El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/47935906
The son answered the door and, while he permitted the agents to search his home, claiming he had nothing to hide, he asked if they could wait first while he put the family dog, Chop, a Rottweiler, away in the bathroom before they walked in, as the dog could be aggressive...
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home and, as a result, ended up shooting the dog.The family stressed that the agents knew-- the son had told them-- that Chop was put in the bathroom for their safety and that the agents opened the door, let Chop out and shot him.
Furthermore, the family said none of the Border Patrol agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to the dog, which bled to death on the kitchen floor.
The family added that when they confronted agents, Border Patrol reportedly told them they were working from an anonymous tip tied to the previous owners of the home, who lived there two years ago.
El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...David Ibave (KFOX)
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Prince Andrew’s Epstein Interviewer Predicts More Names
Maitlis reacted in an interview for British radio station LBC in which she also predicted more careers would be ruined by the Epstein story: "I mean, the number of people that have ended up lying for Epstein, whose careers have ended up in absolute tatters because of their connection to him. I think we're at the tip of the iceberg, I genuinely do."
Yet a couple of months later, in February 2011, we now know he emailed Epstein to say: "I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!"
The message came the day after the first interview with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, published in The Mail on Sunday, which included a photo of Andrew with his arm around Guiffre's waist.
Prince Andrew’s Epstein Interviewer Predicts More Names
Emily Maitlis' interview with Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein ended his royal career.Jack Royston (Newsweek)
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Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37547335
Israel kills at least five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the humanitarian terms of the ceasefire agreement. Aid is entering Gaza at an insufficient pace, with authorities warning it represents “a drop in the ocean” of Gaza’s needs. The United Nations Development Program says that $70 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza. President Donald Trump continues his “victory tour” of the Levant, taking credit for the ceasefire in speeches at the Knesset and at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt, where he signed the deal presided over by the heads of state of Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and Indonesia, while the leadership of the Palestinian resistance did not attend. A live microphone records Trump agreeing to arrange a meeting between his son and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, saying “I’ll have Eric call. Should I do that? He’s such a good boy.” The U.S. plans to commit half a billion dollars to anti-drone defense in anticipation of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. ICE continues to harass residents in Chicago and Portland. China threatens retaliatory tariffs after Trump signaled plans to impose “100 percent tariffs” on Chinese goods. Washington reaffirms its readiness to defend its ally in the Philippines if hostilities in the South China Sea escalate further. Floods ravage Mexico’s east coast. Madagascar’s president flees the country amid ongoing “Gen Z” protests.
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Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement
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Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.
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‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit
The chief interest at Monday’s largely pointless Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh lay in whether Donald Trump insulted or feted his fellow global leaders as they approached the self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker to shake hands and pose for a thumbs-up photograph.
As the host of the party, the US president had arrived – unapologetically – more than two hours late, musing to the Israeli parliament before boarding his flight from Tel Aviv that he feared his wealthy guests would already have left, leaving him with only two poor countries remaining.
He need not have worried. First up on the stage to be greeted by Trump was Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the vice-president of the United Arab Emirates. A beaming Trump pointed out Mansour’s “lovely shoes”, then pointed at him, saying: “A lot of cash, bundles of cash.” The Manchester City owner attempted to beam back happily at this self-evident truth.
‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit
Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leadersPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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gli inutili pensieri personali noiosi sulla discrepanza uniscolastica dell’octo…
Ultimamente stavo pensando (ahia…), quasi rimuginando a riguardo, per qualche motivo, che questo terzo anno di università, in termini di vibe, in alcuni specifici frangenti mi riporta un po’ al liceo… e non so se è una cosa buona. Mi sono tenuta questa pazzia per un po’, ma veramente più ci penso e più mi […]
Barack Obama accuses Republicans of wanting to ‘rig the next election’ in ad supporting Governor Newsom
Obama's comments appear in a new video supporting Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50 which would allow the California legislature to draw new congressional boundaries ahead of the midterms
Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November's special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to "rig the next election" in a new ad backing Governor Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50, a ballot measure that could reshape the state's congressional map.
"Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years," Obama says in the 30-second ad, urging voters to approve the proposal. "You can stop Republicans in their tracks."
Barack Obama Accuses Republicans Of Wanting To 'Rig The Next Election' In Ad Supporting Governor Newsom
Former President Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November's special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to "rig the next election"Pedro Camacho (Latin Times)
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There is no way to play Multiplayer Crossplatform between Linux and Windows
If you're running the game with proton (and the vast majority will use proton) then you're basically just running the Windows version of the game on Linux. There will be no crossplay issues.
There are some games that run natively on Linux but running the Windows version in proton works better most of the time.
North Carolina Republicans will redraw congressional maps to add seat for their party
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/81697
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North Carolina Republicans will redraw congressional maps to add seat for their party
State is the latest in the US conducting mid-decade gerrymandering to favor one party before the midtermsRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
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Obviously, ignoring security is pervasive, well-established, S.O.P.
Incompetence wins, because it is "normal"?
I read only a sample of this book manning.com/books/secure-by-de… and its whole fundamental understanding is that our world has been using the wrong framing of security, all along.
It isn't paint you put on finished-work, for nice highlights ( my metaphor, not theirs, I'm just trying to communicate the idea of what we've been doing )
Rather, it is a set of concerns that need to be kept-in-mind throughout the entire development-process.
So, more lives will be subject to identity-theft, wrongful-accusation/conviction-of-crimes, robbery, etc, because corporate institutions refused to be responsible..
Will anything make the irresponsible-authorites accountable?
Of course not: establishment protects its own.
Force-altering the framing of secure development, however, that does look like it can make our future investments be significantly less corrupt.
I have not bought that book, I have not read more than some of the sample, I'm not saying it definitively is the understanding we're needing.
I AM saying that what the authors were saying in the part I'd read definitely is on-the-mark about us solving-the-wrong-problem, producing wrong-results ( I'd say pretending to solve problems, as what we keep proving we're doing is fundamentally more-corrupt than merely solving the wrong problem, but .. )
Manning has specials, periodically, so it should be possible to get the ebook for 40%..50% off, if one is patient, & persistent in checking their website.
I want the results we're making to be better.
If anyone knows better means for making our results better, please correct my comment.
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Secure by Design - Dan Bergh Johnsson, Daniel Deogun, Daniel Sawano
Secure by Design teaches developers how to use design to drive security in software development. This book is full of patterns, best practices, and mindsets that you can directly apply to your real world development.Manning Publications
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement - Ars Technica
The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the now-common joke in cryptography circles observes, experts have been forecasting this cryptocalypse will arrive in the next 15 to 30 years for the past 30 years.The uncertainty has created something of an existential dilemma: Should network architects spend the billions of dollars required to wean themselves off quantum-vulnerable algorithms now, or should they prioritize their limited security budgets fighting more immediate threats such as ransomware and espionage attacks? Given the expense and no clear deadline, it’s little wonder that less than half of all TLS connections made inside the Cloudflare network and only 18 percent of Fortune 500 networks support quantum-resistant TLS connections. It's all but certain that many fewer organizations still are supporting quantum-ready encryption in less prominent protocols.
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
How come this instance is often intermittently unreachable?
This is more a technical curiosity than a complaint.
And it's not only about the last two days. I have been finding this instance to be intermittently unreachable more often than any other popular(ish) instance I occasionally visit, and more than what some instance trackers show (I don't know how they work).
And luckily when that happens, cloudflare helpfully informs me that the problem is not at my end, although not always.
EDIT because the post didn't go through!
France voices deep concern after Israeli drone injures UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon
France on Tuesday expressed deep concern over an Israeli army drone incident that injured a UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, urging Israel to halt its violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and to fully respect the ceasefire agreement.
In a statement, the French Foreign Ministry said a grenade, dropped by an Israeli drone near a UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) position in the Kfarkela region on Oct. 11, exploded, injuring an Indonesian peacekeeper.
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France voices deep concern after Israeli drone injures UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon
France on Tuesday expressed deep concern over an Israeli army drone incident that injured a UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, urging Israel to halt its violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and to fully respect the ceasefire agreement.
In a statement, the French Foreign Ministry said a grenade, dropped by an Israeli drone near a UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) position in the Kfarkela region on Oct. 11, exploded, injuring an Indonesian peacekeeper.
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Re-Created Lemmy Server, Old Posts, & Federation issues
Hi all,
I've been running my Lemmy server since 2023 with minor issues, however I recently had my server go down for about two weeks due to a drive failure (should have been a RAID array, I know, but when I set this up originally I wasn't sure if it would be a mainstay and then I never revisited my design).
So, this has brought about a couple different problems, first and foremost federation seems completely broken? My proxy configuration and cloudflare stuff has been unchanged, so I don't think that is the issue. However, I'm not receiving new posts, comments, or upvotes (after what gets synced initially).
Here are the logs from the lemmy backend:
2025-10-14T21:05:39.429156Z WARN lemmy_server::root_span_builder: CouldntFindPost: CouldntFindPost
0: lemmy_api_crud::post::read::get_post
with data=Query(GetPost { id: Some(PostId(1495861)), comment_id: Some(CommentId(4689293)) }) local_user_view=None
at crates/api_crud/src/post/read.rs:18
1: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy:8536 http.target=/api/v3/post otel.kind="server" request_id=f47caa4f-2ef1-4bff-a7fa-f8d27c75294b
at src/root_span_builder.rs:16and lemmy-ui has:
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_person', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_comment', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }
{ name: 'couldnt_find_post', message: '' }So I assume that posts are getting pushed across but not actually getting created?
The second question I have, and I fear there may be nothing i can do about this, is since I had to recreate my lemmy db I don't have any of the posts from my users on here anymore. They were all to other servers, so I assume there is some sort of copy out there. Is there a way that I can get them to federate back to my server? Or are they just lost to the ether of posts?
EDIT: The plot thickens...
I connected to the database, and I can see a ton of recent posts/comments/interactions, but those aren't showing up in the frontend? Maybe there is something messed up in my config, but its more or less what was in the docs (only changes were to make it work with my proxy vs the built-in nginx)
These logs are from the api, not from federation. So a client is trying to access posts and comments which dont exist. Is the Lemmy frontpage looking normal? Regarding federation, other instances would have marked your instance as dead by now. This should be reset automatically after a few days, or you can manually trigger it (eg unfollow and refollow remote communities).
I would also suggest you join the admin chat on Matrix to get more help: matrix.to/#/#lemmy-support-gen…
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
Ahhh okay! Yeah it seems that in the 24h since i made this post, things have started to work as I'd expect again!
Guess i was just being impatient, I've been going through lemmy withdrawals for the last week or so while i worked through this issue 🤣
Thanks for the matrix link, I'll join the room (and finally get some real use out of my matrix server)
Burkina Faso is a place of dignity, not expulsion: foreign minister snubs Trump’s deportation deal
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/82019
“Burkina Faso is a place of dignity … not a place of expulsion,” said its Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s deportation deal.Deeming Trump’s proposal for Burkina Faso to accept foreign nationals he is deporting from the US as “indecent”, he said it was “totally contrary to the value of dignity, which is … the very essence of the vision of Captain Ibrahim Traoré.”
Coming to power in 2022 after the ouster of Roch Kaboré’s unpopular regime, propped up by France, Traoré expelled French troops, consolidating his mass support in the country.
His avowed anti-imperialism and pan-Africanism have won him admirers across Africa and Black and Afro-descendant communities in the West. It has distinguished him from many other African heads of state, who have often yielded to Western hegemony.
In recent months, Swaziland, Ghana, Rwanda, and South Sudan have agreed to accept foreign nationals deported from the US, while many other countries are in negotiation, with the US offering monetary inducements or preferential visa processing in return.
Read More: Exiled Swazi activists protest Trump deportation deal outside US embassy in South Africa
Snubbed by Burkina Faso, the US appears to have reacted with punitive actions. Redirecting visa applications to its embassy in neighboring Togo, the US Embassy in Burkina Faso “has temporarily paused all routine visa services effective October 10, 2025. This pause includes immigrant visas and nonimmigrant visas for tourists, business travelers, students, exchange visitors, and most other nonimmigrant categories,” said a note on the embassy website on October 10.The State Department’s Consular Affairs further adds that those who have already paid for existing appointments will not be refunded. “Appointment scheduling will resume after the pause is lifted. At that time, appointments affected by the pause will be rescheduled, and the applicants will be notified,” it explained, without providing any timeline for resumption.
“Is this a way to put pressure on us? Is this blackmail?” the foreign minister questioned in a state broadcast held hours after the announcement by the US embassy. “Whatever it is … Burkina Faso is a place of dignity, a destination, not a place of expulsion.”
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Burkina Faso refuses to take deportees as US stops issuing visas
The West African nation's foreign minister asks if the decision led to the US suspending issuing visas.André Rhoden-Paul (BBC News)
Project on implications of Piracy (need opinions articles and ideas)
Basically in a course I am taking, I have to find global challenges and implications of a digital topic. So we turned to piracy in the end because it has been here for a while (and lets face it, I was biased and its my favorite topic.) and has its qualities and some drawbacks which need to be discussed in a topic like that. With the rise of streaming services and enshitification of most things we know of, Piracy has crawled out of the shadows and become less niche and more a valid option.
I would love if you all can give my some of your opinions on it. Any documentations, reads or articles and some valid points to help to discuss with my group (they are not all tech nerds ...)
OFC we will discuss the issues of services today, why piracy has slowed with the rise of streaming services (and back up ahahah). We will discuss that piracy helps in a way to preserve data, culture etc. The good and the bad of it. Impact of piracy in the creative goods sector in sciences. What governments do to counter piracy...
So really any stat that is justified of course, any reasons to do so (is it more convenient?? Is it due to censorship in your country or limited access to information?? DRM ?? Monopoly no other alternatives??...)
I am open to all info and articles
And thanks for your time too!
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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
by Martin Paul Eve
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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy : Martin Paul Eve : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide,...Internet Archive
TiVo has sold its last DVR
TiVo no longer makes DVRs
The company is killing its hardware business, 26 years after becoming synonymous with TV recording.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
🌸La méditation guidée de 15 à 20 mn sera suivie d'un cercle de parole, pour faire une pause et se reconnecter à soi et aux autres.
Le thème proposé pour le cercle de parole est : "J'imagine qu'une des raisons pour lesquelles les gens s’accrochent à leurs haines avec tellement d'obstination, est qu'ils sentent qu'une fois la haine partie, ils devront affronter leurs souffrances" (James Baldwin, Chronique d'un pays natal). Et chacun est libre de s'exprimer sur ce qu'iel souhaite 🌸
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🧘♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏾♀️ Parce que l'activisme est un engagement externe ET une transformation intérieure, c’est dans un esprit de compassion et d’approfondissement de la connaissance de soi que nous prétendons évoluer et communiquer les un‧es avec les autres.
Benioff's National Guard dream forces retreat
Here's an idea: How about giving everyone the opportunity to have a fulfilling life?
Crime is not the result of babies being born wanted to rob or kill people.
San Francisco’s political establishment rounded on Marc Benioff over the weekend after the Salesforce founder backed the idea of sending in the National Guard to clean up the city’s streets.By late Sunday Benioff took to Twitter to clarify that he believed the best people to manage public safety in San Francisco was… San Francisco, and that “Salesforce is proud to support the Mayor through the Partnership for San Francisco.”
Benioff, previously seen as a broadly liberal benevolent benefactor to the city by the bay, seemed to follow the path of his fellow tech CEOs in cozying up to the Trump administration, just ahead of the company’s Dreamforce conference in the city.
Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco
: Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policingJoe Fay (The Register)
Why industry-standard labels for AI in music could change how we listen: "new industry standard for AI disclosures in music credits"
Earlier this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify with retro-pop tracks, generating a million monthly listeners on Spotify.But the band wasn’t real. Every song, image, and even its back story, had been generated by someone using generative AI.
For some, it was a clever experiment. For others, it revealed a troubling lack of transparency in music creation, even though the band’s Spotify descriptor was later updated to acknowledge it is composed with AI.
In September 2025, Spotify announced it is “helping develop and will support the new industry standard for AI disclosures in music credits developed through DDEX.” DDEX is a not-for-profit membership organization focused on the creation of digital music value chain standards.
The company also says it’s focusing work on improved enforcement of impersonation violations and a new spam-filtering system, and that updates are “the latest in a series of changes we’re making to support a more trustworthy music ecosystem for artists, for rights-holders and for listeners.”
As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces. Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support.
Why industry-standard labels for AI in music could change how we listen
Disclosing AI use on music platforms shouldn’t give streaming platforms a free pass to flood catalogues with AI content. Listeners deserve clear and transparent labelling.The Conversation
Is Linux Smartphones any good?
When I have read anything Android phone related on Lemmy, I often see comments talking about how they switch to Linux phone or tell people to swap Android with Linux ASAP.
What's the general experience like using Linux as your phone and is it any good? I remember watching video couple years about it and hearing about it and the lack of apps (at least that is made for mobile in mind) and wonder if that has changed or is it just good enough.
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UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’ | UN News
UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall …UN News
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UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’ | UN News
UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall …UN News
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UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’ | UN News
UN releases $11 million for Gaza aid as ceasefire, hostage release bring ‘fragile hope’
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter – a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall …UN News
Een stille dood voor kernenergie in Nederland
De politieke voorstanders van kernenergie in Nederland willen daar steeds minder geld aan uitgeven, blijkt uit debatten en doorrekeningen. Dat maakt uitvoering van de plannen zo goed als onmogelijk.
In Den Haag kwamen maandagavond vertegenwoordigers van zes politieke partijen samen voor een stevig inhoudelijk debat over de toekomst van de Nederlandse energietransitie. Onder de titel Door met Duurzaam gingen GroenLinks-PvdA, VVD, Volt, SP, Partij voor de Dieren, en BIJ1 met elkaar in gesprek over hoe Nederland koers houdt richting een schoon, eerlijk en betaalbaar energiesysteem. Het debat werd georganiseerd door Fossielvrij NL en WISE Nederland. “Vooral de stelling over kernenergie was interessant omdat de twee voorstanders – Volt en de VVD – een stuk minder positief waren dan verwacht”, zegt Lisanne Boersma, directeur van WISE.
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reCAPTCHA forcing migration to Google Cloud by the end of 2025
reCAPTCHA migration to Google Cloud by the end of 2025: what do you need to do
In case you haven’t received an email from Google (or you haven’t noticed an ugly notification “reCAPTCHA terms are changing” on all of your widgets), reCAPTCHAPrivate Captcha
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HCaptcha is a drop-in replacement. Altcha is a standalone alternative (no 3rd party server needed).
There is no reason to use reCaptcha anymore.
A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions
Our steadfast people, this stage represents an opportunity to enhance social solidarity within the Gaza Strip by supporting affected families, securing the necessities of daily life and activating frameworks of cooperation between factions, society and relevant local and international institutions, creating a resilient and unified environment capable of facing all challenges and preserving our people’s steadfastness.We renew the call for unity and national responsibility, to embark on a unified national political path with all powers and factions. We are working in cooperation with gracious Egyptian efforts to hold an urgent and comprehensive national meeting for the next step after the ceasefire to unify the Palestinian position, formulate a comprehensive national strategy and rebuild our national institutions on the foundations of partnership, credibility and transparency.
We also stress our categorical rejection of any foreign guardianship and affirm that determining the form of governance for the Gaza Strip and the foundations of its institutions’ work is an internal Palestinian matter to be jointly decided by the national components of our people. We are prepared to benefit from Arab and international participation in the areas of reconstruction, recovery and development support, in a way that promotes a dignified life for our people and preserves their rights to their land.
In conclusion, at this decisive historical moment, we renew our loyalty to the martyrs, prisoners, wounded and resistance fighters. We affirm our unwavering adherence to our people’s rights to their land, homeland, holy sites and dignity and our insistence on continuing the resistance in all its forms until all our rights are achieved, foremost among them the removal of the occupation, self-determination and the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on Oct. 10, 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.Workers World
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Fediverse Report – #138
this week's fediverse news:
- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both activitypub and atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network
- Loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse
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Nvidia breakthrough gives 4-bit pretraining technique the accuracy of FP8
Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4
Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimentation across…arXiv.org
Boosto qualunque thread mi citi nel suo primo post.
Quando Mastodon diventerà compatibile, per essere boostato automaticamente bisognerà per forza seguirmi e avere ricevuto il follow back, dopo di che boosterò i thread in cui verrò citato, con visibilità limitata a chi mi segue.
Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically (also, distro-picking).
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.
- Garuda (Arch-based)
- Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
- Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
- CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
- Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)
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Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs rolls out red carpet for fascist demagogue Tommy Robinson
Robinson is a filthy provocateur and instigator of street violence against Muslims and asylum seekers.World Socialist Web Site
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This is where we are now.
Not the first openly antisemitic fascist they invited.
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Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed for release from Israeli detention today, while Israel continues to hold at least 115 more captives
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
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Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed for release from Israeli detention today, while Israel continues to hold at least 115 more captives
Fifty-five healthcare workers from Gaza are listed among the Palestinians released from Israeli detention today as part of the exchange deal. While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics. Fourty-four of the healthcare workers listed were abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces from the hospitals where they were working and they have spent between nine and 22 months illegally imprisoned in Israeli detention and torture facilities. Dr Ahmed Mhanna, the Director of Al-Awda Hospital, was not on the list but has also been released today.
While their release is warmly welcomed, there are at least 115 more Gazan healthcare workers who are still being held in Israeli detention. These include at least 20 doctors, of whom 15 are irreplaceable senior specialists. In the past two years, the Israeli Occupation Forces have unlawfully detained over 409 Palestinian healthcare workers from both Gaza and the West Bank. Testimonies from released healthcare workers and other Palestinians describe the horrific conditions inside the detention facilities where brutality and torture are rife[1]. Five healthcare workers have been killed while in detention.
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Despite widespread interest, only 3 states passed regulating, license plate reader laws this year
Ukraine War: Russian Forces Attacked UN Aid Trucks in Kherson Region, Officials Say
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ArchivedRussian forces struck a United Nations aid convoy in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukrainian and UN officials said, though no one was reported injured or killed in the incident.
The United Nations said the convoy, consisting of four marked vehicles, came under attack from Russian drones and artillery while delivering humanitarian aid to the frontline town of Bilozerka.
"Such attacks are utterly unacceptable. Aid workers are protected by international humanitarian law and should never be attacked," said Matthias Schmale, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine.
Two trucks operated by the World Food Program were damaged in the strike, while two others were unharmed, he said. The UN Population Fund said the convoy was carrying 800 packages containing essential items for elderly people, women and girls.
"The area has a very high proportion of older people, many of whom are unable to relocate due to drones and shelling and rely on humanitarian assistance for survival," said Jacqueline Mahon, UNFPA's representative in Ukraine.
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DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
Prosecutors said that hundreds of people were trafficked and forced to work in the scam compounds, “often under the threat of violence.”
Zhi and a network of top executives in the Prince Group are accused of using political influence in multiple countries to protect their criminal enterprise and paid bribes to public officials to avoid actions by law enforcement authorities targeting the scheme, according to prosecutors.
DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia
An indictment says forced-labor compounds ran cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes that stole billions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech in Israeli parliament
Trump made several claims about the Middle East conflict and other global peace deals that were not entirely true.
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Eco-Libre Life-Line v2025.10 is released
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •KeePassXC for something hosted locally on your home network. Best aspect of KeePassXC is the support for OTP codes built-in, in my opinion. For mobile OTP codes, I personally use Aegis.
Bitwarden for non-tech-savvy family and friends.
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in reply to manuallybreathing • • •As a general rule, browser based password storage is less secure than a standalone offering. While convenient, Firefox loads the cipher into memory. and stores passwords in a local file (logins.json) encrypted with 3DES (older versions) or AES (newer), using a key derived from an optional primary password. Without a primary password, Firefox uses a blank key, making it trivially decryptable. Even with one, decryption occurs locally but lacks the layered, zero-knowledge design of something like Bitwarden. This makes Firefox stored passwords more vulnerable to something like a virus outbreak on your computer, which can access your Firefox stored passwords.
This is how I understand it. If someone has better intel, or if I need schooled up, do share.
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in reply to dubyakay • • •Well, the first thing you need to know about me is that I am an expert at nothing. I've just been screwing up enough computers since the mid 70s to learn a couple things. LOL
Some thoughts and opinions:
Firefox: As mentioned earlier, Firefox stores it's logins in a file called logins.json, which is encrypted. It stores the encryption keys in a separate file called key4.db. They are encrypted with 3DES in CBC mode for the passwords themselves. When you save a password, Firefox encrypts it before writing it to disk. If you don't create a master password in Firefox, the browser uses a basic form of encryption based on your operating system credentials or a default key. This allows Firefox to automatically decrypt your passwords for autofill purposes without requiring any extra authentication, as long as you're logged into your device. The master password is key, because with the master password Firefox adds a stronger cipher in the form of PBKDF2-SHA256. Without the master password, anyone using your browser can fill in log information.
Bitwarden: Bitwarden is a dedicated, separate, password manager that stores your vault data in the cloud on Microsoft Azure in the US or EU regions iirc. Bitwarden has zero-knowledge of your passwords or encrypted data. You start with a master password, much like you would with Firefox. That master password is never sent to Bitwarden. Here's where my eyes start to glaze over. LOL It undergoes key stretching using PBKDF2-SHA-256 with 600,000 iterations. This derives a 256-bit master key, which is then expanded via HKDF to a 512-bit stretched master key. A separate 512-bit symmetric key generated by CSPRNG, is encrypted with this stretched key and stored on the servers as your 'protected symmetric key'. Your passwords are individually encrypted using AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA256 for integrity, each with its own unique cipher key that's further protected by your symmetric key. When you log in, the master password re-derives the keys client-side to decrypt the protected symmetric key fetched from the server, and decryption happens only in memory and is never written to disk. I'm not going to even pretend to thoroughly understand the process. That's going to take someone way more intelligent than I. LOL
Firefox password system is browser based. Firefox does not mandate a master password like Bitwarden, or at least in the past has not. Firefox stored passwords, as mentioned earlier, are susceptible to Firefox based exploits. Those exploits are not relegated to just Windows platforms, and can happen on Linux and Mac just by visiting a laced up website. Bitwarden is device agnostic and invokes more encrypted protections than it's Firefox counterpart.
To boil the ox down to the bullion cube, Bitwarden, in my humble opinion, gives you more layers of protection than your standard Firefox browser. I like layers. They do add complexity to the situation, but at times, complex layers is just what is required. At the end of the day, it gets down to what you feel comfortable with based on your threat model. Both options offer encryption and security features. Both options are reasonably secure, with Bitwarden being, in my mind, far more secure because it offers more robust layers of complexity. Bitwarden has a fabulous track record of security, and tho there have been previous breaches, none to my knowledge ever revealed any user data.
It has been quite a while since I have used LastPass briefly, so I cannot speak with intelligence about it's operation. I do know that Bitwarden is super easy (for me) to use and in the browser, works like any other password storage option. You can set it to automatically fill in passwords and user names which is a feature I think appeals to those who use Firefox or other browser based password storage systems. However, as I stated, at the end of the day, it all gets down to what aligns with your threat model, and how comfortable you feel using the options you have chosen. For me, Bitwarden offers more layers of protection, and I am a green ogre who likes layers.
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in reply to hobata • • •Used it for years before switching to bitwarden (because I needed more? I dont remember).
Absolutely usable and maybe the best browser pw Manager.
Also using one is better than none
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •I recently moved my family from 1Password to Bitwarden. They're not tech savvy at all and haven't really noticed a difference aside from that "the password vault looks different".
Again, they're not tech savvy so they don't really use any specific 1Password features. They're also not constantly adding or removing logins, so Bitwarden has been pretty easy for them.
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in reply to Shrouded0603 • • •I checked my email just to be sure. So looks like I migrated my family in August 2024. Ah. Actually, further back than I thought.
So my mom, dad, wife, and me have been using Bitwarden for a little over a year without any issues.
My wife is a macOS user (for now...) and she's totally fine with Bitwarden. She doesn't care about password managers. It's just some random app that saves passwords to her. She probably wouldn't remember if she's using 1Password or Bitwarden. My wife occasionally will add logins to Bitwarden.
My parents were macOS users—now they're on Fedora Silverblue for 2 months!—but they're even less technical than my wife. They don't know what OS they're running or what a password manager app is. They just know
wolf icon = internet,shield icon = passwords. They don't add or remove passwords. I added their 5 website logins and that's all they need.Hellfire103
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •Keeper, myself. Work gives me a free/subsidized family plan so sure I’ll take it.
Definitely better than Lastpass.
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in reply to TwiddleTwaddle • • •Same here, KeePass with SyncThing with a weekly copy of the database-file to a VPS I rent. Besides a password the database requires a key-file, which is copied between the various devices over a USB memory stick.
Why would I keep my passwords with an external company?
But yeah, this is a somewhat tech-savvy solution.
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •Proton Pass, I use the full suite so it's just convenient. It also has a few nice functions like e-mail aliases and secure password share links.
Let the proton haters come👀.
QuazarOmega
in reply to AmanitaCaesarea • • •That is one of the things that I really wish were on bitwarden
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •AshKaashh
in reply to SomeAmateur • • •however, explore other options here
Internet Tools
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •Keepass. I need to figure out a way to securely sync between Android <-> PC.
GNUpass should be very secure too but I need a way to view it on Android.
tlmcleod
in reply to mazzilius_marsti • • •Syncthing does the job pretty great for me. Local sync, rather than cloud. As long as your network is secure, you're good
electric_nan
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •surph_ninja
in reply to PearOfJudes • • •Not just between devices. Between people, too. Super handy to coordinate shared passwords. I use it with my wife for utilities and stuff.
You can also designate other Bitwarden accounts to have the ability to reset your master password, in case of emergency. So my wife has a password she can use to get in there, in case something happens to me. But people can’t do it on the sly, because it’ll notify the account holder of its use.
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in reply to SomeAmateur • • •KeePassXC (Desktop) and KeePassDX (mobile). Offline, local-only password manager. There's also a Firefox browser extension for it too.
If you need it to sync between devices, Syncthing gets the job done by syncing the DB file.
I don't trust any cloud solutions. You're trusting some random company with your passwords. Data breach is inevitable.
HotChickenFeet
in reply to AstroLightz • • •This one for me too! I've been very happy.
I try to minimize use of browser extensions, but i have the phone & desktop application. Nextcloud/whatever you run for syncing. I also back up those files through rsync to encrypted volume in a cloud provider (so double encrypted), so that if the worst should happen, I can still access the last version.
It's worth noting that you can manage OTP through it. When you add to your phone's OTP manager, you can also add it to Keepass, so you wont be up shit creek if your phone dies. Personally I would make a separate volume for your OTP, so you retain dual verification, even if someone should gain access to one of the two.
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