Tutorial series for self hosting beginners?
I've been dabbling with selfhosting for a bit now (home assistant and nextcloud), but it's clear that I lack a fundamental understanding of networking. For example:
- I've got OpenWRT on my router, but no idea what I'm doing when it comes to firewall settings, DNS, DHCP, etc.
- I've got a domain thru Porkbun, but no idea how to properly setup my DNS settings there to route to my local machine.
- I've got NGINX running in a docker container in a VM and can get to the UI on my local network, but no idea what I'm doing wrong with my attempts at a reverse proxy.
Does anyone here have links to a good in-depth tutorial series for learning about securely selfhosting?
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The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39401508
While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers from Gaza without charge. As Michal Feldon discussed (originally published on Local Call), they face physical violence, medical neglect, and starvation, languishing in Israeli prisons — and their families are demanding their freedom.from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in #Israel]
Nov. 23, 2025Also:
* New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
* ‘The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks
* In Umm Al-Khair, erasure seems only a matter of time
* When Israel’s courts become ‘instruments of revenge’ against Palestinian citizens
* On Israeli campuses, the state marks another enemy within
The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons
While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers from Gaza without charge. As Michal Feldon discussed (originally published on Local Call), they face physical violence, medical neglect, and starvation, languishing in Israeli prisons — and their families are demanding their freedom.
from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in #Israel]
Nov. 23, 2025Also:
* New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
* ‘The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks
* In Umm Al-Khair, erasure seems only a matter of time
* When Israel’s courts become ‘instruments of revenge’ against Palestinian citizens
* On Israeli campuses, the state marks another enemy withinhttps://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=188629
Biofuels Push at COP30 Could Accelerate Climate Crisis and Threaten Food Supply
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The governments of Brazil, Italy, Japan, and India are spearheading a new pledge calling for the rapid global expansion of biofuels as a commitment to decarbonizing transportation energy.An analysis by a clean transport advocacy organization published last month found that, because of the indirect impacts to farming and land use, biofuels are responsible globally for 16 percent more CO2 emissions than the planet-polluting fossil fuels they replace
Biofuels Push at COP30 Could Accelerate Climate Crisis and Threaten Food Supply | Truthout
Despite their positioning as a green alternative, experts warn biofuels expansion could have catastrophic consequences.Zack Kligler (Truthout)
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From a science pov it makes sense that it's something to pursue, even as just a renewable biofuel. Algae grows fast, it's where oil comes from, it's a biological "fix". It's perfect. Except it didn't work nearly as well as hoped.
I looked into it a long time ago as a "solution" to how to best pull carbon of out the air and sequester it. Algae farms over deep water areas, grown and culled and the dead carbon sunk deep to stay out of the loop. Sounds perfect, doesn't it?
But in both scenarios there are so many costs and variables to consider that are left out when proponents are selling it. Some are just the "forgotten" costs of running a process that pollutes on their own and take energy (that requires emissions too). Some are effects outside the process that damage the environment in other ways. And the costs and effects of feeding the algae itself, it just won't grow in a vat of water alone. So many things that change the net result. And with the case for fuel (which doesn't lock the carbon away so it's not a help to existing carbon in the air) assuming the fuel percentage per weight would be high enough to justify the rest of the costs. Which Exxon figured out it was not, while selling it as a miracle.
How the Nexperia chip crisis upended auto supply chains - again
The Dutch government took control of Netherlands-based Nexperia in late September, citing concerns its technology could be passed on to Chinese owner Wingtech. Beijing retaliated by halting exports of finished Nexperia chips packaged at the plant in the Pearl River Delta."The Dutch thought they had seized Nexperia, but they only took over an office building," said Li Xing, a professor of international relations at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, a think tank.
Nexperia resumed sales to some domestic distributors in late October but required payment in yuan
Austria's Melecs and Apple supplier JABIL have managed to source chips from Nexperia. Both have used Chinese entities, allowing them to settle in yuan, the two people briefed on the matter said.
Exporting carceral migration “management”: €30 million from the EU to Senegal for migration control
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/53662714
The underlying aims of the €30 million budget are interception, detention and an instrumental concern for human life. The initiative maps onto longer-term developments predating the change of government in 2024, marked by the long-term involvement of external actors, often operating with EU funding.The intervention is indicative of a wider regional trend of EU-funded actions enforcing detention and disregarding human rights concerns. This comes in the guise of “fighting migrant smuggling,” which is both a condition for and objective of EU financial support.
Together, these factors constitute the building blocks of a new era of carceral EU migration “management” in West Africa.
Statewatch | Exporting carceral migration “management”: €30 million from the EU for the fight against migrant smuggling in Senegal
€30 million from the EU's aid budget has been provided to Senegal for migration control. An examination of European Commission documents makes clear the main focus of the funding: border surveillance and control, maritime interception of people tryin…www.statewatch.org
Jair Bolsonaro arrested after tampering with ankle tag ‘out of curiosity’
Brazilian ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody over fears he was going to abscond
Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he tried to damage his electronic ankle monitor “out of curiosity” after he was arrested at his villa owing to suspicions he was poised to abscond.
In a video released by the supreme court, Bolsonaro – who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for masterminding a military coup – can be heard admitting to a security official that he had used a soldering iron to tamper with the black tag.
The video showed the device badly damaged and burned on both sides, but still attached to his ankle.
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yeah. Does anyone actually believe that?
He stabbed it with a soldering iron in an attempt to get to the hardware. Dude's a dumbass.
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US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peace
The US and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia, hours after European countries proposed their own radical alternative that omitted some of the pro-Russia points made in an original US-backed document that was leaked last week.
US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, emerged from a meeting in Switzerland late on Sunday with a Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, saying he was “very optimistic” about the progress of the talks. A joint statement between the two countries said that any eventual deal would “fully uphold” Ukraine’s sovereignty.
The original 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
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Germany wants to build Europe’s strongest army – a new conscription bill is moving that closer
This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country whose military has undergone years of neglect.
The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s forces in the face of the perceived threat from Russia and a significant shift in US foreign policy.
The sweeping new reforms will see Germany attempt to boost its numbers to 260,000 soldiers, up from around 180,000 currently, in addition to an extra 200,000 reservists, by 2035.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/23/europe/germany-europe-army-reform-intl
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Yeah except right now the biggest issue the Bundeswehr faces is equipment and troop readiness. A report came around 2022 and made noise. After a short exercise 18 modern Puma IVF had been out of action for lack of spare parts on relatively minor issues. And that was on the 10th Panzer division which was earmarked for deployment in Lithuania, not a low priority unit.
More bodies are nice for an army. But those come after the infrastructure has been fixed for what already exist
A problem we frequently observe is when armies are given a giant hammer they suddenly start looking at the world map as a bunch of nails. Next thing you know Germany is invading Iran for Israel and not "defending against Russia".
Remember the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions.
So your argument is to better be the "nail" and let the soviet "hammer" fuck you up?
How do you defend against hammers when you're a nail, watching other neighbour nails get hammered?
Europe was already spending four times more on their military than Russia before the remilitarization push.
And they are going to get hammered anyways because their weapons investments are largely going towards American and Israeli companies.
It is nice to see nobody learned a single thing from Iraq and Afghanistan. Prepare for some massive lies and a sheepish acknowledgement you were lied to afterwards.
Prepare for some massive lies and a sheepish acknowledgement you were lied to afterwards.
What lies are you referring to? The fact that Russia invaded its neighbour Ukraine and is becoming more and more aggressive towards other post-soviet countries? That lie?
Germany. Here we go again.
Maybe we should start writing down our history, so we won't make the same mistakes again, for when the next generation zones out when their grandparents try to tell them how to avoid the bad old days from happening again. Of course, we'd have to teach people to read, and train up their Critical Thinking Skills. That sounds like a lot of work, but more importantly, it will cost too much money. Those Sociopathic Oligarchs' yachts need a lot maintenance. Can't be wasting that money on education for the poorest 98%.
Fuck it, a world war every 50 to 100 years is necessary to control the population level.
Germany the nation isn't the problem. Fascism is the problem. There is nothing special about Germany that makes it any more or less susceptible to fascism than anyone else. 1930s Germany happened to have especially fertile ground, but it could have been a lot of other places.
Although AfD does need to be told to go the fuck away.
You say that as the AfD, ANOTHER militant German political entity, is on the rise.
This what they call "History repeating itself."
Like Trump is diplomatically resolving the Ukraine's invasion by giving everything to Russia that they want and forgiving all their war crimes and crimes against humanity?
So when Russia invades other post soviet countries in Europe, we should just diplomatically give them up to Russia too?
He's scared shitless of powerful countries, the only way to deter that warmonger is to have a more powerful military than him.
The only other option is to let Putin continue invading post-soviet countries and annex them, just like he did with Crimea and now continues with other Ukrainian regions.
Do you think that's a good idea? Or do you really believe he will stop after this latest invasion? Do you not see what he's doing is not much different than how WW2 started? Before Europe realised what was happening, it was too late, it was already mostly occupied by Nazis.
The only thing that DICKtator responds to and the only thing that will deter him from further invasions is POWER and telling him to FUCK OFF or he will be bombed into oblivion.
I'm 99% sure you are either a Russian bot or a victim of Russian propaganda. Keep licking those Putin boots, you're almost done big boy.
The best time to take out Putin is right now you pussy. You just want to build up another cold war so your military complex buddies can get rich killing off civilians.
I am 99% sure you are a bootlicker capitalist who thinks war is going to solve our problems.
I bet you never heard of deterrents and mutually assured destruction.
Or you heard about them, and you think you know what they mean and how they work conceptually, but in reality you have no clue.
So please, I've asked you a couple times now. What is the alternative to stop Putin from invading Europe? Or do you believe he will stop this time, once he achieves what he wants in Ukraine? Why do you keep deflecting those key questions? Bot much?
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The best time to take out Putin is right now
So start WW3 to defeat Putin?
"War bad. Let's start WW3 to stop all wars" - You 👆.
I bet your not very bright if you think mutually assured destruction is a good thing
I am not fan of how this whole thing is being handled. Without the US backing up Europe Russia can't be brought to their knees diplomatically. However economically Europe could deal the death blow to Russia. But it won't.
I am not a fan of escalation, but if Europe actually stepped in to save Ukraine it would change everything. But it won't.
What we will do is continue to throw innocents into the meat grinder. Fuck the warmongers that are allowing this on all sides.
You keep making all these baseless claims Mr very bright and yet you STILL haven't answered how to stop Putin?
How exactly could Europe bring Russia to its knees? It tried and it failed. Europe is made up of many different countries with different relationships to Russia, Mr very bright.
No single European country can bring down Russia and the European Union is just an economic union where a lot of Russia sympathetic members keep voting against Russian sanctions. So how exactly can Europe bring down Russia, Mr very bright?
Please enlighten me.
Sincerely,
Mr not very bright
You desperately want someone to solve all your problems don't you. You sure you don't want to go live in Russia so daddy Putin can make all your decisions for you?
Let's all sell some more bombs to Ukraine while we continue sending money to Russia seems to be the European stance. The US is just straight fascists backing Russia while selling arms to the Ukraine. The most powerful military in the world in check.
So the solution is to build up armies again so we can go to war err I mean create mutually assured destruction? That is the best you can do. Pathetic.
The quickest way to end this is just to give Ukraine some nukes no? I thought mutually assured destruction is the way to go!
So what is the other way? I gave you numerous chances to convince me, but all you have is hot air about how "war is bad". Of course it is, it's fucking horrible, you really don't need to convince me of that. I know very well all the atrocities and war crimes Putin is committing in Ukraine. Do you??
However, I see no other options to deal with bullies other than having a bigger gun than them. Bullies don't respond to nice words (diplomacy).
Trump tried diplomacy, it failed horribly. Watch some documentaries maybe about Putin - you will learn that he doesn't respond to diplomacy, he only responds to power or bootlicking.
So according to you it's better to get occupied by Russia than to fight them back? But in order to fight them back, Europe needs more guns, let alone try to deter them from escalating. It sure would be nice to have the option to defend ourselves if the diplomacy fails. Just like it failed with Ukraine.
You're living in some dreamland, if you think diplomacy can work with Putin. Just look at history. It would be incredibly stupid to repeat it and let Russia bully the Europe again.
So please please please, for the sake of peace, enlighten me how do we stop Russia peacefully without letting it invade other counties? Or is your solution to just let them invade whoever they want, and commit all the war crimes they want, killing and raping civilians? How the fuck do you stop such evil peacefully?
Oh I know how, the same way that Palestine successfully defended against Israel!
So no nukes for Ukraine!? I guess there is just no pleasing you. We can't fix it diplomatically, we can't fix it economically.
I guess the default solution is to let a bunch of innocents die and slowly bleed the criminal state that is Russia.
Trump tried diplomacy!? You must really have your head far up where the sun don't shine to believe that.
I said you were a warmonger, you haven't convinced me you are not. Until you do your opinion as a chickenshit saber rattler does not matter to me.
Yet again, you're blowing a lot of hot air without providing ANY solutions, or arguments.
For the hundredth time, how do you stop an atrocious, evil war criminal like Putin peacefully?
Please, I'm begging for the answer here. How many more times do I have to ask it?
So no nukes for Ukraine!? I guess there is just no pleasing you
I've never said Ukraine or anyone needs nukes. Are you a retard? Can you read? That would explain why you keep ignoring all the main points and questions.
I guess the default solution is to let a bunch of innocents die and slowly bleed the criminal state that is Russia.
I would gladly fight and die protecting my country from Russian occupation, exactly what Ukrainians are doing. And they would be winning hard if they had more advanced military (what EU is trying to do and you are arguing against).
You are literally parroting main points of Russian propaganda, how arming up is bad and will lead to further conflicts. No, it will prevent further conflicts, by deterring dictators from invasion.
Are you sure you are not a Russian bot or have been affected by Russian propaganda and disinformation?
And many many more people WILL die protecting their countries, unless they have a strong enough military to deter Russia from invading them in the first place.
That's the fucked up reality we live in, thanks to dictators and billionaires running the world. If history has taught us anything, the only way to stop evil is to fight it.
Give me an example from any time in history where evil dictators were dealt with diplomaticcally. I'll wait.
Trump tried diplomacy!? You must really have your head far up where the sun don't shine to believe that.
Yes he fucking did. What do you think that Alaska visit to discuss the peace deal was for? I never said he was good at it. But if the "most powerful" man in the world with the most powerful military backing him, cannot achieve a single shred of diplomacy, what chances do the small and weak European countries have?
You're arguing like my 5 year old nephew:
- "nooo you are wrong and I am right".
- "okay, why am I wrong and why are you right"
- "because you are wrong and I am right!"
Do not bother replying if you're just gonna cry again "wAr Is BaD", without answering any of my questions or providing any arguments as to what the alternative is.
I said the easiest way to end the war is to give Ukraine nukes. Your reading comprehension is dismal.
You already decided there are no answers. You gave up with your only solution as a conventional arms race. You solution is stupid and will lead to more death. That is because you are a warmonger.
If you think Trump seriously tried diplomacy your even dumber than I thought. The world must be really confusing when you believe such nonsense.
The US could end this war in a heartbeat, why won't it. Why does Europe keep buying oil from Russia if they are so bad. You see, you don't have these answers because you are apparently incapable of critical thought.
Go rattle your saber somewhere else chicken hawk.
I said the easiest way to end the war is to give Ukraine nukes.
First off, you never actually said it. Did you forget to type what you were thinking? Memory issues?
Second, you keep barking how stupid the whole arming up and mutually assured destruction is, yet your solution is to give nukes to Ukraine? 🤡
The US could end this war in a heartbeat,
Yet again making baseless claims with no arguments to back it up. Did you go to school? Do you know how debating works? Are you familiar with making arguments to defend your opinion?
Basically what you're saying is the same as "Iceland could end this war". Yep it sure could... /s
You see, you don't have these answers because you are apparently incapable of critical thought.
I don't have the answers? How do you know if you never asked those questions? 🤡
Now I know 100% you're either a Russian bot or a complete conspiracy theorist idiot.
Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry
Grenfell United and the TV architect George Clarke are calling on businesses and homeowners to take a “moral decision” and boycott the companies criticised in the Grenfell inquiry for “systematic dishonesty”.
Clarke, best known for his series George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, said he had made the decision not to use products from Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex, three companies that were heavily criticised in the findings of the Grenfell inquiry published last year and who have continued to deny wrongdoing.
He lives close to the tower block in west London where 72 people were killed by the 2017 blaze which was fuelled by combustible insulation and cladding that did not comply with regulations.
Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry
TV personality wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and CelotexJessica Murray (The Guardian)
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‘Stranded’: Palestinians who were in Israel on 7 October 2023 are suspended between exile and war
Inside a dim locker room at the Nablus municipal stadium, in the occupied West Bank, the television rarely goes dark, streaming day and night the relentless news from Gaza. Gathered in front of it are a group of men from Khan Younis. For more than two years, they have lived in this stadium converted into a refugee camp, their lives suspended between exile and the war they watched on a screen.
They are mostly construction workers who were in Israel on the morning of 7 October 2023 when Hamas launched its attack. As Israel rounded up Palestinians from Gaza, they fled to the West Bank, where they remain – cut off from wives and children living in makeshift tents inside the strip. With very few exceptions, civilians are not currently allowed in or out of Gaza.
“They killed my nephew and his two children,” says Baker Majjar, 37, who before the conflict split his time between a month in Gaza and a month working on construction sites in Tamra, in north-eastern Israel. “They were seeking food at an aid distribution point near Khan Younis. I’ve lost more than a hundred people – relatives and friends – to Israeli attacks since the war began. Then I stopped counting.”
‘Stranded’: Palestinians who were in Israel on 7 October 2023 are suspended between exile and war
Unable to reunite with their families in Gaza due to the closed border, Palestinian workers have spent two years in a refugee camp at Nablus stadiumAlessio Mamo (The Guardian)
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US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
European countries proposed a radical alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.
The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland. The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
Having been blindsided by Washington’s initiative, Ukraine’s European allies published their Kyiv-friendly plan on Sunday. It says negotiations over territory should take place after a ceasefire is agreed and should start from the line of contact – the existing frontline.
It says both parties would agree how any truce would be monitored “under US supervision”. Unlike the White House text, the European alternative does not call for Kyiv to withdraw from cities it controls in eastern Donbas. Nor does it rule out Ukraine’s membership of Nato, but points out there is no consensus over its membership.
US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peaceLuke Harding (The Guardian)
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And to be very CLEAR, about the deliberate treason by the Trumptraitor:
- As discussions began in Geneva, Donald Trump said Ukraine had shown “zero gratitude” for US efforts to end the conflict
- Speculation based on the use of language in the plan suggests it may have been written in Russian and later translated into English.
- " A group of US senators said Rubio told them the text was not an American one. It was, they said, a Russian document deliberately leaked by Moscow which the US then passed on to Ukraine.
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to surrender half his country
And Zelensky would probably consider this for peace in a alternate universe, if it wasn't for the 1000% untrustworthy Putin who always breaks treaties and promises.
Also RF "stole" (I don't know what's even the proper name) a minimum of 20K children, and and are momentarily brainwashing them. Some are being trained to fight against Ukraine.
That's probably a pill many find ( too) hard to swallow.
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Kidnapped
Is usually is a term used when asking for a "ransom" they ask money or something, and usually people are taken for a (limited) period of time.
I's more like human trafficking, but still it's not the right term . In a way its a combination of kidnapping, human trafficking and sort of genocidal thing. Or all the above?
#Ed quoting layout
there is no may about it, several people who speak Russian state it is obvious.
Among them Anders Puk Nielsen, a military analyst from Denmark that speaks Russian has expressed it is obvious.
Sorry I don't remember the timestamp, but this guy is among the most trusted analysts on the Ukraine war.
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Why is there a need for "under US supervision"?
That alone tells you how much of a cuck European leaders are. The war is on their doorstep and they're relying on what is a despotic regime aligned with Russia to gauge fairness.
Israel says it killed a senior Hezbollah official in first strike on Beirut in months
Israel carried out an airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war.
The strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed five people and wounded 25 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
Hezbollah did not immediately comment. Earlier, it said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended that Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened an escalation of attacks — just days before Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to visit Lebanon on his first foreign trip.
“We will continue to act forcefully to prevent any threat to the residents of the north and the state of Israel,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.
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VTT (Virtual Tabletop)?
I am playing TTRPG remotely. For this, I was using far.app, a js app, which permit to link Game Master and Players in order to share Character sheets, dice roles, some index cards (set up as a "scene").
Would you know an open-source software that I could self-host to basically have a board with multiple users at once.
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Cauldron VTT
A free and open source virtual tabletop to play role playing games online.www.cauldron-vtt.net
irmadlad showed me cauldron-vtt.net/
Oh don't be blaming me damnit. LOL
Cauldron VTT
A free and open source virtual tabletop to play role playing games online.www.cauldron-vtt.net
Wow, cauldron is looking great! I saw it a long ways back (like pre-1.0) and promptly forgot about it (thanks ADHD).
Wasn't even thinking about vtt and going to have to stand up an instance before thanksgiving!
If you want you can self host it according to there gitlab link.
Not really a install guide include it seems
Hugo Leisink / Cauldron VTT · GitLab
Cauldron VTT (virtual tabletop) is a PHP/Javascript/MySQL web application to play tabletop role playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, online. Cauldron VTT website:GitLab
There are multiple such projects, for example:
github.com/drwhut/tabletop-clu…
Or
GitHub - drwhut/tabletop-club: An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine.
An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine. - drwhut/tabletop-clubGitHub
Yes, but it is closed source and I heard of plug in to add games and so... I don't want to have a table for few stats and items.
Still thank you for the idea.
Can you help us to understand why the plugins to add games is a problem for you?
Maybe I'm missing your meaning here, but it reads kind of like you're expecting some kind of situation where a single VTT would somehow support every game system out of the box?
So you want to be able to stream Gimp and have a shared drive with your PC's sheets, it needs to be open source and with no limitations?
I'd just do gimp+Discord+google docs, but if you want it to be open source and all-in-one then go checkout Nextcloud. I think that's as free as you get, if even foundry is too limiting.
Depends what you want to do with those character sheets.
If you just want a text file that people can paste their character sheet into, this will work: foundryvtt.com/packages/taf/
If you want to actually build full custom character sheets, you probably want something more like this: foundryvtt.com/packages/univer…
Or this: foundryvtt.com/packages/custom…
There's also a general purpose PbTA system that's meant to be customised into different PbTA hacks: foundryvtt.com/packages/pbta/
I guess in the sense that you have to load some kind of system to play, there's a requirement to use some sort of plugin, so maybe that's a dealbreaker. But it's generally not an issue. While premium content for Foundry exists, it's mostly in the form of rulebooks and scenarios that have been ported into it by the people who make and sell those games. The actual systems are all free, with literally only one exception (Brambletrek, for some reason).
Text-Based Actors | Foundry Virtual Tabletop
Text-Based Actors, a Game System for Foundry Virtual Tabletopfoundryvtt.com
Foundry has so many game systems, even systems like custom system builder, which let you make your own.
If all you want is spreadsheets, why not use shared Google docs or something?
I don't want to have to code anything.
You don't have to code anything. You just look through the game system browser, pick what you want, and after a few seconds it's installed.
We don't need automation. I want simplicity.
Then screenshare over Discord while drawing things in MS Paint. It's simple and it's not automated, just like you asked
I've long since switched to foundry, but I used to use
It's not web based, but the clients are available for linux mac and windows,
decorum: a solemn request that questions use question marks.
why: differentiation - between "hey. look at what I made" posts and "anybody know how I can?" questions.
I use Owlbear Rodeo. It doesn't do character sheets (unless there is an extension that does), but I find the tabletop with tokens and fog easy to use.
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The official website and community for Foundry Virtual Tabletop.foundryvtt.com
Me personally, I really liked using maptool.
rptools.net/toolbox/maptool/
Its got a bit of a learning curve and doesnt look great, but it gets the job done and is Foss.
Trump says Ukraine has ‘zero gratitude’ for peace plan amid international talks
US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peaceLuke Harding (The Guardian)
The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons
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Five claims made in new book about Princess Diana's Panorama interview
Oh for crying out loud... It's been 30 years.
Something tells me the royal family is desperate for any distraction from Andrew and whether he'll be invited by his inbred relatives for Christmas, and if it takes digging up Diana's corpse, they're not above doing it.
Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 (G-20) leaders’ meeting in JohannesburgAt the press conference, he detailed his attempts to strengthen ties with nations ranging from South Africa to India and China.
Canada PM Carney says world can move on without US, stresses new ties
He emphasised that he won’t have his agenda dictated by US President Donald Trump. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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you know what will help Palestinians? a right-wing Canadian government! that will fix your egg (maple syrup?) prices too!
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It's hilarious to see the curtain falling down today on all these chuds.
I think most people at least expected, but now it's basically confirmed, these kinds of comments are either from malicious actors or people dumb enough to fall for the schemes of malicious actors.
Finally! Yes!
Now get everyone else on board please! The sooner the US gets decoupled the sooner the rest of us can get back some kind of quality of life.
Mr Carney emphasised that he won’t have his agenda dictated by US President Donald Trump.
well that's a new welcomed developement because since winning the election, Carney has done nothing but grovel for the idiot king
let's hope it's not just more politician lies like during the campaign
I voted for Carney... would never vote for PP but what I say is accurate and I can back it up, being a bootlicker for Carney does not get you any points buddy
Carney has done nothing but appease the Idiot King by giving him everything he wants:
- Bill C2 Moves Canada towards a police state and hands over the data to Muricans
- Bill C5 is the "drill baby drill" green light the Idiot King demanded
- Carney kills Digital Service Tax entirely to appease the Orange Pedophile gaining Canada nothing
- Carney's first budget is nothing but neoliberal policies, killing any environmental protection (weak as they already were) and paid for by slashing jobs and services... exactly what the Serial Rapist Felon Pressy is doing in Murica
I have no doubt PP would have made everything worse and with less dignity... but to pretend Carney has done a good job defending Canada or that he has even sustained an "elbows up" attitude as claimed during the election, is sycophantic behaviour
Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States
The DST was announced in 2020 to address the fact that many large technology companies operating in Canada may not otherwise pay tax on revenues generated from Canadians.Department of Finance Canada (Government of Canada)
That's the most important one. Unfortunately it's almost impossible to compel compliance from major economies.
Our best chance is what Carney is doing, move on without them in as many domains as possible and wait for the US to collapse or reform, then invite them to the big kids table again.
Remember, the United States is the largest oil producer in the world. Canada is number 4 right behind Russia.
We are not quite a Petro state but we are pretty close.
Carney is an Obama-esque a-hole who says really nice things but, in fact, is going to drive many more Canadians into poverty. (As one would expect from an international banker-turned-politician.)
But he's not wrong, and what sucks is Americans really don't know how trade deals work, so in a year-ish when all the post-tariff trade deals go in, and the supply chain has rerouted itself around the US, we're all going to be poorer for it except for the handful of billionaires who profited handsomely off the economic chaos.
Israeli strike hits Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburbs
An Israeli airstrike on Sunday targeted a residential apartment in Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburbs, according to local media reports.The strike came amid continued Israeli attacks across Lebanon. Beirut’s southern suburbs have been hit several times since the ceasefire agreement of 27 November 2024.
Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they're going to patch it, I'd like to read about it 😀
Airbus said it discovered the issue after an investigation into an incident in which a plane flying between the US and Mexico suddenly lost altitude in October.The JetBlue Airways flight made an emergency landing in Florida after at least 15 people were injured.
The problem identified with A320 aircrafts relates to a piece of computing software which calculates a plane's elevation.
Airbus discovered that, at high altitudes, its data could be corrupted by intense radiation released periodically by the Sun.
The A320 family are what is known as "fly by wire" planes. This means there is no direct mechanical link between the controls in the cockpit and the parts of the aircraft that actually govern flight, with the pilot's actions processed by a computer.
Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they're going to patch it, I'd love to read it :)Airbus said it discovered the issue after an investigation into an incident in which a plane flying between the US and Mexico suddenly lost altitude in October.The JetBlue Airways flight made an emergency landing in Florida after at least 15 people were injured.
The problem identified with A320 aircrafts relates to a piece of computing software which calculates a plane's elevation.
Airbus discovered that, at high altitudes, its data could be corrupted by intense radiation released periodically by the Sun.
The A320 family are what is known as "fly by wire" planes. This means there is no direct mechanical link between the controls in the cockpit and the parts of the aircraft that actually govern flight, with the pilot's actions processed by a computer.
Airbus requests immediate modifications to thousands of aircraft
About 6,000 plans are thought to be affected, about half the European aerospace giant's global fleet.Theo Leggett (BBC News)
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If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they're going to patch it, I'd like to read about it 😀
Not a direct answer to your question, but: the sun (like the earth) has areas that are more "geologically" active; those areas tend to throw out solar flares. As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.
Currently, we're just slightly past solar maximum. For the past year or so, the "more active" part of the sun has been roughly facing earth and intermittently spitting out solar flares. When these flares hit the earth's atmosphere, they cause auroras (which is why we've had so many auroras these past couple years) and can interfere with electronic and electrical equipment (see: the Carrington event).
I have no details on what l the exact damage that was caused by the interference the plane suffered, nor any knowledge of how they plan to address the issue. But whatever they come up with is going to take some time to develop - and we're moving away from solar maximum so being hit with a massive flare is increasingly less likely - at least for another decade. My suspicion is that they'll come up with a "solution" that actually may not work very well, but it works well enough to give the impression that they're doing something - and it'll look like it's working to some extent, simply because the active side of the sun is rotating away from us.
Appreciate the write-up, thanks!
I found this diagram, and this should mean that the levels will drop by around 2030?
Source: stce.be/news/453/welcome.html
I think the website is old, and the blurry bits were a prediction
The new cycle is expected to start late in 2019 or in 2020, with solar maximum to be reached between 2023 and 2026 and the maximum (smoothed) sunspot number in the 95 to 130 range.
A different color and a legend would have been nicer imo
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As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.
This doesn't have anything to do with the sun's rotation. It actually rotates once every 28 days. The solar maximum and solar minimum are just phases in activity caused by internal activity.
I work in the software industry and I have a guess regarding what the might do to "fix" the problem.
First, we look for the cause, but in this case it is external: we can't prevent solar flares. So we will turn to mitigation instead:
Data gets flaky and erratic unter radiation, so what we would do is to double- and triple-check the data bits. By adding more levels of data correction, more bits can be wrong and we can still figure what it was supposed to be.
Adding more corrections means more overhead and slower performance, but it can still be made to work within the given constraints of real-time processing. They will need to find a balance between hardening and usefulness.
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Sounds like SEE (single event effect) if it's something fixable by software.
TID (total ionizing dose) is another flavor of radiation effect on components, but that's a total lifetime effect where it slowly degrades. Using rad hard parts or adding extra shielding is the main fix.
SEEs are transient effects from high energy charged particles that can cause bit flips and latch ups in circuitry depending on where the particle hits and deposits it's charge in the circuitry. Extra shielding can help prevent these as well, but they can also be mitigated in software, sometimes the fix is just error detection, or power cycling a specific section of circuitry to clear a latchup
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I think I read that the issue is relatively new thanks to a software update (speculation in another thread, so questionable veracity). So perhaps a change that wasn’t flawed by itself but by bad luck combined with this radiation sensitivity to make the issue significant.
But also solar flares are kind of rare, especially on the stronger end, so easy to imagine bug reliant on them sitting idle for years.
Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they're going to patch it, I'd love to read it 😀
Airbus said it discovered the issue after an investigation into an incident in which a plane flying between the US and Mexico suddenly lost altitude in October.The JetBlue Airways flight made an emergency landing in Florida after at least 15 people were injured.
The problem identified with A320 aircrafts relates to a piece of computing software which calculates a plane's elevation.
Airbus discovered that, at high altitudes, its data could be corrupted by intense radiation released periodically by the Sun.
The A320 family are what is known as "fly by wire" planes. This means there is no direct mechanical link between the controls in the cockpit and the parts of the aircraft that actually govern flight, with the pilot's actions processed by a computer.
Airbus requests immediate modifications to thousands of aircraft
About 6,000 plans are thought to be affected, about half the European aerospace giant's global fleet.Theo Leggett (BBC News)
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Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, Annotated [gift link]
Trump has said he wants Ukraine to agree to a 28-point peace plan by Thanksgiving. The problem for Kyiv is that many of the points cross their red lines and reflect demands long made by Moscow. The Kremlin has said it wasn’t consulted on the plan.Here’s a breakdown of some of the key points in the plan and how Ukraine and its European allies might respond.
Archive: archive.today/CQyLC
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Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
Airbus update on A320 Family precautionary fleet action
Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical. Read more.Airbus
Air traffic suspended at Netherlands airport after drone sightings
Air traffic at the Eindhoven airport in the south of the Netherlands has resumed after a suspension that lasted several hours due to multiple drone sightings, the Dutch defence minister has said.Traffic resumed around 11pm (22:00 GMT), Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on Saturday, two hours after he had first reported the disruption.
Separately on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said the Dutch military opened fire at drones over Volkel Air Base in the east of the country on Friday, but no wreckage was recovered.
Security staff at the base reported the drones between 7pm and 9pm on Friday (between 17:00 and 19:00 GMT), prompting the air force to fire ground-based weapons to take them down, the ministry said in a statement.
Air traffic suspended at Netherlands airport after drone sightings
Drone sightings caused suspension of air traffic at Eindhoven airport, impacting both civilian and military operations.Al Jazeera
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 - A USB adapter that plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options
If anyone bought the previous one, how was it and what do you think about this upgrade?
Excerpts:
The easiest way to start with Zigbee or Thread just got even better, with Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2. This USB adapter plugs into your Home Assistant system and opens up a world of smart device options. Between its precisely tuned antenna and next-generation chip, it’s a big step up for anyone looking to connect Zigbee, Thread, or Matter devices directly to Home Assistant.For all our Zigbee fans, this might be the best upgrade you’ll make all year. We’ve squeezed every inch out of this technology, giving it the best range, speed, and stability possible. The same can be said for our Thread-heads out there (yeah, I just came up with that cool nickname 😎), making Matter or ESPHome Thread
connections rock-solid. Pick whether to dedicate your Connect ZBT-2 to run a Zigbee or Thread network, and it’ll provide the best experience for that protocol (and if all these names just sound like new streaming services to you, check out our explainer below).If you’re one of those people still rocking three different hubs, what are you waiting for… another giant server outage to take down your smart home? Ditch those cloud hubs and take back your privacy today. As an added bonus, your devices will likely get more controls, range, and resilience.
Available today starting at $49 and €45 (that’s the MSRP, and pricing will vary by retailer). Designed and built by Nabu Casa and the Open Home Foundation, every purchase helps fund the development of Home Assistant. For quick specs, details, and where to buy, visit our beautiful Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 page.
Open Design
When we say open, we mean it. In the physical sense, it’s easy to open Connect ZBT-2 as there are no clips or glue, just some lovely standard Phillips head screws. The board has a gorgeous silkscreen, which explains all the chips, exposed pins, and pads.
The bootloader is unlocked, and all the firmware we build is open source and available to modify. We’ve also built a new website
that makes it easy to flash the stock firmware, and in the future, experiment with new firmware. We’ll also be providing the PCB and outer casing files if you want to tinker with those. Openness makes our products better… literally, since our community helps us find and fix bugs.
The best gets better - Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2
We launch our newest hardware that helps connect Zigbee, Thread, or Matter devices to Home Assistant.Home Assistant
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I bought the ZBT-1 a few months ago. My only complaint is that they made it as a usb stick then said keep it away from the usb port. It did come with an extension cable, so I’ve always had it connected that way. Otherwise, no complaints here. It seems to reach what it needs to. I’m using it for matter over thread devices. The closest thread IoT device is only about six feet away, so it didn’t need to be super strong to connect and control my thread network of devices.
As for the upgraded device:
Moving away from the usb stick makes sense. With that said, I’m not much of a fan for this new design. I don’t have any intentions of getting the zbt-2 anytime soon.
I worked through three zogbee dongles from Amazon including the sonoff one.
Always had issues with my mesh. Upgrading to the one provided by Nabu guys (the v1) fixed them all and it's been almost one year rock solid now. No more disconnection or better devices losing it
In addition to these guys knowing what they are doing and pushing firmware updates straight through Home Assistant, every purchase also supports the Open Home Foundation.
I'm pretty sure you can achieve similar performance with cheaper dongles.
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Was hopeful to get a zigbee and threads coordinator.
Sadly, it’s an „or“ not an „and“.
I need threads support, so I will probably get it anyway. But it’s just an evolution, not a revolution.
On a previous thread, someone pointed to sonoff.tech/en-us/products/son…
Looks like it might support both.
SONOFF Dongle Max Zigbee/Thread PoE Dongle | Dongle-M
Dongle Max is a PoE dongle with EFR32MG24 + ESP32D0WDR2, dual antennas, and USB/TCP support, working as a high-performance gateway for Home Assistant.SONOFF
The bigger benefit for slzb devices is that they are wholly decoupled from the machine running zha/z2m, plus PoE, wifi and BLE proxies are nice features.
The downside is, it's not open hardware.
Yep.
I have a SLZB-06 as a Zigbee coordinator and sometimes it hangs. I can also not do OTA updates. I like the convenience but I’m not sure the hardware and/or firmware are quite there yet.
The smlight slzb-mr2 does both and is PoE - makes it more robust. HA comp goes down? Restarts? USB port change and now the passthrough fails? With an independent LAN coordinator the zigbee network is fine. I don’t have threads stuff (yet) but I assume the same applies.
I’ve had no issues, the Ukrainians already got this solved. Get from Ali express (Ukrainians don’t produce them, they’re busy being bombed)
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So I learned the hard way that the ZBT-2 does not work* in Thread mode in #HomeAssistant when you run it as a Docker container If they didn't want people running HA as a Docker container, then the table in the docs should go into a _little bit_ more…Sebin Nyshkim (meow.social - the meowstodon instance for creatures fluffy, scaly and otherwise)
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You’re right. It seems that you need the "OpenThread Border Router add-on":
home-assistant.io/integrations…
support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/…
Thread
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.Home Assistant
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I actually upgraded from a Conbee stick to the official home assistant one to support them... But the official home assistant one is significantly worse.
A few devices like buttons were discovered by the Conbee and worked perfectly fine, but the home assistant refuses to recognize their functionality.
Since I already migrated all my devices, I am not going back, but I would recommend anyone against purchasing the official home assistant sticks. Get the cheaper stuff instead.
buttons were discovered by the Conbee and worked perfectly fine, but the home assistant refuses to recognize their functionality.
That's not the hardware stick; that's the controller software stack. Sounds like you switched from deConz to ZHA to go with the hardware change. In which case, this is all fixed by using Zigbee2MQTT instead of HA's built-in ZHA. Z2M supports more hardware and features than ZHA.
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Why would a USB accessory need PoE?
Zigbee 4 support lacking in it is disappointing.
PoE needs to be more prevalent, IMO. When Smlight came out with the SLZB I jumped on it. Not only does it give me options for where to place it in my house, but it also allows me to make HA more resilient on my Proxmox cluster because it isn't tied to a single node with USB passthru.
I know that this probably is an edge case and that the HA team wants to make things easier with the HA green and HA yellow so USB still makes sense, but if this or the SWA-2 had PoE as an option, it would have been a no brainer.
They are on it:
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 supports Zigbee 3.0 (and yes, we’re looking at Zigbee 4.0 support as well) and is keeping pace with Thread’s rapid development.
Being misunderstood
I’m not sure if this is an ADHD related thing so I want some feedback.
For the longest time whenever I try to communicate an idea, a process, a plan, a piece of information … I’m oftentimes either not taken serious or people misunderstand me.
I know for myself that I sometimes skip steps in my explanation because I feel they’re too obvious to bother explaining. But sometimes it’s ridiculous to the point where I feel like people are out to dismiss me not on the basis of the information I’m providing.
Does this resonate with anyone?
Edit: thanks for all the feedback! This has given me some material to work with.
Yeah.
I've been working on this, even started to believe I'd gotten good at it.
And still, I'm sitting here this weekend feeling really worthless because I tried to deal with a group of upset people and they took my efforts to help and attacked, judged and rejected me for it.
And I know all of what went on, I know exactly what I'd say to someone who is where I am right now and it doesn't help me today. I hope I feel better tomorrow.
Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End
The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia, diplomats said.
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Ah.
"Operations"
Reminds me of when Bill Clinton rebranded his wars as "peacekeeping actions".
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Can we just... not?
Can we address the criminals in the white house instead of any criminals outside of our country? Please?
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Same as it ever was.
Ever wonder how many wars got started because of an embarrassed little man of a tyrant? Unfortunately we’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes, I suppose we’re only human. All this fancy high tech bullshit changed everything but also didn’t change a thing.
Covert operations expected to be first step [...] The United States plans on Monday to designate the Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization [...] The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading Cartel de los Soles, [...] Washington in August doubled its reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest to $50 million. But U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the terrorist designation "brings a whole bunch of new options to the United States."
... Are they publicly announcing that they're planning to assassinate the head of a foreign government?!
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Exclusive: China to launch new phase of Nepal operations, sources say
Funny how when you say the US is doing something is perfectly normal and acceptable ... disturbing and troubling but still acceptable
But when you change the country name, then the world loses their minds
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How can you tell if music is AI-generated?
A survey published last week suggested 97% of respondents could not spot an AI-generated song. But there are some telltale signs - if you know where to look.
Here's a quick guide ...
- No live performances or social media presence
- 'A mashup of rock hits in a blender'
A song with a formulaic feel - sweet but without much substance or emotional weight - can be a sign of AI, says the musician and technology speaker, as well as vocals that feel breathless.
- 'AI hasn't felt heartbreak yet'
"AI hasn't felt heartbreak yet... It knows patterns," he explains. "What makes music human is not just sound but the stories behind it."
- Steps toward transparency
In January, the streaming platform Deezer launched an AI detection tool, followed this summer by a system which tags AI-generated music.
How can you tell if music is AI-generated?
As AI-generated music floods streaming platforms, questions bubble over whether listeners are owed more transparency.Jemma Crew (BBC News)
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And the guitarist and the keyboard players sound like they clearly have more than 5 fingers on each hand. 😋
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I fell hard for Dysmn, who was suspiciously dropping new music every few days. I really liked the sound, and I haven't found anything that sounds like that since. 270+ videos in under 2 years. I realized it wasn't human after a month or two.
Soooo, if anybody knows a great jazzy EDM metal noise, let me know.
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Humans are primarily visual creatures, so we can detect the slop in AI images a LOT faster than we can in audio.
Human artists are going to have to get a lot weirder to out-innovate AI music, and I’m actually happy about that. Weird music is the best.
I think this might be a way AI and humans can actually work together. A lot of musicians are creating digitally anyway. They might have to rely on drum loops if they aren’t good at beats. Iterating with an AI to get the right beat would be better than a loop, and still be a human making it.
However, I have reservations about the AI doing everything with little or no human involvement.
Iterating with an AI to get the right beat would be better than a loop
That’s just like, your opinion
Right, pretty sure everyone but you knows it’s an opinion.
I think (think means opinion) most people, besides you, would agree that having a beat that is unique and not just downloaded from a loop library will produce a song that is more original.
“In my imagination I speak for all people and we all think I’m right” chatGPT is literally rotting your brain bro
“The main issue musicians are struggling with is originality; AI can help :)” get a grip. Notice how in order for you to insert “ai” into this process you have to construct a fantasy where a totally uncreative person lazily drags a low quality beat into their project without a further care in the world? The root of your little fantasy here is simple and inescapable: AI is only appealing to boring, uncreative, soulless people. I know it, and you know it, which is why out of all the limitless possibilities your first argument is that it would be superior to something you already consider shit.
“I refuse to have a polite conversation” - you. It’s exactly what you said, because it’s in quotes and I know how to use quotes. Hah.
I disagree.
If a person plays guitar-but not piano, and they feed their track into an AI and ask it to generate a backup piano track with specific instructions about how it should sound, they should be… denied that?
What should they do if they want a track that involves an instrument they can’t play? Hire someone? With what money? lol.
Great job pretending not to know the concept of a summary! Also bonus points for conceding my points by ignoring them and moving on
As for this little game you and all slop pushers like to play where you try to come up with problems that don’t exist so AI can solve them: I can’t help but to notice the main character of your second attempt here doesn’t have any friends they can make music with.
The reason they have no musical friends is most likely because they keep getting ghosted after showing people their humiliating AI demos. It’s gonna be a recurring problem for them until someone is polite enough to tell them the truth to their face
Oh, I see… You’re gatekeeping music. You assume that if a person picks up an instrument that they must want to be in a band. They must have a lot of friends who also play instruments. And they cannot be considered a serious musician unless they play in a group. I think Enya might have something to say about that.
I have the feeling that you feel the same way about all digitally created music, regardless of whether it involve artificial intelligence. You probably think programs like GarageBand have destroyed music. That a person with limited traditional musical skills could outshine you with what is basically a midi controller.
Tell me more about your failed music career.
Your delusions now extend to me! What an honor. Sadly, unlike with your AI girlfriend, you don’t have the ability to just tell me what I believe lmfao. Your brain is cooked
As for the point you’re trying to make: you cannot be considered a serious artist if you smear AI on the walls and then demand the same respect given to actual artists, no.
Digital artists who use “what is basically a midi controller” are actual artists, yes. Wtf are you talking about btw, it’s like you’ve heard of midi controllers but don’t know enough about them to phrase your point properly. Is your entire concept of digital production based on a guitar center advertisement? It would explain why you incorrectly believe AI could possibly assist the creative process.
And you’re the one shitting on digital artists, just so you know. Google how “Umbrella” was made before you so casually throw drum loops under the bus. Drum loops (and….this might blow your mind…piano loops) are collaborations between human artists. Everyone agrees this is legit. The fact you think instrumentalists and producers are somehow enemies reveals how out of touch you are; it’s totally obvious to anyone who actually creates music
I have everything. Nothing you said has changed my mind. Nothing you said has any rational thinking. No matter what point I make, you will say words of disagreement.
You’re just an old person yelling at clouds, or in this case: Computer programs that take inputs in different ways than you are familiar with and output things that are significantly better than you could ever do yourself.
So, tell me again about your failed music career lmao
Oh noooo, not my career, how will it survive the onslaught of tech bros who publish thirty “songs” a day
You’re badly out of date buddy. It’s been hilarious watching slop slurpers humiliate themselves for years on and end then up crying when the obvious scam they invested in achieves nothing. There’s a reason all of your fantasies revolve around undisciplined, talentless losers who feel entitled to success without needing to work for it or collaborate with anybody else.
Do you create your own samples from scratch too? Kudos if you do, I haven't done that since the 90's, and I consider my music original. Ever used an arpeggiator? Or randomized patterns? Used a synth lead that came with the synth?
The distinction between automation and AI breaks down somewhere.
I like to take real life sounds and put layers of effects on them to make them indistinguishable from the original. My drum is me playing my cat’s butt (meow, slap). I love to take quick sounds and slow them down ~100k% and get really weird atmospheric drones, etc.
When it comes to involving AI, which I haven’t done yet, I’d love to use it to quickly iterate over ideas. I spend a lot of time chasing an idea and having it fall apart. I like the process, sure, but I’d prefer to have more wins.
My drum is me playing my cat’s butt (meow, slap).
Hey, man, I feel that.
But yeah I heard a friend of mine also slows down slices and makes new sounds out of them. I have not been able to get to a studio in years, unfortunately, but I hear it can be done!
And that's how I "use" Suno, too. Song ideas. I would never be able to live with myself if I just published an AI song, but I think using it to explore ideas is fair game. But then, you can download the stems in WAV, so you can basically use that instead of buying pre-made tracks from musicians on like Apple Store or whatever.
Which only comes back to the problem that it will likely hurt musicians and make life harder for everyone. I don't know man, I'm just as nonplussed about the whole fucking thing as anyone.
Can't say any legit bands that sound exactly like that, But some of the guitar and metal notes sounds inspired by Polyphia, Playing God (sorry for the yt link) might scratch your itch, otherwise look up the math rock genre, might find some gems there. Wish you the best of luck!
Gonna make a quick edit, Unprocessed 100% deserves a recommendation in this genre. Occasionally have some EDM but mainly more on the metal side, but still have some extraordinary strings akin to Polyphia
I'm enjoying a lot of Unprocessed's Angel album. I'm also going to have to look at Polyphia and Playing God.
Math rock is one of the ways they advertised themselves. Also djent, but I'm not seeing that.
Psyqui is a Japanese EDM artist that has a similar sound. If the melodies and compositions are aigen, it may be a source.
You are the second person to recommend Unprocessed. Almost 10 minutes into the Angel album. It's pretty good, definitely hits the target.
I'll have to check out Polyphia as well.
I'm in the camp of, "if it's good, why should I care?" However, I'm all for transparency! Passing off AI-generated music as human-generated is fraud. Be honest!
There's a LOT of grey areas though. If you're a vocalist and you're using an AI-generated background? How's that any different from pressing "play" on a sequencer or even an audio file (of some sequenced or drum track)?
If you're a lyricist, the actual music isn't as important as the lyrics. Does it matter if they used AI to generate the music or should every lyricist be forced to pay someone to make the music for them or master an instrument (or sequencer)?
What if you're trying to translate your music into a different language and use AI to translate it? Is that AI-generated music? You can give your whole damned song to AI and it'll convert to a different language in-place without having to re-record it. It even uses your singer's voice!
To me, it's incredible technology and it's enabling artists of all kinds to do cool things with their music. It seems rather paternalistic to suggest someone's creativity doesn't "count" if they didn't sweat or spend years practicing to create it.
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You must consider that the AI "helping" the artist is built from the stolen work of countless artists. Regardless of use case, the tool only exists due to theft. Plus, this tool exists as a way to not pay talent for content.
Since the bread and circuses machine must keep dispensing to keep the masses anaesthetized, the elites need a way to cut the costs or they will lose points are their net worth scorecard and get made fun of by the other billionaires.
Not to mention, AI is a shortcut that does not generate skills besides prompt engineering. We have research proving this with students and the labor force losing reasoning and straight memory by handing off to "AI". Part of being a musician is the effort and practice and knowing an instrument. Asking the clanker for a tune because learning takes too long or is too difficult goes along with what the article says for detecting it. The work will be emotionless and have no soul. Musicians are allowed to make choices for their music, of course. AI rounding out an artist's tools is what it is. I view the tool as a corrupting force but, it's their perogative. But people without no knowledge or skill for making music cranking out these generic sounding similacra to make money is always going to set my teeth on edge.
Edit: spelling and tense correction. Revision and expansion of idea to express less derision.
You must consider that the AI “helping” the artist is built from the stolen work of countless artists.
I feel like this is conflating two separate arguments.
Is AI music good, versus is AI music moral.
AI imitates an overall sound. But doesn't care much about "instruments" individually. For simple minimal segments it can easily lay down a simple clear beat or melody. But as more gets added. The more the sound becomes muddy and generic. That and if you're familiar enough with a given instrument. It can often just sound "wrong". Again because the AI is imitating a sound, not an instrument generally.
But yeah. The other points stand. Social media presence and output are great indicators.
Midnight Darkwave is one I'm highly suspicious of. Super generic name. Not much presence beyond the streaming sites. I like the overall sound, but it often gets muddy and kind of droning. And not in the coldwave sort of way. Something a bit more inhuman, over processed, and mechanical.
I can see a creative use for Suno Studio where you can feed it a clip of a chord progression you recorded, have the AI generate a few extrapolations, then arrange bits and pieces of it within Suno Studio to create the basic song structure and finally export the midi to your DAW. Basically, you can use it as a fancy sketchpad.
The problem I can't get past is the environmental impact.
AI is just a tool. It can be used for good things and for bad things.
Huh. I wonder which it's gonna be!
Right? I used to use... Don't remember what the app was on Android, but it was like a fun little beat studio, it could generate random patterns according to styles, and randomize instruments too. So you'd get a loop, then you'd tweak it and switch our instruments and sounds and whatnot, and then when I found a nice rhythm, I recreated it in Ableton or FL Studio or whatever.
So, let's say you use Suno to make a good beat. You import slice and dissect the beat and sounds, and I fail to see how it's qualitatively any different than using sample or loop packs, which basically every fucking musician on the planet does.
"Are we so different, you and I"? 😀
I have used Suno quite extensively just for fun, I insert my own lyrics and let it create different styles and beats, and you have to push out like 30 before it does something actually decent, but some of them are fucking bangers. I consider it like watching visualizations in WinAmp.
I am not stating a moral proposition in either direction, just an observation.
I like to ask it to generate lyrics based on funny prompts. For example, I asked it to write a song from Darth Vader's perspective about the fact that he never actually said "Luke, I am your father". The results was just savage.
Hey Luke\
I heard you kissed your sister on Hoth\
I'm not mad\
I'm just curious\
'Cause I never kissed mine\
Did you like it? Did she like it?\
Do you regret it? Do you feel gross?\
Did it feel weird when she kissed you?\
I know that you never kissed beforeShe got a man (Ooh)\
You got a hand (Ooh)\
And maybe you should stick to what you know\
Oh\
You need to know\I am your father (I am your father)\
Luke\
I am your father (Luke, I am your father)\
No\
I never said that\
I never said that (No, I never said that)\
No
That... Is... Not very good.
BUT! Let's say that you took that and used it as a scaffolding for an idea. Let's say you kept some parts, rewrote some other parts, in the end coming up with something much better than the original.
Did you write it, or did the robot?
How much would you have to change for it to be "yours"? Where's the cutoff point?
I'm just posing this as a general metaphysical conundrum, I don't take a position other than deconstructing underlying arguments.
Fucking shit. I am starting to sound like a god damned AI.
I just thought it was funny that it decided to brutalize Luke all on its own.
She got a man (Ooh)\
You got a hand (Ooh)\
And maybe you should stick to what you know
Also, the incest thing was all the AI. I just asked for a song about the fact that Vader never said the line "Luke, I am your father".
Well then it is not only bad but wildly off topic, because what you got there is a cheap diss track missing a lot of opportunities.
"Hey Luke
I heard you kissed your sister on Hoth"
I mean right there you've got something rhyming with "hot". But anyway.
I think that if you don't know literature and art, dumb literature and art seems genius. And that's where we're at as a society.
I've been trying to figure out if Stone Rebel is an AI band or not. They started in 2018 and have put out something like 77 albums since, but it's relatively simple instrumental. They have almost no information online except a claim that they're "based in France"
Honestly can't tell if they're a legit yet very private group, or if they were early adopters of procgen music
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By a very thin margin, but yes. I'd rather listen to AI slop than the Human slop they try to pass for music these days.
Edit: Ah shit, I realized though that we are just gonna get talentless pop stars using AI instead. So both dog AND cat shit at the same time.
Brave new world.
I am talking about the music that gets played in coffee shops, malls, taxis, hotel lobbies, and restaurants all over the world. So yes, I listen to a LOT of crap.
The distinction is between mass produced radio pop and whatever high brow hipster music you're into.
literally 1984
But also there is still lots of good human music being created, I guess it's passing under your radar. Ask around, browse Bandcamp, listen to radio (hint: it's not just local now, check out Radio Garden).
Hahah he didn't exactly write according to a formula. That's like saying "yeah jimi hendrix is pretty formulaic, because he just plays guitar, with a limited number of chords and strings."
Edit: On second thought, the above is not a fair comparison at all, and there is a point to the mathematical nature of Bach, I just couldn't express it in a coherent and snarky way at the same time.
Bullshit. This only applies to fully prompt generated AI music. Tracks that heavily rely on AI based tech as a part of the process are harder to catch, and tracks that only use AI for mixing and mastering are impossible to detect.
I made a track but used AI to autotune and morph my voice to that of a woman's. It even allowed me to tweak the expressiveness of the voice. The track is 95% human made but the vocals are AI modified. I'm willing to bet that the ration of AI use in a lot of pop music and EDM is a lot higher.
PS: I make music for myself, as a hobby. I just wanted to make something to share with my friends. If you want real music, try bands like Wet Leg, IDLES, GEESE, etc who lean into making low tech music.
EDIT: Thia is an example of a song that is fully generated by AI. All that was fed to the prompt were the lyrics. The AI did everything else itself, including picking the genre. I shared it with a few people to see who'd figure out it was AI slop.
Compression throws me off.
That AI 'hiss' is ringing it my ears, but its very, very similar to YT uploads that have been re-encoded like 10 times. Which is a lot of them.
Out of curiosity, I made spectrograms of the AI song and concert that sounds 'clean' yet kinda noisy/compressed to me. I won't tell you which one is which:
Source song, if you are curious:
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That song was a mistake that got generated when I pasted the wrong clipboard into Suno's Lyrics window on my phone and accidentally submitted it. It has not been processed at all. Suno has a "Remaster" feature that when you are happy with the generated song you can give it a few automated "mix and mastering" passes to generate a cleaner and more dynamic sound.
I've mainly used Suno to mess about so I didn't want to pay for the upgrade.
Frequency.
A couple months ago, I found a really cool remake of one of the songs from KPop Demon Hunters. Everyone was doing covers of those songs, and many of them were indie artists, and I was rolling through them. So I found this video, and the video was just an image effect on the cover, which looked very AI-generated, but it's just the cover image, right? Who cares about that? I asked them in the comments if they would release their stuff on Apple Music. And they quickly responded — no, they're going to leave that money on the table, and have decided to stay exclusive to YouTube. Why would an artist choose to do that? Sure, a couple artists pulled their music off all other streaming platforms when they made their own, or their friends did. Garth Brooks has never been on streaming (except Amazon, I think they're the only one whose ethics he agrees with or something?). But most indie artists are on all the platforms. Maximise revenue. So these people saying no, not only to Apple Music — maybe they didn't like Apple kissing up to Trump — but also to Spotify, Amazon, Deezer, and all the rest. Turns out most of those platforms are stricter when it comes to AI music.
But here's the thing — their songs are still by the original artist. They're just stripping out the lyrics and putting new music to the lyrics. And that music is AI generated. Or so I later learned. I looked more into the YouTube channel, and they say they will make you a cover of a song, in any style you like, for $200. And they have hundreds of uploads... in a few months. Each song may have five or six variants. And the songs are still fine, but they have a generic, plastic, not real feel to them.
Of course, they also qualify the first thing in OP's summary, no social media presence. They just have the sales site, and the YouTube channel.
But maybe it's fine, or at least less bad, that they're taking existing songs and just remixing them with AI? Only they're saying the covers are better, and they're monetising the videos, so they're getting paid for the streams when that money should be going to the original artist. It's fine if they actually covered the song and recorded it, but having a computer do all the heavy lifting? Just seems scummy.
I'm not going to name & shame, but if you look up KPDH covers and see something that looks like AI slop with click-bait titles... you've probably found the right one. (They cover other stuff too, not just KPDH.)
Garth Brooks has never been on streaming (except Amazon)
Garth Brooks is available on every single music streaming service I know about. 🤨
This description of AI songs could be a lament about most pop music: formulaic, sweet, generic, produced in a studio to sound perfect, not human. Works on radio or Spotify, but not so much for a live audience.
Sure, that's hard to detect. AI reproduces what we've been exposed to for decades.
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I passed, but I'm fairly confident I wouldn't have if it weren't explicitly a test. I listened to all of them twice, with the express purpose of identifying the ones that are AI-generated.
Even then, I wasn't as confident in my prediction as I would have liked.
I'll say, I did enjoy all of them musically, but when I paid closer attention to the lyrics, I noticed something really odd and hard to describe in the ones generated by AI. Like some new kind of cringe. Like it would be embarrassing for a human to have written those lines, but not in a relatable kind of way. Not in the usual "I'm embarrassed for you" kind of way.
I was torn between "I hope this isn't AI, I'm vibing with the music" and "I hope no human wrote these lyrics".
The whole exercise also shattered my perception of my own taste in music - I liked all of the AI-generated ones and I'm not happy about it.
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single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job
was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens
of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen
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programmes, plays, novels—with every conceivable kind of
information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to
a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from
a child’s spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. And the
Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of
the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower
level for the benefit of the proletariat. There was a whole
chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian lit-
erature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here
were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost
nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational
five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimen-
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means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a ver-
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If you can't tell the difference and it fits how you listen to music, I guess who cares?
AI software writing up musak doesn't matter to me because I don't listen to music that way.
I'll know the bands I'm listening to are real because I will have manually downloaded their music after reading reviews, magazine articles, or things like albumoftheyear.org just like I've been doing for the last half decade.
Music streaming services suck and not only because they will promote low cost bands to you. If you actually give a shit about music then stop being so lazy as to have an algorithm fill your trough with slop and then being surprised that it's AI slop.
Or just continue eating the slop if it pleases you. 🤷
It's a bit of a contrarian take, but I think people need to start adding more intentionality to how they live their lives. If music is unimportant to you, that's fine. But nowadays everyone just watches the shows they're recommended, listens to the music that is picked out by the algorithm, and reads what is fed to them in their feeds...figure out what's important to you and curate it for yourself.
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Look, the guy has a point. This is a very real metaphysical conundrum. Who would've guessed that we would have a whole new metaphysical conundrum to sink our teeth in in 2025?
It's an important conversation, and interesting. I have very strong opinions on art, but I can't quite wrap my head around how to relate to AI generated art.
I can’t quite wrap my head around how to relate to AI generated art.
Simple. It's not about art at all. But about "artists".
Let's use an example. Let's say that you're a rich person and you want to hire someone to paint a landscape portrait for you. You tell them in detail exactly what you want and they go and do it. Does that make you an artist? Of course not. It makes you the procurer
So if we replace that hired painter with a computer, does that mean that because no human artist was involved that the title of "artist" automatically reverts to the procurer, meaning the person that told the computer what to do? No.
Regardless of who (or what) creates the art, the person telling them/it what to paint isn't a damn artist and doesn't deserve any financial reward.
Your contention is, as far as I understand, that a person who uses AI to create AI art, is not an artist. Ok. I don't think so either, necessarily.
But when you use the word "deserve" you also make another argument, which is financial and political in nature, which is a qualitatively different proposition. I don't disagree with you there either, necessarily.
I am not taking sides by the way. Like I said, I have not been successful in navigating the problem space enough to have a single strong unified position on all of it, just bits and pieces, not strongly, and the pieces don't fit.
I was looking for videogame remixes one day and found a channel doing Little Nemo from the NES. I used to love that game and thought it was an odd pick for remixes, one you don't see too often so I clicked on it and ... it was incredibly underwhelming. I listened for a few minutes and something was kind of off but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. It was AI of course.
I'm not much of a music person, I've been listening to it daily for my entire life but I don't know much about theory. Still, when it comes to remixes, you can usually tell why someone remixed a song. They like that particular song, or there's a motif that really struck them. They'll pick out certain sounds or elements and build on them, single them out and rearrange them. It's very intentional and you can tell.
AI-generated remixes lack this intentionality. It was like someone had twisted a dial that just said "complexity" and that was it. There were more intricate layers of beats and instrumentation on top, but it wasn't doing anything. I sat there and listened for 15 minutes and it was like I heard nothing. Nothing new stuck in my head, there was no riff or little melody that made go, "Aw fuck yeah! This is what it's about!"
That's how you can tell AI generated music.
Sadly, a lot of slower and minimalist genres have been decimated by it though. Vaporwave, chillcore, dungeonsynth. A lot of these had large bodies of work to train on and it's a lot harder to tell due to their subtler nature, but you'll usually notice the artist has a new hour-long upload every day. If you click through it at random, you'll begin to notice that while the tones shift, the overall pattern of the entire hour-long mix is still kind of the same?
It's bleak, man. Fuck that shit.
This is kind of irrelevant to the argument, but if I were to provide you with a mix of AI and organically produced music, would you be able to pick them out every time?
It's a bit like Andy Warhol's "Brillo box" art installation. Is it just a Brillo box he got at the store? Or did he make it himself, thereby creating "art"? Could you know the difference? Would you?
As a fun aside, a permanent exhibition of one of "his" Brillo boxes turned out to be fake (well, real, if you think about it, which is kind of the point of that piece of Warhol's art), and there was a huge investigation into who had taken the "original", but people had been coming and seen the exhibition for decades at that point, not knowing it was actually just a Brillo box.
I think this touches on the complexity of the issues presented by AI that is actually a pretty ancient philosophical debate around art, meaning, and value.
This is kind of irrelevant to the argument, but if I were to provide you with a mix of AI and organically produced music, would you be able to pick them out every time?
I'd like to think much more often than not, yes. People talk about it being able to replicate low level pop and ... fine. But that's not really the kind of stuff I listen to. Maybe there's a statement to be made there about how far down pop has fallen that it can be mistaken with formulaic AI slop ...
It’s a bit like Andy Warhol’s “Brillo box” art installation. Is it just a Brillo box he got at the store? Or did he make it himself, thereby creating “art”? Could you know the difference? Would you?
Which I guess is what your point here is. What is art and who is the arbiter of that?
Kind of different circumstances as I see it, though. Andy Warhol still performed the art of the Brillo box. He took something basic and skillfully crafted it into art to prod the artistic community into considering what we think of as art and why. It was in no way a trick but a very deliberate and intentional statement, or question even.
AI on the other hand often feels like a trick. There is little to no intention, no human craft, and an effort to pass it off as a higher form of art than it really is. It's not asking questions or making statements but an effort to deliver "content" to fill some need. The need for more content.
But like, hey. That's just my opinion, maaan ...
You misread what I wrote. I didn't say it couldn't fool me, I said I'll never pay for it. I'm not interested in fabricated emotional connections to fake art, even if it's faked well enough to trick me. All this means is that I'm going to be researching the bands and artists I listen to, which I already do anyways.
There really isn't anything unique anyway in human made content
100% pure, unadulterated bullshit.
Sometimes experimental/improv groups can basically make an album a day if they put their mind to it. Often live recorded with minimal post processing. It’s far from mainstream but it can be surprisingly popular among the right audiences.
Haven’t checked out this particular project but it’s possible
Look, I hate AI as much as the next person, but honestly, I think a lot of AI music is better than whatever dumb shit they play on radio literally all across the world.
Text AI is meh.
Image AI is meh.
Video AI is not bad.
Music AI is pretty good.
Edit: Wow, tough crowd, tough crowd. I stand by what I said.
I am not sure I quite follow. I mean yeah good comparison with Hatsune Miku, but I mean it genuinely- I would rather listen to some AI generated beats I "made" "myself" over the absolute auditive brain diarrhea they play in coffee shops all around the world, it's the same lowest common denominator manufactured pop drivel that I can't escape from one side of the planet to the other.
Thanks, I'll take random techno beats with Bach fugues and Chopin leads with a Rasta rhythm over that any day. At least it doesn't desperately try to make a case for itself being great art.
I hate the fact that it is owned and controlled and developed and manipulated by modern self made kings. I hate the fact that it has tremendous destructive power. I hate the fact that it will be used to control global discourse, empower militaries, and only serve to solidify the profound wealth gap already ingrained in and promoted by the fabric of our economic system.
But hey, if you feel like you need to gatekeep hating AI, knock yourself out, I guess I will never achieve your level of purity.
1) A LOT of people, especially blue collar folk, listen to fully advertised radio schlock every single minute of their working day, and they work very long days.
2) WiFi is technically radio.
3) Neither 1) nor 2) matters, because the word "radio" encompasses a fuzzy category of media content regardless of how it's being provided. People still go to the "movies" even though we've had "talkies" since 1910. We still watch film even when it's shot digitally.
My first experience with AI music was when I was on my usual 90s hip-hop/rap vibe and got recommended some channels with alleged underground hits. There definitely were a couple channels that put out legit mixes that did have a lot of music and artists I didn't know prior, but one of the mixes was weird. I could tell immediately, less than a minute in, mainly because of the vocals that sounded super generic as well kind of robotic in addition to a very out of place beat that doesn't sound at all like it'd belong in the 90s/2000s era of rap music. Had it not been for the vocals in tandem with the mismatched beat (obviously created by someone who doesn't know jack about the music genre and the ear it's supposed to represent), I might not have spotted the AI involved.
The scary and sad part is that I doubt YouTube will do anything about it despite reports and that there are so many people that either don't care or don't know/realise. Only saw like one or two other comments calling out that mix having been made with AI
AI has no story to tell, didn't broke up with someone to write a song, and certainly won't make star gaze the live concert I went to.
- dumbass nonsensical lyrics
- bland basic bitch tone
- superfluous background music
- digital voice that sounds like it's been through a syth incorrectly
even shit music takes effort and talent.
AI is literally the theft of talent and the absence of effort.
literally the theft of talent and the absence of effort.
You've just described 100% of the record labels.
even shit music takes effort and talent.
Hm, not really unless you consider effort anything that's non-zero.
I just shat my pants.I just shat my pants.
Shit got so itchy,
I just shat my pants.
There you go. It took me 10 seconds of effort to come up with that masterpiece. Where's my Grammy?
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Okay okay. First off, fuck AI yeah. But if it's becoming this indistinguishable where you need to go looking for tells that it's AI I don't think it's fair to call it bad music, just how it got there is bad.
It's like listening to Kanye West. Graduation is amazing but fuck him.
Hard disagree, because it's like with all the other forms of AI-created slop - with the real thing there's layers of meaning, and you spend time and mental energy digging into that and getting something from it. But as with AI art and AI prose, you try looking closer at it and it just makes you feel hollow and frustrated at having wasted your time.
There was no meaning, there was no symbolism, there were no clever literary allusions, there was no interplay between the melody and the lyrics, it's just superficial garbage that tricks you into giving it attention by sounding good on its first listen.
(Edit: lol touched a nerve with some shit talentless musicians)
I listened to Kanye for years before he publicly became a Nazi and I don't think the breadth of his mind changed overnight.
I spent years defending his off-putting public personality because his music touched me from the start.
I really think our pattern seeking monkey brains are easily tricked enough to find meaning in a pile of garbage if we believe hard enough and AI represents this, not proves against it.
Not everyone can draw, or play music, or make movies. Not everyone has the time or money to put everything together thats needed to make something like a good song or a good movie. AI tools are going to give more people those chances, and yes there is going to be slop, but theres already been slop for decades that was all 100% human being made, that had no meaning, no symbolism, no clever literay allusions. So what exactly is the problem with people using AI generate something?
I don't mind if the work is generated by AI. A dude could randomly pour some ink on a paper and try and sell it to me. If I like it, I'll buy it.
My issue with AI is the fact that it harms people, and I wish I was exaggerating.
I dreamed of a future like this one when I was a kid. But not at the expense of mass layoffs and the benefits going to a few folks.
But there is more human crap out there made each day than there is great works
And now, thanks to AI, we can expect 100x more shit to wade through! Great success!
Not everyone can draw, or play music, or make movies. Not everyone has the time or money to put everything together thats needed to make something like a good song or a good movie.
If the author does not want to spend time learning and doing, then I don't want to spend time checking whatever they asked an AI to do.
So what exactly is the problem with people using AI generate something?
Lower barrier of entry for profit-seeking bullshitters. A significant usage of AI is done by people wanting to profit off it somehow. SEO optimized garbage sites, videos that get lots of views on yt/ttk/insta, playing spotify on repeat forever.
Oh, there's also the problem of all the deepfakes that people WILL believe, whatever the intent was: revenge porn, political manipulation, trolling.
If the author does not want to spend time learning and doing, then I don't want to spend time checking whatever they asked an AI to do.
Not everyone has the luxury to spend time learning those skill sets. Should the single parent who had a dream to make art who is getting crushed by capitalism, works 3 jobs to make ends meet and literally doesnt have time to learn there passion without starving not also deserve to be able to express themselves? What do you want only the privileged rich people who have time to dedicate large portions of their life without impact on their finances to be the only ones putting out art? How does someone like Taylor swift who's whole career came about because her parents could spend so much money on getting her training and paying for studio time in some of the most expensive studios more deserving of getting to make art because of circumstances most people dont have the opportunity to participate in?
Lower barrier of entry for profit-seeking bullshitters
Oh no poor people might be able to make money off of art instead of only massive corporations that effectively already killed the human spirit in art already. Oh no someone who may have gone to school for art so they can express themselves may no longer be able to get a job at an ad company where their love for art gets extinguished as they have to constantly make soulless logos for mega corps based on advise from advertising psychologist who define what will tingle peoples brain more to make them want to consume more.
The problem your scared about already happens but is dressed up as human expression today by pr departments because people do it. If anything AI art would counter that because now more people will be producing things for the sole reason of expressing themselves instead of needing to take a soul crushing job eroding the expression of their craft for a corporation to make up for the years of debt they incurred by going to school to follow their passion only to find out the field they went into is a farce.
Oh, there's also the problem of all the deepfakes that people WILL believe, whatever the intent was: revenge porn, political manipulation, trolling.
People believe anything already, people believed random hearsay in the past. The only counter for any type of manipulation like this whether being based in deep fakes or just someone spewing nonsense on a pod cast is critical thinking skills. AI doesnt change that one bit, if someone doesnt want to think critically about something they wont, they don't need AI today to practice cognitive dissonance and blocking AI wont stop that behavior only focusing on education and critical thinking skills will.
Glad to see that you lack an understanding of scale, that explains a lot.
Should the single parent who had a dream to make art who is getting crushed by capitalism, works 3 jobs to make ends meet and literally doesnt have time to learn there passion without starving not also deserve to be able to express themselves?
They're not expressing themselves if all they're doing is the equivalent of a boss telling a worker to do something. This is also called "commissioning an artist"
Oh no poor people might be able to make money off of art instead of only massive corporations that effectively already killed the human spirit in art already. Oh no someone who may have gone to school for art so they can express themselves may no longer be able to get a job at an ad company where their love for art gets extinguished as they have to constantly make soulless logos for mega corps based on advise from advertising psychologist who define what will tingle peoples brain more to make them want to consume more.
This whole paragraph is such a display of bad faith that I can't even figure what's your position. My best guess: a lot of words to dodge the problem.
The problem your scared about already happens but is dressed up as human expression today by pr departments because people do it. If anything AI art would counter that because now more people will be producing things for the sole reason of expressing themselves instead of needing to take a soul crushing job eroding the expression of their craft for a corporation to make up for the years of debt they incurred by going to school to follow their passion only to find out the field they went into is a farce.
Yeah, nothing like getting a soul crushing job that doesn't involve art, so that my artistic spirit can remain unfulfilled forever while I pretend to boss around a prompt and think I did something. Refer back to my first point of this reply.
People believe anything already, people believed random hearsay in the past. The only counter for any type of manipulation like this whether being based in deep fakes or just someone spewing nonsense on a pod cast is critical thinking skills. AI doesnt change that one bit, if someone doesnt want to think critically about something they wont, they don’t need AI today to practice cognitive dissonance and blocking AI wont stop that behavior only focusing on education and critical thinking skills will.
It's a matter of scale. That you failed to grasp something so simple says a lot.
Maybe people with be more protective of their art from here on out and stop trying to make a mill off of clout.
We gave the tech companies or data. We are reaping the consequences.
If your concerns are ethical, then you should be consuming only indie music from unsigned artists
...who could be using AI, lol.
I don't know if people are still making sampled music, but this thought occurred to me the other day.
What if I prompted certain phrased, riffs, and hooks that never existed instead of making a complete song.
Then I made a song using samples in my work.
Is this a new song? AI? A mix? Seems plausible that someone is doing this now.
I pretty much only listen to live music anymore anyways, because everything else is so produced it might as well be AI.
Is this a new song? AI? A mix?
Just send kinda sad that you'd give up trying to make up new riffs and stuff, seems like a really fun and important part of music
'Sound ripped through my ears': Thousands deafened by Israeli bombing in Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39334910
By Hedaya al-Tatar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 22 November 2025 13:00 GMT
Two Palestinian boys lie next to each other at al-Wafa medical rehabilitation hospital in Gaza.Their mother, Aya Abu Auda, speaks to them softly, but neither child reacts.
The brothers, Elias Abu al-Jibeen, 5, and Ismail Abu al-Jibeen, 8, were wounded during Israeli bombardment on their displacement camp in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood on 31 August.
The attack left Elias completely deaf and Ismail with severe hearing loss.
Just a year earlier, Abu Auda had fled her home in northern Gaza after Israeli missiles flattened it and killed her husband.
'Sound ripped through my ears': Thousands deafened by Israeli bombing in Gaza
By Hedaya al-Tatar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 22 November 2025 13:00 GMTTwo Palestinian boys lie next to each other at al-Wafa medical rehabilitation hospital in Gaza.Their mother, Aya Abu Auda, speaks to them softly, but neither child reacts.
The brothers, Elias Abu al-Jibeen, 5, and Ismail Abu al-Jibeen, 8, were wounded during Israeli bombardment on their displacement camp in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood on 31 August.
The attack left Elias completely deaf and Ismail with severe hearing loss.
Just a year earlier, Abu Auda had fled her home in northern Gaza after Israeli missiles flattened it and killed her husband.
Gaza: Israeli blasts deafen thousands as treatment is blocked
Two Palestinian boys lie next to each other at al-Wafa medical rehabilitation hospital in Gaza. Their mother, Aya Abu Auda, speaks to them softly, but neither child reacts.Hedaya al-Tatar (Middle East Eye)
Running GoToSocial on an old wifi router
Someone on another Lemmy instance raised the question of whether an old wifi router could make a usable server of some sort, specifically a decade-old Google AC-1304. Since I happened to have a couple hanging around, I decided to give it a try.
I wrote a little about my experience in my blog but to summarize, I thought it would be fun to se if I could run a GoToSocial instance entirely on the router. It has an ARMv7 processor, 4GB of storage, and 512MB of RAM, so it falls a smidge short of the recommended minimum specs, but I figured that I might be able to get by if I kept the instance simple.
Surprisingly, GTS seemed to run fine after some basic configuration tweaks. The biggest issue I encountered was actually with ffmpeg, rather than GTS itself. The only GTS build available for ARMv7 is a nowasm build, meaning that it's missing the built-in media handling components, and instead relies on ffmpeg being proveded by the host system. The version of ffmpeg that ships with the OS I'm using (OpenWRT) didn't have the needed codecs to create webp files, which GTS requires when dealing with media. Using the OpenWRT SDK, I tried to build an ffmpeg package with the correct codecs, but it still failed to properly convert files to webp. My goal was just to run GTS, though, so I that digging deeper into ffmpeg felt like a tangent I didn't want to pursue.
But I digress. The instance is now online and running (though without media), and I created a simple bot account, named Gale, who will post a random fact about wifi and networking each day.
Feel free to give 'em a follow in your favorite Mastodon client at @gale@gts-googlewifi.k3can.us or you can view past toots here
Just wanted to share!
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Great work, but I just want to share the stupid comment of
"Looks like a cup of internet"
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Very, cool. But I can't help to notice the very odd placement of the ethernet ports on that router?
Edit: Ah, I see:
Very cool - I think there is promise in Openwrt routers becoming more than just routers - I posted about it here in selfhosted a while back - lemmy.radio/post/10217918
My Dream of a Home Router / Server
What if you could buy off the shelf a box based on #opensource software and hardware that you could plug into your internet connection. You could connect to via Wifi and it would allow an average person to fairly easily configure, via a guided setup, a self hosted Cloud Drive, Social Media server, home automation service, VPN end point, email server and other commonly useful software?What if that box allowed that person's friends to authenticate and to that box and link a box they own, either close by or remotely. It could extend connectivity and estabilish a chain of trus, provide a level of encrypted backup of content from that box and make assertions about the users on that box such as - This user account is owned by this person, this user account is over 18?
This is a dream. I know I'm rambling. #openwrt, #yunohost, #seflhost, #chainoftrust, #fediverse !Selfhosted
should it be in NAND or NOR??
Why not both? My initial idea was to flash to NOR and then configure openwrt to a sort of "minimal usable state". That is, I'd have the basic functions required run my home network: basic routing between local networks and WAN. Then I'd copy that image to NAND and that would be when I installed the "extras", like SQM and whatnot. That way, if I ever broke it beyond repair, I could just flip the switches and copy the NOR back to NAND and start over with that minimal usable config.
I sort of followed my plan, but I think things have changed enough that it would not be the simple restart that I hoped it would.
I still think it's a good idea, though.
... my family still has these as actual WiFi routers. the coverage kinda sucks.
Canada and the EU are quietly reinforcing NATO’s northern flank -- [Opinion]
cross-posted from: scribe.disroot.org/post/573548…
This is an opinionated piece by Andrew Latham, professor of international relations at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., a senior fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities in Washington.
Addition to insert the official statement by the Canadian government: Security and defence partnership between the European Union and Canada
Archived link...
Canada and the European Union have signed a new Security and Defence Partnership focused on cyber defense, maritime security, hybrid threats and industrial resilience. It may sound like bureaucratic routine, but in fact it represents the next step in the evolution of Canada’s grand strategy: a consolidation of its northern vocation as an Arctic and North Atlantic power.
For years, Ottawa’s strategic posture has been scattered — globalist rhetoric masking an absence of focus. That era is ending. With this agreement, Canada is beginning to align its diplomatic and defense priorities with the geography that truly defines its security: the northern approaches.
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The partnership builds on decades of cooperation but carries new strategic weight in a world of revived spheres of influence. As Russia militarizes the High North and China pushes Arctic shipping and data routes, Canada and Europe are binding together their defenses of the North Atlantic and Arctic seas.
The focus on cyber resilience and hybrid threats echoes the growing anxiety about undersea cables, satellite networks and energy infrastructure — the connective tissue of modern power that is increasingly vulnerable to disruption.
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The industrial side of the partnership deserves more attention than it has received. The joint declaration calls for stronger supply-chain integration, cybersecurity cooperation and joint production in key sectors such as munitions and aerospace. This is not just about trade; it is about strategic endurance.
The U.S. is straining to supply both Ukraine and its Indo-Pacific posture. Europe is rearming but remains dependent on fragmented supply lines. Canada’s integration with Europe’s industrial base offers a way to build redundancy into the alliance — to strengthen the defense-industrial fabric that keeps deterrence credible in a protracted contest of attrition.
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Canada’s partnership with the EU is an act of adaptation, not defection — a recognition that the Arctic and the North Atlantic are now central theaters of global power, and that securing them is both Canada’s duty and opportunity.
Seen through this lens, Ottawa’s strategic posture begins to look more coherent. The same logic that drove its focus on undersea cable protection, Arctic over-the-horizon radar and modernized continental defense now extends outward into transatlantic collaboration. Canada is not turning away from the United States but is reinforcing the northern shield that protects both continents.
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Canada and the EU are quietly reinforcing NATO’s northern flank -- [Opinion]
*This is an opinionated piece by Andrew Latham, professor of international relations at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., a senior fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy and a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities in Washington.scribe.disroot.org
Cross-social app
I know that by using my instance website i can do it but i'd like to have an app.
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GitHub - DimensionDev/Flare: All your Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, X, RSS feeds, in one APP.
All your Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, X, RSS feeds, in one APP. - DimensionDev/FlareGitHub
Thank you! I am gonna follow the project to see if there is any development for Lemmy
Edit: i don't see Lemmy in the roadmap sadly...
with a single account (isn't that the point of the fediverse?).
Absolutely not.
I'm not sure why people see Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, Loops, etc as all the same thing that should all be one app.
They might communicate with the same protocol, but they have vastly different uses, interfaces, styles, and experience. It's like saying you want one vehicle that drives like a motorcycle, haules the kids around, gets great mileage, and can tow 20,000lbs.
All your tools fit in the same toolbox, but you use each one separately for the use it's best suited. Then you put it down and pick up another. Sure you can make a multi-tool but it won't do any job as well as a proper dedicated tool. It'll just kinda work if you have no better option.
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Police charge 11 protesters after climate flotilla prevents coal ship from entering Newcastle harbour [Australia]
Thousands of protesters, including Australian Greens leader, gather for annual climate protest in world’s largest coal export port
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How far can we go?
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/21968684
Wie weit schaffen wir es dieses Mal? - Fediverse ExperimentHow far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's #Sharkey, #Misskey, #Pixelfed, #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma…If you see it, please share it.
Heise Medien on Mastodon
Der Mastodon-Server von und für Heise Medien und insb. die Nachrichten von heise online.Mastodon, gehostet auf social.heise.de
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Australian Coalition’s tortuous decision to abandon the climate target was built on a big lie
Coalition puts internal politics above all else
Two thoughts come rushing to mind as I attempt to follow the ridiculous and irresponsible machinations of the two opposition parties over Australia’s climate targets, especially net zero by 2050.John Hewson (The Saturday Paper)
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New Zealanders are leaving the country in record numbers, mainly to Australia
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Alice Angeloni (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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It's almost entirely the cost of living VS income, very little to do with politics.
I don't know how to describe how stupid leaving NZ for Australia because of politics would be.
there is no cause for alarm, noting that global workforce flows continue to bring skilled migrants into the country
Hey USA, this is the time. Not next year, right. This. Minute.
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I'd love to move to NZ but your immigration laws are insane...
I'm austrian and it's basically impossible to move to NZ for me
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When I was in NZ it was a fabulous country with really friendly people. Even the cops.
But this was 20 years ago. Though it sounds like it was a great place under Jacinta too.
Ignore the doomer. There are some ratty old houses around, but there are also plenty of places that are modern and well insulated. We've had something of a building boom over the last few years, driven in large part due to changes in zoning rules, so a huge number of town houses and apartments have been built. It's also possible to retrofit insulation to an extent, which we've done in our house. We now have underfloor and ceiling insulation, as well as double glazed windows.
A lot of rentals have been retrofitted wherever possible, as there are now minimum standards for rental properties.
There's a lot of things the Ardern government failed on. Cost of living, cost of housing, both to rent and to buy, child poverty, they all got measurably worse under her government.
She's viewed far more favourably than she deserves to be, especially internationally where their failures didn't make the news.
A businessman-cum-conservative leads the country since 2023, in coalition with far-right populists.
After two terms of Labour government.
Pretty much the same happened in my country, and yes, the effects are palpable, esp. if you work in the public or social sector.
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Yeah, it must be quite jarring to go from this badass
to Kiwi Trump in just a couple years!
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Left got complacent, while the right stoked fear with lies and propaganda.
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Obama was not a badass, he was a charismatic young illegal drone striking war criminal who reversed course on several key campaign promises.
He wasn't Trump, but he wasn't a leftist workers hero, you deserve and should demand better than Democrats.
Also, there was a lot more hope than change.
Ultimately, Obama did a perfect job executing neoliberalism. And by demonstrating the outcomes of neoliberalism when perfectly executed, I think he also executed neoliberalism in the other meaning.
Something to remember when reading these headlines, is that Australia is a ridiculously wealthy country, in large part due to mineral wealth, and anyone in NZ can just go there and get a job.
It has almost nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with making more money.
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If that's the case why is it record numbers now?
Australia has had mineral wealth for a very long time, that's nothing new.
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That's fair, but that's due to politics.
Wealth and quality of life are hugely dependent upon the politics of a place.
Which form of politics is correct is a debate that has existed since forever, but there's no getting away from the fact that politics determines wealth, quality of life, and ultimately whether people wish to immigrate, emigrate, or stay put.
Well, that and the weather 😝
I have some bad news for kiwis coming over here...
Here are some raw official statistics:
stats.govt.nz/information-rele…
After having a look at the graphs: The data looks pretty normal and is within the previously observed boundaries.
On a side note:
1. +1 for the goverment website, other countries could learn from that
2. Also nice to have non US news here for once
International migration: July 2025 | Stats NZ
Annual net migration was 13,100 (± 1,400) in the July 2025 year, compared with a net gain of 63,600 (± 200) in the July 2024 year. Migrant arrivals were 140,500 (± 1,000), down 20 percent, and migrant departures were 127,400 (± 1,100), up 14 percent.www.stats.govt.nz
In the 1970s, when the NZ Prime Minister Robert Muldoon was asked about the high numbers of New Zealanders leaving for Australia he replied:
"It raises the IQ of both countries".
Just brilliant!
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Frustrations grow in Russia over cellphone internet outages that disrupt daily life
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/42209343
When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.Credit cards that won’t buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don’t connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don’t receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can’t monitor their kids’ blood glucose levels during outages.
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With gloomy pictures showing people using their phones and looking unhappy, contrasted with people walking together holding hands and smiling.
(Seen on Jake Broe on youtube.)
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Boo hoo. While your culture makes lives miserable worldwide, you have slow internet.
God Russia is a hell hole.
The background: Ukraine didn't have 30 years to refine its cruise missiles and long range strike drones - they built them in 3 years.
There are many ways to make a missile navigate.
- it may follow terrain features (hard, you need to thoroughly map a country using a fleet of satellites)
- it may take readings from a satnav system (this can be jammed)
- it may scan for mobile phone towers and match their ID codes to a map
Once a missile has the direction of 2..3 towers confirmed, it knows where it is - and where to go. Crashing into the final target uses machine vision, but getting there does not.
As a result, Russia tries to counter them by shutting down mobile networks. Not sure if it works. Going by the news, doesn't seem to work very well.
As for how to avoid exfiltration of mobile network data - hopeless. People have so much spyware and crap on their phones that you don't need to put an agent on ground to get a list of towers. You just buy out a smartphone app from a shady supplier and develop it into a rootkit, or sell rooted phones on the cheap in the target country.
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in reply to anticonnor • • •When I was stumbling on some of his output it unfortunately felt very click-baity, always playing on your FOMO if you didn't set up/download/buy the next best thing until the other next best thing in the video after.
In other words, I think he's cool to check out to get to know of a thing, but to get a deeper level of understanding how a thing works I would recommend written materials. There are good caddy/nginx tutorials out there, but a linux networking book will get your understanding further yet.
If it has to be video, I would at least recommend a little more slowed down, long-form content like .
- YouTube
www.youtube.comabeorch
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in reply to anticonnor • • •Well my first reply is: setting up yor own router is like to learn driving with a touring car. You just need to know a lot to set up/handle everything properly. Its just not easy and in m opinion the most wrong point to start.
DNS-wise I would like to recommend something like pihole. To me it was my first thing I installed and used until this day and also the handling of DNS is quite easy. Maybe you should consider lerning other things before setting up your own router.
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in reply to Nephalis • • •2) start with something more packaged that provides more guidance on delivering services 'out of the box' like yunhost - which can provide some things off the rack services and with a templated approach - that then allows you to play around a bit while you learn the basics
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in reply to anticonnor • • •I am relatively sophisticated on LAN/local services (been running Raspberry Pi since 2018 or so), I was never able to setup a reverse proxy to get a true self-hosted system (i.e. remote access); got roadblocked by nginx and setting up letsencrypt with reverse proxy support.
In general, true remote access is IMO exponentially more difficult and demanding than getting things running on your local network.
For anyone starting out with self-hosting, I would strongly recommend LAN/local services where you can relatively easily deploy multiple very useful and powerful services (SMB/NAS, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, Qbittorrent-Nox).
I would suggest looking into DietPi, it's IMO the best RaspberryPi/SBC distribution there is if you want things to just work and not bug you. Very helpful developers and community too. Excellent, user friendly CLI management tools for headless operation.
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in reply to anticonnor • • •Check FUTO’s guide. It’s great for beginners:
- YouTube
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in reply to anticonnor • • •Idk of any good series but techno Tim has a great video on using cloudflare and traefik to get wildcard letsencrypt ssls for your docker services.
youtu.be/n1vOfdz5Nm8
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in reply to anticonnor • • •I am saving this thread to try and find a good tutorial for myself. That said, I have had a great experience on #networking on libera.chat, which is IRC. They have been very patient with me and often willing to go into detail in a beginner-friendly way.
Unfortunately, they are not accessible via the web chat, so you have to use an IRC client and register and account, which is relatively painless, but might take 10 to 15 minutes to get started.
libera.chat/guides/connect
Connecting to Libera.Chat
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in reply to anticonnor • • •In the past, I've found a lot of valuable resource at
One thing you really need to establish right from the start is the habit of taking detailed notes. It's tedious, bothersome at times, but the ability to backtrack something that may not have deployed quite like you wanted, is invaluable. It will also save your ass in a month when you've forgotten everything you did before.
Take notes!
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