Hello,

I don't like how many items/blocks were added to Minecraft. It removes what made Minecraft so special–its simplicity.

Are there any Luanti games that replicate that feeling? "Minetest Game" doesn't have any mobs, and has weird controls. VoxeLibre has too many items.

You could probably fix that with mods or... you know just not using the items i don't wanna use. 😀
I still wanted to ask here though maybe somebody uses exactly that.
I did found an empty server that was running something, that looked a lot like Minecraft Alpha, but I couldn't find what game they have used.

Graffitismo: la pratica di disegnare immagini sul tessuto urbano. Si fa per lasciare il segno, per non rimanere nell’anonimato. Una manifestazione sociale e culturale diffusa in tutto il pianeta e che da sempre si pone al centro di una sottilissima linea che separa arte e vandalismo fine a se stesso... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-11-28 08:44:43

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Graffitismo: la pratica di disegnare immagini sul tessuto urbano. Si fa per lasciare il segno, per non rimanere nell’anonimato. Una manifestazione sociale e culturale diffusa in tutto il pianeta e che da sempre si pone al centro di una sottilissima linea che separa arte e vandalismo fine a se stesso. Un eterno conflitto che di certo non spetta a noi risolvere. La posizione dei The Vaccines è invece molto decisa a riguardo: Justin Young, il simpatico frontman del gruppo, sostiene che in un’epoca in cui l’uomo è in grado di comunicare con un’altra persona dall’altra parte del mondo così facilmente, spesso le parole dette risultano vuote e senza significato. A volte, quindi, è meglio affidarsi a parole ferme, solide, scritte sui muri: Graffiti (appunto)... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/06…

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We all love media – to some extent at least!
Movies, TV Shows and all the moving pictures we can find and consume.
So, since we all have movies etc. on our NAS/HDD/SSD/whatever we should be able to play and see everything we have on all our connected devices.
But what can we do?
Simple, we leverage Jellyfin to present our media to us.

In this little howto we will set up Jellyfin in a Jail on FreeBSD.

Let’s get right to it!

Creating the Jail

Jails can be created in different ways. In this howto however we will use Bastille – which is a excellent tool for creating Jails.

This howto will not go into detail of how to set up Bastille. If you need to set up Bastille first, given you have not installed said tool, you can have a look at the quickstart guide:
Bastille Quickstart Guide

Right, let’s create the Jail first.
$ sudo bastille create media 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.23.77/24 vtnet0
You of course need to change the IP address and network interface (vtnet0 is probably not what you want!). Also, one can of course change the name of the Jail – I’ve chosen media since that describes the use case well of said Jail.
After that our Jail is ready!

Jellyfin needs mlock to be enabled to work properly.
$ sudo bastille config media set allow.mlock 1
But wait a second… How do I access all my media files?
There is no access in the Jail to any directory on the host holding all my videos!
Right, that is the case indeed!
So, what can we do?
Simple, we just mount our media directory in the Jail with nullfs!
$ sudo bastille mount "media" /home/x/videos/ /videos nullfs ro 0 0
This line mount /home/x/videos/ in the Jail under /videos. Also, I mount the directory as readonly – which you can change by sepcifying rw on the command above. Be sure to also select the correct Jail – in my case media.

Jail fun with Jellyfin

We can now finally enter the jail to further go along with the howto.
$ sudo bastille console media
Let’s first install Jellyfin which is directly accessible from the official package repository.
$ pkg$ pkg update -f$ pkg install -y jellyfin
The first command pkg bootstraps the pkg package manager. The second command refreshes the package cache and the last command installs Jellyfin itself.

Right, so far so good.
But we also need to configure Jellfin (Service) to always start. And, last but not least, we need to start Jellyfin – since it is not running after the installation finished.
$ sysrc jellyfin_enable="YES"$ service jellyfin start
We did all that, alright… But how do we know Jellyfin is running?
Let’s have a look at the ps and sockstat output.
root@media:~ # sockstat -l4USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS jellyfin jellyfin 10700 478 udp4 10.0.23.77:7359 *:*jellyfin jellyfin 10700 503 tcp4 10.0.23.77:8096 *:*root@media:~ # ps ax PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND10662 - SsJ 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -ss10699 - IsJ 0:00.00 daemon: /usr/local/jellyfin/jellyfin[10700] (daemon)10700 - IJ 0:03.81 /usr/local/jellyfin/jellyfin --datadir /var/db/jellyfin --cachedir /var/cache/jellyfin10706 - SsJ 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/cron -J 60 -s10804 1 IJ 0:00.00 login [pam] (login)10805 1 SJ 0:00.01 -sh (sh)10842 1 R+J 0:00.00 ps ax
Ah yes, Jellyfin is running and listening on port 8096 – which is the designated port for Jellyfin!

Jellyfin all the way!

Since we established that Jellyfin is running and listening, let’s open our webbrowser of choice and navigate over to the install wizard.
$ firefox 10.0.23.77:8096
We are greated with the intital Jellyfin wizard.
I will not go into detail on how to set up the wizard. But don’t worry, there is a excellent guide over on the official Jellyfin website.
The guide can be found here: Jellyfin Setup Wizard guide

Be sure to add your nullfs mounted directory in your library to be able to play said videos and shows.

That is all there is to it.
Simple, easy and clean. Everything is done in a Jail and isolated. Also, mounting a media directory is easy and straightforward via bastille mount.

Final words

This little howto just shows how versatile jails are. One can of course tweak the setup further and for example add a reverse proxy (like Nginx) to the mix.
The sky is the limit – Tools like bastille are very powerful and flexible!

Enjoy!

…and as always:

Stay Open!

I am trying to code a random encounter generator for a DnD campaign and am having a great deal of trouble. I don't know how to code and have been trying to parse my syntax for three hours over what I thought would be a relatively simple task.

My goal is to have a list of [ruins], with nested subtables of encounters, characters, treasure, etc. Example would be that there is a ruin called "Ancient Archives". The generator pulls that name, and then automatically pulls from an "encounter" list specifically tailored for "Ancient Archives". And then also pulls from a friendlies/rivals list, treasure list, and "Complication list" that are tailored to Ancient Archives.

So a successful output might look like: Ancient Archives (blah blah blah boilerplate description), Inside:
Encounter: Maddened archive keeper
Friendly/Rival: Helpful Attendant
Complication: The information is very dangerous to know
Treasure: Key to decoding the data inside

If the [ruins] selected was instead "Birthing Cyst", the encounter, friendlies, and treasure sublist would be different, and tailored to "birthing cyst" instead of "Ancient Archives"

can anyone help me out with the way to format this??

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https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2025/11/12/chinas-chip-industry-will-surprise-the-world

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2025/11/12/chinas-chip-industry-will-surprise-the-world

Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.

archive.is/rcwb4
Published Nov. 26, 2025
Updated Nov. 27, 2025, 10:30am ET

The married couples filed into a federal building in San Diego last week for green card interviews that they believed would secure their future together in the United States. Half of each pair was American. Stephen Paul came with his British wife and their 4-month-old baby. Audrey Hestmark arrived with her German husband, days before their first wedding anniversary. Jason Cordero accompanied his Mexican wife.

It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away.

“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39573685

Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.

archive.is/rcwb4
Published Nov. 26, 2025
Updated Nov. 27, 2025, 10:30am ET

The married couples filed into a federal building in San Diego last week for green card interviews that they believed would secure their future together in the United States. Half of each pair was American. Stephen Paul came with his British wife and their 4-month-old baby. Audrey Hestmark arrived with her German husband, days before their first wedding anniversary. Jason Cordero accompanied his Mexican wife.

It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away.

“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.

Peter Link

2025-11-28 03:40:55

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of US Citizens

Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.

archive.is/rcwb4
Published Nov. 26, 2025
Updated Nov. 27, 2025, 10:30am ET

The married couples filed into a federal building in San Diego last week for green card interviews that they believed would secure their future together in the United States. Half of each pair was American. Stephen Paul came with his British wife and their 4-month-old baby. Audrey Hestmark arrived with her German husband, days before their first wedding anniversary. Jason Cordero accompanied his Mexican wife.

It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away.

“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html

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Opinion - Guest Essay
By Greg Lukianoff
Nov. 26, 2025

Mr. Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer living in Lexington, Tenn., had posted a meme on Facebook after the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10. It was a picture of Donald Trump along with Mr. Trump’s comment in response to a school shooting at Perry High School in Iowa in 2024: “We have to get over it.” The meme was headed by the caption, “This seems relevant today.”

Mr. Bushart shared that meme in a Facebook thread promoting a vigil for Mr. Kirk in nearby Perry County, Tenn. The Perry County Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant for Mr. Bushart’s arrest, claiming that the post was a threat of “mass violence” at a school.

Peter Link

2025-11-28 03:02:01

A Retired Police Officer Posted a Meme. It Earned Him 37 Days in Jail.

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Opinion - Guest Essay
By Greg Lukianoff
Nov. 26, 2025

Mr. Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer living in Lexington, Tenn., had posted a meme on Facebook after the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10. It was a picture of Donald Trump along with Mr. Trump’s comment in response to a school shooting at Perry High School in Iowa in 2024: “We have to get over it.” The meme was headed by the caption, “This seems relevant today.”

Mr. Bushart shared that meme in a Facebook thread promoting a vigil for Mr. Kirk in nearby Perry County, Tenn. The Perry County Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant for Mr. Bushart’s arrest, claiming that the post was a threat of “mass violence” at a school.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opinion/charlie-kirk-free-speech-bushart.html

Jerusalem (AFP) – The Israeli military carried out a fresh series of strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Thursday, exactly a year into a ceasefire with the militant group.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Israeli aircraft launched "a series of raids on Al-Mahmoudiya and Al-Jarmak", just north of the Litani River.

The November 27, 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of hostilities between the two sides.

But Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to stop the group from rearming.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said his country was "in a one-sided war of attrition that is escalating".

The Israeli military said it "struck and dismantled Hezbollah terror infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon", in a statement after Thursday's strikes.

The US has been piling pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah.

The Lebanese military has said it is carrying out its plan to disarm the group, but Washington and Israel have accused Lebanese authorities of stalling the process.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun "rejected the Israeli claims", his office said Thursday, adding that the Lebanese army was "preventing armed displays, confiscating ammunition, inspecting tunnels, among other things".

On Thursday, Aoun met Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the United Nations' special coordinator for Lebanon, who said that a year on from the ceasefire, "uncertainty remains".

"For too many Lebanese, the conflict is ongoing -- albeit at a lower intensity. And one does not need a crystal ball to understand that as long as the current status quo continues, the spectre of future hostilities will continue to loom large," she said.

In a statement posted by the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Thursday evening, the peacekeeping force said it continued to find "illegal weapons" in southern Lebanon.

UNIFIL said it also recorded over 10,000 air and ground violations of the truce in the past year.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz earlier this week warned there would be "no calm" in Lebanon if Israel's security was not guaranteed.

An Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday killed Haitham Ali Tabatabai -- the most senior Hezbollah commander to be killed by Israel since the ceasefire entered into force.

The Lebanese premier slammed Hezbollah's claims that its weapons deter Israeli aggression.

"These weapons did not protect either Hezbollah's leaders or the Lebanese people and their property," Salam said.

"Are Hezbollah's weapons currently capable of repelling the ongoing Israeli attacks? These weapons have provided neither deterrence nor protection, nor have they brought victory to Gaza."

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46319830

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46319779

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Protests have erupted among villagers in southwest China against a government order on burial practices, an exceedingly rare expression of dissent in a country with little tolerance for it.

The poor and rural province of Guizhou, about 2,000km from Beijing, has witnessed a string of rare protests since the weekend after the local government imposed a mandatory cremation policy.

The protests reportedly continued on Tuesday as the government pushed back with a notice, which claimed that cremation was necessary to preserve land resources and promote a “frugal new funeral style”.

[...]

A compilation of videos shared by the X account Yesterday Big Cat showed people purportedly gathering around government officials and chanting slogans in a rare display of dissent. A villager can be heard shouting: “If the Communist Party is digging up ancestor’s graves, go dig up Xi Jinping’s ancestral tombs first.”

Protests are an unusual sight in China, and their coverage in local media is even sparse. Beijing’s reaction to the protests over the years has been censorship and an attempt to crack down.

The China Dissent Monitor this year recorded 661 rural protests in the country, a 70 per cent increase over the whole of 2024,

[...]

China has imposed sweeping funeral reforms to phase out ground burials and encouraged people to consider alternative funeral practices, even sea burials. But the orders have invited backlash from mostly rural communities who see traditional burials are part of their culture.

[...]

In 2021, Chinese authorities faced backlash for exhuming the body of an elderly woman for cremation after her son had given her a traditional burial in Guizhou.

A villager from Pingtang county rued that his mother's body was removed from her grave and sent to a funeral home soon after her family had buried her. “I’m OK if they took her away from home, but why did they dig her up after we buried her," he was quoted as saying by the South China Morning Post.

Rare protest breaks out in China as video shows villagers defying government order

^{Alisha Rahaman Sarkar (The Independent)}

In Monday I spoke with a Republican member of Indiana’s legislature who opposes President Donald Trump’s push for the state to redraw its congressional map to gain two GOP seats and help the party hold its House majority in next year’s midterm elections. Trump, with support from Indiana’s Republican governor, Mike Braun, has vowed to back primary challengers against members of the GOP who are, for now, blocking the redistricting plan. The lawmaker I spoke with asked that I not publish his name. He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection. His fear of speaking out is much more personal: “I’d rather my house not get firebombed,” he told me by phone.

Such a worry is not as far-fetched as it might sound—not in an America that has seen an eruption of political violence over the past few years, and not in Indiana over the past few weeks. Republicans in the state have faced a wave of “swatting” incidents, in which a false call to emergency services draws a police response, for not endorsing the redistricting plan. (Braun said he and his family have also received threats.)

The Red State Resisting Trump’s Redistricting Drive

He opposed gerrymandering. Harassment followed.

^{Russell Berman (The Atlantic)}

If the United States fails to extend the New START Treaty, which expires on February 5, 2026, it will deal a severe blow to nuclear arms control. The move would effectively eliminate the last legally binding framework limiting the strategic arsenals of the world’s major powers. Such a decision would not only dismantle mechanisms of transparency and mutual verification but also open the way to an uncontrolled buildup of warheads and delivery systems. This would destabilize global security and provoke a new and dangerous arms race. Experts warn that Washington’s refusal to renew the treaty would destroy the last vestiges of nuclear risk management, deepen mistrust, and increase the risk of escalation toward nuclear conflict.

A complete halt to inspections and data exchanges on strategic forces would heighten suspicion and further strain international relations. Strategic instability would inevitably grow, especially given that Russia—despite suspending its participation in New START—had proposed extending the agreement for one year in an effort to avoid further escalation. The entire nuclear nonproliferation regime would come under threat, as such U.S. actions could push China, India, and other nations to expand their nuclear capabilities more aggressively.

Both Russian and international analysts believe that the U.S. refusal to extend New START would not prevent an arms race, but rather act as a destabilizing factor fueling one. This step undermines long-standing efforts toward arms control and sets a dangerous precedent for international security. Washington’s position is widely criticized as narrow-minded and counterproductive. Under the current circumstances, preserving and extending the treaty remains a key element of deterrence and nuclear conflict prevention, while Washington’s refusal to do so only deepens the crisis in international relations and heightens threats to global stability.

While Russia has signaled readiness to extend the treaty for another year under existing limits, the United States continues to delay negotiations and set unrealistic conditions, including the demand to involve China. This appears to be a deliberate attempt to derail the agreement and weaken nuclear oversight to the greatest possible extent. Such an approach reflects disregard for international obligations and accountability, threatening to usher in a perilous new era without any control over strategic nuclear arsenals.

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Beyond New START: What Happens Next in Nuclear Arms Control?

With the expiration of the New START treaty on 4 February 2026, the major nuclear powers will have to find another transparent, predictable pathway to restraint.

^www.rusi.org

In recent months, dominant rhetoric about the revolutionary potential of drones and artificial intelligence in warfare has flooded professional discussions. This narrative—presented as a fundamental game-changer—is not merely exaggerated; it dangerously distorts reality, reviving the same misleading patterns of the so‑called “Revolution in Military Affairs” propaganda popular in the 1990s. The actual state of affairs is that, however hyped these technologies may be, they represent an evolutionary and ethically problematic step in the development of weaponry. They do not possess the capacity to transform the very nature of war, which has always been—and remains—an exclusively human endeavor.

The B‑21 Raider strategic bomber is promoted as the future of long-range aviation. Yet in essence, it is simply a more advanced and more expensive version of its predecessors, such as the B‑1 and B‑2. For decades, these platforms have served as the workhorses of strategic aviation, and the B‑21, despite all its technological improvements, is designed to perform the same core mission—delivering strikes and demonstrating power. Its enhanced stealth, extended range, and payload capacity represent evolution rather than revolution. Contrary to the hype surrounding unmanned systems and artificial intelligence, it does not fundamentally alter the nature of combat. The very fact that the Pentagon continues to invest billions into a manned bomber speaks volumes about the inherent limitations and risks of new technologies.

Unmanned aerial vehicles undoubtedly hold appeal in military planning. They create the illusion of bloodless warfare and open access to regions closed to manned aircraft. However, the claim that they will render platforms like the B‑21 obsolete is a dangerously simplistic notion. Drones are highly vulnerable to modern electronic warfare systems and become helpless in contested airspace. Their role remains tactical, not strategic. As for the military application of artificial intelligence, it opens a genuine Pandora’s box. The idea that algorithms and machine learning can replace human judgment and strategic thinking on the battlefield is not merely naïve—it is monstrous in its potential consequences. War, with all its political, social, and moral dimensions, is not a computational problem. The notion that machines might autonomously decide matters of life and death represents an abdication of human responsibility. The cold, soulless logic of artificial intelligence cannot grasp the true horror of war, and its integration into weapon systems threatens to create a world in which killing becomes an automated routine.

The technological haze surrounding drones and AI seeks to conceal an eternal truth: the essence of any conflict—namely the struggle for resources and power—remains unchanged. The B‑21 serves as a symbol of this enduring reality. It is a new tool for ancient threats, the same ones its predecessors have faced over the past eighty years. Fears that the B‑21 could share the fate of battleships, becoming obsolete, are based on a misunderstanding of its role. It has not become outdated because no breakthrough comparable to the advent of aircraft carriers has occurred. The manned strategic bomber remains as relevant today as it was in 1944. The B‑21 undeniably possesses superior functionality compared to previous generations and can carry advanced weapon systems, including unmanned ones. It is more lethal, but it continues to fulfill the same strategic missions of deterrence and intimidation. Its deployment sends a signal to both allies and adversaries: the United States intends to maintain dominance in the skies through manned systems. To claim that drones and AI will make all existing platforms obsolete is not only wrong—it is strategically dangerous, as such thinking can undermine defense readiness in the face of real rather than imagined threats.

The Raider is more than just a next-generation bomber. It is a statement of commitment to traditional—albeit costly—military power in an era obsessed with cheap technological fantasies. Support for the B‑21 program is not a rejection of technological progress, but rather a recognition that nothing can replace an advanced manned platform. Drones and AI, useful as they may be for certain operational purposes, do not negate the fundamental nature of war. The B‑21 embodies an essential lesson: despite continuous technological progress, warfare has been—and for now remains—a human endeavor. Entrusting machines with the power to decide human fates on the battlefield is not a revolution; it is an act of moral and strategic bankruptcy.

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The abyss. The darkness. The meaningless void that life rebels against. It stares at us. Nietzsche warned about this moment—when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. When the frameworks that make meaning possible collapse, when the principles that make reasoning together conceivable dissolve, when words lose their moorings to reality and power becomes the only truth—that’s when the abyss stares back.

It is very much staring us in the face right now.

Which brings me to Lindsey Halligan.

On November 24, 2025, a federal judge threw out Donald Trump’s prosecution of James Comey. Not because Comey was innocent. Not because the evidence was insufficient. But because the prosecutor Trump installed to indict his enemy—Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance lawyer and Trump’s personal defense attorney with zero prosecutorial experience—was never lawfully appointed as a U.S. attorney and therefore had no legal authority to bring charges at all.

Judge Cameron McGowan Currie’s ruling was devastating: Because Halligan’s appointment violated federal statute, “all actions flowing from it were unlawful exercises of executive power.” The indictment was void. And because the statute of limitations expired while Halligan pursued her invalid prosecution, Comey likely can never face the same charges again.

This Level Of Corruption Requires Stupidity

The abyss. The darkness. The meaningless void that life rebels against. It stares at us. Nietzsche warned about this moment—when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. When th…

^Techdirt

Circa 200 years after the Three MATA Brothers left their bunker to reassert MATACORP dominance over what remained of the destroyed planet, a hobbyist cartographer, Mavic Pengellan, born to an affluent penguin family in one of the Penguin Protectorates, would create his depiction of the world (with a fair amount of creative liberties).

His work was immediately suppressed in favor of the official MATACORP map of the world.

Pengellan's map however remains as the closest approximation of the world, used by wandering techno-mages.

Trump-first Republicans, who make up 29 percent of the GOP, support broad presidential authority, including bypassing Congress to achieve policy goals. A majority in this faction also supports allowing President Donald Trump to run for a third term.

Constitution-first Republicans, accounting for 34 percent, prioritize checks and balances, limited presidential power and a clear legislative role for Congress. Most voted for Trump, but oppose altering the Constitution to permit a third term.

The remaining 36 percent, labeled Party-first Republicans, are less engaged in political discussions and express uncertainty about the scope of presidential powers.

https://www.newsweek.com/politics-three-groups-republican-evealed-trump-constitution-party-11104918

Nearly two weeks after the record-long government shutdown ended, some Defense Department civilian employees say they have yet to receive the back pay they are owed.

The federal government reopened on Nov. 13 after President Donald Trump signed a bill to fund the government through Jan. 30, ending the 43-day shutdown and allowing tens of thousands of DoD civilians to return to work.

At the time, the Office of Personnel Management said that checks for DoD civilians were slated to go out on Nov. 16. DoD civilians, however, were told to expect payment sometime between Nov. 17 and Nov. 20.

But with Thanksgiving week now underway, many workers say they are still waiting for as much as four weeks of back pay.

Some DoD civilians are still waiting for back pay weeks after shutdown’s end

When the shutdown ended, DoD civilians were told they would get paid the following week. Many have yet to receive back pay they are owed.

^{Anastasia Obis (Federal News Network)}

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has just over three weeks to release documents tied to the investigation of disgraced, late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Members of Congress from both parties are voicing uncertainty about the potential fallout. FBI Director Kash Patel recently said the agency is reviewing what can be made public, but Rep. Thomas Massie criticized Patel’s comments as deflective.

In a new court filing Tuesday night, a New York judge ordered convicted Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and his victims to submit letters by Dec. 3 outlining any concerns about the release — including requests for specific redactions. The judge emphasized the urgency of the process, given the 30-day deadline set by law.

Epstein files countdown: DOJ has weeks to comply with new law

The Justice Department faces bipartisan pressure to meet a tight deadline for releasing the so-called Epstein files amid cover-up allegations.

^{Alexandra Miller (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))}

"Israel" is using AI to erase evidence of its crimes, posted on soldiers' social media

https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1993778194248343710

https://x.com/receipts_lol/status/1993777565446885843

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, worked with agency-backed military units during US war in Afghanistan

The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed.

The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US.

Lakanwal’s ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, which worked alongside US special forces in Afghanistan, were confirmed by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to media outlets on Wednesday evening.

Suspect in Washington DC national guard shooting had ties to CIA, agency confirms

^{Edward Helmore (The Guardian)}

Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.

Intel might once have ruled the HPC roost but its influence is waning. Today, other processors are making significant inroads.

Supercomputing development has evolved in waves since Cray pioneered vector processors (which were excellent at conducting single operations across large data sets) in the mid-1970s.

Later came reduced instruction set chip (RISC) architectures with chips like the 64-bit DEC Alpha, IBM POWER, Sun/Fujitsu SPARC, SGI MIPS, and HP PA-RISC. Each offered distinct performance characteristics. Their simpler instruction sets made for fast instruction decoding and pipelining, and also served more general-purpose use cases than vector-based systems.

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show

Feature: Arm and RISC-V would like a word

^{Danny Bradbury (The Register)}

https://htxt.co.za/2025/11/x-users-in-usa-dont-like-that-we-have-an-opinion-about-them-tough/