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[Patch Notes] 3.27.0b Patch Notes (restartless)


3.27.0b Patch Notes


Keepers League Improvements and Fixes

  • Monsters that are targeting Ailith will now move closer before using their skills.
  • Ailith will create skills more frequently during Hive Fortress encounters. Note there is a maximum of 6 skill objects active at a time.
  • Increased the cooldown for which Ailith cannot be damaged for after taking damage. This cooldown becomes longer the more damage she takes from an individual hit.
  • Failing a Breach Hive or Hive Fortress encounter will now drop all the loot of the monsters you had killed up to that point. You will not however gain any Graftblood or Wombgifts.
  • Rare Breach and Blight Monsters can no longer spawn with the Soul Eater modifier.
  • Mysterious Wombgifts were failing to generate Maps sometimes. Mysterious Wombgifts now no longer grant regular Maps, and there is now a small chance for higher level Mysterious Wombgifts to birth special types of Maps such as Shaper Guardian Maps or Synthesis Unique Maps.
  • The Artificial Selection Genesis Tree notable now affects the chance to get Hivebrain Glands from the Tree.
  • Breach Encounter skills can now be activated by pressing the 'League Interface' bind (default 'V') while in range.
  • Ailith now has the same quick action shortcuts as other vendors. Most notably, Ctrl + Click now opens the sell items window when using keyboard and mouse.
  • It that was Tul and It that was Esh now have unusable corpses. This fixes a bug where if you destroyed the corpse of these bosses shortly after they die the Hiveborn Body Part quest item would not drop.
  • Fixed desync that could occur with Unstable Breaches which caused them to sometimes appear already expanded.
  • Fixed a bug with the Gifts for the Genesis Tree quest saying you had turned in no body parts when you had turned in exactly 9 body parts.
  • Fixed a bug where Genesis Tree Passives for Birthed Unique Items generating with Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence Requirements were described as increased/reduced instead of more/less.
  • Fixed a bug where the It That Claws and It That Suspects Breach monsters were counted as Beyond Demons.
  • Updated the descriptions Encrusted Fruit and Wild growth notable passives on the Genesis Tree to have the correct displays: 25% chance for Birthed Currency to drop as Gold instead and 2% chance for Birthed Currency to drop as a full stack respectively. This is just a display update and they have functioned like this since 3.27.0 launch.

General Improvements and Fixes

  • Added a button to leave another player's hideout if you arrived there via The Market.
  • Significantly increased the cooldown on Faustus talking when using asynchronous trade.
  • Fixed a bug where Captured Beasts could not be placed in Merchant's Tabs.
  • Fixed an issue where Transfigured Gems were not searchable using The Market.
  • Fixed a bug where Foulborn Nightmare Jewels had much higher radius than intended. This change affects existing items.
  • Fixed a bug where the Foulborn Kalisa's Grace Unique Gloves' 50% reduced Mana Cost Buff was not being applied to the player.
  • Fixed a bug where Animate Guardian of Smiting's Smite ability unintentionally had base damage lowered by ~38% and effectiveness of added damage lowered by ~70% in 3.27.0.
  • Fixed a bug where Added Physical Damage on Attack Skill Gems was incorrectly described like Base Damage rather than Added Damage. Only Physical Damage was affected by this bug.
  • Fixed a bug where the tab colours in Siosa's shop were incorrect.
  • Fixed an instance crash.

Controller

  • Added the ability to access sales history in asynchronous trade when using a controller.
  • Fixed an bug which prevented navigation within certain Stash Tabs when using a controller.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented moving Voidstones from the Voidstone storage inventory into the Atlas sockets when using a controller.
  • Fixed a bug where Y/Triangle could not be used to corrupt a monster trapped in Essence with a Vaal Orb when using a controller.

This patch was deployed without restarting the servers, you'll need to restart your client to patch the client changes.



Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode




All Republicans Defeated as Democrats Sweep Key Races in Three States Ahead of Midterms


Democrats scored a historic sweep Tuesday, capturing key races in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New York, leaving Republicans shut out and building momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms.


Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia, flip 13 seats statewide


Democratic candidates won all 30 of Northern Virginia's seats in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday as the party was set to significantly expand its 51-49 majority in the state's lower chamber.

As of 11 p.m., Democrats had picked up 13 seats statewide, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. With only one race undecided, the Democrats will hold at least 64 of the 100 seats, the most they have held in nearly 40 years.

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html




in reply to silence7

He thinks he holds the purse strings. We'll use it to carry his head to the jeu de paume court.
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Democrats Retain Control of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court with Three-Seat Sweep




L'alta ziggurat di Abidjan, faro eclettico nella metropoli del modernismo africano - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri


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Exclusive: Inside the UAE's secret Sudan war operation at Somalia's Bosaso


At Bosaso Airport in Somalia’s Puntland state, the thunderous sound of large aircraft hitting the tarmac echoes out across the port city.

Minutes after landing, the aircraft can be identified. It is a white IL-76 heavy cargo transport plane, and it is parking next to a very similar aircraft.

For local residents, the sound of such planes was unusual two years ago, when they first began landing in Bosaso. Not anymore. Moments later, undisclosed heavy logistical materials are seen being offloaded from the aircraft.

“They’re frequent and the logistics are transferred immediately to another aircraft that is on standby and is destined for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan through the neighbouring countries,” said Abdullahi, a senior Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) commander at Bosaso Airport, who spoke to Middle East Eye using a different name for security reasons.

For years, the UAE has been funding Puntland’s PMPF, a regional force established to combat piracy. The soldiers there say none of the materiel arriving on transport aircraft is brought to their camp, as the shipments are large and beyond their requirements.








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.



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:

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!

in reply to danielgraf

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

in reply to Ada

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


in reply to schizoidman

The article mentions it in passing, but I want to point out that the accusations came to light in 2021 and he was kicked out of the Liberal party (they're the mainstream conservative party in Australia FYI), then suspended from the NSW Parliament when he was charged in 2022, but he was still re-elected in 2023 despite criminal charges hanging over his head. Even after he was convicted he took legal action to fight against expulsion from the Parliament rather than resigning like any MP with a shred of integrity would do, and only finally resigned literally hours before the expulsion vote was to be held (which was definitely going to pass).
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Video Analysis Shows Staged Recovery of Israeli Hostage Remains


On Tuesday, Israel’s military released a nearly 15-minute drone video that it said showed Hamas members staging the discovery of a deceased captive amid the ruins as observers from the Red Cross watched.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/gaza-hamas-israel-remains.html




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.

[...]



Support for community-wide banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5


Support for community-wide banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5 #1759 #mbin #lemmy #fediverse
github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/1…
in reply to darklamer

to display the banner that moderators want for their community/magazine (i just call it a commag)?
in reply to celeste

no, the banner is what you currently see on Lenny above a community’s feed. i changed the post title to hopefully clarify that

in reply to Angelevo

Who is “you people” and how do you get that? I just spent the whole comment talking about how we don’t allow dumping in the storm drains.
in reply to scarabic

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.

in reply to Jeena

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.

in reply to Jeena

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.

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in reply to Snot Flickerman

I run my own matrix server, too. I've never had any issues with updates. Honestly, I just pull the new docker image without thinking twice about it. It is risky, of course, but I have daily automated backups, so I'm not too concerned. Personally, I felt like setting up a matrix server for the first time was the biggest pain in the butt. It's extremely convoluted with very poorly written documentation that is often outdated or incomplete. After I got through that, it was smooth-sailing from there. Setting up mautrix bridges one you got Synapse to work is actually really easy, though.
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in reply to Opisek

I don't even really plan to use any bridges, as I understand it those are for if you want to pass messages from other services through your matrix server. I would rather keep those separate personally, even though I understand certain benefits, including having all your messaging in one application instead of numerous.
in reply to Snot Flickerman

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.

in reply to Snot Flickerman

I run it on Ubuntu and installed it with apt about 7 years ago and had zero problems, it updates itself when I run apt upgrade, it turns itself off for a couple of seconds and then it's back up.
in reply to Jeena

I didn't even know they had it set up as an apt repository for Ubuntu. Very interesting.
in reply to Snot Flickerman

I run it in docker and an update has never caused issues. Been about 3 years.
in reply to superglue

Which docker container do you use, if you don't mind me asking. Also, how complicated would you rate the setup? I have a degree in network admin and run multiple Linux servers and docker containers with manually created docker network bridges so they can freely communicate with one another, to give an idea of my knowledge base. Honestly the only thing I haven't done before yet that makes me nervous is setting up a reverse proxy to expose the endpoint to the internet and connect it to my owned domain name.
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in reply to Snot Flickerman

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.

in reply to Jeena

What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale...


Affinity Studio is now free


[quote]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
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.
in reply to simple

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


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.

in reply to Auster

Thank you so much. Every so often he would cross my mind and its good to know hes alright. He did good work and the beauty of open source is you an let it go and what you did can continue.
in reply to HubertManne

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.




Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR


Also the docker images now have a major tag v2 that should keep your installation up-to-date on the stable branch.
in reply to theyllneverfindmehere

I don't see an ability to rotate in the web app. It's been available for a long time in the mobile app though.
in reply to Avid Amoeba

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.

in reply to corsicanguppy

Containers are better than any other option, so of course they're being used! I'm gunna use containers even harder!
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in reply to B0rax

Ideally yea. Rpm package with various architectures. 90% of other software is able to do it. I only use docker for immich and this would remove a dependency for me.
in reply to corsicanguppy

There's always one of these comments and it's always incredibly similar.
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in reply to morrowind

My work self hosts Gitea because Forgejo doesn't support Windows. While I agree with Forgejo's decision, it sucks to be basically stuck with an old pre-fork version of the forge I self-host.
in reply to justme

Yeah, we use Windows servers primarily. Thankfully what I do doesn't require much interaction with them, though every once in a while I am subjected to SMB file sharing.
in reply to morrowind

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…



What I'm up to: October 2025 edition 🎃


a blog post that chronicles what I’ve been up to this month: from speaking at a conference in Berlin, to 3 podcast interviews about the Fediverse…
a blog post that chronicles what I've been up to this month: from speaking at a conference in Berlin, to 3 podcast interviews about the Fediverse...


What are 'put options'?


What are 'put options'? #fedia
What does it mean that Michael Burry's fund holds 'put options'?

jerry reshared this.

in reply to BellaJones

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.

in reply to BellaJones

Oh, it was the second of my options. The guy is betting that the market will crash.


hilton.com Outage


Realized something is off after several attempts at logging in to the website and the mobile app while trying to book a stay. Thought at first that they detected a bot login from me.

https://downdetector.com/status/hilton/



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


Services will shutdown on the following schedule.
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.  



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 🚀




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.



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”.




in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum

I'd say older white Americans, rich Americans, and rich immigrants belive america is the greatest democracy

in reply to herseycokguzelolacak

Turns out being a young man in a war-torn country sucks, of course people would seek their fortunes elsewhere if you let them
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak

Good

Fuck making children grow up just to die

Yeah Ukraine deserves independence, but human beings deserve a shot at life instead of being ammunition.


in reply to Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips

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 ...

in reply to troed

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.

in reply to Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips

Aww, these poor cruise-faring souls only wanted to pollute and consume a little, but they died instead. Tragic.
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in reply to yeahiknow3

An 80 year old woman was abandoned on a hiking trail and fell off the trail to her death. What the fuck is wrong with you
in reply to paris

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


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44894840

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44894752
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China’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.”

[...]

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.

[...]

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.

[...]

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.

[...]




Poland Says Intercepted Russian Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44896261

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Poland’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.”

[...]

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.



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?
in reply to paequ2

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.

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in reply to paequ2

I have a torrent client in a docker container thats hooked up to it. Makes it so its not possible for your real IP to leak. If the VPN disconnects the torrent container loses internet.


in reply to Sahwa

Sadly, the genocide in Gaza also made people forget about what is happening in Sudan, which is somehow worse.
in reply to thatonecoder

Before the genocide in Gaza qe didn't care that much about Sudan unfortunatly. All those countries preaching human rights do not care about neither too
in reply to Sahwa

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…



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.

[…]

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.


in reply to silence7

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.