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Thousands of Unexploded Bombs Dropped by Israel Have Turned Gaza into a Minefield


Oct 31, 2025

The next day, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) called attention to the incident. “Yesterday, five children were reportedly injured, two of them very seriously, while encountering unexploded ordnance in rubble near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza,” the group said in a statement. “Following the ceasefire in Gaza, the explosive ordnance threat remains. As hundreds of thousands of displaced people and humanitarian personnel are on the move, the risk of encountering explosive ordnance increases.”

UNMAS had documented at least 52 Palestinians killed and 267 wounded by explosive ordnance in Gaza since October 2023.



How can i legally buy a game for a child?


Terraria is on sale and i thought i'd buy a copy for my kid brother. But then i thought i should actually read the user agreement and privacy policy before i tell him to make an account. Turns out people younger than 16 can't own accounts, and i can't just buy a copy for him on my account because i'm already going to buy a copy for my account (i currently have the Steam version but want the game sans DRM).

So if i want to get him this game, should i make an account in his name but keep control of it until he's older? Is there some better legal option here?

#gog
in reply to IndigoGolem

Iirc, GOG staffers consider ok to let people from a same household to use an user's games. But you can confirm that in their official channels, and as you already have an account on GOG by the way you wrote, you can post and comment in their forums too, where staffers often lurk.
in reply to IndigoGolem

If you want to be a goody two-shoes, buy the game, download the .exe, and "lend" it to him - never play your GOG version while he’s playing, pretend it's a physical media you have only one copy, and just keep playing your Steam version.
However, if you read their terms, it’s actually legal for you to keep two copies of the game - like one on the device you’re playing and another somewhere else as a backup. So you can legally lend your game and still keep a backup copy.
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World's Largest Cargo Sailboat Finishes First Transatlantic Voyage


Video of the sailboat and interview with Neoline CEO:

Informative comment by /u/thatjoachim:

Especially in France, the industry is very innovative. Here are some of the wind-powered cargo ship companies:
  • Néoline (based in Nantes), one ship (which we see on the video), more are yet to come
  • Vela (based in Bayonne), 5 ships are expected to be launched between 2026 and 2028
  • TOWT (based in Le Havre), 2 ships since 2024, 6 more are being built
  • Windcoop (based in Marseille), expected launch of their first ship in 2027
  • Grain de Sail (based in Saint-Malo), 3 ships, their chocolate is delicious
    some other names, though I don’t know as much about >them: Hisseo, Fairtransport, Bourlingue et Pacotille, Heol Sailing

If you want to see their respective sizes, here’s a diagram showing the ships side by side with a famous sail ship (the Bélem) and the famous cargo that blocked the Suez Canal, the Evergiven

Some more info about wind powered and wind assisted cargo ships around the globe:

wind-ship.org/vessel-list/

velic-consulting.com/?page_id=…

In fact in Paris I can buy coffee that is specifically transported by wind power: fcco.fr/




Climate change to drive U.S. migration, change regional makeup


Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* web.archive.org
* ghostarchive.org — click the 'archived page not showing up' link
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in reply to silence7

You know what this means guys, more Californians moving up here and making everything even more unaffordable 😡
in reply to Shortstack

More Mexicans are moving up here to California and making things unaffordable.

More Californians are moving up here to Washington and making things unaffordable.

More Washington Residents are moving up here to Alaska and making things unaffordable.

More climate refugees are moving up here and goddamn it, I just wanted to live damn it, if only I had pushed for climate reform policies instead of blaming a particular group of people as the other/outsider.

in reply to silence7

Climate change and politics. I know a lot of people who’ve moved out of shithole states to somewhere nicer, and cooler.

in reply to silence7

Grew up in California. State bird gave me an absurd love for these things. Couldn't be happier, for them.

Obvs sad for the rest of us, but let these birds have some beef - they deserve it more than you or I.


in reply to silence7

So you are telling me, it could have happened without climate change, too? /s
in reply to marius

I know you're being sarcastic but this is literally how the right will read this headline. That or "How could we possibly know what god has planned".
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Recommend that new users join geographically local instances


There is perennial discussion about what fediverse servers (Lemmy or otherwise) to recommend to new users. I have a proposal, perhaps not very original but I haven't seen it made often.

Let's just recommend that newbies pick an instance that is located close to them geographically. That's to say: their country, their region, or (ideally) their town.

Some context. Personally, I am not totally sold on social media, federated or otherwise. The evidence is now pretty clear that it causes major social harms. One way it does this is by fuelling polarization around hot-button national and international debates, at the expense of local issues. Reviving democracy is going to mean boosting communities at a local level. This could be a small way to do that.

in reply to JubilantJaguar

As a US-based person, just no. It is not desirable to host anything here or to trust any US-based service for a number of reasons.
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Gave out potatoes for halloween


Gave out potatoes for halloween
Kids liked it. Moms liked it. Gave some candy along with it.
Nobody gonna remember the fun sized snickers guy but they will remember the potato house.
in reply to Hello_there

Is this a trend? A guy in my writing meetup said he was going to do this, but I'd be a bit surprised if he was on Lemmy.






November 1925

Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.


3. Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut film, The Pleasure Garden, was released.

10. Born. Richard Burton, actor, in Pontrhydyfen, Wales (d.1984)

11. Howard Carter and an autopsy team began the unwrapping of the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The process was exceedingly difficult due to the extreme fragility of the bandages and the resinous coating that held the mummy fast inside the sarcophagus.Tutankhamun unwrapped

11. Born. June Whitfield, British actress, in Streatham, London (d.2018)

12. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five recorded their first songs together for Okeh Records. These recordings were among the most important and influential in the development of jazz music.

19. The autopsy of Tutankhamun concluded. The bad condition of the body and limited forensic science of the 1920s meant that little could be determined other than the age of the body being estimated to be about eighteen.

24. Born. William F Buckley Jr, American journalist, author and commentator (d.2008)

27. Born. Ernie Wise, comedian, in Bramley, Leeds, England (d.1999)


#1925 #blog #history #November #otd #zenmischief



in reply to unknowing8343

I'm sure UK citizens can find porn without having to necessarily resort to VPNs, they just left Pornhub because they're applying the laws


Russia Expands Bans on ‘Coercing’ Women Into Abortions to 27th Region


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44938574

Archived

Two Siberian regions have become the 26th and 27th Russian regions to adopt legislation this week banning the “coercion” of pregnant women into terminating a pregnancy amid efforts by conservative figures to expand state pressure to boost birth rates.

The neighboring Kemerovo region and Altai republic adopted laws Monday and Tuesday banning “persuasion, requests, offers, deception, bribery or other actions” aimed at encouraging a woman to have an abortion.

[...]

Officials say the measure is designed to “protect pregnant women in a situation of reproductive choice” and improve demographic trends.

Both laws take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.

The initiatives are backed by the pro-life Orthodox-aligned foundation Women for Life, which launched a chatbot encouraging women to report relatives, partners or medical workers who “advised” them to terminate a pregnancy.

[...]



The Amazing - Picture You (2015)


Si immagini questo particolare staff scandinavo: due artisti provenienti da due band diverse si incontrano, ciascuno con il suo personale background musicale. Chiamano un po’ di baldi musici al loro servizio e formano un collettivo dal nome a dir poco impegnativo: The Amazing... Leggi e ascolta...


The Amazing - Picture You (2015)


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Si immagini questo particolare staff scandinavo: due artisti provenienti da due band diverse si incontrano, ciascuno con il suo personale background musicale. Chiamano un po’ di baldi musici al loro servizio e formano un collettivo dal nome a dir poco impegnativo: The Amazing. Dopo l’apprezzabile “Gentle Stream” arriva così “Picture You”, l’ultimissima ricetta del quintetto svedese dove nei suoi brani scoviamo facilmente le tracce della loro genesi: un incontro tra molteplici flussi di passato e presente dove nessuno prevarica sull'altro, in un'armonia a lunghi tratti – ci venga concessa la battuta facile – amazing... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…


Ascolta il disco: album.link/s/3rZNNZhcVyVcaAuBD…


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La rinascita del mercato comunale in via Rombon


Quella di via Rombon 24, infatti, è una delle 15 strutture conferite dal Comune a Sogemi che, con questo progetto si pone tre obiettivi: «Riqualificare gli ambienti, creare luoghi di incontro per la comunità e garantire ai cittadini l’accesso a prodotti freschi e di qualità». All’interno, il bar targato Giannasi (quello del pollo), la pescheria Pedol (presenza storica al mercato di piazza Wagner), il negozio di NaturaSì e la libreria Mondadori.



Winter Is Coming, and We Are Still Without Shelter


The cold winds have already started to blow, and winter is on our doorstep. Yet, we are still living out in the open, without enough warmth or protection.
We desperately need your help to buy the remaining essentials — a proper tent, food, gas, and warm winter clothes.

It breaks my heart to see my family shivering from the cold, especially the little ones. No one deserves to face winter like this.
Please, if you can, help us stay warm and safe this winter. Even a small act of kindness can mean everything to us. 💔

gofund.me/00439328

#Gaza #PrayForGaza #StandWithGaza



FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks


Oh, for fuck's sake. Heaven forbid anything sensible survives.

The Federal Communications Commission will vote in November to repeal a ruling that requires telecom providers to secure their networks, acting on a request from the biggest lobby groups representing Internet providers.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the ruling, adopted in January just before Republicans gained majority control of the commission, “exceeded the agency’s authority and did not present an effective or agile response to the relevant cybersecurity threats.” Carr said the vote scheduled for November 20 comes after “extensive FCC engagement with carriers” who have taken “substantial steps… to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses.”

The FCC’s January 2025 declaratory ruling came in response to attacks by China, including the Salt Typhoon infiltration of major telecom providers such as Verizon and AT&T. The Biden-era FCC found that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), a 1994 law, “affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”

“The Commission has previously found that section 105 of CALEA creates an affirmative obligation for a telecommunications carrier to avoid the risk that suppliers of untrusted equipment will ‘illegally activate interceptions or other forms of surveillance within the carrier’s switching premises without its knowledge,'” the January order said. “With this Declaratory Ruling, we clarify that telecommunications carriers’ duties under section 105 of CALEA extend not only to the equipment they choose to use in their networks, but also to how they manage their networks.”




ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE


Well, if it isn't the consequences of the government's own actions.

ICE can generate multiple horrible stories a day but it still can’t seem to find enough brown people to deport daily to satisfy White House advisor Stephen Miller’s demands for 3,000 arrests per day.

Trump and the GOP threw a lot of money at this problem with the Big Beautiful Bill. A lot of money: $75 billion over the next four years. Part of that goes to another metric ICE will apparently never meet: 10,000 new hires.

Not that ICE isn’t trying. It’s currently pissing off law enforcement agencies all over the country by throwing $50,000 signing bonuses at new recruits — something that has the potential to deprive local law enforcement of some of their current, um… talent. It has also lowered its standards and ripped the age limits off both ends of the scale, hoping to attract a blend of people who’ve already aged out of physical work and fresh faces their new bosses will likely assume don’t really want work.

Now that it’s been a few months since the hiring surge began, we’re finally seeing some results. And it’s possibly worse than you imagine.



How to switch a 5V led lamp?


I've got a cheap salt lamp with a LED inside and it runs on a 5V wall wart. I think it originally had a USB plug but I cut that off and connected it to an old 5V power supply.

I've never used esp32, but I've been doing some reading and it seems like an esp32-c6 will allow me to do this with ZigBee.

Does this sound reasonable? Are there other options I should consider?

in reply to GreatBlueHeron

just get a smart plug like these and put it in from of your wall wart




Police and TSA accuse Nancy Mace of 'loudly cursing' at them in airport meltdown






"America is more divided than ever — but how is it affecting our love lives? I spent a year dating conservative men to find out" - Vera Papisova | Cosmopolitan


Pretty bad article, but a couple interesting points that we all probably know already. Since it's a liberal woman, it's new to her I guess.

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made.

“Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied.

Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.”

He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.
. . .
“They say horrible things about me and make everyone hate me and think I’m a bad person,” he said. He was staring at a point in the distance, speaking like he was in some kind of trance.

“What did they say about you?” I asked.

He snapped out of it. “Oh, not me,” he answered. “I meant Donald Trump.”

Over the course of a few dates, he’d make this mistake often, where he’d talk about Trump in the first person. And I came to realise that while I was trying to separate Jared from who he voted for, he may have been personally struggling to do the exact same thing, just in a very different way. It became clear to me that he truly loved Trump not just because he identified with Trump the politician but because he identified with Trump the person being considered ‘bad’ by progressive standards.
. . .
On a different week, I met up with Jake*, 36. He was on his second mezcal negroni, and I was sipping a seltzer with lime, when I asked him why his last relationship ended. “My previous girlfriend killed our child,” he said. “Like, she’s in jail now for murder?” I asked. “No, but she should be,” he explained, shooting back his drink. “She got an abortion and killed our child without asking me.” I took a deep breath and tried to listen carefully.
. . .
At a chic omakase place, Matthew*, 25, from New Jersey was going off about how “we should have never let a woman be head of the Secret Service”. With each course, I fired off questions about his upbringing. He mentioned online groups where there were “others like him”, the kind where people whose radical-to-me beliefs find validation — and even more than validation, identity itself. Matthew later revealed he has a swastika tattoo.
. . .
I didn’t feel that any of the men I dated were that interested in me as a person or where I came from either. I rarely got questions like, Why are you Republican-curious? What drew you to our dating app? What are your family values? What are you looking for in a partner? What are your goals in life?
. . .
On our last date, we were walking through a park when I told him we couldn’t keep seeing each other, that I disagreed with most of his beliefs and didn’t align with the future he wanted. Confused, he replied that from his point of view, we actually agreed on most things.

No, I said, we didn’t, which he would know if he’d asked me any questions about myself. He still leaned in and tried to kiss me. We never saw each other again.


cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/r…



Piefed account isn't working


I have an account on piefed under the same name, and I can't upvote posts, view comments or interact in any way as of three hours ago. When I tried to post, there was an error message that said 'UsedMemory > AvailableMemory'. It's happening when I tried it in a Private window as well. Is Piefed down?
in reply to humiddragonslayer

Same issue happening to me. I can pull up my account settings, the modlog and communities but no posts show up on home.
in reply to marighost

Everything was broken earlier, you guys

Edit: I definitely still can't post anything but at least it's not just an error loading

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The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi


Archive article: archive.is/tcwRX

On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition.
You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.”
And on Thursday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts released a video defending this person’s inclusion in polite-right politics: describing Fuentes not as a hate-monger to be banished from the decent right, but as a coalition member whose view of Jews-as-evil-traitors should be politely debated.



Which open source browser do you uses?


I want to know which browser is best for Android.
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in reply to SilentCoderHere

Best is subjective and recommendations would depend on your use case. Iceraven is my primary.


Sources: Rozier, Billups won't be paid on leave


#nba
in reply to RandAlThor

Not my business but they should be considered innocent until proven guilty



Wemby leads Spurs to franchise's first 5-0 start


Kind of shocked they never did it in the Tim Duncan era.
#nba


My hypothesis on why Lemmy is rejecting valid activities


I have not been able to successfully post to a Lemmy instance either as a post or a comment. A cryptic error message is returned where the error is unknown and the message is a generic message: [code=json] {"error":"unknown","message":"data did not match

I have not been able to successfully post to a Lemmy instance either as a post or a comment. A cryptic error message is returned where the error is unknown and the message is a generic message:

{"error":"unknown","message":"data did not match any variant of untagged enum AnnouncableActivities"}

From my logs, it seems this is happening:
  1. I make a valid ActivityPub request with the audience of a community (or cc a user).
  2. Lemmy makes an ActivityPub request back at me at /.
  3. My web site does not handle ActivityPub at /, and responds with a text/plain error message. This is default behavior in Drupal.
  4. Lemmy rejects my request with a 400 response with the error message above.

I tested other instances by making the following get request to the root of each instance (thank you, Daniel Sternberg for maintaining curl):

curl -v -H "Accept: application/activity+json" -H "Content-Type: application/activity+json" <url>

  • With the following results
    • Lemmy returns an Application Actor.
    • Misskey returns a 200 response in text/html.
    • Mastodon returns a 406 response in application/json.
    • NodeBB returns text/html.
    • GoToSocial returns a 406 response in application/json.
    • Mitra returns a 200 response in text/html.
    • Pixelfed returns a 200 response in text/html.
    • Peertube returns an empty 406 response.


My hypothesis is that Lemmy is rejecting the request because I return [strong]text/plain[/strong] and/or it cannot handle a response with that content type.

To test that I am working on changing the default behavior. I will need to dynamically add a route based on system.site.page.front and return a 406 response in JSON. This is simple enough. If my hypothesis is correct, I can also make a merge request into drupal/activitypub module, which would have the same problem. If not, then I’ll need to go digging further.

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in reply to mradcliffe

If I do need to Announce


If I do need to wrap it an Announce, then I think I will need to do the following based on how it works on my end.

  1. Create my post as normal, but don’t address it to the community initially.
  2. Announce my own post making sure I address it to the community.

I guess that might show up as me boosting my own post on some instances (tooting my own horn? Horning my own toot?), which I would feel ashamed of.






Activity In The Pub in Montreal 2 Nov 2025


Just a quick note for those attending IETF 124 in Montreal next week: The Montreal ActivityPub community is hosting a special meetup ("Activity In The Pub") at the Vieux Dublin bar at 5pm on November 2nd. Everyone interested in ActivityPub is welcome. ht

Just a quick note for those attending IETF 124 in Montreal next week:

The Montreal ActivityPub community is hosting a special meetup (“Activity In The Pub”) at the Vieux Dublin bar at 5pm on November 2nd.

Everyone interested in ActivityPub is welcome.

mstdn.social/@fedihost/1154314…

The Vieux Dublin bar is at 636 rue Cathcart:

maps.app.goo.gl/CsnR2tmHeyXs3M…

Looking forward to seeing you there!


If you’re in #Montreal for the #IETF meeting @evan is running an #ActivityInThePub at Vieux Dublin on November the 2nd
@kini will be there from #FediHost fielding questions about devops and cheese if you’re lucky!

mobilisons.ch/events/bc5f8878-…





Green MP Tamatha Paul believed she would die young: 'You just want to lie in bed in the dark'


Archive link: Green MP Tamatha Paul on living with lupus and arthritis while serving in Parliament

Pretty inspiring that she’s achieved so much despite her chronic health conditions. It’s also refreshing to see honesty about needing to properly rest to avoid burnout. Too often we see gung-ho statements from people about pushing through and remaining busy.



The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.


And for decades, the Environmental Protection Agency tracked those emissions not by monitoring the air but by relying on a kind of honor system. Companies were allowed to estimate their chemical pollution using methods that even the EPA conceded were often unreliable.

In 2023, the EPA received irrefutable proof that these estimates were highly flawed. The agency had required 20 industrial facilities to temporarily install air monitors around their perimeters — known as fence-line monitoring — to see how bad the pollution actually was.

The results, compiled now for the first time by ProPublica, were shocking.