Prince William’s Climate Prize Hired PR Firm Tied to Brazilian Fossil Fuel Industry
Revealed: Prince William’s Climate Prize Hired PR Firm Tied to Brazilian Fossil Fuel Industry - DeSmog
The agency — LLYC Brasil —promoted upcoming Earthshot Prize ceremony in Rio de Janeiro while under contract to oil giant Petrobras.TJ Jordan (DeSmog)
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China Is Building the Future
What the U.S. Can Learn From China’s Technological Success
The United States can learn from its technological success.Eric Schmidt (The Atlantic)
As Millions March Against Fascism, the New York Times Warns Against Progressives
As Millions March Against Fascism, NYT Warns Against Progressives
Two days after massive pro-democracy marches, the New York Times published a forceful message of its own—not against fascism, but against progressivism.FAIR
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November 2025 ForumWG Meeting
November 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 18h00 to 19h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 2 October 2025.
Please note the time difference if applicable, ForumWG meeting times follow Eastern (± Daylight) Time Zone.
Meeting link: meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg
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Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust
Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust
Two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.David Keith (MIT Technology Review)
China Is Building the Future
What the U.S. Can Learn From China’s Technological Success
The United States can learn from its technological success.Eric Schmidt (The Atlantic)
The Authoritarian Stack
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Nextwww.authoritarian-stack.info
White House wrote half of EPA’s cost-benefit analysis for climate rule rollback
White House wrote half of EPA’s cost-benefit analysis for climate rule rollback - E&E News by POLITICO
The move — revealed in emails and internal drafts — sidelined EPA's deep bench of career economists.Jean Chemnick (E&E News by POLITICO)
Closing in on No New Coal: The final push
Closing in on No New Coal: The final push - E3G
No New Coal has become a global norm across the world. However, a small group of countries continue to keep new coal on the table and threaten progress.E3G
UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming
UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming - Carbon Brief
The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme has warnedCarbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
Autograding tool
Hi,
I teach a CS course, and I was wondering if there is a practical way in which to setup a server that would accept student's tar files, run some tests, and show them the results.
I could go "full unix mode" and roll up some accounts let them ssh into a server, scp their their files.... but I was wondering if there is a prepacked solution for this that is nicer to the eye. And I thought maybe you know some.
Charles university uses and develops something called ReCodex, and it is available on GitHub. As a student, it was very nice to use.
~~Probably an odd bug in WG Tunnel - either upload or download slow based on MTU~~ Edit: And it was an IPv6 leak (for the most part)
Edit: Yay, with MTU < 1280 the client seems to just disable IPv6, including the ::/0 in AllowedIPs.
Disabling IPv6 also fixed the low upload speed (probably getting a better route over Wireguard).
That also explains why the differences didn't present themselves with iperf3, as that absolutely had to use Wireguard.
What remains now is why TCP download takes such a huge hit, while it doesn't on laptop.
Not asking for support (anymore). I tried the official Wireguard client, and the issue doesn't present itself there.
So likely a bug, but a bit interesting.
Welp, few hours of playing around and searching wasted.
~~At least you might not waste time with it too, like I did, and I already wrote this...~~
App used: github.com/wgtunnel/wgtunnel
So, this seems like a bit of a magic.
"Server" has MTU of 1420, its connection is 1500. The now-limited ifconfig in Termux shows 1500 for data interface.
I've seen a few people mention the 80 bytes is overhead of WG.
I've had issues with far slower download speed (half expected), so I switched MTU to 1280 (minimum for IPv6) which worked for me in the past for Mullvad. No luck.
I've got an idea, that perhaps if my data interface is 1280, then I should try 1200. That worked... for download. Now upload got significantly slower. I also tried matching MTU on "server" but that made no difference. I also tried some fairly low values like 500, which worked for download, but further killed upload. So far that testing was done using speedtest.net and fast.com.
Through trial and error I've found:
if MTU >= 1280 then upload speed is normal, but download slower
if MTU <= 1279 then download speed is normal, but upload slower
Tailscale is using 1280, and is fine in both directions. Moving to iperf3 (seemingly unaffected by MTU changes):
Plain wireguard
Download (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 33.2 MBytes 13.9 Mbits/sec 117 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 32.2 MBytes 13.5 Mbits/sec receiver
Upload (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 101 MBytes 42.4 Mbits/sec 401 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.17 sec 100 MBytes 41.6 Mbits/sec receiverDownload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.13 sec 480 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/410100 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 267 MBytes 112 Mbits/sec 0.047 ms 174331/402352 (43%) receiver
Upload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 477 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/407504 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.54 sec 119 MBytes 48.5 Mbits/sec 0.201 ms 305999/407495 (75%) receiverConclusion: TCP download significantly slower.
Tailscale
Download (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 236 MBytes 98.6 Mbits/sec 2 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 233 MBytes 97.7 Mbits/sec receiver
Upload (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 120 MBytes 50.2 Mbits/sec 625 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.15 sec 119 MBytes 49.6 Mbits/sec receiverDownload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 480 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/409543 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 254 MBytes 107 Mbits/sec 0.039 ms 176388/393285 (45%) receiver
Upload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 477 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/407167 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.29 sec 138 MBytes 57.2 Mbits/sec 0.196 ms 289036/407167 (71%) receiverConclusion: No significant difference between UDP vs TCP.
Note: 200 Mbits/sec in UDP tests refers to my pre-set limit, as higher speeds wouldn't be achieved anyway. Otherwise it keeps spraying out at full speed if no limit is set.
And now for the biggest oddity: My laptop speeds are fine even with default 1420 MTU, even though it runs over hostpot.
What magic is going on in here?
Also, the VPS doesn't have IPv6, so it's probably not that being routed slower in one direction (as IPv6 requires 1280).
GitHub - wgtunnel/wgtunnel: A FOSS Android client for WireGuard and AmneziaWG with auto-tunneling.
A FOSS Android client for WireGuard and AmneziaWG with auto-tunneling. - wgtunnel/wgtunnelGitHub
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Fixing an old hack - why we are bumping the IPv6 MTU
Back in 2015 we deployed ECMP routing - Equal Cost Multi Path - within our datacenters. This technology allowed us to spread traffic heading to a single IP address across multiple physical servers.The Cloudflare Blog
Welp, turns out I am just an idiot. 1279 and below disabled IPv6, and thus the ::/0 route didn't get applied either, causing a leak. What's still odd is the lower download speed that doesn't happen in another client.
As for the upload, it probably gets a better route through the VPS, giving me a faster speed, and giving me some confusion.
So my first idea with IPv6 was close, but on the other side of the connection.
Anyway, your reply helped me find this issue, as my outtake was to try fully disabling IPv6 (not the first time I tried such "solution").
'The Stuff of Nightmares': Jamaica Braces for Catastrophic Landfall as Hurricane Melissa Horrifies Experts
The International Federation of the Red Cross said up to 1.5 million people in Jamaica—roughly half the island’s population—are expected to be directly affected by Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin and the strongest storm on Earth this year.
“We are okay at the moment but bracing ourselves for the worst,” Jamaican climate activist Tracey Edwards said Tuesday. “I’ve grown weary of these threats, and I do not want to face the next hurricane.”
The International Organization for Migration warned that “the risk of flooding, landslides, and widespread damage is extremely high,” meaning that “many people are likely to be displaced from their homes and in urgent need of shelter and relief.”
'The Stuff of Nightmares': Hurricane Melissa Makes Catastrophic Landfall in Jamaica
"This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation," said the National Hurricane Center.jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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Jamaican officials warn conditions will soon worsen as Hurricane Melissa approaches
- Hurricane Melissa is set to make landfall in Jamaica any time.
- The Category 5 storm is the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began 174 years ago.
- It is expected to slice diagonally across the island, from south to north, before hitting Cuba.
- "There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5," said Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
- Jamaican officials warned residents that conditions will soon worsen, despite heavy rains already battering the island before the storm’s landfall.
- The Category 5 storm is headed for the Caribbean, packing winds of up to 295 km/h (183 mph)
The worst bit seems to be it's moving so damned slow. I saw a stat last night saying it was only going 2 to 5 mph, or 3.22 to 8 kmh.
Jamaica is 51 miles wide, so it's going to take a long while for the storm to pass over.
Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car
Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car
The president’s rollback of car pollution standards is driving up prices, straining automakers, and making it more expensive for Americans to own and operate their cars.Umair Irfan (Vox)
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Why talking to your state and local leaders matters
Why talking to your state and local leaders matters
These officials make key decisions about climate solutions, and they can be easier to reach than federal leaders.YCC Team (Yale Climate Connections)
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"butter" beer
so my partner is a harry potter fan, from back when What's Her Face wasn't obviously a trashy person. i would just like to preface this by stating that i don't condone the ideas that What's Her Face espouses, we don't buy the merch, we pirated the movies and any of her books in my library had been bought from a used book store which resells donated books.
So in the books, there's a reference to a "butter beer" the kids drink. I'm thinking that this is non-alcoholic as in a ginger beer, or at least not super strong. I wanted to try to make a batch for my partner as a special surprise.
I'm planning on making a batch of this next in the style of an american cream ale with vienna malt as the base, 10% oat and 10% corn flakes, to give it a heavy mouth feel, and adding some vanilla extract and nutmeg for the flavor.
Has anyone here made this before, and if so, how did it go? Any pitfalls to watch out for?
morebeer.com/articles/Diacetyl…
Basically do the opposite of what this article suggests.
Use caramel malts, repitch a highly flocculant yeast, ferment at warmer temperature, use a significant portion (~33%) of unmalted cereal grains, propagate your yeast using bakers media.
Diacetyl: Formation, Reduction, and Control | MoreBeer
This review of the basic processes behind diacetyl formation and reduction will help you understand how to keep the diacetyl level in your beer at or below the acceptance threshold for the style.www.morebeer.com
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Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car
Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car
The president’s rollback of car pollution standards is driving up prices, straining automakers, and making it more expensive for Americans to own and operate their cars.Umair Irfan (Vox)
How to Make People Want to Read About Climate Change | Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book is a master class in writing about the natural world.
How to make people want to read about climate change
Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert's new book is a master class in writing about the natural world.Mother Jones
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Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak
Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak
With nearly 750 million URLs removed from Google search, popular shadow library Anna's Archive is a top target for copyright holders.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Philippines to take ASEAN chair in 2026 with focus on South China Sea
Malaysia handed over the chairmanship of Southeast Asia's regional bloc to the Philippines on Tuesday (Oct 28), with territorial disputes in the South China Sea set to dominate its agenda when Manila takes charge in 2026.Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who will remain chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) until the end of the year, symbolically passed the gavel to Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos at the close of a summit in Kuala Lumpur.
"On the first day of 2026, ASEAN will begin a new chapter," Anwar said.
Philippines to take ASEAN chair with focus on South China Sea
ASEAN and China have been negotiating a code of conduct to regulate behaviour in the South China Sea, aiming to secure an agreement by 2026.CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing?
Sorry if I'm mistaken on this, but I'm still new to self-hosting.
Currently I use SyncThing and I love it. My files are accessible to me wherever I am in the world, and it costs me nothing.
I'd like to move more of my life to self-hosted servers. I'm looking at leaving Spotify for Funkwhale. But if I'm reading the materials correctly, I'll need to set up a domain and pay some upfront costs to make my library accessible outside my home.
Why is that? Is there a way to make my costs 0, the way they are with SyncThing?
The cool thing about SyncThing is that it's peer to peer, meaning you don't need a central server for your files to sync. They can go between your laptop and phone, for example.
Something like Funkwhale does need a server, and to talk to that server outside your local network, you need a domain name.
Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]
Yeah, I put it into airplane mode when I heard Amazon was going to push an update removing some feature. Then just kept using it as I did before using calibre to send books.
Finally decided to jailbreak it and I am glad I did since the custom lockscreens and koreader has been cool.
I'm honestly surprised how many people I see doing this. No judgement , it's just now how I use the device.
I couldn't give up my syncing of progress! I love being able to pick up on the Kindle app on my phone if I'm in a waiting room then back to my kindle proper at home.
I'm jazzed to finally have been able to jailbreak my device so I can use KoReader on both the phone and Kindle and keep the same experience.
The main feature of the Amazon reader apps for me is the position sync so I can read on the go. I’d hate to lose that feature.
Releases · koreader/koreader
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices - koreader/koreaderGitHub
GitHub - readest/readest: Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience.
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers offering seamless cross-platform access, powerful tools, and an intuitive interface to elevate your reading experience. - re...GitHub
The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move | The climate crisis is causing the permafrost to melt in Alaska
The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move
The climate crisis is causing the permafrost to melt in Alaska, forcing the village of Nunapitchuk to relocateGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's "storm of the century," world forecasters say
Hurricane Melissa whips Jamaica with violent winds, heavy rain before heading toward Cuba
Hurricane Melissa made landfall Tuesday in Jamaica as a fearsome Category 5 storm. Forecasters said it could be the island's "storm of the century."CBS Chicago
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New far-right prime minister installed in Japan
New far-right prime minister installed in Japan
The new Japanese government marks a turning point in the ruling class’s agenda to reassert its imperialist interests militarily at the expense of the working class.World Socialist Web Site
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I'll bet the Chinese are thrilled.
I'm concerned about the rise of the far right on Europe and the Americas, but not so much with Japan. If Japan starts getting froggy, China will remember what they did to them in WWII, and crush them decisively, with help from every other Asian country, who also remembers Japan's behavior. Asia HATES Japan.
As Trump lavishes money and praise on Argentina, more Americans ask: Why?
They don't love him so he's pay other people to love him. Its paid love all the way down with this fella.
He doesn't know real love.
He's an actual psychopath, so he doesn't have any concept of love, or any other emotion other than hate, jealously, and greed. That's why he's always saying really weird things like he and the Korean guy "fell in love" and exchanged "beautiful love letters." It's why he recently said that he got some world leaders in a room, and they all hugged and worked out their problems. It's why he says really inappropriate things about people's appearances, thinking he is complimenting them.
He doesn't understand these concepts at all, because he's a profoundly broken human being, raised in a family of generational psychopaths. Like all psychopaths, he knows he's different from normal people, so he has to fake normal behavior to fit in. Most learn to do it because they have to to survive in society, but Trump was so spoiled and coddled, he never had to change his behavior, he just kept getting worse and worse.
But at some point he realized he had to try, so he sprinkles words that he knows the Normies like, like Love, and Beautiful, etc. He doesn't really know what they mean, he's never really felt any emotions, but he knows he has to fake it, and since he's never really had to sell it, he's terrible at it. He tosses those words around in really inappropriate contexts, and instead of looking normal, he looks even more psychopathic than usual.
Reducing Homelab Laptop energy consumption
I've been using my old Laptop from my university days as a home server for some time now. It runs the latest Ubuntu LTS with Jellyfin and Home Assistant both in docker containers.
When it's idle it pulls about 10 Watts, which is Not great, but not terrible either.
So I was wondering what I could do to reduce that number. I'm looking for low hanging fruit rather than complex hacks like CPU undervolting or what have you.
Thanks in advance!
One of the best ways to reduce power consumption on older laptops is to change the HDD to an SDD.
But don't expect to get below 10W on an old laptop.
The rise of global boycotts against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.Seeing the livestreamed genocide Israel perpetrated in Gaza has had an effect globally, with the call to boycott Israel at an all-time high.
Quiet boycotts, which started in supermarkets nearly two decades ago, have turned into widely used apps that help millions make choices about purchases.
Campus protests and encampments in the US and Canada have led some major education institutions to cut ties with Israeli counterparts, while investments into Israel have dipped, and some of the world’s largest economies have recognised Palestine as a state.
Nearly 50,000 pro-Palestine protests in two years
Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data
Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data
In an era where running a website without HTTPS is shunned, and everyone wants you to encrypt your DNS queries, you’d expect that the telecommunications back-ends are secured tightly as well.…Hackaday
It reads like "definitely should not happen" was indeed happening!
I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.
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in reply to silence7 • • •The whole point of a PR firm is attempting to make rich dickheads, whom didn't really earn their money, look less like dickheads...
They'd have no customers left...
Edit: Spelling
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in reply to danekrae • • •Tiresia
in reply to danekrae • • •Sure, but there is a difference between dickheads who didn't earn their money because they exploited employees and dickheads that commit genocide on native Brazilian populations.
Though to be fair, Prince William also has ties with dickheads that are committing genocide in Palestine and that commited genocide in Ireland, Bengal, Canada, Australia, and countless other places on account of the whole "heir to the crown of Britain" business.
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