But talks between factions are under way as Democrats and Republicans try to bring standoff to a close

US Senate rejects funding package for 14th time with shutdown in 35th day

^{Robert Tait (The Guardian)}

Belgian authorities temporarily closed the airspace above Brussels Airport (EBBR), Charleroi Airport (EBCI) and Liège Airport (EBLG) on Tuesday evening following multiple reports of drones flying near several strategic aviation sites, including civilian airports and military bases.

https://www.aviation24.be/miscellaneous/drones/belgian-airspace-lockdown-brussels-charleroi-and-liege-airports-temporarily-closed-after-multiple-drone-sightings/

Ben-Gvir's Professional Diary Details His Exchanges With Haaretz Opponent Amit Segal as Well as Israeli Rapper Yoav Eliasi, Also Known as The Shadow, Who Is Known for His Far-right Political Views

Archived version: archive.is/20251104211410/haar…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Security breach leaks far-right minister Ben-Gvir's private notes on major Israeli journalists, politicians

Ben-Gvir's professional diary details his exchanges with Haaretz opponent Amit Segal as well as Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi, also known as The Shadow, who is known for his far-right political views

^{Josh Breiner (Haaretz)}

Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are thought to have been the last French people held in Iran.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/bbc.com/news…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Iran releases two French nationals from detention

^{Jemma Crew (BBC News)}

President Sheinbaum says Mexico can soon reach an accord with the U.S. regarding a dispute over the bilateral air transport agreement.

Sheinbaum confident that a flight route agreement with US is near

^{MND Staff (Mexico News Daily)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38336335

Four different factions live together in fantasy world that is awfully similar to other today's web ...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38336277

What if in 1989, Tim Berners Lee invented the semantic web instead of the world wide web?

cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18000443

É um esforço danado pra omitir quando é de direita.
Ex-candidato (do NOVO) a vice-prefeito (na chapa do PSL) de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário

Ex-candidato a vice-prefeito de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário

Apontado pela Polícia Civil como autor de um furto cinematográfico em Niterói, o empresário Alexandre Ceotto André, de 50 anos, foi preso na segunda-feira (3) após se entregar na Delegacia d

^{Mauro Touguinhó (atribunarj.com.br)}

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/climate/antarctic-glacier-hektoria-rapid-melt-sea-level

her summary from Bluesky:

To celebrate election day, I made a video about the part of liberalism that keeps going “we can fix fascism with a well-crafted podcast episode.”

Archive: archive.is/XzIwr

404 Media

2025-11-04 17:43:04

DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned.

The news follows Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of another internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) app called Mobile Fortify that uses facial recognition to nearly instantly bring up someone’s name, date of birth, alien number, and whether they’ve been given an order of deportation. The new local law enforcement-focused app, called Mobile Identify, crystallizes one of the exact criticisms of DHS’s facial recognition app from privacy and surveillance experts: that this sort of powerful technology would trickle down to local enforcement, some of which have a history of making anti-immigrant comments or supporting inhumane treatment of detainees.

Handing “this powerful tech to police is like asking a 16-year old who just failed their drivers exams to pick a dozen classmates to hand car keys to,” Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Security and Surveillance Project, told 404 Media. “These careless and cavalier uses of facial recognition are going to lead to U.S. citizens and lawful residents being grabbed off the street and placed in ICE detention.”

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CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement

The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced late financier and sex offender, had accounts at Goldman Sachs (GS.N, HSBC (HSBA.L), and other banks, new court filings show.

The revelations came in previously sealed documents made public by JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), once Epstein's main bank, in a now-settled lawsuit brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a private island residence.

Released to the public on Friday, the report did not provide dollar amounts or details about Epstein's relationships with other banks, but alerted authorities to money transfers he made.

A U.S. judge ordered the documents unsealed in response to requests from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Bloomberg earlier reported the banks' names.

In an emailed statement, Goldman said: "We terminated our client relationship with Mr. Epstein, and his assets were transferred out of the firm in 2010."

HSBC declined to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jeffrey-epstein-had-accounts-with-goldman-sachs-hsbc-documents-show-2025-11-04/

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38329467

Main site at seagl.org/ and they are on fediverse @SeaGL@mastodon.social

A number of talks and expo hall. All are welcome; please help re-share so people can know about it and attend. Lots of the talks will be on streaming as well for remote participation. They also have Matrix chats seagl.org/meet

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-warns-mass-chaos-may-need-close-some-airspace-if-government-shutdown-2025-11-04/

“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.

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

New Mexico is now the first state in the nation to guarantee free child care for all families, regardless of income.

^{Scripps News Group (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

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

Belve anticipazioni 4 novembre 2025: ospiti Iva Zanicchi, Pivetti e Pappalardo

Anticipazioni Belve del 4 novembre 2025: Francesca Fagnani intervista Iva Zanicchi, Irene Pivetti e Adriano Pappalardo. Tutti i dettagli e la sorpresa della serata.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}

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.

This extraordinary decision means we can no longer question who is labelled as a terrorist - Canary

This chilling decision has implications for all of us.

^{Emily Apple (The Canary)}

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 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”.

https://apnews.com/article/cop30-climate-change-belem-brazil-united-nations-15450d92285d8c92973589fd9037e69d

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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).

https://apnews.com/article/spain-drone-airport-closure-tourism-958acf71f4f73763ab5563d3f057e987

https://kagi.com/

https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercrime-thailand-border-daa90f481ea4207e7d7a891dda1161c8