FBI fires, unfires, then refires agents linked to Jack Smith probe
At least two FBI agents involved in past investigations into Donald Trump were told Monday that they had been fired, only to learn later in the day that those terminations had been reversed or put on hold, according to six people familiar with the decisions.
Then on Tuesday morning, the two agents learned they had indeed been fired, along with two other employees, according to three of the people familiar with the decisions.
The chaotic process highlights the turmoil and uncertainty across federal law enforcement amid overhauls at the Justice Department and FBI that have targeted those who helped secure indictments against Trump or are viewed by the president as aligned with his political enemies.
James Comey wants case dropped, Trump's prosecutor disqualified
Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday filed motions seeking the dismissal of criminal charges against him, arguing Lindsey Halligan wasn't properly appointed and that the case was politically motivated.Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls
Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls
Satellite images taken of El Fasher after the Sudanese city fell at the weekend show clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies”.Ben Farmer and Lilia Sebouai (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Help with home server plan
Hi 😀
I'm planning on setting up my home server, and I'm feeling a bit lost.
I currently have a Jellyfin, SSH and Backrest server running on my PC, but want to get some dedicated hardware for it, and increase the services hosted to VPN, Immich, maybe Nextcloud, etc.
The problem is that I have no idea for what kind of hardware to aim for. I don't know whether I should aim for Rasperri, or MiniPC, or a dedicated rag, or any other thing. My country doesn't have a big second-hand market for server stuff, but I that's also a possibility.
Some context on my needs:
- I run 1440p videos on Jellifyn, so my guess is I need H.265 support. Other than that, I think any CPU will do, and don't need a very fast one. Same goes for RAM, maybe 8 GB is enough
- I feel like I do need at least 2 hard drives (1 for my files, another for backups)
- The ability of upgrade with better hardware would be appreciated, maybe another hard drive or some extra ram.
- Preferably, a rather low-energy consumption drive. Maybe 10 W idle? No idea on this front neither.
- Budget is around $200 USD, excluding hard drives. I can pay extra for drives, or get them later on as I start playing around and scale up.
- What Linux distro should I use? For security, I want to run everything with Dockers, so I guess it doesn't matter? I'm mildly fluent in Linux, experience with Arch and Debian based.
Thanks in advance 😀
Debian for sure. It's the Toyota 4Runner of the operating system world:
- Older but proven tech that just chugs right along.
- Not a ton of features out of the box, but supported by basically everything aftermarket.
- Major updates, while slow but regular, bring a lot of improvements - most of which are under the hood.
Well, it means that profits earned by the Trump supporting business, will support Trump's agenda, which includes annexing / doing harm to Canada. As it's a US corp, it also likely means many of the high paying corporate backend jobs go south, removing high income earners from the tax pool. It's amazing to me that the gov is whining at Canadians about productivity, and grandstanding with 'elbows up' rhetoric, but they greenlight sending jobs to the states.
And if it's taking a more active role in supporting Trump, given that its such a large market slice, they could manipulate prices to gouge Canadians / do harm to Canada in a more direct fashion.
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The current liberal government is far more conservative leaning than the previous one. They're pushing very authoritarian bills, and effectively going along with much of the US's 'stuff', while attempting to spin a pro-Canada message for public support -- like the gov and our media lauding the push to diversify our energy supply by building small nuclear reactors... but glossing over that they require US-provided fuel to run (so we're literally increasing reliance on US stuff, while the US is busy using that dependence to attack us economically). On the authoritarian bills, there's stuff like making it so that law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to get customer information from private companies, and making display of certain symbols/flags a crime. The folks I know who follow this stuff, basically agree that it's all a bit tepid at the moment, but that it's still better than it would've been under our 'official' conservative party, as those guys wanted to straight up do a DOGE-north (and likely still do).
I'd frame it as Canada is still moving along with the Tech-bro agenda from the US at present, though we're less in to the Christian Nationalist / overtly racist stuff. For example, the coming budget is expected to have items related to OpenBanking/Digital Currencies, which are ideas primarily pushed by tech kleptocrats (there're obvious reasons they fumble to name specific, quantifiable benefits of those systems for consumers -- and it's because the benefit is pretty much all for big tech).
The party that had a more progressive slant last time around, the NDP, got trounced -- deservedly, as they hadn't really put out anything to persuade voters, and essentially told people to vote liberal if it meant defeating the cons. Our green party, who were even more progressive in policies (and often had big, interesting policy ideas), committed suicide years ago due to their adherence to their party-negative approach to DEI -- they literally elected a black lesbian jewish pro-palestinian lawyer lady as their leader, and she destroyed what little support the party had. Eg. she spent all the campaign finances trying to win a liberal-stronghold riding for herself in Toronto; she demanded full control of all social media accounts for the party, which she was given, but then she proceeded to go to news agencies and comment about how the party wasn't publicly supporting her on social media... the media she controlled... because the party was racist. That sort of thing.
So, as to what they're thinking, I don't think they view the US as a potential threat to the same extent as the public. And I don't think they're progressive in the old sense of the world, but they're still progressive relative to our southern neighbours. But I mean, that's a really low bar at the moment.
Any idea what the government is thinking? I thought it was progressive...
This should be the world anthem for the 21st century
Tempus v4.0.7 android subsonic client release
Hi All,
my fork of Tempo has had a rebrand, which was a requirement to get back into the app stores as the original Tempo still exists in F-Droid/IzzyOnDroid
Tempus v4.0.7
Attention
This release will not update previous installs as it is considered a new app, no longer Tempo, new icon, new app id, and new app name. Hoping it will not be a huge inconvenience but was necessary in order to publish to app stores izzyDroid
Android Auto
Support should be the same as before, however, I was not able to test any of the icons/visuals, so please let me know if there are any remnants of the tempo logo/icon as I believe I removed them all and replaced them successfully.
What's Changed
fix: Crash on share no expiration date or field returned from api
fix: Check also underlying transport
feat: Unhide genre from album details view
fix: persist album sorting on resume
chore: Tempus rebrand
chore: Update Polish translation Now available via the IzzyOnDroid Repository ->
apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…
note:
app-tempo* <- The github release with all the android auto/chromecast features
app-degoogled* <- The izzyOnDroid release that goes without any of the google stuff.
As usual, any dev contributions appreciated as I am not actually a java/mobile dev, so my progress is significantly slower than those who do this on the daily.
In particular, any android dev is familiar android auto to help me set up a dev environment
Release v4.0.7 · eddyizm/tempus
What's Changed chore: updated tempo references to tempus including github check by @eddyizm in #197 fix: Crash on share no expiration date or field returned from api by @eddyizm in #199 Full Chan...GitHub
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i hope you are able to fix some of the issues, inherited from tempo, that keep me on symphonium
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Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.
It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.
The report, the most comprehensive to date, says the damage to health will get worse with leaders such as Donald Trump ripping up climate policies and oil companies continuing to exploit new reserves.
Governments gave out $2.5bn a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies in 2023, the researchers found, while people lost about the same amount because of high temperatures preventing them from working on farms and building sites.
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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It isn't?
The deaths of all humanity are just 1.8 per second.
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids
Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised dronesTom Phillips (The Guardian)
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South Korea trade deal appears elusive as Trump seeks $350B investment
Top officials in Washington and and Seoul say the sticking point for an agreement continues to be the logistics behind Trump’s demand that South Korea invest $350 billion in the United States.
Korean officials say a direct cash injection could destabilize their economy, and they’d rather do loans and loan guarantees instead. The country would also need a swap line to manage the flow of its currency into the U.S.
The disparity between what Trump is asking for and what South Korea can deliver threatens to overshadow the meeting between Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Gyeongju, a historical city playing host to the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
South Korea trade deal appears elusive as Trump seeks $350B investment
After a charm offensive in Japan that culminated in $490 billion in investment commitments, President Donald Trump is set to meet with South Korea’s leader on Wednesday as a trade deal with that country appears more elusiveCHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press (ABC News)
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Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit
Nintendo and the Pokémon Company’s lawsuit in Japan against PocketPair, makers of the hit game Palworld, is still ongoing. As we’ve reported previously, this isn’t the copyright o…Techdirt
OpenAI Establishes For-Profit Company In Restructuring Change Involving Microsoft
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Why Americans trying to hide as Canadians overseas doesn’t work
Americans are ‘flag jacking’ to pretend they’re Canadian overseas - here’s why it doesn’t work
Claims of “flag jacking” go back to at least the Vietnam WarGraig Graziosi (The Independent)
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Venezuela claims it foiled Trump plot to stage 'false flag' attack on US warship
Venezuela claims to have captured ‘CIA backed cell plotting false flag attack’ as tensions with US grow
Venezuela believes Trump is trying to put pressure on President Maduro in order to displace him from powerJames C. Reynolds (The Independent)
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Operation Northwoods.
Americans would have died if it was greenlit as the goal was to go to war with cuba
Interesting thing about false flag attacks is that many of them are not real false flag attacks but are attacks that have been carefully chosen to be allowed by ignoring the intel regarding them.
Israel for example had been notified by many countries of an incoming attack by Hamas with an extremely accurate description of what would happen, but decided to ignore it and not even strengthen their border defenses. It was in Israels best interest as it would give them an easy reason that would make their people allow them to ramp up the genocide.
Yeah I honestly found the timing of that suspicious given Bibi's trials coming up and plummeting popularity at the time.
I could see the same with 9/11. Various people didn't need to actually be involved with terrorism so much as "let it happen" and plan on how to profit from the response
Valid.
Before 9/11, the Bush administration had several clear warnings that something serious was in the works, and they totally ignored it. It was even put into his daily briefing that Al Qaeda was planning an attack that involved flying planes into buildings, but it was later speculated that bush probably never even saw it, since he often skipped reading his morning briefings.
If they had stopped to consider it, they would have realized that they had been receiving reports from flight schools of Arab students wanting to learn to steer planes in flight, but not take off or land, and one guy already in custody. Just a little bit of investigation would have exposed the whole thing.
But they wanted a Middle Eastern conflict, so all of it was ignored, with easily predictable results.
A False Flag event? Not by precise definition, but essentially the same thing.
La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Le anticipazioni della trentaduesima puntata La Notte nel Cuore accendono il prime time di domenica 9 novembre 2025 su Canale 5. In Cappadocia torna Halil, il padre naturale dei gemelli Nuh e Melek: un arrivo che riapre ferite antiche proprio mentre si tenta di sancire la pace tra famiglie. Ecco cosa vedremo negli episodi 1×81 (2ª parte), 1×82 e 1×83.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: La Notte nel Cuore, anticipazioni puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Melek sconvolta dall’arrivo del padre Halil
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore: domenica 9 novembre 2025: arriva Halil e cambia tutto
Anticipazioni La Notte nel Cuore trentaduesima puntata del 9 novembre 2025: Halil torna in Cappadocia, Cihan scarcerato, cena di armistizio e nuove tensioni.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations towards a multilateral treaty on reducing plastic pollution collapsed. The chair announced that the committee had concluded its work — without producing a draft treaty. Governments had failed to agree on the proposed articles of the convention; no further negotiations were being suggested.This failure reveals a weakness in all environmental treaty negotiations, whether new or existing ones: a consensus-driven process waters down action to the lowest common denominator. Only symptoms get addressed, not causes.
Environmental treaties are paralysed — here’s how we can do better
The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why.Bridgewater, Peter
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This article is more relevant in the context of the latest declarations of Antonio Guterrez:
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Se the dabate here:
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)
Global Funds Exit China Real Estate Amid Steep Losses and Distressed Sales As Oversupply Expected to Take Years to Be Absorbed
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44824942
ArchivedForeign investors who once saw China’s booming property market as a sure bet are now facing some of their biggest losses in decades. What was once a $140 billion push into Chinese real estate has turned into a wave of distressed sales and write-downs, with global players scrambling to offload assets at steep discounts.
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Their retreat is adding fresh pressure to China’s already struggling property market, a sector that plays a huge role in the country’s economy.
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Distressed sales — where owners sell under pressure from debt or defaults — hit 114 billion yuan (S$20.78billion) across 2023 and 2024, a record 22% of all transactions, Bloomberg Intelligence data shows.
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All Sectors, One Struggle
The downturn is hitting nearly every corner of the commercial property market.
In logistics, once considered a bright spot thanks to the e-commerce boom, supply has outpaced demand. Even giants like Blackstone have started to sell. Earlier this year, it sold three logistics parks in southern China to a local insurance company for about 2.7 billion yuan.
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Even distressed-debt specialists like Oaktree Capital have had difficulty turning a profit.
In 2021, Oaktree seized control of Evergrande Venice on the Sea, a sprawling resort development in Jiangsu province, after the troubled developer defaulted on a $400 million loan. The project — envisioned as a Chinese version of Venice — included canals, a grand hotel, and a conference center modeled after the U.S. Capitol.
Oaktree has since restarted construction and handed over some homes to buyers, but sales remain sluggish. Apartments that once fetched up to 10,000 yuan per square meter in 2019 are now advertised at less than half that price.
The pain may not be over. Analysts warn that it could take years for the oversupply of commercial buildings to be absorbed. Rents in China’s office market fell nearly 7% in 2024 — the sharpest drop on record — and CBRE expects no meaningful recovery in new supply until at least 2028.
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“Global institutions are increasingly taking the view that this market won’t recover soon,” said Wilson. He expects office rents to keep falling through next year, and predicts that the nominal value of buildings in 2030 will still be below 2020 levels.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes on Gaza
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's military to launch "powerful" airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, imperiling the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire.Omer Bekin (NBC News)
Good thing those jeenius Americans didn't vote the alternative candidate who was SO much worse at controlling Israel, huh?
/s for those assholes with voter's remorse still looking to justify their choice with another strawman
Let’s use a school bully allegory to see how bad it is.
Big Bully has been stealing lunches and sitting on Little Billy since Big Bully moved into town. Little Billy kicks his shin and steals a nickel and hides it. Big Bully retaliates by pulling off Little Billy’s fingernail and promises to stop if he gets his nickel back. Little Billy complies; Big Bully continues pulling the next fingernail.
All of the teachers are watching horrified, but the superintended is Big Bully’s parent.
Live Updates: Hurricane Melissa, With Catastrophic Winds, Makes Landfall in Jamaica
October 28, 2025
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The Category 5 storm’s slow pace could have devastating effects. Jamaican officials said many residents had refused to evacuate, and one minister warned, “This is not the time to be brave.”
[Guide / Blog Post] Automatic backup with borg and borgmatic
I was quite busy the past couple of days, but I finally managed to finish my mail-server migration.
And since I decided to also upgrade my old backup solution from the ancient times, I also wrote a guide for my new borgmatic based solution, which I now want to share with you guys.
I hope it helps some of you with your server backups.
Let The Borgs Do It
Automatic, Deduplicated, Compressed Backup with Borg and BorgmaticGibdos (Gibdos Talks FOSS)
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal Canadian federal budget
btrfs offsite backup
Hi selfhosting community!
At the moment I have my services set up with nix. They store their data on a btrfs subvolume which I can easily snapshot.
For backup I configured btrbk to send the snapshots to a target pc. However I feel uneasy not knowing if the backups succeeded or not. Right now I would need to check manually on the target machine every so often.
How are you guys handling this problem? Custom scripts for btrfs send/receive? Is there a function in btrbk I overlooked where I can verify the state and get notified of problems?
I was looking into ntfy-sh, which looks optimal, but how can I know if the send/receive was successful?
ok i’m not saying do this
i recently setup an API proxy, C&C server, Grafana and Prometheus, and Discord bot. now i can send pings via Grafana or with a simple request (provided it’s authed via VPN or proxy) and have my Discord bot use a local LLM on my network to deliver the alert to a Discord channel in the voice of Ultron.
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38187649
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Updates: Israel PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Netanyahu’s decision to attack Gaza comes despite US-brokered ceasefire that came into effect on October 10.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
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Local dns rewrite problems on android
I have some services set up which i make available with tailscale and a domain name outside my lan. Inside my home network i set up adguard dns rewrites to use the same domain for devices which are not on my tailnet. I disabled dns rebind protection in my fritzbox for these domains.
Now my problem: I don't leave my phone connected to tailscale all of the time because of high battery drain. Inside of my wifi the phone should still be able to access my services using the domain, but it is only able some of the time. My work laptop (not on my tailnet) is able to access the services.
Is the dns cached somehow in android? Is the private dns setting of android overwriting the dns i configured in my router? Where else could the problem lie?
Any hints are appreciated 😀
I kinda had a similar problem. Never found the root cause, but what did the trick for me was to put an OpenWRT Router between the default ISP router and my home network.
As I said, I never figured out, why Android did not respect the DHCP settings of the default router, but here we are. Maybe it was some DNS shenanigans by the ISP's config, maybe it was a wrong DNS/DHCP configs from my side, maybe it was IPv6 shenanigans. Those are the culprits I would investigate from your side.
Thanks!
Israel’s PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out “powerful” attacks in Gaza, his office says.
It comes after Netanyahu alleged Hamas committed a “clear violation” of the ceasefire deal. For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office accused Israel of committing 125 violations of the ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10, including killing 94 Palestinians.
Updates: Israel PM Netanyahu orders ‘powerful, immediate’ attacks on Gaza
Netanyahu’s decision to attack Gaza comes despite US-brokered ceasefire that came into effect on October 10.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
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Israeli side is still a prevalent voice in covering the conflict with no voice leveraged to the same stage from palestinians, so whatever happens the mainstream news would be in their hands. It is an unequal exchange by design. It is hard to even start a dialog about peace if one side is a state recognized by everyone and the other is not.
One way is to start to recognize Palestine internationally, the other is to undo recognition of Israel. These tho can happily coexist.
I have no firm belief about this whole situation, but at the very least I don't find any reason for israelis to scale up their territory. If they are to have their 50s borders in the end, no israeli settler or IDF fighter has any right to cross that line, that they do as we speak. These are terrorist acts, and a genocide, and if Israeli dream can't be achieved without that, it is to be dismantled.
RSF fighters film themselves massacring Sudanese fleeing el-Fasher
The moment the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced it had stormed the city of el-Fasher on Sunday morning, it was clear that 260,000 Sudanese trapped in the city were in serious and immediate danger.
Middle East Eye has reviewed dozens of video clips and images allegedly taken in el-Fasher since the RSF assault began.
Some were published by the RSF itself; others emerged on social media, particularly Sudanese Telegram groups.
RSF members filmed themselves with people they have captured fleeing. In one clip, scores of men are seen sat on the ground surrounded by fighters, who repeatedly call them “slaves”.
In another, fighters tell six detained men, who are in civilian clothes but identify themselves as soldiers, that they can flee. Once the men begin running, the gunmen open fire on them, downing at least three.
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This is one of the few reasons I wish there were gods. Humans are monsters and we need intervention. So easily and callously is human life destroyed.
How I wish the Sudanese, and so many other people in similar plights, mattered to the rest of the world.
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Gadgetbridge data dashboard
Hey all. Unemployed and looking for something fun/interesting to work on lol
I use gadgetbridge to connect to a smart ring to track some basic health data, and while having everything on the phone is OK, I much prefer doing/viewing things from my PC. I thought maybe having some kind of self hosted dashboard/site displaying data gathered by gadgetbridge could be cool, but what do you guys think? Anything more interesting that could be done with the database that it can export on a schedule? I've also considered having gadgetbridge as one of several sources, but I'm not sure how many other privacy conscious options are out there.
I'm thinking of just leaving the transferring of the database to other programs, would that be acceptable? I already have gadgetbridge export every 2hrs and use syncthing to get it onto the NAS.
Would appreciate any thoughts, or if you think it's unnecessary even.
SEIA Says Solar Still Cheapest Source Of Electricity, Australia Unveils Free Solar Plan
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is obviously concerned by the full frontal assault on renewable energy being conducted by the Moron of Mar-A-Loco and his henchmen. In a blog post this week, it argued that solar will blow away all other forms of electricity generation — if they all compete on a level playing field.
SEIA Says Solar Still Cheapest Source Of Electricity, Australia Unveils Free Solar Plan - CleanTechnica
The SEIA says solar will win out over all forms of fossil fuels in a straight fight with no subsidies going to either side.Steve Hanley (CleanTechnica)
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[Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26]
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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks “the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving forward with new ideas.
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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momenti tosti con la mancanza della distruzione, quindi l’octaggio diventa strategico (sto cercando un’alternativa decente al tagliarmi)
Come avevo vagamente accennato, in questi ultimi giorni, il vuoto oscuro sta ritornando, non so perché. Questo è un problema, sì, ma il vero problema è che, di conseguenza, stanno tornando anche le urge. Le distrazioni ovviamente non funzionano granché, sia perché l’oscurità rende di suo più difficile immergermi bene in esse… ma anche perché, […]
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momenti tosti con la mancanza della distruzione, quindi l’octaggio diventa strategico (sto cercando un’alternativa decente al tagliarmi)
Come avevo vagamente accennato, in questi ultimi giorni, il vuoto oscuro sta ritornando, non so perché. Questo è un problema, sì, ma il vero problema è che, di conseguenza, stanno tornando anche le urge. Le distrazioni ovviamente non funzionano granché, sia perché l’oscurità rende di suo più difficile immergermi bene in esse… ma anche perché, evidentemente, il mio cervello è così fritto da tutte quelle volte in cui ho potuto accogliere le urge senza troppe remore che ora, anche dopo anni in cui non ho rafforzato quelle molto particolari connessioni neuronali, con i giusti sfortunati trigger queste hanno ripreso ad attivarsi spaventosamente forte, quasi come se non fosse passato alcun tempo… 😳
La soluzione a tutto questo, per quanto ahimè temporanea, sarebbe appunto quella di dare retta alle urge, perché banalmente funziona… ma, purtroppo, da quando questo mio vizio è stato scoperto, mi è stato sostanzialmente vietato; e questo è circa l’unico motivo per cui, per qualche anno, nella pratica ho smesso, ma questa è un’altra storia. Però, dall’altro lato, di questo passo sarebbe questione di settimane al massimo perché io finisca definitivamente di impazzire, temo, quindi in qualche modo devo far stare zitto il cervello. Piccolo nuovo problema, allora: raggiungere questo obiettivo non sembra per niente facile, nel senso che metodi che funzionano davvero per far smettere questo desiderio non se ne trovano. 💔Quello che sto dunque pensando è che, probabilmente, anche senza procurarmi una ferita, quindi senza avere quel dolore fisico e conseguente rilascio di endorfine, lo stupido inconscio che mi porta a volermi tagliare in primo luogo potrebbe credere che io abbia fatto esattamente quello che vuole, e quindi smetterla per un po’ di rompermi le scatole, se riceve almeno tutti gli altri stimoli che l’azione altrimenti comporta, ma che di per sé non mi sono vietati, in quanto non autolesionismo; quindi, almeno la vista di una ferita di quel tipo sul mio corpo, e una certa sensazione di pressione abbastanza forte concentrata su una linea della pelle nel momento dell’azione stessa… Quindi, farmi dei tagli finti che però la mia mente percepisce come reali, in qualche modo. 😻
Ebbene, credevo, pensavo, di aver appena trovato, con un po’ di sperimentazione, un metodo epico, che avrei voluto dire qui, con appena una matita e dei pennarelli (l’intero mondoctt verrà ricostruito a partire dalla cancelleria, di questo passo, wow); ovviamente, non dannoso per i tessuti, così da non violare il divieto morale, e che non lascia alcun segno persistente, permettendo di far sparire tutto semplicemente lavando se necessario, così da evitare certe conversazioni che non voglio mai più avere nemmeno tra 100 anni… Peccato che poi, ben dopo averlo provato, cioè solo quando stasera sotto la doccia ho provato a lavarlo, ho visto che i segni che ho lasciato non sono andati via al 100%… perché a quanto pare, senza volerlo (ho semplicemente fatto troppa forza accidentalmente), ho comunque causato delle abrasioni sulla pelle… che ok, sono minuscole, ordini di grandezza meno peggio di cosa avrei combinato se fare quello fosse stato il mio obiettivo, ma: 💣
- Se me ne fregassi semplicemente, e lo riutilizzassi altre volte così com’è, allora sarebbe autolesionismo, per quanto minimo e insignificante… e ho detto che ciò mi è proibito, quindi non va bene.
- Anche se il danno è appena un graffietto sullo strato più superficiale dell’epidermide, che non sanguina, non brucia, non lascia cicatrici e credo sparisce nel giro di qualche giorno, è comunque un minimo visibile, e non si può cancellare a comando, quindi entra in gioco il problema del dover nascondere; perché ok, quando sono uno o due è plausibile siano accidentali, per aver strisciato contro qualcosa o boh… ma, se sono tanti e disposti strani, diventa difficile fingere.
Il metodo non è comunque da buttare, perché ha potenziale (e non c’è nessun altro surrogato del tagliarmi davvero che ce l’abbia così), ma è chiaro che va rivisitato e opportunamente ricalibrato, allora. La falla che va risolta è appena una, cioè evitare che la pelle si “consumi” per l’attrito che la parte fisica della procedura richiede, e le combinazioni che posso ancora provare sono tante — magari usare una matita ancora più morbida di una 2B, magari trovare movimenti diversi ma a cui il mio cervello risponde comunque come mi serve, magari elasticizzare la pelle con oli o cose strane prima della procedura così che non si rompa — quindi ha ancora senso non arrendermi per davvero, a queste urge… 👌
La fregatura aggiuntiva però è che qui sono veramente solo io e la mia inventiva, perché dubito ci siano altre persone qui in condizione sia di poter avere a che fare con questi assurdi esperimenti di fisica mischiati a psicologia (e, se non avete esperienza con questa roba, per il vostro bene non vi immischiate, vi prego), sia di volerlo fare (perché c’è chi, non soffrendo sotto il giogo dei divieti, e approfittando della stagione delle maniche lunghe, non perderà tempo a cercare di stare pulito/a)… e ChatGPT qui è alquanto inutile, perché va di continuo in protezione. Vabbè… se sono una ragazza magica, in fondo, ce la farò… credo… 🥴
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