Abigail Spanberger elected Virginia governor in a historic first that boosts Democrats ahead of 2026
Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to give Democrats a key victory heading into the 2026 midterm elections and make history as the first woman ever to lead the commonwealth.
Spanberger’s victory will flip partisan control of the governor’s office when she succeeds outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Also Tuesday, Democrat Ghazala F. Hashmi won the lieutenant governor’s race and will succeed Earle-Sears. Hashmi is the first Muslim woman to win a statewide office in the U.S.
Spanberger, a former congresswoman and CIA case officer, won with a campaign emphasizing economic issues, a strategy that may serve as a model for other Democrats in next year’s elections as they try to break Donald Trump’s and Republicans’ hold on power in Washington and gain ground in statehouses.
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How Israel repeatedly violated Gaza truce before strikes killed 100 Palestinians
By MEE staff
Published date: 29 October 2025 13:05
GMT
Meanwhile, Israel has violated multiple aspects of the agreement, including maintaining restrictions on aid, keeping the Rafah crossing closed and carrying out repeated air strikes.
In just under three weeks, Israeli forces have killed 211 people since the ceasefire began.
Medical supplies, fuel and other essential goods remain severely limited in the Palestinian enclave.
How Israel repeatedly violated Gaza truce before strikes killed 100 Palestinians
Israel unleashed a deadly wave of air strikes on Wednesday in Gaza, killing over 100 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, in the most significant breach of the ceasefire to date.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
How Israel repeatedly violated Gaza truce before strikes killed 100 Palestinians
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By MEE staff
Published date: 29 October 2025 13:05
GMTMeanwhile, Israel has violated multiple aspects of the agreement, including maintaining restrictions on aid, keeping the Rafah crossing closed and carrying out repeated air strikes.
In just under three weeks, Israeli forces have killed 211 people since the ceasefire began.
Medical supplies, fuel and other essential goods remain severely limited in the Palestinian enclave.
How Israel repeatedly violated Gaza truce before strikes killed 100 Palestinians
By MEE staff
Published date: 29 October 2025 13:05
GMTMeanwhile, Israel has violated multiple aspects of the agreement, including maintaining restrictions on aid, keeping the Rafah crossing closed and carrying out repeated air strikes.
In just under three weeks, Israeli forces have killed 211 people since the ceasefire began.
Medical supplies, fuel and other essential goods remain severely limited in the Palestinian enclave.
How Israel repeatedly violated Gaza truce before strikes killed 100 Palestinians
Israel unleashed a deadly wave of air strikes on Wednesday in Gaza, killing over 100 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, in the most significant breach of the ceasefire to date.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
France demonstrates ostentatious modernization
France formally puts into service a new version of the M51.3 sea-based ballistic missile. The official press release of the development company ArianeGroup reports the completion of ten years of work and the successful passage of tests.
However, behind this official picture lies a less confident reality. The long ten-year cycle of creating a missile, comparable to the service life of an entire generation of equipment, raises questions about the pace of modernization. Statements about "improving reliability" rather indicate the elimination of shortcomings of previous models than breakthrough capabilities.
The mention that the equipping of submarines will begin only “as new missiles become available” indicates a delayed and protracted process. This gives the impression that the project is still more on paper and in the form of individual units than in the form of a fully deployed combat force.
The official press release from the development company, ArianeGroup, announces the completion of ten years of work and the successful completion of tests.
However, behind this official picture lies a less confident reality. The long ten-year cycle of rocket development, which is comparable to the lifespan of an entire generation of technology, raises questions about the pace of modernization. The claims of "increased reliability" are more about addressing the shortcomings of previous models than about achieving breakthrough capabilities.
The mention that the equipping of submarines will begin only “as new missiles become available” indicates a delayed and protracted process. This gives the impression that the project is still more on paper and in the form of individual units than in the form of a fully deployed combat force.
Therefore, the announced adoption appears more as a demonstration of intent to maintain the image of a nuclear power than as a significant improvement in France's strategic capabilities.
On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.
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S.B. No. 2420AN ACT
relating to the regulation of platforms for the sale and
distribution of software applications for mobile devices.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 5, Business & Commerce Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 121 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 121. SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 121.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be cited as the
App Store Accountability Act.
Sec. 121.002. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Age category" means information collected by the
owner of an app store to designate a user based on the age
categories described by Section 121.021(b).
(2) "App store" means a publicly available Internet
website, software application, or other electronic service that
distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a
software application to the user of a mobile device.
(3) "Minor" means a child who is younger than 18 years
of age who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for
general purposes.
(4) "Mobile device" means a portable, wireless
electronic device, including a tablet or smartphone, capable of
transmitting, receiving, processing, and storing information
wirelessly that runs an operating system designed to manage
hardware resources and perform common services for software
applications on handheld electronic devices.
(5) "Personal data" means any information, including
sensitive data, that is linked or reasonably linkable to an
identified or identifiable individual. The term includes
pseudonymous data when the data is used by a person who processes or
determines the purpose and means of processing the data in
conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the
data to an identified or identifiable individual. The term does not
include deidentified data or publicly available information.
SUBCHAPTER B. DUTIES OF APP STORES
Sec. 121.021. DUTY TO VERIFY AGE OF USER; AGE CATEGORIES.
(a) When an individual in this state creates an account with an app
store, the owner of the app store shall use a commercially
reasonable method of verification to verify the individual's age
category under Subsection (b).
(b) The owner of an app store shall use the following age
categories for assigning a designation:
(1) an individual who is younger than 13 years of age
is considered a "child";
(2) an individual who is at least 13 years of age but
younger than 16 years of age is considered a "younger teenager";
(3) an individual who is at least 16 years of age but
younger than 18 years of age is considered an "older teenager"; and
(4) an individual who is at least 18 years of age is
considered an "adult."
Sec. 121.022. PARENTAL CONSENT REQUIRED. (a) If the owner
of the app store determines under Section 121.021 that an
individual is a minor who belongs to an age category that is not
"adult," the owner shall require that the minor's account be
affiliated with a parent account belonging to the minor's parent or
guardian.
(b) For an account to be affiliated with a minor's account
as a parent account, the owner of an app store must use a
commercially reasonable method to verify that the account belongs
to an individual who:
(1) the owner of the app store has verified belongs to
the age category of "adult" under Section 121.021; and
(2) has legal authority to make a decision on behalf of
the minor with whose account the individual is seeking affiliation.
(c) A parent account may be affiliated with multiple minors'
accounts.
(d) Except as provided by this section, the owner of an app
store must obtain consent from the minor's parent or guardian
through the parent account affiliated with the minor's account
before allowing the minor to:
(1) download a software application;
(2) purchase a software application; or
(3) make a purchase in or using a software
application.
(e) The owner of an app store must:
(1) obtain consent for each individual download or
purchase sought by the minor; and
(2) notify the developer of each applicable software
application if a minor's parent or guardian revokes consent through
a parent account.
(f) To obtain consent from a minor's parent or guardian
under Subsection (d), the owner of an app store may use any
reasonable means to:
(1) disclose to the parent or guardian:
(A) the specific software application or
purchase for which consent is sought;
(B) the rating under Section 121.052 assigned to
the software application or purchase;
(C) the specific content or other elements that
led to the rating assigned under Section 121.052;
(D) the nature of any collection, use, or
distribution of personal data that would occur because of the
software application or purchase; and
(E) any measures taken by the developer of the
software application or purchase to protect the personal data of
users;
(2) give the parent or guardian a clear choice to give
or withhold consent for the download or purchase; and
(3) ensure that the consent is given:
(A) by the parent or guardian; and
(B) through the account affiliated with a minor's
account under Subsection (a).
(g) If a software developer provides the owner of an app
store with notice of a change under Section 121.053, the owner of
the app store shall:
(1) notify any individual who has given consent under
this section for a minor's use or purchase relating to a previous
version of the changed software application; and
(2) obtain consent from the individual for the minor's
continued use or purchase of the software application.
(h) The owner of an app store is not required to obtain
consent from a minor's parent or guardian for:
(1) the download of a software application that:
(A) provides a user with direct access to
emergency services, including:
(i) 9-1-1 emergency services;
(ii) a crisis hotline; or
(iii) an emergency assistance service that
is legally available to a minor;
(B) limits data collection to information:
(i) collected in compliance with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. Section
6501 et seq.); and
(ii) necessary for the provision of
emergency services;
(C) allows a user to access and use the software
application without requiring the user to create an account with
the software application; and
(D) is operated by or in partnership with:
(i) a governmental entity;
(ii) a nonprofit organization; or
(iii) an authorized emergency service
provider; or
(2) the purchase or download of a software application
that is operated by or in partnership with a nonprofit organization
that:
(A) develops, sponsors, or administers a
standardized test used for purposes of admission to or class
placement in a postsecondary educational institution or a program
within a postsecondary educational institution; and
(B) is subject to Subchapter D, Chapter 32,
Education Code.
Sec. 121.023. DISPLAY OF AGE RATING FOR SOFTWARE
APPLICATION. (a) If the owner of an app store that operates in this
state has a mechanism for displaying an age rating or other content
notice, the owner shall:
(1) make available to users an explanation of the
mechanism; and
(2) display for each software application available
for download and purchase on the app store the age rating and other
content notice.
(b) If the owner of an app store that operates in this state
does not have a mechanism for displaying an age rating or other
content notice, the owner shall display for each software
application available for download and purchase on the app store:
(1) the rating under Section 121.052 assigned to the
software application; and
(2) the specific content or other elements that led to
the rating assigned under Section 121.052.
(c) The information displayed under this section must be
clear, accurate, and conspicuous.
Sec. 121.024. INFORMATION FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION
DEVELOPERS. The owner of an app store that operates in this state
shall, using a commercially available method, allow the developer
of a software application to access current information related to:
(1) the age category assigned to each user under
Section 121.021(b); and
(2) whether consent has been obtained for each minor
user under Section 121.022.
Sec. 121.025. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA. The owner of an
app store that operates in this state shall protect the personal
data of users by:
(1) limiting the collection and processing of personal
data to the minimum amount necessary for:
(A) verifying the age of an individual;
(B) obtaining consent under Section 121.022; and
(C) maintaining compliance records; and
(2) transmitting personal data using
industry-standard encryption protocols that ensure data integrity
and confidentiality.
Sec. 121.026. VIOLATION. (a) The owner of an app store
that operates in this state violates this subchapter if the owner:
(1) enforces a contract or a provision of a terms of
service agreement against a minor that the minor entered into or
agreed to without consent under Section 121.022;
(2) knowingly misrepresents information disclosed
under Section 121.022(f)(1);
(3) obtains a blanket consent to authorize multiple
downloads or purchases; or
(4) shares or discloses personal data obtained for
purposes of Section 121.021, except as required by Section 121.024
or other law.
(b) The owner of an app store is not liable for a violation
of Section 121.021 or 121.022 if the owner of the app store:
(1) uses widely adopted industry standards to:
(A) verify the age of each user as required by
Section 121.021; and
(B) obtain parental consent as required by
Section 121.022; and
(2) applies those standards consistently and in good
faith.
Sec. 121.027. CONSTRUCTION OF SUBCHAPTER. Nothing in this
subchapter may be construed to:
(1) prevent the owner of an app store that operates in
this state from taking reasonable measures to block, detect, or
prevent the distribution of:
(A) obscene material, as that term is defined by
Section 43.21, Penal Code; or
(B) other material that may be harmful to minors;
(2) require the owner of an app store that operates in
this state to disclose a user's personal data to the developer of a
software application except as provided by this subchapter;
(3) allow the owner of an app store that operates in
this state to use a measure required by this chapter in a manner
that is arbitrary, capricious, anticompetitive, or unlawful;
(4) block or filter spam;
(5) prevent criminal activity; or
(6) protect the security of an app store or software
application.
SUBCHAPTER C. DUTIES OF SOFTWARE APPLICATION DEVELOPERS
Sec. 121.051. APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter
applies only to the developer of a software application that the
developer makes available to users in this state through an app
store.
Sec. 121.052. DESIGNATION OF AGE RATING. (a) The developer
of a software application shall assign to each software application
and to each purchase that can be made through the software
application an age rating based on the age categories described by
Section 121.021(b).
(b) The developer of a software application shall provide to
each app store through which the developer makes the software
application available:
(1) each rating assigned under Subsection (a); and
(2) the specific content or other elements that led to
each rating provided under Subdivision (1).
Sec. 121.053. CHANGES TO SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS. (a) The
developer of a software application shall provide notice to each
app store through which the developer makes the software
application available before making any significant change to the
terms of service or privacy policy of the software application.
(b) For purposes of this section, a change is significant if
it:
(1) changes the type or category of personal data
collected, stored, or shared by the developer;
(2) affects or changes the rating assigned to the
software application under Section 121.052 or the content or
elements that led to that rating;
(3) adds new monetization features to the software
application, including:
(A) new opportunities to make a purchase in or
using the software application; or
(B) new advertisements in the software
application; or
(4) materially changes the functionality or user
experience of the software application.
Sec. 121.054. AGE VERIFICATION. (a) The developer of a
software application shall create and implement a system to use
information received under Section 121.024 to verify:
(1) for each user of the software application, the age
category assigned to that user under Section 121.021(b); and
(2) for each minor user of the software application,
whether consent has been obtained under Section 121.022.
(b) The developer of a software application shall use
information received from the owner of an app store under Section
121.024 to perform the verification required by this section.
Sec. 121.055. USE OF PERSONAL DATA. (a) The developer of a
software application may use personal data provided to the
developer under Section 121.024 only to:
(1) enforce restrictions and protections on the
software application related to age;
(2) ensure compliance with applicable laws and
regulations; and
(3) implement safety-related features and default
settings.
(b) The developer of a software application shall delete
personal data provided by the owner of an app store under Section
121.024 on completion of the verification required by Section
121.054.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), nothing in this chapter
relieves a social media platform from doing age verification as
required by law.
Sec. 121.056. VIOLATION. (a) Except as provided by this
section, the developer of a software application violates this
subchapter if the developer:
(1) enforces a contract or a provision of a terms of
service agreement against a minor that the minor entered into or
agreed to without consent under Section 121.054;
(2) knowingly misrepresents an age rating or reason
for that rating under Section 121.052; or
(3) shares or discloses the personal data of a user
that was acquired under this subchapter.
(b) The developer of a software application is not liable
for a violation of Section 121.052 if the software developer:
(1) uses widely adopted industry standards to
determine the rating and specific content required by this section;
and
(2) applies those standards consistently and in good
faith.
(c) The developer of a software application is not liable
for a violation of Section 121.054 if the software developer:
(1) relied in good faith on age category and consent
information received from the owner of an app store; and
(2) otherwise complied with the requirements of this
section.
SUBCHAPTER D. ENFORCEMENT
Sec. 121.101. DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE. A violation of
this chapter constitutes a deceptive trade practice in addition to
the practices described by Subchapter E, Chapter 17, and is
actionable under that subchapter.
Sec. 121.102. CUMULATIVE REMEDIES. The remedies provided
by this chapter are not exclusive and are in addition to any other
action or remedy provided by law.
SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that every
provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word
in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to
every person, group of persons, or circumstances, is severable from
each other. If any application of any provision in this Act to any
person, group of persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be
invalid for any reason, the remaining applications of that
provision to all other persons and circumstances shall be severed
and may not be affected.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2026.______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the HouseI hereby certify that S.B. No. 2420 passed the Senate on
April 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 14, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.______________________________
Secretary of the SenateI hereby certify that S.B. No. 2420 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 9, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 120,
Nays 9, three present not voting.______________________________
Chief Clerk of the HouseApproved:
______________________________
Date______________________________
Governor
Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
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Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
: DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to themBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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Azure is having issues
NYC early voting ends with record turnout, shattering 2021 stats (polls close at 9pm eastern)
Early voting has ended in New York City, and the initial numbers show the highest early voting turnout for a non-presidential election in the city.
The New York City Board of Elections reported 735,317 early voting check-ins over the past nine days. That's more than four times the total from the 2021 mayoral race, which reported only 169,879 early voting check-ins for the general election.
New Yorkers have been showing up and showing they care about who leads the city.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-early-voting-2025-turnout/
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Judge says DOJ failed to give full transcripts of Halligan’s Comey grand jury proceedings
A federal judge considering the legality of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment gave the government until Wednesday at 5 p.m. to comply with her order.
The federal judge considering whether Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully installed by the Trump administration had ordered the Department of Justice to provide the “complete grand jury transcripts” in James Comey’s case for the judge to review. The DOJ failed to do so, and now it has a deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday to comply.
Lawyers temporarily installed by the Trump administration to lead U.S. attorney's offices across the country have had their tenures deemed unlawful by federal judges. Currie may well deem Halligan's appointment unlawful, too, but she has yet to rule. The judge had also ordered the government to provide her with grand jury information for James' proceedings, but as of the time she issued the order for more information in Comey's case, she hadn't issued a similar order in James' case.
Judge rules L.A. prosecutor served illegally, as Comey and James challenge Halligan
A judge ruled that yet another lawyer was illegally leading a federal prosecutor’s office in President Donald Trump’s second term.Jordan Rubin (MSNBC)
Israeli weapons companies should be removed from Sydney defence expo, MPs and human rights experts say
Israeli weapons companies should be removed from Sydney defence expo, MPs and human rights experts say
Exclusive: Australian member of UN commission criticises Elbit and Rafael for being ‘key enablers’ of Israel’s war on GazaJordyn Beazley (The Guardian)
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Jamaicans start to reveal devastation as hurricane causes floods, power cuts and splits city in two
Jamaicans take stock after Hurricane Melissa causes damage, flooding and power cuts
With communication networks in Jamaica crippled, the true scale of the disaster remains unknown.Nick Davis (BBC News)
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EPA eyes another ‘forever chemical’ approval for crops
EPA eyes another ‘forever chemical’ approval for crops - E&E News by POLITICO
The proposal marks the fifth PFAS pesticide backed under this Trump administration and comes despite the agency finding links to higher health risks.Ellie Borst (E&E News by POLITICO)
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EU seeks 'urgent solutions' with China over chipmaker Nexperia
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51986495
The European Union says China's curbs have already forced some of the bloc's companies to halt production and have inflicted economic harm.
EU seeks 'urgent solutions' with China over chipmaker Nexperia
The EU said Wednesday it is seeking a swift resolution to a Chinese curb on chip exports linked to a row with the Netherlands over chipmaker Nexperia that has alarmed European businesses.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you?
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I set up garage, which works fine.
Advantage of an s3 style layer is it's simplicity and integration with apps.
I also use it so I can run AI agents that have zero access to a disk based system
This has been my journey.
I started with pure docker and hostpath on an Ubuntu server. This worked well for me for many years and is good for most people.
Later I really wanted to learn k8s so I built a 3 node cluster with NSF managed PVC for storage, this was fantastic for learning. I enjoyed this for 3 plus years. This is all on top of proxmox and zfs
About 8 months ago I decided I'm done with my k8s learning and I wanted more simplicity in my life. I created a lxc docker and slowly migrated all my workloads back to docker and hostpath, this time backed by my mirrored zfs files system.
I guess my point is what are you hoping to get out of your journey and then tailor your solution to that.
Also I do recommend using proxmox and zfs.
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Well, this path seems to be the most appropriate for what I am for.
And more to that, both mergerfs and snapraid are available out of the box in the latest stable Debian release.
Thanks for pointing me at it!
You need to ask yourself what properties you want in your storage, then you can judge which solution fits. For me it is:
- effortless rollback (i.e. in case something with a db updates, does a db migration and fails)
- effortless backups, that preserve database integrity without slow/cumbersome/downtime-inducing crutches like sql dump
- a scheme that works the same way for every service I host, no tailored solutions for individual services/containers
- low maintenance
The amount of data I'm handling fits on larger harddrives (so I don't need pools), but I don't want to waste storage space. And my homeserver is not my learn and break stuff environment anymore, but rather just needs to work.
I went with btrfs raid 1, every service is in its own subvolume. The containers are precisely referenced by their digest-hashes, which gets snapshotted together with all persistent data. So every snapshot holds exactly the amount of data that is required to do a seamless rollback. Snapper maintains a timeline of snapshots for every service. Updating is semi-automated where it does snapshot -> update digest hash from container tags -> pull new images -> restart service. Nightly offsite backups happen with btrbk, which mirrors snapshots in an incremental fashion on another offsite server with btrfs.
Longhorn is goated to manage volume availability across geographically distant nodes.
If you're running a one-node show, hostpath will do fine (or just dont kubernetes at all, tbh)
Btrfs used to be easier to install because it is part of the kernel while zfs required shenanigans, though I think that has changed now.
Btrfs also just works with whatever drives of mismatched sizes you throw at it and adding more later is easy. This used to be impossible with zfs pools but I think is a feature now?
Backups... with LVM, if you're trying to do a full system backup (ie with clonezilla, etc) then you have to backup the whole thing - you can't backup just 1 drive.
I have a media server with 2x 2TB HDDs and 1x SSD in a LVM, split into Music, Video, TV... and the OS ... and I can backup the individual files of course, but I can't backup just the OS drive.
btrfs didn't exist when I created it, but I use it on my NAS and it's great.
I'll be rebuilding my media server one day and change LVM to btrfs.
I have a few Ext4 drives connected and I mount them in /etc/fstab and that's it.
I've yet to find a reason to change it.
A single ssd with whatever formatting came with it, along with a webdav frontend I made myself. Very high security (confidentiality) actually, since I check for client side cert, user auth, biometrics (that's plural), behavior recognition through a custom typing website and hardware token, but the integrity could use some help. And I'm painfully aware that someone could just steal my session.
I love security.
You'll never get my duck nudes.
^In^ ^reality^ ^I^ ^just^ ^had^ ^a^ ^fun^ ^night^
I've got Proxmox running on a nvme mirror. Two HDDs are passed to Turnkey Linux mediaserver; they are mirrored with BTRFS and act as storage. I am satisfied with all (prox, turnkey, btrfs) and would recommend.
I had one BTRFS drive fail, and replacing it with no experience took about an hour.
I do wish there was better user documentation for WebDAVcgi, the WebDAV frontend in Turnkey linux mediaserver.
mediaserver comes with Samba, so I use that to connect devices like phone or laptop to the server
Turnkey's mediaserver was my replacement for Openmediavault with Filebrowser plugin. Filebrowser creates an internal user to write files for anything uploaded via web interface, so if you mount the folder later via NFS, the permissions don't match. Openmediavault would stall or crash a lot as a container and especially as a VM, but maybe it runs better on bare metal.
I'd recommend ZFS for most home server/NAS scenarios. Gives you everything you need, and nothing you don't.
Stuff like Ceph is just as hungry as it is powerful. The performance sweet spot for Ceph barely begins at 5 dedicated nodes (with at least a dozen drives each, ideally). I could never recommend it for home use unless you want to run it in a lab for the sake of learning.
Source: I've designed/built/deployed several 1PB+ Ceph clusters over the last ~5yrs.
Hot take: For personal use, I see no value at all in "availability," only data preservation. If a drive fails catastrophically and I lose a day waiting for a restore from backups, no one is going to fire me. No one is going to be held up in their job. It's not enterprise.
However, redundancy doesn't save you when a file is deleted, corrupted, ransom-wared or whatever. Your raid mirror will just copy the problem instantly. Snapshots and 3,2,1 backups are what are important to me because when personal data is lost, it's lost forever.
I really do think a lot of hobbyists need to focus less on highly available redundancy and more on real backups. Both time and money are better spent on that.
‘A colony of the US’: Argentinians contemplate future after Trump-backed Milei coasts to victory
‘A colony of the US’: Argentinians contemplate future after Trump-backed Milei coasts to victory
Big win leaves many wondering if result reflects genuine support for president or corrosive US influenceTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
on the rest of Latin America so they probably won't
TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source NAS Released with NVMe-oF, ZFS Enhancements
TrueNAS 25.10 Open-Source NAS Released with NVMe-oF, ZFS Enhancements
TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” open-source NAS is out with NVMe over Fabric, 400GbE, open GPU driver support, major ZFS improvements, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye”: NVMe‑oF, Unified, Simplified Storage
Experience TrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeye" with NVMe-oF, enhanced virtualization, and a streamlined UI for unparalleled storage performance and management.Václav Navrátil (TrueNAS Open Enterprise Storage)
It sounds like smart tests are still there, they just use a different scheduling model.
EDIT: looks like you are right, the scheduling and results interfaces are being removed. The migration is for existing tests only. It will still generate alerts for failed smart tests
Almost A Fifth Of Airbus A220s Are On The Ground Amid P&W Engine Issues
Airlines are taking drastic steps to solve the problems plaguing the worldwide A220 fleet.
Airbus A220 Groundings: 17% Of Global Fleet Inactive Amid Engine Issues
Nearly a fifth of the global Airbus A220 fleet is on the ground as operators battle with corrosion damage in the jet's Pratt & Whitney GTF engines.Jake Hardiman (Simple Flying)
Saudi Arabia | Emirates rolls out AED 85 million facial recognition system across Dubai International
Over 200 biometric cameras to deliver faster, document-free airport experience at DXB Terminal 3
Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coast
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 have been found more than a century later on the country's south-western coast.
The cheerful notes were penned just a few days into their voyage to join the battlefields of France during World War One.
One of the soldiers, Pte Malcolm Neville, told his mother that the food on board was "real good" and that they were "as happy as Larry". Months later, he was killed in action at the age of 28. The other soldier, 37-year-old Pte William Harley, survived the war and returned home.
The bottle was found earlier this month on the remote Wharton Beach, near Esperance in Western Australia, by local resident Deb Brown and her family.
Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coast
The notes were thrown overboard just a few days into a voyage to join the battlefields of France more than a century ago.Ian Aikman (BBC News)
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…especially for Marian Davies - Pte Neville's niece - who remembers her uncle leaving to go to war and never returning.
How old is she?? They said the notes were written in 1916. If she was old enough to remember her uncle leaving, let’s say 4 at the time, she’d have to be 113 today. Of course that’s possible but wow, what are the chances of finding a living supercentenarian relative with a memory of the author of a 109-year-old letter in a bottle?
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I think the BBC has made the wrong assumption when cribbing from ABC or another news source.
Ms Brown has tracked down the great-nephew of one of the soldiers, Private Malcolm Alexander Neville, who came from Wilkawatt in South Australia.He said his aunt, who was now 101, always told stories over the years of "Uncle Malcolm" and how he never returned home from the war.
I guess she, born in 1924, had heard a lot of stories from her parents or other families about him.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Katrina Tap (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Ben & Jerry's co-founder says Unilever blocked Palestine-themed ice cream
Ben & Jerry's co-founder says Unilever blocked Palestine-themed ice cream
Ben Cohen says he will independently create the new watermelon flavour in support of "permanent peace in Palestine".Osmond Chia (BBC News)
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"now is not the right time to invest in developing this product".
There it is, the most corporately banal statement ever
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Wait till they're all gone first.--Unilever
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Then we can virtue signal "never again", while "donating" bribes to the nazi's and establishing our new office in nazi-controlled Gaza.
— Unilever
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Capitalism... All of it.
There isn't a single multinational that acts based on ethics or morality.
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Basically every corporation at this point. Buy local when you can, even if you disagree with the local person's politics if your only alternative is a megacorp go with the local source.
They can be a shitty person, but they won't have the capital to invest in overseas slavery and election interference like mega corps
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There's a fast food chain the southeast US called Cook Out, and in the summer they have a seasonal watermelon milkshake that's just watermelon and vanilla ice cream, and it is honestly SO GOOD. There are bits of watermelon in the shake that kinda freeze up a little and soak up some of the vanilla.
I think it could be done.
I make ice cream for a living, and watermelon is very difficult to pull off without artificial flavoring.
To start with, it has a lot of water in it, which is bad for making quality ice cream. You have to filter out as much as possible, and collect only the pulp. Since watermelon has a very mild taste, it takes a LOT of pulp, which still carries a lot of water in it.
Bottom line is that it is difficult to collect enough pulp to carry enough flavor, without adding too much water, and compromising the creaminess.
Of course, some artificial flavoring would do the job easily, but I am fundamentally opposed to that in my ice cream, and I would imagine Ben is as well.
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..Were they sold into the idea that when the company is making lots more money it can do lots more good with it?
This. I remember the PR that came out at the time.
the idea that when the company is making lots more money it can do lots more good with it
The sales pitch of co-op carpet-baggers to their members since time began! It seems that "social entrepreneurs" aren't immune to the siren song.
AFAIK there is some clause in the sales contract that protects B&Js political activism as a brand.
It's been in the news a couple of times over the years as they clashed with their new parent company.
Off The Pager: it has pop rocks that go off in your mouth after 30 seconds
Seas Fire: it's filled with sweet candies that have denatonium in them. But between those it's quite mild.
Usually big company goes to small company and says "we want to buy you instead of competing with you, and if we compete with you, you better be prepared to dig hard into your savings."
Both sides smile at each other, and the small company capitulates whilst making themselves seem as big as possible.
TLDR: Sell out, or be muscled out
More to the point, in America, the USDA regulations allow for hard pack ice cream to have up to 40% of its volume expanded with air.
WAAaaaay back in the early 2000's after Unilever bought them, I bought a pint of Ben & Jerry's Vanilla ice cream and got home and it sat on the counter and melted - much to my dismay - (It ended up under a towel and did not get put away.)
When I opened it, the level of ice cream in the container had dropped down by almost a quarter. What the hell? So I got another pint and at that time noticed that it was easier to scoop - a sign that there's air being incorporated.
Yeah.. nope. Done.
Haven't bought Ben & Jerry's in over 20 years. (besides, there's a real homemade ice cream shop around the corner from my home - it's what I get now and I support the woman that runs it.)
Ben & Jerry’s is very dense
Apparently so dense that they thought Unilever wouldn't interfere with the campaigning.
Readdeck vs Wallabag?
These are both essentially selfhosted replacements for Pocket.
Anyone try them and have experiences to share? The feature set seems similar.
EDIT: From the comments I'm seeing so far it seems that as of now they are indeed very similar!
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The RSS feeds aspect of Readdeck is a really nice feature! Looks like they both can send from the browser directly (for paywalls).
I wonder if anyone could make a version of this with Bypass paywalls clean baked in for convenience.
Wallabag has the same RSS features and can export to several formats, epub included, but the annotation system is only supported in the web interface. Even the official android app doesn't support it. No Wallabag client on any platform supports self signed certs so forget about anything but web UI if you run it on a closed LAN.
Because according to the devs it's more secure to run a public facing server with a CA backed cert that on a closed LAN which I VPN into with a self-signed cert. Even a toggle to allow it is too dangerous.
I just set up Readeck a few weeks ago, and I've been liking it. Very minimalist, utilitarian. One feature I'd like that isn't included is the ability to add specific labels or collections to the sidebar, but that's my only quibble so far.
It has an official browser extension for adding urls to it, but if you can't or don't want to use that, it has a nice api. I use the api to add bookmarks from my phone using a termux-url-opener script, which is as easy as the extension - just hit the "share" button and select termux, and it does the rest.
But I have no experience with Readdeck.
I was really enjoying wallabag for a while, but after an update (or something?) the container no longer connects to the db and I haven’t been smart enough to figure out why yet.
BUT when it works it’s got a nice interface and the Firefox extension clips articles quickly. Biggest downside I’ve run into is the iOS app can’t make highlights or annotations, and it sometimes randomly reloads an article while reading and ‘forgets’ its place.
I host Wallabag, besides the features already mentioned here, two others I use frequently and are crucial to my workflows are the following integrations:
- Koreader integration, so I can access my articles on any ereader
- Logseq integration, so that all read articles and highlights/annotations are synced with my knowledge base
Hi Fly marks five years of trailblazing flights to Antarctica
Airline celebrates half a decade of pioneering operations to the White Continent with A340 anniversary mission
American Airlines Plans Management Layoffs To Get Rid Of COVID Bloat
American Airlines is reportedly planning on laying off management and support staff employees, in an effort to become more efficient.
How often do you update software on your servers?
Or asked the other way around: How long do you keep your servers running without installing any software updates?
update means something like
sudo dnf updateor something ....
apt-get upgrade
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Well, one of the reasons I'm using debian on my server is so I can kinda forget about it...
I'll update maybe once a month, or every couple months. I don't always restart though, so my kernel is probably a bit behind :'D
lol. Same issue for me. I run it for months, and surprisingly (for me) nothing breaks at all.
But fucking ssh shows warnings regarding some "post quantum crypto" stuff; recommending software update, that was not there before lol.
If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn't get that many updates.
I could just run auto-update but meh.
If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn’t get that many updates.
You're not updating for features you're updating for bug and security fixes. That's why Debian stable doesn't have many updates. But the ones they do are typically important.
Those apt commands are in a less-good order. It's usually better to update apt, then upgrade the system.
I upgrade as soon as reasonably possible after the notification appears, if the system isn't on auto-upgrade.
I do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Is there any reason to not combine the commands since the output always prompts prior to changes anyway?
Every night at ~ 12-1am
unattended updates / transactional-update are awesome.
Stuff has been running for years, and it's still up to date.
Once per week for me. Works really great on openSUSE MicroOS. Had to roll back maybe a couple of times the last few years.
That said, I run basically everything in containers so the OS installed things are lean.
unattended-upgrades and reboot from time to time to get the latest Kernel version.
I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.
It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn't in there.
I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn't auto-restart without my permission...
unattended-upgrades doesn't do that unless you explicitly specify Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true"; in the config. Check /usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md.gz
The main configuration file is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, maybe you put your config in the wrong place?
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xsrv/roles/common/templates/etc_apt_apt.conf.d_50unattended-upgrades.j2 at master · nodiscc/xsrv
[mirror] Install and manage self-hosted services/applications, on your own server(s) - ansible collection and utilities - nodiscc/xsrvGitHub
Unattended-upgrade does security-only patching once every 4 hours (in rough sync with my local mirror)
Full upgrades are done weekly, accompanied by a reboot
I find that the split between security patching and feature/bug patching maintains a healthy balance knowing when something is likely to break but never being behind on the latest cve.
For me, unattended-upgrade does it's thing. Updating other packages happens whenever I think about it. Very few things are not containerized and there's very little added beyond the base Debian install, so when I do update its maybe a dozen packages.
I would previously reboot during thunderstorms if we lost power, but now that I've got a UPS I probably ought to come up with a different plan.
Gentooer here.
Emerge sync &; world daily at night.
Weekly a manual check for stuff that doesn't autoupdate for reasons.
Monthly / biweekly podman compose pull for containers. Manual, because i don't trust that kind of autoupdate.
Edit: opnSense updates are manual only when I remember because if it breaks, I must be at home to fix it or i lose remote access and that's bad.
Using nix 😛
I update the flake every now and then via nix flake updated and then do a rebuild
I SSH in and run an update manually, once a week.
I'm not knowledgable and comfortable enough to let updates happen automatically and feel like I could trust it to keep running. Not yet, anyway.
Edit: But at some point I might do what another commenter said and make sure security updates run automatically and check other updates weekly.
On my ubuntu I use unattended updates but that doesn't work reliably. I have to update it manually most of the time. Once every other month.
On my fedora server it auto updates every day at 4 reliably.
The next server is going to be atomic such that the server restart is even shorter (not that I would care about it at 4).
All services are dockerized, updated nightly.
Server OS runs a kernel-patch service for real time exploit patching.
All other updates as soon as they appear.
Yeah, sometimes I'll need to go in a repair - but that's way better than having to clean up after having been exploited due to not keeping up on security patches.
All systems, daily via a single ansible script. That's apt update, upgrade and reboot if needed (some systems set to only reboot with a separate script so I can handle them separately).
Rarely have any sort of problems.
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On Alpine Linux I update my two Pi servers at 2 in the morning daily. It's simpler compared to Debian which needs unattended-updates. Just add apk update && apk upgrade to a cron job and you're good to go.
I only have three docker services which is simple enough to update manually.
I like to keep things as simple as possible for my already chaotic brain.
My web facing server has just enough packages installed to (kinda securely) host a Caddy and Kiwix docker container to work with my domain name and make a comfortable work environment through SSH. My Pi for my HomeAssistant docker container has less because it's locked down to just my local network.
I also wrote my own install scripts so reinstalling everything and getting it back to a running state would take about 15 minutes for each device.
And I also wrote my own backup/restore scripts that evolved over 3/4 of a year. I use them often so I have confidence in those scripts.
I personally don't really care too much. I have multiple ways of dealing with issues for something that's a hobby to me. Which is why I stick to simplicity.
I'm sure this is a thing for people to worry about when dealing with more complex setups. I just wanna vibe out in my tiny corner of the internet.
apk seems to have some tricks in there that aren't as well known.
I managed to catch in the IRC channel that apk add doc will automatically download any related man pages for packages with any future downloads through apk. That made life a bit more convenient instead of downloading all those packages separately.
Depends, on how critical something is...since we deal with servers / customers at work that often are purposely not adjusted for years...because introducing a different behaviour (even if better) would grind production to a halt, I take a not careful approach.
I was using OpenSUSE Leap, and with zypper you can review which patches are available, whether they are critical or run recommended or not needed. You can then apply which specific patch you want be CVE if necessary.
But with Leap's path seaming messy at the moment, I moved to Tumbleweed, since you have snapshotying built in. If an update did mess something up you just rollback to the previous snapshot and in less than a minute it is fixed
everyday to once a month, depending how often I use the server
IME usually waiting longer to apply larger updates causes more issues than smaller and more frequent ones
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Anything exposed to the internet gets a daily / weekly update, depending on how exposed it is, how stable the updates are and how critical a breach would be. For example nginx would be a daily update.
Anything behind a vpn gets a more random update schedule mostly based on when I feel like it (probably around once a month or every other month)
podman quadlets with auto updates running on opensuse microos
im not yet self hosting a ton of services tho
Daily on my Gentoo server, through a Cronjob every morning. It's a custom script though, so there's more than just doing an emerge update. It'll send me ntfy notifications for the update results, if there are new news items, and if there are any time config merge updates to make. A few other things as well but that's the main stuff.
Other servers, typically weekly or only manually when I ssh into them (for the ones I don't really feel the need to update frequently).
Yum-cron. Daily. Rolling bounce on a schedule.
It has been rock-solid for 20 years, but lennart's cancer and the growing amount of shite they're shoveling into EL has caused a few issues here and there with 7, 9 and 10. (Skipped 8 because f that)
But, today, it works. So that's year 23 and 8 months.
If I have something serious, I will set up automatic upgrades. If short downtimes are ok, also with automatic reboots when the kernel updates, but if they are not, with notifications that I should go reboot them.
If it's not anything serious, whenever I remember to.
Only mostly when I want to. Which tends to be on Mondays and Saturdays.
I'm running Sid on servers, so automatic updates are actually a risk. Used to be Debian Stable, but maaan the docker and podman improvements.... make me drool.
Oh yeah, I temporarily forgot the priority for laws in The US (from least to greatest):
- Local law
- state law
- HOA agreements
- NIMBY pet peeves
- federal law
- The Constitution
- corporate terms of service
- whatever trump posts on Truth Social, so long as its in all caps
This is a screenshot of this HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Edit: WAS a screenshot - thanks for editing the post.
Which is about this Reddit post: old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/c…
"non-standard" means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on "non-standard equipment" - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can't tell what that means, YT thinks I'm a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.
"Non-standard equipment" for Windows 11 includes PCs with Intel 7th gen or older processors, many of which are still perfectly good and powerful enough to run Windows 11. So, it's pretty sad that these videos are being taken down.
EDIT: clarity
Can confirm, I still own an i7-7700k. Pretty much all 77xx variants were on the compatibility list but mine wasn't. Weird thing, though (sarcasm), I used the standard Win11 Install Media to install, and it did so with no problems! Funny, that.
Occasionally it threw a fit with the Office apps my partner needed to use (the standard for the university and LibreOffice's docx, xlsx format is not compatible with M$), all it did was refuse login due to lack of TPM2.0, but this only happened after the 24H3 update or whatever it's called.
All this is moot for me now though, I use Arch
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Thousands of bots.
Also it has to get around the many rules Youtube itself has for the all mighty algorithm.
So for what, 100 million people vs 8 billion, it's a problem.
I'll take that.
no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.
we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.
Honestly? If anyone could make a rival for YouTube it would be a big porn hosting site.
The infrastructure is already there. Just need to buy another domain and throw money at it.
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The only competitor I could see YouTube getting is if Twitch decided to chase that route. The only companies with the global infrastructure required for a service as fast as YouTube's are Amazon, Microsoft (and Google).
Microsoft gave up on Mixer, so I don't see them ever trying to take on YouTube. Amazon have Twitch, which as mentioned, could try to take on YouTube. But even with owning their own servers and just running them at cost, it would be a massive undertaking and investment.
There's a tremendous amount of work to do, that these companies are not going to throw money at for decades just to compete for YouTube's profit margins, which apparently aren't that big (if they even exist).
Sites can exist alongside YouTube, We see a lot of smaller video hosting sites, like Dailymotion, but something would have to go seriously wrong at YouTube for any of them to grow meaningfully and become actual competitors.
I'd like a competitor as much as anybody, but I'm just being realistic here. Don't underestimate the size of YouTube.
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It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won't get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.
it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don't remember.
other platforms rose up around their success, but I'm pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.
Hey man, the playing-pinball-while-a-cat-interferes peertube community is very close-knit (video.apz.fi/).
I kid, but it's true that peertube lacks the dopamine hooks and variety that youtube does. It's much harder to sink hours into watching a bunch of videos that you'll only half remember by the next day.
A little ironic that this comment posted on Lemmy (tiny competitor to reddit)
Viewers go where the content is, yes, but you don't get content on alternative sites if you don't post there.
YouTube in the old days was awesome. Then Google happened to it. When it first started it was quite small.
Principles matter!
They realise that A LOT of those videos are not primarily about Windows?
I've seen many reviews of vintage devices where the uploader just casually installs Windows 11 in a "nonstandard" way, just because it's the only way.
Besides, you still have to activate it. Rufus doesn't help you get around that, so it's not even piracy.
For those who care, at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.
CMD will open.
Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.
Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.
Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.
Next type "regedit" and press enter.
This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"
Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"
Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".
Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"
Invalid command: net rap user Prefferedusername
Usage:
net rap user add Add specified user
net rap user info List domain groups of specified user
net rap user delete Remove specified user
Next type “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” and press enter.
A space is needed before the slash on this command, right? And no space before net.
Because some people still require windows for what ever reason and also it's fun to resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.
Personally I switched to Bazzite for my gaming rigs and Mint for everything else, but I wont judge anyone who wants to stay on windows despite the hostility microsoft has for its user base and I say more power to them.
Those who stand defiant in the face of overwhelming odds are exactly the sort of folk I like.
How is continuing to use their product (thus being farmed for telemetry and other revenues) defiant in any way?
The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can't run. Your defiance is futile and you're the only one suffering, not Microsoft.
I get it but let me give you an example of the sort of thing Linux is dealing with:
I have a nephew who wanted a PC, and had a small budget (they where 11 at the time and I was not going to let them pay) so I used some parts around and made a not so bad mint machine. It worked very well but can not play fortnight (not an issue with mint or the hardware) or other such anti-cheat games. The child was ok with it but his parents got mad at me as to why I would not just "be normal" and put a real operating system on the machine. They tried to tell my nephew that he should not use his PC until they can bring it to someone that can "fix" it by putting windows on it (they are kinda asshats). Lucky for my nephew the place they took the PC said the same thing I did and that it would not run as well with windows on it, but would do it if they wanted (they said no when they got the cost).
So the PC gets used and is enjoyed (it was the nephews birthday present from me), and used by his father as much as him. But all this time I am getting constant complaints about the "weird stuff" I forced on them, and that one day they will get him a "real" computer. Keep in mind my brother has a PC that is running windows that has more bloat and malware then you would think possible at this time (I think why he kept using his son's) that was about the same in hardware (1060, am4 3600ish, 8 gigs of ram sort of machines). The mint PC was clearly better, and when their child started to point out how much more time my brother spent on his Linux computer then his own my brother just happened to "spill" a whole glass of water directly into his son's computer. Then he hid the PC away and just blamed it not working on the "bad software" that it was running, and how it was a "trash" machine anyway. (I did get it back eventually, replaced the board and shipped it back to my nephew who is now using it again).
So the point of the story is this, would you if you had to deal with users (and lets assume you are not related to them) like this put Linux on their machines or just not want to deal with them and put a ripped and custom windows on it?
The trick is to always install their system using btrfs-dkms.
It's guaranteed to break in a way that Google cannot resolve.
It explains why US Christians would vote in a pedo rapist felon, because they think they are winning something.
In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.
My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me "Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?"
It's been a pretty cool thing to watch.
The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can't run.
Well I'm glad you represent everybody.
People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Because being unemployed will really show em.
Can you run Battlefield 6?
Valorant?
Apex Legends?
Rainbow Six: Siege?
Fortnite?
GTA V?
RDR2?
Can you run Battlefield 6?
This isn't even a Windows or Linux thing: Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?
*I really wish I was joking with this part
I'd probably play BF6 and I do enjoy Apex Legends, but not enough to run Windows. Photoshop is great, but GIMP meets my non-professional needs. I'm not an engineer so AutoCAD isn't a professional requirement and I can fix 3d prints or plan landscaping in freecad.
But, I can't make Micrsoft stop enabling telemetry on my computer, inserting ads in my start menu or giving AI access to my entire system. I know there are tools to disable these things, I used them. I know the workaround to make local users, I know how to remove the AI integrations, I know how to use group policy to prevent the re-enabling of some items.
I don't want to have to fight my computer in order to use it. I want it to do exactly what I want and nothing else. Linux lets me do it and that is more important than a few FPSs
Everyone gets to make that choice. Well, except the people who can't upgrade to Windows 11... for them it's Linux or joining a botnet at some time in the near future.
I can run any software designed for Linux or Windows. Period.
If a package doesn't function, it's because the developers arbitrarily decided to disable it for capitalist reasons. Not because it won't work.
So the answer to "can Linux run X game made for Windows" is always yes. Always.
So. No then. You either are holding onto a zero day workaround for their anti-cheat OR the answer is no.
It’s neat to try to shift the answer so that you can still say yes but also no.
You should not install a game requiring kernel level privileges on a personal machine you use for anything other than gaming.
At this point, I recommend to go the console way (or dedicated gaming machine, which is basically the same at this point as you are not owning neither of them)
resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.
"Resist corporate bullshit by eschewing the free, non-corporate option – which, because it's open, gets better the more people use it – in favor of continuing to use the exact same corporate product but with an abstruse, hacky workaround that 0.001% of the userbase will use and will probably be plugged by this time next week. That'll show those corpo fucks who's boss. ✊Ⓐ"
Heard good things about Bazzite, how does it work out with .exe game files off the internet etc?
Ive got a boat load of games that aren't on steam/are from GOG or itch and run as their own files instead of being run off a service
To be fair, the last multiplayer game I was massively into was Warframe, but haven't been on that in years at this point (if No Mans Sky doesn't count lol)
I'll probably end up loading Bazzite just because gaming and general browsing online is all I use my rig for these days (I may branch into freecad at some point for the fun of it but we'll burn that bridge when we get to it)
I cannot find this meme I know I have seen
Panel 1: "Installing Windows 20 years ago" screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: "Installing Linux 20 years ago" screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: "Installing Windows today" screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: "Installing Linux today" screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
For example I don't have to jump through hoops to auto mount a secondary drive on windows I just install the drive and there it is. But on linux I have to jump through all sorts of ridiculous hoops for some stupid reason. However it will auto mount flash drives and sd cards even though those are the ones more likely to pose a security risk.
I just plugged in an old drive to make sure I'm not going crazy, and I didn't do anything besides hit the power button, log in, and open the file explorer:
And its right there.
articles like this wouldn't exist if it wasn't true, they will appear but they wont auto mount
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*some distros may auto mount but I never used one that did
As always on Linux you have different possibilities. Most big Desktop Environment's like KDE / GNOME / Cinnamon .... can mount devices automatically or on a click on the device. No need for additional entries in fstab.
If you however want a more general approach you can use systemd's automount or a fixed mountpount using fstab.
Most normal Desktop User's will be totally fine with the DE Solutions.
I thought you were talking about just opening the drive to use it from the file browser.
I do actually have a drive I use for automated backups, but I just used the GUI to change the automount setting:
I guess that's a little bit inconvenient, but its like 3 clicks, adding a step to something I had to do to set up some other software. Its not any more complicated than disabling sticky keys in Windows.
Except we're not comparing it to disabling sticky keys, we're comparing it to needing needing to follow an entire page's worth of instructions, pressing secret key combinations and entering commands into the terminal, just so you can use your computer without it phoning home to the mothership. And that's on top of the fact that the instructions are probably going to be different in a year since microsoft is deliberately fucking with you.
So on windows a drive will not automount the first time, you have to assign a drive letter, which it then remembers. If you skip this its just a drive in the device manager with no mount.
You can accomplish the same in Linux so the drive automounts on boot with a nofail option so that if it is disconnected from the PC the boot moves on rather than waiting on the drive to become available. But otherwise thr DE will let you mount it instantly.
This is a non problem. Linux has issues but drive mounting is not one of them.
It depends on the DE.
Even still, typing mount /dev/sda1 external isn't exactly Cirque du Soleil
articles like this wouldn't exist if it wasn't true, they will appear but they wont auto mount
techhut.tv/auto-mount-drives-i…
*some distros may auto mount but I never used one that did
Not true, if you format a NTFS or fat in windows, then remove drive letter, it won't auto Mount, same I'd you format it in Linux to a windows format and add to your PC, it prompts for a drive letter.
As for Linux, your user session defaults determine if it automounts or not.
Mine USD set to automount, so you can see in this screen the 80gig drive was auto mounted, but you can turn off USD and use specific mount options.
Running Tubleweed with Gnome, and the App is Disks. The user session defaults are accessed via dconf editor and you can set your system wide default for auto mounting, or manually tweak each drive via disks.I
Yast Partitioner was other screenshots, also has options to do the same if you run KDE tumbledweed, or you could install Disks.
(Which could be skipped if it wasn't encrypted)
So you're complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot...
That's rough, buddy.
I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.
Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?
It's once every boot. Everytime the machine starts you have to go to file manager and click on it before it mounts unless you modify fstab.
At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.
Just go ahead and google mount drive on boot in linux and you can see the 1,000s of post from people having the exact issue I describe. I'll even do it for you.
google.com/search?q=mount+driv…
Then go ahead and google the same thing for windows and you'll see what a non issue it is in windows because even google will assume that surely you meant linux.
Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?
I'm hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.
The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.
At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.
I wasn't before, but now I am.
I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there's no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That's normal in 2025.
If you treat your laptop like a server, that's okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn't doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.
An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.
I don't normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.
Windows users: "I don't want to swap to Linux, you have to follow arcane instructions from the Internet and use the terminal to do basic tasks"
Also Windows users: "Now here is how you add a local user:"
at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.CMD will open.
Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.
Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.
Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the “U” is capitalized) and press enter.
Next type “regedit” and press enter.
This opens registry editor, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”
Delete “DefaultAccountAction”, “DefaultAccountSAMName”, and “DefaultAccountSID”
Right click on “LaunchUserOOBE” and rename it to “SkipMachineOOBE” and make sure the value is set to “1”.
Close registry editor and type “shutdown /r /t 0”
Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add”
Using backticks instead of quotation marks is the ideal way to document technical instructions like this here:
Typenet user Prefferedusername /add(replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type
net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /addand press enter.
Type `net user Prefferedusername /add` (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type
`net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add` and press enter.
I've been doing this in command prompt:
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown/r /t 0
After reboot it lets you choose "I don't have internet" and you can continue with creating a local account.
I thought they started blocking that work around.
Also +1 for describing things like the quotes and preferred username.
We had a guy doing remote file copy on a Unix system. Hr was given a sample like:
Scp john@server2:/data/incoming/filename.prt /home/john/files
He tried 5 times then complained to IT that the system couldn't find the file to transfer.
IT realized he wasn't replacing filename with his filename he just assumed the server new which file he wanted by typing filename. Lol.
Had a user given instructions to delete log data in C:/users/myusername/logs
User replies to IT: my system does not have a folder called "myusername"
Unless they remove local accounts all together or disable shift F10 in the OOBE this should work, it just sets up a local account through command prompt in a similar manner that lusrmrg.msc would.
That said I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if they remove local accounts altogether next.
They're showing you how you can install win 11 on machines that Windows 11 tries to claim can't run it, but actually can.
You know, getting around forced obsolescence...
Me in 2026: diving into the dark web to find an instruction manual
They took control of the digital town square and now its a prison. Monopolitistic shithole corporate vampire behavior.
"Freedom is dead. Freedom remains dead. And we've killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?"
-Nietzsche 2026
Its so nice on peertube nowadays. !peertube@lemmy.world if anyone wants to join and watch/post videos.
And of course arbitrary try Linux out. Its a very productive OS.
there are thousands of videos still up.
people will just believe anything that fits their worldview and not check anything out….
It's disheartening, really. I fully sympathize with the efforts of software freedom and independent media platforms, but it's just so annoying how people with "my" world view are just like all other people as well – we believe what we want to believe and only question what goes against our beliefs.
I'm not saying I'm better, but I just hate it in general.
Yeah I don’t understand their take at all.
“They haven’t gotten them all so THEY’RE NOT DOING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE so reactionary with your worldview JEEZ”
This is the kind of low-tier thinking that got us here in the first place.
if thousands of videos exist like that, they’re clearly not removing all videos like that.
There isn't a claim being made that all videos showing circumvention of the Microsoft account requirement for Windows 11 installation are being taken down. Only some of them. You saying "people will just believe anything that fits their worldview" sounds like you're asserting that no takedowns are occurring. Thank you for clarifying that this is not actually your position.
The likelihood is that that this is being done automatically by youtube's AI, rather than because of requests by Microsoft. I think the real problem illustrated here is the lack of transparency when Youtube issues a takedown. An initial glance at Youtube's Community Guidelines doesn't seem to indicate a criterion by which a takedown would be automatically issued for such content, but I wonder if they're starting to automatically flag anything that might be considered circumvention guides. I had a private video taken down that I was sharing with a friend to show them how to use yt-dlp to extract audio from youtube videos and was given the same reason "harmful or dangerous content", which it clearly was not, but they're reluctant to explicitly say that they're removing videos that illustrate circumvention techniques. Yet another reason to stop using Youtube.
that sounds to me like trolls reporting them until it was taken down, people lying for clout, or it was taken down’s for some other reason.
Firefox based and Chromium addon to redirect YouTube and other links to privacy alternatives. Works for Firefox based browsers on Android too.
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I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.
Sometimes by the time I've tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.
Come on! It's fun! And pretty frustrating at times. You'll hate it. And then love it. Then hate. It's called emotional balance and it makes character, or some shit, I dunno.
Just get the penguin already.
The noose keeps tightening.
Google also has been trying to argue that modifying client side javascript is equivalent to hacking.
Modifying code running on your own fucking machine, in your own fucking browser.
Yes.
At this rate, we will be having a "local files are hard for the average user" debate, here, in another decade.
Which, maybe it will be, at that point.
Hahah apple does so since iOS 1
iOS is designed from the ground so that people are trained to think in apps rather than files
This is why it took so long until files appeared and why it is still no file browser like in any other operating system (only local directories for some apps and cloud folders)
Download the ISO from MS, make bootable USB with Rufus. After clicking Start you can choose local account only, bypass TPM and RAM reqs, etc
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I know it's a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn't harmed you or done you wrong, then it's probably fine to stick with what you know.
But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we've grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.
It won't surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it's bound to happen. I'm teaching my child about linux now, so they'll be aware that software doesn't have to suck.
Try something different, it's a good way to live, to know you don't have to remain where you are if you don't want to. Of course, only if you want to!
Right. A long winded response ignoring the subject of google censorship.
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It seemed somewhat topical to me. Google's censorship is the same trend of enshittification that Yar is talking about.
There are tons of other comments talking about the censorship issue. Using this moment to plug open source software is not unreasonable.
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Google doesn't care, this is most likely an algorithm taking down the video based on the title. Not the first time the algorithm took down videos accidentally see the copyright case below for example:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…
That was years ago, now it is worse.
You know, Linux is great. I love it. I run a lot of things on it. But it can be a frustrating experience. Simply put, its not a one to one replacement and it will simply not fit into some peoples lives like windows has up to this point.
My personal experience with linux desktops (some arch flavors and fedora) combined with Wayland and an Nvidia card have been pretty abysmal.
On prior Fedora's and Endeavor, I had Firefox crashing constantly, no clue why. Crashes reduced this week with the release of Fedora 43 but its still not stable. This is something I've not experienced under windows ever since they rewrote firefox like.. 10 years ago now?
With KDE plasma, its system apps like settings crash. I've not had to restart my PC with the physical restart button under windows for quite a while now. But when using KDE, the whole thing freezes and will just not respond.
I've tried playing some CS2 literally today and couldn't make it through a match without a crash.
Vendor software for hardware devices (drivers) is missing linux support a lot of the time and while I appreciate open source alternatives, they just don't cover the edge cases I had. As an example: razer rbg lighting effects stacking is non existent on linux. Open RBG works.. but its not good enough.
I'm sooo ready to use KDE Plasma on a daily basis and really want to, but the stability I want is just not there yet. If you have simple use cases, don't stray too far onto the edge, possibly have older hardware and don't need Wayland or don't use Nvidia, I'd definitely recommend it. I use Mint on my 14 year old laptop just fine, but its got an old ass nvidia card, uses x11 with cinnamon and I don't game on it. Stable as a rock. I use Debian (headless) on my home server and it hasn't crashed with a 3 year uptime.
Desktop linux on a gaming machine.. I've just been disappointed.
Sorry for the dump. I'm voicing my frustration out of love for linux, not out of hate.
Then one day i made one more distro change and suddenly I was having the best experience I've ever had in any OS. Now I can only hope I can keep riding on this wave for a long time.
Eyy you didn't mention the distro you jumped to. Around these parts, that's a spanking.
Out with the distro or prepare your buttcheeks!
The first while is frustrating, weird and unfamiliar, but there will come a time where Windows will feel that way instead.
What have you run into that sticks out to you?
I’m curious because I’ve been on Linux full-time for 2 years now and an avid user for years before, but my friend is thinking of switching and I want to know what he might need help with.
It's easier than ever to make your own website. You could vibe code one up super fast and throw up some images or videos.
Getting people to see the stuff you make is the major hurdle. These platforms have that benefit because everyone is already there.
Not to mention if you were able to get traffic to your site it probably won't scale well lol.
That being said you should all be making web sites! Things were better when there were more places to go
You're correct on the being seen part, but maybe this would involve retraining people to start using a different search engine that works. But I know most of this is will never see the light of day, but maybe one day we can hope for a better future for the internet.
I do fear, with AI now replacing search by many people, what will the internet look like in the next 5 years. Scary to think what that will look like.
Plasma 6.5 is now in Debian Testing/Forky
A maintainer's anouncement when it was uploaded to unstable/Sid
Plasma 6.5 uploaded to unstable and building. Most common architectures are already there and more niche ones are coming.Expect the migration to testing/forky somewhere next week.
I checked the packages and they have all migrated to 6.5, as of today.
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Attaché : 1 image Plasma 6.5 uploaded to unstable and building. Most common architectures are already there and more niche ones are coming. https://deb.li/plasma Expect the migration to testing/forky somewhere next week.Framapiaf
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Luxury brands turn on the charm in China to kindle nascent spending recovery of wealthy individuals
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ArchivedAs Chinese shoppers dip toes back in the luxury pool, brands are targeting economically resilient high-earners with distinctive, personalised experiences as their focus shifts more to market share than growth.
Firms like LVMH and Hermes increasingly offer intimate dinners and large-scale shows, as well as stores with private shopping areas and exclusive elevator access for the VIPs they bet will help end a post-pandemic sales slump.
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Luxury brands have accompanied earnings reports with comments offering glimmers of hope for Chinese retail, spurring a rally that has added nearly $80 billion to European luxury stock valuations. Still, few expect the sales surge of the pandemic years, and with U.S. policies rewriting global trade, China's economic trajectory is far from certain.
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To encourage spending, perks such as intimate dinners with creative directors and celebrity ambassadors have become common.
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STOCK MARKET RALLY IS GIVING WEALTHY CONFIDENCE TO SPEND
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"Especially for the target customers of luxury, you can expect that those people probably have a retail equity account, so they are seeing the benefits of the stock market rising and feeling more confident to spend more,"[said Bruno Lannes, senior partner at Bain in Shanghai].
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Luxury brands that invested during the downturn are likely to win market share as spending stabilises, even if revenue does not significantly grow, said Jacques Roizen, managing director of China consulting at Digital Luxury Group.
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China added almost one billionaire a day in 2024
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44852111
ArchivedChina has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of ultra-wealthy individuals over the past year, driven by a robust stock market and the rapid growth of “new economy” sectors, according to the Hurun Research Institute.
The institute’s latest China Rich List recorded a total of 1,434 individuals, each with a net worth of at least 5 billion yuan (US$702 million, an increase of 340 people, or 31%, from the previous year. Collectively, their wealth reached 30 trillion yuan, marking a 42% surge compared with last year.
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The Hurun list, first published in 1999, tracks billionaires across mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.
“To the surprise of many, the number of people on the Hurun rich list this year has reached an all-time high, largely driven by a strong rally in the stock markets,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of Hurun. “The emergence of new faces in the technology sectors and growing exports propelled an expansion of the billionaires’ club.”
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Stock market rally fuels billionaire boom
Chinese stock exchanges have seen significant gains over the past year, reflecting renewed investor optimism in industries such as electric vehicles (EVs), biotechnology, and computing. As of September 1, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange surged 54% year on year, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 36%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index climbed 42%.
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Just this morning I was reading someone's comment about how China is bringing socialism to the whole world.
I hope it was a bot because such a detachment from reality is concerning.
Millionaire's are incompatible with communism. Billionaire's are incompatible with socialism.
.ml says a lot of shit whenever they pry Winnie the Pooh's cock from their mouths long enough to speak.
They are incompatible with end stages of communism, but not socialism, and even then, I don't think they're saying they've already built socialism or communism, I think they're saying that they are building it.
i don't think they will ultimately decide to start transitioning to either, because that would require a lot of people in power relinquishing it, but I think it's better to try and actually understand both sides rather than argue against strawmen.
also, the argument of socialism is that the workers should own the means of production not that there should be some arbitrary wealth cap. Marx never said anything about a wealth cap, though many socialists would want one it isn't fundamental to socialism, there's even types of socialist called market socialists, ultimately the only characteristic that unifies socialists is worker control over the means of production.
2 Killed, Over 20 Injured in Floating Crane Collapse in Annexed Sevastopol
2 Killed, Over 20 Injured in Floating Crane Collapse in Annexed Sevastopol
Two people were killed and more than 20 injured after a floating crane capsized in annexed Sevastopol’s southern bay, the city’s Moscow-installed Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said Monday.The Moscow Times
Gaza: Civil defence agency says at least 50 killed in Israeli strikes
Israel's strikes also wounded some 200 people,The agency said 22 children were among those killed, as well as women and elderly,
Israel began carrying out air strikes on Tuesday after accusing Hamas of attacking Israeli troops in Gaza and violating the truce. While Israel did not say where its troops were attacked, Hamas has said its fighter had "no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah" and reaffirmed its commitment to the US-brokered ceasefire.
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I think this is gonna fail spectacularly if that's what they hope to achieve.
The rest of the world exists and is against it. The EU, Russia, China, the rest of the Muslim world, i.e. all of the counties around Gaza and elsewhere are all against it.
There's no way for them to succeed without destabilising the middle east further and going into bigger wars with the Muslim countries and face all kinds of sanctions from the rest of the world.
Do you really think Russia and China and all the Muslim countries would be okay with this land grab by the USA in the middle east?
Russia and China were even bigger trading partners with the USA. But that didn't stop Russia invading Ukraine. Or USA and China starting a trade war.
"China rejects Trump's plan to ‘take over’ Gaza, displace millions of Palestinians"
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"Trump's Gaza plan sparks global outrage, with Hamas, PLO, Russia, and world leaders condemning it."
tribune.com.pk/story/2526669/g…
"The European Union said on Wednesday that it acknowledged US President Donald Trump's comments on wanting to "take over" of Gaza but insisted its commitment to a two-state solution."
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Middle East: Trump's Gaza takeover remarks met with backlash
Germany, Saudi Arabia and China are among those rejecting President Donald Trump's suggestion that the US will "take over" Gaza. US top diplomat Marco Rubio has stood behind the president's remarks.Deutsche Welle
You still believe empty condemnations? Not a single country said what happen if Israel ignore those condemnation
Do you really think Russia and China and all the Muslim countries would be okay with this land grab by the USA in the middle east?
Unfortunatly they don't care. Gaza is not Iran who control the straight of hurmuz which would hurt China and Russia a lot if it fsll under the usa and Israel
Israel already stated multiple time the intention of full extermination of gaza so where is the Russian and China economical sanctions on Israel. Why the arab keep having secret relation with the terrorist state of Israel?
The EU is also bullshitting where are the sanctions on the state of Israel? Why germany, french , the UK still sell weapons to Israel?
Here the latest betrayal of an arsb country
thecradle.co/articles/israeli-…
Israeli weapons firm opens first UAE branch
The company will produce and sell Israeli surveillance systems in the UAE under Israeli oversightthecradle.co
Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships
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Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships
Indian refinery received at least four crude shipments this year worth almost $280mn on sanctions-listed vessels
The Samadha engaged in ship-to-ship transfers with four US-sanctioned vessels © Planet Labs, European Space Agency
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has bought Russian oil transported on sanctions-listed vessels, according to an analysis of satellite imagery, shipping data and customs records by the Financial Times.
The Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Punjab, a major oil refinery co-owned by the long-term UK resident’s Mittal Energy, received at least four crude shipments worth almost $280mn this year which had been transported most of the way from Russia on sanctions-listed ships.
The oil was transported on the US-blacklisted vessels between July and September from the Arctic port of Murmansk to as far as the Gulf of Oman. The final leg of the journey into India was undertaken on the Samadha, a tanker that is not on US sanctions lists, though it was blacklisted by the EU.
All of the ships involved in the process sought to conceal their behaviour with a combination of deceptive practices, either shutting off their transponders or using them to broadcast false positions.
It is not known who arranged for the oil to be transported on the sanctioned tankers, nor if HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) — the entity that owns the refinery — was aware of the use of the vessels.
Emily Kilcrease, a director at the Centre for a New American Security and a former US trade and security official, said: “If I were advising the buyer, I would want to make sure that you had enough visibility in the full transport chain to make sure that you’re not one hop or two hops from a sanctioned activity.”
Best known as the executive chair of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated steel and mining group, Mittal has built a globe-spanning business empire. The billionaire, who has sat on the board of Goldman Sachs since 2008, told associates earlier this year that he intends to leave the UK over changes to its taxation rules.
The revelations about the shipments come as the US is seeking to raise the pressure on Indian companies not to buy Russian oil. Washington last week imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Moscow’s two leading oil producers, in an effort to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in negotiations with Ukraine.
HMEL is a joint venture between part of the Mittal group and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, an Indian state company, with each holding a 49 per cent stake. The remaining 2 per cent is in the hands of financial institutions, according to the company.
HMEL and Mittal did not respond to requests for comment.
The Guru Gobind Singh Refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited-Mittal Energy Limited (HMEL) © HMEL
Before last week’s US sanctions, western allies of Ukraine had already imposed a price cap aimed at limiting the profits Russia was able to reap from the trade. Oil tankers that did not comply or used various deceptive shipping practices have also been sanctioned by the EU, UK and US.
India has become one of the biggest importers of Russian crude after Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, profiting from discounted prices as western buyers turned away.
Russia has exported an average of 5mn barrels a day of seaborne crude this year, with 1.7mn b/d of the total being purchased by India, according to data analytics group Kpler. The next largest share headed to China.
Kilcrease said: “The major consumers of this oil really want [it]. They’ve been willing to take a certain amount of risk of coming into the US Treasury’s sights.”
The four deliveries identified by the FT all followed a similar pattern, with the Samadha repeatedly heading in and out of the port of Mundra in Gujarat, western India, to pick up the oil brought to the area on the sanctioned ships.
According to its transponder signals, the Samadha was simply travelling back and forth from Oman, where it would moor and load. After a pause, it would then broadcast that it was sailing back to India.
The vessel, however, was often not where it claimed to be. Satellite images analysed by the FT throughout this period and compared with transponder data show that, once the Samadha left port, it often sent a falsified position that disguised its true location.
While it claimed to be on these shuttle runs to Oman, the Samadha was actually meeting the other ships further offshore. Each of the four journeys included a meeting with another ship caught on satellite images. \
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Each image shows a large, grey vessel, consistent with the Samadha, at anchor in the Gulf of Oman, lined up side-by-side with another tanker. This position suggests a ship-to-ship transfer of goods.
The vessels appear to be the Belgorod, Danshui, Dignity and Primorye — all of which had been added earlier to sanctions lists by the US. The images of the vessels match other images of these ships obtained by the FT.
TankerTrackers, a maritime intelligence company, confirmed the identity of the ships during their monitoring of the Gulf of Oman — an area that they usually surveil for ship-to-ship transfers involving Iranian oil.
In each case, the sanctions-listed ships sailing from Murmansk went “dark” as they approached the Gulf of Oman, switching off their transponders for between three and six days, the exact window during which each photographed transfer took place. They turned them back on again shortly after.
The dates of the Samadha’s journeys also match customs records filings, seen by the FT, made by refinery owner HMEL to Indian authorities for purchases from Varda LLC, a St Petersburg oil supplier. Three of the forms explicitly name the Samadha as the carrier.
The filings also report that the four shipments had a total value of $277mn.
The records also indicate that all of the shipments were for two grades of Arctic oil — Novy Port and Arco. In January, the US targeted Russia’s Arctic oil business with sanctions, announcing curbs on tankers and other infrastructure affecting Arco and other grades.
Guru Gobind Singh refinery, located in the Bathinda area of Punjab, is the 10th largest in India, able to process 11.3mn tonnes a year. At Mundra, the crude shipments were deposited into a 1,000km-long pipeline to the inland refinery.
The FT was unable to contact the Samadha’s registered owner and manager, Erika Freight Limited, a company about which almost nothing is known beyond its relationship with the vessel.
The Samadha has since been placed under sanctions by the UK. Its owner shares a registered address in the Seychelles with 13 other so-called shadow fleet vessels — ships against whom it is difficult to enforce sanctions because their ownership is opaque.
The FT was not able to reach Varda LLC in St Petersburg, which does not have any online presence and does not list any contact details in Russian corporate records.
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China overtakes the US as Germany’s largest trading partner
China overtakes the US as Germany’s largest trading partner
Economists credit US President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign with reducing trade between Germany and the US.Al Jazeera
Trump: "if you want to do business with the US you will have to pay the tariffs"
The world: "OK."
Trump: "But I was promised you needed US?"
World: "No, it was just convenience."
Should've developed EVs 10 years ago imo
Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls
Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls
Satellite images taken of El Fasher after the Sudanese city fell at the weekend show clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies”.Ben Farmer and Lilia Sebouai (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Ooh, look! A planet! 👽
No son, we don't go to that one.
What? We've gone to literally every single planet in the galaxy with life on it, why not complete the list??
You'll understand when you're older. Let's go.
Help with home server plan
Hi 😀
I'm planning on setting up my home server, and I'm feeling a bit lost.
I currently have a Jellyfin, SSH and Backrest server running on my PC, but want to get some dedicated hardware for it, and increase the services hosted to VPN, Immich, maybe Nextcloud, etc.
The problem is that I have no idea for what kind of hardware to aim for. I don't know whether I should aim for Rasperri, or MiniPC, or a dedicated rag, or any other thing. My country doesn't have a big second-hand market for server stuff, but I that's also a possibility.
Some context on my needs:
- I run 1440p videos on Jellifyn, so my guess is I need H.265 support. Other than that, I think any CPU will do, and don't need a very fast one. Same goes for RAM, maybe 8 GB is enough
- I feel like I do need at least 2 hard drives (1 for my files, another for backups)
- The ability of upgrade with better hardware would be appreciated, maybe another hard drive or some extra ram.
- Preferably, a rather low-energy consumption drive. Maybe 10 W idle? No idea on this front neither.
- Budget is around $200 USD, excluding hard drives. I can pay extra for drives, or get them later on as I start playing around and scale up.
- What Linux distro should I use? For security, I want to run everything with Dockers, so I guess it doesn't matter? I'm mildly fluent in Linux, experience with Arch and Debian based.
Thanks in advance 😀
Debian for sure. It's the Toyota 4Runner of the operating system world:
- Older but proven tech that just chugs right along.
- Not a ton of features out of the box, but supported by basically everything aftermarket.
- Major updates, while slow but regular, bring a lot of improvements - most of which are under the hood.
Well, it means that profits earned by the Trump supporting business, will support Trump's agenda, which includes annexing / doing harm to Canada. As it's a US corp, it also likely means many of the high paying corporate backend jobs go south, removing high income earners from the tax pool. It's amazing to me that the gov is whining at Canadians about productivity, and grandstanding with 'elbows up' rhetoric, but they greenlight sending jobs to the states.
And if it's taking a more active role in supporting Trump, given that its such a large market slice, they could manipulate prices to gouge Canadians / do harm to Canada in a more direct fashion.
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The current liberal government is far more conservative leaning than the previous one. They're pushing very authoritarian bills, and effectively going along with much of the US's 'stuff', while attempting to spin a pro-Canada message for public support -- like the gov and our media lauding the push to diversify our energy supply by building small nuclear reactors... but glossing over that they require US-provided fuel to run (so we're literally increasing reliance on US stuff, while the US is busy using that dependence to attack us economically). On the authoritarian bills, there's stuff like making it so that law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to get customer information from private companies, and making display of certain symbols/flags a crime. The folks I know who follow this stuff, basically agree that it's all a bit tepid at the moment, but that it's still better than it would've been under our 'official' conservative party, as those guys wanted to straight up do a DOGE-north (and likely still do).
I'd frame it as Canada is still moving along with the Tech-bro agenda from the US at present, though we're less in to the Christian Nationalist / overtly racist stuff. For example, the coming budget is expected to have items related to OpenBanking/Digital Currencies, which are ideas primarily pushed by tech kleptocrats (there're obvious reasons they fumble to name specific, quantifiable benefits of those systems for consumers -- and it's because the benefit is pretty much all for big tech).
The party that had a more progressive slant last time around, the NDP, got trounced -- deservedly, as they hadn't really put out anything to persuade voters, and essentially told people to vote liberal if it meant defeating the cons. Our green party, who were even more progressive in policies (and often had big, interesting policy ideas), committed suicide years ago due to their adherence to their party-negative approach to DEI -- they literally elected a black lesbian jewish pro-palestinian lawyer lady as their leader, and she destroyed what little support the party had. Eg. she spent all the campaign finances trying to win a liberal-stronghold riding for herself in Toronto; she demanded full control of all social media accounts for the party, which she was given, but then she proceeded to go to news agencies and comment about how the party wasn't publicly supporting her on social media... the media she controlled... because the party was racist. That sort of thing.
So, as to what they're thinking, I don't think they view the US as a potential threat to the same extent as the public. And I don't think they're progressive in the old sense of the world, but they're still progressive relative to our southern neighbours. But I mean, that's a really low bar at the moment.
Any idea what the government is thinking? I thought it was progressive...
This should be the world anthem for the 21st century
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised dronesTom Phillips (The Guardian)
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Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
Nintendo and the Pokémon Company’s lawsuit in Japan against PocketPair, makers of the hit game Palworld, is still ongoing. As we’ve reported previously, this isn’t the copyright o…Techdirt
OpenAI Establishes For-Profit Company In Restructuring Change Involving Microsoft
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OpenAI Ditches the 'Non' in 'Non-Profit'
The old OpenAI is dead. Now to Figure Out the Profit Part.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
The expectation is for the Foundation to use its equity stake in the OpenAI Group to help fund philanthropic work. That will start with a $25 billion commitment to “health and curing diseases” and “AI resiliance” to counteract some of the risks presented by the deployment of AI.
Paying yourself to promote your own product. Promising to fix vague "risks" that make the product sound more powerful than it is, with "fixes" that won't be measurable.
In other words, Sam is cutting a $25 billion check to himself.
AI companies are definitely aware of the real risks. It's the imaginary ones ("what happens if AI becomes sentient and takes over the world?") that I imagine they'll put that money towards.
Meanwhile they (intentionally) fail to implement even a simple cutoff switch for a child that's expressing suicidal ideation. Most people with any programming knowledge could build a decent interception tool. All this talk about guardrails seems almost as fanciful.
Why Americans trying to hide as Canadians overseas doesn’t work
Americans are ‘flag jacking’ to pretend they’re Canadian overseas - here’s why it doesn’t work
Claims of “flag jacking” go back to at least the Vietnam WarGraig Graziosi (The Independent)
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I mean there are ignorant people everywhere in the world. It’s impossible to avoid them completely. That said I’m American and have only rarely received harassment due to my nationality. But I haven’t been abroad yet this year so I can’t speak to how the atmosphere has change since Trump 2.
Better solution is just to explain to people that we don’t support what’s going on and we’re subject to our government against our will just like they are.
Are you implying that I personally can unilaterally fix the US’s shit?
Lol
The correct answer was "yup, yer right and I will do as much as I can to do so and encourage my fellow 'muricans to as well"
Your attitude is why the article is right.
Oh gee willickers I’ll just press this depose the president button I’ve got here on my desk. Why didn’t I think of this sooner. Thank you so much!
Maybe I’m already doing that? You are speaking from a place of extreme ignorance about me and my political actions. But there is a limit to what one person can do in an authoritarian nation of 300+ million people.
Doing everything in your power to resist fascism still leads to the dilemma in question here. As this conversation demonstrates.
You could stop pretending to be helpless and just one little old person for starters. Plan, collaborate with like minded people who aren't pushovers for fascists.
Where's all that "live free or die" rhetoric now? "Leader of the free world." " Arsenal of democracy". "End of history". We had to hear the nauseating rhetoric, now is the time to put up or shut up.
You don’t know anything about what kind of real life activism I am involved in and I won’t discuss it here. I’m willing to bet it’s more than you though.
But even the perfect most effective super-genius workaholic activist who spends 24/7 only taking exclusively the most effective actions with other engaged people cannot completely change the course of a nation of 300+ million people. It’s an absurd thing to say.
I’ve never said any of that BS and it’s got nothing to do with me. You’re exactly the kind essentializing ignoramus that causes people to wear Canadian flags abroad. Reap what you sow I guess.
I’m willing to bet it’s more than you though.
My country isn't in the middle of a fascist takeover in part because we do our civic duty.
You’re exactly the kind essentializing ignoramus that causes people to wear Canadian flags abroad.
You're the ones stealing my flag because you're too embarrased by who and what you really are. Stop arguing with me, stop going on vacation and stop making excuses. Put your money where your mouth is and go and fix your shit.
I don’t wear any flags because I don’t support authoritarian governments (including the Canadian government). In fact, if you paid attention, you might realize the comment you replied to was me offering an alternative solution for those who have this concern…
This is your brain on nationalism, folks. I hope you can find your way to recovery.
And I hope you can fix your shit. Having someone from the land of the Nazi and the home of the Depraved accuse others of nationalism is both mind boggling and totally on brand.
Fix your Nazi shit or die trying. No excuses.
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American: "Are you fucking sorry!"
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Canadian: Sorry.
American: You haven't even said "Thank you" for my offensiveness.
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I’ve been overseas a lot this year, and if anyone asks where I’m from my go-to response is “I’m American but I’m telling people Canadian.”
It’s a cheeky joke, without actually needing to lie about where I’m from, and is a clear indication that I don’t agree with the batshit crazy that’s going on in my country.
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American tourists in disguise are not really fooling anyone.
But you don't know how many are fooling you... I bet I could pull it off.
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Why don't you see elephants hiding in trees?
They're really good at it.
Why do elephants paint their nails red?
To hide in cherry trees.
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Why do elephants paint their scrotums red?
To hide in apple trees
What's the loudest noise in nature?
Giraffes eating from apple trees
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I've been in England a long time. If I keep my mouth shut, I can pass for a local. I dress the same and look the same. We're in a small city far from London, so it's not like there are that many Yanks roaming around here anyway.
My wife, on the other hand, is visibly foreign and has a much different experience living here. She encounters much more xenophobic micro-aggression, though most people are still polite.
"You speak English so well!"
"Thank you. Cambridge expected it."
Venezuela claims it foiled Trump plot to stage 'false flag' attack on US warship
Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ as tensions with US grow
Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from powerJames C. Reynolds (The Independent)
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Venuzuelan budget: $22bn
CIA budget: $15bn
When a single intelligence agency’s budget is comparable to an entire country’s, it’s reasonable to assume that agency will be able to persevere in almost any contest.
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Venuzuelan budget: $22bn
CIA budget: $15bn
Yeah, but the CIA has to spread that money for operations in the whole world. Venezuelans don't play the same game.
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I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, ...
Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.
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Don't be naive. Trump isn't running anything.
Trump struggled to name 20 animals in a row, dealer's choice. Thought the dementia test was an IQ test, bragged that going past 10 animals was hard.
"I took– Those are very hard– They're really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump."He continued, "Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don't think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn't come close to answering any of those questions."
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“It is the same imperial script as the Maine ship and the Gulf of Tonkin: fabricating a conflict to impose interests alien to our region,” Pinto wrote in an online post on Telegram, according to Google Translate. “Venezuela is acting firmly and responsibly: a CIA-funded criminal cell linked to this covert operation is being dismantled on our territory."
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Operation Northwoods.
Americans would have died if it was greenlit as the goal was to go to war with cuba
Interesting thing about false flag attacks is that many of them are not real false flag attacks but are attacks that have been carefully chosen to be allowed by ignoring the intel regarding them.
Israel for example had been notified by many countries of an incoming attack by Hamas with an extremely accurate description of what would happen, but decided to ignore it and not even strengthen their border defenses. It was in Israels best interest as it would give them an easy reason that would make their people allow them to ramp up the genocide.
Yeah I honestly found the timing of that suspicious given Bibi's trials coming up and plummeting popularity at the time.
I could see the same with 9/11. Various people didn't need to actually be involved with terrorism so much as "let it happen" and plan on how to profit from the response
Valid.
Before 9/11, the Bush administration had several clear warnings that something serious was in the works, and they totally ignored it. It was even put into his daily briefing that Al Qaeda was planning an attack that involved flying planes into buildings, but it was later speculated that bush probably never even saw it, since he often skipped reading his morning briefings.
If they had stopped to consider it, they would have realized that they had been receiving reports from flight schools of Arab students wanting to learn to steer planes in flight, but not take off or land, and one guy already in custody. Just a little bit of investigation would have exposed the whole thing.
But they wanted a Middle Eastern conflict, so all of it was ignored, with easily predictable results.
A False Flag event? Not by precise definition, but essentially the same thing.
La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Le anticipazioni della trentaduesima puntata La Notte nel Cuore accendono il prime time di domenica 9 novembre 2025 su Canale 5. In Cappadocia torna Halil, il padre naturale dei gemelli Nuh e Melek: un arrivo che riapre ferite antiche proprio mentre si tenta di sancire la pace tra famiglie. Ecco cosa vedremo negli episodi 1×81 (2ª parte), 1×82 e 1×83.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore: domenica 9 novembre 2025: arriva Halil e cambia tutto
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore trentaduesima puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Halil torna in Cappadocia, Cihan scarcerato, cena di armistizio e nuove tensioni.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations towards a multilateral treaty on reducing plastic pollution collapsed. The chair announced that the committee had concluded its work — without producing a draft treaty. Governments had failed to agree on the proposed articles of the convention; no further negotiations were being suggested.This failure reveals a weakness in all environmental treaty negotiations, whether new or existing ones: a consensus-driven process waters down action to the lowest common denominator. Only symptoms get addressed, not causes.
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why.Bridgewater, Peter
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This article is more relevant in the context of the latest declarations of Antonio Guterrez:
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Se the dabate here:
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)
Global Funds Exit China Real Estate Amid Steep Losses and Distressed Sales As Oversupply Expected to Take Years to Be Absorbed
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ArchivedForeign investors who once saw China’s booming property market as a sure bet are now facing some of their biggest losses in decades. What was once a $140 billion push into Chinese real estate has turned into a wave of distressed sales and write-downs, with global players scrambling to offload assets at steep discounts.
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Their retreat is adding fresh pressure to China’s already struggling property market, a sector that plays a huge role in the country’s economy.
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Distressed sales — where owners sell under pressure from debt or defaults — hit 114 billion yuan (S$20.78billion) across 2023 and 2024, a record 22% of all transactions, Bloomberg Intelligence data shows.
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All Sectors, One Struggle
The downturn is hitting nearly every corner of the commercial property market.
In logistics, once considered a bright spot thanks to the e-commerce boom, supply has outpaced demand. Even giants like Blackstone have started to sell. Earlier this year, it sold three logistics parks in southern China to a local insurance company for about 2.7 billion yuan.
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Even distressed-debt specialists like Oaktree Capital have had difficulty turning a profit.
In 2021, Oaktree seized control of Evergrande Venice on the Sea, a sprawling resort development in Jiangsu province, after the troubled developer defaulted on a $400 million loan. The project — envisioned as a Chinese version of Venice — included canals, a grand hotel, and a conference center modeled after the U.S. Capitol.
Oaktree has since restarted construction and handed over some homes to buyers, but sales remain sluggish. Apartments that once fetched up to 10,000 yuan per square meter in 2019 are now advertised at less than half that price.
The pain may not be over. Analysts warn that it could take years for the oversupply of commercial buildings to be absorbed. Rents in China’s office market fell nearly 7% in 2024 — the sharpest drop on record — and CBRE expects no meaningful recovery in new supply until at least 2028.
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“Global institutions are increasingly taking the view that this market won’t recover soon,” said Wilson. He expects office rents to keep falling through next year, and predicts that the nominal value of buildings in 2030 will still be below 2020 levels.
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Bloomberg reports that big global investors like BlackRock, Carlyle Group, and Blackstone have spent the past year selling office towers, warehouses, and malls for much less than they paid. Their retreat is adding fresh pressure to China’s already struggling property market, a sector that plays a huge role in the country’s economy.
Won't someone think of the multinational investment firms..
It's unfortunately not so easy. Many Chinese people poured a lot of money - some even their life savings - into property that is now worth much less than they paid or have never been built as the developer went bankrupt.
As one report on Evergrande said already in 2023:
In 2021, just months before the Chinese property giant Evergrande showed the first signs of crisis, Guo Tianran (whose name has been changed on request) and her husband bought an apartment off-plan for their only child from the top-selling developer.The couple, nearing their 60s, had scrimped to afford the $30,000 (£24,500) down payment on the yet-to-be-built flat. They bit the bullet in pledging to use 75% of their income to pay for the mortgage.
"We wanted to help our son, to give him a place to start out on once he graduates from college," Mrs Guo told the BBC earlier this month. But just months after their purchase, Evergrande's facade began to crack.
In Henan, the central Chinese province where they had bought the home, building work ground to a halt.
"We saw the main frame being built, and suddenly we heard that Evergrande was falling. Then construction stopped last year," she says [...] "When I think about it, I cry," says Mrs Guo about the home she had bought. "It's hard, and I feel sorry for my son and myself."
You'll find more reports than this one, and they are devastating not only for institutional investors but also for retail customers like Mrs. Guo in this report.
Evergrande: Anxious Chinese home buyers reel from crisis
As China's housing crisis grows, so have fears that dreams of home ownership have been bulldozed.By Yan Chen & Frances Mao (BBC News)
Most investors are normal-ish people, even.
The weird part is that anyone outside of China was buying up Chinese real estate in the first place. The oversupply issue has been on the radar for years and years.
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in reply to InternetCitizen2 • • •Attention developers: stop making apps. If you want profit, make a subscription to an account with a web app. Want to keep people happy? Subscription only charges them once. Bonus, the web app you write once works on everything, including those niche Linux phones.
Government moves to censor websites? Darknets aren’t just for criminals and conspiracy theorists anymore. Whitelist sites? We move to mesh networks like reticulum.
We nerds can move faster than a government can, especially this one.
Best thing about this is that moves like this totally destroy the profit-centric internet of today, flinging us back to a simpler, weirder, better classical internet we grew up with.
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in reply to muusemuuse • • •Boom! Thats what I was going for. Lemmy seems so anti-crypto when it has real use cases like this. Even here stumbling into where it’s useful you call it bullshit, why?
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in reply to diablexical • • •But those requirements are at odds with wider adoption. Most people are stupid.
Remember George Carlin’s words: Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.