UK: X's design and policy choices created fertile ground for inflammatory, racist narratives targeting Muslims and migrants following Southport attack
How X's design and policies led to Southport linked racist violence
X platform helped spread false narratives and content which contributed to violence against Muslims and migrants after the Southport attacks.Amnesty International
WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says
WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says
Many of the accounts were linked to criminal groups operating in South East Asia, the social media giant said.Osmond Chia (BBC News)
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Revealed: Gaza Spy Flights From UK Base On Cyprus Secretly Shift to Plane Leased by Company with Billions in US Military Contracts
Since December 2023, the Royal Air Force (RAF) had been flying the same Beechcraft King Air 350 plane over Gaza and sharing the intelligence with Israel, but now this programme appears to have ceased, and is instead being undertaken by the new US-leased private plane.
The British planes, which are called Shadow R1s in UK service, have flown near-daily from RAF Akrotiri, Britain’s sprawling airbase on Cyprus, for almost the entire duration of Israel’s assault on Gaza.
But the last RAF spy flight over Gaza from Akrotiri was on July 25, within days of the new US plane coming into operation on the same route. During the US plane’s first five trips over Gaza, it was accompanied by the RAF plane in an apparent training exercise.
For the 20 months of UK spy flights over Gaza for Israel, the planes had turned off their transponder about half way to Gaza so activity over Gaza had stayed secret.
On 28 July, however, the newly-trained US plane took off at 8pm and forgot to turn off its transponder. The flight path of a surveillance flight from RAF Akrotiri was visible for the first time. It shows the plane reaching Gaza at 9pm and circling over southern Gaza for an hour and half, concentrating its surveillance efforts over Khan Younis and surrounding areas.
The new US-leased spy plane, which flew from RAF Akrotiri on 28 July, circles over Khan Younis area for three hours.
Revealed: Gaza Spy Flights From UK Base On Cyprus Secretly Shift to Plane Leased by Company with Billions in US Military Contracts
The American leasing company was awarded $472m contract by US Special Operations Command in June and is developing US military’s new long-range spy planeMatt Kennard (Palestine Deep Dive)
Desktop app for Lemmy?
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Neonmodem looks really cool and support multiple backend. TUI is cool and definitely earns its place. Excellent for my old laptop.
But on the other hands, I wish we have a proper complicated non electron liked desktop gui. My browser probably has 1000+ tabs. So able to open multiple threads are must. But building this sophisticated desktop app is hard. I am really being spoiled by open source apps. And I am always thankful to devs' hardwork.
GitHub - lemmygtk/lemoa: Native Gtk client for Lemmy
Native Gtk client for Lemmy. Contribute to lemmygtk/lemoa development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Bennett: Israel’s status in US ‘has never been so bad,’ it’s becoming a ‘leper state’
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett warned that Israel’s status in the United States “has never been so bad” and that it is being seen as a “leper state” in a lengthy social media post on Tuesday.
“The Democratic party hasn’t been with us for some time. We’re also losing the Republican party, whose support for Israel could once be counted on,” he wrote, though he credited US President Donald Trump with retaining support for Israel within his administration.
“Even those who have been our friends are having a hard time defending the State of Israel,” Bennett continued. “Israel is being seen more and more as a liability and burden on the USA and Americans.”
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Should I eat it and jump to win11?
Really want an honest answer here and not a full blown Linux cult answer.
I'm a new dad (kid is 1.5months old) who used to game pretty hard and do music production in cakewalk and ableton, but the crotch goblin is getting in the way. With windows 10 support coming to an end, I'm faced with a choice to either jump on the Linux train or take the safe way out and eat win11. Please keep in mind that I run a super clean machine (no porn (that's what mobile is for) or tormenting or anything sketch) and have no intention of doing anything unclean. I have a lot of music prod data that I don't want fucked and a steam library that I want access to but don't really care about the data associated with them (saves, profiles...i could care less). So it's really my ableton and Cakewalk files I want to keep. There was a time I college 2010-2011 where I borrowed a CS majors Ubuntu laptop for a few months to just get work done (just webbrowsing and office app stuff). Shit was annoying and difficult to understand but I was able to make it work-ish.
I'm savvy enough where I can adult Lego a PC together but struggle when it comes to software and troubleshooting and really don't have the time for that stuff.
Basically, I'm not in the position right now to learn a distro and struggle around with all that crap and I need to keep my music shit. I also despise Microsoft and AI in general but I'm perfectly fine just eating it for simplicity. Is there a low effort Linux solution to my situation? Looking for automatic updates where I just click "express install i don't fucking care" and im not searching for drivers every day.
My build is basically what's shown below minus the SLI'd 1080s and with 32gbDDR4. Any upgrade apart from the gpu would essentially mean a wholesale at this point. I used the 2nd card to build my wife a pc since SLI is effectively useless now.
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Battle for Rodynske: The Town That Could Decide Ukraine’s Fate in Donbas
Battle for Rodynske: The Town That Could Decide Ukraine’s Fate in Donbas
Russian military units have advanced into Rodynske, a strategically significant town of approximately 10,000 people situated north of Pokrovsk (formerly Krasnoarmeysk) and Mirnograd in the Donetsk region.Anonymous834 (South Front)
Lebanon cabinet meeting on Hezbollah disarmament ‘unprecedented’
As we reported earlier, Lebanon’s cabinet has met to discuss Hezbollah’s arsenal after the US ramped up pressure on ministers to publicly commit to disarm the group amid fears Israel could intensify strikes if they fail to do so.
The government commissioned the army to present a disarmament plan before the end of the month.
But Qassem said Hezbollah would not accept any timetable on handing over its weapons to the Lebanese state while Israeli strikes continue. Instead he called on the government to make plans to face threats and pressure
“A divided government discussed one of the most divisive issues in Lebanon: the fate of Hezbollah’s weapons,” Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said, reporting from Beirut.
“It’s unprecedented for a Lebanese government to do so, and it shows a big shift in the balance of power after Israel’s war on the group last year. And it’s doing so under pressure from the United States and Israel, who want a formal commitment and a timeline to disarm Hezbollah.”
Updates: Israeli attacks on Gaza kill more than 80, starvation deaths mount
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Tuesday, August 5.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
Perpetuating genocide in Gaza
EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas described the footage as “appalling and exposing the barbarity of Hamas.” French President Emmanuel Macron stated, “The absolute priority for France is the immediate release of all the hostages.” UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said, “Images of hostages being paraded for propaganda are sickening.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave absolute cover and impunity for Israel. “Israel will not reciprocate Hamas’ cynicism and must continue to provide humanitarian aid,” he declared.
Has Merz not seen the consequences of Israel’s starvation policy on Palestinians? The same goes for all the EU leaders forming elaborate sentences and resorting to synonyms to make their message heard. The resonance, however, remains limited to the same echelons, because all over the world, people are not buying the Western narrative.
While the EU might, on the surface, be seen as having nothing derail its plans – identical to those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – allegedly to eliminate Hamas, the truth is that the Europe has allowed Israel to violate international law to shred to lead to complete colonisation of Gaza. If Hamas was truly the problem, neither Netanyahu nor the EU would have sacrificed the lives of Israeli hostages during a genocidal campaign. No matter what the EU states, there is no priority to save the Israeli hostages; they only have priority for propaganda purposes and serve as cover for the thousands of Palestinians murdered in Israel’s latest colonial phase. Starvation in genocide, led by a colonial power and supported by former colonial powers, must always be linked to the land.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250805-perpetuating-genocide-in-gaza/
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34219709
Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.49 EDT
Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.49 EDTSeen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensiveLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34219709
Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.49 EDT
Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.49 EDTSeen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensiveLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.49 EDT
Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.
A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensiveLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other tech giants to go underground, building secret bunkers for world war crises, pandemics, and climate disasters
Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other tech giants to go underground, building secret bunkers for world war crises, pandemics, and climate disasters
US News: Amidst Silicon Valley's innovation, tech elites like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg are building luxurious bunkers, signaling a shift towards survivalTOI World Desk (The Times Of India)
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) Release 0.90 – Dynamic
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35161703
Arriving on time! Dynamic settings, dynamic (but reasonable!) fires, dynamic combat and gameplay in general thanks to a ton of improvements in terms of mobs and gear. Smite some zombies in armour they picked up from the spot of your last death and some skeletons with their new texture – using an enchanted deepslate hammer, obtained with just a crafting table. Knock the stalker away with your enchanted spear, or let him explode and take out a pack of mobs. And enjoy stone tools with a green flavour, while you're still on the surface... There's more, see yourself!We're announcing the VoxeLibre release 0.90 The Dynamic release.
For complete release notes check out: git.minetest.land/VoxeLibre/Vo…
Release v0.90 – Dynamic
 Arriving on time! Dynamic settings, dynamic (but reasonable!) fires, dynamic combat and gameplay in general thanks to a ton of improvements in terms of mobs and gear.Mesehub
in order to maintain access to America’s market.
I'd rather have access to China and India's markets, Americans have to work two jobs just to pay the rent
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Canada could lose its measles elimination designation by October: experts
Canada could lose its measles elimination designation by October: experts
Canada is approaching the one year mark of when measles first came to Canada, meaning it might lose its elimination designationCindy Tran (Edmonton Journal)
[Discussion] Flatpaks, ram/disk usage and compression
I have 91 flatpaks, and it is my primary way of getting apps. But the (not very shared) dependencies have been bothering me lately.
I was primarily drawn in because Gnome Software has a cool UI and because I wanted the magic of one-click installs. I heard a lot of things about Flatpak and gave it a try.
I have a relatively small 72GB BTRFS root partition with zstd:1 (lowest) enabled. I think disk compression helps with the Flatpak dependency mess, as I only have 60% disk usage currently.
Idk how much extra RAM my flatpaks use, but I don't want 4 versions of the same dependency taking up space in my RAM. Thought about enabling zram to compensate for this. As different versions of the same library in RAM are easy to compress.
I don't think this compression mentality I instinctively adopted is healthy. Make stuff reliable in expense of storage/ram -> compress storage/ram in expense of proc. power
Another thing is slow Flatpak downloads. I have a gigabit connection, and Arch mirrors generally work around 30MB/s with WiFi. Flatpak, on the other hand, hits at max. 5MB/s with its "CDN"
Overall, even though it's kind of ugly, I absolutely love the "don't think about it" mentality of flatpaks. It just works most of the time. I simply use the system package manager for programs that heavily interact with the system (like IDEs, management stuff, and so on)
I am interested in hearing your opinions.
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As someone who worked OS security after working build/release on Unix and Linux, don't use flatpaks. The modicum of comfort you gain in brainless installs you lose far more in validation of package contents.
And brainless installs on Linux (yum install) is about the same via synaptic/etc. You're not missing much.
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I disagree with some of the panels but support the overall message.
UN is a tool of imperialism to subjugate planet
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Namely the first two. The premise of R2P or "responsibility to protect" has been heavily promoted and one of the major arguments for it was "the UN did nothing to stop genocide in Rawanda". Of course when R2P was applied it was to justify completely destroying Libya in service of US empire.
In truth, in Rawanda, the most heinous crimes were carried out by the RPF led by US puppet Paul Kagame on behalf of US interests.
The same issue in Sudan today is the US-israel-UAE arming RSF militants to throw the country into a perpetual civilian war. This is in line with the decades long zionist-American plot to fracture Sudan.
In Myanmar, again, the imperialists are heavily invested in propagating lies to justify various types of intervention in the name of human rights but really to expand their empire.
People dont just wake up one day and decide to exterminate their neighbors. Such genocidal campaigns are precipitated by imperialist schemes. And in cases when multi-lateral "human rights" interventions occur it has always turned out worse rather than better.
The world doesnt need more UN intervention it needs death to America.
The Balkanization of Sudan: The Redrawing of the Middle East and North Africa
With outcome foretold, the recent referendum on the "independence" of oil-rich South Sudan is part of a deeper agenda bearing little relation to human rights concerns.Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (Voltaire Network)
I had thought and interpreted that the UN or US flag being used in the first panel wouldn't have made a difference but then I remembered someone could absolutely try to diminish the US's (and really the collective West's) role in perpetually balkanizing and destabilizing the Global South by dispersing the blame equally to each member state of the UN (both-sidesing/all-sidesing/whatever-the-fuck-it's-called)..
Thanks for the sources, I've learned a lot more new material from this than I care to admit..
There is an interesting relevant history. Regarding the UN resolution 678 which justified the imperialist destruction and genocide of Iraq in the 90's, the US pressured all members on the security council to support it. Even non-permanent members.
With America's place in the world, not to mention Mr. Bush's political future, riding on the outcome of the gulf crisis, the Administration never hesitated to let other nations know that their support for this resolution was vital to Washington, which would remember its friends, and its foes. Minutes after the Yemeni elegate joined the Cubans in voting against the resolution at the Security Council on Thursday, a senior American diplomat was instructed to tell him: "That was the most expensive no vote you ever cast" -- meaning it would result in an end to America's more than $70 million in foreign aid to Yemen.
Thankfully the US has much less leverage against Russia and China today compared to 35 years ago but I think its readily apparent that the UN "peacekeepers" are generally just used as cudgels on behalf of US-led NATO domination. Examples from Haiti to Lebanon to Mali
I would much prefer a UN that is utterly powerless than one that is used to justify genocidal sanctions on Iraq or Iran for instance.
Thanks for the sources, I’ve learned a lot more new material from this than I care to admit
Always glad to share when I have time. We are all always learning new things together 🫡
UNIFIL’s Role in the 'Israeli' Aggression on Lebanon
In the shadow of the ongoing conflict, Israeli forces have launched operations from villages like Yarin, Dahra, and Alma al-Shaab, advancing toward al-Jabin, Sheheen, Tyre Harfa, and Shama.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Is Tor browser on Mullvad DNS a bad idea?
I set secure DNS to Mullvad DNS.
Since I can't afford a VPN, I do my web searches on Tor browser.
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No. It's fine.
Tor uses its own DNS system to my recollection. It's true there is DNS as part of fingerprinting and DNS leaks are a concern for VPNs (see for example dnsleaktest.com/) but Tor is not vulnerable to this and it's more a problem of you're using a VPN to appear to be in NYC but your DNS shows Phoenix so that's a big discrepancy that raises the uniqueness of your fingerprint on a VPN and even lets threat actors guesstimate where you actually are. As I said though this is not an issue on Tor.
So understand that the DNS from Mullvad will only affect other programs not Tor. It will prevent say your ISP's DNS from seeing your video games calling their domains that way. Your ISP can still see you're connecting to infrastructure for as an example Genshin Impact when you launch the game because they can see where your traffic is flowing and the IP addresses as well as traffic patterns, ports, etc. It somewhat limits the data and visibility they get but there is something called SNI snooping as well as of course the fact they know the IP addresses where your connections go. So it's perhaps better than nothing but understand the limits of it as they still have a lot of visibility though they shouldn't be able to see your web searches regardless just that you're accessing google or bing or duckduckgo as those sites use HTTPS.
DNS leak test
DNSleaktest.com offers a simple test to determine if you DNS requests are being leaked which may represent a critical privacy threat. The test takes only a few seconds and we show you how you can simply fix the problem.www.dnsleaktest.com
More context please. Where did you set the DNS? Smartphone, desktop? In browser or on system settings?
Assuming the following: You set the general DNS on your AOSP based smartphone to Mullvad and use Tor bowser simultaneously.
This is perfectly fine as Tor browser uses its own DNS. They won't interfere.
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
The letters, written to Epstein by a number of high-profile individuals, were reportedly compiled as a birthday gift for Epstein’s 63rd birthday in 2016.
In one letter, former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak and his wife wrote “there is no limit to your curiosity.”
“You are like a closed book to many of them but you know everything about everyone,” they wrote, describing Epstein as “A COLLECTOR OF PEOPLE”. They continued: “May you enjoy long and healthy life and may all of us, your friends, enjoy your table for many more years to come.”
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
New York Times reports on letters by Ehud Barak, Woody Allen and others written for Epstein’s 63rd birthdayAnna Betts (The Guardian)
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
The letters, written to Epstein by a number of high-profile individuals, were reportedly compiled as a birthday gift for Epstein’s 63rd birthday in 2016.
In one letter, former prime minister of Israel Ehud Barak and his wife wrote “there is no limit to your curiosity.”
“You are like a closed book to many of them but you know everything about everyone,” they wrote, describing Epstein as “A COLLECTOR OF PEOPLE”. They continued: “May you enjoy long and healthy life and may all of us, your friends, enjoy your table for many more years to come.”
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published
New York Times reports on letters by Ehud Barak, Woody Allen and others written for Epstein’s 63rd birthdayAnna Betts (The Guardian)
Chomsky tells WSJ his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein are "none of your business"
Noam Chomsky met multiple times with Jeffrey Epstein, long after a court ordered the disgraced financier to register as a sex offender.Katie Balevic (Business Insider)
"What was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence," Chomsky told the Journal about his meetings. "According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate."
For a propaganda expert that's an incredibly bad comeback from Chomsky.
Domain names for catch all email aliases
I'm looking into getting some domains for email, so I don't need to use the same few addresses for everything. In doing this, the domain name itself becomes the identity, but it's also entirely arbitrary.
What is a good method to choose domain names so that they look more or less normal? Catch all addresses can of course be detected in SMTP, but the idea is just to not look suspicious. Would anyone be comfortable sharing the constructions they use? (though not the domains themselves, for obvious reasons) Should I use subdomains for the things that can safely be correlated, (as spam defense) or is it better to only use different mailboxes on one domain?
Something you can remember...
Catch alls are most useful when you are away and you need to give an email out. If you can't remember the domain that becomes a pain.
I’m looking into getting some domains for email, so I don’t need to use the same few addresses for everything.
Getting a custom domain for email is smart. It’s a necessary step given how data is treated these days. The domain becomes your identifier, but it's essentially arbitrary. I switched from sharing a single email address (which predictably led to breaches and spam) to creating dedicated emails for each service. Now, when an account gets compromised, I just redirect that email to oblivion. It’s a clean break, and a strangely revealing look at how online identities get resold and repurposed. Worth considering.
It's literally in the book. Harry becomes a wizard CIA agent. They still have slaves at the end. The book ends with Harry wondering if his chattel slave will bring him food. They don't help the muggles, they don't rectify the injustice of their tiered society.
I think the anti fascist angle is a nice thing to get from it but it's not really supported by the text. Riddle is ontologically evil for no reason, he's bad Dumbledore. Dumbledore controls the entire society and can act with impunity. I don't even think all this stuff is intentional. It's just not that deep.
For sure, there's an unhealthy internet thing of just hating stuff, I hope it's obvious I'm not doing that. I actually think the books for younger kids are overall better and a lot of the worst stuff could have been avoided if she just stuck to writing fun mysteries for children. She was pretty good at snarky irreverent kid stuff.
The biggest fans in my life hate the epilogue too, so you're in good company there.
Announcement video of Deepmind Genie 3
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German club backs out of signing Israel striker after fan backlash
Bundesliga 2 side Fortuna Dusseldorf has pulled out of signing Israel striker Shon Weissman in response to fan anger about his social media posts on the Gaza war, German tabloid Bild has reported.
Fan furore erupted online on Monday when news emerged that Weissman was on the cusp of joining Dusseldorf from Spanish side Granada FC.
Bild reported that Weissman called for Israel to “wipe Gaza off the map” and to “drop 200 tons of bombs on it”.
The 29-year-old had also liked posts saying “there are no innocents [in Gaza], they don’t need to be warned”.
German club backs out of signing Israel striker after fan backlash
Israel international Shon Weissman was expected to complete move from Spain’s Granada to Germany’s Fortuna Dusseldorf.Al Jazeera
German club backs out of signing Israel striker after fan backlash
Bundesliga 2 side Fortuna Dusseldorf has pulled out of signing Israel striker Shon Weissman in response to fan anger about his social media posts on the Gaza war, German tabloid Bild has reported.
Fan furore erupted online on Monday when news emerged that Weissman was on the cusp of joining Dusseldorf from Spanish side Granada FC.
Bild reported that Weissman called for Israel to “wipe Gaza off the map” and to “drop 200 tons of bombs on it”.
The 29-year-old had also liked posts saying “there are no innocents [in Gaza], they don’t need to be warned”.
German club backs out of signing Israel striker after fan backlash
Israel international Shon Weissman was expected to complete move from Spain’s Granada to Germany’s Fortuna Dusseldorf.Al Jazeera
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option
The openSUSE Leap 16.0 release is going to be among the first Linux distributions delivering an Xfce desktop experience atop Wayland as one of its offered desktop options. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 16.0 packages have seen a lot of work recently for those interested in running Xfce on Wayland albeit in an experimental state.
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option
Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources.www.phoronix.com
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Kalamazoo Linux Users Group
Tonight in #kalamazoo is the weekly Kalamazoo #Linux Users Group. I have been going again lately. It is a nice old group that has been holding on for more than 10 years by the one and only Lynden Kirk.
If you happen to be in #swmi, #westmi, #battlecreek come out and join us.
So it is tuesday nights at 6pm(18 for the rest of the world) at
Kzoo Makers
1102 E. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49048
Kalamazoo Makerspace - Kzoo Makers
We are a Makerspace community interested in designing things, building skills, and getting creative! Use our community tools in the areas of metalshop, woodworking, lasercutting, 3D printing, electronics, craftmaking and more!Kzoo Makers
From Gaza: A Student’s Story of Loss, Resilience, and Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5757723
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.
But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.
Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
On top of all this, I’m also struggling with serious health issues.
I suffer from a urinary tract infection caused by the lack of access to clean drinking water.
Here in Gaza, we’re forced to drink water mixed with sand and other contaminants — there’s simply no other choice.
It’s affecting my health badly, and I need treatment I can’t afford in these conditions.
I’m sharing my story with honesty and hope, praying it reaches a kind heart — someone who can help, or even just share it with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here’s my GoFundMe link:
Every share, every kind word, and every small donation could be a lifeline for us.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
I completely understand your doubt — the world is full of scams, and it’s your right to question things.
But my story is real, and unfortunately, what my family and I are living through in Gaza is beyond words.
The photo is real, the account is real, and the GoFundMe link was created by a friend in Germany because I’m unable to create one from Gaza.
All I ask is for you to consider sharing it if possible — or even just a prayer.
Thank you for your compassion, even if you’re still unsure.
Thank you for replying, and I’m sorry that bad actors on the internet make people like me have to be a little suspicious of posts like this.
Have you considered providing photographic proof that you are the person in the picture, such as providing a photo of you holding a piece of paper that says “Hello Lemmy” with the current date and time on it? Things like that are usually typical when you are proving your identity in a post like this because it allows people to analyze it for signs of photo manipulation. With nothing but a few photos of you in Gaza, it is impossible to tell if it is really you or if someone has stolen those photos and is impersonating you for money.
Assuming that you are the man in the photo, I do want to say how horrible I feel about the genocide happening in your country. Nobody deserves that, and most of the world sees the crimes happening against your people, even if those in power are too cowardly to do anything.
FishFace
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •How is this different than if the UK military operated its own aircraft?
This article is written as if it's a big scoop, but "military conducts operation using rented equipment instead of its own" seems pretty boring to me. Am I missing something?
geneva_convenience
in reply to FishFace • • •The UK military Royal Air Force used to perform these flights but have recently stopped doing them.
Now a US contractor is doing the flights, however they use the RAF base and were provided RAF training.
What's interesting is that the RAF always turned off their transponder when they neared Gaza so nobody knew where they were flying.
The US contractor didn't turn off their transponder and likely leaked what the RAF has been doing for the past 2 years which is flying above Gaza (in a circle of interest to the IDF?):
For a more detailed video explanation:
- YouTube
www.youtube.comFishFace
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Maybe this all just got lost in the noise talking about insignificant details like where the US company is based. "Change in operations reveals where RAF spy-plane flights have likely been operating" is more interesting than the actual headline, and more interesting than most of the other information in there. But because that is not the focus, I'm not really sure that was supposed to be the take-home.
I'm reminded of early in Russia's invasion of Ukraine when NATO RQ-4s, RC-135Ws and other spy aircraft were flying over and near to Ukraine - all with transponders on. It's interesting to people obsessing over the war, but it's not politics.
geneva_convenience
in reply to FishFace • • •The article itself is extremely dense on details, I tried to condense it a bit in my summary but it's hard.
Well this is the opposite. They RAF turned their transponders off when they were doing these secretive flights. Spying for Israel during a genocide means being a direct participant in it. Kid Starver seems to have reached a point where he is trying to look less complicit and is now trying to shift the blame to a US company.
FishFace
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •UK willing to hand over Gaza intelligence to war crimes court
Jonathan Beale (BBC News)geneva_convenience
in reply to FishFace • • •Please stahp
FishFace
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I think I've done what I set out to do by showing your assumptions for what they are.
You are trying to present a narrative where the UK is enabling Israel's genocidal war by finding targets for them to bomb and that, knowing that the public wouldn't go along with this, are concealing their role by handing the contract to a third party - but have presented no evidence for this narrative at all. Everything that we actually know is consistent with an appropriate role for the UK military in helping to return hostages, while also gathering information that could help prosecute Netanyahu and his government.
All you have is spin, aspersions and name calling. Do better.
geneva_convenience
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