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New Mexico becomes first state to offer free child care for all families


“New Mexico is creating the conditions for better outcomes in health, learning, and well-being,” said Neal Halfon, professor of pediatrics, public health and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In addition to offering free child care, the state has launched initiatives to expand access, including a campaign to recruit more licensed and registered home providers. It also established a $12.7 million low-interest loan fund to help construct, expand and renovate child care facilities.



Anticipazioni Belve 4 novembre 2025: Iva Zanicchi, Irene Pivetti e Adriano Pappalardo ospiti da Francesca Fagnani


Torna stasera, martedì 4 novembre 2025, alle 21:20 su Rai 2, un nuovo appuntamento con Belve, il programma ideato e condotto da Francesca Fagnani.
Il talk-show più irriverente della televisione italiana conferma anche questa settimana la sua formula vincente: interviste dirette, ironiche e profondamente umane, capaci di svelare lati inediti dei protagonisti dello spettacolo e della politica.

LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Anticipazioni Belve 4 novembre 2025: Iva Zanicchi, Irene Pivetti e Adriano Pappalardo ospiti da Francesca Fagnani



Pentagon confirms ‘decapitation strikes’ for Venezuela as armada builds




Jacobin Has Charted Zohran Mamdani’s Rise From the Beginning



in reply to silence7

SAI is not a viable solution in general. I've studied this specifically, and it should be like a break-glass solution, if it all. It should be a "5 billion people will absolutely die unless we don't do it" type of thing.

Once started, it will have to be continued due to threat of termination shock, which could essentially compress all of the climate effects in the next 5 decades into 1 year or so, which will cause many millions of deaths. Also it will negatively affect some areas, and positively affect some areas, but it's very hard to precisely determine those areas, which can lead to geopolitical tensions and even war.



Tommy Robinson is a wasteman, but he shouldn’t have been arrested using terror laws


A court has found Tommy Robinson to be [url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/04/tommy-robinson-cleared-terror-related-offence-phone-code-refusal]innocent[/url] of a terror-related offence. It follows a border stop in which Robinson refused to

A court has found Tommy Robinson to be innocent of a terror-related offence. It follows a border stop in which Robinson refused to hand his phone over to the police. Unfortunately, it’s far from the first time authorities have used terror legislation as a blanket excuse to do whatever they like.

Robinson detained under Terrorism Act


As reported by the BBC, Tommy Robinson was stopped by the police at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. It was there that he was asked to give his phone pin over, and it was there that he refused because he claimed to have “journalist material” on his device. As he was detained under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, police had the right to demand that he unlock his phone, but Robinson refused.

This is what we wrote during the trial:

Now, we here at the Canary don’t consider Robinson to be a journalist because he isn’t one; he’s a political activist who uses the veneer or journalism to push a far-right agenda. At the same time, we are very much opposed to the Terrorism Act and the inevitable overreach which results from it.

Anyone can be arrested at any time for refusing the police access to their electronic devices when ordered to do so under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. No suspicion is required.

No one should support the prosecution of Tommy Robinson under this legislation.

— Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy (@GyllKing) October 13, 2025


Highlighting how terror legislation is frequently used to abuse civil liberties, Emily Apple wrote the following for the Canary back in 2016:

The police have shown repeatedly that they regard fracking protesters as an extremist threat. Fracking protesters have been included in Prevent training about extremism, and campaigners questioned under anti-terrorism legislation at airports.


The government’s proscription of Palestine Action is the most significant misuse of terror legislation to happen recently:

The Met Police in effect confirms that the govt’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “drawing resources away” from defending the public from actual terrorism. Who would have thought? pic.twitter.com/K1gvb1MCRJ

— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) October 4, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish counter-terrorism board found that Palestine Action’s activities fell below the threshold to be considered terrorism before the group were banned by Labour, The National can reveal pic.twitter.com/FJ85pTlqpQ

— The National (@ScotNational) October 14, 2025


If people have broken the law, that needs to be resolved in some fashion. The problem is successive governments and police services have decided that opposing them is an offence in itself – even when said opposition does not cross the threshold of illegality.

This state overreach needs to stop.



When SNAP benefits will arrive is still in flux. Here's what communities are doing to fill the gap


The Trump administration says it will restart the national food aid program known as SNAP using money from a Department of Agriculture contingency fund but will only pay out half the amount participants would normally receive.

In a court filing, officials said depleting that fund means "no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in November, disaster assistance, or as a cushion against the potential catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely."

Starting Nov. 1, SNAP benefits did not hit accounts as expected after the USDA, which administers SNAP, froze funding, citing the federal government shutdown. The shutdown is now in its 35th day.

It is unclear when low-income families who depend on SNAP will receive these partial funds. The Trump administration said it anticipates long delays — "anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months" — before benefits arrive in the hands of registered SNAP recipients.



Deranged Zionist senator Lindsey Graham says the quiet part out loud again


Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham is, once again, saying the quiet part out loud. In a speech to the ‘Republican Jewish Coalition’ – a lobby group that claims to represent Jewish people but makes its real agenda clear by [url=https://web.archiv

Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham is, once again, saying the quiet part out loud.

In a speech to the ‘Republican Jewish Coalition’ – a lobby group that claims to represent Jewish people but makes its real agenda clear by attacking those they consider to “possess strong anti-Israel biases” – Graham wasn’t shy about telling his audience, to frequent cheers, that the US is “killing all the right people” and that if anyone wants to object to US support for Israel they’d better argue with God, exulting that “we’ve run out of bombs” and adding that he feels “good about where we’re going as a nation”:

thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…

This is far from a one-off for the rancid Graham, who has previously threatened to invade the International Criminal Court for daring to issue an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s called for Gaza to be nuked, called for Israel to sink humanitarian boats trying to deliver aid to Gaza, demanded the US bomb Iran just in case it ever posed a danger to Israel and accused the United Nations relief agency, UNRWA, of teaching Palestinians in Gaza to “kill all the Jews”.

reshared this





Judge says allegations of conditions at Chicago-area immigration site are 'disgusting'


The government is accused of denying detainees proper access to food, water and medical care and coercing them to sign documents they don’t understand. Without that knowledge, and without private communication with lawyers, they have unknowingly relinquished their rights and faced deportation, the lawsuit alleges.

“This is not an issue of not getting a toilet or a Fiji water bottle,” attorney Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthur Justice Center told the judge. “These are a set of dire conditions that when taken together paint a harrowing picture.”

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman presided at the hearing just days after Van Brunt’s group and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed the lawsuit and sought a temporary restraining order. The judge said the allegations are “disgusting.”

https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-broadview-c1cce6344d39da317179f3619daa026a





Yes really, curl is still developed


[em]A lot![/em] One of the most common reactions or questions I get about curl when I show up at conferences somewhere and do presentations: [quote]— [em]is curl still being actively developed?[/em][/quote] How many more protocols can there be? This of

A lot!

One of the most common reactions or questions I get about curl when I show up at conferences somewhere and do presentations:

is curl still being actively developed?


How many more protocols can there be? This of course being asked by people without very close proximity or insight into the curl project and probably neither into the internet protocol world – which frankly probably is most of the civilized world. Still, these questions keep surprising me. Can projects actually ever get done?

(And do people really believe that adding protocols is the only thing that is left to do?)

Everything changes


There are new car models being made every year in spite of the roads being mostly the same for the last decades and there are new browser versions shipped every few weeks even though the web to most casual observers look roughly the same now as it did a few years ago. Etc etc. Even things such as shoes or bicycles are developed and shipped in new versions every year.

In spite of how it may appear to casual distant observers, very few things remain the same over time in this world. This certainly is also true for internet, the web and how to do data transfers over them. Just five years ago we did internet transfers differently than how we (want to) do them today. New tweaks and proposals are brought up at least on a monthly basis.

Not evolving implies stagnation and eventually… death.

As standards, browsers and users update their expectations, curl does as well. curl needs to adapt and keep up to stay relevant. We want to keep improving it so that it can match and go beyond what people want from it. We want to help drive and push internet transfer technologies to help users to do better, more efficient and more secure operations. We like carrying the world’s infrastructure on our shoulders.

It might evolve for decades to come


One of the things that actually have occurred to me, after having worked on this project for some decades by now – and this is something I did not at all consider in the past, is that there is a chance that the project will remain alive and in use the next few decades as well. Because of exactly this nothing-ever-stops characteristic of the world around us, but also of course because of the existing amount of users and usage.

Current development should be done with care, a sense of responsibility and with the anticipation that we will carry everything we merge today with us for several more decades – at least. At the latest curl up meeting, I had session I called 100 year curl where I brought up thoughts for us as a project that we might need to work on and keep in mind if indeed we believe the curl project will and should be able to celebrate its 100th birthday in a future. It is a slightly overwhelming (terrifying even?) thought but in my opinion not entirely unrealistic. And when you think about it, we have already traveled almost 30% of the way towards that goalpost.

But it looks the same


— I used curl the first time decades ago and it still looks the same.


This is a common follow-up statement. What have we actually done during all this time that the users can’t spot?

A related question that to me also is a little amusing is then:

— You say you worked on curl full time since 2019, but what do you actually do all days?


We work hard at maintaining backwards compatibility and not breaking existing use cases. If you cannot spot any changes and your command lines just keep working, it confirms that we do things right. curl is meant to do its job and stay out of the way. To mostly be boring. A dull stack is a good stack.

We have refactored and rearranged the internal architecture of curl and libcurl several times in the past and we keep doing it at regular intervals as we improve and adapt to new concepts, new ideas and the ever-evolving world. But we never let that impact the API, the ABI or by breaking any previously working curl tool command lines.

I personally think that this is curl’s secret super power. The one thing we truly have accomplished and managed to stick to: stability. In several aspects of the word.

curl offers stability in an unstable world.

Now more than ever


Counting commit frequency or any other metric of project activity, the curl project is actually doing more development now and at a higher pace than ever before during its entire lifetime.

We do this to offer you and everyone else the best, the most reliable, the fastest, the most feature rich, the best documented and the most secure internet transfer library on the planet.



in reply to return2ozma

10 Richest Americans Have ~~Gained~~ Stolen $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection



Greg Abbott threatens "100% tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas


Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would "impose a 100 percent tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas.

“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.

Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner. He is facing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who is running as an independent after Mamdani emerged victorious in the Democratic primary in June—and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837



in reply to silence7

Prince William’s Climate Prize Hired PR Firm Tied to Brazilian Fossil Fuel Industry


The whole point of a PR firm is attempting to make rich dickheads, whom didn't really earn their money, look less like dickheads...

They'd have no customers left...

Edit: Spelling

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November 2025 ForumWG Meeting


[strong]November 2025 ForumWG Meeting[/strong] Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently [strong]18h00 to 19h00 UTC[/strong]). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meet

November 2025 ForumWG Meeting

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 18h00 to 19h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 2 October 2025.

Please note the time difference if applicable, ForumWG meeting times follow Eastern (± Daylight) Time Zone.

Meeting link: meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg

Discussions will continue re:

  • Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)
in reply to julian

Re: November 2025 ForumWG Meeting


Apologies, I had the date wrong, the next meeting will be held on 6 November 2025





Autograding tool


Hi,
I teach a CS course, and I was wondering if there is a practical way in which to setup a server that would accept student's tar files, run some tests, and show them the results.

I could go "full unix mode" and roll up some accounts let them ssh into a server, scp their their files.... but I was wondering if there is a prepacked solution for this that is nicer to the eye. And I thought maybe you know some.

in reply to certified_expert

Charles university uses and develops something called ReCodex, and it is available on GitHub. As a student, it was very nice to use.

github.com/ReCodEx/wiki/wiki



~~Probably an odd bug in WG Tunnel - either upload or download slow based on MTU~~ Edit: And it was an IPv6 leak (for the most part)


Edit: Yay, with MTU < 1280 the client seems to just disable IPv6, including the ::/0 in AllowedIPs.
Disabling IPv6 also fixed the low upload speed (probably getting a better route over Wireguard).
That also explains why the differences didn't present themselves with iperf3, as that absolutely had to use Wireguard.
What remains now is why TCP download takes such a huge hit, while it doesn't on laptop.

Not asking for support (anymore). I tried the official Wireguard client, and the issue doesn't present itself there.
So likely a bug, but a bit interesting.
Welp, few hours of playing around and searching wasted.
~~At least you might not waste time with it too, like I did, and I already wrote this...~~

App used: github.com/wgtunnel/wgtunnel

So, this seems like a bit of a magic.
"Server" has MTU of 1420, its connection is 1500. The now-limited ifconfig in Termux shows 1500 for data interface.
I've seen a few people mention the 80 bytes is overhead of WG.

I've had issues with far slower download speed (half expected), so I switched MTU to 1280 (minimum for IPv6) which worked for me in the past for Mullvad. No luck.
I've got an idea, that perhaps if my data interface is 1280, then I should try 1200. That worked... for download. Now upload got significantly slower. I also tried matching MTU on "server" but that made no difference. I also tried some fairly low values like 500, which worked for download, but further killed upload. So far that testing was done using speedtest.net and fast.com.

Through trial and error I've found:
if MTU >= 1280 then upload speed is normal, but download slower
if MTU <= 1279 then download speed is normal, but upload slower

Tailscale is using 1280, and is fine in both directions. Moving to iperf3 (seemingly unaffected by MTU changes):

Plain wireguard


Download (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 33.2 MBytes 13.9 Mbits/sec 117 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 32.2 MBytes 13.5 Mbits/sec receiver

Upload (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   101 MBytes  42.4 Mbits/sec  401            sender
[  5]   0.00-20.17  sec   100 MBytes  41.6 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Download (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.13 sec 480 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/410100 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 267 MBytes 112 Mbits/sec 0.047 ms 174331/402352 (43%) receiver
Upload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   477 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/407504 (0%)  sender
[  5]   0.00-20.54  sec   119 MBytes  48.5 Mbits/sec  0.201 ms  305999/407495 (75%)  receiver

Conclusion: TCP download significantly slower.

Tailscale


Download (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 236 MBytes 98.6 Mbits/sec 2 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 233 MBytes 97.7 Mbits/sec receiver

Upload (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   120 MBytes  50.2 Mbits/sec  625            sender
[  5]   0.00-20.15  sec   119 MBytes  49.6 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Download (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 480 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/409543 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 254 MBytes 107 Mbits/sec 0.039 ms 176388/393285 (45%) receiver
Upload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   477 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/407167 (0%)  sender
[  5]   0.00-20.29  sec   138 MBytes  57.2 Mbits/sec  0.196 ms  289036/407167 (71%)  receiver

Conclusion: No significant difference between UDP vs TCP.

Note: 200 Mbits/sec in UDP tests refers to my pre-set limit, as higher speeds wouldn't be achieved anyway. Otherwise it keeps spraying out at full speed if no limit is set.

And now for the biggest oddity: My laptop speeds are fine even with default 1420 MTU, even though it runs over hostpot.

What magic is going on in here?

Also, the VPS doesn't have IPv6, so it's probably not that being routed slower in one direction (as IPv6 requires 1280).

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in reply to u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

I don't have an answer for your woes, but MTU issues are notoriously difficult to investigate and mitigate, as Cloudflare found out: blog.cloudflare.com/increasing…
in reply to litchralee

Welp, turns out I am just an idiot. 1279 and below disabled IPv6, and thus the ::/0 route didn't get applied either, causing a leak. What's still odd is the lower download speed that doesn't happen in another client.
As for the upload, it probably gets a better route through the VPS, giving me a faster speed, and giving me some confusion.

So my first idea with IPv6 was close, but on the other side of the connection.

Anyway, your reply helped me find this issue, as my outtake was to try fully disabling IPv6 (not the first time I tried such "solution").



'The Stuff of Nightmares': Jamaica Braces for Catastrophic Landfall as Hurricane Melissa Horrifies Experts


The International Federation of the Red Cross said up to 1.5 million people in Jamaica—roughly half the island’s population—are expected to be directly affected by Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin and the strongest storm on Earth this year.

“We are okay at the moment but bracing ourselves for the worst,” Jamaican climate activist Tracey Edwards said Tuesday. “I’ve grown weary of these threats, and I do not want to face the next hurricane.”

The International Organization for Migration warned that “the risk of flooding, landslides, and widespread damage is extremely high,” meaning that “many people are likely to be displaced from their homes and in urgent need of shelter and relief.”




"butter" beer


so my partner is a harry potter fan, from back when What's Her Face wasn't obviously a trashy person. i would just like to preface this by stating that i don't condone the ideas that What's Her Face espouses, we don't buy the merch, we pirated the movies and any of her books in my library had been bought from a used book store which resells donated books.

So in the books, there's a reference to a "butter beer" the kids drink. I'm thinking that this is non-alcoholic as in a ginger beer, or at least not super strong. I wanted to try to make a batch for my partner as a special surprise.

I'm planning on making a batch of this next in the style of an american cream ale with vienna malt as the base, 10% oat and 10% corn flakes, to give it a heavy mouth feel, and adding some vanilla extract and nutmeg for the flavor.

Has anyone here made this before, and if so, how did it go? Any pitfalls to watch out for?

in reply to thespcicifcocean

morebeer.com/articles/Diacetyl…

Basically do the opposite of what this article suggests.

Use caramel malts, repitch a highly flocculant yeast, ferment at warmer temperature, use a significant portion (~33%) of unmalted cereal grains, propagate your yeast using bakers media.

in reply to Pulptastic

lol came here to write this. No-brainer, really, you could have all the butterness in the world easily by being naughty!




in reply to sabreW4K3

isnt this kind of good thing? The original website is the best for searching stuff from there and by doing this, it takes off some heat from the website
in reply to sabreW4K3

Who tf uses google anymore anyway?
(I know, I know, a sea of normies)


Philippines to take ASEAN chair in 2026 with focus on South China Sea


Malaysia handed over the chairmanship of Southeast Asia's regional bloc to the Philippines on Tuesday (Oct 28), with territorial disputes in the South China Sea set to dominate its agenda when Manila takes charge in 2026.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who will remain chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) until the end of the year, symbolically passed the gavel to Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos at the close of a summit in Kuala Lumpur.

"On the first day of 2026, ASEAN will begin a new chapter," Anwar said.

in reply to fittedsyllabi

Domestic and international politics are very different but if anything China's aggression enables the corruption in Philippines


Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing?


Sorry if I'm mistaken on this, but I'm still new to self-hosting.

Currently I use SyncThing and I love it. My files are accessible to me wherever I am in the world, and it costs me nothing.

I'd like to move more of my life to self-hosted servers. I'm looking at leaving Spotify for Funkwhale. But if I'm reading the materials correctly, I'll need to set up a domain and pay some upfront costs to make my library accessible outside my home.

Why is that? Is there a way to make my costs 0, the way they are with SyncThing?

in reply to mulcahey

The cool thing about SyncThing is that it's peer to peer, meaning you don't need a central server for your files to sync. They can go between your laptop and phone, for example.

Something like Funkwhale does need a server, and to talk to that server outside your local network, you need a domain name.

in reply to sbird

As some others have said, you could use a VPN like Tailscale to connect to your local network remotely. Alternatively, you could simply not deal with all the faff and only use your services locally, which is what I do with Nextcloud and Immich. Syncs when I get home but doesn't when I'm not, and I can always use Tailscale to remotely access my server if there are any issues.
in reply to mulcahey

These responses are SO helpful and I'm genuinely learning so much here. Thank you everyone!


Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]


cross-posted from: lemmings.world/post/36014604
in reply to parody

If you are lazy put your kindle into airplane mode until you find time to jailbreak your kindle. I actually jailbroke it using the previous winterbreak method last week, since I had kept my kindle in airplane mode using calibre.
in reply to Lfrith

This is what I did. Haven't felt the need to take it off of airplane mode yet.
in reply to ilinamorato

Yeah, I put it into airplane mode when I heard Amazon was going to push an update removing some feature. Then just kept using it as I did before using calibre to send books.

Finally decided to jailbreak it and I am glad I did since the custom lockscreens and koreader has been cool.

in reply to Lfrith

I'm honestly surprised how many people I see doing this. No judgement , it's just now how I use the device.

I couldn't give up my syncing of progress! I love being able to pick up on the Kindle app on my phone if I'm in a waiting room then back to my kindle proper at home.

I'm jazzed to finally have been able to jailbreak my device so I can use KoReader on both the phone and Kindle and keep the same experience.

in reply to TheFerventLion

Is KOReader android only? I don’t see it in the App Store.
The main feature of the Amazon reader apps for me is the position sync so I can read on the go. I’d hate to lose that feature.
in reply to CatSuperVillain

Unfortunately I believe it isn't available on iOS. On Android you can install it from a few sources. Directly from GitHub, or via F-Droid(or something similar). I'm with you though, that feature is key to me not scrolling forever.
in reply to TheFerventLion

After digging a little further, there is an iOS alternative called Readest (github.com/readest/readest) available in the App Store. Along with this video to walk you through the sync process m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfP-qLMh… Overall, it took about an hour for me to get everything set up after I found these resources and I’m super stoked.
in reply to parody

If you jailbreak, can you revert to an older version of kindle os?


New far-right prime minister installed in Japan


On Tuesday, Japan’s parliament installed Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as prime minister. The elevation to power of this ultra-nationalist, pro-war figure comes with a new ruling coalition that is rapidly pushing establishment politics even further to the right.
in reply to technocrit

I'll bet the Chinese are thrilled.

I'm concerned about the rise of the far right on Europe and the Americas, but not so much with Japan. If Japan starts getting froggy, China will remember what they did to them in WWII, and crush them decisively, with help from every other Asian country, who also remembers Japan's behavior. Asia HATES Japan.



Reducing Homelab Laptop energy consumption


I've been using my old Laptop from my university days as a home server for some time now. It runs the latest Ubuntu LTS with Jellyfin and Home Assistant both in docker containers.

When it's idle it pulls about 10 Watts, which is Not great, but not terrible either.

So I was wondering what I could do to reduce that number. I'm looking for low hanging fruit rather than complex hacks like CPU undervolting or what have you.

Thanks in advance!

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in reply to TypFaffke

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it's powered off.
in reply to TypFaffke

One of the best ways to reduce power consumption on older laptops is to change the HDD to an SDD.

But don't expect to get below 10W on an old laptop.




Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data


in reply to Special Wall

It reads like "definitely should not happen" was indeed happening!

I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.

in reply to mjr

More likely "encryption in satellites is expensive, so let's not do that. Pennies saved on my quarterly report, yay!".


‘China is watching’: Finland warns defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine key to stability in Indo-Pacific, says Australia has 'tremendous' role in supporting Kyiv


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44795915

Archived

Defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is critical to restraining China in the Indo-Pacific, Finland’s defence minister has said, warning Europe and democratic partners, including Australia, face a fight of global consequences.
Antti Häkkänen praised Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on two Russian oil companies last week, calling the move a major sign of resolve by the US president against Vladimir Putin’s three-year long war.

In an interview with Guardian Australia at the ministry of defence in Helsinki, Häkkänen said the West’s willingness to stay the course in opposing Russia’s aggression would be closely scrutinised.

“China is watching. Does the West have a muscle and resilience, when the autocrats and dictators think they can wage war for another year, and the democratic countries will become fed up?

“No. We have to show that we are even more putting stronger support against violence. It’s not only on Ukraine. It’s against violence, against war, and that’s a signal also for China and the Indo-Pacific area.”

Ending the Ukraine conflict required a three-pillar approach, he said:
- tougher sanctions on the Russian economy and energy exports;
- stronger military assistance to Ukraine;
- and the use of long-range weapons to destroy factories for drones and missiles.

[...]

Häkkänen said any weakness in resolve would embolden China.
“If there will be some kind of military conflict in the Indo-Pacific area, caused by China, Russia will be somehow involved, through supporting China or something like that,” he said.

“We see now that Russia, by their own resources, cannot continue this kind of warfare, but China is helping them a great deal. They are giving a lot of money to support their economy, from energy exports, and giving them a lot of military components and industrial cooperation.”

[...]

China considers Taiwan part of its territory and foreign policy experts believe Beijing is aiming to be capable of making a military move against its independence as early as 2027, amid increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.

While criticising countries not pulling their weight with Ukraine, Häkkänen said he was optimistic about possible peace.

“European countries have in the last month or so chosen really good steps in supporting Ukraine, investing heavily in our own defence.”

[...]

Häkkänen, who has met the [Australian] defence minister, Richard Marles, said Australia had played a “tremendous” role as one of the biggest non-Nato contributors supporting Ukraine.

“It’s a big political message here in Europe, that Australia has been a part of the support,” he said. “That will send the signal that if Australia has some challenges in security or defence, Europe knows that we have to be in the same family.”



Russia’s shortage of workers is so severe that it is luring foreigners into sweatshops


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Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient, despite years of sanctions and economic statecraft. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t deep cracks in Russia’s unstable economic foundation, with only a thin veneer masking increasingly severe shortages — especially of workers.

Russia is in a desperate labor bind. The country has a shrinking, aging population — a fact it ignores as it sends its young men into the meatgrinder of the war in Ukraine. To generate military manpower, Russia has gotten creative, recruiting criminals out of prisons, North Koreans, and mental health patients. Regardless, the endless need for fresh troops on the front line has taken bodies away from industry just as Russia’s military-industrial needs are expanding rapidly.

Russia now desperately needs to fill jobs on assembly lines that make war materiel, but it has a plan: exploiting the Global South, including its so-called friends.

BRICS members India, Brazil, and South Africa have all been recruitment targets for what appears to be forced labor. Russia issues to their citizens a siren song against which many young women are unable to steel themselves, with devastating results.

For at least two years, Russian company Alabuga Special Economic Zone has been luring young women from developing countries with the promise of good jobs and educational opportunities. When they arrive, they are pressed into drone production. They are made to work with corrosive chemicals for long hours, with restricted communications and few or no rights. The women have faced sexual harassment and seen “deductions” taken from their already meager pay for things like rent.

[...]

Educational institutions in Uganda and Burkina Faso have hosted Alabuga recruitment drives; economy-focused civil society organizations in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Madagascar have met with Alabuga officials; and diplomats from African and Latin American states have visited and some have promoted Alabuga sites.

Alabuga SEZ has targeted 84 countries, prioritizing recruitment in Africa and Latin America. Although some countries have called out Russian labor fraud, it has been too little, too late. South Africa’s warning and investigation, which began in August, does little to help women already taken to these sweatshops.

[...]

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5558495-russias-shortage-of-workers-is-so-severe-that-it-is-luring-foreigners-into-sweatshops

in reply to Hotznplotzn

Relevant:
themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/27/…
lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791056


Ukraine War: Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791055

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Kenyans have been "lured" by recruiters into fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the Kenyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.

Many have ended up detained in military camps across Russia, said the statement signed by Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi.

It did not give any numbers for the recruits, nor how many had been detained or hurt.

The Foreign Ministry said it held a "crucial meeting" last month with Russian officials to help secure their release and repatriation.

Kenyans are being "lured by... corrupt and ruthless agents to travel to Russia and unknowingly find themselves in the Russian military operation," Kenya's Foreign Ministry said.

[...]




in reply to poopkins

well you have to be a moron to rob one of the most high profile museums in the world so....
in reply to 100

only if you get caught
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Any experience of Diode?


I stumbled across Diode whilst looking for ways to do secure off-site backups (to my own equipment at another house) and it feels like a paid-for TOR (Ok, there is a free option)

I'm looking for any real experience as the site has too much marketing lingo in it:

Every Client is secured with a public/private key self-custody identity


And this doesn't seem very dynamic if I want to change something:

Diode’s Blockchain Name System can be used for Client friendly names


And somewhere on the site it infers unlimited storage...!

So, is the free option worth me looking into, or is it a waste of time?

in reply to SayCyberOnceMore

It sounds to me that for your specific use case, the tailscale free option would be a better match. You can self host it if you would like, using headscale (involves a little more work though). It's basically like an orchestrator for wireguard tunnels.

I'm running tailscale on quite a few of my systems. I've configured the Grants (like advanced ACL's) to allow for only specific services available from certain hosts while other hosts can act as exit nodes like a VPN egress. I've found it very useful for connecting families networks up so that I can assist with remote troubleshooting help and I've used it to reach back into my own network while traveling.

in reply to signalsayge

Hmm, ok, I'd not thought of the remote troubleshooting part.

The NAS is at a family member's home, so the troubleshooting might come up in the future.

Thanks



Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power


archive.is/WW6ji

Their fusion and fission work is very impressive,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said of China’s nuclear innovation efforts. The country is investing more in fusion “than the rest of the world put together, times two

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/bill-gates-says-china-is-outspending-the-world-on-nuclear-power

in reply to schizoidman

Bill upset that he can't embrace, extend, and extinguish China.
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Ukraine War: Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791055

Archived

Kenyans have been "lured" by recruiters into fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the Kenyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.

Many have ended up detained in military camps across Russia, said the statement signed by Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi.

It did not give any numbers for the recruits, nor how many had been detained or hurt.

The Foreign Ministry said it held a "crucial meeting" last month with Russian officials to help secure their release and repatriation.

Kenyans are being "lured by... corrupt and ruthless agents to travel to Russia and unknowingly find themselves in the Russian military operation," Kenya's Foreign Ministry said.

[...]

in reply to Hotznplotzn

Just like North Korea hacking bitcoin to prop itself up; but Russia does it with people. Well, with everything really. Any cheap way to exploit and expand its influence, legality notwithstanding. No ethics.

Russia has been repeatedly accused of deceiving citizens from poor countries into signing contracts with its military, written in Russian, which they do not understand.

There is widespread poverty in Kenya and minimal job opportunities.

Local media have reported on Russian recruitment networks targeting poor young men, with many claiming they were tricked or pressured into fighting once they arrived.


Thing I don't understand: they cannot be good fighters if they're doing it against their will? But I'm sure the military has tricks to keep the pressure on.

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in reply to gravitas_deficiency

He's using America's playbook, lol. Sure, 9/11 is still recent enough for its nature as a false flag attack (avoidable but allowed at least, cause the Middle East excursions needed justification) to be debatable but what about Operation Northwoods? Operation Gladio?
in reply to YappyMonotheist

At first I thought you were going to the CIA backed coup and the following murders and dictatorship in Chile, speaking of South America and 9/11.


Internal domain and reverse proxy


I'm going round in circles on this one.

What I want to do is:

  • serve up my self-hosted apps with https (to local clients only - nothing over the open web)
  • address them as 'app.server.lan' or 'sever.lan/app'
  • preferably host whatever is needed in docker

I think this is achievable with a reverse proxy, some kind of DNS server and self-signed certs. I'm not a complete noob but my knowledge in this area is lacking. I've done a fair bit of research but I'm probably not using the right terminology or whatever.

Would anyone have a link to a good guide that covers this?

in reply to hietsu

As I understood, the one that you see on the page is something distinct. They have a different service on their ACME page. If you're using a script like acme.sh or using the ACMEIssuer in Caddy, then you can get a free wildcard certificate over that. But I assume it's losing the advantages that have been mentioned like the web dashboard, etc.
in reply to TimeWalker

Good to know!
*-cert is definitely something I’d need to setup in my self host setup, though a little complex as my (free) domain provider does not let me edit TXT records for DNS-01.



Trump humiliated by fact-check after claiming Canada used AI for 'cheat' Reagan ad


President Donald Trump was once again fact-checked following an embarrassing tantrum over a Canadian advertisement.

The ad quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- a policy tool Trump frequently employs. The commercial includes audio clips from an April 25, 1987 radio address where Reagan stated: "Over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.''

in reply to ByteOnBikes

As a Canadian I am utterly disgusted and livid that a Canadian ad running in Canada was removed, because Americas pedophile rapist president didnt like it. Keep that fascist shit on your side of the border
in reply to But_my_mom_says_im_cool

It was running in the US. The target demographic does not live in Canada.
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In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel


Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Oct. 27, 2025 Updated 12:10 p.m. ET

archive.ph/iI38P

After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, forced him to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, elaborated in a “60 Minutes” interview on Oct. 20.

“I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” he said, “and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

It was an extraordinary revelation by Mr. Kushner, who indicated that Mr. Trump believed he was acting in Israel’s interests and that Mr. Netanyahu was not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-relationship.html



In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38158481

Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Oct. 27, 2025 Updated 12:10 p.m. ET

archive.ph/iI38P

After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, forced him to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, elaborated in a “60 Minutes” interview on Oct. 20.

“I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” he said, “and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

It was an extraordinary revelation by Mr. Kushner, who indicated that Mr. Trump believed he was acting in Israel’s interests and that Mr. Netanyahu was not.




In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel


Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Oct. 27, 2025 Updated 12:10 p.m. ET

archive.ph/iI38P

After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, forced him to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, elaborated in a “60 Minutes” interview on Oct. 20.

“I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” he said, “and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

It was an extraordinary revelation by Mr. Kushner, who indicated that Mr. Trump believed he was acting in Israel’s interests and that Mr. Netanyahu was not.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-relationship.html



Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug


There is a bug in Youtube's AI filter that is causing some videos to flicker. The content creator have no idea that is happening and no way to opt out. If you have Epilepsy it is recommended that you watch out for these situations

Also as content creators dont know this may be happening, if you find these issues you should try to contact the respective content creator and let them know this is happening on your specific device. Again, its so random it may only happen on some devices

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in reply to cy_narrator

If you have epilepsy, watch out so you don’t randomly see something that could potentially kill you.

Great job google.

in reply to webghost0101

FWIW, photosensitive epilepsy is typically only triggered at flash rates between 3-30 hertz. The rate of flashing shown is extremely unlikely to cause seizures even in generally susceptible individuals.
in reply to CatAssTrophy

I don't know the type of flashes causes by this glitch but the post specifically warns for epilepsy.

That part of the post might be wrong, that’s completely fair and i trust you have less to gain from lying versus a post craving clicks.

Though my point is, if it is dangerous. What are they supposed to look out for? The “recommendation” should be google stop doing this shit that puts people at random risk.

If it’s just annoying, then its just a glitch, the same for other photosensitive but not suffering epilepsy people.

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in reply to webghost0101

The danger is honestly pretty minimal for people who are aware they have photosensitive epilepsy; those who are prone to it but unaware of it are not likely to heed warnings even where they exist since they won't typically perceive the risk until after experiencing it.

It takes several minutes from triggering exposure to actual seizure onset, so those who know of their susceptibility have time to stop exposure and make sure they're in a safe position if a seizure does come. There are many ways of mitigating the seizure risk by stopping exposure, closing one eye and facing away from the light source, keeping screen brightness at the lowest level you can still easily read, etc.

That's not to say I think warnings aren't useful, but the intensity of many of the warnings people use is disproportionate to the actual risk and can cause people to be much more worried than necessary IMO. Google et al really need to stop messing with videos and such via AI without any sort of notice or warning for a whole host of reasons, including broader non-epileptic photosensitive since becoming intensely nauseous or getting a migraine over it is still pretty annoying.

tl;dr I think the warnings are a good idea, but maybe a little broader and less "OMG the epileptics are gonna all die". And fuck companies silently manipulating content they didn't even produce with AI in general.

in reply to CatAssTrophy

Well said.

Did they ever give any reason why they even consider it an acceptable thing to do?

Imagine making an art piece to be displayed in a museum only to find they allowed an interim with next to zero experience to paint over it.

in reply to webghost0101

Not that I'm aware of, unfortunately. They seem to be trying to pretend they aren't even doing it, so telling us why they obviously are modifying content doesn't seem likely until they're backed in to a corner by popular outrage.

in reply to schizoidman

Yeah, let Russia and China (and christian fundamentalist missionaires) fill the void, what could possibly go wrong?


Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes


I’m a long time user of Joplin but now looking for a newer solution. I was looking at Trilum notes for the tight OIDC integration with Authelia.
Has anyone here tried Trilium notes? What are your opinions on it?
in reply to Zelaf

Trilium Next has 2fa, note encryption and oidc support AFAIK, so the authentication should not be a concern. Every instance retains its own copy of the data and syncs with the server (if you have one) backups are made daily in the back end iirc. Exporting the data is trivial too in both HTML and markdown.
in reply to homegrowntechie

I see. I must've missed that while doing my skimming a bit too hastily. Good thing it has, I was worried it would be limited to securing it through a VPN.

I'm glad it exists and hope of develops further. It has gotten some well deserved growth and exposure in general.