Trump admin sparks MAGA fury with Qatari Air Force base in US—"betrayed"
Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US—’Betrayed’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. has approved a Qatari Air Force base in Idaho.Mandy Taheri (Newsweek)
How to transfer files between profiles on GrapheneOS?
In the forum, I saw a couple of people suggesting,
1. Syncthing (But Syncthing for Android is dead, AFAIK)
1. USB stick
1. Cloud storage
Please suggest if there are any alternatives. Or what is the option that you're using.
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AirLynk - Secure Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Airlynk — browser peer-to-peer file sharing without servers
I built Airlynk because I was frustrated with every peer-to-peer file sharing tool I tried — connections would fail, transfers would stall, and NATs or firewalls always got in the way. Nothing I tested was reliable enough for real use, and I wanted a solution that actually worked.
So I decided to build it myself. Over several months, I crafted Airlynk to work entirely in the browser, using WebRTC for direct peer-to-peer transfers. I designed it to be simple, fast, and server-free, with fallback relays only when absolutely necessary. Chunked transfers and progress tracking make even large files move smoothly.
The journey taught me a lot about peer-to-peer networking, browser limitations, and user experience. My goal with Airlynk is to make file sharing effortless for everyone, and I’m excited to keep improving reliability and security based on real feedback from users.
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AirLynk - Secure Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
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AirLynk - Secure Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Airlynk — browser peer-to-peer file sharing without servers
I built Airlynk because I was frustrated with every peer-to-peer file sharing tool I tried — connections would fail, transfers would stall, and NATs or firewalls always got in the way. Nothing I tested was reliable enough for real use, and I wanted a solution that actually worked.
So I decided to build it myself. Over several months, I crafted Airlynk to work entirely in the browser, using WebRTC for direct peer-to-peer transfers. I designed it to be simple, fast, and server-free, with fallback relays only when absolutely necessary. Chunked transfers and progress tracking make even large files move smoothly.
The journey taught me a lot about peer-to-peer networking, browser limitations, and user experience. My goal with Airlynk is to make file sharing effortless for everyone, and I’m excited to keep improving reliability and security based on real feedback from users.
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AirLynk - Secure Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Transfer files directly between devices with end-to-end encryption. No size limits, no storage fees, just pure speed and privacy.www.airlynk.in
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White House knocks Nobel Committee for snubbing Trump, but peace prize winner praises him
Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado praises Trump after White House criticizes snub
Some of Trump's Republican allies have called for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize, though the nomination deadline passed early in his current term.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities
Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities
Blaise Ingoglia was handpicked by the Republican Florida governor to lead an assault on municipal spendingRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
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"Pakistani Islamists" is just wild...
Like, all the Muslims in India were forced into Pakistan, or killed.
It seems completely unnecessary to need to state the religion of a large group of Pakistani demonstrates, but why the fuck use an emotionally loaded word like "Islamist" to do it?
These people were demonstrating against the bullshit deal Palestine was forced to accept, when everyone know Israel will immediately violate it.
Where did I say that any Muslim praying in a mosque is an Islamist? Why are you even bringing this up?
Is TLP Islamist or no? Are TLP not the organizers of this march?
Nowhere in the article does it claim that any Muslim praying at a mosque is an Islamist (show me the specific quote that suggests otherwise).
The article uses the term Islamist in a factual manner.
There are crazies and extremists in the every religion.
Don't you know how to read behind the lines?
Using the word worshipers insread of peotestors. Using formulation that make it look like that islamist group was the only people who protested, mentionning that the protests happened after the "cease fire" which israel isn't respecting , why there is no testimonies from a protestor etc
I legitimately don't know, but if you read the article, this wasn't their plan or their protests.
They're just reporting how many of their members have been infused by police for protesting, and how many have been killed.
Like, if I go to a BLM protest, there's gonna be some assholes I don't agree with there too.
Putting different groups against each other to derail a protest isn't anything new. Neither is acting like a giant protest is only worth as much as the worst people to support the cause.
I understand why the AP is doing it. And I understand why you're doing it.
Topic or Community focused as a place where people can link to suspected AI video content and have folks more expert at spotting slip help?
Hope this is okay here but I am more and more skeptical of short form videos and hope there is a community where we can go to drop slop and have it identified.
Here’s the one in question today:
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Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.www.instagram.com
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have it identified
By whom or what?
Maybe some from !fuck_ai@lemmy.world would be interested but I guess it should be another community, just for that
I don’t want to be entertained by AI.
I guess the only solution is to avoid the shitified platforms?
Smaller content creators with fewer views are generally more genuine.
If I see someone with several thousand views, I'm instantly skeptical. If their channel is part of their work, I pay attention too. I'm fine with AI assisted content as long as there's an actual human behind the keyboard who truly took time to think and used their brain.
Loving slop or not!
And let’s start now:
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The cat neither arched back or hissed. Uncharacterizally altruistic. I’m a cat person. But let’s get real.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
The Frank Zappa video is fake AF. Just google like "Frank Zappa Al Bundy quote" or any of the other topics. None of them are there. The google "AI" says Zappa was never quoted about Al Bundy.
Also the video itself looks too sharp for when this guy died. And the million russian hashtags? Phony.
edit: Holy shit just look at the account. It's all pure "AI" disinfo. smh.
[Announcement] The Third Edict Race Event VoDs
Early Access Announcements - The Third Edict Race Event VoDs - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Trump threatens 'massive' tariff hike on China over rare earths dispute
Trump also threatened to cancel his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping because of the dispute.
Trump threatens 'massive' tariff hike on China over rare earths dispute
Stock markets dropped on Trump's bellicose Truth Social post that said China is "becoming very hostile" in seeking tough export controls on rare earths.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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The term "rare-earth" is a misnomer, because they are not actually scarce, but because they are only found in compounds, not as pure metals, and are difficult to isolate and purify. They are relatively plentiful in the entire Earth's crust, but in practice they are spread thinly as trace impurities, so to obtain rare earths at usable purity requires processing enormous amounts of raw ore at great expense.
Basically the whole thing has always been a misnomer. They arent rare, nor are they found as metal naturally. But I suppose rare earth elements or metals sounds better than “abundant but hard to find rock thingies”
“Some very strange things are happening in China!” Trump wrote in his Truth Social post.“They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World,
Wow, that's crazy. What kind leader sends threatening letters to all their trade partners. Definitely not something that Dear Leader Trump would ever do.
Meanwhile...a US company is making ferrite motors for EVs without any rare earths. Fine for any car except ultra high performance.
Niron Magnetics in MN.
France hosts Arab, Europe ministers for talks on helping Palestinians after Gaza war
France hosts Arab, Europe ministers for talks on helping Palestinians after Gaza war
The Paris meeting on Thursday will focus on security, governance and reconstruction of the Palestinian territories after the war, according to a statement by the French Foreign Ministry.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
i guess it is NYT bad journalism again
On the Tibetan Plateau, nearly 10,000 feet high, solar panels stretch to the horizon and cover an area seven times the size of Manhattan. They soak up sunlight that is much brighter than at sea level because the air is so thin.
I remember this. From the 90's.
Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay.
This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It's just autosave. That's all it takes.
I'll make One guess.
"Starting today, new documents in Word desktop on Windows (Insiders) now save directly to OneDrive, with autosave enabled,"
Yeah.
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Makes me wonder if there is something in the terms that allows them to use documents stored on onedrive to train AI. Adobe is doing the same bullshit and keeps pushing you to send PDFs as Adobe cloud links instead of directly attaching the file to an email. They're doing everything they can to get your data on their servers.
We're no longer the customer. We're the product.
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I would be shocked if this hasn't had some set of controls to disable it in Group Policy for months now.
This is just rent seeking against Home users.
People with One Drive through corporate Azure sjbscriptions (rather than the free "you have a microsoft login" tier) already have fairly robust controls available for handling and securing private data. There's even special Azure tiers for government work that are even further secured.
This is only going to impact home users and conpanies without strong IT teams. Which is an egregious amount of people, don't get me wrong. It's also a horrible anti-consumer move. But this isn't "Microsoft fucks over their golden calf: business users".
Here's why it matters
I'm going to have to put together a script to block any instance of a headline that includes this phrase. It's so fucking overused.
"Why does knowing where my Word documents are stored matter?" Hmmm... let me fucking think, assholes.
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- Here’s why it matters
- Here’s why you should care
- Here’s what experts have to say
- X happened, here’s what that means for the future
It’s like they feel the need to remind us what the purpose of an article is
You'd be surprised how many people actually need that. My boss is one of them and I constantly have to explain to him why shit like this is bad for us. We're currently in the process of upgrading all our PCs to Windows 11 and I'm trying to convince him to let me install Linux on all the computers that don't meet the hardware requirements. Fortunately we use an older version of Microsoft Office that doesn't come with all the bullshit, but there will eventually be a day where we will have to "upgrade" that too. And because of this, I'm also trying to convince him to switch to something like LibreOffice.
Uploading all of our shit to OneDrive is not only a bad idea because we have our own secure servers in house, but it's also a bad idea because we deal with a lot of files that could get us sued if it was leaked online. We don't even let our servers connect to the internet for that very purpose. And it's not a matter of if, but when windows starts uploading all of our shit to OneDrive it will be a complete disaster. And I'm sure there are a lot of guys doing IT at various other companies all trying to explain to their boss the same thing I am while they ignore the issue.
I've worked in business IT before, so I have a (very small) bit of background I can probably share from your bosses side.
If you're not recommending a distro that has a support contract (e.g. Red Hat), what you're creating is a bus situation - if you get hit by a bus, who is going to maintain the Linux terminals when they go down? Would that contract cover supporting LibreOffice? How will normal staff be able to figure out how to use Linux, and will there be a measurable increase in productivity from them, or will they be slow to adjust?
Regarding OneDrive (or more realistically, SharePoint and Microsoft 365), Microsoft has a service level agreement for this. I can't read it on my phone because it's in docx format, but I dare say that it does have some coverage for if data is leaked, otherwise most enterprises wouldn't even touch it.
Your boss likely doesn't have concern in that aspect because of the SLA assurance, and thus it makes more financial sense to move completely over to M365 and away from on premise servers that require constant maintenance, upkeep and power costs.
I'm not sure of the business size you're in, but I'd hazard a guess that its a small business if your boss is in a position to potentially change out the existing IT infrastructure. You're facing an uphill battle in convincing your boss to move to Linux because the desktop support for it is limited and likely expensive, and the alternative is to keep you and probably hire other Linux technicians to maintain those Linux systems when they go down.
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Microsoft can't seem to figure out sync, ever since Briefcase, if you involve multiple computers you invariably end up with more and more conflicting copies. It's embarrassing.
Office itself is insanely bloated is a world with Markdown, open data formats, and easy access to scripting. They used some pretty unethical tactics to make OOXML a "standard" to stop governments from switching to an actual standard: ODF-based Libre Office.
Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote
I believe that the world is big enough for multiple file-format specifications. I don't think the Open Document Format (ODF) deserves to be the only format sanctioned as an "open standard.Mary Jo Foley (ZDNET)
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I mean this softly, but I'm going to guess you haven't used OneDrive recently, and haven't used it where it's been set up in a competent manner. The default settings absolutely are not conpetent, espiecally for how messy computers for personal use get.
My workplace uses OneDrive to sync a specific set of user profile folders so we approximate having profiles and files that follow us without everyone needing a personal folder on a network drive that mounts at login.
The only issues we've had are profiles auto-downloading too mant of peoples files and eating drives on shared machines (so you just have your meeting room computers wipe all profiles every reboot and schedule reboots nightly), and I've had some issues where OneNote hadn't actually synced the notebook back to the cloud before I closed on one machine and opened on a different machine so I lost some notes.
Beyond that, it's handled even situations where I have the same file open siniltaneously on multiple machines smoothly. Syncs between login on multiple machines take 3 minutes max, and I can force it faster if I really need by pausing and resuming the sync.
I'm sure there's situations it's still not suited for, like editing and syncing large monolithic files (think video files over 1GB a piece). It probably sucks big time on personal machines where you're going to have a complete mess of every file type imaginable tossed in one big unorganized heap.
But configured correctly, for general business use, it can work very well.
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Am biz. I see it.
Sovereignty is almost the issue that it needs to be, but our 'security' types totally trust MS at their word when they say "it's only stored in your country and can't be touched from here. Trust me, bro."
These are security types who know to ask "how do you know" 5 times, and don't even ask it once.
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" Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default — and that changes everything"
Wouldn't it be great if all your docs were stored out in the cloud? Just think, you wouldn't need a hard drive! And someone else could guard them for you, like, say, Deputy Dan. descope.kwwhitaker.com/wallofs…
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Honestly, even as a privacy guy, this makes sense. SkyDrive was unique in giving people 30GB, plus 5GB if you turned on photo upload (even if you turned it right back off). So even without paying, my OneDrive is still 35GB. That's plenty for documents.
What Windows 10+ does with backing stuff up to OneDrive and sharing it across builds is smart, if not the best execution. I kind of have that between my Macs and iPhone with Safari bookmarks and passwords.
I would be asking how safe OneDrive is and if it had any major breaches, if I were a Windows user. I'm actually using iWork and iCloud though, and I trust that a little more, but OneDrive doesn't seem that problematic to me. There's a lot I don't like about Microsoft, but OneDrive doesn't earn any ire from me. Should it? (Probably not since I'm a Mac user and it's all abstract anyway.)
Is there no longer a "save as..." option to select where you want to save the file? 🤔
I have used Open Office for over a decade now so this is kind of a genuine question.
Is this just for home edition? Or other editions as well. I work at a school with education edition, and I have a co-worker who said when I was helping the with their file management problems
me: just save to Desktop for now. We will fix it later.
Them: I don't think I have a desktop.
I can't imagine how many other offices having to train their staff about all these new features.
I know Google's office products are essentially the same problem, but they are at very least free (in dollars).
I haven't used MS Office in years. We use Google at work. I use my NextCloud at home.
My God, THANK YOU! I've seen this article in five different places and everyone is losing their minds over this, seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that:
1) This ONLY affects people who are using OneDrive in the first place.
2) It's a setting that you can change any time.
3) If you want to keep the default but have a specific file outside of OneDrive just - exactly like you said - click "Save As" and store it locally.
It's mind boggling how much people switch off their brains whenever they see Microsoft doing literally anything, and the entire conversation devolves into "Microsoft bad".
"Guilt by association": Children of human rights defenders are suffering from severe psychological trauma under China's state violence, new report says
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ArchivedThe exiled Chinese civil society organization “Chinese Human Rights Defenders Families Network” has released a nearly 30,000-word specialized research report titled: “Collateral Childhoods: The Psychological Impact of State Violence on the Children of Human Rights Defenders.”
It marks the first systematic study [...] to unveil the situation and profound psychological trauma suffered by the children of human rights defenders in an environment of state violence.
Zhou Fengsuo, Executive Director of Human Rights in China (HRIC), who has long provided humanitarian aid to the families of human rights defenders (HRDs), stated that under the reality of authoritarian rule and high-pressure politics, the children of Chinese HRDs are often forced to endure the associative harm resulting from the persecution of their parents: their education is interrupted, their daily lives lose stability, and their psychological sense of security is repeatedly shattered.
The associated repression by state violence that these children suffer is akin to the barbaric ancient system of ‘guilt by association'. Because they lack adequate cognitive and defense mechanisms, the scars left by these traumas are often deeper and more difficult for society and the system to recognize.
Key findings:
- Severe Deprivation of the Right to Education: Used as a Tool of Repression. The report found that children in nearly all cases experienced educational interruption or denial. Some were outright rejected by schools due to their parents’ identity, others faced forced displacement and multiple transfers, and some were publicly shamed as “children of political prisoners” by teachers and peers in the classroom. The education system, meant to ensure equal development, has been weaponized for political persecution.
- Widespread Mental Health Crisis: Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation. Multiple children and adolescents exhibited severe symptoms like depression, anxiety, insomnia, and hypervigilance. Furthermore, some reached a point where “they sought ‘liberation’ by abandoning life,” resulting in documented cases of self-harm and attempted suicide. Prolonged exposure to high-pressure, fear-inducing environments prevents them from achieving normal identity formation and socialization during adolescence, posing severe risks for their adulthood.
- Frequent Fragmentation of Family Structure. In the majority of cases, one or both parents were subjected to long-term imprisonment, restriction of freedom, or forced exile. Children lost their primary attachment figures during critical developmental stages, relying on single parents or fragmented kinship care. This chronic separation led to severe attachment disorders and a pervasive sense of insecurity.
- Continuation and Silencing of Intergenerational Trauma. The parents’ fear, shame, and powerlessness are often transmitted to their children through emotional atmosphere and behavioral patterns, forming a “silent legacy.” Some children even normalize torture and humiliation, prematurely adopting the role of “protecting their parents,” thereby losing the safety and freedom of childhood through premature adultification.
- Exile Abroad: Not an End, But a New Predicament. While some children were fortunate enough to leave China, they faced new difficulties abroad: language barriers, cultural isolation, identity anxiety, economic hardship, and the persistence of trauma responses. Exile marks a relative start to safety but simultaneously represents a continuation of isolation and compounded adversity.
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Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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Three Dead After Powerful Earthquake Strikes Southern Philippines
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/world/asia/philippines-mindanao-earthquake.html
Trump suggests throwing ‘laggard’ Spain out of NATO
Donald Trump has reportedly suggested that Spain’s membership in the Nato alliance should be reconsidered due to its insufficient military spending.
The intervention follows an agreement in June where members of the US-backed security pact committed to significantly boosting their defence budgets to 5 per cent of gross domestic product. The move aligns with President Trump’s long-standing demand for European nations to contribute more substantially to their own defence.
But Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez said at the time that he would not commit to the 5 per cent target, calling it “incompatible with our welfare state and our world vision”.
Trump suggests throwing ‘laggard’ Spain out of NATO
Spain reaffirmed its commitment to the alliance and appealed for calmJeff Mason (The Independent)
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Why does the guy who want to leave NATO care about who remains a member of NATO?
yes I know this is putins doing
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The intervention follows an agreement in June where members of the US-backed security pact committed to significantly boosting their defence budgets to 5 per cent of gross domestic product.
This makes it sound like it was some kind of done deal, but that's not how I remember it; more like a suggestion, basically as it's been until now only 2% more? please correct me if I remember wrong.
Trump has been ranting and raving about this ever since 2016, making all sorts of weird demands, calling it debt etc.
Belgium PM was target of foiled jihadi attack plot
Belgium PM was target of foiled jihadi attack plot
Prosecutors said an improvised explosive device was found in the home of one of the suspects in the Belgian city of Antwerp.Jenipher Camino Gonzalez (Deutsche Welle)
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Probably more likely to be a plot by far-right fascists to increase their own voter base!
Remember: they want you to live in fear.
De Wever is far-right himself. He played the long con into getting elected as mayor of Antwerp to pave his way into becoming prime minister. Before he was elected he used indirect racism - the kind where you say you respect them but you want to be respected back by disallowing hajibs kind of bullshit - to get elected as mayor. As soon as he was mayor he started "helping out" the minorities. And he actually was successful. He dropped a lot of his prejudice and seemingly racist standpoints. Many people respected him for this. Right up until he became prime minister and started fucking over the people like it was his goal all along. Anti immigration and anti low-class now look like his main goal again.
So no, he has far more enemies within the religious context as well as the anti fascist context than with other right wing grifters.
If thats your style, go get it. I cant. Opiates make me itchy. Also I heard if you do them, it makes marijuana feel like nothing and I love weed a shit ton.
I finally stopped smoking weed because I recently got access to gummies from a legal state far far away in a freer land then where I am. I'd move but I really need a year or two break from being homeless.
Maybe ill get some opiates when im older and everything fucking hurts all the time. Then the itches will be worth
Your body your choice.
See? I didnt feel the need to create a police state that will eventually consume us all. Dont want to do the drug? Dont do it.
Democrats seem to understand that for other things, yet for some reason that doesn't translate to drug use. No, marijuana legalization will not end the war on drugs. Good thing the dems have the republicans to make them look good!
The addiction destroying our country is the addiction to licking boot polish.
Putin admits Russian air defences were to blame for Azerbaijani jet crash
Putin admits Russian air defences were to blame for Azerbaijani jet crash
Russian president said air defences were targeting a Ukrainian droneGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Not really, Putin still blamed Ukraine drones for being in the area that prompted them to launch missiles.
Russia launched missiles that hit or hit near a commercial jet and Russia, not Ukraine Drones nearby are the reason for the 38 deaths.
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Add this to the list of things I’m thinking now that, if you had told me a year ago, I’d have assumed you were utterly insane:
- I genuinely hope large sections of the US military mutiny against the federal government over lack of pay
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A history of government shutdowns: The 14 other times funding has lapsed since 1980
The federal government was unable to avert a lapse in funding. Here's a look at the 14 other shutdowns that have occurred since 1980.Melissa Quinn (CBS News)
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Yes I was active duty during Obama's administration and there was only one government shutdown that I can recall.
I think military missed 1 paycheck IIRC and my Navy Federal Credit Union fronted us the money until the back pay kicked in.
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Also, a lot of Federal Credit unions front government paychecks...
They credit normal paychecks a couple days early as soon as they see the amount coming in. Traditional banks wait til it's actually in your account.
So in a shutdown those places keep fronting money, but that was because they had faith back pay was coming. With trump openly talking about not doing backpay, that may change.
Navy Federal Credit Union was a popular choice, but there's a couple that handle it like that.
Then there's programs ran by the bases to offer financial relief even in no shutdowns, not sure how'd they ration their funds during a shutdown.
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Then there's programs ran by the bases to offer financial relief even in no shutdowns, not sure how'd they ration their funds during a shutdown.
I haven’t seen programs run by the base themselves, but AER is Army Emergency Relief. They have a lot of money and will either give you a no or very low interest loan or often just give you a grant that you don’t have to pay back.
Literally already happening...
We activated a handful of NG, and one of them is already talking "I can't do this without getting paid".
Like, it's NG so he's dumb as fuck for thinking he even has a say in if he works or not. But he hasn't even missed a fucking paycheck yet and he's already just openly contemplating going AWOL...
There's a reason the military got paid during every other shutdown (sorry Coasties).
I mean...
We ain't exactly the boots on the countries neck.
NG are getting activated for a lot of things these days. We grab them for random office drone bullshit constantly, but they do all types of stuff. Not sure how common it is these days, but back in the day they'd even get them for state construction projects.
The headlines recently are just the ones activated to "cities" which makes zero operational sense, but that's not the only way the NG is utilized.
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Well Trump said
I don't know if you've noticed yet, but Trump just lies about everything.
He has a loyal following despite the harm he does to those very people. They live in a completely different world fed by Fox and other right wing grifters. They place the blame for everything bad on Democrats and use bad actors (in the literal "terrible acting" sense) to portray characters like "former Antifa member" and other bullshit.
Its a cult. They have their dear leader who tells them what to think and empowers them be loud and proud about their hateful ideology with memorable catchphrases and slogans and whatnot.
Ice is not getting paid.
NG was getting paid when activated, they were getting cut right before housing allowance and other benefits kicked in. But they still got the base daily for being activated.
Now activated guard (for any amount of time) aren't getting paid.
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Every source I can find indicates that is false. ICE is not paid during the shutdown. They will be paid when it ends
Definitive source, although painful to try to read
Does ICE continue working during a government shutdown?
The agency took to X on Wednesday morning to dispel rumors after people on social media were speculating about what federal government services would be suspendCAITLYN FROLO | The National News Desk (KEYE)
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So, they're just shooting people in the face for fun. Got it.
At least Soldiers have the gumption to sham during my a shutdown!
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Because she'll be the final vote to release the Epstein Files.
ALL of this is to keep the evidence of an enormous international child sex trafficking operation that included many of the highest members of our government and the most wealthy men in the world, from becoming public.
ICE isn't getting paid?
Shut it down indefinitely! We can fund all the good stuff with state-level taxes. The world can live without our Gestapo at home and imperialism abroad. At this point they're more harm than good.
We can revisit Federal government in three years. They screeched about less government for so long, let's give it to them while they're in power.
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of 'violating Kabul's sovereign territory'
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of 'violating Kabul's sovereign territory'
The allegation by the Taliban came after two loud blasts were heard in the city late on Thursday.Hafizullah Mahroof, Caroline Davies and Flora Drury (BBC News)
Strong 7.4 magnitude quake hits southern Philippines
Strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits southern Philippines
One person has died from Friday's earthquake, which comes a week after a deadly quake hit the island of Cebu.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
Get ready to be bombed by ChatGPT
It was no ordinary drone either, he discovered. Assisted by artificial intelligence, this unmanned aerial vehicle can find and attack targets on its own.Unlike other models, it didn't send or receive any signals, so could not be jammed.
The new AI arms race changing the war in Ukraine
Both Ukraine and Russia use AI in battle, but removing human decision-making comes with risks.Abdujalil Abdurasulov (BBC News)
Hey, ChatGPT. Did you just drop a bomb on me?
Certainly! You’re absolutely right! I dropped a bomb on you. If there’s anything else I can do for you, please let me know.
ChatGPT, you're supposed to be helping my team. Please drop your bombs on the guys in the other trench instead.
Of course! Sorry about that, I know you said that my goal is to help you succeed in the war! I'll adjust my targeting to exclude this trench and from now on I'll only drop bombs on the other trench.
*boom*
ChatGPT! You just dropped a bomb on us AGAIN!
His company DevDroid makes remotely controlled machine guns, that use AI to automatically detect people and track them. Because of concerns over friendly fire, he says they don't have an automatic shooting option."We can enable it, but we need to get more experience and more feedback from the ground forces in order to understand when it is safe to use this feature."
That's some real Dr. Strangelove logic in the wild. Can't let robots kill people until it's safe.
Between the DPRK and the US, the DPRK is far preferable. And between those two and the Zapatists, the last are so far ahead in preferableness, that no one can meet it.
Long live communism; and especially that which is anarchist! Fascism and imperialism must fall.
Oh, it certainly is a dictatorship, alright. But I'll take free healthcare, free housing, and the like, over the capitalist hellhole that is the USA anytime.
And if I choose, I would like that with freedom of speech too - freedom to be a communist, union organiser, or whatever. Freedom to criticise the government.
Indeed, I think in this regard, it's choosing between walking in Antarctica, and doing so in the scorching desert. Both kill you, just in different ways. While you can put up more clothes, you cannot strip yourself off with less than your skin, without dying at all.
What I favour, is a society in where all are free from need, and free to criticise without hatred. Economic security is basic; and political freedom must come with it.
That is why if I had to choose between all three (the US, China, and the Zapatists), I would elect the last; and if between the former two, China.
Yes master, please let me lick your boot as you step on me and kill my family! /s
You have no idea what the hell your talking about. You cannot freely criticize there, you will die. You have no economic security there, you will own nothing. You have no political freedom there, you will die if you don't do as they say.
A foolish, blind approach to the rise of fascism, more fascism is bad, you fell for it worse than a 4channer did for trump.
As a citizen of NK, I always kiss my main piece of Kim for the good of the party! /s
Doesn't matter what economic or government style they are, anyplace like that is a hellscape.
Could say the same about American imperialists, who have no liberty, freedom, or anything to criticise their own government!
You also ignore that I said I much prefer the Zapatists. Which indeed do give all the liberty that there is.
I prefer on building anarchocommunism in my own country.
Where did I defend the West or hold the United States up as a shining example? I didn't. News Flash, North Korea is helping Russian imperialism right now. Any bloated state with centralized power participates in imperialism whenever it suits them. East or west.
The reason I didn't mention the Zapistas because I don't strictly disagree with them or what they are doing as an anarchist. And they are also a completely different beast from North Korea!
It's common to see such derangement among militant/low information leftists. On the one side, glorifying the proletariat fighting for their rights. While on the other side, glorifying a neptocracy that's their antithesis. If you don't think oppression is bad in and of itself as long as it's your team doing the oppression. You're part of the problem.
I don't care if you don't believe the western stance on NK. At least believe the people that had been there and escaped. The state doesn't even properly feed it's population, let alone have universal healthcare. It's a joke, and not just the West's fault. The leadership would rather spend wastefully on stagnant military and pomp to stroke their own egos. Building cities their people can't live in. And just because I know it will need to be said. No, this is not an endorsement of South Korea.
Communism: stateless, classless and moneyless sociality.
DPRK: totalitarian hereditary dictatorship
They are not the same.
Skips over the Zapatists, which check what you describe as communism
Not an agenda at all, I see! Indeed, communism is the answer. The problem is fascism.
Speaking of hereditary totalitarian dictatorships, we could say the same regarding the USA, with its political families; the Bushes, the Trumps, and so on. No doubt he is a corrupt bastard.
Lemmy's resident troll finally getting upvotes, and it's for playing the Cuba card.
If there's anything supported strongly around here, it's socialist paradises.
The DPRK and South Korea are like 1984 and BNW next to each other.
In the DPRK, at least the repression is clear.
In South Korea, it's drowned in a sea of consumerism. You have to pay premiums for healthcare, housing issues exist, and so on.
The answer is therefore, anarchocommunism; as it combines freedom of speech with freedom of life standards effectively.
Communism has always been the ideal. However, we have to take into account that we do not live in a bubble insulated from everyone else. We are facing the real, global and continuous threat of imperialist invasion by the capitalist forces. See Cuba and Venezuela, for instance.
It's really hard to not be an ultra-militaristic society when the CIA and the enemies of the proletariat are always lurking in the shadows and looking for any miniscule gap to breach socialist countries from within. Regardless, we need to diffuse a proletarian, anti-bourgeois culture among the masses in order to inhibit the possibilities of foreign intervention.
I think it is possible to establish a society that is not militaristic. It must always be prepared to combat fascism and capitalism; but it must also have freedom of speech.
An anarchocommunist society must prevail through the full liberation of all people; it must mean that basic needs are taken care of, and that all can discuss freely without hatred, without fear of state repression. It must mean that corruption and oligarchism is nonexistent.
I do not believe in a society where everyone lives in fear; I believe in a society where everyone lives in joy for the next day.
Unfortunately when people criticize socialist countries for the lack of "free speech," even if with good intentions, they are usually parroting the talking points of Western, bourgeois media and only serves as to justify imperialist intervention against them.
These criticisms however derive from an ignorance of the way politics work in such countries whose only perception comes from behind the iron curtain and only through the lens of fascist and capitalist media.
In historically socialist countries, democracy had always been principally practiced on the local and communal stages, where individuals had the most capacity to take decisions regarding their daily lives and the situation of their neighbourhood, locality or commune. I highly recommend reading on this topic:
We keep spending most our lives living
in a socialist paradise
Read theory once or twice
in a socialist paradise
Those train stations look almost too nice
in a socialist paradise
Japan's governing coalition collapses
Japan's governing coalition collapses
The junior partner in government, Komeito, quit the alliance on Friday, putting in peril Sanae Takaichi's bid to become the country's first woman prime minister.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
Is that dude super tall or are the elevators there really short?
Edit: the Internet tells me standard elevators doors in Japan are between 6'7"-6'11" tall.
Ecuador deploys army in capital to deal with intensifying indigenous protests
Ecuador deploys army in capital to deal with intensifying indigenous protests
Three thousand soldiers have been called in to contain protests against rising diesel prices led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, which is threatening to occupy Quito.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
Nineteen more removed to France under ' one in, one out' scheme
Nineteen more removed to France under 'one in, one out' scheme
The recent removals involved larger groups of migrants than previous flights, the Home Office says.Hafsa Khalil (BBC News)
‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine capital causes widespread blackout
‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine capital causes widespread blackout
At least 20 injured after hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles target energy infrastructure in KyivPeter Beaumont (The Guardian)
Peru lawmakers vote to oust president Dina Boluarte over crime crisis
Peru lawmakers vote to oust president Dina Boluarte over crime crisis
Congress leader José Jerí sworn in as interim president as majority of lawmakers initiate impeachment against BoluarteGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
I'm here for you.(Keeps pulling) You make boss memes.
"DONT GIVE UP ARTAX! (Cries a bit til I meet the big turtle)
~~Didn't the US just give them a $20 billion bailout? ~~
Wrong country, sorry
ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-bu…
The U.S. directly purchased Argentine pesos on Thursday and finalized a US$20 billion currency swap line with Argentina’s central bank, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a social media post, a rare move aimed at stabilizing turbulent financial markets in the cash-strapped Latin American ally.
U.S. buys Argentine pesos, finalizes US$20B currency swap
The U.S. directly purchased Argentine pesos on Thursday and finalized a US$20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a social media post.The Associated Press (CTVNews)
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins
The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado
The award goes to the person or organisation that's done the most "for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses"
US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award, but nominations closed in January - at the start of his second term in office
Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.BBC News
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That's how he'll see it for sure, because he's a narcissistic moron. But actually, it looks as though the individual in question is someone who is as opposed to the current Venezuelan regime as Trump is.
In principle this should be a good outcome for Trump, if you believe that his values are what he says they are. However I don't think he could even point to Venezuela on a map of Venezuela, let alone have any interest in who Maria Corina Machado is.
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There's a complication for Trump. He hates Maduro. The US in general (by which I mean administrations of both major political parties) wants him out. Machado is the major candidate of the opposition to Maduro. She also would give away Venezuela's oil reserves, which the US definitely wants.
So the Nobel committee just awarded the prize to someone who 1) is hardly a voice for peace, and 2) Trump generally needs to support. Now, #2 is based on Trump not being a shortsighted idiot, and we all know how that works out.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
Last few words are almost like they're thumbing the nose of one specific person.
Nobel Peace Prize 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”NobelPrize.org
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And this from the press release:
In its long history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has honoured brave women and men who have stood up to repression, who have carried the hope of freedom in prison cells, on the streets and in public squares, and who have shown by their actions that peaceful resistance can change the world. [...]When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.
Nobel Peace Prize 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”NobelPrize.org
(Wasn't eligible for "his" Gaza peace accord anyway, since that came after the decision was finalized early October ... but I suspect he was crossing his fingers anyway, because well it's always about him ofcourse)
FYI, Machado is a far-right plant who's championing the sanctions and US intervention in her country and every other nation that opposes imperialism. Notwithstanding her vocal and active support for far-right parties in Europe and LatAm.
venezuelanvoices.org/2025/04/0…
web.archive.org/web/2024082604…
jurist.org/news/2024/11/venezu…
Venezuela announces probe against opposition leader over US sanctions support
The Venezuelan Attorney General's Office announced Friday a new criminal investigation against opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for allegedly endorsing US economic sanctions against the South Am...Daniela Pulido | Facultad de Derecho PUCP, PE (- JURIST - News)
Oh wow, when you hover over Estonia in the list of countries represented in the first article, it's a national broadcast article about Ruuben Kaalep, who somehow managed to get into parliament for one term.
Now I do not know many Estonian politicians closely, but about a decade ago, someone who was part of a group I was drinking with one evening, managed to invite him to join us. We promptly ditched both of them when he... spent quite a bit of time talking about how Hitler was doing the right thing. Ah, and the person who invited him? Became the next lead of the nazi youth group Kaalep used to lead before he went to parliament. I'm amazed she hasn't gotten into parliament yet, since I remember her being dumb as a bag of rocks too, but I guess it was sexism, because I don't recall EKRE having a lot of female parliament members usually - both the current ones are wives of prominent male party members.
Not particularly relevant perhaps, but hey, I'm still grossed out by the fact that nazis infiltrated my birthday.
She deserves it as much as Kissinger and Shimon Peres deserve it.
FYI, Machado is a far-right plant who's championing the sanctions and US intervention in her country and every other nation that opposes imperialism. Notwithstanding her vocal and active support for far-right parties in Europe and LatAm.venezuelanvoices.org/2025/04/0…
web.archive.org/web/2024082604…
jurist.org/news/2024/11/venezu…
Venezuela announces probe against opposition leader over US sanctions support
The Venezuelan Attorney General's Office announced Friday a new criminal investigation against opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for allegedly endorsing US economic sanctions against the South Am...Daniela Pulido | Facultad de Derecho PUCP, PE (- JURIST - News)
I expect Trump's navy to murder more Venezuelans, in retaliation for that, over the next few months..
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Trumps america cant even come up with their own schemes anymore, they gotta butcher the classics.
It's literally the history of both South/ Central America, and Africa.
Like those cheap banana prices? you can thank the CIA for that.
The award goes to the person or organisation that's done the most "for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses"
So, explain to me how they think that the guy who single-handedly changed the name of the Dept of DEFENSE to the Dept of WAR, fits that description? Did they think that the Nobel committee wouldn't hear about that? Or care?
More likely, it NEVER occurred to them that it might send a mixed message to the world. Intimidating the entire planet into obedience because they are afraid that America will literally destroy their country, or even the world, is NOT Peace.
Seriously, the naked stupidity of these people is truly astounding.
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in reply to arox • • •GitHub - VentralDigital/InterProfileSharing: Official repository of Inter Profile Sharing App for GrapheneOS/Android
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in reply to phonics • • •Oddly enough, it's called Syncthing-fork.
github.com/Catfriend1/syncthin…
Last build is 15 days old.
GitHub - Catfriend1/syncthing-android: Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.
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in reply to arox • • •Anything where you put the file somewhere under profile A then read it under profile B will work.
Depending on why you want to transfer a file between profiles there are probably different tools you’ll like.
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in reply to arox • • •Not specific to grapheneos, and also battery friendly on LOS is localsend, and on gnu+linux I use instead localsend-go since it offers a CLI (what I use) and a rudimentary TUI which is missing some functionality but good enough (I prefer using it as CLI). But localsend also includes a windows app BTW. On gnu+linux some prefer kdeconnect, but I find it more battery intensive than localsend on the phone, and the extra functionality is not what I expected, like I originally guessed I could write sms from a gnu+linux box, or read past one, and that's not what sms control means.
Don't these alternatives work on grapheneos for some reason?
GitHub - localsend/localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
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