PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup
Android Client does not auto upload all images?
This is the same crap as version 3.30.8! These people just can’t get to grips with making properly functioning software! They have been working on it for 8 years but it still doesn’t work properly.Nextcloud community
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I assure you it's been a topic in their house, especially since they use those front gates to receive people in tuxes and ballgowns.
Also people use the light poles across the street to post nasty paper memes about Sarah, sometimes they get left up for weeks because they're angled so the staff can't see them.
Trump blames Maduro for migrants, but a war in Venezuela could create millions of refugees
When Donald Trump has been asked about the reason he’s pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down and threatening military action against the country, he consistently blames the South American leader for two things: drugs and migrants.
As the Trump administration continues its strikes on alleged drug vessels at sea, the president has threatened that attacks against drug cartels on land in Venezuela would begin “very soon.” Experts who have modeled what would happen if Trump went ahead with even limited strikes warn Venezuela could see mass displacement and a new refugee surge like the 2017 crisis Trump blames on Maduro that led to thousands of Venezuelans moving to the US.
A Niskanen Center study released last month modeling refugee movements based on different types of US military action found that strikes could spur 1.7 million to 3 million additional people to flee Venezuela within just a few years if the attacks triggered a brief internal conflict.
The days to come: Modeling refugee flows from Venezuela after U.S. intervention - Niskanen Center
We provide policymakers and the public with empirically based estimates of the potential migration impact of different scenarios.Gil Guerra (Niskanen Center)
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US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU
Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the MAGA movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory.
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Turkish intelligence report warns of Somalia’s fragility as Ankara boosts military and economic role
Deadly attack on kindergarten reported in Sudan
Deadly attack on kindergarten reported in Sudan
Drone strikes on a town in South Kordofan on Thursday are said to have killed at least 50 people.Seher Asaf (BBC News)
Philippines: Child rescue ends in sexual abuse
Child rescue groups are trying to save victims from sex trafficking in the Philippines. But a DW investigation found that they could be enabling abuse.
Yes, you should look up your home’s disaster risk | How one community figured out how to reduce fire threats — and their insurance rates.
Yes, you should look up your home’s disaster risk
Zillow pulled its flood and wildfire scores after complaints that the numbers hurt sales. But communities that actually act on these risks are saving money.Umair Irfan (Vox)
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A comprehensive absolut beginner's guide
I just got my hands on an old PC, and I took it as a sign to finally start my on server. Right now, I'd mostly be looking into running jellyfin since I'm working on a digital music library. On the technical side, I run Mint on my laptop, so I have basic familiarity with Linux. Are there any guides you recommend that will take me through installation of OS to a functional server?
Thank you!
Hey, welcome to the concept of self-hosting! This is where I was 15+ years ago.
Realistically, I'd just recommend installing something and trying it out. You'll iterate many time before you'll slowly start to align somewhere I suspect, in terms of software/approaches etc.
If you want the very first steps, then why not simply connect your old PC to a monitor and install a Desktop version of Mint? It's super-"wrong", but it'll get you started. Once you reach a stage of not wanting to waste memory/CPU on a graphical system, you'll be able to do something like systemctl disable lightdm.service and voila, graphics don't load on start anymore. Once you get even more confident, apt remove gdm3 xfce4 xfdesktop will remove any extra disk space (I'm dropping DE names that I approximately remember off the top of my head). With the packages for graphics gone, your system is indistinguishable from a server now.
Overall it's a nice path to walk, or at least it was fun and somewhat educative and very frustrating and giving a sense of control for me personally. Do you have any specific questions?
This is the answer.
You probably could learn *nix terminals, networking, hosting, security, and a myriad of other skills all at once if you really had to focus on it--but more often, that will just result in half-started projects and systems which never come together. Dipping your toes in first, and then gradually migrating as you build up your knowledge is the best way to not be overwhelmed, burnt out, or frozen from decision overload.
One of the nicest things about Linux is you can run most any software written for Linux on most any distro (although some may require more work than others). Picking a beginner friendly distro like Mint, with helper tools and a gui, and installing Jellyfin on it will give you a place to start. You can gradually learn the console and install other services and build out organically. Rather than hopping straight into some Enterprise Linux.
I know Jellyfin/Emby is compatible with music, but I'm advising you now to not try and cram all your media in one software. I recommend Navidrome as a music hoster. The con is that I haven't written a guide for it, as I run Proxmox it was almost too easy to need one.
As you're just starting out I'd recommend picking any Linux distro, putting the ISO on a USB drive and booting the server machine from it to install. Well, you know how to install an OS. Next, install Navidrome (guide) via the Linux or Docker guides, modify the config file to point to your music folder and change any setting you like, for example the port, and run it via systemctl or docker.
After that, login via browser with the given admin creds, make a user account for you and anyone else, install slskd for downloading and beets for correctly organising into the music directory, set up a reverse proxy to point to the Navidrome UI or connect via IP from any Subsonic client or web browser.
If you want you can install Proxmox from the start - I found it incredibly handy to make different containers and VMs to handle different projects, and in terms of Navidrome I got the install script from tteck, ran it, and once done I modified the toml variables to what I wanted and restarted the service. Plug & play.
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found.
More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines.
The losses that researchers recorded in those colonies were not isolated, said the paper, which was published in Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology. “These declines are mirrored elsewhere,” said Dr Richard Sherley, from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter. The African penguin species has undergone a population decline of nearly 80% in 30 years.
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research findsPhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
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Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
People in Britain who think they are governed by fools should take a closer look at the Russian and US presidents. Vladimir Putin is systematically ruining his country. His war of choice in Ukraine is an economic, financial, geopolitical and human calamity for Russia that worsens by the day. For his own murky reasons, Donald Trump, another national menace, offered him a lifeline last week. Yet Putin spurned it. These two fools deserve each other.
On the table in Moscow was a “peace” deal that, broadly speaking, rewarded Russia’s aggression by handing over large chunks of Ukrainian land, compromised Kyiv’s independence and weakened its defences against any future attack. The Trump deal, if forced through, would have split the US and Europe; ruptured Nato, perhaps fatally; reprieved Russia’s pariah economy; and probably toppled Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government.
These are key Russian war aims. But Putin, suffering from neo-imperial fantasies and legacy issues, said “no”. He reckons he can get it all, and more, by fighting on. He has persuaded the idiot Trump that Russia’s victory is inevitable – and that scheming Europeans are the real warmongers. Yet his premise is fundamentally flawed. Hard facts confound him. Almost four years on, he’s still trapped in Donbas mud and ice. And at home, things fall apart.
Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall
The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon TisdallSimon Tisdall (The Guardian)
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I hope Putin is discovered while fleeing, and promptly suffers the divine plight of kings...
Really, all dictators should end up this way.
Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar
It is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.
The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay.
It’s not just a problem here – Australians, Americans and Germans also use “admin” more than any other password when accessing websites, apps and logging in to their computers. Around the world, “123456” emerges as the most popular.
Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar
Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackersShane Hickey (The Guardian)
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Apparent coup attempt in Benin, govt claims army has situation 'under control'
A group of soldiers on Sunday appeared on Benin's state television claiming to have removed President Patrice Talon from office and dissolved all state institutions. Talon's office, meanwhile, said that loyalist forces had managed to get the situation "under control".
West Africa's ECOWAS bloc deploys standby force to Benin in response to coup attempt
Soldiers from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana are being sent to Benin after West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS ordered the immediate deployment of elements of its standby force to the country following an attempted coup on Sunday.FRANCE 24
Ooooh, are we doing another stint of coups and attempts across West Africa?
Last time was so lame. Do Togo next!
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.ploum.net
Re: Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
Response from Dan
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Pixelfed has always been and will always be a platform that centers photos and creative artwork first and foremost.It is deliberately not a microblogging platform, there are plenty of other microblogging platforms.
The criticism? I hear it. But we're not backing down from our vision.
Photo sharing first, foremost and forever.
Fixed link (at least for Piefed): mastodon.social/@dansup/115678…
it makes sense to be honest, the OP article isn't really convincing
Pixelfed has always been and will always be a platform that centers photos and creative artwork first and foremost.It is deliberately not a microblogging platform, there are plenty of other microblogging platforms.
The criticism? I hear it. But we're not backing down from our vision.
Photo sharing first, foremost and forever.
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The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and Explorer
The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid Of The Start Menu And Explorer ... - PC Perspective
The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid Of The Start Menu And Explorer ... Microsoft's efforts to convince people to switch to Windows 11 continues to beJeremy Hellstrom (PC Perspective)
Sinaloa cartel wars coincide with record-setting wildfire damage. It’s no coincidence
Sinaloa cartel wars provoke record-setting wildfire damage.
The internecine cartel conflict has taken a lasting toll on the forests in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in northwestern Mexico.MND Staff (Mexico News Daily)
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinningAndrew Nesbitt
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Every run re-resolves from your workflow file, and the results can change without any modification to your code.
Sounds expensive too.
Ahhh, I get it now.
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
South Korea: National rail and Seoul Metro workers to walk out; Philippines school teachers hold national strike; India: Outsourced power workers protest privatisation in Punjab; Australia: Public sector health workers protest over wages and conditio…World Socialist Web Site
Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government
Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government
The Lula administration’s recent attacks on the Brazilian postal service are part of a global drive to privatize postal services.World Socialist Web Site
My unrequested opinion on this:
This was written by someone who knows anyone reading this doesn't have the full picture (english speaking foreigners), so I'm just going to try to be the least biased in any favor and just put some additional information.
The correios (the state owned postal and parcel service) is in crisis, they aren't profitable, mainly because of the standardization of tariffs on imported items from China, some items that didn't pay, now pay, some items that were "lotteries" were regulated, so everything above 50 dollars (if i remember correctly) now pays the standard tax, plus state to state taxes that already existed. This affected them, because there's less imported items from aliexpress, etc, and almost all of the items were shipped through them.
They are now trying to negotiate some loans, like the denied loan from the state bank (Caixa Econômica Federal), the government gave the option to take some other loans that they would need to reestructure to take (like giving plans for people to retire voluntarely, which is always bad, because these plans are always scams). This strike seems to only happen in São Paulo (and the person writing this seems to be paulista, for their way of writing).
Now my opinion:
This is bad, really seems to try to go ahead and enshittify another service, now a service that is literally the backbone of the logistics of the country. The logistics of a country shouldn't need to be profitable, it should do the logistics, as they are a public service reaching like 99% of the country in unprofitable regions, and the workers should not be outsourced. The workers should try to fight for their rights and make their voices heard. All the power to them!
Bancos socorrem Correios com empréstimo de US$ 12 bi; entenda a crise
Empresa viu suas receitas expandirem com o crescimento do comércio eletrônico entre 2017 e 2021Folha de S.Paulo
External HDD docking station + laptop/SFF/thin client vs ATX tower w/ internal mounts for NAS?
My current setup is two always-on hard drives hooked up to this two-bay external hard drive docking station plugged into a laptop via USB cable for whatever network sharing I may need. This has been good enough so far, but I'm anticipating the need to expand down the road, i.e. adding a third drive. When that time comes, part of me thinks I oughta just spring for the 4-bay version of what I already have and keep on keeping on. Another part of me thinks maybe I should plan a new build in a mid-ATX case w/ 4 or 5 HDD mounting slots for future expandability.
One thing about the external docking station that appeals to me is how portable it is, meaning if I ever want to spring for a beefier laptop or one of those thin clients, I can just plug the HDD docking station into the new host and away I go. Another nice thing about laptops and SFF equipment is how energy efficient they are. On the other hand, planning a new ATX build w/ HDDs mounted internally would enable me to plan the whole thing top to bottom w/ whichever components I like, but I'm a tad concerned about how feasible it is to achieve the same level of power efficiency w/ an ATX build compared to a laptop/SFF/thin client w/ external docking station.
Has anyone else out there had this dilemma, and which way did you go? Any advice or warnings about what might come back to bite me down the road if I stick w/ the external docking station or go w/ an ATX build?
WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
cross-posted from: piefed.ca/c/technology/p/37757…
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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.www.youtube.com
Capitalism can work well when it's coupled into a virtuous circle of funding R&D to create new products and services to increase income to put back into more R&D.
At the moment it seems that a lot of companies are just trying to seek ever increasing rent extraction on existing products rather than investing in trying to innovate and relying on high barriers to entry to keep competition out.
capitalism worked pretty well in the 40's and 50's, in the USA, and then the corporate leaders realized that they could be overlords if they just stopped caring about everything but money.
We know kindness and money can coexist, but if little boy jack is taught from day one that if you don't game the system, you will lose, he's going to grow up to be Elon Musk.
Capitalism works fine if it’s regulated either by governments or by workers through unions.
Both at the same time, and the third necessary component - customer associations, three independent forces as a minimum.
EDIT: This is free market, "market" and not "jungle" - because there are regulated rules, "free" - because all participants are free to associate, including association to delegate association choices. "Capitalism" is a bad word because it's a term for everything from semi-traditional economies to mercantilism to libertarianism, that has interoperability of resources and assets.
Once capitalism has regulations to keep it in check and a democratically elected government is in charge and willing to do those things it’s no longer capitalism. Capitalism is putting monied interests first and crossing your fingers that the free hand of the market is anything more than a fairy told to naive idiots to make them support a corrupt-by-design system, such that those monied interests can be said to be chosen “democratically”(vote with your wallets).
Capitalism just sucks. It was made up so parasites nobles didn’t have to give up their ill-gotten wealth when feudalism ended. Fuckin’ thing is rotten to its core.
The concept of a "corrupt industry" doesn't really make sense.
Corruption only works in non-profit/political/governmental contexts. It's when you have a job that requires you to value some specific higher goal more than your own personal benefit.
The whole purpose and the higher goal of an industry, same as capitalism in general is personal benefit. A capitalist cannot be corrupt. Or to put it differently: The thing that would make e.g. a public servant corrupt is the modus operandi of capitalism.
Edit, since a lot of people don't seem to get it:
Corruption means that you have some higher purpose that is corrupted in favour of personal gain.
Capitalism has no higher purpose than personal gain. A capitalist prioritizing personal gain is not corrupt, he is a capitalist.
Saying a capitalist is corrupt is like trying to make water wetter or trying to burn a fire.
What we call corruption for a public servant is ideal behavior for a capitalist.
A capitalist cannot be corrupt.
Alex, I'll take stupid things said on the internet for 800.
To be corrupt, you need to have another purpose than personal enrichment that you are corrupting in favour of personal enrichment.
The whole goal of capitalism is personal enrichment. There is no other purpose that could be corrupted.
It's like saying that you make water wet or that you burn a fire.
corruption
noun
- dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
What's dishonest or fraudulent about a capitalist doing capitalist things?
If you think there's some honest, genuine and honorable capitalists out there, you must be really credulous.
When we say corrupt, we mean someone is manipulating something for personal gain and otherwise would have a different purpose.
Capitalism is just for personal gain.
Therefore, capitalism cannot be corrupted by manipulation for personal gain, because that's its true purpose.
TLDR: saying capitalism is corrupt is a tautology. Capitalism sucksDid I rephrase your point correctly?
Pretty much, with the difference that corruption can only happen if it takes something off it's path, so to say.
If the path itself is bad, being bad is not corruption.
If steel rusts, it's being corrupted. Rust itself cannot be corrupted, because it is what it is.
And yes, I very much think that capitalism sucks.
[The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges.
The plaintiffs’ brief alleges that Meta was aware that its platforms were endangering young users, including by exacerbating adolescents’ mental health issues. According to the plaintiffs, Meta frequently detected content related to eating disorders, child sexual abuse, and suicide but refused to remove it. For example, one 2021 internal company survey found that more than 8 percent of respondents aged 13 to 15 had seen someone harm themself or threaten to harm themself on Instagram during the past week. The brief also makes clear that Meta fully understood the addictive nature of its products, with plaintiffs citing a message by one user-experience researcher at the company that Instagram “is a drug” and, “We’re basically pushers.”Perhaps most relevant to state child endangerment laws, the plaintiffs have alleged that Meta knew that millions of adults were using its platforms to inappropriately contact minors. According to their filing, an internal company audit found that Instagram had recommended 1.4 million potentially inappropriate adults to teenagers in a single day in 2022. The brief also details how Instagram’s policy was to not take action against sexual solicitation until a user had been caught engaging in the “trafficking of humans for sex” a whopping 17 times. As Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being, Vaishnavi Jayakumar, reportedly testified, “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the seventeenth violation, your account would be suspended.”
Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment
Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges.The New Republic
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Videos, images, and text can absolutely compel action or credible harm.
For example, Facebook was aware that Instagram was giving teen girls depression and body image issues, and subsequently made sure their algorithm would continue to show teen girls content of other girls/women who were more fit/attractive than them.
the teens who reported the most negative feelings about themselves saw more provocative content more broadly, content Meta classifies as “mature themes,” “Risky behavior,” “Harm & Cruelty” and “Suffering.” Cumulatively, such content accounted for 27% of what those teens saw on the platform, compared with 13.6% among their peers who hadn’t reported negative feelings.
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Many girls have committed suicide or engaged in self harm, at least partly inspired by body image issues stemming from Instagram's algorithmic choices, even if that content is "just videos, and images."
They also continued to recommend dangerous content that they claimed was blocked by their filters, including sexual and violent content to children under 13. This type of content is known to have a lasting effect on kids' wellbeing.
The researchers found that Instagram was still recommending sexual content, violent content, and self-harm and body-image content to teens, even though those types of posts were supposed to be blocked by Meta’s sensitive-content filters.
time.com/7324544/instagram-tee…
In the instance you specifically highlighting, that was when Meta would recommend teen girls to men exhibiting behaviors that could very easily lead to predation. For example, if a man specifically liked sexual content, and content of teen girls, it would recommend that man content of underage girls attempting to make up for their newly-created body image issues by posting sexualized photos.
They then waited 2 years before implementing a private-by-default policy, which wouldn't recommend these teen girls' accounts to strangers unless they explicitly turned on the feature. Most didn't. Meta waited that long because internal research showed it would decrease engagement.
By 2020, the growth team had determined that a private-by-default setting would result in a loss of 1.5 million monthly active teens a year on Instagram, which became the underlying reason for not protecting minors.
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If I filled your social media feed with endless posts specifically algorithmically chosen to make you spend more time on the app while simultaneously feeling worse about yourself, then exploited every weakness the algorithm could identify about you, I don't think you'd look at that and say it's "catastrophizing over videos, images, text on a screen that can’t compel action or credible harm" when you develop depression, or worse.
Meta’s Unsealed Internal Documents Prove Years of Deliberate Harm and Inaction to Protect Minors - Tech Oversight Project
Mark Zuckerberg has blood on his hands: he has known for over a decade that pedophiles and sex traffickers were targeting children on his platforms, and instead of fixing the problem, what he did was worse than nothing: he killed safety features, bur…techoversighteditor (Tech Oversight Project)
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Solutions for remote access?
I've been setting up a music server on my home server recently, looking to move away from private hosting options like iBroadcast, but I've hit a bit of a snag when it comes to actually accessing my server when away from home.
The two most common recommendations I've seen are Cloudflare and OpenVPN. My router supports OVPN access, so I gave that a try, but couldn't ever actually make it work. I don't know for sure, but I think it's probably something with my ISP that I can't really easily work around. As far as Cloudflare goes, setting up a tunnel requires you to have a domain set up with them even if you're just using Warp, and since I don't have one, that's not an option.
What other good options are there for remote access? I'm running Open Media Vault as my server. Thanks.
Edit: Based on responses, it looks like Tailscale is the way to go since it's all private to me. Thanks everyone!
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For new people, for ongoing domain registrations people should also consider the renewal costs. There are some registrars with somewhat predatory pricing schemes that end up being very expensive long term (e.g. the trendy .io TLD).
Dot com and dot net are some of the most stable ones, even though they might not appear as such at first glance. Almost anything less costly on initial costs will cost you in some other way (might not offer whois privacy (.us iirc) or be limited to residents or people with legit business on that country (.ca) or have a mixed reputation with being labeled spam (.xyz - although I believe this last one has been kind of proactive in clearing that up).
Sorry to highjack the comment, but I wish someone had warned me to look, not all TLDs are administered the same.
[Canada's] Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/56424420
A recent report, co-authored by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Arms Embargo Now and World Beyond War, identified hundreds of shipments of Canadian-made F-35 fighter jet components, other aircraft parts, and explosives and flammable materials to U.S. facilities that supply the Israeli military.
The report also highlighted 433 shipments of Polish-made TNT routed through the Port Saguenay, Quebec to U.S. army ammunition plants that make bombs used by Israel in Gaza.The report stated that “by deliberately exempting U.S.-bound arms from export regulation and allowing Canadian infrastructure to transport weapons, Canada is circumventing its obligations under international law.”
Archive: archive.is/GldMU
Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.Alex Cosh (The Maple)
Am i cooked? SAS or SATA
Very new to self hosting and truenas.
Got an old dell with 6x4tb of storage. Turns out they are all SAS drives and turns out hardware raid is the old thing now. Knowing none of this before what can I do with SAS drives connecting to my raid card (in photo) knowing that this is just a home NAS, SAS drives are more expensive and better to just go SATA.
What do you think?
Get a pcie to data, sell all the SAS drives and save up for 6x4tb of Seagate data drives?
What would you do with a dell server with old SAS drives if the end goal was a dependable home NAS for important home files?
I'm new to this so any input helps, thanks!
I would argue that even then it's not great - at least for homelabs.
Raid controlller died?
Now you have to get the same one again to get your raid up again. This would be a good moment to upgrade to something more modern usually.
Merz hails Germany's friendship with Israel on first visit
Merz in Israel: Working toward goal of 'new Middle East'
The German chancellor said "lasting peace is possible" in Gaza and that the possible establishment of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, offered the best prospect for future peace.Kieran Burke (Deutsche Welle)
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Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered
Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered
Alejandro Carranza was killed in a strike in the Caribbean on Sept. 15.Laura Romero (ABC News)
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"alleging"
Nah, he was murdered. No question about it. Same with every other person in the boat strikes.
Just because it's done with a drone or a bomb doesn't make it any different, even if they were involved in drugs or not.
If you had a guy walking around with a bunch of heroin somewhere in the states, and a cop just shoots him down with a sniper without any reasoning other than the guy had heroin, the cop would go to jail for murder.
Well, if the system weren't complete corrupt that is.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.”
That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.”
I immediately understood his October 28 email to be a threat, though it was not made explicit. The day before, I had sent the Pentagon press office a series of questions concerning Eric Geressy, a senior Pentagon adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Geressy, who served with Hegseth during a tour in Iraq in the mid-2000s, is part of the Pentagon effort to instill a “warrior ethos” within the US military. He now leads a team reviewing the role of women in the armed forces.
Calling Geressy “my toughest critic and my best mentor,” Hegseth in March presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for valor, for Geressy’s conduct following an ambush in Baghdad in 2007.
I had discovered that Geressy’s email address was linked to a public Goodreads page with a “currently reading” list that included various books featuring stories about “Asian wife sharing.” These pornographic works, with titles such as “Asian Wife Went With Her Dad’s Friend: A Cuckold Story,” appeared on the list alongside two books by Hegseth and a handful of military histories. They contain detailed descriptions of cuckolding, group sex, and scenes involving “ladyboys”—a term used to refer to Thai transgender women. The page, active since 2021, was taken down the day after I contacted the Pentagon and Geressy about it.
I also asked about a 1997 domestic violence allegation against Geressy, about his dating habits, and past relationships with foreign women. I inquired if the Pentagon had assessed those relationships as part of Geressy’s security clearance process, and, more broadly, if his personal life might create concerns about his susceptibility to foreign influence operations.
The Pentagon repeatedly asked for more time to address those questions. Eventually chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell responded, in part: “Geressy has served for 38 years in the government, has been vetted numerous times by the relevant agencies, and has never posed a security risk or engaged in improper behavior as this piece tries to suggest. Mother Jones has stooped to a new low with this shoddy hit piece and should be ashamed of itself.”
Posobiec’s email arrived the day after my initial inquiries. The false claims he asked about, particularly the Asian fetish thing, seemed to mirror my questions. Posobiec, who in 2016 promoted the bogus Pizzagate conspiracy theory, gave me a deadline, 5 p.m. on October 29, that was the same as the one I had given the Pentagon press office. A Pentagon spokesperson and Posobiec both denied coordination. Geressy declined to comment. But considering the questions, timing, and Posobiec’s links to Defense Department officials, the situation seemed clear. This was either an incredible coincidence or a deliberate message: Publish your article and get smeared.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.Mother Jones
Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess | Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.
Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess
Republicans in the House and Senate have failed to take health care policy for decades. Rates are set to rise in 2026 as a result, with ACA tax credits expiring.Dylan Scott (Vox)
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A collection of open-source hardware and software for building writerdecks/cyberdecks.www.typeframe.net
When Loyalties Shift: Americans’ Growing Noncooperation with Federal Abuses of Power
Americans’ Growing Noncooperation with Federal Abuses of Power
Americans' refusals to accept apparent abuses of power by the federal government indicate that the political winds may be starting to shift.Maria J. Stephan (Just Security)
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What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?
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I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.
Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy
Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary people rather than unaccountable politicians.
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Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
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Climate change impacts insurance in Iowa
Climate change impacts insurance in Iowa
Iowa scientists find rising premiums, departing insurers linked to severe weather eventsKWQC staff (KWQC)
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A Dozen Ways You (Yes, You) Can Help Fight Climate Change | High-impact nonprofits you’ve never heard of—plus more personal ways to pitch in.
A dozen ways you (yes, you) can help fight climate change
High-impact nonprofits you've never heard of—plus more personal ways to pitch in.Mother Jones
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Mark Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders | Canadian prime minister’s legacy as one-time UN envoy and clean power advocate undermined by energy shift
Detalhes de uma delação inflamável
Beto Louco, investigado em fraude dos combustíveis, quer relatar à PGR pagamentos pedidos a Alcolumbre para bancar show de Roberto Carlos – uma parte dos milhões que diz já ter desembolsado para o senadorO Amapá celebrou os últimos dias de 2024 com uma programação que incluiu shows de astros da música como João Gomes, Alceu Valença, Pablo do Arrocha, Alok e a maior estrela, Roberto Carlos. Em um texto de divulgação, o governo do Estado celebrou o próprio governador, Clécio Luís, do Solidariedade, e o senador Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP). Dizia: “O trabalho sério e com responsabilidade de divulgação do Amapá feito pelo governador Clécio, com apoio do senador Davi, vem chamando a atenção da iniciativa privada e garantindo investidores para os eventos”. Não há detalhes de como o parlamentar, que não tem nenhum cargo no governo do Amapá, participou dos preparativos.
Uma versão muito menos congratulatória está detalhada em uma proposta de colaboração premiada apresentada à Procuradoria-Geral da República. Os candidatos a delator são dois investigados em fraudes bilionárias no setor de combustíveis: o empresário Roberto Leme — conhecido como Beto Louco, controlador da Copape, fabricante de gasolina — e seu sócio Mohamad Hussein Mourad, o “Primo”. A dupla propõe revelar como abasteceu boa parte do panteão do Congresso Nacional com dezenas de milhões de reais em troca de influência, entre 2021 e 2025, com destaque para Davi Alcolumbre, presidente do Senado, e Antonio Rueda, presidente do União Brasil.
Projets Libres rejoint LinuxFr.org !
Annoncé en grandes pompes jeudi 11 décembre lors du temps fort associatif d’Open Source Experience, Projets Libres devient le podcast de LinuxFr.org. Depuis avril 2023, le podcast Projets Libres vous apporte un éclairage sur les projets, communautés et les individus qui composent l’écosystème libre et open source. Les épisodes sont régulièrement promus sur LinuxFr.
Tout en conservant son nom d’origine, il s’intègre désormais à la galaxie du site LinuxFr pour proposer, en plus des dépêches, journaux, liens… un format audio régulier consacré au logiciel libre, à ses actrices et acteurs et à ses projets. Ce rapprochement ne changera pas la ligne éditoriale du podcast, mais inscrit ce travail dans le temps long. À court terme, il inclut un nouveau logo et générique pour le podcast, et un lien d’accès au podcast depuis LinuxFr.org.
LinuxFr.org, de son côté, n’a plus vraiment besoin d’être présenté ici : le site communautaire francophone consacré au libre depuis 1998 regroupe dépêches, journaux, liens, forums, sondages, tribunes et autres contenus publiés par la communauté. L’arrivée d’un format audio s’inscrit donc comme une évolution naturelle pour enrichir encore les contenus mis en avant. Mais si vous voulez en savoir plus sur LinuxFr.org, sachez que nous avons eu droit à notre épisode dédié il y a deux ans et que nous vous invitons à l’écouter !
Pourquoi ce rapprochement ?
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Le podcast a connu une accélération en 2025, et le besoin d’avoir une entité légale s’est fait sentir. L’idée étant de récolter des fonds pour financer notre travail, mais aussi de préciser le but non lucratif et les motivations de l’équipe. Plutôt que de créer une n-ième association dont il allait falloir s’occuper, au détriment du temps passé à la réalisation de podcasts.
De plus, nous pressentons clairement que les deux communautés se recoupent et aiment découvrir des projets libres en écoutant des retours d’expérience, des interviews ou des discussions techniques… et LinuxFr.org dispose justement d’une communauté intéressée par ce type de contenus. Le rapprochement permettra :
- d’augmenter la visibilité des épisodes existants et futurs ;
- de favoriser des synergies entre la rédaction des dépêches et la production audio (interviews associées à une dépêche, compléments audio d’articles, discussions prolongées, etc.) ;
- de proposer un point d’entrée unique vers le contenu éditorial écrit et audio du site.
Pas d’inquiétude : le podcast garde sa ligne éditoriale, son nom et son style.
Concrètement, ça va se passer comment ?
Un nouveau générique et un nouveau logo vont très vite faire leur apparition, mais pour le reste, pas grand-chose ne change pour les personnes qui écoutent déjà Projets Libres :
- les épisodes restent disponibles sur le site historique du podcast ;
- le flux RSS existant continue de fonctionner dans vos lecteurs de podcast habituels ;
- les archives restent accessibles.
Côté LinuxFr.org,
- Un lien dans l’en-tête va apparaître aux côtés des Dépêches, Journaux, Liens, Forum, etc.
- Chaque nouvel épisode fera l’objet d’une dépêche un peu plus étoffée permettant de continuer la discussion
- La création d’une liste de diffusion dédiée
Le tout reste sous licence libre ou ouverte, dans la continuité de ce que pratiquaient déjà LinuxFr.org et le podcast.
Et pour la suite ?
Nous allons travailler à une intégration plus poussée, mais elle reste encore à imaginer. Et comme tout ce qui touche à LinuxFr.org, ce rapprochement se veut avant tout communautaire. Vous avez une idée de sujet ? Vous maintenez un projet libre et souhaitez en parler au micro ? Vous aimeriez participer à un enregistrement, proposer une chronique, ou simplement donner votre avis ?
N’hésitez pas à le signaler dans les commentaires, ou à contacter l’équipe du podcast.
Bonne écoute, et à bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! 🎙️
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computeralavi.me
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
Over the past four years, I've significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I've found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.I am not going to pretend that YouTube hasn't played its part in the global disinformation epidemic or that it has somehow escaped the claws of enshittification. What I will say is that unlike other social platforms, its feed (unlike those of its competitors) are maleable using browser-based plugins (tools such as subscription managers). It is one of my primary learning platforms; without its vast array of tutorials, there is no way that I, a non-programmer, would have learnt Linux as fast or become as comfortable in a FOSS-based computing environment, as I have since the pandemic.
But enshittification is, like death and taxes, a certainty now. Which brings us to the subject of this column: AI moderation on YouTube.
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too.Theena Kumaragurunathan (It's FOSS)
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SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years
After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess "birefringence," meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light.
That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel's location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space.
And because the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
: SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centersThomas Claburn (The Register)
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The View From Inside the AI Bubble
In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.The threat of technological superintelligence is the stuff of science fiction, yet it has become a topic of serious discussion in the past few years. Despite the lack of clear definition—even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called AGI a “weakly defined term”—the idea that powerful AI contains an inherent threat to humanity has gained acceptance among respected cultural critics.
Granted, generative AI is a powerful technology that has already had a massive impact on our work and culture. But superintelligence has become one of several questionable narratives promoted by the AI industry, along with the ideas that AI learns like a human, that it has “emergent” capabilities, that “reasoning models” are actually reasoning, and that the technology will eventually improve itself.
I traveled to NeurIPS, held at the waterfront fortress that is the San Diego Convention Center, partly to understand how seriously these narratives are taken within the AI industry. Do AGI aspirations guide research and product development? When I asked Tegmark about this, he told me that the major AI companies were sincerely trying to build AGI, but his reasoning was unconvincing. “I know their founders,” he said. “And they’ve said so publicly.”
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferencesAlex Reisner (The Atlantic)
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Oh Say, Can You See, We Have Never Been Free – George Tsakraklides
Oh Say, Can You See, We Have Never Been Free
How The Freest Slaves In The World Got Duped The best moment to rob someone of their freedom is when they have taken it all for granted; or better yet, when they have forgotten what freedom was in …George Tsakraklides
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in reply to skiguy0123 • • •I've had very occasional issues with it not uploading new photos in a timely manner in the past. I haven't had any issues in a long time, but I have gotten into the habit of explicitly opening the app, clicking "Uploads" and hitting refresh and making sure everything has been uploaded.
I'm not really sure what causes it, though if I had to guess Android is putting the app to sleep in the background so it may have something to do with power saving settings. I've switched to the F-Droid version of the app and manually disabled the appropriate power settings as a just-in-case, though that may have nothing to do with anything.
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in reply to hexagonwin • • •I do something similar using only
rsync. I've had nothing but headaches whenever I used automated file syncing programs. The bare bones aspect of just using rsync has made it a much more consistent experience.I found using automated file syncing programs have too much complexity under the hood that just seems to lead to more time troubleshooting issues.
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in reply to VeganBtw • • •There's a few things I backup from my phone.
I have an Android phone so I use Termux as a terminal emulator. I use ssh and passwordless keys to make transfers simpler and quicker.
Although this is closer to a backup process and not like SyncThing where it's syncing a folder between two devices. I don't believe rsync is capable of acting like SyncThing but I'm tempted to dig into rsync more and see if I can put something basic together one day.
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in reply to skiguy0123 • • •I have the same issue with Immich on android. It pretty much never uploads files until I manually open the app; then the app refuses to acknowledge it has uploaded those new files until it's closed and re-opened 🙁 (power saving is set to un-restricted in android, and background data usage is allowed. I've been through troubleshooting very thoroughly, it just doesn't work)
FolderSync has been the only reliable (non-root) backup solution I've used. It's set to monitor my image folders for changes and upload any new files as soon as they're created; this works ~85% of the time. Then, It's also set with a few schedules to check for changes every 3hrs, backing up everything on the phone the app can access; this catches anything the on-change/on-creation file detection misses, while also backing up more data than just my images. I have yet to see that fail after ~3 years.
FolderSync - Apps on Google Play
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in reply to Darkassassin07 • • •Can attest that Folder Sync is excellent. I use it all day (in the background) for two-way sync (notes) and backup of photos videos etc
Though a small PSA on setting up:
I once set up a new share on a new phone with two-way sync, and the app decided to sync the (newer) empty directory to the server (i.e. delete everything) instead of pulling the files from the server to the phone.
Easy fix: Restore notes from backup (step 0: have backups in the first place), then do an initial 1-way sync from server to phone, then change the sync job to two-way.
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in reply to skiguy0123 • • •I've been using Syncthing for years and it's been almost flawless with only rare file sync errors that are clearly shown in the UI. Was going to switch to Nextcloud for everything. Looks like I'll be sticking with Syncthing for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for posting this.
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in reply to brb • • •.stfolderand.stversionsand starting from scratch? I'm not doubting that you experience what you experience, I just never had it and I'm curious how you can even get to such a state. Using "syncthing fork" from F-Droid and Syncthing-v2.0.12 on desktop.brb
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in reply to Björn • • •Fork and maintain your own nextcloud client?
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in reply to skiguy0123 • • •Interesting, I've never had this problem and have been using the auto upload for many years. I only use it for the photo taking, though. Any time I go through a phone cleanup and delete photos and videos, I'll look at the folders I backup to on nc and actually go through them carefully to make sure everything was uploaded.
My install comes from f-droid so not sure if that's something to do with it (unless yours is too).
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in reply to skiguy0123 • • •I thought with this for years. It's unreliable and buggy on Android and iPhone. I caved and paid for some photo sync app and it's been super stable.
That or folder sync on Android. Then feed into immich or photosphere.
I spent many nights running diff and comparing sources and destinations and md5sums and so on
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in reply to yeehaw • • •Is that the proprietary FolderSync or is there a FOSS solution for syncing folders ?
I used FolderSync with OneDrive (in the past) a'd it worked ok, not shitting on it, I'm just looking for a FOSS equivalent with Nextcloud
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in reply to NightmareQueenJune • • •Thanks but the goal is to sync with the "cloud", for backup in case of fire or something.
I have hundreds (thousand ?) of albums I need to backup. I can reencode them cause 98% are on CD, but if I loose both my computers and my CDs, I'm done :/
I only use cloud backup for music and the few photos I take with my phone so I don't really need real-time syncing.
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