A court has found Tommy Robinson to be innocent of a terror-related offence. It follows a border stop in which Robinson refused to hand his phone over to the police. Unfortunately, it’s far from the first time authorities have used terror legislation as a blanket excuse to do whatever they like.

Robinson detained under Terrorism Act

As reported by the BBC, Tommy Robinson was stopped by the police at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. It was there that he was asked to give his phone pin over, and it was there that he refused because he claimed to have “journalist material” on his device. As he was detained under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, police had the right to demand that he unlock his phone, but Robinson refused.

This is what we wrote during the trial:

Now, we here at the Canary don’t consider Robinson to be a journalist because he isn’t one; he’s a political activist who uses the veneer or journalism to push a far-right agenda. At the same time, we are very much opposed to the Terrorism Act and the inevitable overreach which results from it.

Anyone can be arrested at any time for refusing the police access to their electronic devices when ordered to do so under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. No suspicion is required.

No one should support the prosecution of Tommy Robinson under this legislation.

— Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy (@GyllKing) October 13, 2025

Highlighting how terror legislation is frequently used to abuse civil liberties, Emily Apple wrote the following for the Canary back in 2016:

The police have shown repeatedly that they regard fracking protesters as an extremist threat. Fracking protesters have been included in Prevent training about extremism, and campaigners questioned under anti-terrorism legislation at airports.

The government’s proscription of Palestine Action is the most significant misuse of terror legislation to happen recently:

The Met Police in effect confirms that the govt’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “drawing resources away” from defending the public from actual terrorism. Who would have thought? pic.twitter.com/K1gvb1MCRJ

— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) October 4, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish counter-terrorism board found that Palestine Action’s activities fell below the threshold to be considered terrorism before the group were banned by Labour, The National can reveal pic.twitter.com/FJ85pTlqpQ

— The National (@ScotNational) October 14, 2025

If people have broken the law, that needs to be resolved in some fashion. The problem is successive governments and police services have decided that opposing them is an offence in itself – even when said opposition does not cross the threshold of illegality.

This state overreach needs to stop.

This extraordinary decision means we can no longer question who is labelled as a terrorist - Canary

This chilling decision has implications for all of us.

^{Emily Apple (The Canary)}

The Trump administration says it will restart the national food aid program known as SNAP using money from a Department of Agriculture contingency fund but will only pay out half the amount participants would normally receive.

In a court filing, officials said depleting that fund means "no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in November, disaster assistance, or as a cushion against the potential catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely."

Starting Nov. 1, SNAP benefits did not hit accounts as expected after the USDA, which administers SNAP, froze funding, citing the federal government shutdown. The shutdown is now in its 35th day.

It is unclear when low-income families who depend on SNAP will receive these partial funds. The Trump administration said it anticipates long delays — "anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months" — before benefits arrive in the hands of registered SNAP recipients.

Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham is, once again, saying the quiet part out loud.

In a speech to the ‘Republican Jewish Coalition’ – a lobby group that claims to represent Jewish people but makes its real agenda clear by attacking those they consider to “possess strong anti-Israel biases” – Graham wasn’t shy about telling his audience, to frequent cheers, that the US is “killing all the right people” and that if anyone wants to object to US support for Israel they’d better argue with God, exulting that “we’ve run out of bombs” and adding that he feels “good about where we’re going as a nation”:

thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…

This is far from a one-off for the rancid Graham, who has previously threatened to invade the International Criminal Court for daring to issue an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s called for Gaza to be nuked, called for Israel to sink humanitarian boats trying to deliver aid to Gaza, demanded the US bomb Iran just in case it ever posed a danger to Israel and accused the United Nations relief agency, UNRWA, of teaching Palestinians in Gaza to “kill all the Jews”.

https://apnews.com/article/cop30-climate-change-belem-brazil-united-nations-15450d92285d8c92973589fd9037e69d

The government is accused of denying detainees proper access to food, water and medical care and coercing them to sign documents they don’t understand. Without that knowledge, and without private communication with lawyers, they have unknowingly relinquished their rights and faced deportation, the lawsuit alleges.

“This is not an issue of not getting a toilet or a Fiji water bottle,” attorney Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthur Justice Center told the judge. “These are a set of dire conditions that when taken together paint a harrowing picture.”

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman presided at the hearing just days after Van Brunt’s group and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed the lawsuit and sought a temporary restraining order. The judge said the allegations are “disgusting.”

https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-broadview-c1cce6344d39da317179f3619daa026a

A lot!

One of the most common reactions or questions I get about curl when I show up at conferences somewhere and do presentations:

— is curl still being actively developed?

How many more protocols can there be? This of course being asked by people without very close proximity or insight into the curl project and probably neither into the internet protocol world – which frankly probably is most of the civilized world. Still, these questions keep surprising me. Can projects actually ever get done?

(And do people really believe that adding protocols is the only thing that is left to do?)

Everything changes

There are new car models being made every year in spite of the roads being mostly the same for the last decades and there are new browser versions shipped every few weeks even though the web to most casual observers look roughly the same now as it did a few years ago. Etc etc. Even things such as shoes or bicycles are developed and shipped in new versions every year.

In spite of how it may appear to casual distant observers, very few things remain the same over time in this world. This certainly is also true for internet, the web and how to do data transfers over them. Just five years ago we did internet transfers differently than how we (want to) do them today. New tweaks and proposals are brought up at least on a monthly basis.

Not evolving implies stagnation and eventually… death.

As standards, browsers and users update their expectations, curl does as well. curl needs to adapt and keep up to stay relevant. We want to keep improving it so that it can match and go beyond what people want from it. We want to help drive and push internet transfer technologies to help users to do better, more efficient and more secure operations. We like carrying the world’s infrastructure on our shoulders.

It might evolve for decades to come

One of the things that actually have occurred to me, after having worked on this project for some decades by now – and this is something I did not at all consider in the past, is that there is a chance that the project will remain alive and in use the next few decades as well. Because of exactly this nothing-ever-stops characteristic of the world around us, but also of course because of the existing amount of users and usage.

Current development should be done with care, a sense of responsibility and with the anticipation that we will carry everything we merge today with us for several more decades – at least. At the latest curl up meeting, I had session I called 100 year curl where I brought up thoughts for us as a project that we might need to work on and keep in mind if indeed we believe the curl project will and should be able to celebrate its 100th birthday in a future. It is a slightly overwhelming (terrifying even?) thought but in my opinion not entirely unrealistic. And when you think about it, we have already traveled almost 30% of the way towards that goalpost.

But it looks the same

— I used curl the first time decades ago and it still looks the same.

This is a common follow-up statement. What have we actually done during all this time that the users can’t spot?

A related question that to me also is a little amusing is then:

— You say you worked on curl full time since 2019, but what do you actually do all days?

We work hard at maintaining backwards compatibility and not breaking existing use cases. If you cannot spot any changes and your command lines just keep working, it confirms that we do things right. curl is meant to do its job and stay out of the way. To mostly be boring. A dull stack is a good stack.

We have refactored and rearranged the internal architecture of curl and libcurl several times in the past and we keep doing it at regular intervals as we improve and adapt to new concepts, new ideas and the ever-evolving world. But we never let that impact the API, the ABI or by breaking any previously working curl tool command lines.

I personally think that this is curl’s secret super power. The one thing we truly have accomplished and managed to stick to: stability. In several aspects of the word.

curl offers stability in an unstable world.

Now more than ever

Counting commit frequency or any other metric of project activity, the curl project is actually doing more development now and at a higher pace than ever before during its entire lifetime.

We do this to offer you and everyone else the best, the most reliable, the fastest, the most feature rich, the best documented and the most secure internet transfer library on the planet.

Yes really, curl is still developed

A lot! One of the most common reactions or questions I get about curl when I show up at conferences somewhere and do presentations: -- is curl still being actively developed? How many more protocols can there be? This of course being asked by people …

^{daniel.haxx.se}

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would "impose a 100 percent tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas.

“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.

Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner. He is facing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who is running as an independent after Mamdani emerged victorious in the Democratic primary in June—and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-is-sinking-its-flagship-science-center-during-the-government-shutdown-and-may-be-breaking-the-law-in-the-process

https://climainfo.org.br/2025/11/03/oscar-da-sustentabilidade-contrata-empresa-ligada-a-industria-fossil-no-brasil/

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

Discussions will continue re:

• Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837

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.

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                  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%)  receiver

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                  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%)  receiver

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).

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.

<sup>jake-johnson (Common Dreams)</sup>

• 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)

https://apnews.com/article/spain-drone-airport-closure-tourism-958acf71f4f73763ab5563d3f057e987

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?