I cannot believe the incredible sarcasm put forth by city services. I hope I managed to capture it in this photograph.

I mean, if there was barbed wire on top of an exclusionary plywood wall that said "compassion" in some movie somewhere, it would be rightly criticized as being heavy-handed.

Thanks for seeing my work.

https://www.orizzontescuola.it/piattaforme-digitali-e-salute-mentale-adolescenti-8-ore-al-giorno-online-algoritmi-progettati-per-la-dipendenza-non-per-il-benessere-una-cocaina-comportamentale/

First off, I have already installed and am happy with (I don't need any suggestions for these):
- Fennec (browser)
- Heliboard (keyboard, it's awesome!)
- Aves (image gallery)
- AntennaPod (podcasts)
- DAVx^5^ + Etar (calendar)
- Fossify Calendar looks nice, but is less functional in my opinion (you can't see the full name of events in month view!)
- Joplin (notes)
- CalcYou (calculator)
- Breezy Weather
- CoMaps
- Thunderbird (email)
- Material Files (file manager)
- Chrono (alarms, timers, etc.)
- ConnectYou (contacts)
- Fossify Messages (SMS)
- also considering Quik SMS, does it have any advantages over Fossify?
- Moshidon (Mastodon)
- RSS feed reader (Feeder + CapyReader, one of the two probably, both are great)
- Image Toolbox
- My self-hosted stuff (Nextcloud and Immich)
- KeePassDX (password manager)
- Ente Auth (2FA)

I currently need:
- music player (Metro and Vanilla Music are both unmaintained, so those are out. I've also found Auxio, CuteMusic, Lotus, and Phocid as options. Are there any other good ones? I want local playback, not stuff using YT Music)
- Lemmy client (Jerboa crashes when trying to log in for some reason, I've heard Thunder might be good?)
- are there any other apps I should look at?

Another thing, is there a guide to what all the settings in Heliboard do? It's kind of overwhelming. One thing I have changed is the "bottom padding" to make the space bar a bit up, since I accidentally press "c" and "v" way too often when trying to hit space. Also, being able to enable the number row is pretty cool!

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-25/the-1920-s-immigration-mistake-america-may-repeat?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTUyNDcxOSwiZXhwIjoxNzYyMTI5NTE5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNE9TMEFHUTFZUFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3REVDMjIwQjI3Nzg0Q0IwQUU5ODY2OEQxQzVCOEZDMyJ9.WUGXURgwoEjo2IP0raXxJmheRZO90xM7s_AVTP8H9Rg

https://x.com/b4dchan/status/1981350941262500305

xcancel.com/b4dchan/status/198…

2 years of posting Haaretz articles about how Al Aqsa Flood was part of Netanyahu's master plan without self-reflection has me doubting their motives

Fun looking at China and seeing plans for the future, while here, it's nothing but grift for the foreseeable future.

Port electrification follows a predictable sequence. The first stage replaces diesel cranes, trucks, and yard equipment with electric systems. The second extends to tugs and harbor craft. The third, which is now underway in China, reaches inland and short-sea vessels. The fourth will see ports functioning as full energy hubs, feeding deep-sea hybrids and stabilizing regional grids. Every stage builds on the one before it. Once the ground vehicles and cranes switch to electric drive, high-capacity chargers and energy management systems are already in place. Those same assets can serve harbor craft and ships. Electrification propagates by infrastructure reuse.

The Yangtze River has become a living demonstration of this process. It connects the interior manufacturing centers of Chongqing, Wuhan, and Yichang with the export hubs of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Ningbo. Along its length, the physical river has been matched by a set of electrical arteries. Two of them, the Changji–Guquan and Hami–Chongqing UHVDC transmission lines, deliver more than 30 TWh of renewable power each year from the deserts and plateaus of the west to the dense industrial east. Together they provide up to 8 GW of clean capacity directly into the Yangtze corridor. These ultra-high-voltage direct current lines are the spine of a new energy geography, making clean electrons available where cargo and industry already cluster. Without that grid backbone, even the most efficient electric ship would be an isolated experiment.

There's tremendous irony regarding one point ...

This is against a backdrop of radical change in shipping volumes. 40% of all tonnage is of fossil fuels and all are in structural decline. Another 15% is raw iron ore, also in structure decline. Population growth is slowing and the global population is expected to peak between 2050 and 2070. While container shipping will continue to grow, it won’t be growing nearly as fast as bulks decline.

The Yangtze River Is Becoming the World’s Largest Electrified Trade Corridor - CleanTechnica

The Yangtze corridor is emerging as the world’s largest clean-energy trade route, powered by HVDC, solar, and battery-electric vessels.

^{Michael Barnard (CleanTechnica)}

Michael Sainato
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDT

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

^{Michael Sainato (The Guardian)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38114976

Michael Sainato
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDT

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

Peter Link

2025-10-27 02:43:01

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Michael Sainato
Sun 26 Oct 2025 17.16 EDT

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

^{Michael Sainato (The Guardian)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37917203

The crowd is friendlier now, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has now been drowned out twice by chants of “Tax the Rich”

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/700961

Comments

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.

^jacobin.com

Before anyone says it, yes, I know it's shit, and that Microsoft are awful, but my wife needs Office, so I get a couple of accounts with 1TB of storage for free, so I may as well use it.

I've got my PC, my laptop, and a Synology DS216 (I think) NAS that I want to keep synced and backed up. I was using Onedrive on the PC to sync to their online storage, and using Syncthing to keep the laptop and Synology updated, but they just mirrored the PC. The PC was the only one that could write to the folder.

I want to keep the PC and laptop synced in both directions, and use the Synology and Onedrive as extra copies. I know it's not a proper backup, but it's better than nothing for the moment.

Would I be better off installing Onedrive, or Abraunegg's version, on the three systems and letting it sync, or putting Onedrive on the Synology and using Syncthing to keep the folders synced?

I'll have Onedrive on the Synology either way, and I'll be using Syncthing on all three to keep my music synced with my media server, so I'm mostly wondering whether people think it's better to let just the Synology sync to Onedrive, or to have a client on each device.

The three devices are pretty much always used in the same house, but very occasionally the laptop is taken out, almost always to somewhere with an internet connection.

Thanks 😀

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/a-first-step-in-europe-proton-slams-switzerlands-new-surveillance-bill-at-the-united-nations-forum

Dopo i vari complotti ai miei danni… e prima gli scherzi degli spiriti, e poi i malware autunnali che colpiscono il mio corpo, e pure tutte le cose pericolosamente problematiche per essere anche solo scritte… Oggi pomeriggio mi è arrivata un’altra sorpresa: i fottuti virus sul PC. (E no, non è perché sto continuando ad […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-10-26 23:55:09

la sorpresa malwarica della domenica (l’attacco alla supply chain di OpenVSX mi fa passare brutti minuti)

Dopo i vari complotti ai miei danni… e prima gli scherzi degli spiriti, e poi i malware autunnali che colpiscono il mio corpo, e pure tutte le cose pericolosamente problematiche per essere anche solo scritte… Oggi pomeriggio mi è arrivata un’altra sorpresa: i fottuti virus sul PC. (E no, non è perché sto continuando ad usare Windows 10 una decina di giorni dopo la data di fine vita… non c’è nessuna falla nel sistema operativo di mezzo, bensì, anche stavolta, solo i potery forty.) 😰

Ho semplicemente aperto VSCodium per fare la mia programmazione, perché sennò il fine settimana non sono contenta, lo sappiamo già… ed è arrivato un popup di Windows Defender, che si lamentava di un file JavaScript nella cartella di un’estensione installata dell’IDE. Purtroppo, cercandolo online, scopro che il merdone ha probabilmente ragione: il file è probabilmente infetto (non lo so con certezza, perché non volevo sbloccarlo col rischio che venisse eseguito, quindi l’ho fatto sparire)… perché, a quanto sembra, c’è stato di recente un attacco alla filiera (o “supply chain“, come piace dirlo agli altri) che ha colpito alcune estensioni VSCode… e zio cane. 😐

I link interessanti sono su memos.octt.eu.org/m/GdeyW5UqDV…, e stavolta sono forse interessanti davvero, perché il malware, “GlassWorm“, è una cosa assurda, a livello tecnico… Usa la blockchain di Solana per salvare i riferimenti allo stage 2, probabilmente per essere indistruttibile, perché se qualcuno gli leva di mezzo il server di comando e controllo questi possono sempre aggiornare il payload sulla blockchain e avere tutto ancora funzionante, una roba da pazzi… e poi, il codice malevolo nascosto nei file JavaScript è codificato con caratteri Unicode che appaiono vuoti, ma ovviamente vengono decodificati in quello che serve, e bleah. Ma non è questo il punto… 🤥

In pratica, quello che è successo — e non capisco perché lo scopro solo ora, e non mi sia invece arrivata indirettamente la notizia pochi giorni fa — è che questo malware prende di mira le estensioni per VSCode — principalmente quelle ospitate su OpenVSX, ma si sa già di almeno una infetta anche sullo store di Microsoft — per replicarsi e diffondersi sui PC degli sviluppatori di software, e da lì fare cose brutte… Innanzitutto rubare i dati di varie estensioni browser di criptovalute (e vabbè che se tieni le criptovalute sul PC anziché sul telefono stai proprio chiedendo che ti vengano rubate), perché evidentemente questi stronzi non hanno fantasia… poi credenziali Git, NPM, OpenVSX, questa roba qui, appunto per spargere codice malevolo… e, si dice, installare varie schifezze persistenti. 😭

Non so se sia più ironico il fatto che non ho praticamente mai beccato malware sui PC in anni e anni di pirateria e cose particolari, eppure mi deve succedere oggi in un modo che non potevo ragionevolmente prevenire — anche perché io non installo estensioni troppo ad minchiam, nel possibile faccio attenzione, ma a volte tocca installare il pacchetto sfigato gestito da qualcuno a caso non malevolo, ma che suo malgrado si è fatto bucare — per il solo peccato di scrivere codice ed usare VSCodium per farlo… Oppure, se la cosa che veramente mi deve far incazzare è che le estensioni bucate sono per ora ancora una quindicina, eppure proprio una (1) è capitato che l’avessi, quindi che combinazione… Ma è tutto così fottutamente assurdo. 💥

Per fortuna, (anche se non so quanto devo davvero fidarmi di un simile risultato, e mi chiedo se forse non dovrei prendere provvedimenti più forti; ma se devo cambiare le password impazzisco, e idem se devo reinstallare il sistema, quindi spero di no…) da diverse scansioni complete, una con Defender ed una con Kaspersky, esclusi i file dell’estensione infetta che poi ho giustamente anche disinstallato da VSCodium, il PC risulta pulito; e, anche controllando a manina i servizi di Windows, le operazioni programmate all’avvio, e le chiavi di registro riportate negli articoli sopra, non ho trovato nulla di strano, così come non vedo richieste agli indirizzi IP noti di questo merdone attraverso WireShark. 🙄

Quindi… è possibile che Defender abbia bloccato il codice malevolo in un momento in cui si, l’IDE ha letto il file che lo conteneva, ma non effettivamente eseguito, perché questa estensione (sissel.shopify-liquid@4.0.1) magari non era una di quelle che gira a vuoto, e io in cosa stavo lavorando oggi (e ieri) non avevo niente che causasse l’effettivo caricamento dell’estensione? Mi verrebbe da chiedermi perché minchia la rilevazione sia avvenuta solo oggi, visto che l’estensione è bucata da apparentemente una bella settimana, e quindi dovevo avere in teoria già minimo da ieri la versione schifosa, visto che VSCode maledetto aggiorna in automatico le estensioni senza dire niente… ma evidentemente Microsoft ha il culo comodo nell’aggiornare le definizioni. 😤

Allora, in sostanza, spero vivamente che questo coglione marcio non sia riuscito ad installarmi sul computer RAT, HVNC, o proxy per i propri usi schifosi, altrimenti sono rogne… Se avete consigli, a parte l’idea di smettere di programmare software, vi ringrazio in anticipo; per ora ho disattivato l’aggiornamento automatico di tutte le estensioni, così, semmai qualcun’altra viene fottuta, io non lo sarò. Però, a parte gli scherzi, viviamo veramente in un mondo di merda se i malware non sono più “vinci la partita a carte se non vuoi che ti cancello il disco“, e invece sono “mi nascondo per fotterti”… e se per prenderli non serve fare nulla di incauto, ma basta appena esistere ed usare software scritto da altri!!! 😩

#GlassWorm #malware #OpenVSX #virus #VSCode

[MALWARE] Compromised VS Code extension

🚨 Security Alert: Malicious Version Detected on Open VSX Hi @panoply, My name is Ilyas Makari, and I’m a malware researcher at Aikido Security. I wanted to let you know that we’ve identified a comp...

^{IlyasMakari (GitHub)}

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/exxon-sues-california-over-climate-disclosure-laws-2025-10-25/

Likely Saturday, 1st of November.

We need to do some server OS upgrades and a some other things that will cause a few hours downtime.

Maybe I will already start with some smaller things this week, that should only cause a short down-time for reboots.

Once that is done, I will look into running a Piefed test instance to investigate how to do the database migration from Lemmy. If everything goes smoothly, we might be able to do the Lemmy to Piefed migration end of this year or early next year.

For most of Donald Trump’s second term, Republicans have bent to his will. But in two Midwestern states, Trump’s plan to maintain control of the U.S. House in next year’s election by having Republicans redraw congressional districts has hit a roadblock.

Despite weeks of campaigning by the White House, Republicans in Indiana and Kansas say their party doesn’t have enough votes to pass new, more GOP-friendly maps. It’s made the two states outliers in the rush to redistrict — places where Republican-majority legislatures are unwilling or unable to heed Trump’s call and help preserve the party’s control on Capitol Hill.

Lawmakers in the two states still may be persuaded, and the White House push, which has included an Oval Office meeting for Indiana lawmakers and two trips to Indianapolis by JD Vance, is expected to continue. But for now, it’s a rare setback for the president and his efforts to maintain a compliant GOP-held Congress after the 2026 midterms.

https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-indiana-kansas-trump-pressure-2026-election-506c874ec90c7f68167e0683b207dc41

# ROUND 20: 🇲🇽 Mexico

FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO 2025

## Circuit stats

• Circuit name: Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
• First Grand Prix: 1963
• Number of laps: 71
• Circuit Length: 4.304 km
• Race Distance: 305.584 km
• Lap record: 1:17.774 Valtteri Bottas (2021)
• 2024 winner: Carlos Sainz

## Track Map

Nothing to see here but conjecture. Interestingly, though, that the failed real-estate developer and former reality-TV host is ready to turn his oops baby into a nepo-baby.

Trump’s 19-year-old son, Barron Trump, has been floated by the president’s former social media producer Jack Advent as a potential board member. Trump has indicated new US investors include conservative media owners Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison.

This is so much better than the Chinese having U.S. data! Palantir must be thrilled they can back off on at least some development.

US and China reach ‘final deal’ on TikTok sale, treasury secretary says

Scott Bessent said plan was part of framework for trade deal but did not share details on transferring app’s ownership

^{Michael Sainato (The Guardian)}

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Authorities are investigating after a fire broke out in a carport at the home of Portland City Councilor Candace Avalos early Sunday morning.

Fire officials were called to the scene of the fire on Southeast Caruthers Street, near Southeast 122nd Avenue, around 2:40 a.m. Sunday.

Upon arrival, they found several cars and a carport on fire, and were able to extinguish the blaze.

Investigators estimated the total damage at $125-150,000, with damage to the exterior siding of the home and “complete destruction” of the carport and two cars.

‘Suspicious’ fire at Portland City Councilor’s home being investigated as possible arson

^{FOX 12 Staff (Fox 12 Oregon)}

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/food-banks-snap-shutdown-hunger-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU8.56kE.OfunMoDBSET8

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6540421

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/3950

There are still 15,600 Palestinians, many with conditions like cancer, awaiting a medical evacuation, officials say.

At least 740 Palestinians in Gaza died over a period of 13 months while awaiting medical evacuation that never came, the UN has reported, as Israel denied tens of thousands of Palestinians of this crucial lifeline.

This death toll includes at least 137 children who were on the evacuation list and died between July 2024 and August 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported this week.

“These patients cannot wait for the healthcare system to be rebuilt. They need urgent care today,” wrote Médecins sans Frontières International President Javid Abdelmoneim in an open letter this week.

“These were preventable deaths — not only because of the destruction of hospitals, but due to political inaction,” Abdelmoneim wrote.​

Israel has nearly totally destroyed Gaza’s medical system, and there are no treatment options for chronic conditions like cancer or kidney failure, or for those who are in need of complex treatments for injuries inflicted by Israel’s genocidal bombing and starvation campaign.

The UN and other aid organizations have called for Israel to open all crossings into Gaza in order to allow a surge of aid and medical evacuations. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the BBC that no evacuation flights have taken off for the past two weeks due to Israeli holidays.

Israel has refused to open crossings into Gaza and allow for full humanitarian access, violating the ceasefire deal signed on October 9. Palestinian officials reported that, as of Monday, the 10th day of the ceasefire, only 986 aid trucks had entered the besieged territory, despite the deal stipulating that 6,600 trucks should have entered at that point.

“The situation still remains catastrophic because what’s entering is not enough,” said Tedros. “There is no dent in hunger because there is not enough food.”

Meanwhile, UN Population Fund Executive Director Andrew Saberton said this week that there is no longer such a thing as a “normal birth in Gaza now” and that pregnant Palestinians are being forced to give birth in the street.

“​​They often don’t even have access to a private space in a tent. We have stories of women giving birth actually in the rubble, beside the road,” Saberton said.

From Truthout via This RSS Feed.

740 Palestinians in Gaza Have Died Waiting for Medical Evacuation, WHO Says

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38105262

By Pete Seidman
October 25, 2025

Peter Link

2025-10-26 21:02:12

Miami Meeting Boosts Fight Against U.S. Blockade of Cuba

By Pete Seidman
October 25, 2025

Miami Meeting Boosts Fight Against U.S. Blockade of Cuba - World-Outlook

Fifty people attended a meeting at Florida International University here today to hear reports from four Cuba solidarity activists who had just returned from the island.

^{world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)}

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that air traffic controllers “are wearing thin” amid the ongoing government shutdown.

“The controllers are wearing thin,” Duffy told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “And again, they’re taking second jobs, they’re out there looking, ‘Can I drive Uber, can I find another source of income to make ends meet?’”

Duffy also noted that 22 air traffic controller staffing triggers occurred at airports across the country on Saturday, the highest number to date during the shutdown. Air traffic controllers are working without pay during the funding lapse.

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5573764-duffy-air-traffic-controllers-are-wearing-thin-as-government-shutdown-hits-day-26/