Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil says deforestation is down
The Brazilian government said on Thursday that deforestation in its portion of the Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth consecutive year.
Brazil is home to the largest part of the Amazon River system, which spans nine countries and is considered crucial in the fight against climate change.
According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which uses satellites to track forest cover, 5,796 square kilometers (2,238 square miles) — an area nearly four times the size of Greater London — was destroyed between August 2024 and July 2025. This was 11% less deforestation than the previous year.
Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil says deforestation is down
Deforestation, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, is the main reason Brazil is the world's sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.Jenipher Camino Gonzalez (Deutsche Welle)
Reitti v2.0.0: Introducing Memories – Transforming Your Location Data into Personal Stories
Hey everyone! It's been a couple of months since my last update on Reitti (back on August 28, 2025), and I'm excited to share the biggest release yet: Reitti v2.0.0, which introduces the Memories feature. This is a game-changer that takes Reitti beyond just tracking and visualizing your location data, it's about creating meaningful, shareable narratives from your journeys.
The Vision for Reitti: From Raw Data to Rich Stories
Reitti started as a tool to collect and display GPS tracks, visits, and significant places. But raw data alone doesn't tell the full story. My vision has always been to help users transform scattered location points into something personal and memorable. Like a
digital travel diary that captures not just where you went, but how it felt. Memories is the first major step toward that, turning your geospatial logs into narrative-driven travel logs that you can edit, share, and relive.
What's New in v2.0.0: Memories
Memories is a beta feature designed to bridge the gap between data and storytelling. Here's how it works:
- Automatic Generation: Select a date range, and Reitti pulls in your tracked data, integrates photos from connected services (like Immich), and adds introductory text to get you started. Reitti builds a foundation for your story.
- Building-Block Editor: Customize your Memory with modular blocks. Add text for reflections, highlight specific visits or trips on maps, and create image galleries. It's flexible and intuitive, letting you craft personalized narratives.
- Sharing and Collaboration: Generate secure "magic links" for view-only access or full edit rights. Share with friends, family, or travel partners without needing accounts. It's perfect for group storytelling or archiving trips.
- Data Integrity: Blocks are copied and unlinked from your underlying data, so edits and shares don't affect your original logs. This ensures privacy and stability.
To enable Memories, you'll need to add a persistent volume to your docker-compose.yml for storing uploaded images (check the release notes for details).
Enhanced Sharing: Share your Data with Friends and Family
Building on the collaborative spirit of Memories, Reitti's sharing functionality has seen major upgrades to make your location data and stories more accessible. Whether it's sharing a Memory with loved ones or granting access to your live location, these features empower you to connect without compromising privacy:
- Magic Links for Memories and Data: Create secure, expirable links for view-only or edit access to Memories. For broader sharing, use magic links to share your full timeline, live data, or even live data with photos, all without requiring recipients to have a Reitti
- account.
- User-to-User Sharing: Easily grant access to other users on your instance, with color-coded timelines for easy distinction and controls to revoke permissions anytime.
- Cross-Instance Federation: Connect with users on other Reitti servers for shared live updates, turning Reitti into a federated network for families or groups.
- Privacy-First Design: All sharing respects your data, links expire, access is granular, and nothing leaves your server unless you choose integrations like Immich.
These tools make Reitti not just a personal tracker, but a platform for shared experiences, perfectly complementing the narrative power of Memories.
Other Highlights in Recent Updates
While Memories is the star, v2.0.0 and recent releases (like v1.9.x, v1.8.0, and earlier) bring plenty more to enhance your Reitti experience:
- Daterange-Support: Reitti is now able to show multiple days on the map. Simply lock your date on the datepicker and select a different one to span a date range.
- Editable Transportation Modes: Fine-tune detection for walking, cycling, driving, and new modes like motorcycle/train. Override detections manually for better accuracy.
- UI Improvements: Mobile-friendly toggles to collapse timelines and maximize map space; improved date picker with visual cues for available dates; consistent map themes across views.
- Performance Boosts: Smarter map loading (only visible data within bounds), authenticated OwnTracks-Recorder connections, multi-day views for reviewing longer periods, and low-memory optimizations for systems with 1GB RAM or less.
- Sharing Enhancements: Improved magic links with privacy options (e.g., "Live Data Only + Photos"); simplified user-to-user sharing with color-coded timelines; custom theming via CSS uploads for personalized UI.
- Integrations and Data Handling: Better Immich photo matching (including non-GPS-tagged images via timestamps); GPX import/export with date filtering; new API endpoints for automation (e.g., latest location data); support for RabbitMQ vhosts and OIDC with PKCE security.
- Localization and Accessibility: Added Brazilian Portuguese, German, Finnish, and French translations; favicons for better tab identification; user avatars on live maps for multi-user distinction.
- Advanced Data Tools: Configurable visit detection with presets and advanced mode; data quality dashboard for ingestion verification; geodesic map rendering for long-distance routes (e.g., flights); GPX export for backups.
- Authentication and Federation: OpenID Connect (OIDC) support with automatic sign-ups and local login disabling; shared instances for cross-server user connections with API token auditing.
- Miscellaneous Polish: Home location fallback when no recent data; jump-to-latest-data on app open; fullscreen mode for immersive views
All these updates build on Reitti's foundation of self-hosted, privacy-focused location tracking. Your data stays on your server, with no external dependencies unless you choose them.
Try It Out and Contribute
Reitti is open-source and self-hosted.
Grab the latest Docker image from GitHub and get started. If you're upgrading, review the breaking change for the data volume in v2.0.0.
For full details, check the GitHub release notes or the updated docs. Feedback on Memories is crucial since it's in betareport bugs, suggest improvements, or
share your stories!
Future Plans
After the memories update, I am currently gathering ideas how to improve on it and align Reitti further with my vision. Some things I have on my list:
Enhanced Data - at the moment, we only log geopoints. This is enough to tell a story about where and when. But it lacks the emotional part, the why and how a Trip or Visit has started. How you felt during that Visit, has it been a Meeting or a gathering with your family.
If we could, at the end of the day answer this, it would elevate the Memories feature and therefore the emotional side of Reitti a lot. We could color code stays, we could enhance the generation of Memories, ...
Better Geocoding - we should focus on the quality of the reverse geocoding. Mainly to classify Visits. I would like to enhance the out of the box experience if possible or at least have a guide which geocoding service gives the best results. This is also tied to the Memories feature. Better data means a better narrative of your story.
Local-AI for Memories - I am playing around with a local AI to enhance the text generation and storytelling of memories. There are some of us, which could benefit of a better, more aligned base to further personalize the Memory. At the moment, it is rather static. The main goals here would be:
- local only
- small footprint on Memory and CPU
- multi language support
I know this is a lot to ask, but one can still dream and there is no timeline on this.
Enhanced Statistics - This is still on my list. Right now, it works but we should be able to do so much more with it. But this also depends on the data quality.
Development Transparency
I use AI as a development tool to accelerate certain aspects of the coding process, but all code is carefully reviewed, tested, and intentionally designed. AI helps with boilerplate generation and problem-solving, but the architecture, logic, and quality standards remain
entirely human-driven.
Support & Community
Get Help:
- IRC:
irc.dedicatedcode.com - Reddit: u/danielgraf
- Lemmy: @danielgraf
- GitHub Issues: Open a new ticket for bugs or feature requests
Support the Project: ko-fi.com/danielgraf
Project Repository: github.com/dedicatedcode/reitt…
Documentation: dedicatedcode.com/projects/rei…
Thank You to our Contributors
A huge shoutout to all the contributors who have helped make Reitti better, including those who provided feedback, reported bugs, and contributed code. Your support keeps the project thriving!
Release v2.0.0 · dedicatedcode/reitti
Reitti 2.0.0: Introducing Memories Hello everyone, I am incredibly excited to announce the release of Reitti 2.0. This is a major update that brings a feature I've been envisioning for a long time:...GitHub
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There's also another issue we've found (unrelated to memories). We have two people using it, and we were sharing location data with each other from when you first enabled the feature, and haven't touched it since then.
Today, when I updated to v2, I noticed that even though I could see my partners name and icon listed in my map, I wasn't getting her data. She went to her settings and clicked me to share data, and from then on, I was getting her data, but there are now two copies of her icon at the top of the map
Hello Ada, since you are one of the first users it could be that at one point at the migration to a new version there was a hiccup. Did you used the older way over the shared instances feature or always the newer feature "Share with user"?
To fix this, you can take a look under "Share with user" and take note in the "Shared with you" section. There should only be one per shared user. Further take a look under "Integrations > Shared Instances" if there is also sharing setup. They both do the same but technically different.
This could explain why you are seeing them multiple times. Let me know if this helped, else we will sort this out somehow
JD Vance Seems to Think His Wife Is Going to Hell
JD Vance Seems to Think His Wife Is Going to Hell
At a Turning Point USA event, JD Vance was questioned about his brown, Hindu wife. His answer was disgusting.The New Republic
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Former Australian politician jailed for more than five years for sex crimes
Ex-Australian politician sentenced to more than five years for rape
Gareth Ward, a former independent member for Kiama in NSW, sexually assaulted two men between 2013 and 2015.Lana Lam (BBC News)
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Video Analysis Shows Staged Recovery of Israeli Hostage Remains
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/gaza-hamas-israel-remains.html
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
A Chinese CEO was recently ousted by a Dutch court for alleged governance and financial misconduct. The company? Nexperia, which designs semiconductors.Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa (Asia Times)
Germany's consumer watchdog warns of dangerous products on Chinese platforms Temu and Shein: pollutants in baby towels, toxic metals in jewelry, too hot chargers
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44937324
The original link is in German, this is a paraphrased translation.Germany's consumer watchdog Stiftung Warentest warns against toxic and dangerous products offered on the Temu and Shein sales platforms. It examined 162 third-party products that use Temu and Shein as a sales platform – 110 did not meet EU security requirements, the foundation said on Thursday. The testers found pollutants in baby play towels, toxic heavy metals in jewelry and too hot chargers.
- The German testers found too high a dose of formaldehyde in colorful cloths for babies; the substance may cause contact allergies. Many products lacked warnings. Two necklaces contained dangerous amounts of cadmium, exceeding the permitted limit by 8,500 times. Cadmium is classified as carcinogenic - the products must be brought to a pollutant collection point
- If you have purchased one of the pieces of cadmium-contaminated jewelry, dispose of it. The German testers warn that Toxic harmful substances do not belong in the household waste, bring the jewelry to a harmful material collection point, such as a recycling yard. Keep the chains away from children. Young children could swallow the follower.
- Almost all tested USB chargers did not meet the EU security requirements. Numerous products have become too hot during loading, up to around 88 degrees Celsius. A maximum limit of 77 degrees is allowed in the EU. Heavy heat can deform the charger’s plastic housing, damage the electronic insulation inside and, in the worst case, lead to fire.
The platforms Temu and Shein, founded in China, specialise in the direct sale of goods from abroad in the EU. They lure with extremely cheap offers. In Brussels, both companies are under investigation for possible breaches of EU consumer protection laws and online platform rules. In the case of Temu, the EU Commission has already come to the preliminary conclusion that consumers there are very likely to encounter non-consumer protection-compliant products.
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Temu und Shein: Gefährliche Schnäppchen
Die Stiftung Warentest hat bei Spielzeug, Schmuck und Elektrogeräte von Temu und Shein viele Sicherheitsmängel gefunden.Sandra Schwarz (Stiftung Warentest)
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In Taiwan, these people are called 民主二代 (second generation of democracy), oftentimes in a derogatory way, referring to a generation that came of age after Taiwan's democratization, sometimes seen as taking democracy for granted.
I kinda half don't blame them, they suffer from the same issues that most liberal democracies face now:
- horribly low pay and worker protections, in your first year working, expect to barely have 3 holiday days offered to you
- never being able to buy property in Taiwan (Taiwanese property market is insane and I could talk at lengths about it)
In this context, Taiwanese politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama. A lot of people become apathetic and just go "you can't eat democracy" (a dig at parties that keep pushing this as their campaign slogan rather than talking about kitchen-table political issues (housing, affordability, high cost of raising kids).
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... politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama
This is a problem everywhere. In fact it may well be the definition of politics.
I know this isn't particularly helpful in terms of this specific discussion (China, Taiwan, etc.), but that phrase leapt out at me and I had to call attention to it.
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JD Vance’s Half-Brother Suffers Humiliating Loss in Mayoral Race
JD Vance’s Half-Brother Suffers Humiliating Loss in Mayoral Race
The voters of Cincinnati roundly rejected Cory Bowman in favor of his Democratic opponent.The New Republic
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Support for community-wide banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5
Implement magazine banners by BentiGorlich · Pull Request #1759 · MbinOrg/mbin
add endpoints for deleting icon and banner like in the user profile add API endpoints for updating the banner. It is separate from the other theme settings, as it is in the user API because we are ...GitHub
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Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain
Richmond Council U-turn on £150 fine for coffee poured in drain
Burcu Yesilyurt, who poured coffee down a drain in Richmond, welcomed the cancellation of the "disproportionate" fine.Frankie McCamley (BBC News)
Ah, pardon your offense -- 'twas a joke, signified through the use of "^^".
Bottom line: I think it is ridiculously hilarious that such a small non-offense is being fined over there, by .. 'you people'. 😛
Can we not all agree to say this entire debacle is ... stupid? xD
Lighthearted; no offense meant nor intended. Enjoy your day!
Matrix.org - Post-mortem of the September 2 outage
“Unfortunately, in attempting to do so, we erroneously deleted the data directory of the primary on db-01.”
Wow, mistake on top of mistake on top of mistake it's impressive they could recover without data loss.
Post-mortem of the September 2 outage
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
One cool thing is that I had no idea that this happened until I just read it on their blog even though me, my friends and family use Matrix extensively.
But all my friends who are on Matrix host their own servers because it's quite easy, and my family uses my own server, only my brother uses a matrix.org account, but he doesn't write much.
This is decentralization working as it's supposed too, when enough participants are federated and not centralized.
On Lemmy the lemmy.world and the piefed.social instances are similar to matrix.org and I think all of them, including mastodon.social should close new registrations. I mean the flagship instances have their place in the beginning, but once they become so big they should be locked. The teams behind them can open another instance if they want to keep growing, but they should be run on a separate infrastructure to prevent bringing them down at the same time.
I always heard that rolling out an initial Matrix instance isn't terrible, especially with ansible and/or docker, but I also have heard that a lot of updates have breaking changes and that updating your server is less simple.
As someone who runs your own Matrix server, would you agree with this sentiment or disagree and why? I have considered rolling out my own many times but get discouraged by those who say keeping it updated is kind of a nightmare. For example, a private tracker I am a member of used to have a Matrix server and an IRC server, but they eventually dumped the Matrix server entirely to reduce complexity as well as the fact that fewer people used it.
When a bridge works like the discord and the Signal and WhatsApp ones it's amazing not to need to log in to those services anymore just to see if someone wrote something to you.
Sadly most of the bridges are either broken like the Facebook one or straight out don't work like she KakaoTalk and WeeChat ones because the services remove capabilities which before made it possible in a hacky way.
I use the synapse container, I followed the docs on matrix.org.
As far as a revere proxy I use the SWAG container from linuxserver. My matrix instance isnt exposed to the internet or federated but it used to be. When it was exposed I was using fail2ban to ban exploit attempts but if I were to set it up again I'd probably use crowdsec instead. They are both built into SWAG.
Affinity Studio is now free
Yes, Affinity really is free. You can use every tool in the Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios, plus all of the customization and export features, as much as you want, with no restrictions or payment needed. If you’re on a Canva premium plan, you’ll also be able to unlock Canva’s powerful AI tools within Affinity.
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At first glance, this all sounds positive, especially for users without an affinity for AI.
However, time will tell whether the program will become less appealing if it turns out that the majority of Affinity users are not persuaded to sign up for a Canvas subscription for AI editing.
Either certain tools and functions will disappear behind a paywall, or compatibility will be restricted by no longer allowing free import and export to certain file formats.
Ernest is alive
Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.
Just noticed he has a blog where he occasionally posts, latest post being from September, and in the "about me" section, he also mentions about having to drop Kbin.
Going by his posts and his repositories, he doesn't seem involved with ActivityPub anymore, at least in a public manner. But sharing in case someone worried about the person.
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I can't imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you're devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.
Happy that's not the case.
Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.
Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.
Her historic victory comes the same night former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, whom NBC News projects as the winner in the governor's race, became the first woman elected governor in the state.
Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.
Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim-American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.Alexandra Marquez (NBC News)
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Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times faster than the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.
* gift link — registration required
* archive.today — static images instead of animations
* ghostarchive.org might or might not load a few minutes after post goes up
Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR
v2 that should keep your installation up-to-date on the stable branch.
Release v2.2.0 · immich-app/immich
v2.2.0 The month following our stable release 🎉 has flown by! We are blown away by the support from everyone around this milestone, especially for the Retro DVD 📀! If you want to get one for yourse...GitHub
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It's been available.... "Kind of"
It creates a copy of your photo and rotates that. Leaving the original. Which I guess I can see being useful sometimes but it's very annoying in practice last I checked it.
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Gitea 1.25.0 | 3D file previews, improved archive downloads, enhanced authentication, and more security, API and workflow upgrades like automatic repo forking and email notifications for actions
Gitea 1.25.0 is released | Gitea Blog
We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Gitea v1.25.0.blog.gitea.com
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I use Forgejo with LFS for my Blender projects, so this would probably be useful to me if a similar feature were added there.
As an aside, it seems Blender uses Gitea and not sure they have plans to migrate to Forgejo anytime soon since it looks like they’ve poured a lot of resources into Gitea and even formed a partnership with the maintainers:
code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea…
code.blender.org/2022/08/gitea…
code.blender.org/2023/01/gitea…
Gitea Diaries: Part 3
Final chapter of the Phabricator to Gitea migration project.Francesco Siddi (Blender Developers Blog)
What I'm up to: October 2025 edition 🎃
What are 'put options'?
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You're buying the ability to sell a stock at a given price at some date in the future. If the price drops, you make money; if the price doesn't drop, you lose everything.
Basically the two use cases are: (1) To hedge against big market collapses in the value of stock you own, like buying insurance (2) to lose all your money on Robinhood by retail investing ("betting" that the stock will go down in an unregulated and rigged casino). I would somewhat bet that this is scenario number 1, but who knows.
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What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?
I have a Samba mount at home (behind NAT, accessible via wireguard VPN), which works very well when accessing my home files when traveling (I travel a lot for work).
The only detail missing from this solution is sharing individual files with friends. I could give them access to my VPN, but that gives them access to everything, not just one thing I want to share. Also not all my friends are that tech savvy to manage connecting to a VPN.
What would be really great is to have a link-generator that punches a hole in the NAT to give them access to specific files. Are there any self-hosted solutions for that?
K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down
October 30, 2025: Announcement of shutdown.
November 30, 2025: First reminder notice.
December 15, 2025: Second reminder notice. Future invoicing stops.
December 30, 2025: Third reminder notice.
January 15, 2026: Services disabled and final notice. Backups are still available.
February 1, 2026: Full system shutdown. All remaining data will be purged from the system. like this
Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitatHelena Horton (The Guardian)
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Protecting OpenWrt using CrowdSec (via Syslog)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/36928579
Here's how to set up CrowdSec to protect your OpenWrt router.Running the Security Engine in Docker (server), forwarding logs via Syslog, and using the lightweight firewall bouncer on the router.
Result: community-powered IPS on tiny hardware 🚀
Protecting OpenWrt using CrowdSec (via Syslog)
OpenWrt is an open source Linux project aimed at embedded devices to route network traffic (e.g. routers).Guido Kroon
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
: Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'Simon Sharwood (The Register)
Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
In a post from July, Trump proclaimed: "I am pleased to announce that, after the involvement of President Donald J. Trump, both Countries have reached a CEASEFIRE and PEACE. Congratulations to all! By ending this War, we have saved thousands of lives."
However, the reality was starkly different. Two weeks after Trump's initial celebration, artillery exchanges resulted in a significant death toll, with widespread injuries and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a diplomatic rebuke to President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting in South Korea, dismantling Trump's claims about resolving the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.Adam Nichols (Raw Story)
Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid
Lebanese state media identified the slain man as Ibrahim Salameh, an employee of the Blida municipality, a village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military confirmed the raid and said it was attacking Hezbollah infrastructure when it fired at a “suspect”. It said the incident was under review.
The killing led to widespread anger in Lebanon over repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty. In the hours after the raid, Israel carried out airstrikes in Labouneh, in south-west Lebanon, and Israeli drones could be heard flying low over Beirut.
The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, condemned the raid and ordered the Lebanese army to confront Israeli soldiers in any future incursions on Lebanese territory. In a statement, Aoun instructed the army to “confront any Israeli incursion into liberated southern territory, in defence of Lebanese territory and the safety of citizens”.
Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid
IDF says it was attacking Hezbollah infrastructure when it fired at a ‘suspect’ and the incident is under reviewWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
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Fuck making children grow up just to die
Yeah Ukraine deserves independence, but human beings deserve a shot at life instead of being ammunition.
Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island - ABC News
Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island
An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island after being accidentally left behind by the ship's crewROD MCGUIRK Associated Press (ABC News)
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She appeared to have fallen from a cliff or slope
This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there ...
That seems the most likely:
"Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left"
She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.
In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
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Extremism. Somehow people like that think they're better when they spread such callous indifference.
Like I get it, cruises aren't good for the environment at all but acting like someone deserved to die for it? They want to save humanity without bothering to preserve humanity.
China Home Sales Slump to Deepen As New Risks to Beijing’s Growth Strategy Emerge, Experts Say
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cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44894752
ArchivedChina’s multi-year property crisis is set to drag on in 2026 and further weigh on banks’ asset quality, even after the government stepped up its stimulus push to boost demand, according to Fitch Ratings.
The country’s new home sales by area may decline 15 to 20 per cent from their current level before the sector stabilises, Lulu Shi, a director at Fitch, said at a briefing in Shanghai on Wednesday (Oct 29).
Transactions by value may drop another 7 to 10 per cent next year, she added.“China’s trickling stimulus measures did not pull the residential sector from a further slowdown,” Shi said. “A meaningful property recovery will only come after the job market stabilises and household income rebounds, which would require a basket of policies and a long period of time.”
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The dim outlook for the domestic home market also means banks’ bad debt in the property segment will likely remain “elevated” next year, Vivian Xue, director for financial institutions at Fitch, said at the same briefing. That, coupled with households’ weakened ability to repay mortgages and other personal loans, means that banks’ asset quality could deteriorate next year, she added.
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Fixed income-specialist Pimco has identified new risks to China’s growth strategy.
In response to China’s aggressive price discounting, many Emerging Markets economies have erected higher tariff and trade barriers on Chinese goods imports, it writes in a report.
Europe has initiated investigations into Chinese product dumping and may increase the use of quotas. The U.S. has raised tariffs on all trading partners, but especially on Chinese goods, which has limited the ability of Chinese producers to access the U.S. market at lower tariff rates through “connector” countries for final stages of production. Although markets have shown signs of optimism for U.S.–China trade negotiations ahead of the countries’ presidents meeting this week, the relationship between these two major economies will likely remain volatile.
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Looking ahead, inventories can’t keep piling up forever if China wants to counter deflationary trends and maintain a stable economy. China’s policymakers have recently emphasized an “anti-involution” campaign: a nuanced approach to counter the intense competition that shrunk profit margins and to emphasize higher-quality growth and greater profitability, with a goal of reducing deflationary pressures.
However, unless Chinese policymakers are willing to more forcefully stimulate domestic demand, or tolerate slower production growth, Chinese products would need to continue to be exported at further price discounts to clear the inventory levels, Pimco says.
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China’s Growth Engine Faces Fresh Challenges
Macro Signposts highlights weekly takeaways from the data analysis conducted by our team of economists and other experts.Tiffany Wilding (Pacific Investment Management Company LLC)
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Poland Says Intercepted Russian Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea
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ArchivedPoland’s armed forces said Wednesday that two of its fighter jets had intercepted and escorted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea one day prior.
The Polish operational command said the Russian Il-20 surveillance aircraft was flying in international airspace without filing a flight plan and with its transponder turned off, making it invisible to civilian radar.
“The aircraft did not violate Polish airspace,” the command said in a statement on social media.
It added that two Polish MiG-29 fighter jets visually identified and escorted the Russian aircraft out of the area.
Operational command spokesman Jacek Goryszewski told Polish media, “Our pilots could have taken further actions if the Russian pilots took steps that we wouldn’t want, like violating our airspace or performing other dangerous maneuvers.”
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The interception comes amid rising alert levels across NATO’s eastern flank, where several member states have reported increased Russian air activity near their borders.
In September, three Russian military jets violated Estonia’s airspace for about 12 minutes and Poland reported more than 20 Russian drones crossing into its territory. The Kremlin denied the border incursions.
Poland is a staunch ally of Ukraine and has been a key transit point for Western arms heading to the embattled country since Russia invaded it in 2022.
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What's gluetun?
Occasionally I see people mention gluetun.
- What's gluetun? Seems like it's a VPN client? What's special about it?
- How do you use it in your setup?
- Do I need to know about this if I use Tailscale on the host for connecting to my VPN?
- Would gluetun allow me to use an additional VPN provider for certain apps without messing with the host Tailscale?
GitHub - qdm12/gluetun: VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. - qdm12/gluetunGitHub
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I use gluetun to connect specific docker containers to a VPN without interfering with other networking, since it's all self contained. It also has lots of providers built in which is convenient so you can just set the provider, your password, and your preferred region instead of needing to manually enter connection details manage lists of servers (it automatically updates it's own cached server list from your provider, through the VPN connection itself)
Another nice feature is that it supports scripts for port forwarding, which works out of the box for some providers. So it can automatically get the forwarded port and then execute a custom script to set that port in your torrent client, soulseek, or whatever.
I could just use a wireguard or openvpn container, but this also makes it easy to hop between vpn providers just by swapping the connection details regardless of whether the providers only support wg or openvpn. Just makes it a little more universal.
Suspects arrested over Louvre heist 'partially admit involvement' - as officials address inside job theory
Suspects arrested over Louvre heist 'partially admit involvement' - as officials address inside job theory
Paris police have acknowledged gaps in the Louvre's security systems following an audacious robbery at the world-famous museum.Sky News
Tens of thousands killed in two days in Sudan city, analysts believe
Tens of thousands killed in two days in Sudan city, analysts believe
Sky News is not able to independently verify the claims, but stains and shapes resembling blood and corpses can be seen from space in satellite images.Yousra Elbagir (Sky News)
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I just read about this here:
france24.com/en/africa/2025102…
And here's the actual paper produced by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, showing the satellite images. It's pretty damning: files-profile.medicine.yale.ed…
Genocide warnings 'flashing red' after RSF takeover of Sudan's El-Fasher
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have seized the western city of El-Fasher amid reports of extreme violence and mass killings.Joanna YORK (FRANCE 24)
D.F.L.P.: ‘The U.S. plan may stop the war in Gaza […] but it will not create peace.’
The U.S. plan announced by President Trump, under the pretext of halting the aggression and creating conditions for a comprehensive settlement, was in reality a response to mounting global pressure — not a result of genuine conviction on the part of Israel and its partner, the United States, to end the humanitarian catastrophe.Although the plan appears outwardly as an initiative to cease fire, its actual content reproduces the same Israeli standards that reduce the Palestinian cause to a mere “security issue” and ignore the root causes of the conflict — occupation, settlement expansion, displacement and the denial of the Palestinian people’s national rights.
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The U.S. plan seeks to end the war in Gaza according to Israeli terms — but it does not aim to create lasting or genuine peace in the region.
The nations of the world, especially those supporting Israel, must avoid repeating past mistakes by ignoring the real cause of the conflict: the Israeli occupation.
Stability in the region can only be achieved through principles that have become clear to all nations, organizations and international bodies — foremost among them:
– Clear and explicit recognition of the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people, as stipulated in international resolutions.
– Restoration of the territorial unity of the State of Palestine between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and rejection of any separation between them.
– The departure of the occupation and its settlers and the dismantling of all settlements.
– The establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, on a unified and contiguous territory free of barriers or obstacles.
‘The U.S. plan may stop the war in Gaza … but it will not create peace.’
The Department of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued the following statement on Nov. 1, 2025. A message from the “Department of International Relations of the D.F.L.Workers World
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Majenrobe doesn't like this.
Just treat whatever "advice" these things "give" as given by the person who made the decision to host them.
Should be simple.
Instead they are already being treated as some magic, not a tool inseparable from the owner, or as a living thing. It's idiotic.
Jeremy Scahill on Gaza “Ceasefire,” Talking to Hamas & Israel’s Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38241015
interview and transcript from Democracy Now!
Oct 27, 2025
Jeremy Scahill on Gaza “Ceasefire,” Talking to Hamas & Israel’s Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians
interview and transcript from Democracy Now!
Oct 27, 2025Jeremy Scahill on Gaza “Ceasefire,” Talking to Hamas & Israel’s Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians
Israel has carried out repeated attacks in Gaza and killed about 100 Palestinians over the past two weeks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect.Democracy Now!
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How to set up a decentralized game/chat server
I've been kicking around the idea of running a server for games and chat woth some of my friends, but worry about everyone getting cut off when there's a disruption.
I've started looking into kubernetes out of curiosity, and it seems like we could potentially set up a cluster with master nodes at 3+ locations to hose whatever game server or chat server that we want with 100% uptime, solving my concerns.
Am I misunderstanding the kubernetes documentation, and this is just a terrible idea? Or am I on the right track?
Try it out. You can try element and jitsi its free. Just test some matrix server with element web client and try out jitsi at their site.
For the self hosted instance yes I think you need a domain and subdomains.
Anti-foreigner sentiments are on the rise as Japan faces a population crisis
Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population.As opponents, separated by uniformed police and bodyguards, accuse him of racism, Kamiya shouts back, saying he is only talking common sense.
Sanseito, while still a minor party, made big gains in July’s parliamentary election, and Kamiya's “Japanese First” platform of anti-globalism, anti-immigration and anti-liberalism is gaining broader traction ahead of a ruling party vote Saturday that will choose the likely next prime minister.
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.
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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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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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