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Best way to transport a computer out of country?

So I have a job that will be getting me out of the US. For most things I’m not to worried, except for my computer. What would be the best way to securely move it and also not potentially worry about damaging it?

It’ll be a given that I have an encrypted off-site (cloud) back up, but I’m torn about removing the drives to hand carry and then shipping the chassis. My only worry about that would be customs stopping me because of carrying hard drives… more specifically 3x M.2, which I’m not as worried about and 4x 2.5” SSDs

Thoughts?

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eleitl

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When I briefly moved to US end 1990s I put the motherboard and hard drives in hand luggage so I only had to buy the chassis and power supply there. This earned me a wipedown for explosive traces at the control. Asking "this is because of Lockerby, isn't it?" did not help things.

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AtHeartEngineer

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Definitely take the GPU out and heatsink off the CPU, when it gets banged around both of those things because of their mass can fuck up your motherboard. I moved a lot for about a decade of my lifr and had multiple desktops get fucked up.

I'd also check these out: amazon.com/Shipping-Temperatur…

Amazon.com

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Troubleshooting URL opening

Hi guys! So a few weeks ago I installed 'WinApps', which allows for running any windows app in Linux...through an RDP viewport. For almost any app, it really feels like its running natively within your Linux DE, and it really is awesome.

Anyway, I think during the app setup, it kinda associated any/all URL links to be opened by Firefox....the one running within Windows! So whenever I click on an URL, it spins up the VM, or if already running, it opens a WINDOWS Firefox. I tried changing the default in my KDE settgins - Default Applications - Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox (the Linux one!). So the behavior now when I click on any URL is....to open a blank Linux Firefox window. It ignores the clicked link and it doesn't open anything else. What can I do to associate the URLs with Firefox?

Thanks!

GitHub - Fmstrat/winapps: Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. - Fmstrat/winapps

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just_another_person

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xdg-open is responsible for handling those. You just need to change what it thinks the default might be: reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/co…

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Luke

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This sounds like a perfect use-case for setting Junction as your default "browser": flathub.org/en/apps/re.sonny.J…

It shows a dialog when you open a URL, allowing you to specify which browser you want to use each time.

browser selection popup

In theory, you could then open links in your host OS browser usually, but still be able to select the VM browser easily sometimes.

Install Junction on Linux | Flathub

Application chooser

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TIL about EMF paints that purportedly block em radiation

Given that EM serves as a lense into our homes, would this provide an effective counter measure??

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jesse

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I haven't looked into it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the claims of emf paint are overstated.

Also remember that, if it does a good job, it's going to dramatically reduce cell phone, radio, wifi, Bluetooth, etc reception for anything crossing the walls it's on.

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Ŝan

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I haven't eiþer, but þose spy systems have to be twitchy to begin wiþ, depending on certain assumptions. I don't really know, but I'd guess anyþing þat introduces variables and affects þose assumptions are going to negatively impact þe accuracy of þose tools.

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SippyCup

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Why so thorny?

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jesse

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I don't know if that's true. There is always a fair bit of conductive stuff in walls (wires, pipes, etc) that these sorts of systems already need to be able to handle in order to be interesting. The paints feel like they could easily be snake oil.

If OP really wants to do something about this, grounded chicken wire mesh should do the job, but that's a lot more work.

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Ŝan

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True... I really don't know enough to know how twitchy þey are.

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Treczoks

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I can tell you it does work. I'm working in a lab painted with such stuff. No, we are not doing anything nefarious, but we had developments stints into wireless and radio technology, and having a properly shielded room to work in helps avoiding trouble with the neighbors. I don't think they would appreciate getting their wifi jammed when someone here is trying to find a bug in a sender or something like this...

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jesse

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Cool. Are you using anything beyond paint (mesh in the walls or something)? Also, what brand of paint?

It definitely seems like something that should be able to work (to some degree), but also something that it would be pretty easy to scam.

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Treczoks

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No idea what exactly was used. This was done when they built the building, way before my time in the company.

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carmo55

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If you make a room's walls and ceiling/floor electrically conductive (with paint or tin foil or wire mesh), you create a faraday cage. And as long as the gaps are small enough (proportional to the wavelength of the signal you want to block), nothing in those frequencies is getting in or out. A Faraday bag for your phone might be cheaper, though.

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jesse

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Absolutely, chicken wire in the walls (if property set up) will do a lot. My point was that I have never run into rigorous third party testing around the paint, so the marketing may make it sound far better than it actually is.

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CameronDev

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This is well into literal tin foil hattery, but:

You'd have to check what kind of frequency range it actually protects against, and you'd need a way to test it (no doubt there is some fake emf paint around as well).

You could also wrap your walls in chicken wire and get a pretty decent Faraday cage effect for cheapish.

It'll also break your wifi and phone (if it works).

Unless you are running a spy agency, this is just a waste of effort IMO.

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sp3ctr4l

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Yeah I have no idea about anti EMF paint... if... that actually worked, that would be notable... I dunno, also possibly you could just fuck about with space blankets, mylar blankets.

They're not that pricey, and worst case scenario, you now have some fairly effective emergency radiative insulation, if you need to bounce a lot of sunlight away from a window, to help keep a room cooler, or invert and wrap around yourself to keep you warmer, or keep internal heat from escaping through a window.

They may have some mild EMF blocking ability, I have no real idea.

And yeah, to a certain extent... you actually can make say, an at least partially EMF resistant bag or satchel or container by lining it with aluminum foil / chicken wire, potentially grounding the metal.

Lets just say I totally don't know anything about how my friend used to shoplift way back in the day.

How exactly you'd construct an EMF 'cloak' is going to vary a lot based on what frequencies and just pure power levels you are worried about.

Making your room or house or a box able to be a black hole for... 5g, wifi, bluetooth... is going to be different than making it a black hole for say... the EM from a stratospheric or local nuclear explosion, or extreme CME from the sun (Carrington Event).

In a pinch, most microwave ovens are at least half decent faraday cages (no dont nuke the stuff in the microwave).

Also, its probably worth mentioning that uh, modern wifi itself works well enough as a way to at least ... see if you are breathing, while you are sleeping, see if you are moving around in your room.

technologyreview.com/2024/02/2…

Hopefully I do not need to tell people that smart devices are bad and that you are much more likely to be precisely geolocated in a city not by triangulation of cell towers or even gps, but by which wifi routers, where, sense you.

If you are at all concerned with your privacy of movement, maybe just turn your cellphone off, or at least put in airplane mode, or turn off wifi and gps, when you dont need them.

Saves battery too lol!

How Wi-Fi sensing became usable tech

After a decade of obscurity, the technology is being used to track people’s movements.

^{Meg Duff (MIT Technology Review)}

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CameronDev

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EMF paint definitely exists, its been used on military planes for decades now. But the emf paint from Aliexpress? Definitely sus.

EMF observation may be technically capable of all of those things, but realistically, anyone who would go to that extreme (of targetting a single households occupants) is equally capable/likely to just barge in, arrest you and slap an ankle monitor and security cameras in your house. So its kinda pointless to worry about it.

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sp3ctr4l

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I mean, yeah, I was gonna say... EMF paint exists.

It tends to be refferred to as, or as some component of RAM... radar absorbment material.

Yeah, every... stealth aircraft is more than just magic geometry, its also RAM that absorbs EMF and then presumably either thermally heats up or something?

That shit is unimaginably classified.

But yes, you're right that basically any entity capable of wifi sensing your precise movements in a room, is also just gonna knock down your door.

They would be using the wifi sensing to determine that you are actually home, or something like that, as opposed to using a thermal camera or laser acoustics or something like that.

Pointless to 'worry' about it? Yeah probably, if they're already going that far, you are probably already fucked more or less no matter what you do.

Good to be aware that it like... exists, though, in a more general, broad way.

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CameronDev

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That shit is unimaginably classified

Check warthunder forums 😁

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sp3ctr4l

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I really really hope that is a joke, and the precise mixture and production process for some kind of RAM has not been leaked on warthunder.

On the other hand, if it is has...

Then maybe aliexpress EMF paint is maybe worth actually trying.

Holy shit this world is so stupid.

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carmo55

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I think aliexpress EMF paint has a good chance of working. All you need is some kind of conductor (usually graphite, that's literally just pencil lead) mixed with some kind of adhesive. I'm not sure how the adhesive doesn't stop electricity flow (maybe there's just so much graphite it doesn't matter), anyways you can buy graphite spray in any electronics hobby store, a paint is just that with a different consistency.

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Ŝan

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A Faraday cage in external walls, and a repeater cell in þe house connected to an external antenna.

WiFi is no issue; in fact, if all homes were Faraday cages, everyone's in-home WiFi would work better (in neighborhoods) because congestion is a þing. So þe real issue is cellular reception in-house. One solution is to use WiFi calling, which most phones support. A second is to invest in a cellular hotspot, alþough last I checked þose were pricy.

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CameronDev

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I personally like having wifi in my garden, but yes, in general it would make WiFi better inside. And painting internal walls would be silly.

Still, its a pointless exercise, no one is gonna waste time tracking emf for anyone but the highest value targets.

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pound_heap

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An outdoor WiFi access point would help with garden coverage

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CameronDev

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So would not Faraday caging my house, guess which is cheaper 😁

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Ŝan

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Absolutely; it'd be a waste of money. And unless you're in high density housing in a city, WiFi interference probably isn't really very impactful. I was just sayin'.

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xkcd.com/538/

Security

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Screen_Shatter

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There are lots of ways to block those signals. Paint is a dubious method. Look into Faraday cages. Tin or copper ceilings and roofs found in old homes have a tendency to do this. Thick concrete works pretty well too.

Here's the thing - it will block all signals. Say goodbye to cell service. Make sure you have wired connections where you need them.

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“The things, you say,\
You’re unbelievable.”

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Matt

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Just put foam on the walls.

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utopiah

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"counter measure" against what?

If you have in mind dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2486001… then yes, sure, might help against that but honestly if your adversary has this kind of setup, you are in trouble. First what kind of information are you preserving that they would not be able to get otherwise, e.g. just watch through windows, mirrors through windows, hacking Webcam on computers, toys, phones, etc?

IMHO that's like .0001% improvement for a lot of effort so unless you already are pretty much entirely offline, live in the woods with your blind closed, they it's a lot of energy for pretty much no change.

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atrielienz

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RAM (Radar Absorbing Material) coatings have existed for quite awhile. We use them for all kinds of stuff in the military industrial complex. The main question I have is who is doing upkeep to make sure that material/paint is intact and still maintains efficacy. And also how much is that going to cost? This isn't new tech, but it sounds like some company is trying to market it to people afraid of 5G based entirely on the commentary here.

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icelimit

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"stealth house"

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irmadlad

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It's nice to know about, but imho, that's fairly high level paronia for the average citizen.

Reminds me of this picture.

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Youthful Optimism

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Briefly about the job market

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Please don't speak Italian with goat

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eldavi

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are the goats still pissed off about mussolini? lol

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Robert Paulson

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THat's old, and racist.

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Back to the colony: Panama is losing its sovereignty with the return of US troops

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eldavi

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the US empire is reasserting its control over latin america because of brics and it will work.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I don't know that it will. The key weapon the US used against Latin America before was economic warfare. Now that an alternate economic bloc exists, it's going to be much harder to subjugate Latin America, and the US simply does not have the means to do this through military force.

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eldavi

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mexico is keeping that alternative economic bloc at arms length to avoid incurring the wrath of the us like venezuela did and the likes of el salvador, columbia, bolivia and peru are welcoming us military intervention like the austrians did for the nazis in 1939.

argentina is already in the bloc and they're clawing of every legal avenue to extricate itself and brazil doesn't have the clout to influence the rest of latin america like mexico or argentina or columbia can.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I mean we'll see what happens, but personally I cannot imagine that the US has the capacity to dominate Latin America right now. It's also wroth keeping in mind that the US itself is on a brink of an economic collapse at this point.

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eldavi

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that's why they're welcoming american intervention; their economies are tied to the us and the neoliberal gov'ts that the us imposed onto them are reaching out for the us as a bull work to prevent them from losing their grasp entirely.

if china lets venezuela fall into the us' hands like the soviet union let cuba go; then brics' gains in the americas will be reversed and the time frame will fit in before the us declines enough to prevent it.

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But the elephant in the room here is that America's own economy is on life support right now. This whole economic integration with the US that you're talking about is predicated on the US boosting Latin American economies. What happens when the US has a 2008 style crash, which seems like the most likely scenario in the near future?

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eldavi

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it's not their economies that they're trying to shore up (although there's no doubt they want that as well); it's their control of their nations that matter most to them and the us still has the military strength to do so.

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It all comes down to economics in the end. All these governments have to have at least some level of legitimacy to stay in power, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate then we'll see more and more of what's happening in Argentina and Chile with growing public unrest and political instability. Meanwhile, the US ability to provide military strength has also been greatly diminished over the past three years. The US is literally not able to keep up with military production to shore up its proxy war in Ukraine. On top of that, they're propping up Israel, and attempting to confront China. The empire is spread very thin right now.

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Saudi Arabia signs mutual defence pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan

Pact declares any attack on Saudi Arabia or Pakistan an attack on both, deepening shared security alliance.

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This is a smart move and should be expanded to include more countries. Though the reality of this is that Pakistan will be doing all the defending.

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-- using chinese military tech

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Syrskyi dismisses 2 corps commanders over lost territory, media reports

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has dismissed Volodymyr Silenko, head of the 17th Corps, and Maksym Kituhin, commander of the 20th Corps.

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TIL that tankietube is part of the fediverse

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Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza

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Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT

“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”

Peter Link

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Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza

[about f---ing time!]
Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT
“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”

Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza
Vermont senator had taken flak for avoiding term as UN panel says Israel’s conduct meets criteria for genocide
^{Joseph Gedeon (The Guardian)}

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Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza

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Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT

“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”

Peter Link

2025-09-17 23:42:52

Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza

[about f---ing time!]
Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT
“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”

Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza
Vermont senator had taken flak for avoiding term as UN panel says Israel’s conduct meets criteria for genocide
^{Joseph Gedeon (The Guardian)}

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Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36304935

[about f---ing time!]

Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT

“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”

Peter Link

2025-09-17 23:42:52

Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza

[about f---ing time!]
Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Wed 17 Sep 2025 18.18 EDT
“We, as Americans, must end our complicity in the slaughter of the Palestinian people,” he wrote. “Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire, a massive surge of humanitarian aid facilitated by the UN, and initial steps to provide Palestinians with a state of their own.”
He now joins a small but growing list of House members including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as Vermont representative Becca Balint, who also called it a genocide earlier in the day.
“Today, I believe the Israeli government is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people,” Balint wrote in an op-ed in the Courier. “As the granddaughter of a man murdered in the Holocaust, it is not easy for me to say that.”

Bernie Sanders becomes first US senator to say Israel committing genocide in Gaza
Vermont senator had taken flak for avoiding term as UN panel says Israel’s conduct meets criteria for genocide
^{Joseph Gedeon (The Guardian)}

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Polish F-16 Fires Missile at House While Aiming for Russian Drone

Missile misfired during drone interception landed on Polish home, no casualties reported

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Flyberius [comrade/them]

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Would love to see the cost of the missile Vs the drone

like this

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“You Can’t Bomb The Truth Away” - Mehdi’s POWERFUL speech About Palestinian Journalists

Mehdi CALLS OUT Israel to 12,000 People: 'You Can’t Bomb The Truth Away'

Silence is often rare in an arena filled with thousands of people, including A-list actors such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Riz Ahmed, and Guy Pierce, and famou...

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Trump's Blunders in Middle East, Ukraine Russia War /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Larry Johnson

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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.

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Nature Index: 2025 Leading Research Institutions

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In Gaza, the so-called 'evacuation of civilians' is a trail of bombs and death

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36303524

by Amira Hass
Sept 17, 2025

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 – 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬."

Peter Link

2025-09-17 23:04:06

In Gaza, the so-called 'evacuation of civilians' is a trail of bombs and death

by Amira Hass
Sept 17, 2025
"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 – 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬."

In Gaza, the so-called 'evacuation of civilians' is a trail of bombs and death
Gaza is being wiped off the map, stone by stone. "Words are losing their meaning and can no longer convey what is happening," one resident writes
^{Amira Hass (Haaretz)}

#Worldnews

Peter Link via Palestine

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In Gaza, the so-called 'evacuation of civilians' is a trail of bombs and death

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36303524

by Amira Hass
Sept 17, 2025

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 – 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬."

Peter Link

2025-09-17 23:04:06

In Gaza, the so-called 'evacuation of civilians' is a trail of bombs and death

by Amira Hass
Sept 17, 2025
"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 – 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬."

In Gaza, the so-called 'evacuation of civilians' is a trail of bombs and death
Gaza is being wiped off the map, stone by stone. "Words are losing their meaning and can no longer convey what is happening," one resident writes
^{Amira Hass (Haaretz)}

#Palestine

irmadlad via Privacy

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irmadlad
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Where Are All My Firewall People?

What do you run; Opnsense, pfsense, Smoothwall, maybe a WAF like wazuh?

Today was update/audit firewall day. I'm running a standalone instance of pFsense on a Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port - Intel Quad Core - 8GB RAM - 120GB mSATA SSD with unbound, pfBlockerNG, Suricata, ntopng, and heavily filtered. I did bump the swap to 8 GB as I've previously noticed a few 'out of swap' errors under load.

Before I signed off, I ran it through a couple porn sites to see if my adblocking strategy was working. Not one intrusive ad. Sweet!

Show me what you got.

#privacy

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Hobbes_Dent

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OpenBSD pf

Edit: just home/hobby now, I’m not in tech anymore.

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irmadlad

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OpenBSD pf

I'd never heard of it so I went and checked it out. It seems to have a lot of pFsense/Opnsense features just managed from the cli. Cool.

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Hobbes_Dent

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It’s the ‘pf’ in pfSense.

pf is developed as part of the OpenBSD project and is the built in packet filter/firewall.

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JovialSodium

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Also this. On some unremarkable HP office PC that's probably about a decade old. No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house. I've thought about trying a second unbound service with adblocking for me, but haven't gotten around to it.

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trailee

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I run a secondary wifi network with “Ads” in its name, whose vlan doesn’t get forced into pihole DNS. It mostly prevents me from having to hear complaints from others in the house, and they barely ever use it.

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JovialSodium

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I quite like this idea, thanks! If I did this I could adblock all the rest of my network, which might help with blocking ads on things like smart TV's. I could also DMZ that wireless network. I would consider their devices untrusted (not malicious, just not careful), and they wouldn't notice the difference.

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irmadlad

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No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house

Ahhh the WAF (Wife Aceptance Factor). I made a seperate Vlan for my lady friend so when she comes over to visit, I don't have to reinvent the wheel for her. She can have all the ads and slop she can stomach, just keep it on your seperate branch and we'll both be happy.

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HotChickenFeet

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Opnsense on dedicated device, several built in filters + several github backed filters for unbounddns.

Haven't tested it heavily, but the times I am on an outside network not using VPN into my network, or using TOR, etc, i am inundated with ads... So i guess successful internally.

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irmadlad

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outside network not using VPN ........ i am inundated with ads…

I swear I do not know how the regular Joe Schmoe internet user deals with all that clutter. Sometimes I am called by a friend to look at their computer for some issue they are having. It is mind bogglingly frustrating for me.

like this

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Nightlight

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We're behind our firewalls of course 😋 I'm using a random no root android firewall but I'm probably just going to root it and use something good

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kalpol

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Pfsense with pfblocker in a VM.
Works wonders. Pipe fail2ban to pfblocker for extra goodness.

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irmadlad

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Pipe fail2ban to pfblocker for extra goodness.

The thought has crossed my mind on several occasions. If you don't mind me asking and take up your time, how do you integrate f2b with pFsense? I'm running f2b on several VPS I have, and it just downright works. So, my thought was, what would f2b do to enhance pFsense's capabilities, and how would you make that all homogenate?

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kalpol

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Been a while since I set it up but as I recall it's a 5-minute from job that runs a command that just dumps the pf block list fail2ban manages into a text file in my public_html directory. Then I just add a feed in pfblocker with the address of the text file and it loads from that feed.

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irmadlad

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I'll see if I can dig up some info. I started searching, then got busy. So I put the few I had time to find in a selfhosted Readeck instance. I use it for 'read it later' kind of bookmarks.

Thanks for the share.

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kalpol

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Or swapping networks around!

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nbailey

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I run iptables on Debian, on a cheap aliexpress minipc with dual NICs. Been using more or less the same config for about five years. It’s simple, boring, and works great.

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irmadlad

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It’s simple, boring, and works great.

One cannot quibble with long term success. Admitidly tho, I am a sucker for a good UI. One of the first things I do when researching a piece of opensource software is to do an image search to see what it looks like. LOL

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monovergent

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Same. Immeasurably disappointed whenever the repo for a GUI program does not include any screenshots.

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poccalyps

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Opnsense on protectlii. Nothing but love.

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irmadlad

in reply to poccalyps • 1 mese fa • •

Protectli

I love my Protectli. I tried Opnsense. Seemed to be a well put together piece of open source software by people really who care. There's nothing wrong with it. Does what it says on the tin. I guess I just liked the flow of pFsense. They both acomplish the same thing. I am aware of the pro's and the cons of each. pFsense just appealed to me more.

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Hellfire103

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My firewall varies from installation-to-installation, as it's always client-side with a custom DNS provider. Right now, I'm using YaST Firewall on my main machine, iptables on my old ThinkPad, and my other machines are currently between operating systems. In the past, I have also dabbled in ufw, pf, and awall.

In addition to that, I generally use NextDNS (though I also get excellent results with Mullvad DNS).

My policy is simple: reject all incoming connections, except for Torrent and Syncthing.

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irmadlad

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NextDNS

I hear a lot of good things about NextDNS.

My policy is simple:

Do you call your network Virgin, because that's pretty tight.

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Ŝan

in reply to irmadlad • 1 mese fa • •

nftables. Deny all, start adding stuff until þings work.

My firewalls are simple, b/c I run a private VPN and just shut off all traffic except over WG. I've got one exposed VPS reverse proxying services from oþer VPSes over WG.

But: nftables, and only nftables. I'm a big believer in understanding how stuff works, and þe rulesets created by firewalld and ilk are convoluted - complexity adds risk.

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irmadlad

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Rock on!

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warbond

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Haha, I thought that said "until pings work"

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Ŝan

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Also an accurate reading.

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rumba

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Ubiquiti DM pro with its built in suricata. Honeypots, no remote mgmt, ACLs to minimum need, HA networks in isolation. DPI, multiple pi-holes. Phone alerts on intrusion wazuh just for node security compliance. ManageEngine for patches. NTFY alerts on console access.

It's not perfect

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Billegh

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Hiding behind my firewalls. Shhhhh.

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kylian0087

in reply to Billegh • 1 mese fa • •

Nock nock, someone's home?

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Billegh

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RST

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irmadlad

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Sitting in my bunker

Hid behind my wall.....

In perfect isolation here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

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Broken

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Opnsense with unbound DNS here. Running on an old PC that got converted to dedicated firewall (with added NIC card for ports).
Nothing crazy, just enough to control what communicates out of my network.

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irmadlad

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Used to do the same thing with an old PC. Hell, at one time I was running one off a laptop with USB to RJ45 adapters for the WAN/LAN ports.

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The Bard in Green

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OpenWRT.

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irmadlad

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I've always wondered about OpenWRT. In my uneducated thinking, running an access point/wifi, firewall, router, etc, all in the same package would create a bottleneck right at the point you wouldn't want it. What has been your experience?

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The Bard in Green

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Everything works fine. It's super handy having such fine control over my router.

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Wurzelfurz

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I run IPFire on a PC Engines apu4d4 (pcengines.ch/apu4d4.htm). I use dynDNS, WireGuard and set up a DMZ with it. I also have a WiFi card installed und use hostAPD to run that.

I think they stopped producing them because the AMD SOC they used is EOL. I was a big fan of their open platform.

PC Engines apu4d4 product file

PC Engines apu4d4 system board

^pcengines.ch

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s3rvant

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pfSense on this:
https://a.co/d/6WpafWQ

I also block outgoing port 53 only allowing my Pihole through.

I use Tailscale to access the network while away.

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irmadlad

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Do you run unbound on pFsense?

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s3rvant

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No my pfSense setup is fairly minimal

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eldavi

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Show me what you got.

you're doing the same thing i am, so there's not point. lol

eldavi

2025-02-14 21:49:08

Future Proofing Server

my home server needs to be redone and i'm seeking ideas on how to future proof it. here's some ascii art in a screenshot to help describe how it's currently setup:
description (left to right):
- laptops, smartphones, tables, etc connect to an access point configured on a windows 10 virtual machine (vm). the windows10 vm uses pci passthrough on the wireless adapter and this is done to get gigabit wifi speeds since intel's drivers won't allow linux to do this in ap mode; but will allow it just fine if you're using windows.
- requests from the wifi clients are passed via dns & ip masquerade to another virtual machine based on pfsense
- pfsense serves as the router, firewall, vpn, ad blocking & web hosting and it's also configured to use pci passthrough on the primary network interface to gap internet traffic from the server
- the center of the drawing shows how i perform data backups using a wired connection with a hardware switch and i setup the host ubuntu server to manage dhcp on the secondary network interface & the devices that are connect to the switch. the data is stored using rsync and harddrives are setup to use an extremely large lvm made of several different types of hard drives.
i've rebuilt this server multiple times each time i encountered a "gotcha" or a surprise that i had not anticipated and it made some needful component stop working; so i'm seeking advice from Lemmy on how to redesign this to mitigate future surprises.
some of the surprises i've encountered so far are:
- the pfsense logs overfilled the root volume of the bsd based vm because logrotate was configured for linux. the image is hardcoded with a single volume so i will need to find a way to borrow some space from the backup volume using nfs and configure the logs to write there instead of locally.
- i have no key for the windows10 vm; so i'm forced to clone it's qcow image and manually configure the hotspot each time the 30 day free trial from microsoft expires. I intend to improve upon this creating an ansible job to rotate this virtual machine every 30 days automatically and include powershell based tasks to configure the hotspot in windows automatically
- intel limits the speed for linux native internet connection sharing to 100 megabits (already mentioned & fixed above)
- the local users home volume overfills when trying to take my google backups (already fixed)
constraints:
- don't spend anymore $$$
- gigabyte wifi is A MUST

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irmadlad

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Yeah, but you got charts n' graphs and a big writeup. Nice job.

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Zoma

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I've been using Ufw but airvpn's kill switch seems to override it, should i be using something else?

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irmadlad

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I have found that a lot of VPN kill switches interfere with other security measures. For instance, I use tailscale on my VPS. I also run a local VPN. If I have the kill switch on the local VPN engaged, it interferes with tailscale and I cannot ssh in to my VPS. So, a not so elegant solution for me is to disengage the local VPN's kill switch for that session, and then re-enable it after I am finished administering my VPS. After which I will do a DNS leak check to make sure everything is as it was. Takes a couple of quick steps, but it seems to work.

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ki9

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I think I have the same protectli as you and it is awesome. Need it for my 2.5gb uplink. I use openwrt on it... Didn't really like opnsense. I am more used to linux than bsd.

I host lots of services and get bombarded by scrapers, scanners, and skids both at home and on my VPSs.

I use ipset for the usual blocklists which I download regularly. I also have tarpits on 22/tcp (endlessh). I pipe the IPs from the endlessh logs into fail2ban which feeds the ipsets. I have ipset blocks and fail2ban on my home firewall and all VPSs and coordinate over mqtt. So any fail2ban trigger > mqtt > every ipset block. Touch my 22/tcp anywhere and you get banned instantly everywhere. The program I use for this is called vallumd and it runs on openwrt.

I also put maltrail everywhere but I'm not totally sure how to interpret and respond to the results. Probably will implement a pipe from maltrail to my mqtt > blocklist setup.

I don't do any network-level adblocking... Might be a future project.

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irmadlad

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I think I have the same protectli as you and it is awesome

Yes it is. It was a little more than I wanted to spend, and I'm sure I could have gone with a cheaper configuration, but I figured I'd get something with a little ass to it as to not create a bottleneck right at the firewall.

I host lots of services and get bombarded by scrapers, scanners, and skids both at home and on my VPSs.
Touch my 22/tcp anywhere and you get banned instantly everywhere.

I too host most of the services I use on a couple of VPS I run. It has always amazed me as to the thickness of the bot layer on the internet. Clearnet experiences something like 2+ zetabytes per 24 hours. Around 50% of that is bot traffic, and they are very sophisticated bots as well. Open port 22 and here they come by the thousands like a feeding frenzy. I went as far as blocking everything with hosts.allow (do first) & hosts.deny (do last). I've set f2b on aggressive mode with only one shot. LOL UFW rocks in the background along with Crowdsec. I probably go overboard with security. LOL

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ki9

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Largest ddos attack of all time? 12 tb/sec.

But yeah, I believe it when you say you get 24,855 tb/sec on your VPS.

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irmadlad

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Beg pardon? I am going to need clarification.

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swelter_spark

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I use firewalld with a script that automatically updates a blocklist of known shady IPs.

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MangoPenguin

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OpenWRT on a Linksys router, with adguard home for DNS blocking.

I used to run OPNSense on some older x86 hardware, but wanted to move to something simpler and less power hungry.

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weewkron

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Pfsense guy here, and professionally Palo alto guy. Can someone tl;dr the purpose of blockerng and suricata? I thought I remember the Lawrence systems folks mentioning using it for IPS but with segmentation at home "human" IPS seems more relevant than digital

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irmadlad

in reply to weewkron • 1 mese fa • •

Suricata: Open source IDS/IPS
PfBlockerNG: Used to block ads, malicious content, and manage access based on IP geolocation and domain names. It provides features like DNS-based blocking

Some of the features of both overlap which might not be a bad thing.

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weewkron

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Thanks for the succinct reply!

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thermal_shock

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Nothing fancy, old ubiquiti gateway with a dedicated pihole server for my DNS.

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PlutoniumAcid

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Same. What's the deal with having elaborate firewall stuff for a normal family home anyway?

If the built in stuff isn't good enough then 99.9% of households would be compromised a long time ago already.

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thermal_shock

in reply to PlutoniumAcid • 1 mese fa • •

Some of it is for fun and testing, learning. Which I used to do. I used to have an old watchdog that I put pfsense on, just don't need it nowadays.

Once i learn how it works and have run through the setup, I move on. Just need to spend my time in other areas, but now I have an understanding of it and can apply that logic or idea to other things and troubleshooting.

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PlutoniumAcid

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This is perfectly valid! I to a lot of tinkering with selfhosting using Docker containers, and I have learned a ton from that. I feel a bit silly that I didn't make the connection with firewalls - just tinkering for fun!

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irmadlad

in reply to PlutoniumAcid • 1 mese fa • •

The last stats I remember reading cited some 1.5 million home networks are compromised on a daily basis. Some people, such as myself, run more complex services on their local servers that are perhaps tied into remotes such as VPS. You'll see a lot of selfhosters with rather elaborate firewall defenses set up. I self host a lot of services I use that the 'normal family home' would outsource to public entities. I have a rack in the closet and several VPS, so I need something more than just Windows Firewall, or similar, that I can dial in to my unique environment.

Also, because I can.

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PlutoniumAcid

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Valid! I also tinker with selfhosting using Docker containers, didn't think of firewalls the same way. Thank you.

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irmadlad

in reply to PlutoniumAcid • 1 mese fa • •

No worries mate. What do you host?

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PlutoniumAcid

in reply to irmadlad • 1 mese fa • •

Nothing spectacular.

Git, Paperless, UniFi Controller, Pihole, Mattermost chat, Immich, Home Assistant, Frigate, Syncthing, Hoarder. Just stuff for myself, my home, and my friends. And 🏴‍☠️

And you?

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irmadlad

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The usual. Might be a few I've missed:

Homarr
Code-server
Netdata
Searxng
Change-detection
Readeck
Checkcle
Duckdns
Obsidian
Dozzle
Loki-promtail-1
Loki-loki-1
Root-influxdb2-1
Cadvisor-redis
Dbeaver
Pairdrop
Speedtest-tracker
Btop-plus-plus
Portainer
Grocy
Loki-grafana-1
Cup
Web-check
Omni-tools
Cadvisor-prometheus
Watchtower-fork
Barcode-buddy
Ittools
Nessus
Dockerbot
Fusion
Bytestash
Uptime-kuma
Karakeep-web
Karakeep-chrome
Karakeep-meili
Cadvisor
Gitlab
RocketChat
Anonaddy
Etherpad
Archivebox
FreshRSS
FileStash
piHole
LAMP Stack
UnRaid
Proxmox

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eleitl

in reply to irmadlad • 1 mese fa • •

Opnsense on a thin client, riser with a quad port Intel NIC.

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Iran, Egypt initiate a new chapter of rapprochement amid growing regional tensions

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/06/iran-egypt-initiate-a-new-chapter-of-rapprochement-amid-growing-regional-tensions/

#Worldnews

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Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza

Exclusive: Declassified has obtained a list of Israelis who graduated from the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. We’re publishing it for the first time.

^{JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)}

#Worldnews

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eldavi

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are you aware of a source that likens the Royal College of Defence Studies to the school of the americas?

Novi Sad via Privacy

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Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

Your Therapist’s Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as data fodder to the multibillion-dollar AI therapy i…

^jacobin.com

#privacy

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obsidianfoxxy7870

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I also hate that there is never an option to opt out of this service either.

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muxika

in reply to obsidianfoxxy7870 • 1 mese fa • •

Jeff Goldblum's Jurassic Park monologue feels appropriate here.

"You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew it you had it. You patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now your selling it!"

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Albbi

in reply to muxika • 1 mese fa • •

Great quote!

32 year old movie... I love/hate when old movie quotes are more relevant today than when the movie came out.

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solarvector

in reply to obsidianfoxxy7870 • 1 mese fa • •

Sure you can. Just, you know, don't need therapy.

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doinky

in reply to obsidianfoxxy7870 • 1 mese fa • •

Not universally true— with my healthcare network there is a consent form that allows you to decline the use of AI for online appointments, and for in-person they request verbal consent. I make sure to decline every time.

Just wanted to share so that people can check if opting out is possible (for now at least).

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ReversalHatchery

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one can only hope it has any meaning. what platform do they use for online ~~applications~~ appointments? zoom? ms teams? google meet?

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doinky

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My network (my insurance is with an HMO so it’s all centralized with all the physical and mental healthcare providers I have access to) has you click on your appointment in the app or online, and then it opens Zoom.

I have to use Teams for work and the idea of using that for therapy is kind of funny for some reason…

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ReversalHatchery

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yeah. I wouldn't expect that opt out to be honored. maybe by your provider, but not by zoom.

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irmadlad

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I wonder how hard it would be to set up an AI honeypot that attracted AI scrapers, but all the data contained in the honeypot was poisoned.

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XenGi

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Pretty easy. It's called a tar pit.

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irmadlad

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Ding! I just didn't have the proper verbage.

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

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ganymede

in reply to irmadlad • 1 mese fa • •

tar pits target the scrapers.

were you talking also about poisoning the training data?

two distinct (but imo highly worthwhile) things

tar pits are a bit like turning the tap off (or to a useless trickle). fortunately it’s well understood how to do it efficiently and it’s difficult to counter.

poisoning is a whole other thing. i’d imagine if nothing comes out of the tap the poison is unlikely to prove effective. there could perhaps be some clever ways to combine poisoning with tarpits in series, but in general they’d be deployed separately or at least in parallel.

bear in mind to meaningfully deploy a tar pit against scrapers you usually need some permissions on the server, it may not help too much for this exact problem in the article (except for some short term fuckery perhaps). poisoning this problem otoh is probably important

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ganymede

in reply to XenGi • 1 mese fa • •

tar pits target the scrapers.

were you talking also about poisoning the training data?

two distinct (but imo highly worthwhile) things

tar pits are a bit like turning the tap off (or to a useless trickle). fortunately it's well understood how to do it efficiently and it's difficult to counter.

poisoning is a whole other thing. i'd imagine if nothing comes out of the tap the poison is unlikely to prove effective. there could perhaps be some clever ways to combine poisoning with tarpits in series, but in general they'd be deployed separately or at least in parallel.

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solrize

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Meanwhile the guy who breached a Finnish therapy database and held 33,000 records for ransom just got out of prison after serving around 2 years of a 6 year sentence:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo…

2020 data breach in Finland

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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rabbitcat

in reply to solrize • 1 mese fa • •

To make matters worse he basically "served" 2 years in hotel. Because that's what Finnish prisons are. He clearly wasn't punished enough. I'm afraid he will go back to his criminal life...

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eldavi

in reply to rabbitcat • 1 mese fa • •

i think that the worse thing about this is that the people committing the same crime are made millionaires and will never receive any sort of comeuppance for it.

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rabbitcat

in reply to eldavi • 1 mese fa • •

True.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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Prisons shouldn't be cruel and unusual. If you think Finnish prisons are so good compared to being free in your country... what do you think that says about your country?

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rabbitcat

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 mese fa • •

I'm already got bit off topic and I'm afraid this will go far away from the topic if I'd answer your question. I rather keep this sub on topic. And also one of the rules of this community is literally: "Try to keep things on topic"

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 mese fa • •

Nah rehabilitative justice doesn't work for financial crimes. This has been shown time and time and time again. Financial criminals are not the result of troubled youth or poverty, these pieces of shit are the privileged cream of the crop who only care about expanding their already unjust wealth. Unlike your run of the mill robber, there's nothing to rehabilitate. They have never lived a hard day in their life yet that's still not enough for them. They deserve to suffer and be made to repay tenfold what they stole from society in back breaking labour, or worse. There's a reason every socialist country makes financial crimes over some threshold punishable by death, something every country needs to implement.

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HiddenLayer555

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Finland to financial criminals victimizing the entire country:

Finland to the actual victims:

(Hi from Canada where the courts do the same thing and then get all high and mighty about being "progressive" and "rehabilitative" when the victims express their grievances)

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Jimmycrackcrack

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You know, as with a lot of these tech advances that impinge upon privacy and put us at risk in the name of profit, the buy-in, the thing they're offering in exchange, IS actually pretty worthwhile. This is extremely useful. It's such a shame that all this cool Star Trek shit that I would have been giddy about as a kid has been realised, but at a sinister and often hidden cost.

Is there any way this can be done on local metal? Would it achieve the same level of accuracy and sophistication of the progress notes? Because if this can be offered to the therapists that wanted it enough in the first place that they either knowingly or unwittingly sacrificed their patient's privacy for it, maybe they can be given an alternative.

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Novi Sad

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I think nothing stands in the way of doing this on local metal, as far as technology goes. Something similar has already been achieved for personal photo sorting, e.g. ente.io/

Ente - Private cloud storage for your photos and videos

Ente Photos is the private, secure, end-to-end encrypted photo storage app. Cross-platform, open source, and self-hostable. Get started with 10GB free.

^ente

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ReversalHatchery

in reply to Jimmycrackcrack • 1 mese fa • •

in your opinion what advantage would AI give to experienced therapists?

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Jimmycrackcrack

in reply to ReversalHatchery • 1 mese fa • •

The specific application in this instance was that it creates "progress notes". Admittedly, as I have only the information from the article itself, having no background in this field myself, I can only make assumptions what those are like, but as the name implies it's charting a client's progress through therapy and would also imply to me a lot of summarising of information gleaned during sessions. I guess in as much as it also would necessarily have to create a transcript in doing this for you, I guess it also provides that too. This is portrayed as tedious and time consuming work by the creators of the service, who obviously have a vested interest in casting it in such light, but taken at its word, I would say in my opinion the advantage would be in automating some of the tedious and time consuming aspects of the job.

As I suspect you were driving at from the tenor of the question, there's a lot of ways this could go wrong, in particular privacy concerns when this service is offered in the manner that it is here where it's processed outside of the therapist's own clinic by 3rd parties and information is shared with additional parties and used for many purposes with only the flimsy promise of "de-anonymisation" which appears to be hollow. It could also maybe affect how the therapy is conducted, making decisions about how to summarise this information that will influence what decisions a therapist makes and perhaps that therapist might have summarised it differently if doing the notes themselves, then again this all hinges upon how effective it is considered to be. If it can be evaluated and found to be generally good, then it seems tentatively like this could be a pretty helpful tool for a therapist. But in general, my comment was really more directed at what I feel like is a sad state of affairs across the board with recent tech advances including generative AI as applied in any aspect of life or work, that I think is often lost in these conversations where the technology really shows promise or is quite impressive but because of the manner of its development or the surveillance profit model, it's basically tainted and ruined. I feel like I often come across commentary that fails to make the distinction between the negative aspects of how these techs have come about and are monetized and the tech itself where the latter is simply cast as inherently undesirable even when there's clearly reason enough for people to find it appealing in the first place for it to end up in use.

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ReversalHatchery

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that's plausible. in my opinion a therapist should take the effort to take their own interpretation of what has been said, instead of relying on a machine that digests the system in a uniform way. words of a patient can mean a lot of things, even depending on things like their body language. but I have to admit I'm even more concerned about the privacy consequences which you pointed out. that's like, it simply can't go unabused in my opinion. too tempting. I wouldn't even want to run a business that just stores it without abuse, it's too risky too.

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Haha, because of my notes AI will finally be defeated!

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StarMerchant938

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Haha jokes on them I can't AFFORD therapy. OR land a job with good insurance.

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mondomon

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This is really bad. We don't need Palintir getting a hold of our private health info. My damn doctor is even using this shit.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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Don't worry everyone, I've undiagnosed myself. Everything is okay. I'm fine. This is fine.

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Those who were too paranoid to visit a shrink were justified all along.

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HiddenLayer555

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This is why I self medicate with cannabis instead of going to therapy. Never have to worry about my dumbass high thoughts getting stolen. /s /s

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Thank god mine still uses paper notebook.

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Any good rec for a medication tracking app for iOS?

Hello all,

I am currently looking for a privacy respecting alternative for the medication tracking app I currently use. Apple's native health app seems to be decent privacy wise, but it lacks the ability to input my current capsule inventory and set a reminder at a certain amount of pills so I can refill them on time. (I should also note that I have an older phone so I'm running iOS 18.6? I'm not sure if the app has changed on iOS 26.)

Thanks for reading and I look forward to your recommendations. ^-^

#privacy

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CerebralHawks

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I just use the native one. My issue is, I have medications that have to be spaced apart and Apple does not support that. Like pill A can be taken whenever, but pill B has to be taken 4 hours out. You can set them for times that are that far apart, but if you take pill A late, you aren't told to take pill B even later to compensate.

What you need? Sounds like you need reminders. Apple's medication tracking isn't a pill counter. So you either have a 1 or 3 month supply, typically. When you start taking them, you could set a reminder (in the Reminders app or in another app you like) for however many days before telling you to refill. Some of the prescription apps actually will remind you on their own when it's getting to be time to refill.

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curbstickle

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The only one I can think of is android only, sorry.

If someone else has android and needs something similar, you can check out medic log, which is available on F-Droid.

GitHub - rh-id/a-medic-log: A simple and easy to use personal medical notes.

A simple and easy to use personal medical notes. Contribute to rh-id/a-medic-log development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000 - NASA

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

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At the VIII Congress of Leaders of World Religions in Astana, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stated that experts assess the risk of nuclear conflict as the highest in recent decades. He expressed concern that confrontational approaches are gaining momentum globally, geopolitical rifts are widening, and social tensions are rising, while constructive initiatives and détente policies are being sidelined.

In this situation, Tokayev emphasized the critical role of diplomacy and dialogue in overcoming mutual alienation and increasing trust between countries. He placed particular hope on religious leaders, calling on them to use their efforts to remind politicians of common sense, goodwill, and moral responsibility in order to prevent "the world from sliding into the abyss of chaos."

Kazakh president warns of rising nuclear conflict risk - PHOTO

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev opened the plenary session of the 8th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions on September 17 in Astana,...

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sexy_peach

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Check their history. West nuclear weapons bad, Russia threatening good

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Aka: a tale as old as time

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Birdtray on Debian is extremely self-deprecating...

Perhaps only mildly interesting but I just did an apt show for birdtray on Debian 13 and got this in the second paragraph of the description:

It is a nasty hack -- an external process looking at Thunderbird's
insides, it suffers from problems like noticing new mails only after a
delay, having to restart Thunderbird just to hide its window, etc --
you'd want to use an extension like firetray instead -- but, it is
likely that support for Thunderbird XUL extensions will be dropped soon,
possibly by the time you read these words.

Not used to seeing this kind of language in the Debian repos tbh.

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doritoshave9sides

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Birthday on Debian

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Da Oeuf

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I'll cry if I want to.

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Introducing GNOME 49, “Brescia”

GNOME Release Notes

Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.

^{GNOME Release Notes}

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Hadriscus

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"The new Video Player prioritizes a distraction-free viewing experience"

How can you say this while having the controls overlaid onto the video, youtube-style, and cropping the video corners ? admittedly corners are rarely of the utmost importance in any film, or other video file. But just don't touch my corners.

Anyway, I don't use Gnome

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ericheese

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Just use mpv lol

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Hadriscus

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I use PotPlayer

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sakphul

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I like the "Power connected status change". Helps to find out if the charger is relly plugged in.
Hopefully Papers will receive support for digital signage which evince never did. This is still lacking in GNOME.

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Calling Palestinians “barbaric animals,” US Secretary of State hails Israeli assault on Gaza City

Rubio ranted, “This happened because on October 7th these animals, these barbaric animals, conducted this operation ... against innocent people.”
He concluded, “It needs to end. And how does it end? It ends by eliminating the people who did it, by ending them as a threat.”
As vast as the crimes of US imperialism have been in funding, arming and enabling the Gaza genocide, Rubio’s statement marks a new turning point. American imperialism, dropping its veil of promoting “democracy” and “human rights,” has adopted language that would not be out of place in a speech given by Adolf Hitler.
Rubio’s use of this genocidal language was the starting gun for the full-scale Israeli onslaught on Gaza City, as tanks and warplanes moved in, displacing countless thousands at gunpoint over the choked coastal road to Gaza’s south.

Calling Palestinians “barbaric animals,” US Secretary of State hails Israeli assault on Gaza City

On Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to inaugurate what Netanyahu called the “concluding moves” in the US-Israeli onslaught on Gaza: the conquest and destruction of Gaza C…

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This zionazi is one of the most despicable human beings

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Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE – Jonathan Riddell's Diary

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highduc

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Damn, so it's all Nate's fault? And he chose to do a company and keep all the profits instead of a coop? That sounds like incredibly shitty behavior 🙁

Edit: Cross posted to kde's instance for visibility

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ratten

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It's always sad when greed wins out over ethics.

If a culture can't keep greedy people and ideas in check, it becomes nothing more than a vessel for abuse.

I will always support those who are willing to forego profits so they can do what's right.

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Karna

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Nate's side of this story:

pointieststick.com/2025/09/16/…

A few corrections about the transition from Blue Systems to Techpaladin

By now, many have probably read Jonathan Riddell’s blog post yesterday about his departure from KDE and the events that led up to it. And today, an article has been published in ItsFoss about…

^{Adventures in Linux and KDE}

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Phoenixz

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Off topic, I'm sure but...

The next day I ended up at a funeral for some German accountants

I feel there is a story here? A funeral form multiple accountants? Was someone finally done with how capitalism is unchecked and had a mass shooting at an accountants firm?

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An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism

In a congressional hearing in July of last year, a research scholar on antisemitism named Charles Asher Small shared an explosive finding: Funding from the government of Qatar had fueled a 300% spike in antisemitism on university campuses in the United States. Members of Congress responded with rapt interest. “I want everybody to hear this. So universities that took money from Qatar had a 300% increase in antisemitism [compared to] other universities?” said Iowa Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra.9

The statistic about Qatari funding for antisemitism became the highlight of Small’s testimony to Congress. But this precise statistic was never actually recorded in his study.

Small repeated the same claim in a Senate hearing in March of this year. But when contacted for comment about the figure, ISGAP could not point Drop Site to any specific report or finding. One ISGAP study published in 2023 did report that, from 2015-2020, universities that received money from “Middle Eastern” donors had a 300% increase in antisemitic incidents compared to those that do not. But this report is also disputed—and there is no data in it specifically linking Qatari funding to a rise in antisemitic incidents.

Drop Site interviewed over a half-dozen former employees and scholars of ISGAP, many of whom explained that the organization has strayed from the mission of academic study of antisemitism into a hyper-fixation on Qatari funding of U.S. institutions—while ISGAP itself has accepted foreign funding from Israel.

An Israel-Funded Campaign to Link Qatar to Campus Antisemitism

ISGAP is attempting to shape policy in Washington, at a time when the Trump administration is looking to justify a broader crackdown on opposition to the war on Gaza.

^{Nick Cleveland-Stout (Drop Site News)}

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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

Scientists have imaged heat traveling as a wave, called "second sound," in superfluid quantum gas. It may unlock mysteries of neutron stars and superconductors.

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If sound was so good why isn't there sound 2...

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Donetsk Operational and Tactical Group commander dismissed and his replacement already prepared

Donetsk Operational and Tactical Group commander dismissed and his replacement already prepared – FT

The Financial Times has written that the commander of the Donetsk Joint Task Force, Oleksandr Lutsenko, was dismissed after the rapid advance of the Russians towards Pokrovsk. Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi was appointed to his position.

^{Tetyana Oliynyk (Ukrainska Pravda)}

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An investor group headlined by Larry Ellison’s Oracle, the private equity Silver Lake and Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm will hold a controlling stake in TikTok’s new U.S. business.

archive.ph/cBhgG

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/09/16/oracle-andreesen-horowitz-more-will-hold-controlling-stake-in-tiktok-deal-report-say/

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Trump's energy secretary sees 'long-term' EU dependence on US

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https://www.euractiv.com/news/interview-trumps-energy-secretary-sees-long-term-eu-dependence-on-us/

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Spain Threaten 2026 World Cup Boycott as FIFA Sent Warning

Spanish government officials have suggested they could pull their national team out of the 2026 World Cup.

World football's biggest tournament will take place once again next summer in Canada, Mexico and the United States, the first time the competition has been hosted by three different nations.

European champions Spain are the bookmakers' early favourites to win and are on course to book their place at the tournament, having taken two wins from two at the start of qualifying.

But there are now suggestions Luis de la Fuente's side could withdraw from the World Cup in protest if Israel also qualify for the tournament.....

Continue reading here... sportbible.com/football/footba…

Spain Threaten 2026 World Cup Boycott as FIFA Sent Warning

Spain are favourites to win the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico next summer

^{Rory O'Callaghan (sportbible)}

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Zelensky has no intention of ending conflict with Moscow – MP

The Ukrainian leader wants “to fight to the last but with others doing the fighting,” Georgy Mazurashu has said

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Luci

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Russia is the aggressor here, they can get the fuck out of Ukraine and this whole thing would be over.

Oh shit sorry, this is .ml. My bad.

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Zarathustra

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Child has no intention of stopping being beaten by adult.

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The Eurasian Energy Lock-In: Russia's China Gas Gambit Is Rewriting the Map, Not Crashing the Market

The Power of Siberia-2 pipeline deal signals a structural shift in Eurasian energy, trading margins for long-term security and rebalancing bargaining

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The liberals around here in a nutshell part 3

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Joe

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With DPRK it seems pretty simple: Are citizens permitted to leave the country of their own accord? The answer of course is no, and that is extremely telling. Combined with choreographed & escort-only tourism, one really has to question it.

My opinion: Odds are likely that it really is a shithole in many ways and in many places (and for many reasons, sanctions included). That said, people will still live their lives within those constraints, because that's what people tend to do. We won't get accurate and verifiable information from their government about citizen health and longevity, causes of death, etc. so OP's propaganda must be taken as just that.

At some point NK's system will fall, and some historians and archeologists will get to do their thing, and we'll gain some more insights.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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It's important to recognize that a large part of why the DPRK appears to be insular is because of UN-imposed sanctions, helmed by the US Empire. It is difficult to get accurate information on the DPRK, but not impossible; Russia, China, and Cuba all have frequent interactions and student exchanges, trade such as in the Rason special economic zone, etc, and there are videos released onto the broader internet from this.

There's also the issue of the "defector industry." Many defectors like Yeonmi Park make money off of spinning tall tales, and many are pressured by the ROK into giving false testimony. Many citizens who flee the DPRK actually seek to return, and are denied by the ROK. Even BBC is reporting on a high-profile case where a 95 year old veteran wishes to be buried in his homeland, sparking protests by pro-reunification activists in the ROK to help him go home in his final years. A good documentary on the subject is Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul.

Finally, it's more unlikely than ever that the DPRK will collapse. The economy was estimated by the Bank of Korea (an ROK bank) to have grown by 3.7% in 2024, thanks to increased trade with Russia. The harshest period for the DPRK, the Arduous March, was in the 90s, and the government did not collapse then. That was the era of mass statvation thanks to the dissolution of the USSR and horrible weather disaster that made the already difficult agricultural climate of northern Korea even worse. Nowadays food is far more stable and the economy is growing, collapse is highly unlikely.

What I think is more likely is that these trends will continue. As the US Empire's influence wanes, the DPRK will increase trade and interaction with the world, increasing accurate information and helping grow their economy, perhaps even enabling some form of reunification with the ROK. The US Empire leaving the peninsula is the number 1 most important task for reunification, so this is increasingly likely as the US Empire becomes untenable.

Korean war POW, 95, fails at attempt to return to North

Ahn Hak-sop failed in his attempt to cross the border, after spending most of his life in South Korea.

^{Yuna Ku (BBC News)}

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