Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft has launched an “urgent” external inquiry into allegations Israel’s military surveillance agency has used the company’s technology to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians.
The company said on Friday the formal review was in response to a Guardian investigation that revealed how the Unit 8200 spy agency has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection of everyday Palestinian mobile phone calls.
The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found Unit 8200 made use of a customised and segregated area within Azure to store recordings of millions of calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank.
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Company says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of serviceHarry Davies (The Guardian)
finishing torrents and seeding question
ok, i'll start grabbing the descriptive files too thanks!
i think the torrents i'm seeding that have very few seeds besides me are just a couple of movies without extra files so it should be fine for now but i'll take that into mind for the future.
this is true if you manually delete the txt file.
however, just unchecking it in the client doesn't result in a broken seeder - at least transmission-gtk 4 will write the "file.txt" even if you didn't check its box, or transmission will create a (sparse) "file.txt.part" file if there's additional pieces to the "file.txt" that you didn't download.
I would expect other clients to behave similarly.
A torrent software that breaks your big/video file sharing while calling it complete seems somewhat questionable, not following a good practice, for the reasons you said.
qBittorrent stores the partial file data of deselected files as generic files. Given that only with it the download and a recheck marks the big file complete, without it a recheck considers the big file unfinished (and if partial files are renamed it is despite being complete as a file), I presume it will also send out the block that is partially that file and another to other peers too.
If the other file is fully in the partial block qBittorrent even creates the files despite not having been selected for downloading.
Fun fact, you probably download the file anyway because it's smaller than one of the torrent blocks. That block contains info from a file you do want, so you download the whole block. Your torrent client just puts that file in a different place.
So ultimately it doesn't make a difference, except to show you the file. If you don't actually look at the files that often, I'd leave that file checked just to make it less complicated.
Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Company says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of serviceHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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It turns out that they did do that, we knew all along, and we're ok with it.
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New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230 that protects users’ online speech by protecting the online intermediaries we all rely on to communicate
New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230
In the wake of rolling out its own proposal to significantly limit a key law protecting internet users’ speech in the summer of 2020, the Department of Justice under the first Trump administration actively worked with lawmakers to support further eff…Electronic Frontier Foundation
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”Eva Roytburg (Fortune)
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I don't really give a shit about the AI race and I genuinely hope that we lose it, because I feel like being a winner in that "industry" is inherently unsustainable.
The AI hype is so infuriatingly frustrating.
Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real. You don't need to believe any propaganda, just travel and observe.
The asterisks are not about their usecase but political.
Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real.
And if you ignore the theory of comparative advantage, not only is it real, but it also matters. Otherwise, not.
I also run a consistent payment deficit with my barber. Should that be corrected?
No need to discuss defecit. That's a totally unrelated item. My statement was purely about their infra and manufacturing lead in multiple sectors.
Imagine you are a top student and some other student suddenly gets better marks than you in multiple subjects. You do need to introspect and see where you can improve (Or if you even care about those subjects).
If you don't care about infra and manufacturing, no need to sweat
We've been hearing about this decades.
Yes, you've been hearind that for decades, just like climate change: if you wait for an abrupt treshold with a clear before/after cut , you're going to wait for a while.
China has developed an advanced high speed trains network. You have no idea how much US looks backward on that.
China still opens coal burning power plants, jut also a very large number of renewable and nuclear power plants. They're serious about electrification.
They took the lead in scientific publication.
US needs to put up tariffs to protect its car makers from being wiped out by Chinese ones. Western car makers rely more and more on Chinese batteries suppliers.
All the signs are there. You just need to ackowledge them.
People underestimate just how corrupt, dysfunctional, and incompetent the Chinese system is under the CCP.
As compared to what? In the US, corruption is legal, it's called campaign donation and SuperPAC. At this stage, elections pick which pack of oligarchs will rule: GOP donators or Dems donators.
If the system is so much better, where are the high speed trains, advanced power grid, decarbonation plan, school that can get high potentials to the top, decent healthcare system?
Where are the fruits of this less corrupt dysfunctional and incompetent system?
China's isolation give it the illusion that it's better, but in reality, it's even worse.
Alother delusion from local US news. China is not that isolated, they have developed deep relations with a number of countries in Africa and middle east, and they're a privileged trade partner with many more. Worse even: with the current US policy of tariffs, several countries that were reluctant to have deeper ties with China are pushed in their arms.
Every major Chinese achievement from their mass transit system to their big corporations to their economic growth to them pulling ahead technologically to so many more, all come with big asterisks attached that make them much more questionable.
Meaning what? Their high speed trains are absolutely working. In large cities, half of the cars in the street are electric cars, majority from domestic brands and a few Tesla. They have very advanced and very cheap mass transit networks.
As I was saying: it's just like global warming: if you sit and wait claiming it's not really happening and/or not that bad, you're totally unprepared when disasters hit you.
The only thing I will agree with you here is their emonomy is not half as great as they want to claim. The estate market has been in a free fall in all but the big 4 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guandong, Shenzhen).
But if the US wants to be the first power of the rest of the 21st century world, they need to wake up!
This is the dawn of the new Chinese century. I have no doubt in 20 more years China will be in an even stronger position as the USA continues to decline.
We, the USA, could do all the stuff that would make us competitive. That would require more socialism, more taxing of billionaires, more spending in green energy, education, transportation, healthcare becoming affordable and an actual human right for all in our borders, a real plan to transition off fossil fuels and shore up our domestic energy production and electric grid.
Idk more than that of course but that's the elevator pitch.
We won't do it though because corrupt capitalism and the oligarchy.
Maybe we will if at some point enough of us are struggling but we're pretty fat and have plenty of entertainment to distract us even if we are being fucked. So ... Yeah ... Desperately hoping I'm wrong about most of my predictions, devastated as I keep seeing them come true.
This is the dawn of the new Chinese century.
Betting on a totalitarian kleptocracy saving the world is as unwise as betting in the 1980s that already overworked Japanese wage slaves could be overworked even further.
I didn't say they were going to save the world, no more than the USA did or any nation state turned empire.
I do think China will eclipse America when it comes to being in a position of strong global leadership and the hegemonic power on the world stage. The USA seems to be shirking our duties, reshaping and destroying our society's moral fabric, racing towards worse and worse education results and hellbent on making sure our healthcare is broken and our people are fat and dumb.
It's not a winning recipe, even with a military that can dominate.
Every country has its problems and its demons, China is no different and certainly their problems are complex and grand. As far as greater or lesser evils - I'd put the USA and China about on par for all the fucked up stuff we have done the past hundred years and keep doing now.
I'd love to at least visit China sometime - honestly there's so much fascinating history and getting to see a different approach to community building and infrastructure planning would be neat.
Where can i find reference book on pharmacy?
I'm looking for reference books like Vogel's and remington and for my course.
Does someone know a good place to find them?
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Zebra Crossing: An easy-to-use digital safety checklist
Zebra Crossing: An easy-to-use digital safety checklist
An easy-to-use digital safety checklistzebracrossing.narwhalacademy.org
Consumer Advocates Demand Investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Facilitating Illegal Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery
A coalition of consumer protection, privacy, and digital rights advocacy organizations led by CFA filed a formal request for investigation yesterday afternoon calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce laws against xAI for their promotion, creation, and facilitation of sharing non-consensual intimate imagery (“NCII”) through their “spicy” feature on Grok Imagine, their AI image and video generation platform.
Consumer Advocates Demand Investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Facilitating Illegal Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery · Consumer Federation of America
A coalition of organizations led by CFA filed a formal request for investigation calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce laws against xAI for their promotion, creation, and facilitation of sharing non-consensual intimate im…Consumer Federation of America
New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Already Involve Thousands of Domains
Last month Cloudflare began blocking pirate site domains already subject to blocking orders obtained years ago by Hollywood studios at the High Court in London. With no public announcement from any of the parties and no official information to accurately determine the scale, our estimate of a couple of hundred sites/domains was deliberately low. New information indicates one thousand domains is more realistic, but we can't rule out double that amount either.
New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Already Involve Thousands of Domains * TorrentFreak
New information indicates that Cloudflare blocking of pirate sites in the UK may affect one thousand domains; double that can't be ruled out.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
A People’s Handbook of Surveillance
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A People's Handbook of Surveillance — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
In this handbook, researchers from Morgan State University and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
Display Next Hackfest 2025
Display Next Hackfest 2025
A few weeks ago, a bunch of display driver and compositor developers met once again for the third iteration of the Display Next Hackfest. The tradition was started by Red Hat, followed by Igalia (thanks Melissa), and now AMD (thanks Harry).swick's blog
Ukraine’s Patriots Now Struggling To Intercept Enhanced Russian Ballistic Missiles
Ukraine’s Patriots Now Struggling To Intercept Enhanced Russian Ballistic Missiles
U.S. intel confirms that improvements to Russia's ballistic missiles are proving to be a major challenge for the Patriot air defense system.Joseph Trevithick (The War Zone)
South Africa and China set up a quantum communication link: how we did it and why it’s historic
South Africa and China set up a quantum communication link: how we did it and why it’s historic
The success of Jinan-1 points the way towards networks of quantum microsatellites, making secure global communication a real possibility.The Conversation
Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test.
Is GPT-5 really worse than GPT-4o? Ars puts them to the test.
It’s OpenAI vs. OpenAI on everything from video game strategy to landing a 737.Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
Social housing: The State is now focusing on high-rise construction in Burkina Faso
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
MicroSD cards are tiny but slow; the M.2 storage sticks in your PC are blazing fast but bigger and fully enclosed. Now, a new type of SSD out of China could be the best of both worlds — and it’s already set to appear in two cutting-edge gaming portables.Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is calling it the “Mini SSD,” though another manufacturer refers to it as the “1517”; it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny and just slightly larger than MicroSD. Despite that, it offers maximum sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second (or 3,400MB/s writes) over a PCIe 4x2 connection, and offers 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities.
I suspect this will go over about as well as Samsung's UFS cards.
So, now we have yet another competing standard for removable storage.
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is launching the “Mini SSD,” and it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
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August 15 2025, 10:38 a.m.
When it comes to Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel’s military actions, according to a Gallup poll from last month.A vote at the Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party’s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.
Allison Minnerly, the 26-year-old committee member sponsoring the measure, told The Intercept Thursday that Democratic leaders risk further alienating party members — especially young voters — if they kill the symbolic resolution.
“Our voters, our base, they are saying that they do not want U.S. dollars to enable further death and starvation anywhere across the world, particularly in Gaza,” said Minnerly, a first-term DNC member from Florida. “I don’t think it should be a hard decision for us to say that clearly.”
DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
August 15 2025, 10:38 a.m.When it comes to Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel’s military actions, according to a Gallup poll from last month.A vote at the Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party’s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.
Allison Minnerly, the 26-year-old committee member sponsoring the measure, told The Intercept Thursday that Democratic leaders risk further alienating party members — especially young voters — if they kill the symbolic resolution.
“Our voters, our base, they are saying that they do not want U.S. dollars to enable further death and starvation anywhere across the world, particularly in Gaza,” said Minnerly, a first-term DNC member from Florida. “I don’t think it should be a hard decision for us to say that clearly.”
DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
Democrats say they need enthusiasm among young voters. They aren’t listening to what Gen Z wants.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
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DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
August 15 2025, 10:38 a.m.
When it comes to Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel’s military actions, according to a Gallup poll from last month.A vote at the Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party’s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.
Allison Minnerly, the 26-year-old committee member sponsoring the measure, told The Intercept Thursday that Democratic leaders risk further alienating party members — especially young voters — if they kill the symbolic resolution.
“Our voters, our base, they are saying that they do not want U.S. dollars to enable further death and starvation anywhere across the world, particularly in Gaza,” said Minnerly, a first-term DNC member from Florida. “I don’t think it should be a hard decision for us to say that clearly.”
DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
Democrats say they need enthusiasm among young voters. They aren’t listening to what Gen Z wants.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
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The beauty of a text only webpage
Light websites directories:
- Light Web;
- Bear Blog;
- no-JS Club;
- 1MB Club;
- 512KB Club;
- 250KB Club.
512KB Club
The 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.Kev Quirk (512KB Club)
13.4 Million Mexicans Escaped Poverty Between 2018 & 2024
13.4 Million Mexicans Escaped Poverty Between 2018 & 2024 - Mexico Solidarity Media
The estimate was made using a methodology that considers not only income but also access to social rights such as housing, healthcare, education, and food.Mexico Solidarity (Mexico Solidarity Media)
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[SOLVED] Upgraded to debian 13.0 from 12.11 and now unit NetworkManager.service could not be found. How do I install a network manager now?
I edited the new debian.sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d according to debian instructions, started to upgrade and successfuly upgraded to 13.0, at least core debian (can use mpv, vlc, thunar, libreoffice...)
Problem is, this notebook with debian 13.0 doesnt have a working network manager and there are still 900 packages that need upgrading.
The command I entered in the terminal: sudo systemctl status NetworkManager.service returns: unit NetworkManager.service could not be found.
I have an android phone I thought I could use as a network hotspot or maybe tether, but debian 13.0 doesnt recognize it, so I really dont know what to do
Lan cable didnt work either.
Help appreciated
ETA: THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR AWESOME HELP!!!
special thanks to InnerScientist and stuner for their approach but what worked was what IHave69XiBucks proposed.
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How to validate a large torrented file is clean?
How do you validate that what you torrented is clean/no malware/spyware? Specifically, I torrented two things:
- Astute Graphics Plug-ins Elite Bundle 3.9.1.7z from teamos. It is 678MB so I can't upload to Virustotal
- Master Collection 2025 from uztracker (which is listed on monkrus's website's list of trackers). *It is 37.5GB so I can't upload to Virustotal.
I'm not sure what I should to do to be honest.
Edit: Would splitting the 37.5GB file into 650MB pieces and then scanning with virustotal help? Not sure if downloaded files need to be whole for it to work properly.
This is the results from virustotal (I could only scan 4 files in the master collection without running the iso)
Thank you.
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It it incredibly difficult to vet with 100% certainty that a binary you run it safe. If you have the source code, its so much easier. As others have said, the best way in piracy to be safe is downloading from a reputable source. Monkrus is pretty good. I am assuming you're referring to the Adobe master collection? If so, GenP is excellent (and open source).
If you are on windows, one thing you can do is run any programs in sandboxie and see what it writes to the disc. If it tries to edit things that it shouldn't like the registry or parts of the os that would be a red flag.
You could also setup firewall rules to block the application from accessing the internet. I am on macOS so I use a program called little snitch (lulu by objective see is also good). I am not familiar with the windows side of things. But essentially what I do is block the program and any processes it starts.
If you want to learn more about malware, objective-see.org/ is a great resource. It's macOS focused however but I've learned a ton from it. In particular their book on mac malware teaches a lot of analysis techniques.
The Objective-See Foundation
A non-profit foundation, focusing on macOS security.The Objective-See Foundation
Netanyahu’s zealous designs for a “Greater Israel,” Trump rejects calls for D.C. statehood in favor of martial law, and Israeli intelligence’s influence in Big Tech
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34725607
Drop Site Daily [news summary]
Aug 14, 2025At least 54 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, 23 of whom by Israeli strikes on Gaza City and at an aid site near Rafah. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approves roughly 3,400 settlements in the “E1” zone between East Jerusalem and Ma‘ale Adumim seeking to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for an expansionist Greater Israel. Israel sends a deputy foreign minister to South Sudan a day after reports that Israel aims to send Palestinians from Gaza to the country. U.S. President Donald Trump rejects Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for making D.C. a state, calling it “ridiculous.” Nigeria’s anti-insurgency campaign in its northeast is heralded by the Nigerian military. New Zealand’s co-chair of the Green Party was expelled from Parliament after introducing a bill to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza. A new report from Drop Site's Murtaza Hussain on the increasing ties between Israeli military intelligence and Silicon Valley.
Netanyahu’s zealous designs for a “Greater Israel,” Trump rejects calls for D.C. statehood in favor of martial law, and Israeli intelligence’s influence in Big Tech
Drop Site Daily [news summary]
Aug 14, 2025At least 54 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, 23 of whom by Israeli strikes on Gaza City and at an aid site near Rafah. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approves roughly 3,400 settlements in the “E1” zone between East Jerusalem and Ma‘ale Adumim seeking to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for an expansionist Greater Israel. Israel sends a deputy foreign minister to South Sudan a day after reports that Israel aims to send Palestinians from Gaza to the country. U.S. President Donald Trump rejects Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for making D.C. a state, calling it “ridiculous.” Nigeria’s anti-insurgency campaign in its northeast is heralded by the Nigerian military. New Zealand’s co-chair of the Green Party was expelled from Parliament after introducing a bill to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza. A new report from Drop Site's Murtaza Hussain on the increasing ties between Israeli military intelligence and Silicon Valley.
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Netanyahu’s zealous designs for a “Greater Israel,” Trump rejects calls for D.C. statehood in favor of martial law, and Israeli intelligence’s influence in Big Tech
Drop Site Daily [news summary]
Aug 14, 2025
At least 54 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, 23 of whom by Israeli strikes on Gaza City and at an aid site near Rafah. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approves roughly 3,400 settlements in the “E1” zone between East Jerusalem and Ma‘ale Adumim seeking to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for an expansionist Greater Israel. Israel sends a deputy foreign minister to South Sudan a day after reports that Israel aims to send Palestinians from Gaza to the country. U.S. President Donald Trump rejects Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for making D.C. a state, calling it “ridiculous.” Nigeria’s anti-insurgency campaign in its northeast is heralded by the Nigerian military. New Zealand’s co-chair of the Green Party was expelled from Parliament after introducing a bill to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza. A new report from Drop Site's Murtaza Hussain on the increasing ties between Israeli military intelligence and Silicon Valley.
Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest from Jeremy Scahill on ceasefire talks
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34725496
Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.
Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest from Jeremy Scahill on ceasefire talks
Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.
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Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest from Jeremy Scahill on ceasefire talks
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Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.
Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest from Jeremy Scahill on ceasefire talks
Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.
Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest from Jeremy Scahill on ceasefire talks
Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025
At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.
Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34724770
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
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Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts video showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, who has spent more than 20 years in Israeli custodyTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
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Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34724770
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]
Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts video showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, who has spent more than 20 years in Israeli custodyTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
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updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]
Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts video showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, who has spent more than 20 years in Israeli custodyTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
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Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]
Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened
Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts video showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, who has spent more than 20 years in Israeli custodyTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
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Under the hood (not de's or gui) what REALLY separates linux from windows?
Is it just / ?
I kid. But really, besides "its all a file", if you take away the gui, is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?
If we stripped all ms's junk out and made windows open source, would we still prefer linux?
When you get to a very basic level, is one of them more efficiently coded?
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Yes we would still prefer Linux.
Windows is just a single object without any modularity. With Linux by itself is of course just a barebones kernal waiting to be added to. You can choose which gnu libraries to use you can chose which package manager to use you can chose which desktop environment to use (or ommit it entirely.) Windows doesn't have that option.
As well since the source code for linux has been open for over 30 years people know how it works, it would take ages for people to study windows and actually figure out how to do anything with it.
Up until 95, Windows was mostly a desktop environment for DOS. From 95 to ME, Windows was an OS that used DOS as its bootloader. Not sure how to put it, but it was simplistic and fundamentally different from Linux.
The thing with NT-based Windows (including modern editions) is that the underlying system is joined at the hip with the GUI. Whereas Linux with your choice of coreutils is a perfectly capable OS without the GUI, many features of Windows are only accessible through the GUI.
Given enough time and resources, pretty much anything exclusive to Windows could be ported to Linux and vice versa. A lot of the difference just comes down to history and the ensuing conventions, workflows, and file hierarchies.
Even if we stripped out all the cruft and spaghetti code from Windows, there would be lots of nasty idiosyncrasies in its design, informed by its OS/2 and VMS (see Dave Cutler) heritage, profit maximization, revolving door of devs and interns, and years of bending over backwards to accommodate legacy programs.
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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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You need to nerd out!!
0100 Solar panels: Most efficient self-sustained energy source
0200 Decentralization: The process by which the activities are distributed away from a central authority
0400_1another_: CONNECTING WITH LANOTHER THRU 1 OF 1
UPCYCLED CLOTHING (O)
0500 CDC: Hacktivism, free and open source software and encryption
0600 Gardening: Wether guerilla or not it beautifies the places and combats global warming
0700 shebuildsrobots: o
Fashioneering (O)
0800 Collaboration: Globally or locally cooperation always wins over competition
1000 Instructables: Collection of DIY projects empowering makers
1100 Hydroponics: horticulture which involves growing plants without soil in an artificial environment.
"smartprinters"
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •The company who has fired employees who have spoken out about their complicity in the genocide is going to do an internal investigation?
Yeah, I'm sure this will be fruitful. 🙄