i am not looking to manipulate or convince anybody, just something informative in general, like "this is the bigtech world, this is the open source / selfhosted world."
any good knowledge bases, blogs, youtube channels and alike that you would recommend? the less technical, the better. it's not about "how to install this and that" but rather "what do i need this and that for, what are the advantes and what are the downsides". also, are there resources like that in your language (if you or your people are not english native speakers)?

also very interested in anything else you have to share regarding your personal selfhosting experience and how it may or may not affect those around you.

i'll start: in my own experience, there are so many other things going on in people's life, that i understand are far more important than whether their todo list is stored on their own disk or in some other part of the world. especially in the beginning, going open source / selfhosted does often feel like losing comfort, only to be left with more to take care about in return. so getting started as a non-technical person seems incredibly difficult.
another thing that comes to mind is, yes i could do the selfhosting for related people and friends, and yes they would trust me with some of their data – but no i don't want that. not because i am not willing to help, but i honestly don't want to have access to their data, it just doesn't feel correct.

thanks for your inputs and have a nice weekend!

traumen.site/2025/11/welcome-e…
So today’s intro was supposed to feature a big Rube Goldberg machine… until it self-destructed. 😅 But that’s kind of perfect, because chaos fits right in with this week’s tech news — where Samsung enters mixed reality, OpenAI launches a browser with ChatGPT inside, Amazon flirts with full automation, and Japan’s scientists discover a new way to… breathe.

Let’s get into it. 👇
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Welcome to Tech LinkedIn, where we dive into the latest tech news shaking up the digital universe 🌐. This week, the internet went haywire — from a massive Amazon Web Services outage to leaked government data, cyberattacks, and even a toilet camera that claims to know your hydration level. Yeah… things got weird.

Let’s unpack it all.
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💻 Welcome Everyone — Tech LinkedIn: Chaos, Clouds, and Cyberstorms in the Tech World

  Welcome to Tech LinkedIn , where we dive into the latest tech news shaking up the digital universe 🌐. This week, the internet went haywir...

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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-considers-weakening-2040-climate-goal-over-forest-co2-absorption-draft-shows-2025-11-02/

Tuesday is election day in the US so I'm putting up the sticky a couple of days early so folks can get ready for the big ones to watch.

The US has a couple of different kinds of elections:

The Presidential election - Every 4 years, last one was 2024, next one is 2026. Also generally has a primary earlier in the year followed by the general election in November.

Mid-Term elections - Even numbered years that aren't Presedential are Mid-Terms, State and Local issues, along with every congressperson and 1/3rd of the Senate. Next one is 2026.

Off-Year elections - You are here. State and local elections, Governors, Mayors, things like that.

There are the odd "Special Elections" too for when someone dies or is replaced, but that doesn't apply here.

So what are we all watching this week? Feel free to namedrop your favorites in the comments, but here are some big ones:

1) New York Mayor - Looks like Mamdani is the walk away favorite here, but we'll see!

2) California Prop 50 - This is the one that would re-district California to eliminate Republican House seats, a response to Texas and other states doing the same to eliminate Democratic seats.

3) Virginia Governor election - Democratic candidate Spanberger is the favorite, State Attorney General is much tighter. Thought to be one of the races that will be a referendum on Trump.

emersoncollegepolling.com/virg…

4) New Jersey Governor election - Much tighter than Virginia. Like Virginia, this is thought to be a referendum on Trump, Republican Jack Ciattarelli has the Trump endorsement. Neither side seems to be walking away with it at this point.

reuters.com/world/us/can-democ…

Virginia 2025: Spanberger Leads Virginia Governor’s Race; Attorney General Contest Remains a Toss-Up - Emerson Polling

The final Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey of the Virginia gubernatorial race finds Democrat Abigail…Full Release & Results

^{Camille Mumford (Emerson Polling)}

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/02/newsom-donors-california-00632698

I'm a little out of the loop on TV's. I mainly PC game, but have a few consoles as well. My question is, what is a TV made today that just has the lowest possible input lag? I don't give a crap about quality or any of this 1440p (i?) stuff (stopped caring many years ago. I still watch VHS tapes on my CRT's). All I care about is input lag because it ruins the gaming experience for me.

Currently have a shitpile Insignia that is so bad, you can't game on it (even racing games) and it's so slow that video and audio often get out of sync on it and it needs a factory reset. It was free so i've been using it but it's just upsetting me now. I'm wiling to drop $500-800 on an enjoyable gaming TV if something like that exists for that price. Something 40" or so is just fine with me. For reference the newest console on it would be a Xbox 360. I don't play anything older than PS2 on modern TV's as CRT's are better in every way for old consoles.

Otherwise, I'll just go back to all CRT and projector TV for consoles.

thanks yall!

Sembra che qualcuno, in un luogo oscuro probabilmente piazzato in una dimensione alternativa, abbia iniziato a scocciarsi seriamente delle Wrist Cut

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We're all seeing the breathless hype surrounding the vacuous marketing term. It'll change everything! It's coming for our jobs! Some 50% of white-collar workers will be laid off!

Setting aside "and how will it do that?" as outside the scope of the topic at hand, it's a bit baffling to me how a nebulous concept prone to outright errors is an existential threat. (To be clear, I think the energy and water impacts are.)

I was having a conversation on Reddit along these lines a couple of days ago, and after seeing more news that just parrots Altman's theme-du-jour, I need a sanity check.

Something I've always found hilarious at work is someone asking if you have a calculator (I guess that dates me to the flip-phone era) ... my canned response was "what's wrong with the very large one on your desk?"

Like, automation is literally why we have these machines.

And it's worth noting that you can't automate the interesting parts of a job, as those are creative. All you can tackle is the rote, the tedious, the structured bullshit that no one wants to do in the first place.

But here's the thing: I've learned over the decades that employers don't want more efficiency. They shout it out to the shareholders, but when it comes down to the fiefdoms of directors and managers, they like inefficiency, thank you very much, as it provides tangible work for them.

"If things are running smoothly, why are we so top heavy" is not something any manager wants to hear.

Whatever the fuck passes for "AI" in common parlance can't threaten management in the same way as someone deeply familiar with the process and able to code. So it's anodyne ... not a threat to the structure. Instead of doubling efficiency via bespoke code (leading to a surplus of managers), just let a couple people go through attrition or layoffs and point to how this new tech is shifting your department's paradigm.

Without a clutch.

I've never had a coding title, but I did start out in CS (why does this feel like a Holiday Inn Express ad?), so regardless of industry, when I end up being expected to use an inefficient process, my first thought is to fixing it. And it has floored me how severe the pushback is.

I reduced a team of 10 auditors to five at an audiobook company with a week of coding in VB. A team of three placing ads to 0.75 (with two of us being me and my girlfriend) at a newspaper hub.

Same hub, clawed back 25% of my team's production time after absurd reporting requirements were implemented despite us having all the timestamps in our CMS -- the vendor charged extra to access our own data, so management decided a better idea than paying the vendor six figures, overstaff by 33% to get those sweet, sweet self-reported error-laden data!

At a trucking firm, I solved a decadelong problem with how labour-intensive receiving for trade shows was. Basically, instead of asking the client for their internal data, which had been my boss' approach, I asked how much they really needed from us, and could I simplify the forms and reports (samples provided)? Instant yes, but by boss hated the new setup because I was using Microsoft Forms to feed Excel, and then a 10-line script to generate receivers and reports, and she didn't understand any of that, so how was she sure I knew what I was doing?

You can't make this shit up.

Anyway, I think I've run far afield of my central thesis, but I think these illustrations point to a certain intransigence at the management level that will be far more pronounced than is being covered.

These folks locked in their 2.9% mortgage and don't want to rock the boat.

My point is, why would management suddenly be keen on making themselves redundant when decades of data tell us otherwise?

This form of "AI" does not subvert the dominant paradigm. And no boss wants fewer employees.

As such, who's actually going to get screwed here? The answer may surprise you.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever

Looking for some advice / recommendations / considerations on running OPNsense on bare metal vs virtualized, and if virtualized how best to do so.

I currently have OPNsense running bare metal on a Protectli FW6E Vault, with the following specs:

• Intel i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
• 120GB mSATA (1% utilization)
• 16GB RAM (6.5% utilization)
• 6 Gigabit Ethernet NIC ports

The Vault running OPNsense is the primary firewall and router, any wireless devices connect through a dumb AP running OpenWRT. Connected over Ethernet I have a RPi running HomeAssistant OS (would probably also move to virtual if that's the chosen direction) as well as a TrueNAS setup.

How much of a performance hit would be expected running in some sort of container vs the current bare metal setup? Are there any other concerns with running the main firewall / router virtually vs bare metal to take into account?

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever

House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election by using the Constitution’s “insurrection clause,” The Post has learned.

The New York Young Republican Club is pushing to prevent the NYC mayoral frontrunner from taking the oath of office Jan. 1 under an idea floated this summer.

It cites language in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment to the Constitution barring from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or who has “given aid or comfort to the enemies.” The group argues that Mamdani’s own statements calling to resist ICE could violate the prohibition.

Exclusive | House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor if he wins on Election Day

House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election by using the Constitution’s “insurrectio…

^{Geoff Earle (New York Post)}

Republicans appear determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act, but what will go in its place? It’s a question the party has struggled to answer since the ACA passed. Remember Trump’s first term promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare that never came to fruition?

Since the government shut down a month ago, the party has refused to publicly discuss a plan, even as ACA subsidies expire at the end of the year, forcing Americans to pay astronomically higher monthly premiums. In New Jersey, some premiums will rise by more than 175 percent. One family’s premiums will spike 300 percent. Across the board, premiums are expected to increase by an average of 26 percent for a typical ACA plan, a recent KFF analysis revealed.

The Republicans’ so-called health care plans are so secret, in fact, they won’t share them with members of their own party. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called out House Speaker Mike Johnson last week for not disclosing the party’s plans during a GOP conference call, said during an appearance on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher: “Mike Johnson, for a month now, cannot give me a single policy idea.”

Quelle surprise. We don't even have concepts of a plan anymore!

GOP Says They Have a Healthcare Plan But Won’t Tell You What’s in It

House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to share the details of the Republican healthcare plan, even with members of his own party.

^{Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)}

David, a 29-year-old wearing a yarmulke who declined to give his last name, said the vote felt like an “existential” decision. He said he didn’t particularly care about how the mayor feels about Israel, but Mamdani’s focus on Israeli-Palestinian politics made it hard to believe he’s not antisemitic, and he worried whether that could bleed into other policies.

He said he planned to vote for Cuomo “reluctantly.” “He’s bad on everything,” David said of his preferred choice. “He’s a bad person.”

Eric Weltman, a 58-year-old wearing a suit and tie, proudly said he voted for Mamdani.

“He’s smart, competent, principled and progressive,” he said, adding he had no qualms about Mamdani’s positions on Israel.

“He’s going to be mayor of New York, not ambassador to Israel,” he said.

As for Needleman, the 77-year-old who quoted “Fiddler,” he said he couldn’t support Mamdani and felt Cuomo was too dishonest. So he decided to vote for Sliwa even though he disagreed with the Republican’s politics, saying Sliwa seemed like a “decent guy.”

‘I hate my choices’: How Zohran Mamdani’s run for mayor has split Jews in New York

Jewish voters have long reliably supported Democrats, and Mamdani won the Democratic primary, but concerns about rising antisemitism and Mamdani’s sharp criticisms of Israel have opened up a generational split.

^{Eric Levenson (CNN)}

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/white-house-removes-atlantic-ocean-from-oil-lease-consideration-after-political-backlash-00631427

Why Semasocial.com Is the Future of Professional Networking

Semasocial.com combines the best of social networking and professional growth. It’s not just another chat app — it’s a social platform for creators and professionals who want to showcase their talent, grow their audience, and find new opportunities.

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Why Semasocial.com Is the Future of Professional Networking Semasocial.com combines the best of social networking and professional growth.

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Il funzionamento è semplice: l’azienda “presta” la bici al dipendente, che la paga in comode rate trattenute in busta paga. L’effetto? Un mezzo nuovo a un prezzo accessibile e senza il peso di un esborso immediato.

Secondo le stime, ogni sterlina investita nel programma genera 4,40 sterline di ritorno per l’economia nazionale, tra risparmi sanitari, produttività e riduzione dei costi domestici

https://www.bikeitalia.it/2025/10/31/mettere-in-bici-chi-non-ci-va-la-gran-bretagna-ha-trovato-la-formula/

A 28-year-old person in Orange County who earns $35,000 a year will see the monthly cost of the typical silver-tier plan rise from $130 to $290, according to estimates from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. The typical family of four with a household income of $85,000 would see their monthly cost go from $489 to $901.

These increases are happening in order to pay for Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.

People dependent on the ACA/Obamacare marketplaces are typically less wealthy than the local median. Florida household median income by family size is:
* 1 person - $65,801
* 2 people - $81,109
* 3 people - $93,983
* 4 people - $107,712

Hamas issued a strong rebuttal on Sunday to recent claims by the US Central Command regarding the alleged “looting of a humanitarian aid truck” in Gaza, describing the allegations as “baseless and fabricated.”

Hamas said the claims are being used to justify reductions in already limited aid and distract from the international community’s failure to end the siege and alleviate civilian suffering.

“No international or local organization, nor any driver involved in the convoys, has filed a complaint about such an incident,” Hamas said, adding that this proves the US scenario is fabricated to support siege policies.

Hamas also criticized US drones for failing to record the daily crimes of the Israeli Occupation

“Baseless and fabricated”: Hamas rejects US claims of aid truck looting in Gaza

Hamas fighters (Credit: AFP)

^{Roya News}

The Dorchester parkway, one of Boston’s starkest examples of climate impacts, is inundated multiple times a year.

Morrissey Blvd. floods multiple times a year. It's a symptom of a statewide problem.

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https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-age-verification-effect-adult-site-traffic-plummets-vpn-use-soars

Milano diventa palcoscenico del debutto italiano di SHEIN in passerella. Con “The Urban Ritual”, il brand di moda globale celebra il suo legame con la cultura e la community italiane, trasformando il rito più iconico della vita urbana – il bar – in una metafora di incontro, libertà e autoespressione.
Il fashion show ha preso vita negli spazi di Rubattino 56, location che ha fatto da cornice ad un racconto di moda e identità in cui SHEIN ha saputo fondere autenticità e modernità. Qui, un bar milanese è stato reinterpretato in chiave attuale, trasformandosi in un luogo simbolico dove la moda diventa linguaggio condiviso e quotidiano.
Il concept si ispira all’idea che la moda, proprio come il bar, rappresenti uno spazio democratico e inclusivo, un punto di incontro in cui ognuno può esprimere sé stesso e sentirsi parte di una collettività.
A incarnare questa visione, un cast eterogeneo e inclusivo: modelle e modelli di età, taglie e stili diversi hanno dato vita a una sfilata autentica e rappresentativa della varietà della community SHEIN, riflettendo la pluralità e l’energia delle persone che vivono e animano la città.

Protagonisti indiscussi del catwalk sono stati i cinque top brand più rappresentativi della piattaforma:
- Maija, con un’anima casual e rilassata
- Shein Bae che ha reinterpretato il look da ufficio in chiave contemporanea
- Missguided con capi dallo spirito tailoring che fondono eleganza e carattere
- Anewsta che ha portato in passerella l’ispirazione dell’italian glam
- Musera, con una proposta scintillante fatta di paillettes e glitter perfetti per la stagione dei party.
Cinque visioni di stile che, insieme, raccontano l’anima eclettica di SHEIN: un brand capace di abbracciare estetiche e personalità diverse, mantenendo sempre al centro la libertà di espressione individuale.

Partner ufficiale della sfilata, MIA Cosmetics ha curato i beauty look delle modelle, interpretando l’estetica “Urban Ritual” con un approccio sofisticato e naturale.
Il brand, che si presenta con il payoff Your Italian Beauty, produce cosmetici di alta qualità interamente pensati e realizzati in Italia, con uno sguardo attento a diversità, inclusione e innovazione.
Il team MIA ha creato look eleganti e luminosi, pensati per valorizzare l’unicità di ogni volto e riflettere l’energia autentica della città. L’intera gamma di prodotti utilizzati per realizzare i beauty look è disponibile sul sito web shein.com.

Questo fashion show rappresenta il primo capitolo del nuovo posizionamento del brand:
“SHEIN for All. Your Story, Your Collection.” Un progetto pensato per valorizzare le diverse espressioni della personalità di ognuno in ogni occasione, trasformando ogni scena della vita in parte della propria storia di stile.
The Urban Ritual non è solo una sfilata, ma l’inizio di una narrazione collettiva, attraverso cui il brand continuerà a dare voce alle storie della propria community, trasformando ogni esperienza in un racconto condiviso di stile, autenticità e appartenenza.

Giovedì 6 novembre 2025, in prima serata su Rai 1, arriva la terza e ultima puntata di Noi del Rione Sanità, serie di Luca Miniero con Carmine Recano ispirata all’esperienza di Don Antonio Loffredo. Tra fatti reali e invenzione, il racconto porta in tv un percorso di riscatto collettivo che trasforma la fragilità in opportunità: un rione complesso che può rifiorire grazie a educazione, lavoro e cultura. Le puntate sono disponibili su RaiPlay dopo la messa in onda.

LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI DELLA PUNTATA FINALE: Noi del Rione Sanità, anticipazioni ultima puntata (giovedì 6 novembre 2025) su Rai 1

Noi del Rione Sanità, ultima puntata (6 novembre 2025): la cooperativa prende forma, Mariano fermato

Giovedì 6 novembre 2025 l’ultima puntata di Noi del Rione Sanità, le anticipazioni: Don Giuseppe porta i ragazzi verso la cooperativa, mentre il boss Mariano viene fermato.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}