RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Ralph Abraham is “dangerous,” but somehow not the worst among those considered.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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VoidAuth Release v1.5.0 - Multi-Factor Authentication 🔒
VoidAuth is Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe! 🐈⬛🔒
This release includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support through TOTP Authenticators! There are other features in this release, like a migration from pug to ejs for email notification templates and quality of life improvements like a built-in container healthcheck, navigation between some admin pages, and reducing the character minimum for usernames to just three letters (sorry ted); but MFA is the big one! Users can enable MFA on their accounts to require an Authenticator or Passkey during sign in, and admins can add MFA requirements to groups, OIDC Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains to require users to setup and use MFA in specific scenarios.
Since the last major release functionality has also been added to migrate your database between SQLite and Postgres, check out the docs! Here is the release notes:
Features 🚀
- MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys
- MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains
- Email Templates Migrated to EJS, Defaults Templates Are Now Re-Written on Start
- Navigation Between Admin Pages for User and Group
Fixes 🔧
- Change Username and Name Character Requirements (3 Character Minimum)
Chores 🧹
- Added Dockerfile Healthcheck
- Update Dependencies
Docs 📖
- Update OIDC-Guides.md by @Cherryblue in github.com/voidauth/voidauth/p…
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This release includes the first outside contribution to the project as well as the first sponsor! The VoidAuth repository also blew up a bit over the week, going from ~200 to ~600 stars on GitHub. I have no idea why, but seems pretty cool! Thank you to everyone who engages with VoidAuth in any fashion, you are all greatly appreciated 😊
Release v1.5.0 · voidauth/voidauth
What's Changed Features 🚀 MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains Email Templat...GitHub
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Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, Middle East Eye can reveal.
In a statement issued on Wednesday after its annual meeting in The Hague earlier this week, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) vowed to uphold the integrity of the Rome Statute and said it was “gravely concerned” by threats and coercive measures targeting the court.
Diplomats speaking on the sidelines of the event told MEE that the Trump administration had tried to exert further pressure on the ICC in the leadup to the ASP meeting by calling on the court to drop its investigations into war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan as a condition for lifting sanctions.
The US also called on member states to amend the Rome Statute to prohibit prosecutions of citizens of non-signatory states, a move that would have effectively granted immunity to American and Israeli nationals. An amendment of that nature would also end the Ukraine investigation into alleged war crimes by Russia, a non-member of the ICC.
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not re…Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
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U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns
U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture–A video showing an American civilian being slammed to the ground and detained by U.S. military police outside a local bar has gone viral, raising concerns about infringement of Japanese police authority outside U.S.The Asahi Shimbun
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NATO Is Preparing to Confront Russia With Limited US Support
The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone.
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side. “The direction of history is a progressive disengagement of the United States from the European continent,” he said.
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USA has never been happy about coming to Europe's defence. But they eventually have plenty of times.
I mean, before Pearl Harbor, 88% of americans were opposed to joining the war. After Pearl Harbor, 97% supported joining the war. If Japan had kept it in their pants, so to speak, a lot of things might've been very different.
If Russia decides to go from Temu Nazis into actual Nazis and attack the rest of Europe, USA is going to be part of it at some point. I'm hoping on our side.
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
Gunmen stormed a hostel near Pretoria and opened fire, killing 11 people including a three-year-old.Jessica Rawnsley (BBC News)
illegal drinking establishments, where mass shootings are common?
police shut down 12,000 such premises outlets between April and September this year
Why is licensing bars so difficult, and why is there such "anger" over them? Sounds almost like 1930s US prohibition, where organized crime (police???) are intimidating for protection?
One of the very few businesses excluded from the municipal licence exemption.
Cannot start a watering hole without the municipality's blessings (some money needs to grease the wheels).
But basically led to a lot of underground drinking spots. They were a godsend during COVID lockdowns, any sale of alcohol was prohibited, there was some guy that was killed by the military when they found him drinking a beer in his own yard (which technically was legal).
But yeah some stupid alcohol rules here in SA, not all for example drinking and driving, but most
Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.
I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.
But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.
I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.
I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.
But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.
Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time
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No backup plan for Milan Olympic ice hockey arena as construction goes down to the wire
MILAN (AP) — There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on time.
Construction on the arena that is set to welcome NHL players back to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and its completion is going right down to the wire.
A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena — the new, 16,000-seat venue on the outskirts of Milan — had to be moved, and new test events aren’t scheduled until Jan. 9-11.
https://apnews.com/article/milan-cortina-olympics-hockey-arena-bb158ccdaadf24daea1c3ae73250264f
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I saw this headline and my thinking is: "Good".
It's always felt really, really stupid that part of landing the Olympics is the promise of building new arenas and stadiums, and those arenas and stadiums seem to sit unused afterward. Just a huge waste when so many countries and cities already have facilities for professional sports.
I thought for a long time that there should be 4 sites for the Olympics, two for summer and two for winter. The Olympic committee maintains them with help from the host county and donations or dues from the participants counties.
Pick 4 suitable sites in as stable countries as you can find, and build world class facilities there. This whole building all new facilities every time is fucking stupid and wasteful. Besides it's been shown that the "revenue generated" doesn't make up for the costs to build, run, and clean up after all of it.
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Interstellar works for me.
PieFed : Front-end and Apps
[Client apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)piefed.social
Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
[Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his workbench? Why not, indeed? Well, all you need is a 17-foot-long X-axis and…Hackaday
Swiss voters reject mandatory national service for women and new inheritance tax
Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as all men must do already.
Official results. with counting still ongoing in some areas after a referendum, showed that more than half of Switzerland’s cantons, or states, had rejected the “citizen service initiative” by wide margins. That meant it was defeated, because proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.
Voters also heavily rejected a separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or inheritances of more than 50 million francs ($62 million), with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-national-service-44e23e7d0579058f2bc69dd9ce7e655d
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ITT: people judging the vote and the voters by the magnanimous title alone.
The initiatives were worded and implemented so poorly, that it wouldn't surprise me if the initiants wanted to lose both these votes.
- The inheritance tax would have caused mass nationalisations and it had pegged the tax proceeds to go towards climate goals instead of let's say the federal pension fund deficit (AHV-Loch). It would be incorrect to state that the voters don't support an inheritance tax or climate goals based on this vote.
- The "service citoyen" proposal would have made some kind of civil or military service mandatory for all, but would have essentially reduced the military to a volunteer force, which would be socially unacceptable. The Swiss have a historically repeatedly confirmed will to keep a citizen's militia as the country's only security force.
I'm against the second initiative too, but your rationalization is wild.
Sumatra residents loot for food and water after deadly floods
Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday.The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — with the number expected to rise as more bodies are recovered — and displaced thousands. The deluges triggered landslides, damaged roads, cut off parts of the island, and downed communication lines.
The challenging weather conditons and the lack of heavy equipment also hampered rescue efforts. Aid has been slow to reach the hardest-hit city of Sibolga and the district of Central Tapanuli district in North Sumatra.
Sumatra residents loot for food and water after deadly floods
Authorities report that some residents of flood-hit Sumatra have resorted to looting, seeking food and waterThe Associated Press (ABC News)
But now that we have "peace" in Gaza, we can continue shipping weapons with a good conscience
It's all so fucked up. It took 80 years to get that way. How long to unfuck? In theory, we (several countries) just need to stop actively supporting Israel. But there's so much political fuckery in the way, and the more one side of the political spectrum demands this, the more certain others will ride the opposite.
Alaskan tribes sue B.C. gov't over mines in far northwest
A group of tribal nations in Alaska has gone to B.C. Supreme Court demanding their voice be heard on major mining projects in the province’s northwest.
They claim the British Columbia government has failed to consult them on major mining projects proposed for the region — some of which have been identified for fast-tracking by the provincial and federal governments against the backdrop of the trade war with the United States.
"Our main goal is protect the rivers, protect the salmon, protect the culture,” said Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC).
The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.
Isn't Alaska part of the US? Why are they fighting this in a Canadian court?
US citizens in Alaska don't get a say in the affairs of another, sovereign nation like Canada.
The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.
Are they marked on a map? Are they recognized by any other nation (not including by their own)?
If not, then they aren't a nation.
Edit: Just to be clear, Canadian citizens DO have the right to challenge their government. American citizens, however, Don't get a say in the matter. This is between Canada and IT'S citizens, not the citizens of another, entirely separate country.
Sanctions haven’t sidelined Russia’s shadow fleet. So Ukraine has turned to drones
Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey.
The Gambian-flagged ships Kairos and Virat sustained explosions Friday evening after crews told Turkish officials the boats had been struck.
Kairos, which was headed to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, was partially engulfed in flames, and all 25 crew members were evacuated to safety. The crew on board Virat reported it had been hit twice and sustained what appeared to be minor damage. Neither vessel was carrying a shipment of crude at the time.
In a statement, an official with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the attacks on the two ships were carried out by the SBU and the Ukrainian navy using “sea baby” drones, which can travel long distances and are equipped with reinforced warheads.
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As long as they are not full of oil, which would cause ecological damage, Ukraine is doing us all a service in 'retiring' these boats. These shadow vessels are catastrophies waiting to happen, as they are below standard, non insured, poorly maintained, and falling apart while transporting crude oil and chemicals. They also turn off their transponders, increasing likelyhood of collisions.
When they spill their oil in your countrys waterways, you will have to pay to clean it up. It's not cheap. To Putin that is an externalized cost for his invasions of neighboring countries.
The only way they stop is if it's not economically sound. That happens when the ships start sinking. It's cheaper to sink all the ships than it is to clean up an oil spill.
Help nature, help your wallet, help Ukraine, sink a shadow tanker.
I was thinking this as well, but it seems to me that the risk of a full tanker ship sinking because of poor maintenance is extreme enough to justify taking them out when they're mostly empty.
It's another tough decision that Ukraine is being forced to make. They have my respect.
Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy
Apologies for the poor grammar, English IS my first language and so I'm rather flagrant with runons.
I'm really not half as tech literate as half the people on the fediverse, but my noia about the state of online cloud hosting and lack of control over my data has led me far out of my depth.
I'm wanting to set up a LibreCMC router and connect it to some type of home server (made of local office E-Waste) for media storage, email hosting, and fucking Minecraft servers or something.
I promise I've tried my best in searching for the problem but often find myself floundering in 3-letter acronyms, and relations between systems I don't understand (like dockers, or the Jellyfin vs Plex argument.)
I don't need an explanation but maybe some orientation on where I am to look for resources on these topics that assume I'm the 6 celled neurobase I am.
Thank you for your help, or your chastising.
Edit: thank you everyone for your replies! I'll hopefully keep you all updated as I work through learning Linux terminals, and destroying terabytes of data in horribly predictable mistakes : )
I think your best bet is to pick one thing that you can get a good guide for and start from there. If you really want to learn its probably better to start with a Debian or arch setup than proxmox, but that's really going to depend on what you really care about learning.
I know it will be an unpopular opinion but you can use perplexity or Claude to help you find useful sources online if you're striking out on your searching. Most of the time I find they do better with more obscure issues, but those should be rare if you're following a guide
but you can use perplexity or Claude
For things that are not super complicated, Grok is pretty fair but it has it's limitations when you get into complexities. At the very least it gives you something to go on for further reading of a topic you don't necessarily have a firm grip on. I've also found that if you ask a question, finish up with 'explain it for a noob' or 'EILI5'. That seems to get the more accurate, step by step instructions, broken down into bite sized chunks, and doesn't assume you know what to do in between steps.
Using an AI is a great way to get learning materials tailored specifically to you.
But after you've learned from it, before you move on to another topic, you HAVE to verify your understanding against more trustworthy sources that you previously couldn't understand. Ideally with an online course that actually gives you a test.
I got started self-hosting using a small Lenovo Thinkcentre and an HP EliteDesk. Both are available to purchase for around 100 dollars on ebay. I have installed Proxmox on both of them. Proxmox is an operating system built on Debian Linux and is used to host containers and virtual machines. It has a great WebGUI to access the server.
Using Proxmox I have set up a Pelican container for game servers hosting, I run my own personal wiki, I have PiHole, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and a lot more.
To access your things out of home you can use a VPN to connect to your own network or open ports in your router. I only had to open port 80 and 443 to expose my reverse proxy to the internet and then I use the reverse proxy to route the traffic internally to the correct port and project. I also purchases a domain name and now I can use jellyfin.mydomain.com or wiki.mydomain.com or whatever.mydomain.com to access each project I self-host. It's very convenient!
Trying new projects is super easy and if you want to remove something then just delete the container. No old leftovers will stay on the host system.
There are also community scripts available to make hosting even easier. It will install and configure the containers for you.
community-scripts.github.io/Pr…
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The official website for the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community) repository. Featuring over 400+ scripts to help you manage your Proxmox Virtual Environment.Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale)
TL;DR:
Unsure if I should just run Syncthing, or do a Nextcloud. Tailscale seems at risk of enshittification, so do I find alternatives or just use it for ease? Is Immich easy enough to set up without Tailscale? Stick with docker or podman for ease? Are externsl drives easy to work with? Should my RAID1 be NTFS or Ext4?
Starting My Selfhosting Journey
I recently got my drive bay and Optiplex and have already flashed Proxmox onto it so I could eagerly spin up some local services to see what I wanna stick with. Or at least I tried anyway 😅
Jellyfin in a debian container was quick, painless and seems to work fine. But I was trying to set up Nextcloud and I felt lost, with the many different ways people go about it. When I tried to set up Nextcloud AIO in a Debian VM with docker it forces you to set a domain for your instance, but I only want to do local for now (ease and security until I get the hang of things). Which then runs into the hosting a domain via Tailscale problem. 90% of guides, videos, scripts, etc. seem to only focus/support Tailscale, but they force you to use third-party accounts for logins, and I started this whole thing to distance myself from Big Tech. Is Headscale or NetBird a better idea (when I do decide to remotely access)? Who's more beginner friendly? Similarly, docker or podman?
I do know the difference between Syncthing and Nextcloud, but I wonder which I should stick with. I want to start being better about backing up my phone and laptop, and I know I could use syncthing to share these backups with each other, but I thought it'd be nice to try to replace my minimal Google Drive and Onedrive usage with Nextcloud and just put everything there. I'd still have to backup that data to an external location though if I want to follow the 3-2-1. So should I just do encrypted backups and put them in a cheap provider's cloud, and drop the idea of a selfhosted cloud?
Similarly related to the Nextcloud issue, is Immich another heavily Tailscale dependant service?
Side note: How easy is it to use external drives with these services I've mentioned? I plan to use my drive bay that currently has 2TB (4 drives running in RAID1), so I can only connect to it via cable. Can I have most of my media stored on the drives, or will that not work? Also, I swear I had to keep verifying my login every few mins when accessing my drives on ext4 format? I switched it to NTFS recently but Windows can't read/see the drives at all (does it not like Linux formatting it?)
Future Ideas: Once I get these first few down, any suggestions? I'm feeling the power rush and craze from being free and able to run my own stuff, and I want to prove to my mom how useful it'll be. I want to move away from YT Music, and I've heard Jellyfin + Jellyamp works good, but is there another I should run (Navidrome)? Should I get into the arr services and torrenting (I do have ProtonVPN)?
I tried looking at previous posts but I just wanted a little more personalized advice. I'm extremely greatful for any help and I will make sure to post my beautiful setup later once I get it going after y'alls input. It's really exciting thinking about the possibilities!
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Id recommend setting up a domain even if just for local use. No-ip.com is at least working for me right now (i have free throwaway domain set up there and my router is keeping my dynamic ip dns records up to date so i can wireguard into my router/lan even if the ip changes).
You dont need to expose your services but if you ever do want to, it’s so much easier if youve got a working reverse proxy infront already set up plus you can use https via let’s encrypt certifications inside LAN
Setting up (sub)domains in lan forces you to learn to use a reverse proxy like caddy traefik or nginx. Personally to me NPM(nginx proxy manager) was the easiest to use but i use caddy nowadays. For half a year i didnt expose anything but after wanting to share some albums with the extended family i decided to do so via pangolin hardened with crowdsec running on a virtual private server. Pangolin - while not as easy as tailscale is selfhosted and is very well documented and works well. Then internally, i still have my casdy reverse proxy and certs.
All the services work with the same domain names internally (via the routers dns) and externally. Internally the domain simply points to my severs LAN address. Externally the domain points to my VPS where Pangolin relays my internal domains to the users but adds an extra authentication layer/recerseproxy/access control layer infront. For authentication i use Pocket ID. I can reach nextcloud and access and edit all my documents and other files right there in the browser from any computer which is very convinient.
I also had a lot of difficulty setting up NextCloud. Based on the various reviews and comments, it seems like I may have actually dodged a bullet.
In general, as I've tried different self-hosting solutions, I've found that using a dedicated solution for each purpose has given me better results. I use Radicale for contacts and Calendar, Immich for photos, Jellyfin for media (Navidrome for music is great, but I ended up keeping my music library in Jellyfin because I liked the client apps better).
I'm using OwnCloud for filesync, although I'm also testing CopyParty, which is pretty phenomenal and stupid simple.
Tailscale is GOAT. Some people have speculated that it could be subject to enshitification some day. It's managed by a for-profit company, but everything they do is open source. There are already well-tested forks like HeadScale if you ever have the need to self-host it in the future.
NextCloud seems great if you can get it working and provides a lot of services in one. Some people have said that causes bloat and slowdown, so there are two sides to the coin.
Syncthing is likely not a good option for a file server. It's great if you want to have a shared file or folder on multiple devices, especially if you just want to transfer files quickly and seamlessly. It's fantastic at what it does, but it's not a file server. There are a lot of opportunities for error when using Syncthing.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
The technology so good that everybody is going to rush to it can only be monetized by …
… advertising.
This is undermining your message, OpenAI.
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Woman, 36, and her husband, 44, arrested at Barangaroo and charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantageGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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MDB II - 2025.76 - São Paulo não tem isso #podifusão
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I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification
Maybe it's well known but I just came across journalctl-desktop-notification and I find it very useful so I thought I'd mention it. It's basically a bash script that monitors systemd's journal and pops up a notification when there are warnings or errors (or anything else you want to make it catch besides the default config).
What makes it so useful for the selfhoster is that it can monitor the journal on hosts your user has ssh access to with key authentication (set up in 2s with 'ssh-copy-id').
So case in point, this just popped up:
My reverse proxy can't renew certs, that's bad. For some reason netdata didn't catch it, and the service didn't trigger a system email that would have been forwarded to my smtp. Uptime kuma would have caught it when I would have had only a few days to fix it, but this caught it immediately, and I have 52 days to figure it out.
So you install that on your daily driver and you get these notifications on your desktop. They only have packages for Arch and Gentoo but the thing is just a batch script and a systemd unit. So to install anywhere you just download the "source", extract it, cd to it, and run 'sudo cp -r usr etc /' which is exactly what the Arch package does (line 22).
Just a nifty little tool I wanted to share in case others haven't heard of it.
Edit: I made .deb and .rpm packages so it's a lot easier to install now 😀
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
People implicated in the late sex offender’s crimes could face criminal charges or, at the least, social ostracismVictoria Bekiempis (The Guardian)
How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?
First my specific questions, down below more info:
- how do you use ansible? Is there a good source for roles or playbooks to set up services? I feel like ansible is 30% more headache right now during config.
- how do you deal with motivation loss?
- how do you deal with the overwhelming amount of choices and information and disciplines (networking, storage, VMS, Linux..) that comes with selfhosting?
- how do you find the sweetspot between ease of use, ease of set up, security, redundancy? I feel like I am maybe too pranaoid to loose my data again (dropped a hard drive many years back, I lost all of my projects)
- maybe overall, how do you manage your perfectionism?
Thanks a lot! I hope you have some insights for me.
More info
Soo I have a motivational push to work on my server every few months for a few weeks or months. I always make progress and I feel like I landed on a good solution by now. Its the third time I redid my setup, everytime I got closet to what feels like the perfect setup for me.
I have a vps for headscale, a home server with proxmox for the rest.
Last push I switched from manually configuring and documenting to ansible.
I like ansible, but its also a pain and not as fast to set up my server as just installing it and fiddeling around manually until it works.
My problem is:
I want to do it right, so my server is robut with enough redundancy to move all my cloud stuff to it.
But I am still kind of a noob and still learning and figuring things out.
My fear is, that if i don't document well or not use ansible, I will be hating my life once my server dies and I have to restore my data and also set um my services again in a few years.
So ansible seems like the only valid choice here, together with proxmox to be as flexible and future proof.
But I am burnt out again and lost Motivation even though I am close to my first goals and running services.
Thank you for reading 😀
It's great to give your brain daily workouts on the ins and outs of systems, but if you're feeling burnt out, you're doing that too much, probably, and my guess is, it's coming in at moments when you were trying to solve some other, more interesting/relevant problem.
It comes down to whether you're trying to self-host, or trying to learn Linux at a level where you could get a job doing it. Often it's a bit of both, so don't feel like you need to make that decision right now.
But my advice: whatever you're hosting, use their recommended easy way to host it. In most cases, this means running a container. In most cases, Docker. If you can wrap your head around using docker compose files, your practical problems are reduced by an insane amount, and idiocy at the developer level becomes your only concern. For instance, I used to run Tandoor, but the dev pushed changes into their "stable" docker container that failed to properly migrate my data, and the whole thing cacked. But that wasn't a system problem on my end, it was a case of a dev who was more interested in playing around with data than with providing a stable app.
So, if you take this approach, which I absolutely do recommend, the one thing you need to be sure of is that you have a good backup strategy, and that you backup before you do any pulls of new images. Docker allows you to select old versions so if you don't like changes that get pushed on something, likely you can just rebuild the old version, but the changes might mess with your database migrations, so you need those backups. Other than that, you cannot go wrong with Docker, if you just want the damn thing to work, rather than get daily aggravating lessons in esoteric systems problems which are above your paygrade.
‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures
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RRF Caserta. Rassegna stampa del 06 12 25 a cura di Giuseppe Landolfi
Gaza death toll surpasses 70,000 as Israel keeps up attacks despite truce
Gaza death toll surpasses 70,000 as Israel keeps up attacks despite truce
Israeli drone attack kills two Palestinian children in southern Gaza, medics report, as humanitarian crisis deepens.Al Jazeera
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The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag
Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.
US Progressives Accuse Trump of Interfering in Honduran Elections
The US Congressional Progressive Caucus on Friday accused President Donald Trump of “flagrantly interfering” in Honduras’ upcoming presidential election after Trump announced his endorsement of right-wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and repeated threats he’s made previously ahead of other electoral contests in which he sought to secure a conservative win.On the social media platform X, Trump warned that only a victory for former Tegucigalpa Mayor Asfura and the National Party in Sunday’s election will allow Honduras and the US to “fight the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the people” of the Central American country.
US Progressives Accuse Trump of Interfering in Honduran Elections
Trump endorsed right-wing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and smeared his progressive opponent Rixi Moncada.Julia Conley (Truthout)
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Thank god he won't be in power for our next elections.
He won't be, right, America? *nervous laughter*
He doesn't matter, per se, it's the entire party and anyone that supports it.
And they aren't going anywhere and 93% of the opposing side has no gusto or passion to truly fight back. They think taking the high road will work. They think voter turnout will work. They think bumper stickers and signs will work.
Why Hong Kong’s latest fire is so deadly—and not the city’s first
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42719582
Web archive linkAt least 128 people have died in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest-ever blazes that broke out Wednesday and devastated a multi-block housing estate.
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But Hong Kong has been the site of many significant fires in the past, which, like the Wang Fuk Court incident, have had various specific causes, but have also often shared some factors that contributed to their deadliness.
...Density
Hong Kong ... is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with 6,900 residents per sq km. Many buildings are built close to each other, especially in Hong Kong Island and neighboring Kowloon, making it easy for fires to spread.
However, the city also owes much of its high population density to the prevalence of subdivided flats—small cut rooms, sometimes resembling animal cages—where residents can cram and reside in for a fraction of the cost of a standard Hong Kong flat.
In April 2024, a fire involving a 60-year-old tenement block in Yau Ma Tei in the Kowloon area left five people dead and dozens injured. In an op-ed at the time about the risks associated with these homes, the South China Morning Post explained that, while a cigarette may have caused the fire, firefighters said subdivided units and “structural alterations” in the building complicated rescue efforts.
Thirteen years earlier, a fire in Mong Kok, also in the Kowloon area, left nine dead, 34 injured, and more than a hundred people homeless. Authorities then pointed out that the danger was exacerbated by the subdivided flats cutting off points of access for the building.
**Economic struggle **
Hong Kong is also among the most expensive places to live globally, and both individuals and businesses in the Chinese enclave often seek cost-cutting shortcuts that, in the case of fires, have proven immensely costly in the end.
Subdivided flats are a response to an expensive housing market, and many residents have foregone safety requirements for the sake of having a place to live.
Fireproofing is also expensive. In the 2024 Yau Ma Tei fire, the building’s owners reportedly encountered difficulties in raising funds to comply with fire safety guidelines, with a district councillor noting that “the increasingly high cost of upgrading fire prevention facilities and equipment, especially in the bidding process, had not helped,” according to SCMP.
Bamboo scaffolding, which has been linked to the latest conflagration’s devastation, is also known as a cheap alternative for construction businesses despite the city’s Development Bureau pushing to “drive a wider adoption of metal scaffolds in public building works progressively,” with a bureau official citing bamboo’s “intrinsic weaknesses such as variation in mechanical properties, deterioration over time and high combustibility, etc, giving rise to safety concerns.”
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Lax enforcement
Politicians in the city have flagged that many of the city’s buildings are rapidly aging and in need of better fireproofing.
But previous fires have shown that compliance with government orders has been poor. In the 2024 Yau Ma Tei fire, the city’s Buildings Department already issued fire safety orders to the owners of the block in question in 2008—including calling for them to replace fire doors and outfit the building with more fire-resistant material. But SCMP reported that despite the department’s follow-up, the order had not been followed ...
Latest government data show that more than 8,600 fire hazard abatement notices have been issued in Hong Kong as of January, following inspections of old, high-risk buildings. More than 300 of these notices involved prosecutions or convictions.
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Why Hong Kong’s Latest Fire Is So Deadly—and Not the City’s First
Dozens have died in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires ever, but a number of factors have made the Chinese enclave susceptible to such tragedies.Chad de Guzman (Time)
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I'm so frustrated that this article, and many other sources - including news programs, are not talking about the lack of alarms in the buildings. I agree that the materials and density were terrible and created a catastrophic situation for the structures, but the lack of alarms to alert residents is absolutely ridiculous and is what made this such a huge tragedy for the people who died.
If the buildings' alarms aren't working, then they should be on "fire watch" with 24/7 personnel ready to alert people on every floor where the alarm isn't working. Does that cost too much? Then fix the fucking alarms as a top priority. This is especially true when there are no automatic sprinklers, which sounds like is often the case in Hong Kong.
There are reports that people were getting calls from their friends and relatives and that's how they learned about the fire. People were waking up to the smell of smoke without an alarm going off. WTF. That's so far beyond acceptable, I don't know what else to say.
I travel a lot and I always bring my own smoke and CO detector with me. This is an example of why.
Just read a [BBC article]https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8e5j20g27o():
... Several residents have revealed in interviews that the fire alarm did not sound when the fire broke out. Authorities said on Friday that they had checked the fire alarms in all eight blocks and found that they were not working properly ...
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Peru to declare state of emergency to block Chile border crossings
Peru to declare state of emergency to block Chile border crossings
The announcement comes as undocumented people flee neighbouring Chile in anticipation of an immigration crackdown.Joseph Stepansky (Al Jazeera)
Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group?
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/31326102
Since it is not designed for individual selfhosters, I'm wondering if any groups are actively attempting to run it together? Idea sounds cool, but I'm wondering about practical execution.
GitHub - AltraMayor/gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS protection system
The first open-source DDoS protection system. Contribute to AltraMayor/gatekeeper development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Germany’s far-right AfD sets up youth wing, drawing thousands of demonstrators
Thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday in the central German city of Giessen for the launch of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s new youth organisation. The meeting was delayed as some AfD supporters clashed with police.
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Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks
Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks
A Wall Street Journal report details how profit is at the center of Trump’s “peace” talks.Adam Downer (The Daily Beast)
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Deja vi
We've been exactly here before and nothing happened
This won't happen either. The Cheeto will be buried by the trump/Epstein files soon enough
Upvoting for hope. 👍
Rebellions are built on hope.
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety
President Trump's latest comment marks another escalation in U.S.-Venezuela relations.Reuters (CNBC)
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Votre médecin sur TikTok est-il réel ? Le nouveau visage effrayant de l’arnaque aux compléments alimentaires
Imaginez la scène , vous faites défiler votre fil d’actualité sur TikTok ou Facebook et vous tombez sur une vidéo d’un médecin respecté. Il porte peut-être une blouse blanche, s’exprime devant un pupitre officiel ou semble donner une interview sérieuse. Il regarde la caméra et vous explique avec autorité que pour soigner vos symptômes de la ménopause, vous devez absolument acheter un nouveau supplément miracle. Vous faites confiance à la blouse blanche, vous faites confiance à l’expert. Pourtant, tout ceci n’est qu’une illusion numérique.
Une enquête récente et alarmante menée par l’organisation de vérification des faits Full Fact a révélé une tendance inquiétante qui envahit nos réseaux sociaux, l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour voler l’image et la voix de médecins réels afin de vendre des produits de santé douteux. Ce n’est plus de la science-fiction, c’est une réalité commerciale agressive qui cible les personnes vulnérables en quête de solutions médicales.
La mécanique du mensonge numérique
Le mode opératoire découvert par les enquêteurs est aussi simple qu’efficace. Les fraudeurs récupèrent des vidéos réelles de conférences médicales, d’interviews télévisées ou d’audiences parlementaires disponibles sur Internet. Grâce à des technologies de plus en plus accessibles, ils manipulent ensuite les mouvements des lèvres et clonent la voix de l’intervenant. Le résultat est un « deepfake », ou hypertrucage, où un expert reconnu semble prononcer des mots qu’il n’a jamais dits.
Dans le cas précis révélé par Full Fact, des centaines de vidéos ont été identifiées. Elles mettent en scène des versions clonées de médecins et d’influenceurs dirigeant les spectateurs vers Wellness Nest, une entreprise de suppléments basée aux États-Unis. Ces faux médecins encouragent vivement les femmes traversant la ménopause à se procurer des probiotiques, du shilajit de l’Himalaya ou d’autres extraits de plantes sur le site de l’entreprise. Léo Benedictus, l’enquêteur derrière ces révélations, qualifie cette tactique de sinistre et inquiétante, car elle exploite la crédibilité d’experts ayant une grande audience pour valider des traitements non prouvés.
Le cas surréaliste du Professeur Taylor-Robinson
Pour comprendre l’impact personnel et professionnel de ces arnaques, il faut se pencher sur l’histoire du professeur David Taylor-Robinson, expert en inégalités de santé à l’université de Liverpool. Ce spécialiste, dont le travail se concentre principalement sur la santé des enfants, a eu le choc de découvrir qu’il était devenu, à son insu, le visage d’une campagne marketing pour la ménopause sur TikTok. Au mois d’août, quatorze vidéos manipulées circulaient sur la plateforme, le montrant en train de recommander des produits aux bénéfices non prouvés. L’absurdité de la situation a atteint son paroxysme dans une vidéo où son clone numérique évoquait un prétendu effet secondaire de la ménopause appelé « jambe thermomètre ». Le faux professeur conseillait alors l’achat d’un probiotique naturel contenant du curcuma et de l’actée à grappes noires pour soulager ces symptômes fictifs, ajoutant même des témoignages inventés de collègues féminines.
La réalité derrière ces images est tout autre. Les séquences originales provenaient d’une conférence sur la vaccination donnée en 2017 et d’une audition parlementaire sur la pauvreté infantile en mai dernier. Pire encore, certaines vidéos allaient jusqu’à faire tenir au professeur des propos misogynes et vulgaires. Si ses enfants ont d’abord trouvé la situation hilarante, le professeur Taylor-Robinson a rapidement déchanté face à la difficulté de faire retirer ces contenus. Il décrit un sentiment croissant d’irritation à l’idée que des escrocs profitent de son travail pour propager de la désinformation médicale.
Une modération dépassée par les événements
La réponse des plateformes sociales face à ce fléau soulève de nombreuses questions sur leur capacité à nous protéger. Il a fallu six semaines et de multiples plaintes pour que TikTok retire enfin les vidéos du professeur Taylor-Robinson. La plateforme a affirmé au début que certaines vidéos ne violaient pas ses règles, une réponse jugée absurde par le médecin, étant donné qu’il s’agissait intégralement de faux le mettant en scène sans son consentement.
Ce problème ne se limite pas à un seul médecin. Duncan Selbie, ancien directeur général de Public Health England, a également été ciblé. Huit deepfakes le montrant en train de parler de ménopause ont été découverts sur TikTok, utilisant les mêmes images de l’événement de 2017 que celles de Taylor-Robinson. Selbie a qualifié l’imitation de stupéfiante de réalisme, soulignant que c’est un faux intégral du début à la fin, mais suffisamment convaincant pour tromper un public inattentif. D’autres figures médicales britanniques de premier plan ont également vu leur image détournée sur X, Facebook et YouTube.
La défense de l’industrie et l’appel à la régulation
Face aux accusations, la société Wellness Nest a adopté une ligne de défense classique dans le monde du marketing numérique opaque. L’entreprise a déclaré à Full Fact que ces vidéos étaient totalement indépendantes de leur volonté, affirmant n’avoir jamais utilisé de contenu généré par l’IA. Elle rejette la faute sur des affiliés à travers le monde qu’elle ne peut ni contrôler ni surveiller. C’est une excuse commode qui met en lumière les zones grises du marketing d’affiliation, où des tiers peuvent utiliser des méthodes sans scrupules pour générer des ventes et toucher des commissions, tout en permettant à la marque principale de nier toute responsabilité directe.
Cette situation a provoqué une levée de boucliers politique. Helen Morgan, porte-parole santé des Libéraux-Démocrates au Royaume-Uni, a vivement réagi en soulignant le danger que représente l’IA lorsqu’elle est utilisée pour exploiter les failles du système de santé. Elle pose une question fondamentale, si un individu se faisait passer pour un médecin dans la vie réelle pour vendre des médicaments, il serait poursuivi pénalement. Pourquoi tolérons-nous l’équivalent numérique ? Elle appelle à ce que les deepfakes se faisant passer pour des professionnels de santé soient éradiqués et que ceux qui profitent de la désinformation médicale soient tenus criminellement responsables.
Que pouvons-nous faire ?
TikTok a déclaré avoir supprimé le contenu incriminé et continuer d’investir dans de nouvelles méthodes de détection. Ils admettent cependant que le contenu généré par l’IA est un défi pour l’ensemble de l’industrie. En tant qu’utilisateurs, la vigilance est notre meilleure arme. Si vous voyez un médecin célèbre recommander un produit miracle sur une vidéo aux mouvements de lèvres légèrement décalés ou avec une intonation monotone, méfiez-vous. Vérifiez toujours les sources officielles et rappelez-vous que si un remède semble trop beau pour être vrai, c’est probablement parce qu’il n’existe pas. L’ère de la désinformation médicale assistée par l’IA ne fait que commencer et notre esprit critique est la seule barrière restante.
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effectsDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict.
Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at France’s prestigious Sciences Po university, entered Gaza in December where he was hosted by an international humanitarian organisation in the southern coastal zone of al-Mawasi.
Israel has blocked international media and other independent observers from Gaza but Filiu was able to evade strict Israeli vetting. He eventually left the territory shortly after the second short-lived truce during the war came into effect in January. His eyewitness account, A Historian in Gaza, was published in French in May and in English this month.
In the book, Filiu describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting aid convoys. These permitted looters to seize huge quantities of food and other supplies destined for desperately needy Palestinians, he writes. Famine threatened parts of Gaza at the time, according to international humanitarian agencies.
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoysJason Burke (The Guardian)
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The entirety of the evidence is the account of the historian Filiu.
“The [Israeli] rationale [was] to discredit Hamas and the UN at that time … and to allow [Israel’s] clients, the looters, to either redistribute the aid to expand their own support networks or to make money out of reselling it in order to get some cash and so not depend exclusively on Israeli financial support,” Filiu said.
That's pretty powerful to have an eye witness able to testify directly about Israel's rationale.
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.
Scientists at University College London (UCL), working with Watershed Investigations and the Guardian, analysed 2002–24 data from satellites, which track changes in Earth’s gravitational field.
Because water is heavy, shifts in groundwater, rivers, lakes, soil moisture and glaciers show up in the signal, allowing the satellites to effectively “weigh” how much water is stored.
The findings reveal a stark imbalance: the north and north-west of Europe – particularly Scandinavia, parts of the UK and Portugal – have been getting wetter, while large swathes of the south and south-east, including parts of the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Romania and Ukraine, have been drying out.
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implicationsRachel Salvidge (The Guardian)
Thousands of protesters gather as German far-right party sets up new youth organization
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/42655760
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning. Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.
The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is to be set up in a meeting at Giessen’s convention center. Its predecessor, the Young Alternative — a largely autonomous group with relatively loose links to the party — was dissolved at the end of March after AfD decided to formally cut ties with it.
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Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42696039
Web archive linkOnce one of the country’s biggest growth drivers, China’s property market has been in a downward spiral for four years with no signs of abating. Real estate values continue to plummet, households in financial distress are being forced to sell properties, and apartment developers that racked up enormous debt on speculative projects are on the brink of collapse.
There was some optimism that government measures to end the crisis had been working to reinvigorate the market, but in March, government-linked developer China Vanke Co. reported a record 49.5 billion yuan ($6.8 billion) annual loss for 2024, showing just how deep the problems run. Then in August, property giant China Evergrande Group delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange — making the shares effectively worthless — marking a grim milestone for the nation’s property sector.
China is now considering further measures to revive its struggling property sector, particularly after new and resale homes recorded their steepest price declines in at least a year in October. The slump has heightened concerns that further weakening could destabilize the country’s financial system.
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Evergrande’s downfall is by far the biggest in a crisis that dragged down China’s economic growth and led to a record number of distressed builders.
Founded in 1996 by Hui Ka Yan, Evergrande’s rapid expansion was from the outset fueled by heavy borrowing. It became the most indebted borrower among its peers, with total liabilities reaching about $360 billion at the end of 2021. For a time it was the country’s biggest developer by contracted sales and was worth more than $50 billion in 2017 at its peak. Founder and chairman Hui became Asia’s second-richest person. Over the years the company also invested in the electric vehicle industry and bought a local football club....
How did some Chinese developers get into this mess?
In 1998, China created a nationwide housing market after tightly restricting private sales for decades. Back then, only a third of its people lived in towns and cities. That’s risen to two-thirds, with the urban population expanding by 480 million. The exodus from the countryside represented a vast commercial opportunity for construction firms and developers.
Money flooded into real estate as the emerging middle class leapt upon what was one of the few safe investments available, pushing home prices up sixfold over the 15 years ending in 2022. Local and regional authorities, which rely on sales of public land for a chunk of their revenue, encouraged the development boom. At its peak, the sector directly and indirectly accounted for about a quarter of domestic output and almost 80% of household assets. Estimates vary, but counting new and existing homes, plus inventory, the sector was worth about $52 trillion in 2019 — about twice the size of the US real estate market.
The property craze was powered by debt as builders rushed to satisfy expected future demand. The boom encouraged speculative buying, with new homes pre-sold by developers who turned increasingly to foreign investors for funds. Opaque liabilities made it hard to assess credit risks. The speculation led to astronomical prices, with homes in boom cities such as Shenzhen becoming less affordable relative to local incomes than those in London or New York. In response, the government moved in 2020 to reduce the risk of a bubble and temper the inequality that unaffordable housing can create.
Anxious to rein in the industry’s debts and fearful that serial defaults could ravage China’s financial system, officials began to squeeze new financing for developers and asked banks to slow the pace of mortgage lending. The government imposed stringent rules on debt ratios and cash holdings for developers that were called the “three red lines” by state-run media. The measures sparked a cash crunch for developers that was exacerbated by the impact of aggressive measures to contain Covid-19, such as the suspension of construction sites.
Many developers were unable to adhere to the new rules as their finances were already stretched. In 2021, Evergrande defaulted on more than $300 billion, triggering the beginning of China’s property crisis. Two more property giants defaulted — Sunac China Holdings Ltd in 2022 and Country Garden Holdings Co. in 2023.
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With household debt at a high of 145% of disposable income per capita at the end of 2023, homeowners are increasingly under financial pressure. The country’s residential mortgage delinquency ratio – which tracks overdue mortgage payments – jumped to the highest in four years as of late 2023. Some homeowners are being forced to sell their properties at a discounted rate, which is only exacerbating the problem.
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Chinese banks’ bad debt — loans they no longer expect to recover — hit a record 3.5 trillion yuan ($492 billion) at the end of September. Fitch Ratings has warned the situation could deteriorate further in 2026 as households struggle to repay mortgages and other loans.
A prolonged property slump could also deepen deflationary pressures. Former finance minister Lou Jiwei recently warned that households’ worsening outlook — driven by falling home values — will affect consumption levels and intensify price declines.
According to economists at Morgan Stanley and Beijing-based think tank CF40, the property sector’s drag on inflation could even be greater than official data suggest. They argue that the methodology used to determine China’s official Consumer Price Index understates falling rents, and, by extension, the broader deflationary impact.
La Libertaria, un esempio di anticapitalismo militante
Indice dei contenuti
Toggle
- Un piacevole incontro
- La torrefazione
- Il progetto
- Cooperativa di produzione e lavoro
- Il prefinanziamento
- Conclusioni
Un piacevole incontro
Il luogo in cui sorge la torrefazioneLa Libertaria è uno dei miei preferiti di Lecco. Sotto lo sguardo verde del Monte Barro e alla destra sud dell’Adda è un posto in cui l’architettura modernista e spesso raffazzonata dell’altra sponda della città lascia il posto a scorci più respirabili e più umani. Il ponte in ferro – con tutto l’ecocidio e il rifornimento all’industria bellica che questo minerale strappato alla terra ha rappresentato e rappresenta storicamente per la città – si interrompe qui con un muro. Un muro che non riesce a nascondere l’ipocrisia di un progresso aggressivo dal quale la società degli animali umani e non umani ha sempre più urgenza di staccarsi per recuperare il rapporto con la sua identità ancestrale e mutualistica.
La torrefazione
Una bellezza apparentemente semplice, mi accoglie all’interno della torrefazione. Inebriante profumo di caffè tostato, sacchi di juta, la macchina guardata con quel rispetto e quella cura che la elevano dall’asettico ruolo di mezzo di produzione. Quell’atmosfera sospesa — un po’ officina, un po’ laboratorio politico con meravigliose stampe alle pareti — che suggerisce che lì il lavoro è un pretesto, e che le vere materie prime sono dignità, resistenza e la coltivazione di un altro mondo; un mondo che contenga molti mondi.
Riccardo si presenta senza formalità. Toni e movimenti pacati, cosi differenti dai commerciali che promettono mondi. Nessuna ansia da prestazione. Non c’è nulla da dimostrare, nessuna impressione da fare. Sono artigiani, ma soprattutto cooperatori. Il caffè è il modo che hanno scelto per restare liberi.
Il progetto
Mentre inizia a parlare, Riccardo misura con precisione i chicchi della qualità “Sumatra” e seleziona la temperatura corretta della macchina per offrirmi una buona tazza di caffè. Dietro il bilancino noto un immagine con gli occhi di Errico Malatesta e un ammonimento fermo e gentile. Mi fa ripensare a Proudhon e al disvelamento etimologico della parola anarchia. Il progetto “La Libertaria” nasce infatti nel 2021 come evoluzione e recupero dei principi che erano già stati del “Caffè Malatesta”. Il bisogno di poter fare senza potere, senza padroni, senza quell’idea tossica che produttività significhi sacrificio umano. Anzi; esattamente il contrario.
Cooperativa di produzione e lavoro
Per questo motivo hanno scelto di associarsi in una cooperativa di produzione e lavoro nella quale gli stessi soci lavorano all’interno.
“Abbiamo scelto di organizzarci come cooperativa di produzione e lavoro, una forma che istituisce, seppur parzialmente, una proprietà collettiva indipendente dalla partecipazione dei singoli e che può garantire un equo riconoscimento del ruolo svolto da tutte le persone coinvolte nel progetto. Per evitare la formazione di dinamiche verticistiche e autoritarie, prevediamo che tutti i lavoratori si assumano pari responsabilità nella gestione della cooperativa diventando soci della stessa.” (dal sito)
Una scelta coerente con i principi ma ricca di difficoltà soprattutto per quanto riguarda l’inquadramento burocratico, come mi spiega un altro dei soci della cooperativa.
Il prefinanziamento
Le origini del caffè torrefatto presso la libertaria sono un viaggio intorno al mondo. Spiccano le collaborazioni con la Red ProZapa e la Roasters United. Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Uganda ed Etiopia. In tutti i casi si tratta di piccoli produttori e si privilegia il rapporto diretto nell’obiettivo comune di difendere i territori dal disastro climatico provocato dal sistema capitalista.
Il rapporto con i produttori fornitori è politico. Si basa infatti sulla pratica fiduciaria del prefinanziamento del caffè verde, che garantisce un anticipo sui ricavi del prodotto esportato prima del raccolto. Personamente ritengo questo principio fondamentale per far convergere l’idea con la pratica. Garantire un prezzo superiore a quello di mercato e prefinanziarlo, è l’assoluto contrario della parossistica ricerca del prezzo più basso; tipica del capitalismo. Si tratta di una pratica culturale che rappresenta un messaggio pedagogico chiaro rivolto ai consumatori. Decenni di discount e prezzi più bassi hanno solo creato un doppio ricatto che ha reso tutti più poveri, in diritti e salari reali. Prefinanziare il lavoro significa dare valore alle persone. Significa coltivare libertà, una tazzina alla volta.
Conclusioni
La libertaria è una realtà calata nel territorio e il suo esempio si innesta perfettamente nella resistenza di una città che sta prendendo sempre maggiore consapevolezza. Nonostante Lecco sia una provincia pesantemente interessata dal progresso distruttivo dell’industria bellica, c’è chi dice no e pratica proattivamente una visione altra. Movimenti culturali e pratiche di anticapitalismo militante si stanno espandendo portando un respiro e una cultura internazionalista, antispecista e transfemminista. Penso a realtà storiche come Il Galeone, l’Arrotino e ai più recenti la tassa degenere, la brigata di solidarietà Francesca Ciceri o all’assemblea permanente contro le guerre. Esempi tangibili in grado di fare rete e dimostrare che si può recuperare un mondo mutualista e giusto.
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La Libertaria, un esempio di anticapitalismo militante
La Libertaria, un esempio di anticapitalismo militante. Il bisogno di poter fare senza potere, senza padroni, senza produttività tossicaDaniele Fiorenza (Magozine.it)
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Palestinian Embassy in London accuses UK of failing to protect its diplomats
Photos shared by the mission show demonstrators waving 'Israeli' and UK flags outside the building over the weekend, with several seen climbing the entrance steps and posing for pictures.
The images also captured stickers plastered across the embassy façade, including slogans such as “Anti-Zionism is racism,” “I love the Israeli army,” and “We are not Jews with trembling knees.” One sticker displayed a Union Jack merged with the Star of David.
The embassy says incidents targeting the mission have intensified since 'Israel' launched its war on Gaza, with diplomats reporting smashed windows, paint attacks, and groups attempting to barricade the entrance, all while staff were inside.
Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, states are obligated to safeguard foreign missions from intrusion, damage, or disruption.
Palestinian Embassy in London accuses UK of failing to protect its diplomats
Pro-'Israeli' crowd in front of the Palestinian Embassy in the UK (Credit: @PalMissionUK via X)Roya News
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Something to Think About this month
As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …
When a spider sits motionless in its web all day, what is it thinking?
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The Sensory Biology of Plants
Sensory Biology of Plants
An edited book explaining plant communications via biochemical and molecular signaling. Plants have developed precise systems and mechanisms for sensing environmental changes, growth stimuli, counter pests and diseases and have learnt to communicate …SpringerLink
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And house plants would be chit chatting and making all kinds of noise inaudible to us, kinda like WiFi, but with sound instead of light. It's like a fantasy setting
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Meta – Du rachat de Limitless à la conquête de l’information en temps réel
Le géant de la technologie ne cache plus ses ambitions. Dans une démarche visant à dominer l’écosystème de l’intelligence artificielle, Meta vient d’annoncer l’acquisition de la startup Limitless, créatrice d’un pendentif connecté dopé à l’IA. Mais ce rachat n’est qu’une pièce du puzzle. Parallèlement à cette expansion matérielle, la firme de Mark Zuckerberg modifie la manière dont nous consommons l’actualité via ses chatbots, soulevant de nouvelles questions sur l’avenir de l’information et de nos données personnelles.
Jusqu’à présent, la stratégie matérielle de Meta reposait essentiellement sur deux piliers, les casques de réalité virtuelle Quest et les lunettes connectées Ray-Ban. L’acquisition de Limitless montre une volonté de diversification. L’entreprise, anciennement connue sous le nom de Rewind, s’était fait connaître avec un logiciel de productivité capable d’enregistrer tout ce qui se passait sur un écran d’ordinateur pour le rendre consultable via un chatbot. Elle a ensuite pivoté vers le matériel avec le « Pendant », un clip microphone Bluetooth conçu pour enregistrer, transcrire et résumer les conversations du quotidien. Dan Siroker, son PDG, a justifié cette fusion en évoquant une vision commune avec Meta, apporter une « superintelligence personnelle » à tous. En rejoignant la division Reality Labs, l’équipe de Limitless ne continuera pas nécessairement à développer son pendentif, mais intégrera son expertise dans la conception des futurs « wearables » (technologies portables) du groupe.
Pour les utilisateurs actuels du pendentif (principalement américains), la nouvelle est en demi-teinte. Si l’entreprise promet de maintenir le support pendant au moins un an, la commercialisation du produit cesse immédiatement. En guise de compensation, les abonnements payants sont supprimés, offrant un accès gratuit aux fonctionnalités premium pour la durée restante du support. Consciente des enjeux de confidentialité, la société permet désormais aux utilisateurs d’exporter ou de supprimer totalement leurs données s’ils ne souhaitent pas suivre l’aventure chez Meta.
Au-delà des lunettes: la guerre des wearables audio
Ce rachat n’est pas anodin. Il confirme que l’industrie tech cherche le facteur de forme idéal pour l’IA, au-delà du smartphone. Les lunettes connectées ne conviennent pas à tout le monde, et le format badge ou pendentif émerge comme une alternative crédible pour l’enregistrement audio passif. L’audio est en effet le terrain de jeu où les modèles d’IA actuels excellent le plus avec la transcription précise et le résumé contextuel. En intégrant la technologie de Limitless, et en s’appuyant sur des recrutements stratégiques comme celui d’Alan Dye, ancien responsable du design chez Apple, Meta prépare le terrain pour une nouvelle gamme d’appareils.
On peut imaginer un futur où les Ray-Ban Meta seraient complétées par des accessoires plus discrets, capables de capturer le contexte sonore de notre vie pour alimenter un assistant personnel omniscient. Meta n’est pourtant pas seul sur ce créneau. Amazon a récemment acquis Bee, une autre startup spécialisée dans les wearables IA et d’autres acteurs tentent de percer, comme le pendentif « Friend ». Mais avec la puissance de frappe de Meta, la compétition devient féroce pour les petits acteurs. Comme le souligne Siroker, le monde a changé. Ce qui semblait être une idée marginale il y a cinq ans est devenu une course inévitable vers le futur.
L’IA pour s’informer – Le pacte avec les médias
Si Meta renforce ses oreilles avec Limitless, l’entreprise soigne aussi son cerveau. L’autre volet important de l’actualité récente du groupe concerne sa gestion de l’information. Après avoir longtemps entretenu des relations tumultueuses avec la presse, elle propose une nouvelle approche, délivrer les actualités de dernière minute directement via son chatbot, Meta AI. Elle a annoncé des partenariats avec plusieurs grandes organisations médiatiques, dont CNN, Fox News, Reuters, et le groupe Le Monde. L’objectif est de permettre à l’IA de fournir des résumés d’événements récents en temps réel, en puisant dans des sources plus diversifiées. La liste des partenaires inclut un spectre large, allant de publications lifestyle comme People à des médias politiquement marqués comme The Daily Caller, reflétant peut-être les affinités de la direction actuelle. Sur le papier, la promesse est séduisante, demander à son assistant IA ce qui se passe dans le monde et obtenir une réponse synthétique et sourcée. Mais l’histoire de Meta avec l’information incite à la prudence.
Le spectre du passé et les risques futurs
Il est difficile d’oublier les précédents échecs de Facebook dans le domaine de l’actualité. De la controverse du module « Trending News » en 2016, accusé de biais humains puis remplacé par un algorithme propageant la désinformation, jusqu’au désastreux pivot vers la vidéo qui a mis à genoux de nombreux éditeurs, le bilan est lourd. Les changements d’algorithmes opaques ont souvent détruit des audiences construites sur plusieurs années, laissant les médias exsangues.
Aujourd’hui, la crainte est que ce nouveau modèle basé sur l’IA ne cannibalise encore davantage le trafic des sites d’information. À l’image des « AI Overviews » de Google, si le chatbot fournit la réponse complète, l’utilisateur n’a plus besoin de cliquer sur le lien source. Pour les éditeurs, c’est le risque de voir leurs contenus ingérés par la boîte noire de l’IA sans retombées économiques directes, hormis le montant du chèque signé pour le partenariat initial.
De plus, confier la synthèse de l’actualité à une IA générative comporte des risques d’hallucinations ou de biais contextuels. Si l’outil est censé offrir quelque chose pour tout le monde, la frontière entre information factuelle et contenu partisan risque de devenir floue, surtout avec un panel de sources aussi hétéroclite.
Un écosystème fermé en construction
En mettant en perspective le rachat de Limitless et les nouveaux partenariats médiatiques, la stratégie de Meta apparaît clairement. L’objectif est de créer un écosystème fermé et autosuffisant. D’un côté, le matériel (lunettes, pendentifs) capture votre réalité immédiate et vos conversations. De l’autre, le logiciel (Meta AI) ingère l’actualité mondiale pour vous la restituer à la demande. Meta ne cherche plus seulement à connecter les gens entre eux, mais à devenir l’interface principale entre l’utilisateur et le monde, qu’il s’agisse de se souvenir d’une conversation privée ou de comprendre un événement géopolitique. Reste à savoir si les utilisateurs accepteront de confier autant de pouvoir, et autant de données, à une seule entité.
Advent Calendar 6
Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs
This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
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Police Complaint Filed Against Israeli Eurovision Songwriter Over Sexual Misconduct
Police complaint filed against Israeli Eurovision songwriter over sexual misconduct
The accuser, an unauthorized resident, claims Israeli musician and songwriter Doron Medalie forced a sexual act on him after impairing his ability to resist.Shay Ringel (Haaretz)
Mount Eerie - Sauna (2015)
Parlare di Phil Elverum è come parlare del Papa, la sua musica è diventata talmente personale che è impossibile sbagliarsi durante l’ascolto di uno dei suoi dischi: disco dopo disco, è giunto ad essere uno dei cantautori americani più importanti della sua generazione... Leggi e ascolta...
Mount Eerie - Sauna (2015)
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TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012
Tim Curry gives emotional health update after 'paralytic stroke' left him in wheelchair
In his new memoir Vagabond, the Rocky Horror Picture Show legend reflects on the stroke that left him paralysed on one side in 2012.Kitty Chrisp (Metro)
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in reply to priapus • • •There is no direct feature comparison between VoidAuth and pocket-id ('comparison is the thief of joy' after all). At least one major difference is that pocket-id does not allow users to sign in with a password since passkey-only accounts are one of their design decisions, and VoidAuth does not support LDAP integration while pocket-id does. My main motivation in creating VoidAuth was to fill gaps in my own user experience while using SSO, previously I ran Authelia+LLDAP (which is still an excellent combo) but found the setup lacking in some common use-cases and devoid of an Admin Interface.
I am glad you like the interface and logo, it is inspired by my own black cat who right at this very moment is yelling for pets 😹