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in reply to Angelevo

Who is “you people” and how do you get that? I just spent the whole comment talking about how we don’t allow dumping in the storm drains.
in reply to scarabic

Ah, pardon your offense -- 'twas a joke, signified through the use of "^^".

Bottom line: I think it is ridiculously hilarious that such a small non-offense is being fined over there, by .. 'you people'. 😛

Can we not all agree to say this entire debacle is ... stupid? xD

Lighthearted; no offense meant nor intended. Enjoy your day!



Matrix.org - Post-mortem of the September 2 outage


“Unfortunately, in attempting to do so, we erroneously deleted the data directory of the primary on db-01.”


Wow, mistake on top of mistake on top of mistake it's impressive they could recover without data loss.

in reply to Jeena

One cool thing is that I had no idea that this happened until I just read it on their blog even though me, my friends and family use Matrix extensively.

But all my friends who are on Matrix host their own servers because it's quite easy, and my family uses my own server, only my brother uses a matrix.org account, but he doesn't write much.

This is decentralization working as it's supposed too, when enough participants are federated and not centralized.

On Lemmy the lemmy.world and the piefed.social instances are similar to matrix.org and I think all of them, including mastodon.social should close new registrations. I mean the flagship instances have their place in the beginning, but once they become so big they should be locked. The teams behind them can open another instance if they want to keep growing, but they should be run on a separate infrastructure to prevent bringing them down at the same time.

in reply to Jeena

I always heard that rolling out an initial Matrix instance isn't terrible, especially with ansible and/or docker, but I also have heard that a lot of updates have breaking changes and that updating your server is less simple.

As someone who runs your own Matrix server, would you agree with this sentiment or disagree and why? I have considered rolling out my own many times but get discouraged by those who say keeping it updated is kind of a nightmare. For example, a private tracker I am a member of used to have a Matrix server and an IRC server, but they eventually dumped the Matrix server entirely to reduce complexity as well as the fact that fewer people used it.

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in reply to Snot Flickerman

I run my own matrix server, too. I've never had any issues with updates. Honestly, I just pull the new docker image without thinking twice about it. It is risky, of course, but I have daily automated backups, so I'm not too concerned. Personally, I felt like setting up a matrix server for the first time was the biggest pain in the butt. It's extremely convoluted with very poorly written documentation that is often outdated or incomplete. After I got through that, it was smooth-sailing from there. Setting up mautrix bridges one you got Synapse to work is actually really easy, though.
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in reply to Opisek

I don't even really plan to use any bridges, as I understand it those are for if you want to pass messages from other services through your matrix server. I would rather keep those separate personally, even though I understand certain benefits, including having all your messaging in one application instead of numerous.
in reply to Snot Flickerman

When a bridge works like the discord and the Signal and WhatsApp ones it's amazing not to need to log in to those services anymore just to see if someone wrote something to you.

Sadly most of the bridges are either broken like the Facebook one or straight out don't work like she KakaoTalk and WeeChat ones because the services remove capabilities which before made it possible in a hacky way.

in reply to Snot Flickerman

I run it on Ubuntu and installed it with apt about 7 years ago and had zero problems, it updates itself when I run apt upgrade, it turns itself off for a couple of seconds and then it's back up.
in reply to Jeena

I didn't even know they had it set up as an apt repository for Ubuntu. Very interesting.
in reply to Snot Flickerman

I run it in docker and an update has never caused issues. Been about 3 years.
in reply to superglue

Which docker container do you use, if you don't mind me asking. Also, how complicated would you rate the setup? I have a degree in network admin and run multiple Linux servers and docker containers with manually created docker network bridges so they can freely communicate with one another, to give an idea of my knowledge base. Honestly the only thing I haven't done before yet that makes me nervous is setting up a reverse proxy to expose the endpoint to the internet and connect it to my owned domain name.
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in reply to Snot Flickerman

I use the synapse container, I followed the docs on matrix.org.

As far as a revere proxy I use the SWAG container from linuxserver. My matrix instance isnt exposed to the internet or federated but it used to be. When it was exposed I was using fail2ban to ban exploit attempts but if I were to set it up again I'd probably use crowdsec instead. They are both built into SWAG.

in reply to Jeena

What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale...


Affinity Studio is now free


[quote]Yes, Affinity really is free. You can use every tool in the Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios, plus all of the customization and export features, as much as you want, with no restrictions or payment needed. If you’re on a Canva premium plan, you’ll
Yes, Affinity really is free. You can use every tool in the Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios, plus all of the customization and export features, as much as you want, with no restrictions or payment needed. If you’re on a Canva premium plan, you’ll also be able to unlock Canva’s powerful AI tools within Affinity.
in reply to simple

At first glance, this all sounds positive, especially for users without an affinity for AI.

However, time will tell whether the program will become less appealing if it turns out that the majority of Affinity users are not persuaded to sign up for a Canvas subscription for AI editing.

Either certain tools and functions will disappear behind a paywall, or compatibility will be restricted by no longer allowing free import and export to certain file formats.



Ernest is alive


Ernest is alive

Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.

Just noticed he has a blog where he occasionally posts, latest post being from September, and in the "about me" section, he also mentions about having to drop Kbin.

Going by his posts and his repositories, he doesn't seem involved with ActivityPub anymore, at least in a public manner. But sharing in case someone worried about the person.

in reply to Auster

Thank you so much. Every so often he would cross my mind and its good to know hes alright. He did good work and the beauty of open source is you an let it go and what you did can continue.
in reply to HubertManne

I can't imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you're devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.

Happy that's not the case.



Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.


Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.

Her historic victory comes the same night former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, whom NBC News projects as the winner in the governor's race, became the first woman elected governor in the state.

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Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR


Also the docker images now have a major tag v2 that should keep your installation up-to-date on the stable branch.
in reply to theyllneverfindmehere

I don't see an ability to rotate in the web app. It's been available for a long time in the mobile app though.
in reply to Avid Amoeba

It's been available.... "Kind of"

It creates a copy of your photo and rotates that. Leaving the original. Which I guess I can see being useful sometimes but it's very annoying in practice last I checked it.

in reply to corsicanguppy

Containers are better than any other option, so of course they're being used! I'm gunna use containers even harder!
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in reply to B0rax

Ideally yea. Rpm package with various architectures. 90% of other software is able to do it. I only use docker for immich and this would remove a dependency for me.
in reply to corsicanguppy

There's always one of these comments and it's always incredibly similar.
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in reply to morrowind

My work self hosts Gitea because Forgejo doesn't support Windows. While I agree with Forgejo's decision, it sucks to be basically stuck with an old pre-fork version of the forge I self-host.
in reply to justme

Yeah, we use Windows servers primarily. Thankfully what I do doesn't require much interaction with them, though every once in a while I am subjected to SMB file sharing.
in reply to morrowind

I use Forgejo with LFS for my Blender projects, so this would probably be useful to me if a similar feature were added there.

As an aside, it seems Blender uses Gitea and not sure they have plans to migrate to Forgejo anytime soon since it looks like they’ve poured a lot of resources into Gitea and even formed a partnership with the maintainers:

code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea…

code.blender.org/2022/08/gitea…

code.blender.org/2023/01/gitea…



What I'm up to: October 2025 edition 🎃


a blog post that chronicles what I’ve been up to this month: from speaking at a conference in Berlin, to 3 podcast interviews about the Fediverse…
a blog post that chronicles what I've been up to this month: from speaking at a conference in Berlin, to 3 podcast interviews about the Fediverse...


What are 'put options'?


What are 'put options'? #fedia
What does it mean that Michael Burry's fund holds 'put options'?

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in reply to BellaJones

You're buying the ability to sell a stock at a given price at some date in the future. If the price drops, you make money; if the price doesn't drop, you lose everything.

Basically the two use cases are: (1) To hedge against big market collapses in the value of stock you own, like buying insurance (2) to lose all your money on Robinhood by retail investing ("betting" that the stock will go down in an unregulated and rigged casino). I would somewhat bet that this is scenario number 1, but who knows.

in reply to BellaJones

Oh, it was the second of my options. The guy is betting that the market will crash.


hilton.com Outage


Realized something is off after several attempts at logging in to the website and the mobile app while trying to book a stay. Thought at first that they detected a bot login from me.

https://downdetector.com/status/hilton/



in reply to vegeta

Oh no I don't give a fuck about that, when's he getting thrown in prison for raping children


What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?


I have a Samba mount at home (behind NAT, accessible via wireguard VPN), which works very well when accessing my home files when traveling (I travel a lot for work).

The only detail missing from this solution is sharing individual files with friends. I could give them access to my VPN, but that gives them access to everything, not just one thing I want to share. Also not all my friends are that tech savvy to manage connecting to a VPN.

What would be really great is to have a link-generator that punches a hole in the NAT to give them access to specific files. Are there any self-hosted solutions for that?



K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down


Services will shutdown on the following schedule.
October 30, 2025: Announcement of shutdown.
November 30, 2025: First reminder notice.
December 15, 2025: Second reminder notice. Future invoicing stops.
December 30, 2025: Third reminder notice.
January 15, 2026: Services disabled and final notice. Backups are still available.
February 1, 2026: Full system shutdown. All remaining data will be purged from the system.  



Health Secretary RFK Jr. says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism


Fascist bootlickers with no scientific or medical training and whose brain was eaten by worms now says that Tylenol doesn't cause autism.


Protecting OpenWrt using CrowdSec (via Syslog)


cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/36928579

Here's how to set up CrowdSec to protect your OpenWrt router.

Running the Security Engine in Docker (server), forwarding logs via Syslog, and using the lightweight firewall bouncer on the router.

Result: community-powered IPS on tiny hardware 🚀




Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face


In a post from July, Trump proclaimed: "I am pleased to announce that, after the involvement of President Donald J. Trump, both Countries have reached a CEASEFIRE and PEACE. Congratulations to all! By ending this War, we have saved thousands of lives."

However, the reality was starkly different. Two weeks after Trump's initial celebration, artillery exchanges resulted in a significant death toll, with widespread injuries and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians.



Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid


Lebanese state media identified the slain man as Ibrahim Salameh, an employee of the Blida municipality, a village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military confirmed the raid and said it was attacking Hezbollah infrastructure when it fired at a “suspect”. It said the incident was under review.

The killing led to widespread anger in Lebanon over repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty. In the hours after the raid, Israel carried out airstrikes in Labouneh, in south-west Lebanon, and Israeli drones could be heard flying low over Beirut.

The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, condemned the raid and ordered the Lebanese army to confront Israeli soldiers in any future incursions on Lebanese territory. In a statement, Aoun instructed the army to “confront any Israeli incursion into liberated southern territory, in defence of Lebanese territory and the safety of citizens”.




in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum

I'd say older white Americans, rich Americans, and rich immigrants belive america is the greatest democracy

in reply to spacehedgehog

a German-developed software

a [...] software


\sigh

That's like requesting 1 happiness or 11 lovely.

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in reply to corsicanguppy

The software in question consists of at least 3 softwares. Thus
1 software = 3 software
in reply to corsicanguppy

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is bothered by this shift away from software being a noun.
in reply to spacehedgehog

Microsoft Office: it’s not even good enough for international criminals anymore ™
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in reply to herseycokguzelolacak

Turns out being a young man in a war-torn country sucks, of course people would seek their fortunes elsewhere if you let them
in reply to herseycokguzelolacak

Good

Fuck making children grow up just to die

Yeah Ukraine deserves independence, but human beings deserve a shot at life instead of being ammunition.



Hurricane Melissa leaves humanitarian disaster and recovery challenge for Caribbean after more than 30 killed


The storm was making its way to the Bahamas and Bermuda on Thursday morning as Jamaica confronted the devastation from one of the most potent storms ever recorded anywhere.
in reply to pinheadednightmare

Then don't fucking parrot their nonsense.

"jokes" are fun until it is indistinguishable from the same bullshit the people raping humanity are saying. At every step of the way, call them out on their shit.


in reply to Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips

She appeared to have fallen from a cliff or slope


This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there ...

in reply to troed

That seems the most likely:

"Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left"

She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.

In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.

in reply to Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips

Aww, these poor cruise-faring souls only wanted to pollute and consume a little, but they died instead. Tragic.
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in reply to yeahiknow3

An 80 year old woman was abandoned on a hiking trail and fell off the trail to her death. What the fuck is wrong with you
in reply to paris

Extremism. Somehow people like that think they're better when they spread such callous indifference.

Like I get it, cruises aren't good for the environment at all but acting like someone deserved to die for it? They want to save humanity without bothering to preserve humanity.



Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race


Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/



Tempo (fork) v3.17.14 android subsonic client


Hi All,

my first post over here on lemmy. Thought I'd share my forked tempo release.

Some new fixes for October. v3.17.14

What's Changed

fix: General build warning and playback issues 
fix: persist album sort preference 
Fix album parse empty date field 
fix: Include shuffle/repeat controls in f-droid build's media notific… 
fix: limits image size to prevent widget crash 

note
app-tempo* <- The github release with all the android auto/chromecast features

app-notquitemy* <- The f-droid release that goes without any of the google stuff.

Full Changelog: github.com/eddyizm/tempo/compa…

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 with changing the name/icon in order get this app published in app stores.



China Home Sales Slump to Deepen As New Risks to Beijing’s Growth Strategy Emerge, Experts Say


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44894840

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44894752
Archived

China’s multi-year property crisis is set to drag on in 2026 and further weigh on banks’ asset quality, even after the government stepped up its stimulus push to boost demand, according to Fitch Ratings.

The country’s new home sales by area may decline 15 to 20 per cent from their current level before the sector stabilises, Lulu Shi, a director at Fitch, said at a briefing in Shanghai on Wednesday (Oct 29).
Transactions by value may drop another 7 to 10 per cent next year, she added.

“China’s trickling stimulus measures did not pull the residential sector from a further slowdown,” Shi said. “A meaningful property recovery will only come after the job market stabilises and household income rebounds, which would require a basket of policies and a long period of time.”

[...]

The dim outlook for the domestic home market also means banks’ bad debt in the property segment will likely remain “elevated” next year, Vivian Xue, director for financial institutions at Fitch, said at the same briefing. That, coupled with households’ weakened ability to repay mortgages and other personal loans, means that banks’ asset quality could deteriorate next year, she added.

[...]

Fixed income-specialist Pimco has identified new risks to China’s growth strategy.

In response to China’s aggressive price discounting, many Emerging Markets economies have erected higher tariff and trade barriers on Chinese goods imports, it writes in a report.

Europe has initiated investigations into Chinese product dumping and may increase the use of quotas. The U.S. has raised tariffs on all trading partners, but especially on Chinese goods, which has limited the ability of Chinese producers to access the U.S. market at lower tariff rates through “connector” countries for final stages of production. Although markets have shown signs of optimism for U.S.–China trade negotiations ahead of the countries’ presidents meeting this week, the relationship between these two major economies will likely remain volatile.

[...]

Looking ahead, inventories can’t keep piling up forever if China wants to counter deflationary trends and maintain a stable economy. China’s policymakers have recently emphasized an “anti-involution” campaign: a nuanced approach to counter the intense competition that shrunk profit margins and to emphasize higher-quality growth and greater profitability, with a goal of reducing deflationary pressures.

However, unless Chinese policymakers are willing to more forcefully stimulate domestic demand, or tolerate slower production growth, Chinese products would need to continue to be exported at further price discounts to clear the inventory levels, Pimco says.

[...]



in reply to schizoidman

I don't think we'd lose anything of value even if we banned all influencers from speaking online on social media on any topic, so I can see why China's done this.
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Poland Says Intercepted Russian Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44896261

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Poland’s armed forces said Wednesday that two of its fighter jets had intercepted and escorted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea one day prior.

The Polish operational command said the Russian Il-20 surveillance aircraft was flying in international airspace without filing a flight plan and with its transponder turned off, making it invisible to civilian radar.

“The aircraft did not violate Polish airspace,” the command said in a statement on social media.

It added that two Polish MiG-29 fighter jets visually identified and escorted the Russian aircraft out of the area.

Operational command spokesman Jacek Goryszewski told Polish media, “Our pilots could have taken further actions if the Russian pilots took steps that we wouldn’t want, like violating our airspace or performing other dangerous maneuvers.”

[...]

The interception comes amid rising alert levels across NATO’s eastern flank, where several member states have reported increased Russian air activity near their borders.

In September, three Russian military jets violated Estonia’s airspace for about 12 minutes and Poland reported more than 20 Russian drones crossing into its territory. The Kremlin denied the border incursions.

Poland is a staunch ally of Ukraine and has been a key transit point for Western arms heading to the embattled country since Russia invaded it in 2022.



What's gluetun?


Occasionally I see people mention gluetun.

  • What's gluetun? Seems like it's a VPN client? What's special about it?
  • How do you use it in your setup?
  • Do I need to know about this if I use Tailscale on the host for connecting to my VPN?
  • Would gluetun allow me to use an additional VPN provider for certain apps without messing with the host Tailscale?
in reply to paequ2

I use gluetun to connect specific docker containers to a VPN without interfering with other networking, since it's all self contained. It also has lots of providers built in which is convenient so you can just set the provider, your password, and your preferred region instead of needing to manually enter connection details manage lists of servers (it automatically updates it's own cached server list from your provider, through the VPN connection itself)

Another nice feature is that it supports scripts for port forwarding, which works out of the box for some providers. So it can automatically get the forwarded port and then execute a custom script to set that port in your torrent client, soulseek, or whatever.

I could just use a wireguard or openvpn container, but this also makes it easy to hop between vpn providers just by swapping the connection details regardless of whether the providers only support wg or openvpn. Just makes it a little more universal.

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in reply to paequ2

I have a torrent client in a docker container thats hooked up to it. Makes it so its not possible for your real IP to leak. If the VPN disconnects the torrent container loses internet.



Malaysia says it does not recognise China's South China Sea claims | New Straits Times


The South China Sea has long been a source of tension, with several nations laying overlapping claims to its islands, reefs and surrounding waters. The sea is one of the world's busiest trade routes and is believed to hold vast reserves of oil, gas and other natural resources.

China claims almost the entire waterway under its "nine-dash line", asserting historical rights that extend deep into areas also claimed by Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan.

In 2016, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled that China's claims had no legal basis under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a decision Beijing rejected.

in reply to psx_crab

Hey Malaysia, nice sino funded mega projects you have there... Would be a shame if things sort of dried up, y'know... A real shame...

Source: Malaysian

in reply to JeeBaiChow

Well, it's all a loan, in the end we still have to pay them back + interest

in reply to Sahwa

Sadly, the genocide in Gaza also made people forget about what is happening in Sudan, which is somehow worse.
in reply to thatonecoder

Before the genocide in Gaza qe didn't care that much about Sudan unfortunatly. All those countries preaching human rights do not care about neither too
in reply to Sahwa

I just read about this here:
france24.com/en/africa/2025102…

And here's the actual paper produced by Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, showing the satellite images. It's pretty damning: files-profile.medicine.yale.ed…




D.F.L.P.: ‘The U.S. plan may stop the war in Gaza […] but it will not create peace.’


The U.S. plan announced by President Trump, under the pretext of halting the aggression and creating conditions for a comprehensive settlement, was in reality a response to mounting global pressure — not a result of genuine conviction on the part of Israel and its partner, the United States, to end the humanitarian catastrophe.

Although the plan appears outwardly as an initiative to cease fire, its actual content reproduces the same Israeli standards that reduce the Palestinian cause to a mere “security issue” and ignore the root causes of the conflict — occupation, settlement expansion, displacement and the denial of the Palestinian people’s national rights.

[…]

The U.S. plan seeks to end the war in Gaza according to Israeli terms — but it does not aim to create lasting or genuine peace in the region.

The nations of the world, especially those supporting Israel, must avoid repeating past mistakes by ignoring the real cause of the conflict: the Israeli occupation.

Stability in the region can only be achieved through principles that have become clear to all nations, organizations and international bodies — foremost among them:

– Clear and explicit recognition of the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people, as stipulated in international resolutions.

– Restoration of the territorial unity of the State of Palestine between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and rejection of any separation between them.

– The departure of the occupation and its settlers and the dismantling of all settlements.

– The establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, on a unified and contiguous territory free of barriers or obstacles.

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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority


Pennsylvania voters approved the retention of three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the battleground state’s high court.