Starlink's Secret War: How Musk Is Powering a Covert Campaign Against Iran
Elon Musk Activates Starlink to Help Topple Iran’s Regime
After a Trump advisor called for regime change, Musk activated Starlink to aid a covert U.S. effort to undermine Iran’s government.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies
The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies
A new frontier for the BDS movementNate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
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Brazil's Victory for Digital Sovereignty
Brazil's Victory for Digital Sovereignty
Despite years of campaigning for impunity by the Bolsonaros and the American far right, a Supreme Court ruling has increased social media corporations' accountability for internet crimes.Brian Mier (De-Linking Brazil)
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Telesur is not going to get censored by Brazilian law lmao, if platforms did that it would be a reprisal for being made to follow Brazilian law.
There is no good argument for the US oligarchy to get final say over the govts of the countries using their services, but this is even crazier to say when US platforms are littered with mysteriously unmoderated Nazi content. Get real?
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I'm the one spinning fairy tales?? You're telling me that these companies aren't already blocking people in accordance with their own policies shaped by those very organizations? I just think there is a misunderstanding here, because Bolsonaro would never do anything like this but you're reframing it as a win for him.
I sure hope nobody thinks of Brazil as a magic kingdom where only good things happening. For the govt there to actually grow a backbone and limit the influence of the orgs that are encouraging their petit boug to be little pro-US Evangelical nightmare beings would ve fantastic. The dominance of US tech & media is very very bad and other countries need actual sovereignty (like enforcing their laws on multinational companies and not legalizing their activities - at a bare minimum, as relying on them at all is a result of being deliberately underdeveloped)
These companies are very entwined with US state power it's imperialism and the privatization of the state that is an issue not third world sovereignty itself
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No it's not! I hope you can see that uninhibited unlawful access by multinational media & telecom companies is exactly what leads to the establishment of comprador figures like Bolsonaro, who dislike Telesur's politics.
I'm actually glad you've raised this, as it helps me develop my thoughts on social libertarian left tech activism & its limitations. One of its dubious accomplishments is watering down the wrongs done by the US & allied governments with pop social science into generic anti-authoritarian rhetoric, and opposing actions by neo-colonized countries which limit foreign soft power + capital
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In 2014, after years of debate, Brazil's Congress ratified Law 12.965/2014, the Internet Civil Framework. This law required social media companies to delete posts and deplatform users who broke Brazilian laws. However, it placed the burden on Brazilian courts to identify the posts and accounts.
Is this meant to apply to all "users" of the platform or only Brazilian Citizens?
If it applies to Brazilian Citizens, that's all fine and good. But if I break brazilian law by criticizing their government, is lemmy.ml expected to "deplatform" and "censor" me?
I read the article. In-fact I started this thread asking for clarification to whom these laws apply. Then you went off on a tangent about Zuckerberg and implied i'm a "chud." So let me state how I think these laws apply, tell me if this is correct.
The Nation of Brazil passes a law that says the users of a website have to abide by Brazil's laws. I don't know what they meant by that, I assume lemmy.ml that is not hosted in Brazil isn't expected to know nor care about what Brazil's laws say. But if that were the case, then Facebook also wouldn't be expected to know nor care about what Brazil's laws say. The citizens of brazil that use facebook? Sure, they should be subject to those laws. But why should any other entity that exists outside of Brazil be obligated to know nor care about Brazilian law?
Those details seem pretty important, and the article doesn't address them at all, it merely says that Brazil's supreme court says that website are required to "deplatform" and "delete posts" of users who broke the law. But why should lemmy.ml abide by brazilian laws?
Lemmy.ml should abide by Brazilian laws because otherwise they'll get blocked in that country. I'm not much of a free speech fanatic. Ideally if people post a bunch of Nazi shit then Brazilian ISPs will be legally obliged to block it. The socdems in Brazil are rather lame so I have little faith in all of the "dark humor" Fb and Telegram groups getting nuked.
I'm not a lawyer, but, if you understand this isn't even a new law and it's just the end of impunity for US companies I don't see why you would frame this as an imminent threat to free speech. That's why I doubted you read.
Taiwan to simulate Chinese invasion in major drill
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Peoples and Regimes: Anti-Imperialism and the Islamic Republic of Iran
Peoples and Regimes: Anti-Imperialism and the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the Global South, state structures, particularly those tied to militarization and sovereignty, are vital to social reproduction, national dignity, and regional solidarity.Max Ajl
Spanish MEP wants ban on Israeli military companies accessing EU funds over Gaza
A Spanish member of the European Parliament said Wednesday he wants the European Commission to ban Israeli military companies from accessing EU funds, citing their potential use in the war in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.
Nacho Sanchez Amor, a socialist MEP and member of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, said the EU must avoid “double standards” in addressing human rights violations.
“The EU cannot fall under double standards when it comes to HumanRightsViolations & it cannot be accessory to Netanyahu genocidal actions,” Amor wrote on X, referencing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has pursued a war of genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza since late 2023.
ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propagandaFreedom of the Press
The Massive Economic Impact of Deportation in California
The Massive Economic Impact of Deportation in California • FrankNez
Explore the Deportation Economic Impact in California, where millions face economic loss and threats to key industries.Randros (FrankNez)
8BitDo announces its controllers now have Steam (SteamOS) compatibility
8BitDo announces its controllers now have Steam (SteamOS) compatibility
8BitDo says its controllers are now compatible with Steam/SteamOS. The announcement specifically mentions three models and advises users to update their controllers and Steam client to the latest version.Habeeb Onawole (Notebookcheck)
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If I remember correctly, Valve stated that for being "Steam certified" the controller needs to have capacitive joysticks to regulate the gyro, similar to the "Horipad" that they partnered to release.
I was hoping that 8bitdo would launch a controller that actually has this because it makes gyro much more viable, to the point that I really don't like using gyro without that.
But this announcement is just to indicate explicit compatibility for steam input (which has been available in the beta for a while, btw). I don't think this is a huge change since technically they were compatible before too.. even if it was through the xinput / dinput interface without being recognized as 8bitdo.
Meta’s $100M “Zuck Bucks” Bet Reignites AI Talent War
Meta’s $100M “Zuck Bucks” Bet Reignites AI Talent War
Mark Zuckerberg wants Artificial Superintelligence—and he’s not waiting in line. Over the past month, the Meta CEO has turned talent-hunting into a full-contact sport.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles
Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs
World War Fee: Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh'Dan Robinson (The Register)
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MPs vote to take forward 'brutal' cuts to disability benefits
MPs vote to take forward ‘brutal’ cuts to disability benefits: ‘It will come to haunt this government’
MPs from all parties slammed the cuts to disability benefits, which will push an estimated 150,000 people into poverty, in a five-hour debate.Isabella McRae (Big Issue)
[Question] Fedora KDE defaults to console mode if I don't turn on the display during boot-up
startx isn't hard, but I would like not to. Tnx!
They could have named our galaxy anything and this is what we got
Milfy Way, or Milfky Way.
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(Aka The way of the milf.)
It's such a shitty joke (my brainhole entertains itself in the stupidest, nonsensical, basic ways).
UK and Germany prepare to sign wide-ranging mutual defense treaty
UK and Germany prepare to sign wide-ranging mutual defense treaty
Under the pact, any strategic threat to one country would represent a threat to the other.Esther Webber (POLITICO)
Scientists identify a speech pattern that is a clear indication of a person in cognitive decline
This speech pattern is an indicator of a brain in cognitive decline - Earth.com
Word-finding difficulty (WFD) - frustrating “tip-of-the-tongue” moments when meaning is clear but the word or sound won’t surface.Eric Ralls (Earth.com)
Russia ramps up offensives on 2 fronts in Ukraine as both sides seek an advantage
Russia ramps up offensives on 2 fronts in Ukraine as both sides seek an advantage
An emboldened Russia has ramped up military offensives on two fronts in UkraineSAMYA KULLAB Associated Press (ABC News)
Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere - First map of motion of material on a star other than the Sun
Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere - First map of motion of material on a star other than the Sun
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares.www.eso.org
I hope all of you tankie roaches meet the same fate as Donbas cowboy, Russell Bentley.
Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.
Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.
Imagine what was going through Bentley's mind as his fellow Russians were torturing him to death.
You are all vile and disgusting scum. Let's hope one day you get to experience Bentley's last moments.
Better late then never, right?
I hope Dessalines in particular gets a taste of russian culture by getting closely acquainted with some champagne bottles (russian style).
Russian Soldiers Charged With Involvement In American's Death
Russell Bentley, a Texas man who as the "Donbas Cowboy" gained notoriety for joining Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, was tortured before being killed in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Russian authorities said.Current Time (RFE/RL)
US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears stockpiles are too low
The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.
At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.
After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.
But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.
US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears its stockpiles are too low
Some shipments have been stopped ‘to put America’s interests first’, White House saysDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
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Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids.
Masked immigration enforcers have swept through American cities in the months since President Donald Trump took office, using flash bangs during restaurant sweeps, slamming people’s heads into the ground, violently arresting gardeners on video, and provoking mass protests against their raids. This may only be the beginning.
The massive Senate budget bill, which passed on Tuesday and awaits a final House vote, gives Donald Trump’s administration the money to rapidly ramp up mass deportation to unprecedented levels, according to immigration experts.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have a budget for more officers than the FBI. The nation’s immigration detention centers will have more funding than the federal Bureau of Prisons.
There may be only one limit on how fast the Trump administration can spend: how quickly it can hire.
Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids.
The budget gives $175 billion to immigration enforcement. “The orders of magnitude are going to be multiplied,” immigration experts say.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
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California fireworks warehouse catches fire and explodes
California fireworks warehouse catches fire and explodes
A warehouse storing fireworks in California caught fire and exploded Tuesday, sending a fireball into the air, launching debris and causing pyrotechnics to detonate above the site, according to officials and video from the scenePhil Helsel (NBC News)
French police arrest ‘incel’ suspected of planning knife attack on women
An 18-year-old French man who claimed affiliation with the misogynist “incel” movement has been arrested and placed under formal investigation on suspicion of planning attacks targeting women, France’s national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT) has said.
The arrest on Wednesday was part of PNAT’s first case linked to the “incel” (involuntary celibate) movement, an online network of men motivated to engage in violence against women whom they believe unjustly reject their sexual or romantic advances.
PNAT confirmed on Tuesday that it had opened a judicial investigation “against a young man, aged 18, claiming to be a member of the incel movement”, adding that he was being investigated for allegedly “associating with terrorist criminals to prepare one or more crimes against people”.
French police charge ‘incel’ suspected of planning knife attack on women
Detention of 18-year-old man part of anti-terror police force’s first case linked to involuntary celibate movementGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
OBS does not allow me to create a new pipewire screen (only one works)
How come when I try to create a new obs screen, it is black, whether or not i toggle off the visibility on Screen Capture
and how do i get it to show the capture settings, like which monitor, or what portion of the screen, to be clear, the! first capture works, for some reason no other capture i try to create is letting me configure or display anything
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There is a chance this might be related to another issue I had, but I dont know a fix (I have to manually add what portals I want to install due to a bug, but I have the plasma portals so that should be enough?)
debug: Found portal inhibitordebug: Attempted path: /app/bin/../share/obs/obs- - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.Pastebin
There's a multitude of things going on here probably, but you need some debug logs to find. My guess is because your machine probably has multiple GPUs enabled, it's picking the inactive one, or you have multiple portal methods install and it's choosing the wrong.
Can you get some logs?
I have the hyprland portals installed, and the kde ones, due to some issue I had to explicitly install them so idk if that will mess with the way applications handle it, assuming not, and yes I have two gpus, one dgpu, and one igpu, the dgpu is directly connected to my hdmi, does OBS stuggle with 2 gpus? still, that sounds like it would be a issue with capturing the monitor managed by my igpu. Not a reason to stop a second pipewire capture.
What logs do you need? I provided some from running OBS but i assume it isnt enough, what logs should I collect, or is there a flag i need to run with OBS
Missed your logs link, but there's some hints in there.
You have both an Intel GPU and Nvidia GPU in that laptop, and it's selecting your Intel while trying to use Nvidia compatible settings. So you need to try and force everything to either work on Nvidia, or everything to work on Intel. It can't do both without splitting the settings per GPU, which I don't think is an option in OBS.
I tried nvidia-offload, as I set up PRIME awhile ago, it didnt help, here is the logs, if its useful:
pastebin.com/CiJ4Zyjw
Idk if OBS would actually respect the GPU being handed to it, or if it'll do something weird with screen capture, its weird per-gpu settings is not a option with OBS, if this is a OBS bug, i can file a bug report. Hopefully it can be resolved here.
[spiderunderurbed@daspidercave:~/tmp2]$ nvidia-offload flatpak run com.obsproj - Pastebin.com
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Well in that log, it actually DOES use the right GPU. There are some other errors you have going on in there though, like you seem to have AV1 encoding selected somewhere in your settings, but this RTX 3070 doesn't support AV1 encoding (on the fly) AFAIK.
Try launching the app this same, setting all your hardware encoding stuff back to defaults, then see if you can get it working. In these logs it IS picking up the second pipewire display, so that's good, but launch this way again without AV1 enabled then upload the logs again and let's see what's happening.
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.Federica Marsi (Al Jazeera)
Boycotts do not work. Israel needs a constant kick in the balls.
Problem is, Israel’s balls are nested safely inside the mouth of every sitting US President. 😂
All Programming Languages are Fast
All Programming Languages are Fast
Well, at least the serious ones. In recent years, software got much slower, basically killing all advances in hardware performance. Finally, software performance got to the front of debate.OrgPad
Sadly, I get an error trying to subscribe to that from mastodon.scot. The URL I get directed to is
"mastodon.scot/activitypub/exte…"
which mastodon.scot barfs on.
Macron urges Putin to agree ceasefire with Ukraine, in first talks since 2022
Macron urges Putin to agree ceasefire with Ukraine, in first talks since 2022
French and Russian leaders agree the crisis around Iran’s nuclear program must be solved by diplomatic means alone.Elena Giordano (POLITICO)
Fennec with Google as a standard search engine
However, after the last Fennec update (140.0.0), I was surprised to have Google as a standard search engine.
What do you think of this? Someone with this same experience?
From steel mills to solar panels: China is quietly supplanting Russia as Cuba’s main benefactor
From steel mills to solar panels: China is quietly supplanting Russia as Cuba’s main benefactor
China is financing 55 new solar electricity projects across Cuba in 2025 Chinese ships arrive at Mariel port carrying solar panels, parts and fuel Meanwhile Russia’s...Malay Mail
UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”
The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government. Proscription would trigger a range of criminal offences relating to support for the group.
UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”
The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government. Proscription would trigger a range of criminal offences relating to support for the group.
Please for gods sake dont use CasaOS
- It is a For-profit without any means of Generating income (unlike Truenas or Suse which have a paid enterprise version)
- Since there is no way of making money, it is apparent they will pull a Plex and Enshittify once they have the noobs on board
- At least it uses docker, so you can export the images, but who knows when this will change
- It uses discord as forum. They cant even get themselves to use their own OS to install a matrix server on there.
- They are not even Private. Their FAQ literally says „They will try to limit data collection“
You want to use some shitty OS by some shitty company? Go sign your soul to Windows Server you lobotomite
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in reply to davel • • •The article lists the following apps associated with Israeli developers or companies:
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Does Google support Israel? What you should know
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in reply to CatsGoMOW • • •Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
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in reply to davel • • •I'm pretty sure I've been using the Simple Gallery app they mention for years.
It looks like it is still open source.
However I do see on the Play Store page that their contact details are in Israel.
The Pro version, the one I use, claims to collect no data at all. Not sure how much I trust that.
Maybe it's time to look for a new gallery app...
EDIT:
The open source code has not been updated since 2023, and neither has the Pro app. However the non-pro app has been updated in 2024.
Therefore, it might be safe to use the open source code version on GitHub, but I wouldn't touch the free one on the play store.
I wouldn't use the Pro version on the play store as you would be funding these companies and they could push an update in the future.
EDIT 2:
As mentioned here, a popular fork of many of these now abandoned Simple apps is the Fossify project. If you liked the app I'd recommend looking at that if you want to keep getting security updates at the very least.
GitHub - SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery: A premium app for managing and editing your photos, videos, GIFs without ads
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in reply to davel • • •What do you guys think about AnySoftKeyboard? Could it be a "sleeping agent"?
Country of origin is Israel according to: alternativeto.net/software/any…
(I know this doesn't mean anything, but still..)
The main developer seems to live in New York: evendanan.net/
He's probably a good guy. Just got a little suspicious (or curious) when I saw the Israeli flag on AlternativeTo.
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