OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/31211123
I honest to fucking God don't understand how cybersec is so fucking bad that there are so many damn data breaches that I lost count. I had a few accounts on chatgpt (that I dont use anymore) but they are all compromised now...Just what the fuck is this shit? Are they done by lone actors or cybercrime gang? Or are they state actors or state-backed actors? Or are they inside jobs to allow the company to sell data illegally to make more money? Flock has admitted to using data from data breaches to their system.
You also notice how rarely you hear about cybercriminals getting caught? It's almost like if you take even a minor bit of opsec you can get away with anything.
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Peru sentences former President Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for corruption
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39392633
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes while serving as governor of a southern state.Vizcarra was sentenced to immediate imprisonment and a nine-year ban from public office. He is expected to appeal the decision.
“This is not justice, it is revenge,” Vizcarra said on social media. “But they will not break me.”
Vizcarra alleged his sentence was retribution for “standing up” to the right-wing political groups that control Congress, among which the influence of the late former President Alberto Fujimori is particularly prominent. Vizcarra clashed with these groups when he led the South American country between 2018 and 2020 and eventually dissolved Congress.
The criminal court in the capital, Lima, concluded that Vizcarra received illegal payments from companies in exchange for awarding them contracts for two major projects — an irrigation system and the construction of a hospital — during his time as governor of Moquegua.
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MuddyWater(Iran-aligned cyberespionage group) targets critical infrastructure in Israel and Egypt, relying on custom malware, improved tactics, and a predictable playbook
MuddyWater: Snakes by the riverbank
MuddyWater targets critical infrastructure in Israel and Egypt, relying on custom malware, improved tactics, and a predictable playbook.www.welivesecurity.com
Awesome-web - Alternative fronted for awesome-selfhosted
Hey there,
When browsing awesome-selfhosted, especially via the web version, I always got somewhat annoyed that I couldn't filter and sort it appropriately. For example, I wanted to only show blogging software that supports Docker or PHP deployments, but I'd have to manually scan through everything and cross-reference the deployment tags.
So I created a custom frontend that uses the data from awesome-selfhosted and gives the ability to sort and filter for the relevant projects. There are also commit graphs that come directly from the data of the awesome-selfhosted repo so you can see at a glance which projects are actively maintained.
I also just finished the work on some mobile improvements today to allow the website to be (hopefully) usable on phones as well.
Would love to hear some feedback.
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GitHub - Rabenherz112/awesome-selfhosted-web-gen: Python-based static site generator for awesome-selfhosted
Python-based static site generator for awesome-selfhosted - Rabenherz112/awesome-selfhosted-web-genGitHub
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Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia?
A new feature on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter allows users to see the location of other accounts. It has resulted in a firestorm of recriminations
When X rolled out a new feature revealing the locations of popular accounts, the company was acting to boost transparency and clamp down on disinformation. The result, however, has been a circular firing squad of recriminations, as users turn on each other enraged by the revelation that dozens of popular “America first” and pro-Trump accounts originated overseas.
An Ivanka Trump fan account that posts about illegal immigration to the US was shown to be based in Nigeria. MAGAStorm, spreading conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on Trump, was found to be in eastern Europe. AmericanVoice which posts anti-Islam content, is based in India.
Users have noted that a high proportion of these potentially misleading accounts – many of which claim to be in America – are operating from Asia, but experts are in disagreement over whether they may be state-backed influence campaigns or even opportunists trying to make a quick buck.
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Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
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Guinea-Bissau’s President Says He Has Been Deposed. The Opposition Says It’s a Trick.
The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.
Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.
The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.
“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.
Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.
After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.
After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.
Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/africa/guinea-bissau-coup.html
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Taiwan asks to join AUKUS, warns on China coercion
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46327782
ArchivedTaiwan’s de facto ambassador to Australia is urging the Albanese government to include the island in the AUKUS security pact, as he warned China’s coercive behaviour and military activity in the Pacific should ring alarm bells.
Douglas Hsu, Taiwan’s top representative in Australia, also warned that Chinese-made electric cars posed cybersecurity risks and said Beijing was trying to project military force across the region.
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“Last year, they launched long-range missiles into the South Pacific, and earlier this year they sent naval vessels surrounding Australia,” Hsu told The Australian Financial Review, referring to a Chinese naval taskforce’s circumnavigation of Australia in February and March.
“I don’t think they have any business ties with Antarctica. So why do they send their naval ship here in this region? I think that is the way they are showcasing their defence capacities, and that is certainly alarming to all the countries in the region.”
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Conceding it was a sensitive topic, Hsu said the Taiwanese government had expressed interest in joining Pillar II of AUKUS given the island’s capabilities in high-end technology, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
“With the capacity of Taiwan in manufacturing, we believe that we have the strength working with other countries, especially in AUKUS Pillar II, to advance those defence and technologies to the next level, so we believe that Taiwan can be helpful,” he said.
Pillar II of AUKUS – the technology stream of the pact – commits Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to jointly accelerate the development of advanced capabilities including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, undersea warfare and hypersonic missiles.
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Taiwan wants to join AUKUS as top representative sounds China ‘alarm’
The de facto ambassador to Australia has warned that China’s coercive behaviour and military activity in the Pacific should ring alarm bells.Michael Read (Australian Financial Review)
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PdfDing is matching your donations to open source projects
Hi c/selfhosted,
I am the creator of PdfDing and in the spirit of the season I will match your donations to open source projects.The past year has been a good year, both personally and for PdfDing. The project's popularity kept steadily rising to around 1.4k stars on github and 150k image pulls. Additionally,it is receiving a grant from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. Given that and that I feel like I don't give back enough to the awesome open source projects I use, I will match your donations under the following rules:
- In total I will donate up to 500$.
- For every donator I will match up to 10$. I want to animate as many people as possible to donate to their favorite projects and by using this cap I can match at least 50 donations. Obviously, you can still donate more than 10$ 😀
- You can donate to open source projects of your liking (except your own projects). However it would be cool to not only see big projects like Immich receiving donations.
- In turn I'll donate to open source projects of my choice. These projects will be: 1. Projects that I use in my private and professional life, 2. Projects that are a dependency of PdfDing or somehow helped/inspired its development. Obviously, I will NOT donate to any projects I am affiliated with.
- In order to save fees I might combine donations. Example: one user donate 3$, another 2$ and yet another 5$. I'll combine these 3 donations to a single 10$ donation.
- I will post screenshots or links as proof my donations.
- You will need to post a screenshot or a link as proof of your donations. I will post my proof as a reply.
- I will do a similar post on the self-hosted community on reddit. The 500$ I will match are both for reddit and lemmy.
As people usually want a short description about a project: PdfDing is selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker. You can find the repository here. As always stars are very welcome.
Disclaimer: I not affiliated with the mod team and the donation matching is not endorsed by the mod team.
GitHub - mrmn2/PdfDing: Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
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Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership
The main challenge for governments will be how to create frameworks and deals to gain equitable access to Chinese technology. Chinese negotiators drive a hard bargain. European and US policymakers will need to have a clear idea of what they want and how they want to get it.
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership
The nation’s next generation of scientists and technologists will shape the coming decades.Brown, Kerry
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Nov 26, 2025
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression
"He’s not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking," said the Latin American leader. "In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil."jon-queally (Common Dreams)
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True, water is wet.
Also, did you know that Greenland has ridiculously vast natural resources on top of being a choke point for the northwest passage?
Colombian President Petro Says Venezuela Oil 'At Heart' of Trump Aggression | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39534848
Jon Queally
Nov 26, 2025
“What lies behind this,” said Petro, “is the same thing behind the war in Ukraine... petroleum,” noting the size and quality of Venezuela’s reserves. “In general, all of the wars of this century had to do with oil.”If Trump were to get the upper hand, Petro suggested, the United States would get Venezuela’s oil “almost for free,” predicting that—“based on the evidence so far”—that the US will go to war over the resources.
Trump, said Petro, “is not thinking about the democratization of Venezuela, let alone the narco-trafficking,” adding that Venezuela is not considered a major drug producer or transit point for most narcotics headed to the United States.
The regions Russia has invaded have large unexploited oil and more importantly gas reserves. Not only that, but some of the gas pipeline, which supply Russian gas to the EU run through that region. So if Ukraine holds them, it is fairly easy to them to replace Russian gas.
For the US the war is extremely usefull. Russia gave the EU a somewhat independent energy supply. But the war against Ukraine is just too dangerous. Especially with Russia threatening EU countries on a regular bases. So they turned to other suppliers and the biggest oil and gas exporter is currently the US. Due to the war a third of fossil gas used by the EU is from the US right now. That is a huge dependence.
As for oil, Ukraine is obviosuly very willing to attack Russian oil infrastructure. So the US is litterally taking out a competitor fairly long term here.
Something similar was happening with Iran. Israel actually attacked some oil and gas infrastructure in Iran as well. Obviously the entire region is always close to explode again.
This is also a good move against China. They import a lot of oil from Russia, Venezuela and Iran. So if the US can control Venezuela and take out Russia and Iran, then it is able to really punish China in a war. That is why China is going for EVs, renewables and coal. They can have those inside China. Something similar is happening inside the EU as well, but less strategic.
Also back to Ukraine. It is more complex then that. Ukraine is culturally close to Russia, so them removing a dictator might well be a bad example to the Russian people, from Putins point of view. It also acted as a buffer between Russia and EU/NATO, has a lot of farm land and due to Soviet legacy an economy, which integrates well into Russia, as well as a lot of Russian speakers. The war also helps Putin internally, as an excuse to strengthen the hold over the country and remove competition.
Republicans are saying the same thing.
“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.”“American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”
“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.”
They're just saying it out loud.
newsweek.com/gop-rep-says-us-m…
Republican Says US ‘About to Go In’ to Venezuela, With Oil a Key Reason
Rep. Maria Salazar, a Florida Republican, says that regime change in Venezuela would result in a "field day" for US oil companies.Simon Crerar (Newsweek)
You Can't Eat Moral High Ground
You Can't Eat Moral High Ground
Why Europe Has No Seat at the Table in the New Multipolar WorldDialectical Dispatches
Great write-up, love this part especially:
Western propaganda became so effective that it ultimately lobotomized its own creators as European leaders started mistaking their narrative dominance for actual material superiority.
It's always a treat to see the parasite that gave birth to the settler-colony get its just deserts even if it pales in comparison to what it ravaged..
Who was Jeffrey Epstein? The disgraced financier with powerful associates
I feel like when 'Zero Trust' first became a thing, the theme was 'you should have every endpoint under your control hardened so it need not feer untrusted peers being able to connect'. E.g. if you think you absolutely need VPN to a 'private network' for security, then you are failing to be hardened in a 'zero trust' way, because you implicitly fear that your systems would fall to untrusted peers.
I feel like it's evolved to 'don't let anything be able to connect to anything under your control unless you have admin privilege over it as well'. Which is particularly a nightmare when you try to collaborate between two companies, each balking at the other's hard requirement to have admin access to all network peers of interest.
- Corporations really, really love being admin on everybody elses devices. See kernel level anticheat.
- I feel like people have gotten zero trust (I don't need to trust anybody) confused with "I don't trust anybody".
- I was listening to a podcast by packet pushers and they were like "So you meet a vendor, and they are like, 'So what do you think zero trust means? We can work with that'".
Berlin shutdown of pro-Palestine conference was unlawful, court rules
Berlin shutdown of pro-Palestine conference was unlawful, court rules
Last April, police used a heavy hand to stop the Palestine Congress, pulling the plug soon after the forum started.Tom Wills (Al Jazeera)
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Hong Kong tower fire toll rises to 44, police arrest three
The cause of the blaze in the northern Tai Po district was not immediately known, but it was fanned by green construction mesh and bamboo scaffoldingHong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction.
A firefighter was among the 44 killed, with 45 people in hospital in critical condition
Immich Is Now Stable!
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does immich have an option to automatically delete older, backed-up pics from devices in order to free up space and not worry about running out disk space on smartphone?
I tried to search the docs and it seems it's missing
I've not seen that option, but I use syncthing instead of the phone application to sync my photos to a specific folder on my NAS which is then an external library for Immich.
TBH, I don't want anything deleting anything automatically.
I'll often delete newer pictures of temporary stuff but keep older pictures of my frinds & family, so, that's not a feature I'd see any value in. It tends to just make me lazy and build up GBs of junk photos on my NAS (and backups...)
No but there is a semi work around.
When using the app if you select all images one of your options will be delete from device when you click on that it will say hey some of these might not be backed up and one of your option is to only delete the things that have been backed up. It's not automatic but it is a way you can kind of just Mass do it to everything
it's wip, they are iterating it
i think they added it as beta, then reverted, then now is being reworked
3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 36 dead and 279 reported missing
Police in Hong Kong arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter, several local news media reported, in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 36 people and left another 279 missing in the city’s deadliest fire in years.Hundreds of residents were evacuated as the fire which started on Wednesday afternoon, spread across seven of the eight high-rise apartment buildings in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories. At least 29 others remained hospitalized. Bright flames and smoke shot out of windows as night fell.
Authorities said earlier that investigators would be looking into factors including whether material on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings met fire resistance standards, as the rapid spread of the fire was unusual.
Officials said the fire started on the external scaffolding of one of the buildings, a 32-storey tower, and later spread to inside the building and then to nearby buildings, likely aided by windy conditions.
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-highrise-fire-tai-po-cf40065101b2b6f8ac7bc43d9f228022
from the article-
“We have reason to believe that those in charge of the construction company were grossly negligent,” said Eileen Chung, a senior superintendent of police.The three men arrested, aged 52 to 68, are the directors and an engineering consultant of the firm.
Oh that death toll is going to rise dramatically as 279 are reported missing.
Oh and just while writing it I saw another headline saying 44 dead 279 missing.
Russian invasion of Ukraine: One in 10 rescued Ukrainian children sexually abused in the occupied territories, NGO warns
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42547282
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Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the centre has rescued over 100,000 children from the frontlines and more than 1,000 from the occupied territories and Russia, through unofficial routes and brave, special operations. It estimates that one in 10 of these children has experienced sexual abuse. The victims, of all ages and sexes, include girls who have been raped and suffered forced pregnancy, “so they will give birth to future Russian soldiers,” said Alina Dmytrenko, government relations officer at the Save Ukraine Centre, an NGO that helps families escape Russian occupation, returns children abducted by Russia.
“We have these cases which are very sensitive,” she confirmed. “It is a system. It is part of Russia’s aim when it comes to children: to break Ukrainian identity and trust. To turn Ukrainians into Russians. All the children who come here are traumatised, afraid to talk, to express emotion. But with sexual abuse, all of this is much heavier.”
“Russia is specifically targeting children,” she added. “It is shocking. How can you abuse the most vulnerable?”
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ukraine-russia-child-abductions-abuse-kyiv/
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All the children who come here are traumatised, afraid to talk, to express emotion. But with sexual abuse, all of this is much heavier.”
Especially with forced pregnancy, to "raise future russian soldiers".
This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal
The company Dustin hired: Trajector Medical.
NPR spent months looking into Trajector, interviewing 11 former employees and hearing from 60 veterans who hired the company. The investigation revealed a company that started with a mission to help disabled vets, but that former workers say now is intent on aggressive debt collection and maximizing profits. NPR discovered a web of corporate entities that Trajector uses to contend that it stays within the bounds of a law to protect veterans. Despite repeated written warnings from the VA that it may be breaking that law, the company continues to operate.
NPR also found that the company's moneymaker is a computerized robo-dialer system named "CallBot" that bombards a VA phone hotline meant for vets. Trajector is not accredited by the VA and the VA won't give it any information about vets' disability pay. So it uses CallBot as a side-door to sleuth that out. Trajector regularly enters social security numbers and birthdates obtained from tens of thousands of its clients into the phone hotline, which reveals the amount of each veteran's monthly disability payment. When the company detects an increase, it automatically sends a bill, sometimes for as much as $20,000, and then starts calling to collect.
Trajector is not alone. In recent years, scores of large and small outfits have sprung up promising to help vets apply for disability benefits. Critics call them "claim sharks."
Looking for a PeerTube instance that actually accepts new users
I have been trying to find a PeerTube instance so I can upload music my son's band performs.
I signed up to 5 different PeerTube instances over the past two weeks. 4 of them have not accepted or rejected my application, despite all of their pages saying the accept within 24-48 hours. The fifth instance denied my application with, "read the coc and reapply". I had read it before applying, but I read it again and reapplied, it was again denied with the same reason given.
I would like to find an instance for music, preferably not hosted in the US.
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“Players are selfish”: Fallout 2’s Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today.
The Government Killed National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom
Why the DC-deployed Guardswoman shot last week may never see justice
Data War goes digital: Firefox’s card game is now online | The Mozilla Blog
Last month, Firefox turned 21, marking two decades of building a web that reflects creativity, independence and trust. At TwitchCon, we celebrated by launching billionaires into space and launching a new card game, Data War.
Data War goes digital: Firefox’s card game is now online
Billionaire Blast Off started with a simple premise: send billionaires into space and have fun doing it. With Data War, we created a fun and often chaotic game where you compete to win a one-way ticket to space for a data-hungry billionaire.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Lemmy Development Update November 2025
We're still working hard on the 1.0 release, needing a few more major additions to lemmy-ui, and some less critical items for lemmy.
Then it will be a period of performance and bug testing, as well as giving time to allow app devs to update to the API changes.
The major changes during November were:
- Upgrade to latest Rust version 1.91 (after being stuck with 1.81 for over a year)
- Backwards compatibility with API v3
- Multi-community UI
- Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page
- Merged modlog tables
::: spoiler Full list of changes by user
flamingos-cant
dessalines
- Use rusts Url::parse with post_url_only
- Add test for backslashes in urls.
- Adding multi-community counts, and full querying to
list_multi_communities - Mark post or comment notif as read after liking.
- Upgrading pg_format to 5.8
- Adding multi_communities_created to PersonDetails, and multi_community_follows to MyUserInfo
- Adding a last_application_duration_seconds field to GetSite.
- Adding multi_community_name to list_posts.
- Fixing ModlogKind comment.
- Updating .rustfmt edition to 2024
- Use a jauderho/prettier docker image.
- Upgrade inferno to 9.0.5
- Adding post_url_only to search page.
- Fixing show-score logic
- Adding an estimated time till approval to the signup page.
- Multi community support
- Open text post links in new tab (if setting exists).
- Fixing fastlane changelog
Nutomic
- Restore Activitypub audience field
- Sidebar federation
- Support more api v3
- Pull in rate limiter logic
- Compile db view joins in parallel, add instance join
- Various API route changes
- Disable old Mastodon workaround for empty names
- Fixes for merge modlog migration
- Notify mod actions fixes
- Change
multi_community_usertosystem_account - Crate
lemmy_diesel_utils - Add helper methods for resolve
- Add missing attribute optional_fields for ModlogView
- Support api v3
- Upgrade to latest stable Rust (fixes #6006)
- Show list of active plugins in sidebar
- Fix bug which prevented setting registration to open
- Fix bug with comments pagination (fixes #3612)
- Dont alter crosspost body for own post (fixes #3603)
- Notify about mod actions (fixes #3488)
- In image upload form hide preview and delete button if none
- Enable blank issues
- Merge modlog tables
- Make instance page working again (fixes #3571)
:::
Or see the full list of changes at the links below:
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations.
To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
The official web app for lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to provide 25 million American children under 10 an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.
The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion, much less multiple billions. Announced on GivingTuesday, the Dells believe it’s the largest single private commitment made to U.S. children.
Its structure is also unusual. Essentially, it builds on the “ Trump Accounts " program, where the U.S. Department of the Treasury will deposit $1,000 into investment accounts set up by Treasury for American children born between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2028. The Dells’ gift will use the “Trump Accounts” infrastructure to give $250 to each qualified child under 10.
FSD: test di guida autonoma avviati in Italia
Quali altri brand?
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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Che tristezza stellantis, sti scemi alla Ferrari sono all'età della pietra ormai
media.stellantis.com/em-en/lea…
Leapmotor Launches Security and Safety Lab. New Standards in Intelligent Vehicle Protection
Leapmotor announces the opening of its Automotive Security and Safety Lab, marking a major breakthrough in intelligent safety a big step forward in making smart driving safer and more reliable for everyone.www.media.stellantis.com
FSD lite:
chat.qwen.ai/s/t_9dafc337-95e0…
Qwen Chat
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.chat.qwen.ai
Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/europe/italy-femicide-law-intl-hnk
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That's nice.
Can police start believeing women who tell them they feel they are in danger, and do something about it before someone kills them, now?
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For real.
The law in a lot of places does not allow police to do anything to help someone, before their life has already been risked.
Unfortunately the first attempt on someone's life can be just as lethal as a hypothetical second.
Wouldn't it be smarter to have a law that simply and generically adds penalties on a crime committed out of hate against a population group?
So instead of "just" femicide, it could also cover hate against e.g. members of religions, the handicapped, or, in a reverse case, maybe even cover a hate-murder on a man?
US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China
US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China | The Strategist
The United States should not kid itself. It will not recover its manufacturing position from China in any foreseeable future. According to World Bank data, in 2024 the US’s GDP of US$29.2 trillion was 60 ...Samir Tata (The Strategist)
Keep living in Canada and posting the shitty memes I came up with my boy
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China’s Spat With Japan Derails Bid to Join CPTPP Trade Bloc
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China’s aggressive trade stance against Japan appears to kill any chance it has of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership [CPTPP] trade bloc in the near future.Beijing’s confrontation with Japan over a remark about Taiwan has led to a series of retaliatory blows already hurting the Japanese economy.
But China’s sharp response to new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s frank admission that a Chinese attack on Taiwan might trigger a collective self-defence response could also rebound on the People’s Republic.
China has released its ‘wolf warriors’ and ramped up trade pressure on Japan dramatically, warning its citizens to stay away from Japan, while reimposing a ban on Japanese seafood.
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Japanese artists have had concerts in Beijing cancelled or postponed, [...] supposedly because of public dissatisfaction over Takaichi’s remark. Manufacturing giants such as Toyota and Sony also expect “direct blowback” from Beijing [...] Chinese airlines cancelled flights on at least a dozen routes to popular destinations such as Kyoto and Osaka last week, according to a report by the [Chinese state-controlled media outlet] South China Morning Post.
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But there are also signs that China will pay a price for its latest display of petulance.
Its acts of economic coercion are almost certain to derail – or add years – to its bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which Beijing applied for in 2021.
The problem for Beijing is the CPTPP requires a very different approach to the ‘trade wars’ that China has launched against trading partners, such as Australia, several years ago.
Members of the trade grouping must meet three criteria known as the ‘Auckland Principles’ – preparedness to meet the pact’s high standards, a record of compliance and adhering to trade commitments, and concensus, with all existing members agreeing to on new countries wishing to join.
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Nations must agree to non-discriminatory dialogue with other members and transparent decision-making, as noted by Australia’s ABC News, which said the latest flare-up has occurred as the 12 “CPTPP members were meeting in Melbourne to assess new membership bids.”
“On the eve of those discussions, one member state is being economically punished by the country seeking entry,” it said. “That creates a structural problem for China: CPTPP enlargement requires unanimity. And Japan holds a veto.”
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The idea of Japan permitting China to join the CPTPP now is “almost unthinkable,” the ABC report said, not only because of its coercive trade actions, but other factors, such as its behaviour in the East China Sea.
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China's Spat With Japan Derails Bid to Join CPTPP Trade Bloc
China's aggressive trade stance against Japan appears to kill any chance it has of joining the CPTPP trade bloc in the near futureAsia Financial
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the hom…Jayden Milne (Jayden’s Blog)
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I went into Netflix recently to find the same thing. Hardly anything visible on screen, just a handful of massive buttons.
You can see maybe two movies to the right of the main one, and the top half of the row below.
I assume this is just to hide the fact that there's precious little worth watching on it.
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.substack.com
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So uh AI works then and will fix all our problems that it caused in the first place 👍
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I like how there are all these terms with increasingly loose definitions, to which we attach different levels of evilness:
- algorithm - older, reliable, deterministic except when it's "The Algorithm" in capital letters like "The Social Media Algorithm"; then it becomes evil
- machine learning - been out for decades, hasn't destroyed the world, mostly does its job undetected. Used mainly by technical people
- machine intelligence - The machine is starting to become conscious but it is still generally helpful. "Machine intelligence" performs brain surgery, detects tumors, folds and unfolds proteins, whatever that means (but it sounds like a good thing, so we'll give it a pass)
- artificial intelligence - machine intelligence's evil twin. Takes credit for everything good that comes from the other ones and we tend to believe it, because it's the only one we can actually speak to and can lie to us very convincingly. On its own it can draw pretty pictures and animate them, write code that occasionally works, pretend to love us and teach us the most effective way to slash our own wrists
What indexers do you use in Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr
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I'm getting errors and I want to pick better indexers.
github.com/PCJones/MediathekAr…
GitHub - PCJones/MediathekArr: Integrate ARD&ZDF Mediathek in Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr
Integrate ARD&ZDF Mediathek in Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr - PCJones/MediathekArrGitHub
Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
Parking inspector and wife arrested for €1m meter theft
The man is alleged to have stolen coins from parking meters in the German town of Kempten, police said.Ottilie Mitchell (BBC News)
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That truly depends on what you mean by "comfortably". You can very easily survive the rest of your life "comfortably" on $1 million. Unless your definition of "comfort" includes a bunch of bullshit that you don't actually need and arguably makes your life worse for you and shorter just because you've grown accustomed to it.
$1M is plenty.
a house and a car in a developed country, with property taxes, insurance, house repairs, car repairs etc etc etc
See, that's your problem right there.
Need some help with remote access please.
Hi all 😀
I've got a media server set up running Navidrome, Calibre-Web, and Immich along with some other services, and want to get access to them from outside the house now. I've read that Caddy is good for securing things by making it easier to set up encryption, but I'm not sure I understand that side of things.
I've set up a Cloudflare tunnel for a Minecraft server, and I've got Tailscale installed but not set up with an exit server yet, but understand that Caddy would be better. I ideally want to set up apps on my wife's phone so that she can access the libraries too.
Is it just a case of installing Caddy and setting up the services I want to share through it? That seems too easy, like I've missed something.
If it makes any difference, I've got a standard UK ISP router with a few ports forwarded, and I'm going to add an access point and then a LevelOne GEP-5070 managed switch to learn about things like VLANs. The link to the switch is here:
mayflex.com/shop/product/GEP-5…
I feel like I'm missing something, but can't think what, so I'd be grateful for any help 😀
GEP-5070 - 48-GE PoE+ 2GE SFP LS MANAGED SWITCH
The LevelOne GEP-5070 is an intelligent L2 Managed Switch with 48 x 1000Base-T PoE-Plus ports and 2 x 100/1000BASE-X SFP (Small Form Factor Pluggable) slots. This switch is IEEE...mayflex.com
Ukraine-Russia war: Ukraine says 'understanding' reached with US on peace plan, as Trump says his envoy will meet Putin in Moscow
Donald Trump's envoy to hold Ukraine peace plan talks at Kremlin
Russia confirms the US president's close aide will travel to Russia, hours after Trump tasked him with meeting Putin.Laura Gozzi (BBC News)
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It'll fall apart for sure, but will the Trump-Wiktoff relationship fall apart first?
Wiktoff might be his Billionaire buddy, but he'a made Trump look bad a few times now and that's anathema for a narcissist.
Facing a lack of Russian recruits, Moscow turns to deception, blackmail and bribery to sign up foreigners for its war in Ukraine | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/europe/russia-recruits-foreign-fighters-ukraine-intl-cmd
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U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine
Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston.Caroline Radnofsky (NBC News)
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
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Honestly I don't know why the state is still in the business of giving out marriages. Who gives a shit what other people want to call marriage. The state should not even have the authority to perform marriages at all. It should be left as a cultural or religious institution. It has no right to legislate what is and is not marriage. The only thing that should be available is civil unions, being defined as a financial and legal union of two or more consenting adults.
That way, anyone can "get married" at their local church, at a secular ceremony, or piss-drunk in a pub by a barmaid. It would be legally vacuous and has only the meaning that the parties ascribe to it, or that is given to it by the religious authority they choose to follow. But if they want to be legally joined together then they would go register a civil union at the local registrar's office.
If you're a bigot and don't consider two men in civil union to be married, cool, whatever, the law should not care about your opinion. You can privately think "those two are not married" all day, and be right in your mind. The only people whose opinions matter are those who want to call themselves married. There is no institution of "marriage" to defend, because you've already won. You can consider marriage to be anything you want and be right. Now you can leave other people alone.
The state cares insofar as your partner gets certain rights and will be included as family in many things.
For instance, deciding for you in medical cases, being informed if something happens, getting money from your life insurance whatever.
No marriage would mean the two are not connected at all in the states eye and thus not family.
You could say, ok lets just enable putting that into some record without marriage, but the state wants to safeguard itself as you can get things like citizenship and such
And in most states that is what you define as civil unions (there is no marriage as such often).
I don't think this is at all a valid counter-argument as all of these powers can equally be given to civil unions, if they aren't already. In my eyes, if you propose to someone and "get married" and want to give your spouse the legal powers associated with what was previously marriage, you would register a civil union.
No civil marriage doesn't mean that people can't connect themselves legally; it just means that you have to register a civil union to do so. All of the points you raise are easily defeated by just defining civil unions to replace marriage in all respects. The system is already very close to how I describe. You can "get married" at a church or wherever else and in most countries that does not mean anything until you have registered it with a local registrar. I'm just saying that the thing that happens in a church is "marriage", and the thing that happens with the legal paperwork at the registrar's office is called "civil union" regardless of the genders or sexualities of the parties involved.
Sorry, I think we are talking of the same thing. In Germany that is the way it is. Civil union and marriage is equivalent, you dont have to get married at a church, the only important thing is to go to the state for a few minutes and tell them basically.
I thought that the problem was that the state still has to accept things such as (whatever you call it lets say) unions of things such as same sex partner and so.
Problem is the civil union is mostly historically influenced often (tends to be less these days)
how far we´ve come. 40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it. homosexual people were not harassed by the state and gay bars were a thing even in 70´s socialist poland.
it really depends on the generation. i have yet to meet a homophobic pole that was born in the post-war period, they generally have a quite egalitarian stance on it with (expected) slight prejudice but no outright hate.
late baby boomers and gen x-ers though... OH BOY. most of these fucks need reeducation by a proper beating or something. i have yet to meet a gen x-er pole that´s not a complete piece of shit regarding their views on homosexuality and women.
40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.
Damn, that's wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?
flips open history book
Omg, you're a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
Shrug
The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.
Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland - Polish History
After the introduction of martial law, the CIA launched a program to support the underground movement “Solidarity” with a budget of approximately $20 million. Throughout 1983-1990, money and specialized equipment flowed into Poland.admin (Polish History)
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Important detail to know before commenting: it was Mixpanel analytics apparently that was breached and not ChatGPT itself.
Another reason to have Firefox strict privacy mode turned on along with uBlock and Disconnect though 😀
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in reply to Taldan • • •It's important because none of OpenAI's software or databases were hacked. What was hacked was a service they use. As much as I dislike it, most companies that have a presence online use analytical services
involved isn't the correct term for this, or rather it's exact opposite direction. The 3rd party was hacked and as a result OpenAI data was leaked (along with any other companies using the platform that were affected)
I bring it up because the nuance is important when I can predict people will jump on OpenAI to make claims of shoddy code. I hate OpenAI and Sam Altman but again, the nuance is important because this can happen to any company
Get mad at the fact analytic companies collect enough data to cause this much of a mess if anything
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Really? It's hard to understand?
Dude it's a fucking arms race between cyber security teams and attackers.
And there's more money in attacking than there is in defending. Defending is an expense. Attacking is almost entirely profit
And some attackers are backed by nation-states.
Attackers only have to get through once. Defense has to work 100% of the time.
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Even if they did track them down, then what?
The world is huge, it’s unlikely that a particular attacker is going to be from the same country, so how are they going to do anything about it, really?
The victim can report to the government local to the hackers, but that local government is under no real obligation to do anything about it.
mjr
in reply to CentipedeFarrier • • •And given this, why would most companies keep paying their defenders to hunt them down once the trail seems to end in a foreign country?
Defence is seen as a cost that reduces other costs, rather than something which will pay back, so I suspect it only happens if the company doesn't have other work for the defenders to do (rare) so they might as well work on this as be paid to do nothing, if they think the attackers may return so they want to learn as much as possible about them for future defence (depends on what they did and who they it seems they may be), or if the government where the company is based steps in to fund the hunt for some reason (maybe political).
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •It was a credit union, and it was an insider leak.
Or you're thinking of another financial institution in Canada that lost a lot of information and whose reputation suffered as a result.
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Not necessarily or trivially.
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Never used AI online, never will. I played with a locally installed, air-gapped, Deepseek just to see what it was like, because I don't trust it at all. Meh.
I don't get the hype.
Y'all have fun with that, I'm going to avoid it as much as I can.
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in reply to TrackinDaKraken • • •And the number of such people is increasing (as they are finishing up on "playing")
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in reply to morto • • •I didnt discuss anything dicey or sensitive or even too personal, and i never used a paid service. But honestly all these data breaches are just... fucked. Especially with governments increasingly passing ID laws that will result in even more sensitive information being leaked (and that already happened in the UK).
For some reason hearing about this breach pissed me off even more than usual.
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Clanker wankers will say they have nothing to hide anyway.
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Ah yes, OpenAI, the trustworthy company run by trustworthy folks. I'm sure they just need $300 bn to re-safeguard your personal data.
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Lol.
I'm so sorry, I should care...
In my defence: nah.
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