Ukraine says it uncovers major drone procurement corruption scheme | CNN
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said on Saturday they had uncovered a major graft scheme that procured military drones and signal jamming systems at inflated prices, two days after the agencies’ independence was restored following major protests.
The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a move to take it away resulted in the country’s biggest demonstrations since Russia’s invasion in 2022.
In a statement published by both agencies on social media, NABU and SAPO said they had caught a sitting lawmaker, two local officials and an unspecified number of national guard personnel taking bribes. None of them were identified in the statement.
“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with supplier companies at deliberately inflated prices,” it said, adding that the offenders had received kickbacks of up to 30% of a contract’s cost. Four people had been arrested.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/02/europe/ukraine-corruption-drone-scheme-latam-intl
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Hamas vows not to lay down arms after Witkoff reportedly says it’s ready to demilitarize
Hamas on Saturday said it would not disarm “as long as the occupation exists,” denying reported remarks to the contrary by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and blasting him for visiting an aid site run by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In a statement, Hamas vowed to continue its violent struggle, saying its right to do so was guaranteed by international law until Palestinians’ “national rights” were realized, “foremost among them… the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital.”
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There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
Do upvotes even matter? They are just indicators of good/bad but that doesn't prove anything. It's up to the perceiver to declare.
Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization
Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanizationNature
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables "predictive policing."Marcel Fürstenau (Deutsche Welle)
Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Germans murdered my family in the Nazi genocide. Now Germany is targeting me for protesting Israel’s Holocaust
This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.Rachael Shapiro (Mondoweiss)
BBC: Israeli forces in Gaza shot at least 100 Palestinian children in head or chest
A BBC investigation into Israeli forces' attacks on Palestinian children has revealed shocking details on the targeting of minors in Gaza.
Of the 168 cases the BBC compiled of Palestinian children shot in Gaza, 95 were shot either in the head or chest.
Out of the 95 cases, over two-thirds were under the age of 12.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-shot-least-100-gaza-children-head-or-chest
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GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and morewww.phoronix.com
I've had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).
I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure.
The only issue I've had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use.
It didn't use it and recommended a different library.
When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely).
That caught me off-guard. I shouldn't have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something.
I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.
Israeli luxury hotel project partnering with Leonardo DiCaprio gains approval
A luxury hotel project spearheaded by Israeli real-estate firm Hagag Group, in partnership with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, received final construction approval for the Herzliya Marina on Sunday.
Led by Hagag Marina Herzliya Ltd., a subsidiary of the Hagag Group, the project will feature approximately 365 hotel rooms across two buildings, with a central swimming pool.
The complex will also include a conference center, luxury restaurant and commercial spaces, designed by the architectural firm Ranni Ziss Architects. A standout feature is a yacht marina with direct access to the hotel.
Israeli luxury hotel project partnering with Leonardo DiCaprio gains approval
Project led by the Hagag Group and Hollywood star secures final approval in Herzliya, expanding to 51,000 square meters with 365 rooms, a marina and eco-friendly designHila Tsion (ynetnews)
Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Cornish pensioner arrested at Truro cathedral falls foul of government’s labelling of direct action group as a terrorist organisationJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Observer)
As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.
Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it's an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.
Podolyaka: Trump struck the stock exchanges with nuclear submarines — and nothing more
Podolyaka: Trump struck the stock exchanges with nuclear submarines — and nothing more: EADaily
EADaily, August 2nd, 2025. The statement by US President Donald Trump about the redeployment of two nuclear submarines, which is now being replicated by the world's media, is a provocation by a stock swindler who uses his position for personal enrich…EADaily
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Turkey has launched the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, – TRT Haber
Turkey has launched the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, - TRT Haber
The gas connection from Kilis to Aleppo was completed in May. Up to 6 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to Syria through Turkey every day.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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not often talked about is the illegal Turkish occupation and effective annexation of Northern Syria.. This is basically Turkey and other comprador states seizing the $$$ opportunity in the midst of sanctions against Russia and Iran from the West while also muzzling Syria and putting it on an economic leash, so to speak.
more details on this in particular that I found insightful: turkey.news-pravda.com/en/worl…
what's funny/sad is that Syria's effectively a comprador state, the West finally got what they wanted and despite this, sanctions haven't vanished. So they rely on scraps like these.
Azerbaijan's New Geopolitical Weapon? Launching Gas Exports to Syria
On August 2, 2025, a solemn ceremony was held in the Turkish city of Kilis to mark the beginning of the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria through the territory of Turkey. At the first stage of the project, it is planned to...Pravda Turkey
After Ukraine, is this country the West’s next project?
After Ukraine, is this country the West’s next project?
Moldova – one of the most volatile countries in the post-Soviet space – now risks becoming Europe’s next front lineRT
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‘No defense against’ Russia’s Oreshnik missile – ex-Pentagon analyst
‘No defense against’ Russia’s Oreshnik missile – ex-Pentagon analyst
The new weapon could shift the balance of power in favor of Moscow, Michael Maloof has told RTRT
two PMOS installs with LUKS
So I'm trying to setup peppermint os , I have two disks and I want them both to have full disk encryption. After a couple of reinstalls using different approaches, searches and llm questions , still can't get it to work.
First boot gets to encryption of SDA (I believe) , then to grub menu and I'm able to load the first one.
Managed to get new entries but then I get: server error you need to load the kernel first.
I believe both installs are fine and that it is a LUKS thing. UEFI, disabled secure boot.
Sda1 EFI
Sda2 root
Sdb1 EFI
Sdb2 root
Maybe EFI should only be on one of them?
Iran calls on Japan to join it in campaign to abolish WMDs
Iran calls on Japan to join it in campaign to abolish WMDs | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Iran’s foreign minister is calling on Japan to join Tehran in leading a global movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).The Asahi Shimbun
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SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound AI, Inc., a California-based innovator in voice artificial intelligence, has quietly accelerated the future of in-car communication.Bryan Johnston (auto connected car news)
I Will Take 'Crony-Capitalism' For 500
Trump is building a new $200 million ballroom at the White House
Construction on the project will start in September.Hannah Demissie (ABC News)
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Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45358033
Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocatesThe software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.
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I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.
Great.
I stand with Israel
Whether or not an ethnostate is good depends on the ethnicity of the people of the ethnostate.
(/s, it is POV of a racist)
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The American civil war was about states rights (states right to white supremacy)
Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
States rights people hate it when pointing out slavery was enshrined in the state constitutions as a requirement for being part of the confederacy.
Or when showing the south was pushing the north to ignore their states rights by forcing them to only follow southern slavery laws
this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors
73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank
21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")
[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]
In a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue, some of the judges on the panel discussed demography, and were inclined to accept that demography is a legitimate consideration in devising family reunification policies that violate the right to family life.Those in favor of the law say the law not only limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as Ze'ev Boim asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but also its Jewish nature" (i. e., its Jewish demographic majority).
Ethnically diverse? Motherfucker, they're all kinds of WHITE EUROPEANS. It occupies Palestine with that in mind, using religion to hide behind it and justify it.
The other 30 percent were either kidnapped children from various operations (with the help of the West) that grew up to be dogs of the Euroanglo-zionazis and become Zionazis themselves or straight up opportunist compradors from all around the world. Oh and to top it off, they sterilize them no matter how much they try to be a good dog, because they're not white enough.
That's not diversity, that's a settler-colonial ethnostate playing population control, trying to get just enough brown to justify their occupation to the public, but not too much to maintain Pan-Europa whiteness.
considering Israel is more ethnically diverse
Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.
Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.
It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.
While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.
Context and nuance is important.
it started inthe 70's and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that's how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.
in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.
the democrats kept control of the house for the entirety of biden's tenure as president while they had control of the senate for half of it and the aca fell apart anyways despite the democrats having a majority .... again.
no one expects the republicans to follow through on welfare programs, so it's silly to hold them to account on it on something like the equal rights amendment; the democrats do claim to care and that's why we expect progress from them.
maybe your expectations for Republicans are too low
i almost forgot why i had instance blocked .ml on my lemm.ee account and neglected to do so on my piefed account. my bad. i keep getting reminded what a waste of time it is to talk to tankie chuds.
Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader Medvedev
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Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.
- If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
- If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
- In either case, they know you've fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes
How can ufw do me like that?
EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!
Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like
To Action From
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip
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22/tcp ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
53 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
80 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
9091 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # Transmission
2049 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # nfs
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0
192.168.2.77 22 ALLOW OUT Anywhere
2049 ALLOW OUT Anywhere # nfsSo how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?
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Lemmy Development Update July 2025
Work on the backend changes for 1.0 is mostly finished now. What's missing is optimizing the migrations as they currently take about 9 hours for lemmy.ml. Now we are starting to work on updating lemmy-ui for the API changes and new features.
In the last days we did a big cleanup of the lemmy-ui issue tracker, closing 450 mostly outdated issues. Many of these were over a year old describing problems that have long been fixed. From 570 issues only 120 remain. Most of these are very minor, changing a single UI element here or there. It should be possible to implement 90% of them within a month or two.
Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:
- Add ability to block all users of an instance (#5784)
- Notifications rewrite, users can be notified about new posts or comments (#5604)
- Post tags (#5869)
- Site and user setting for items per page (#5887)
- Don't show edit mark if comment was edited in less than 5 minutes (#3197)
- Speedup of 1.0 migrations (#5873)
::: spoiler Full list of changes by user
jfaustino
- Change textarea placeholder for locked posts
- Don't show edit mark if comment was edited in less than 5 minutes
SleeplessOne1917
- Re-export UpdateCommunityNotifications
- Re-export some types from lemmy-api-common
- Add missing TS derives that were causing errors when generating Typescript bindings
- Add
creator_bannedto VoteView
dessalines
- Adding a local_site and local_user setting for default fetch limit
- Add ability to block all users of an instance.
- Fast history no background
- Fixing username-instance duplicate migration.
- Don't export inbox combined view internal.
- [Main] remove all caches
dullbananas
- Add update_schema_file.sh
- Refactor pagination cursor parsing
- Speed up init in start_dev_db.sh using no-sync option
- Fix comment depth test
- Prevent stack overflow when fetching nested comment
- Require indexes for all foreign keys
- Use a new separate crate for uplete
- Allow running all migrations with minimal dependencies
Nutomic
- Use case insensitive sort for followed communities (fixes #5903)
- Merge different
AlreadyExistserrors (fixes #5897) - Properly parse icons federated from Peertube (fixes #5894)
- Rename modlog items
- Refactor email
- Only use MiMalloc on x86_64 target arch (fixes #5695)
- Purge user images in background task (fixes #4642)
- Finish adding post tags
- Allow remote groups to follow Lemmy communities (fixes #5354)
- Fix foreign key indexes migration
- Remove unused items
- Notifications rewrite and post following (fixes #3069)
- Add unique constraint for person(name, instance) (fixes #5045)
- Extism release version
- Delete report views, add missing report fields
- Update extism
- Federation refactoring
- Fix comment depth off by one
- Move local site user count updates to scheduled task
- Revert " Add post_actions.disable_notifications (fixes #3042) (#5826)"
- Add missing comment depth check
- Dont call resolveObject for search
- Change icon for save action (fixes #1564)
- Use anchor for comment permalinks (fixes #2908)
- Only cache success responses (fixes #3129)
- Redirect away from /setup page if already created (fixes #897)
- Update regex for validating matrix id (fixes #1726)
- Fix host splitting for IPv6 (fixes #2374)
- Increase bio max length to 1000 chars (fixes #2657)
- Change link from element.io to matrix.org (fixes #2293)
- Search changes
- Change display format for community name in search
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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
The official web app for lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Don’t show edit mark if comment was edited in less than 5 minutes
I think 5 minutes is too much. Why not 2 minutes or 5 minutes only if the comment does not have votes and replies?
Thanks for the hard work!!!
I'm curious how the new tag system will work. Could you post when it could be tested in any of the test instances?
Btw, I use a bot to post twice daily in !workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world and I've been (ab)using the search system to tag with nice results:
- Tags: #Labor, #Colonialism, #Massacre, #Independence.
Edited: ooops removed backslashes
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cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50536830
DIY cyborg rule (Nerdforge)
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe
Insights from 2025 GenAI Code Security Report
How secure is code generated by AI? We asked 100+ AI models to write code. Here’s key findings from the 2025 GenAI Code Security Report.Veracode
Using LLMs does not obviate the need for the human user to understand what the code is doing. I've also found that, as with any tool, it takes time to actually learn to use LLMs effectively.
In particular, I find it's really important to understand the problem being solved, and then come up with the solution yourself. One approach I’ve found to be effective is to stub out the functions myself, and have the agent fill in the blanks for me. This helps focus the LLM and prevent it from going off into the weeds.
Another trick I find handy is to ask the agent to first write a plan for the solution. Then I can review the plan and tell the agent to adjust it as needed before implementing. Agents are also pretty good at writing tests, and tests are much easier to evaluate for correctness because good tests are just independent functions that do one thing and don’t have a deep call stack. My current approach is to get the LLM to write the plan, add tests, and then focus on making sure I understand the tests and that they pass. At that point I have a fairly high degree of confidence that the code is indeed doing what’s needed. The tests act as a contract for the agent to fill and as a specification for the defined functionality.
I suspect that programming languages might start shifting in the direction of contracts in general. I can see stuff like this becoming the norm, where you specify the signature for the function, and you could also specify parameters like computational complexity and memory usage. The agent could then try to figure out how to fill the contract you’ve defined. It would be akin to genetic algorithm approach where the agent could converge on a solution over time. If that’s the direction things will be moving in, then current skills could be akin to being able to write assembly by hand. Useful in some niche situations, but not necessary vast majority of the time.
Finally, it’s very helpful to structure things using small components components that can be tested independently and composed together to build bigger things. As long as the component functions in the intended way, I don’t necessarily care about the quality of the code internally. I can treat them as black boxes as long as they’re doing what’s expected at the surface level. This is already the approach we take with libraries as we don’t audit every line of code in a library we include in a project. We just look at its surface level API provided.
Incidentally, I’m noticing that functional style seems to work really well here. Having an assembly line of pure functions naturally breaks up a problem into small building blocks that you can reason about in isolation. It’s kind of like putting Lego blocks together. The advantage over stuff like microservies here is that you don’t have to deal with the complexity of orchestration and communication between the services.
GitHub - webyrd/Barliman: Prototype smart text editor
Prototype smart text editor. Contribute to webyrd/Barliman development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Palestinian child dies of Israeli-imposed starvation
A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died of malnutrition, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources at Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City.
This follows the deaths of three Palestinians, including two children, from Israeli-imposed starvation on Friday.
Khater's death brings the toll of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-imposed starvation to 163, including 92 children.
Palestinian child dies of Israeli-imposed starvation
A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died of malnutrition, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources at Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City.
Atef Abu Khater was hospitalised in intensive care earlier this week- his father reportedly said he was no longer responding to treatment.
This follows the deaths of three Palestinians, including two children, from Israeli-imposed starvation on Friday.
Khater's death brings the toll of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-imposed starvation to 163, including 92 children.
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What do you self host, how, and why?
How in terms of "how did you do it" i.e. a guide a wiki etc. How to you maintain it? How do you provide security and how do you maintain it? Do you host on bare metal at home? Do you use a cloud service? If the former, how do you connect to it when you aren't at home?
I realize that's a lot to ask, but I have some down time and want to hear everyone's full viewpoints
‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/23257570
Pro-Palestine protesters will be legally protected while marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday after a New South Wales supreme court decision.The bridge is expected to be closed for about five hours, from 11.30am, and additional police are being mobilised to observe a march that could include up to 50,000 people.
In her judgment, Justice Belinda Rigg said “the march at this location is motivated by the belief that the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response from the people of the world”.
“The evidence indicates there is significant support for the march.”
50,000 seems a bit on the small side for a Sydney Harbour Bridge march. Hopefully there will be many many more than that.
‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
Supreme court judge says protest motivated by belief that ‘the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response’Henry Belot (The Guardian)
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‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/23257570
Pro-Palestine protesters will be legally protected while marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday after a New South Wales supreme court decision.The bridge is expected to be closed for about five hours, from 11.30am, and additional police are being mobilised to observe a march that could include up to 50,000 people.
In her judgment, Justice Belinda Rigg said “the march at this location is motivated by the belief that the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response from the people of the world”.
“The evidence indicates there is significant support for the march.”
50,000 seems a bit on the small side for a Sydney Harbour Bridge march. Hopefully there will be many many more than that.
‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
Supreme court judge says protest motivated by belief that ‘the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response’Henry Belot (The Guardian)
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •And they're 100% right.
International law is very simple and straightforward - land forcibly annexed is not legitimate. Israel has no legal or valid claim to any territory beyond what it was granted in UN Resolution 181 in 1948. Every single inch of land it's taken since then has been taken illegally, and in direct violation of the rights of the inhabitants.
And that's even before getting into the overt evil that Israel has committed along the way - the terrorism and brutality and oppression and murder that it's employed to incrementally steal the rightful territory of the Palestinians.
And yes - the Palestinians have every right to stand against Israel's brutal theft of its territory and murder of its inhabitants. Their resistance is not only morally right, but entirely in keeping with international law.
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