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Iran declares U.S. citizens, personnel 'legitimate targets' after strike on nuclear sites


Archive article: archive.ph/shFsv
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Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32092416

[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]

Other articles:
* ‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

  • Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
  • With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
  • Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
  • Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong



Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans


[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]

Other articles:
* ‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

  • Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
  • With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
  • Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
  • Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong




Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32092416

[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]

Other articles:
* ‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

  • Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
  • With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
  • Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
  • Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong



Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans


[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]

Other articles:
* ‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

  • Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
  • With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
  • Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
  • Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong




Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans


[from 972 Magazine newsletter - published in Israel]

Other articles:
* ‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

  • Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire
  • With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank
  • Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect
  • Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong
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Lt Col Daniel Davis: Trump's Act of War on Iran


#USA


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I know you just copied the headline of the article, but that headline is doing some serious heavy lifting in terms of saying the US has no control over its actions.

"Oh no, we bumbled our way into a war again! Couldn't be helped, not our faults. Whatever are we to do?"

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

thrust US into escalating Middle East conflict


Will someone please tell CNN that USA has been violently attacking the middle east for like a century?

JFC it's like they just woke up yesterday.

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Plasma 6: display brightness changes on its own


Hi, please kindly direct me to the right community to ask this:

Plasma 6 is my favorite DE and i use KDE neon.
The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea. But it does that the wrong way IMO. Dark windows are dimmed and bright windows are lit up. Why? Now i have both extremes switching back and forth all the time. Can we turn that the other way around or turn it off please?

I like that the screens hardware brightness setting is used now from the desktop. Great! But now i have no control over it anymore, since when i open a bright window, the brightness setting goes up too. I hate that at night.

Usually adjusting the brightness for me has one purpose:
- bright room: max display brightness (day)
- dark room: min display brightness (night)

...maybe something in between for transition.
All the other features are nice to have but please only work on them when this main feature is secured.

in reply to klay1

That's probably the new Extended Dynamic Range setting from Plasma 6.4. You can find it in the display settings. It is meant to adjust the display's brightness to emulate an HDR display.
in reply to Björn Tantau

I don't want to be "that" guy, but enabling features added with an update by default is just not the best user experience (if that's the case).
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in reply to klay1

The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea.


That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.





"ChatBot" is bad design




“ChatBot” is bad design


As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain degree. Let me explain.

To me design is the process of exploring, potentially formalizing a problem space and possible solutions for that problem culminating in a solution based on that exploration. Design (to me) is about creating artefacts that do certain specific things for specific target audiences/users. The specific thing can be evoking an emotion or an abstract thought process or just doing a certain task really well. Beauty is a quality of good design because things being pleasant can help with their use, acceptance, but anyone who has ever had to sit on a chair designed mostly to look good knows that beauty only gets you so far.

So using that understanding of design I keep thinking about the current trend of everything being turned into chatbots or “conversational systems”. And I can’t shake the feeling that these paradigms are – for most cases – just bad design.

Broken promises


A chat/conversational interface implies a whole lot of things: We chat with other people, a chat implies a level of social experience, of a shared space for people to meet. Which is great if you want to tell your users “this part of the app is where you talk to people”. But what happens when that “promise” the design made is broken?

We’ve all been forced to interact with chatbots for support. There’s an issue with your phone contract, the underpants they sent you don’t fit or some other thing and you need to talk to someone to sort things out. Enter the chatbot who keeps answering your questions with useless links or other strategies to keep you away from the “expensive” humans to talk to. The company wants to save on support so they try to distract you with a bot which either accidentally helps you find a solution or makes you think “it’s not worth it, I’ll just have to live with my crotch being strangled”. It’s a distraction to avoid investing in you and the relationship. How does that make you feel?

This is not just a support question: Onlyfans recently had issues where people realized that they were not actually chatting to the adult performers they paid for but someone or something else. Now the other side of the chat might have been underpaid staff but the dynamic is the same: Chat interfaces make a promise of social experience and trust that LLM Chatbot can never fulfill. It’s a deception. And good design should not deceive.

Guideless


A good interface guides you to solving the problem you have, good design makes it easy for you to do what the thing is supposed to do. Think of a program you really like to use: It probably shows you the steps you need to take in a structured way asks you the few things it needs from you and then does the thing you want it to do. Because that is what good design does.

What does a chatbot guide you to do? Maybe it asks you a question but for many chatbots it’s just “how can I help you?” or “Ask me anything”. Does that help you use it? Does that structure your path towards solving your problem? The huge number of people whose whole identity has become telling others how to write prompts begs to differ.

I have already argued before that “AI” systems are not tools. Because they don’t contain clear and specific descriptions of problems and corresponding strategies for solving said problem. But let’s pretend that we have a system that can solve a certain problem really well and efficiently: Is a chatbot a better interface than a structured form or UI that let’s you just go through the required steps and then get the result? Chatbots don’t narrow down the path towards a solution, they leave everything open. Which might be great for engagement and keeping people hooked but is that an efficient use of your time?

Outsourcing of work


Let’s talk about your time a bit. I am very protective of mine, I hate it when objects or processes mindlessly waste mine. I do of course waste my time on weird shit, thankyouverymuch, but I want to make that call.

A bad design that forces me to waste time or do a lot of unnecessary busywork is bad because it didn’t do its job: It didn’t make the process easier and more structured for me, it leaves me to do that labor. And I have a similar feeling towards this as I have towards self-checkout terminals at stores: Why do I have to do unpaid work for you and still pay the same? Why should I make it easier for you to employ fewer people getting a worse service while paying the same? That feels dumb. And wrong.

Chatbots don’t make my work easier. Instead of getting a predictable, understandable result based on my needs in a specific situation I get extra work assigned: I need to phrase my query the right way in order to get the machine to lie maybe a bit less. Need to add magic words to the input to stop it from going off the rails. That is my labor I have to put in to make a bad design work. Feels like I am not just doing my job but also the work the operator of the service or product I am having to use through chat should have paid professionals to do. And I’m not getting paid for it.

Like, why should companies get away with refusing to do the work of designing their products in a meaningful way and still get paid?

I want solutions


I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need.

I want people who know their shit to externalize all they know into tools I can use to benefit off of all that embodied knowledge. And chatbots do not help me with that at all (regardless of the capabilities or lack thereof of LLMs).

I want simple tools that do specific things build by people who were paid fairly and go home on time.





Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong


Customers dismayed by Broadcom's move to selling costly bundles such as VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) will realize its value if they'd just use more of the components, the company's CTO says.

VMware, now a Broadcom subsidiary, is shifting away from selling perpetual licenses for individual products. It instead offers subscription bundles of software and support, such as its flagship VCF private cloud platform – version 9 of which was released this week.

The largest enterprise users seem content with this. Broadcom chief Hock Tan told investors this month that 87 percent of VMware's top 10,000 customers have signed up for VCF.

However some smaller and middle sized customers reacted negatively to the licensing changes, claiming their costs have increased by eight to 15 times since the Broadcom acquisition, and there are many stories of firms planning to migrate their workloads from VMware to an alternative platform in future because of this.

"A lot of those stories around cost don't play out when we actually get to sit down with the customer and talk to them about their situation, what they need, and what we're going to do with them," said Broadcom's EMEA chief technology officer, Joe Baguley.

"Initially people might go 'all the prices have gone up,' but those 87 percent of people that have renewed with us have renewed because they've chosen VCF as their strategy going forward," he claimed.

#tech
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I installed Openmediavault on a computer recently, what should I do next?


I picked up an old optiplex I'm trying to use as a NAS and do other things with. Initially I put Debian on there but felt like I was running into too many problems with things like power management, remot desktop, Docker, and mounting drives.

So I put Openmediavault on there and it's working now. But what are some of the best ways to get the most out of it?

Can I do most things through the browser interface, or should I remote into it to install things?

How easily can I mount it as a network drive to other computers? I still have a Windows PC so I'd like to access it from there too if possible.

And what's the best way to get other services running on it? I'm thinking of how it's possible to set up torrenting software and control it with a remote app from your phone. (For managing and sharing my distros, of course).

Happy to hear any feedback on what people do with OMV, or their setups for a NAS in general. This is more of a tinkering computer to get me more familiar with networks and Linux.

in reply to tombruzzo [none/use name]

You should be able to do everything through the web interface.

You can make network shares by creating shared folders under Storage->Shared Folders then configure your Windows shares through Services->SMB/CIFS

Install the openmediavault-compose plugin to manage your docker containers.

I would also suggest installing the openmediavault-wireguard plugin for secure remote access to your services from outside your network.

in reply to SanguineBrah

Thank you, this is really handy. Compose should help with Docker for me and this gives me some direction with plugins.


Col. Jacques Baud: America Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Facilities




DNS Black-holing w/ DNS over TLS - Personal Privacy Part 1


So DNS Black-holing is not new obviously, and what stands out as the go to solution? Pihole probably... and yeah thats what im using because hey its a popular choice. Though I am running it in docker. Combining that with Unbound (also in docker), and configuring outbound DNS to use DNS over TLS, with a few additional minor tweaks, but otherwise mostly standard configuration on both.

Wondering what you guys might be using, and if you are using Pihole and/or Unbound if you have any tips on configuration.

Happy to share my config if there is interest.

in reply to relic4322

If you don't mind DM'ing me or dropping it in a comment here it would be greatly appreciated! The docker engine isn't something entirely new to me so i'm a bit skeptical into thinking that i missed something but always happy to compare with others, actually Docker is what pushed me to switch fully to Linux on my personal computers.

Snippet from my docker-compose.yml:

  pihole:
    container_name: pihole
    hostname: pihole
    image: pihole/pihole:latest
    networks:
      main:
        ipv4_address: 172.18.0.25
    # For DHCP it is recommended to remove these ports and instead add: network_mode: "host"
    ports:
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      - "127.0.0.1:67:67/udp" # Only required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server
      - "127.0.0.1:85:80/tcp"
      - "127.0.0.1:7643:443"
    environment:
      TZ: 'America/Vancouver'
      FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'insert-password-here'
      FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
    # Volumes store your data between container upgrades
    volumes:
      - './config/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
      - './config/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
      - '/etc/hosts:/etc/hosts:ro'
  #   https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
      - CAP_SYS_TIME
      - CAP_SYS_NICE
      - CAP_CHOWN
      - CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
      - CAP_NET_RAW
      - CAP_NET_ADMIN
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.pihole.rule=Host(`pihole.my.domain`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.pihole.entrypoints=https"
      - "traefik.http.routers.pihole.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.services.pihole.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
      - "traefik.http.routers.pihole.middlewares=fail2ban@file"
 unbound:
   image: alpinelinux/unbound
   container_name: unbound
   hostname: unbound
    networks:
      main:
        ipv4_address: 172.18.0.26
   ports:
     - "127.0.0.1:5334:5335"
   volumes:
     - ./config/unbound/:/var/lib/unbound/
     - ./config/unbound/unbound.conf:/etc/unbound/unbound.conf
     - ./config/unbound/unbound.conf.d/:/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/
     - ./config/unbound/log/unbound.log:/var/log/unbound/unbound.log
   restart: unless-stopped

Edit: After re-reading the Unbound github and their documentation it seems i may have missed some volume mounts that are key to the function of Unbound, i'll definitely have to dive deeper into it.
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in reply to ohshit604

sure thing, here you are
services:
  pihole:
    container_name: pihole
    image: pihole/pihole:latest
    ports:
      # DNS Ports
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      # Default HTTP Port
      - "8082:80/tcp"
      # Default HTTPs Port. FTL will generate a self-signed certificate
      - "8443:443/tcp"
      # Uncomment the below if using Pi-hole as your DHCP Server
      #- "67:67/udp"
      # Uncomment the line below if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP server
      #- "123:123/udp"
    environment:
      # Set the appropriate timezone for your location from
      # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones, e.g:
      TZ: 'America/New_York'
      # Set a password to access the web interface. Not setting one will result in a random password being assigned
      FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'false cat call cup'
      # If using Docker's default `bridge` network setting the dns listening mode should be set to 'all'
      FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all'
      FTLCONF_dns_upstreams: '127.0.0.1#5335' # Unbound
    # Volumes store your data between container upgrades
    volumes:
      # For persisting Pi-hole's databases and common configuration file
      - './etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
      # Uncomment the below if you have custom dnsmasq config files that you want to persist. Not needed for most starting fresh with Pi-hole v6. If you're upgrading from v5 you and have used this directory before, you should keep it enabled for the first v6 container start to allow for a complete migration. It can be removed afterwards. Needs environment variable FTLCONF_misc_etc_dnsmasq_d: 'true'
      #- './etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
    cap_add:
      # See https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities
      # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
      - NET_ADMIN
      # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP client to be able to set the host's system time
      - SYS_TIME
      # Optional, if Pi-hole should get some more processing time
      - SYS_NICE
    restart: unless-stopped
  unbound:
    container_name: unbound
    image: mvance/unbound:latest # Change to use 'mvance/unbound-rpi:latest' on raspberry pi
    # use pihole network stack
    network_mode: service:pihole
    volumes:
      # main config
      - ./unbound-config/unbound.conf:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:ro
      # custom config (unbound.conf.d/your-config.conf). unbound.conf includes these via wilcard include
      - ./unbound-config/unbound.conf.d:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d:ro
      # log file
      - /srv/docker/pihole-unbound/unbound/etc-unbound/unbound.log:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.log
    restart: unless-stopped

I am relatively new to docker as well tbh. I did a lot with virtualization and a lot with linux and never bothered, but I totally get the use case now ha. just an FYI, if you use docker on Windows it runs slower as it has to leverage the Windows subsystem Linux (WSL) and a slightly different docker engine (forget which one). So linux is your best bet. If you do want to use a full VM I found Qemu to be the best option for least resource usage.





US/Israel/Russia right now...


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Three-panel meme showing a man in military fatigues speaking in a forest setting. In the first panel, he says “The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it…” In the second panel, he continues “…and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine.” In the third panel, he concludes “It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than it is behind a single incident.”
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in reply to geneva_convenience

This gives "the fuckin loser on the playground that thinks he's hot shit, goes to start a fight and then screams no fighting no fighting!! before the person can hit back."
in reply to geneva_convenience

I had a game of Civ where Poland declared war on me. They were on the other side of the map.

I didn't see them for 8 turns. Turn 9 I see a horde arrive on my border. Turn 10 - at the earliest opportunity they were able - they asked for peace.

I managed to sink 2 boats.




Tom Hiddleston Ritorna come Loki in Avengers: Doomsday? Ecco cosa sappiamo!


Fan dell’universo Marvel, preparatevi! Le voci sul ritorno di uno dei personaggi più amati (e odiati) sono sempre più insistenti. Stiamo parlando di Loki, l’affascinante fratello di Thor interpretato magistralmente da Tom Hiddleston. Ma cosa dobbiamo aspettarci dal suo ritorno in Avengers: Doomsday?

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Is the LFCS worth getting?


Hey so I'm currently homeless at the moment looking for an entry level IT job. I have just enough money to purchase the RHCSA voucher ($700 CAD) but I wouldn't be able to eat lol.

The LFCS currently has a 30% discount and it was already cheaper than the RHCSA so I'm very inclined to purchase this but I'd only be doing so with the expectation that I'm able to atleast start landing interviews for help desk/tech support.

What would you guys do in my shoes? 0 interest in networking and I already daily drive Linux so I'm confident in my abilities to pass the LFCS.

in reply to kl0udbug [none/use name]

Not really, if the employer does not require it when applying for a job
in reply to anon5621

Yeah. For a small shop, it won't help. Just show up and be willing to work and learn. Save that money.
in reply to kl0udbug [none/use name]

Only reason I got it, was because it was cheaper than the Red Hat one and my employer just needed me to get a Linux certificate. So the cheapest was what I got.


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Netanyahu congratulates Trump, says US 'unsurpassed' after 'bold' attack on Iran that will 'change history'


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on Sunday, June 22, after the president said the US military bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. "Congratulations President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history," Netanyahu said in a video message, adding that the attacks demonstrated "America has been truly unsurpassed."

Netanyahu added that Trump had created a "pivot of history" that will "help lead the Middle East and beyond to a future of prosperity and peace." He shared in a separate statement that the US attacks had been carried out in coordination with Israel and said the promise of destroying Iran's nuclear program was fulfilled.

in reply to IndustryStandard

Suck an uncircumcised dick Bibi
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Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in Texas classrooms


Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation's largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.

A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court.



U.S. strikes 3 nuclear sites in Iran, in major regional conflict escalation


Trump initially sought to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran — one to replace the Obama-era agreement that he abandoned, despite Iran's apparent compliance, in 2018.


I feel like this doesnt get enough attention.

Dude threw away a winning hand and is now at the table naked.



AOC says Trump's Iran strikes "clearly grounds for impeachment"


Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, ripped President Donald Trump for his military attack against Iran on Saturday, saying the move is "absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."

Democrats are splintered on Trump's move to strike the Middle Eastern country amid days of back-and-forth strikes between Israel and Iran as tensions catapulted amid nuclear concerns.

Newsweek previously reached out to the White House via email for comment on the strikes.



ruka wants to know if you'll rub her belly


my parent's old dog ruka. she lost her eye as a very young puppy before we ever met her, but she gets on fine without it.

she can catch balls out of the air no problem, but cant find them 3 inches from her face once they hit the ground. never quite understood that. she's old and tired now, with achy joints and bad hearing. she didn't want to spend much time outside today with all this heat. i make sure to give her all the belly rubs she can handle every time I see her.

#dogs


"If one side is bad the other must be good, right? right? right..."


Alt Text:

REFUGEES FROM "COMMUNIST" COUNTRIES SUPPORTING FASCIST POLITICIANS IN THE WEST IN ORDER TO "STOP COMMUNISM"
looking out of a car window at

WESTERNERS SUPPORTING THE "COMMUNIST" COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO "STOP WESTERN IMPERIALISM'
Who are looking back at the other car

Under you have a skeleton submerged deep into water called “Anarchists”

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[solved] Is there a way to actually download a song from spotify (not just spotdl method of finding it on youtube)?


I have a specific song that doesn't seem to be on youtube. I've tried a bunch of spotify download websites plus spotdl, they all claim to find it but then the song isn't the same song (or is instrumental when it should have words).

One of my kids has asked for this for their MP3 player. I'm even happy to pay for it properly, I just can't find it anywhere except spotify. The song is this specific version of Power in Me by The Young Voices Choir: open.spotify.com/track/4xkRsdm…

Any ideas?

Edit: I managed to get the song using spotidown.app, thanks for all the suggestions!

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in reply to stabryen

There’s a ViolentMonkey script that uses Lucidia and provides you a download button next to songs in the Spotify web players.