Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Sunday that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House last week was "radicalized since he's been here in this country" after arriving in Sept. 2021 from Afghanistan.

Officials have said the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, entered the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lakanwal was granted asylum by the Trump administration earlier this year. The CIA said Thursday that Lakanwal previously worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar that ended in 2021 following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Since Wednesday's shooting, the Trump administration has ordered all asylum applications paused, according to an internal directive obtained by CBS News and two sources familiar with the order.

National Guard shooting suspect "radicalized since he's been here in this country," Noem claims

^{Caroline Linton (CBS News)}

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1 killed, 11 injured in Russian drone attack on Kyiv Oblast. One person was killed and 11 people were injured in Vyshhorod district as Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv Oblast overnight on Nov. 30.

Americans showing ‘constructive approach’ in peace talks, Zelensky says as Ukrainian delegates arrive in US. Ukrainian officials will meet with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Florida on Nov. 30. Zelensky said a final agreement could be ready “in the coming days.”

Zelensky’s ex-chief of staff Yermak says he’s ‘going to the front’ after resigning amid corruption probe. Former Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said he intends to go to the front line after resigning from his post amid a major corruption investigation, the New York Post reported on Nov. 28, citing a letter he sent the outlet.

‘Successful’ Ukrainian naval drone strike disables 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers, source says. The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.

Ukraine attacks one of southern Russia’s largest oil refineries, sparks fire.

Ukraine’s military targeted the Afipsky Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai — one of southern Russia’s largest refineries — overnight on Nov. 29, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported.

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‘Half of Kyiv without electricity’ — 2 killed, 38 injured in ‘serious‘ Russian attack on capital. Russia launched a mass missile and drone attack against Kyiv overnight on Nov. 29, killing two people and injuring 38 others, including a child, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.

Russian drone violated Moldovan airspace during 10-hour attack on Kyiv, Chisinau says. Russian drones violated Moldova’s airspace during Moscow’s mass overnight attack against Kyiv, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Nov. 29.

‘Time to update’ Ukraine’s defense documents, Zelensky says after meeting top military, intelligence officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov on Nov. 29 and ordered a revision of Ukraine’s core defense documents.

Drone attack forces oil terminal in Russia’s Novorossiysk to halt all loading operations. Naval drones struck the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s marine terminal in the Russian port city of Novorossiysk on Nov. 29, forcing the facility to suspend oil shipments, the company said.

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Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds. A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.

Zelensky, Macron to hold talks on ‘durable peace’ in Paris Dec. 1.

The leaders will discuss “the conditions of a just and durable peace” in Ukraine, according to French President Emmanuel Macron’s office.

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Russia declares Human Rights Watch an ‘undesirable organization’. Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization” on Nov. 28, effectively banning the group from operating in the country.

Daughter of former South African president resigns from parliament amid investigation into Russian military recruitment scheme. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, resigned from parliament after being accused of helping lure 17 South African men to fight for the Russian military in Ukraine, her party announced on Nov. 29.

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Mary Trump shared her theories after a series of incidents involving her uncle and female journalists

In the most recent incident Thursday, the president lashed out at a journalist who asked him about the D.C shooting suspect, asking if she was a “stupid person”.

Just one day before, Mary Trump had addressed her uncle’s previous run-ins with female reporters on her show, Mary Trump Live.

“His misogynistic attacks against reporters in particular are increasing and that means a couple of things,” she said. “It means that he’s increasingly comfortable lodging such attacks,” she continued, before reeling off a list of targeted groups. “There’s no hiding it anymore.”

The president’s niece also theorised that the sharp rebukes he delivers when questioned could be a sign that the pressure is getting to him in his second term.

Trump’s niece explains why president is lashing out at female reporters

^{Owen Scott (The Independent)}

From this source, the soldiers were interrogated for 5 hours, and were then released without conditions. Their weapons were not confiscated, and they returned to their unit.

And if Israel doesn't want "terrorists", then they simply have to accept the Oslo agreements, they could have been at peace even before the 90s if they weren't so selfish and greedy(, they don't care about al-Aqsa for example). Sadistic abusers playing the victims.

mecaforpeace.org/one-palestini…

Stanotte ho proprio stabilito un nuovissimo record negativo, andando a letto alle 2 e mezza e… addormentandomi alle 4 e passa o qualcosa del genere; perché stanotte, come quella dell’altro giorno, ero maledettamente tormentata e ultimamente con me non c’è proprio versi a riguardo… Nella trappola del pensare involontariamente anziché riuscire a prendere sonno, però, […]

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So, some times ago I had this question feddit.it/post/22496010 about how to manage my system configuration, storing it on a repository or something.

Many people recommended using ansible to manage the system as a whole, but my system was already up and running, what I wanted instead was something to move around files while fixing up their permissions, so I build a python script for that.

The script grew more refined as time went on, and so now I'm publishing it so anyone can use it.

p.s.: this script is purely python and has no external dependencies!

edinbruh

2025-10-07 14:17:52

How to manage configuration files

I'm trying to find a better solution to manage configuration files, both user's dotfiles and system files in /etc.
I'm running an ubuntu server where I have a bunch services with custom configurations, and systemd drop-in files, but on top of that I also have some scripts and user dotfiles that I need to track.

What I'm doing right now is that I have a folder full of symlinks in the admin user's directory (poor username choice, btw) and I'm using bindfs to mount this directory inside a git repository, this way git won't see them as symlinks, and will version them as regular files. The problem with doing this is that as git deletes and rewrites files, bindfs fails to track the changes and converts the symlink to regular files.

I looked into chezmoi, but that is only meant to track user dotfiles and will refuse to add a file from /etc, that is unless doing some extra work. But even so, chezmoi will not track the user:group of files, so I would still have to manage that manually.

I also looked into GNU Stow, and that would not complain about files from /etc or anywhere, but it similarly will not track permissions and I would have to manage that manually.

I see that some people are using ansible to manage dotfiles, but at that point, it would make sense to just migrate to ansible, except I don't want to rebuild my server from scratch to use ansible. Also it looks like a lot to learn.

Is there a better solution I'm not seeing? Maybe something using git hooks?

Edit:

I ended up using pre-commit and post-merge git hooks to launch a python script. The python script reads from a yaml file where I annotate the file paths and permissions, and then copies to or from the file location to the git repository.

I used the sudoers file to allow the admin user to run this specific script with specific arguments as root without password (because the git commands are run from VS Code and not manually), which is dangerous, be careful when doing that. I have taken special care to make this secure:
* I used absolute paths for everything, to avoid allowing running from a different pwd as a way to copy different files
* The script itself is installed in a root-owned location, so an unprevileged user cannot edit it
* The configuration yaml is root-owned, so an unprevileged user cannot modify which files are copied or their permissions
* Configuration files that can grant permission are not managed by this script (the yaml, /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, polkit rules, the sudoers file, ...)

Edit 2: you can find the python script here

GitHub - KayJay7/copicat: Simple automated file copying utiliy

Simple automated file copying utiliy. Contribute to KayJay7/copicat development by creating an account on GitHub.

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With the renewable energy transition underway in Australia, the higher than expected uptake of solar panels has human rights groups concerned about links to Uyghur forced labour in the supply chain. As Australia looks into developing its own solar panel industry, rights groups say government and industry should work to ensure the clean energy transition isn't at the cost of freedom.

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Without a domestic supply chain, though, Australia is importing around 90 per cent of its solar panels from China.

Ramila Chanisheff, President of the Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women's Association, says her people are being forced to make them.

“We know that the biggest industry that is complicit in Uyghur forced labour is the solar industry or the wind turbine industry or the EV vehicles.”

Since 2016, the Chinese government has reportedly kidnapped and detained millions of Uyghur people in the Xinjiang province, known to its indigenous Uyghur population as East Turkistan.

In what was officially described as an effort to combat extremism, around one million members of the majority Muslim Uyghur minority were sent to so-called re-education centres between 2017 and 2019.

Evidence and testimony from ex-detainees reveals torture and political indoctrination, forced sterilisation and drugging, as well as food deprivation to punish those who showed resistance.

An official Chinese government report published in November 2020 documents the “placement” of 2.6 million minority citizens in farms and factories within the Uyghur Region and across the country through state-sponsored initiatives.

[...]

“We do have credible evidence and Uyghur who have spoken about their family members who've been taken into the concentration camps, which have with research, and that's come out that they are turned into labour camps. All those Uyghur reserve being put into forced labour within East Turkistan or Xinjiang and or being trafficked to mainland China to do the work.”

[...]

Australia has poured billions into solar power and green manufacturing and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is currently funding feasibility studies for new domestic polysilicon production facilities.

But for now, with a few small exceptions, Australia still imports most of its solar panels from China.

Fuzz Kitto is the co-founder of Be Slavery Free, which works to raise awareness and end modern slavery.

“The conflict between climate and human rights commitment has led investors to feel that they've got no choice but to invest in companies sourcing, or connected to, the Xinjiang region despite the human rights abuses that are there. And even though the experts say that there's enough outside of that region to supply the United States, Europe and leading countries in their needs for solar produced electricity, it is certainly not being transparent about where these are coming from. In fact, quite opaque sometimes and a lot of greenwashing.”

[...]

To make solar panels you need solar-grade polysilicon, which is made from silica sand produced from quartz.

China manufactures around 95 per cent of the global supply of polysilicon, much of it made in factories with links to forced Uyghur labour.

According to the Australian Mining Review, Australia is the largest silica sand exporter in the Asia-Pacific region, with most of our exports going to Chinese markets.

[...]

Fuzz Kitto says we should be making it here.

“I think one of the great difficulties is that people think that there are no alternatives and now there are a growing amount of that. The thing is that in Xinjiang there are the sands that produce the polysilicon. So to produce poly silicons, basically you need cheap electricity and you need sands of that quality. We do have sands of that quality in Australia, not quite of the standard of Xinjiang. In fact, we export sand to China for the making of polysilicons, which is just incredible. Why we are not producing an industry in Australia of making them is beyond us.”

[...]

The human cost of renewables: Why Australia should build solar here

^{SBS News}

Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany – where more than 1m homes have them – but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations. This is set to change, with lawmakers in New York and Pennsylvania filing bills to join Utah in adopting permission for the panels, with Vermont, Maryland and New Hampshire set to follow suit soon.

Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US

Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/climate-change-disinformation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5E8._l8N.gaTfRLzDyQJ2

The climate crisis has affected storm patterns, including the duration and intensity of the season, leading to heavier rainfall, flash flooding and stronger wind gusts.

Sri Lanka’s capital hit by floods as cyclone death toll nears 200

Hundreds of people still missing after heavy rain and mudslides in country’s deadliest natural disaster for years

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For context, perfect deployment of these microbes would cut worldwide emissions by about 3% of total emissions. They dont get us out of having to end fossil fuel extraction