saying:
I do think that carrying on in this way feels un-British, it feels wrong, and i would ask people who are thinking about going on protest this weekend – take a step back.
It’s true that opposing genocide, land-theft and ethnic cleansing would be a very un-British thing to do, given the nation spent several hundred years participating in those crimes. Not to mention the fact that Britain was key in setting up the Zionist entity that is the source of ire for demonstrators.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis piled in too, saying Palestine protest and “what happened in yesterday’s attack” are “directly linked.”
Meanwhile Novara’s Rivkah Brown lamented how the media treated perhaps the most relevant figure one might find in the current context – “Jewish lad from Salford” and Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Brown remarked on “parachuted-in Israel lobbyists” who “use a tragedy to defend Israel”, while Polanski is “subjected to hostile interviews” for his pro-Palestine views.
Defund Question Time and defund the BBC
The BBC, as genocide supporters two years into a slaughter which is overwhelmingly evidenced, can at this point be considered irredeemable. Just as it’s up to all of us to build alternatively political movements, we need to do likewise with media. If you’d like to hasten the BBC’s demise, you can do so here.
Funding the BBC is at this point little better than putting a bullet in an IGF rifle – cancel your license and tell them Palestine sent you.
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📚 Ruminating on eReaders: Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage
📚 Ruminating on eReaders
Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyagerenkotsuban.com
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It's hard to drone a solar panel
The best reason for nations to switch to power from the sun and wind is that it will reduce, by some degree, the severity of the climate crisis (and save millions of lives lost each year to pollution). The second best reason is that it’s cheaper than fossil fuel, and any nation who doesn’t shift will be stuck with an economy running on expensive energy. But it seems to me—not a military analyst, but a fairly good tea-leaves reader—that the war in Ukraine may be adding a third to the list: its comparative invulnerability to attack.As the world has begun to figure out, something important has happened amidst the carnage of Russia’s immoral invasion: warfare has changed forever, with the small drone quickly replacing much of the military hardware we grew accustomed to in the 20th century. Drones have been ubiquitous along the front lines, where the no-man’s zone between the armies is lethally patrolled by squadrons of drones able to take out tanks, troop transports, and pretty much anything else—that explains much of the stasis of the last two years; the competing forces are largely pinned down.
Over the course of the war, by sheer necessity, Ukraine has developed a formidable drone industry, and increasingly it is using them against a singular set of targets: the oil refining and transport infrastructure spread out across its sprawling foe. Russia has formidable air defenses, of course—Ukraine couldn’t fly a bomber across 1,400 kilometers of the country’s airspace to bomb a refinery. But the small and comparatively slow drones have proved equal to the task. As the FT reported last week,
Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow.The strikes have disrupted more than 1 million barrels a day of Russia’s refining capacity, according to Energy Aspects, a research group. Diesel exports, if they maintain the current rate, will fall to the lowest monthly total in September since 2020, according to both OilX and Vortexa, which track cargoes.
“It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far,” said Benedict George, head of European petroleum products pricing at Argus, which reports commodity prices.
It's hard to drone a solar panel
The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtuesBill McKibben (The Crucial Years)
Online attacks threaten major climate-friendly diet report - major scientific report in the crosshairs of a pro-meat misinformation campaign.
Online attacks threaten major climate-friendly diet report
A major scientific update to one of the most influential food and planetary health reports of the past decade is in the crosshairs of a pro-meat misinformation campaign.Martin Kuebler (Deutsche Welle)
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and waterLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting offices
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Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting officesAdam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
Latte intero si, no, forse, chissà!
Latte Intero contro Latte Scremato: La Scienza Che Cambia Idea (Ancora!)
Quante volte ci siamo sentiti dire che il latte scremato fosse la scelta più salutare? Per decenni, la scienza o almeno una certa corrent...Giuliano (Blogger)
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How to solve wi-fi problem on Macbook Air mid 2013?
We have a Macbook Air mid 2013 and no matter what distro I tried, making wi-fi work was pain due to Broadcom drivers and not having ethernet port. Basically had to install the drivers via phone tethering.
However, probably because of the drivers, there are certain problems like disconnecting out of blue or really slow connection or cannot reconnect unless reboot the PC.
So I want to ask, if you have this Macbook and have Linux installed, which distro you're using it with? How is it?
Recently I installed Bazzite on a home computer and printers, Xbox controller, iPhone connection, everything the owners need worked out of the box. I'm wondering, would it also work fine with this Macbook too?
Edit: I added these to a blocklist, which I created here >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf
This is for BCM4360 adapter.
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssbFor now, it seems fine but need more time to see if the problems are actually gone. At least the reception issue is gone I guess.
Edit 2: Installed LMDE, which wi-fi was working even on live ISO. However, same problems also present here. It has dkms version of the driver but I don't sense any difference. Same connection drops, same random slowness.
Also found this thread. It describes my issues, but sadly no replies.
Edit 3: Currently experimenting with iwd since I found out this thread from Reddit, surprisingly not deleted, yet.
I installed iwd, disabled NetworkManager, enabled iwd.
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start iwd
sudo systemctl enable iwdPut these on
/etc/iwd/main.conf.[Scan]
DisablePeriodicScan=true
[DriverQuirks]
DefaultInterface=wl
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
[Rank]
BandModifier5Ghz=9.0 Though I didn't add BandModifier since we don't have 5Ghz anyway.
Then edited /etc/resolv.conf.
nameserver 192.168.1.3 #pi-hole IP
Also installed iwgtk to manage iwd with UI.
Seems fine so far, will edit again if it's good or not.
Correctly install and configure the drivers for the Broadcom BCM4360 Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter 14e4:43a0 rev 03 for Ubuntu 24.04
I've installed Ubuntu 24.04 on an old macbook air. I followed the steps and tips found in a popular answer -> Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers However nothing seems to have my wifi work smo...Ask Ubuntu
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Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, I saw some people recommended USB adapters. Luckily I got it working with blacklisting (still testing for possible issues though), without that it indeed had ridiculous speeds.
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in reply to Lime66 • • •Last time I had a similar-ish issue it was some graphic card drivers failing. Ones I didn't even need nor could use but somehow ended installed. Check the log from the boot sequance. Generally its Linux - you'll find answers in some log.
Or just purge and reinstall GDM. (your expiriance may vary)
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in reply to harc • • •Also, when you suggest purging and reinstalling gdm, what issues are you saying I might run into?
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in reply to Lime66 • • •Resolved, it was an issue caused by a faulty display port cable. Different issues from this cable had happened recently, I just initially assumed it was a software issue due to the fact that only GDM was affected.
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