My Mastodon instance refuses to federate with a specific instance, and nobody seems to know why.
I originally signed up to mastodonapp.uk. Now that I'm attempting to get m.dollha.us running, I'm looking to pull my account from the former and move it to the latter. Easier said than done, though, because I cannot, for the life of me, seem to get my instance to federate with that instance. I have tried leaving it for a week or three, I have tried starting it in limited federation mode and whitelisting the instance in question, and I have tried a dedicated relay provided by fedi.buzz.
Today I noticed something interesting in my sidekiq logs: My instance is actively rejecting mastodonapp.uk - despite it not being in any blocklists. This is, of course, via the dedicated relay, so it could be a relay issue, but I can see no obvious reason why that would occur.
What could be the problem here?
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Interoperability between self-hosted services
Plenty of us are using Docker, Podman, Incus, chroot jails, etc to isolate services.
It has become good practice and it makes setting up yet another service, usually, so convenient.
Some services like YunoHost, StartOS, Cloudron and others try to facilitate the process.
What I haven't seen though is a way to facilitate interoperability BETWEEN services we self-host. Sure there are plugins for each service, e.g. npmjs.com/package/peertube-plu… to provide XMPP chat for PeerTube, or anecdotal discussions e.g. github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/is… to embed PeerTube on Jitsi Meet.
So... how do YOU do it? How do you make on self-hosted service with another? Do you check after each one you install in the plugin category? Do you write your own plugins or extensions? Do you have a design pattern (e.g. Swagger API discovery with token generation per service, "cheat" via sockets, use a dedicate new service or even host) which you repeat?
I do ask because I bet most of you have a moment like this :
- Hey how about we start this new project together?
- Yes, let's change the World!
- OK let's write manifesto.md
- Where are we going to host it?
- Hmmm we could use my Cryptpad instance...
- OK but I don't get notification on my GMail, could we use GoogleDocs instead?
So... I feel like FLOSS self-hosting is honestly on-par functionality-wise with proprietary solutions. I might be bias but it's rare when I think "Damn... that's cool, shame I can't have it at home". I can nearly always (in fact I have a hard time thinking of an example) self-host functional equivalent solutions myself. The ONE thing that I feel is often missing is integration which relies on interoperability.
How do YOU it?
PS: this isn't about ntfy, PeerTube, HA or any specific service to a specific problem, it's about HOW to facilitate, when one wants to, already great services work together.
Please support Peertube (and/or other) embedding
The functionality to play YouTube videos work great. It would be even better if Jitsi Meet also supported playing videos from a PeerTube instance (or even allow to paste an embed code).highvoltage (GitHub)
My process typically goes:
ooh, shiny new service!
If it has a docker compose, I'll read up a little more on it, then set it up.
At that point, I'll cry a bit in having to change my nginx config, because it's new and unsupported, figure out what's actually needed, then realize I didn't set it up with authentik or even check if it was supported.
Usually I'll dig around and someone got something close, so I'll set it up that way, and if it works, great! If not, dig through the documents.
Any further interoperability is luck based.
(I'm currently trying to get element-call working before I open it to my family, the whole matrix stack is leaving me scarred )
Yes I can relate to the process.
Any further interoperability is luck based.
Unfortunately I can relate to that, hence the question here 😁
most of my services are an island to themselves
same
and I like it that way.
... well that's the part I'm challenging. I was thinking like this but I'm wondering if that could be improved.
PS: I use ntfy and like it, that was just an example.
… well that’s the part I’m challenging. I was thinking like this but I’m wondering if that could be improved.
Do you have a specific use case for two containers that you want to talk to each other? There are some Docker containers that will cozy up, but as you point out, there are some that don't. Maybe it would be worth the time to consult with the dev teams of said containers, and see if they have any suggestions or ways to go about it. It would seem to me that would be your best point to deviate from. Couldn't hurt. I would create a defined road map of what you are trying to accomplish before hand, and run it by the dev teams. Just give them a little time to respond. They are real people with real lives too.
As I'm thinking about it, I wonder if your solution might be automation? Something like n8n might allow cross container exchanges. Of course, those data points have to be present for you to tap them tho.
Do you have a specific use case for two containers that you want to talk to each other?
Sure, for example once a Jitsi Meet meeting ends (more than 1 person in a room in, everybody gone), save the chat log to CopyParty e.g. WebDAV push to /meetingname_date.txt would be enough to be useful. It's something we tend to do manually on a regular basis.
road map of what you are trying to accomplish before hand, and run it by the dev teams.
Yes no rush and I can code so I would be able to test before suggesting anything.
As I’m thinking about it, I wonder if your solution might be automation?
I don't touch AI but I do think conventions, e.g. not "just" an API but SWAGGER, specific filesystem on mountpoints, etc could facilitate this.
I don’t touch AI
Automation doesn't always mean AI. The app I mentioned, n8n, has two versions: with and without. The plain n8n app is very capable of doing a ton of stuff.
The plain n8n app is very capable of doing a ton of stuff.
Sorry if I'm a bit slow but what does it actually do? I skimmed through "automations" earlier this morning and I mostly found paid-for GenAI related stuff.
You're not slow...sheesh.
The version I'm using does not include AI, basically because I don't have the equipment to run AI 100% local, and n8n AI makes you tap public AI outlets. Both versions are available. The community version of n8n is open-source.
A workflow:
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n8n is a workflow automation platform that gives technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code. With 400+ integrations, ~~native AI capabilities~~, and a fair-code license, n8n lets you build powerful automations while maintaining full control over your data and deployments.
There are over 400 different integrations: n8n.io/integrations Of course, the AI stuff you can skip. And when you get to the point of proficiency, you can build your own templates and workflows.
For instance, here is a workflow designed to automatically convert media: noted.lol/self-running-video-e…
Another example is pulling logs: noted.lol/system-log-dashboard…
There are literally endless things you can integrate and build with n8n.
Building a Simple System Log Dashboard and Alert Workflow with n8n
Learn how to build a clean system log dashboard and smart SSH alert workflow using n8n. This guide walks through real log parsing, visual dashboards, and notifications when login attempts fail.Jeremy (Noted)
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Well I do have Home Assistant, been running it for years, but HA is solely for ... well home assisting (or IoT). HA as integrations but let's say I want to use HA with ... any of my other services, e.g. CopyParty to maybe store logs and makes them available or PeerTube to have videos from my camera, I can look at HA integrations, or CopyParty... issues maybe, or PeerTube npm registry.
My point being that HA is a good example with integrations but it's just one example. If I do take this example seriously though, is there a mechanism beside manual search in the list of integration that would list integrations with my services directly?
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Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.Home Assistant Community
#YunoHost, #StartOS, #Cloudron, #coopcloud, #uncloud and the people that write the recipies for the applications running on them are the answer.
Modelled solutions that check for related applications as they install are the way that encourage more people to self host by making installation, configuration, backup, update and removal easier.
One of my thoughts is that Yunohost could be usefully integrated with something like #coopcloud to allow it to add additional server instances to scale the solution - it could either via an application or a component of yunohost itself manage #abra deployment and execution.
Similarly it could reach out to other devices like Routers on your home network and help configure their firewalls, port forwarding etc. - That would make configuring a home server easier - for those that aren't experienced with these things.
Hmmm we could use my Cryptpad instance...
OK but I don't get notification on my GMail
😡 ntfy.sh 😡
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APIs. Or the ends are achieved by sharing data between apps in common data storage. But I prefer to be a tourist in my infrastructure, I no longer hand-bomb changes to systems.
My design pattern is essentially to integrate more and more of the container creation into config. Right now I'm using ansible and it's nice. More automation means troubleshooting has fewer variables.
I had issues yesterday with a package upgrade across several containers, and it ended up being two config changes. I cycle the apps and done. That's it.
I use authentik, which emables single sign on (the same account) between services.
Authentik is a bit complex and irritating at times, so I would recommend voidauth or kanidm as alternatives for most self hosters.
Thanks, that's indeed exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for "The authentication glue you need." but even more generalized than that, e.g. just "the glue you need." not solely for authentication.
Edit: to clarify and coming back after leaving few other comments, the 1 thing authentik has is that it is a cross-service need, namely nearly all services do need authentication AND, probably consequence of that, there are conventions and standards already in place, e.g. SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP, Auth0. So that makes everything much easier.
github.com/n8n-io/n8n
GitHub - n8n-io/n8n: Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. - n8n-io/n8nGitHub
Thanks I'll dig deeper. I guess I do want something like n8n but ideally :
- no AI
- self hosted FLOSS services first, if possibly only (can just be filters like F-Droid has)
- no need for no-code / low-code, code is great
which makes me wonder what they do provide, e.g. is it mostly indexing existing plugins and then some scaffolding for non coders?
The Ticking Time Bomb of Injustice for Epstein’s Victims
The Ticking Time Bomb of Injustice for Epstein’s Victims
The fuse is lit. Justice is the only way to stop the explosion.open.substack.com
The Ticking Time Bomb of Injustice for Epstein’s Victims
The Ticking Time Bomb of Injustice for Epstein’s Victims
The fuse is lit. Justice is the only way to stop the explosion.open.substack.com
Preparing for a Riskier World Is Becoming a Bigger Part of Climate Talks | As negotiations over efforts to curb emissions enter crunch time at COP30, adaptation is emerging as the next frontier.
At COP30 Adaptation is Emerging as Next Frontier of Climate Action
As negotiations over efforts to curb emissions enter crunch time at COP30, adaptation is emerging as the next frontier.Olivia Rudgard (Bloomberg)
Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation
The Hunt is (not) on.
Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation
Apple TV has pulled the French series The Hunt from its streaming schedule over claims that it may have plagiarized a 1974 novel called Shoot.Emma Roth (The Verge)
LF Suggestions on how to architect new setup, 5x22TB + 3x4TB NVME
I'm way over-analyzing at this point, so I'd love any suggestions or advice on approaching this new setup.
Today I run OpenMediaVault 7 on an i5 NUC with a cheap USB enclosure with 4x8TB in RAID5 (Hardware RAID, which I greatly regret).
Upgrading to a Minisforum N5 NAS Pro with 5x22TB and 3x4TB NVMEs.
My primary use is media which is the vast bulk of storage. I also point some Time Machine backups at it and use it to archive "what if I need this someday" stuff from old external drives we've used over the years. But all the critical stuff is also sent to Backblaze, so this is not primary backup per se, more for the local convenience.
I have decided against Proxmox, so this will be OMV (or maybe Unraid) bare metal. I've also ruled out TrueNAS. Proxmox and TrueNAS both just add too many new "pro" layers I don't really want to deal with.
I'm considering:
Setup 1:
- 3 of the drives in mergerfs for media storage (all the stuff that annoying at most if lost), maybe SnapRAID.
- 2 drives in RAID 1 for all the more important stuff like documents, user shares (which nobody in the house uses today except me), and the backups
- 1 SSD as bcache for each of the above?
Setup 2:
- RAID5 the whole thing again.
- No idea what to do with the SSDs in this case, bcache again? Can you mirror + bcache SSDs?
Setup 3:
- Take the ZFS plunge - My only real concern is the overhead (plus having zero experience with it). This machine will handle it fine (96GB RAM) BUT I was hoping to be able to leverage most of that RAM to do some Local LLM stuff. Nothing crazy, but I worry about ZFS reducing my ability to do that.
- ZFS has built in tools to incorporate the SSDs as cache right?
Setup 4:
- Switch to Unraid. I like OMV, but I can dig the "simplification" of Unraid.
- 5 Drives in array (1 parity) plus nvmes for cache.
The caching stuff I clearly don't understand but I'm very interested in. I'm thinking about it mostly in "download and consume immediately" situations. Today I have a huge bottleneck in unpacking and moving. I've got 1gb fiber and can saturate it, getting a complete iso in just a few minutes, but then it's another 30min plus waiting for that to actually be usable.
Again, I've completely paralyzed myself with all the options, so slap me out of it with whatever you've got.
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Today I have a huge bottleneck in unpacking and moving. I've got 1gb fiber and can saturate it, getting a complete iso in just a few minutes, but then it's another 30min plus waiting for that to actually be usable.
Are you doing this all manually or using the *arr suite? For me, this process takes a minute or two depending on the size of the files with Proxmox and ZFS but even previously on Windows 10 with SnapRAID it was quick.
Take the ZFS plunge - My only real concern is the overhead
you shouldn't worry about ZFS overhead if you are planning to use mergerfs.
you can tune the memory usage of ZFS significantly. by default it targets using half of your RAM, but on a home setup that's wasting resources, you should be able to limit the arc cache to 1-2 GB, maybe somewhat more depending on how you want to use it. It's done with sysctl or kernel parameters.
‘The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks
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"The Palestinians aren't using this land, so we're just going to claim it." ~ Israel
Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle
A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.
I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.
Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)
Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing
When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they neededMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
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Yes but does it have to be dead at the time?
I'm really not sure why they felt the need to point this out in the article.
I daresay some of the project leads were kicking themselves nonetheless: "It's so simple! Dead mosquito proboscises! Dead! Why didn't I think of that?!", etc. But I think we should go easy on them; we could all get a doctorate in the field of hindsight!
In the end, just like many discoveries before it: penicillin, safety glasses, velcro etc., this breakthrough simply owes a lot to blind chance.
I'm currently living in Canada where the ground has been hidden by snow for a month.
i was bitten by a mosquito outside yesterday.
They are getting stronger.
Lucky.
We have had full snow cover since mid-october here. But it has also been +3-5c most afternoons.
Although early snow often means warmer winter. And I can definitely handle the snow in QC better than the -40s I used to get in AB.
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If it makes you feel better, the people who stick their arms in aren’t allergic to mosquito bites. Doesn’t bother them to get bit beyond the feeling of being bit.
I mean I guess it could happen that they are just masochistic, but typically not.
Otherwise I would have imagined a swarm of mosquitos trained to perform like some cartoon.
So far, everyone's failed (including myself).
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This reminds me of a post where someone hooked a dead spider up to a syringe and used it as a grabber. A spider's musculature is hydraulic so the legs would curl and uncurl as the syringe was pressed.
Definitely one of the creepier things I've casually stumbled upon.
Comcast to pay $1.5M fine for vendor breach affecting 270K customers
Comcast will pay a $1.5 million fine to settle a Federal Communications Commission investigation into a February 2024 vendor data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 275,000 customers.
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Dutch government relinquishes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/53363554
Economics Affairs Minister Vincent Karremans said he was suspending an earlier order to take control of Nexperia under a rarely invoked Cold War-era law.
https://apnews.com/article/nexperia-china-dutch-chipmaker-c90f7080702b92dd1108cd5e46b0a666
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The Dutch government had cited national security concerns and “serious governance shortcomings” when it took effective control of Nexperia, which is headquartered in the city of Nijmegen but owned by China’s Wingtech Technology.Karremans said he was suspending his order issued in late September as a “show of goodwill” in a decision that came after “constructive meetings” with Chinese authorities over the past few days.
Basically the chinese were doing a shit job of running this vital chip company so the Dutch government said "Get your shit together or we are taking your company". And thats what they did for a few weeks which apparently led to the holding of a “constructive meetings with Chinese authorities"
“constructive meetings with Chinese authorities"
I hope they really were constructive.
Also the Dutch got a lot of heat from basically everywhere ( Europe), the Chinese maybe too, because of the chipshortages. So there was pressure coming from everywhere.
You know people can read the article right?
The dispute is an example of how Europe is caught between Washington and Beijing in their rivalry over trade and tech.Netherlands issued its seizure order after the United States last year put Wingtech on its “entity list” of companies that face export controls, and then expanded it in September to include subsidiaries including Nexperia.
Toyota Chairman Goes Full MAGA At NASCAR-Inspired Event He Threw In Japan - Jalopnik
Toyota Chairman Goes Full MAGA At NASCAR-Inspired Event He Threw In Japan
Remember when Elon Musk was the only automotive CEO pandering to President Donald Trump?Andy Kalmowitz (Jalopnik)
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tbf i understand why they’re upset
they spent the last 100 years making the perfect anal rod that goes in the engine ball bearing, and it’s amazing, reliable, only needs a change every 10 years, classic toyota
but ev’s don’t have one so that knowledge on how to make the perfect anal rod is worthless
ultimately the difference in reliability between an ev and a toyota isn’t really that far apart, and once people catch on unless toyota innovates they’re living out their kodak days right now imo
unless toyota innovates they’re living out their kodak days right now imo
Toyota sold hybrids in 1997. A decade before anyone else. Then Plugin hybrids. Billions of gallons of oil saved.
They aren't Tesla, they actually have to sell cars to make money. Toyota CEO was heavily criticized for avoiding EVs, but all Detroit auto makers have pissed away billions on EVs no one bought. Y'all talk about making EVs, but you don't actually buy them. He stuck to hybrids and Toyota sales are highest on hybrids, and yet he was forced to resign because of investor pressure because they thought EVs were the future 5 years ago and Elon Musk was a Jeanius: that never happened.
Late 2026, Toyota will be selling EVs with solid state batteries, way before Tesla and most EV manufacturers. Spoiler alert: they won't break every month or fry children alive with hidden door locks and fake FSD.
A CEO has to placate MAGA because his job is to sell cars in the USA, and Toyota has been the only Japanese carmaker in NASCAR. They sell to rednecks. So playing up to a demented man child a country elected, twice, is what he has to do.
They don't just placate MAGA. The Toyota PAC spends money to support MAGA candidates.
They spend on each, but generally more to Republicans.
The difference is assuming, rather than looking for evidence, and then doubling down like now, after being told that at least one automaker is making a point of not making political overtures.
If you care to pore over my post history, you will see plenty of comments from me making the same point to people saying, "I won't buy an EV because of all the privacy violations," with me responding, "All new cars have this problem, ICE or EV." They then respond with, "Well, that's why I won't buy a car made after x year," to which I respond, "Then why mention EVs at all?"
If you don't want to bother educating yourself before making sweeping statements, don't be surprised if someone calls you out on it, echo chamber or no.
The difference is assuming, rather than looking for evidence, and then doubling down like now
You mean like you're doing right now?
after being told that at least one automaker is making a point of not making political overtures.
"Being told" something is now considered irrefutable evidence and if I don't simply accept what I'm "being told" that's being "uneducated?"
Oh, what's this?
opensecrets.org/orgs/honda-mot…
Youre not "calling me out" on anything you're just being a contrarian and sanctimonious buffoon and you quite embarrassingly don't even have your facts right.
What a joke and over something so innocuous too...
So, using the handy little tool you referenced, I scrolled down to see how much of those contributions were from individuals associated with Honda, versus contributions from the Corporation. We'll, the total from Honda, since 1990, was $324k. The total that wasn't from individuals, from the Honda corporation, was...$0. Meanwhile, if you want to find a year where that's applicable to Toyota, you will have to go back to 2012, the furthest back that the history (easily) allows you to go on that site. And their total from corporate and individuals comes in at $8.9M.
My embarrassment knows no bounds.
Late 2026, Toyota will be selling EVs with solid state batteries, way before Tesla and most EV manufacturers.
just about everyone is racing for solid state
insideevs.com/news/771402/ever…
most believe china will get there first as they have the most experience with battery tech
Y’all talk about making EVs, but you don’t actually buy them
ev sales are higher than ever?
aaa.asn.au/2025/11/electric-ve…
and this is in australia where everyone needs to drive 1000km to get to the shops
also tbf there’s a lot of disinformation out there, i’ve spoken to people who thought the ev battery was the same as a phone battery and died after 5 years (of course it immediately caught on fire then burnt my house down right 🤣)
nevermind the legions of paid fud from oil companies and useful idiots on facebook
Spoiler alert: they won’t break every month
evs don’t break every month, thats what im trying to say, they have barely any maintenance at all, ev car maintenance involves checking the brakes for rust because they don’t get used and topping up windscreen wiper fluid
toyotas brand is linked to the reliability of an engine that doesn’t exist in an ev
like 90% of people who buy an ev don’t go back to petrol, once this becomes obvious to the mainstream toyota will lose a lot of brand cred
Electric vehicle sales break records - Australian Automobile Association
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) achieved record total sales and market share in Australia in the three months to 30 September, as internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle sales posted their lowest quarterly market share on record, according to the A…Steve Rotherham (Australian Automobile Association)
the main thing toyota is known for is reliability, and the main thing they need to keep running and reliable is the ICE engine
control rods, pistons, oil pumps etcetc
ev’s don’t have all that shit, the main thing on ev’s is the electronics and plastic stuff inside them
I'd rather go with, "Japan is collaborating with Nazis" than put it on the Japanese.
But yeah I wouldn't put it past them.
China in ‘covert and calculated’ effort to recruit MPs and peers, minister says
MPs and peers have been told they face “a covert and calculated” attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chinese intelligence service.
After MI5 issued an espionage alert on Tuesday, saying that two people were operating on LinkedIn to obtain “non-public and insider insights”, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told MPs the effort was focused on those “with access to sensitive information about parliament and the UK government”.
With the Chinese embassy in London dismissing the accusations as “pure fabrication”, the diplomatic dispute appeared to be a new flashpoint in the increasingly tense relationship between China and the UK over alleged espionage.
China in ‘covert and calculated’ effort to recruit MPs and peers, minister says
Dan Jarvis gives Commons statement after MI5 alert about LinkedIn profiles of Amanda Qiu and Shirly ShenDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Trump elevates Saudi Arabia to ‘major non-NATO ally’ status
The announcement came hours after the Saudi crown prince announced he would increase his investments in the U.S. to nearly $1 trillion.
Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have entered into a security agreement that will ease weapons transfers and elevate the relationship between the two countries.
Under the agreement, Saudi Arabia would be designated a “major non-NATO ally,” a formal relationship that deepens defense cooperation but does not include a security guarantee. The Kingdom would join 19 other countries in that category, a list that includes Israel, Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar.
The announcement followed the crown prince’s announcement that he would increase his nation’s investments in the U.S. from about $600 billion to nearly $1 trillion — and after Trump dismissed a question about the 2018 killing of a Washington Post columnist in which Mohammed was implicated by the CIA.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-saudi-arabia-ally-00658467
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He's got some people he wants his prince to bone saw.
Next deportation camps for people who may or may not be US citizens, or members of the mythical Antifa, will be based in Saudi.
Hey if you're struggling to get your Antifa membership card renewed let me know, I work at head office.
Usually I'm organising boycotts of innocent local businesses who are just exercising their right to be American, but I know the guy that handles the membership assignments.
Making rich people richer.
It's what workers pride themselves on.
EU Chat Control Advances as Privacy Experts Warn of Hidden Backdoor Risks
EU Chat Control Advances as Privacy Experts Warn of Hidden Backdoor Risks
The EU advances its new Chat Control plan as privacy experts warn it could enable backdoor scanning and threaten encrypted messaging.Anya Zhukova (Techreport)
Once again I will post the following link:
fightchatcontrol.eu/
I will keep posting this link whenever Chat Control shows its ugly head again.
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
for anyone seeing this link for the first time
it's an incredibly streamlined UX that composes an email to the representatives relevant to you, for the specific reasons important to you. It's then really easy to paste both the email body and the string of email addresses into whatever email client you use.
10/10 recommend
Just sent 89 emails. Looking forward to squashing the American interests behind this bullshit.
If you don't believe me, watch this:
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
China seeks to inflict economic blow on Japan amid escalating spat over Taiwan
Beijing suggested it might reimpose a ban on seafood imports from Japan after warning its citizens to avoid travel there and postponing the release of at least two Japanese movies.
The two largest economies in Asia have been locked in a war of words that began when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told lawmakers on Nov. 7 that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could force a military response from Tokyo. It was the first time such a comment had been made by a sitting prime minister of Japan, a U.S. ally that has a mutual defense pact with Washington.
China, which claims self-ruling Taiwan as a breakaway province to be seized by force if necessary, has repeatedly demanded that Takaichi retract her “egregious” remarks, saying it will take “severe” countermeasures if she refuses.
Though unspecified, Beijing’s threats have fueled concerns for Japan’s already fragile economy that is heavily dependent on China, especially as Tokyo grapples with the effects of U.S. tariffs.
Trump sets 15% tariff on Japanese imports as part of investment agreement
President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Truth Social that his administration had reached a deal with Japan, one of the largest U.S. trading partners, to lower its tariff rate to 15% as part of a sweeping trade agreementSteve Kopack (NBC News)
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Moscow passes laws to boost defences against Ukrainian strikes
Vladimir Putin authorises the guarding of fuel sites by reservists, internet blackouts and tighter sentencing for acts of sabotage
Russia has passed sweeping laws to bolster its defences at home against Ukrainian drone strikes and sabotage operations, reflecting the Kremlin’s expectation of a protracted war with Ukraine.
Almost four years into Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine – a full-scale invasion he expected to last only weeks – Moscow is being targeted almost daily by Ukrainian drones striking energy facilities, while Ukrainian operatives have assassinated a number of high-profile Russian military figures deep inside the country.
These deep-strike Ukrainian attacks have forced Moscow to confront vulnerabilities it once assumed lay far from the battlefield.
Moscow passes laws to boost defences against Ukrainian strikes
Vladimir Putin authorises the guarding of fuel sites, internet blackouts and tighter sentencing for acts of sabotagePjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
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Momentum grows for global roadmap to phase out fossil fuels
Small island states and major economies are urging a fair fossil-fuel phase-out as climate negotiations enter a critical juncture. Climate-friendly trade and improved climate finance are among the main flashpoints.
Ministers from around the world crowded the podium at the UN climate conference in Belem, Brazil, united in calling for a rapid and equitable phase-out of the fossil fuels largely responsible for driving climate change.
Flanked by representatives from countries including Germany, Colombia, the UK and Kenya, Tina Stege, the Marshall Islands' climate envoy, evoked the spirit of Mutirao — a Portuguese word of Indigenous origin meaning 'collective effort' — in calling for a "roadmap" to transition away from oil, coal and gas.
Colombia is leading the charge of around 80 countries backing the inclusion of such a roadmap in a final COP agreement this year, according to negotiators. It advances a commitment first made at COP28 in Dubai, but with greenhouse gas emissions at a record high and warming accelerating, some fear the talks between nearly 200 nations lack urgency.
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Question about Syncoid / ZFS replication
So I asked earlier about backing up the media files in my home lab, and thanks for the many who replied, I settled on sanoid / syncoid and has been running them for some time.
My setup:
pool1/data contains my media files
pool2/data backup
I use sanoid to make periodic snapshots of pool1/data, and then runs
syncoid pool1/data pool2/datato replicate the snapshots to pool2.
This works fine, except I noticed that a lot of data is being copied even though pool1 did not change much. And now I just noticed pool2 ran out of space some time ago, while pool1 is currently only half full (pool1 & pool2 are the same size).
~~Is it because snapshots are somehow deduplicated when created on pool1, but is fully transferred to pool2 when syncoid runs? Is there something I can do to lower the usage on the backup pool? Thanks.~~
EDIT: Oops, I did not set up pruning of old snapshots on pool2. I have now added "--delete-target-snapshots" to my syncoid job and will monitor the results.
Not enough info, but it sounds almost like you're creating the snapshots locally and sending those over instead of snapshotting to the destination directly.
Sanoid and syncoid are Jim Salter's creation. Check out his blog at mercenarysysadmin.com for some examples of sanoid and syncoid. Klara systems also has a number of deep dives into those utilities.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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I couldn't find anything about this on the Asus Linux blog, am I just dumb and looking in the wrong place? I use Asus-linux and didn't know about this 🙁
Edit: ~~unfortunately it seems that bullshitters who make shit up on the spot have made their way over to Lemmy~~ boo me
For myself, I make sure I've done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.
From his Kofi: ko-fi.com/flukejones
I've burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It's exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It's not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.
Same on his Patreon
I read this blog post yesterday and it was insightful.
Seems like we could solve multiple problems in one go here…
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I liked the article. It sung to my heart. I've been in this world for a while. Lived through the failure and hyperacalars just taking without giving back.
I don't know what to think. But I'm not happy with where we are and it's nice to hear someone else talking about it.
I'm all for ethical licensing, and defensive licensing, but we'll likely end up with an unmanageable soup of various licenses that everyone is nervous about misinterpreting. We lose efficacy and everyone will just default back to the same handful of licenses we're currently using.
I think unless it was a small number of crystal clear alternative licenses with broadly agreeable terms, we'd get chaos, followed by complacency.
If only there was a way to fund open source projects so we both could have better software for the world and paid employees..
I think you can guess which government body already do this. Just take a shot.
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
I think the bigger question is how many corporations are supporting foss projects? I'm sure a lot of us contribute a bit here and there if we can and I'm sure it makes a difference - but if some of these corporations, making billions of dollars profit, contribute just a tiny fraction of their wealth it could make a huge difference.
It's the same argument as recycling, turning off lights, walking instead of driving etc. etc. - yes there are 8 billion of us and if we all do it, it will make a difference, but the difference we make is still not significant compared to corporate greed.
We are being gaslit to accept yet another scenario where we socialize the cost and privatize the profit.
Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.
Everyone always stares at other people's resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.
So is it a big question if it doesn't really matter because we can't do anything about it?
Not for me to decide
That's the problem, hardly anyone in FOSS gets paid at all.
That's what we are trying to fix.
Love the enthusiasm, but let's stop casting this as an end-user-only problem. The real issue is, once again, large corporations using and taking advantage of oss while putting ZERO money or work back into oss. It's victim blaming with extra steps, and us blaming each other is exactly what the real culprits want.
If it makes us feel better that we can pay on a regulsr basis for these things, great. But massive oss projects can't thrive on a few of us donating.
I hope you didn't infer from my comment that we should stop individually supporting FOSS, that's not what I'm saying.
However, I will counter that I don't think you are current with the overwhelmingly massive imbalance of corporate vs personal use is currently in play on big Foss projects.
Ffmpeg is used by almost everyone with a video project, but not companies want to kick in any bucks:
We saw this back in 2015 as well with NTP, which almost everyone on the internet uses, yet the one guy who worked on it had to stop doing so temporarily in 2017 and get a job to support himself:
informationweek.com/it-infrast…
Not only do corps use FOSS at a higher rate by an order of magnitude than individual users, but they also profit from it.
NTP Needs Money: Is A Foundation The Answer?
NTP steward Harlan Stenn founded the Network Time Foundation four years ago as an umbrella group to unite and support time-synching open-source projects. But it hasn't gotten far with support.Charles Babcock (Information Week)
Not at all. I support individual paying for foss projects and then corporations should be made to as well. Corporation will not have morals until there is social pressure, even so they just pretend to or regulated by government standards.
We are on the same page, if you read my other comments.
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
Pay for your FOSS! I've paid far more for my FOSS than for any proprietary software.
If you believe in subscriptions, then subscribe only to FOSS software like Bitwarden, Tailscale/Netbird, etc.
Find your favorite FOSS projects on Open Collective and support them there.
And above all else, treat FOSS devs and maintainers with the utmost respect! They are the unsung heros who are building the only alternatives to the corpo-dystopian hellscape of proprietary, enshitified, slop software.
Send a message to a dev today, just saying thank you to them for everything, and asking if you can send them a tip if possible.
Folks, let's treat each other lovingly please, FOSS has freed us, give back what you can, and never take it for granted.
To all the devs, maintainers, tinkerers, supporters, FOSS educators, and helpful community members across the FOSS world, thank you so much, and much love. ♥️
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I recently got my boss to send a donation to an open source project!
It was technically not free to use for commercial purposes, but we could have done it anyway... However my boss agreed when I mentioned how insignificant it would be on the project's cost!
I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how open source works. I can't imagine maintaining anything more than a tiny library that I can ignore six days of the week.
Also: open source relies on good jobs. You can only do it if you have a well paid low stress job with good hours. Those have been in short supply recently.
I think the free time covid gave, followed by the free time the layoffs gave, and AI have been patching / hiding the fact that the core model of open source is completely unsustainable in its current state.
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Roughly equal parts "git is clever" and "once in a while, someone has to take some time to figure it out".
Say the code is split into two files. You and I both make changes, but you're working on file A and I'm in file B. No problem!
Now we both make changes in file A. Sometimes Git can just "figure it out", like if all your changes are in the beginning of the file, and all my changes are at the end.
But sometimes we both change the same section. Git can't figure that part out, so one of us has to sit down and reconcile the changes. Sometimes this is pretty simple, other times...not so much.
Put it all together, and it works out pretty well most of the time.
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It’s funny how common this mindset is in the self-hosting community:
“If I’m running it on my own hardware, the software should basically be free… maybe I’ll toss a tiny ‘tip’ if I feel generous.”
The logic seems to be that since there’s no ongoing server cost, the developer’s time, skill, and effort must somehow be worth nothing and that we should magically fund the entire project through some hypothetical cloud version that they themselves will never use.
It’s like showing up to a brewery with your own growler and expecting the beer to be free because you didn’t use their glass.
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I'm sorry, but I can't agree with this. If the software is free, then it's free. It's up to the authors how they want to license it.
Personally, I write code and publish it in the hopes that it will help someone. If someone comes in and says "there's this bug, fix it!" I will only do so if it will benefit me, or if I feel like it.
The article and discussion here is about open source software which is not free software. Thats where the problem lies it is assumed that open source software has be free.
Freedom in software does not mean free software.
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Thats where the problem lies it is assumed that open source software has be free.
But the article is not talking about this scenario. They're specifically talking about open source software that's also free software:
Your favorite apps run on code maintained by exhausted volunteers.
So it's perfectly fine for some users to expect the software to be free.
The real problem is that some project owners have a sense of duty to maintain their creations no matter what, leading to burnout, which is the point of the article. The article also details ways to fix it. Some of those involve the users being proactive (e.g. taking the initiative to donate consistently), but ultimately it's up to the owner to take some action. Like I mentioned, if I publish some code for free, I don't mind my users to expect that my software will always be free. But if they think I'm going to lose sleep trying to meet their demands without compensation, welp, they are dreaming.
It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.
Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure
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Open source should be funded by the tax-payers, or all code should be forcibly open-source (something like AGPL)
Any other models feels like they would create perverse incentives
Also recurring donations feels like a better way than one-time tips
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I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.
A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale
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How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?
I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?
Same as all other tax funded projects, by some elected people who likely have no idea about the project.
Joking aside, we will see more of this funding due to governments moving to open source software as they tend to want to fund their own stuff.
I've been using CachyOS and impressed by the array of available software, and it was only in the back of my mind, the thought; "Wow, so much of this is so refined and polished. I wonder who has motive to maintain it?"
Joke's on me, the motive is hardly there - and it's a shitty time for it with Windows announcing that 10 is the last version and that there are no plans for a new one.
I'm glad Valve has a profit motive towards open source right now, but especially in a world where fewer people can donate at random, I really hoped that the model wasn't specifically built to rely just on tip jars.
A lot of FOSS projects are freemium based which seems viable for larger more complex projects.
In these projects it's common to see the developer get paid for adding features on top of the core version, for a SaaS version, for custom development, or for offering support.
Other projects with a lot of community interest - and a good "community manager" style organizer can attract contributors in the form of pulls, bug testing and reports, and widespread use which generates valuable marketing. These projects only exist because of the labor of love from the whole community.
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Monarchy debate returns, but many Libyans see it as a step backward
Libya’s prolonged political deadlock has pushed many citizens to reassess ideas once considered settled. Among these ideas is the place of the former monarchy in the country’s political imagination.The renewed attention is not driven by a coordinated campaign, nor does it signal a national shift toward a single model of governance. It reflects something more fundamental: a society still searching for stability after years of uncertainty.
A major political gathering held on 15 November has pushed the question of Libya’s monarchy back into the centre of national debate, drawing attention from observers across Africa who see the country’s stability as vital to regional economic and security interests.
Monarchy debate returns, but many Libyans see it as a step backward
Libya’s prolonged political deadlock has pushed many citizens to reassess ideas once considered settled. Among these ideas is the place of the former monarchy in the country’s political imagination.The renewed attention is not driven by a coordinatedLibyan Express
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crime
By Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ET
Hamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.
“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-gaza-popularity-rises-03efb873?st=edS4WR
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39179387
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crimeBy Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ET
Hamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.
“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crimeBy Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ETHamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.
“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-gaza-popularity-rises-03efb873?st=edS4WR
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WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, prompting the agency to scale back its workGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Welcome to Trump's America. "Well that fucking sucks for humanity," might as well be the phrase that historians use to summarize his second term.
If you'll recall, he tried to withdraw America from the WHO at the end of his first term, but failed due to losing the election before the request was accepted. The WHO's recommendations didn't match what Trump said during the COVID pandemic, and Trump will use any means at his disposal to quash dissent.
Yeah, because that'll surely end well. Any strong democracy would be a lot better than either the US or China.
China still hasn't been anywhere near transparent about COVID, for example. Do you really think they'd be any better if an outbreak of something similar would happen, especially if it originated from China in the first place.
I'm with you there, in theory at least. Chinese money tends to come with strings attached, though. I'd be weary of that kind of influence without proper oversight.
It's not like the WHO hasn't flip-flopped on things before due to outside pressure either, so there's some precedent there.
We're in agreement then. I mean, I don't have anything in particular against China as such, I just don't like how they handled COVID and I certainly have some issues with their governance at large, but their money would still be welcome if there was proper oversight.
I do hope WHO will get up and running at 100% though, they're sorely needed. Considering what's happening in the US I don't think it'll be long before some shit happens over there as well.
If someone can put up the money in short order to stop that bad ending, it’s better one.
Money rarely comes with no strings attached.
Yes. There's no oversight, whoever puts the money has the influence. US, China, EU, Canada, Australia, etc. We need to move away from the idea of funding being separable from influence. About anything. The economic dimension isn't separate from the political one. It's a myth we are told that's served to further the interests of capital against the rest of us. If any country or block wants the influence we/they can put up the money.
Well maybe this will decrease American influence.
Can we do the same for the UN? World bank? IMF?
Republicans don’t understand soft power or second order effects
All that matters is the now.
It was an accident waiting to happen.
It's not like the US has always been terribly concerned with democracy.
If they were, they'd have a real voting system like Germany.
I really don't understand why Trump didn't happen sooner.
Israeli settlers torch homes and fields in fresh West Bank attack
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By Mera Aladam and MEE correspondent in Jab'a, Bethlehem, occupied Palestine
Published date: 18 November 2025 15:19 GMT
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes, vehicles and farmland in the latest attack in the occupied West Bank on Monday.The large-scale evening assault on the town of Jab'a, southwest of Bethlehem, left three homes torched. The properties belonged to Raafat Hilal Mashaaleh, Muhammad Musa Musa and Yusuf Ahmad Musa.
Mashaaleh told Middle East Eye that the attack began as his brother was helping their sister and her children into a car parked in the family garden.
A stone was thrown at the vehicle, and when he looked up he saw two men hurling rocks. Moments later, he realised there were around 50 assailants.
Israeli settlers torch homes and fields in fresh West Bank attack
By Mera Aladam and MEE correspondent in Jab'a, Bethlehem, occupied Palestine
Published date: 18 November 2025 15:19 GMTIsraeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes, vehicles and farmland in the latest attack in the occupied West Bank on Monday.The large-scale evening assault on the town of Jab'a, southwest of Bethlehem, left three homes torched. The properties belonged to Raafat Hilal Mashaaleh, Muhammad Musa Musa and Yusuf Ahmad Musa.
Mashaaleh told Middle East Eye that the attack began as his brother was helping their sister and her children into a car parked in the family garden.
A stone was thrown at the vehicle, and when he looked up he saw two men hurling rocks. Moments later, he realised there were around 50 assailants.
Israeli settlers torch homes and fields in fresh West Bank attack
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes, vehicles and farmland in the latest attack in the occupied West Bank on Monday. The large-scale evening assault on the town of Jab'a, southwest of Bethlehem, left three homes torched.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
Right. Sure it isn’t
That reads as sarcastic so I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
No, seems like you got it.
I'm saying that it's part of the same overarching conflict/occupation. It's folly to try to separate them.
They are literally, physically and governmentally, separate.
I’m not trying to say that Israel isn’t being horrible in the West Bank (they are), nor am I saying that the pattern of behavior towards Palestinians is not the same in both places (it is), nor am I denying that the overarching conflict is one and the same (it is). I’m saying that the genocidal siege of Gaza, and specifically the ceasefire negotiated with Hamas, do not directly deal with the West Bank nor the Palestinian Authority.
So it isn’t that the settlers got an “exemption” from the ceasefire, it’s that the ceasefire didn’t deal with that region to begin with.
Now children, don’t let your education “confuse” you into sympathizing with the “skinny, weak” Palestinians.
But seriously though. This is the holocide Monbiot speaks of
monbiot.com/2025/10/02/holocid…
Holocide
Alongside the genocide, the Israeli government is destroying the ecosystems of Gaza, perhaps permanently.George Monbiot
Can we literally round up and jail ALL of these settlers, at least from the last say, 30 years or so
All of them are criminals
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’
Parliament approves law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in what are demarcated as security risk areasDaniel Boffey (The Guardian)
The Roma are an easy target because traditionally, they haven’t owned land and have been their own political entity, not beholden to any local government.
This makes them difficult to control, which makes them extremely dangerous to property-based politicians.
Think of it— Western government is generally based on the premise that people who live in defined geographic areas select representatives to govern them. And the Roma live wherever they want, with their own language, culture and politics, and can’t be manipulated based on where they live and who controls that land.
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According to the 2002 census, there were 3,246 Romani individuals living in Slovenia.[1] They constitute 0.5 percent of the total population.[2] The Slovenia Roma speak Balkan Romani and Italian.[3] The Roma have been living in Slovenia since the 15th century.[4]
So did they just now become a threat, or was it for the past six centuries too?
But still, throughout the country there was much hate towards Romani and Croatians, as well as Italians among the older people.
Jews really have a knack for annoying nazis, don't they?
Trans people really have a knack for riling up bigots, don't they?
Women really have a knack for attracting rapists, don't they?
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
Bypass the Oracle free-tier limitation of running only Linux distributions provided by Oracle by sideloading a QCOW2 image to a boot volume and attaching it to a new instance.roguesecurity.dev
They've had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though.
You get a lot of resources for free, but don't use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason.
Certainly! As others have said, don't hang anything worth value on it without an out of band backup strategy, they're famous for unscrupulously deleting things with no warning. Oracle is a miserable company.
Free is free though!
I'm not scrutinizing it much.
Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it.
I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region.
kexec but I always understood it to be a kernel reboot without power cycling the "metal." Please enlighten us with an example! I don't see how you'd replace the entire userspace (and possibly filesystem) with simply kexec.
Kexec can be used to load a new kernel and "reboot" quickly, it can also be used to load a new kernel, an initrd and never touch the disk.
Such a system lives completely in ram and allows you to modify the disk in any way you want without breaking you running Linux (which is in ram)
Any distro that has a network boot installer that can be passed to kexec can be installed this way, any that don't can still kexec any Linux distro and then install any other distro by passing the disk to a VM and installing linux through that.
You can also kexec the netboot.xyz image and get any distro supported there.
The "gotcha" with Oracle free tier is that you can't install from arbitrary media, so the typical netboot.xyz or any iPXE workflow is out. No console access, no pre-bootloader access, nothing.
I've been fiddling with kexec, but it doesn't seem like a supported method of loading the lkrn file from netboot...
This is super interesting to me, so by all means, if you have the kung-fu to show how this works I would happily read through that!
Yeah I tried just now and it diesn't seem to be working (anymore?) could've sworn that worked.
You can still kexec the installiers directly, I followed the netboot.xyz scripts and got the links they use. Here's Debian as an example:
From the scripts: deb.debian.org/debian/dists/st…
looking at the boot config debian-installer/amd64/grub/grub.cfg
submenu '... KDE Plasma desktop boot menu ...' {
set gfxpayload=keep
menuentry '... Install' {
set background_color=black
linux /debian-installer/amd64/linux desktop=kde vga=788 --- quiet
initrd /debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gzso we need to download those two files and take the netboot.xyz cmdline arguments then
$ kexec --command-line="desktop=kde vga=788 mirror/suite=stable initrd=initrd.magic console=ttyS0,115200n8" --initrd=initrd.gz -l linux´
$ systemctl kexecand it boots.
also here's an example for the nixos netboot commands, more on that in the nixos manual:
$ kexec --load bzImage \
--initrd=initrd.gz \
--command-line "init=/nix/store/n37nmcvbrblk9ahfzj9nxy01axs7zsf6-nixos-system-nixos-kexec-25.11pre-git/init nohibernate loglevel=4 lsm=landlock,yama,bpf"
$ systemctl kexecEdit:
No console access
If that means that you can only connect to SSH and have no VGA/video then this will be limited, you could setup an automated install but that requires a lot more knowledge than what your guide requires.
Okay this is excellent content, thank you!
I went through and fiddled with some more stuff to try and get this working to no avail. However, it inspired me to take apart netboot.xyz a bit more, and I was able to grab an efi and get next boot to load the efi file. It took me too long to realize you need the console tty arguments as part of the boot cmdline to get it working interactively, but after I got there I got it netbooted. Sadly though, it almost immediately runs into an OOM condition and thus isn't practical on a free tier x86 asset. It would probably work on an aarch64 node, but I already have my allotted arm node spun up and working so I don't have a free one to practice with.
Solid write-up though, thank you for putting that together!
Slotkin, Kelly lead Democrats in military, intelligence appeal: ‘You can refuse illegal orders’
A coalition of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds urged servicemembers and those in the intelligence community to defy any illegal orders.The video, which is edited to show multiple lawmakers reading one statement, comes as President Trump has carried out deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean, near Venezuela.
“We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now, Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath to protect and defend this constitution,” the lawmakers said in the video.
“Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear,” they added. “You can refuse illegal orders…you must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.”
The video features Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.), and Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.), Chissy Houlahan (Pa.), Chris Deluzio (Penn.) and Maggie Goodlander (N.H.).
Since the boat strikes began in September, lawmakers have pressed the Trump administration on whether servicemembers involved could be held legally responsible for deaths that may be found unlawful. The military strikes have killed at least 83 people, and while the Trump administration has accused the boats of ferrying drugs, they have blown them up in deadly strikes rather than the typical practice of interdicting the boats.
DOJ claimed in an internal opinion that servicemembers cannot be held liable for the strikes.
But Senate Judiciary Democrats, in an October letter, argued that the strikes put servicemembers in a difficult position, as they are being asked to make illegal kills.
The United States Code of Military Justice “prohibits the premeditated and unlawful killing of a human being,” they wrote in a letter, but that it also requires obeying orders, “putting our service members in the impossible position of risking criminal prosecution for carrying out an unlawful order to kill civilians or risking prosecution for disobeying superior orders.”
That's the entire article.
Formatting emphasis mine.
Here is the video released by Democrats:
(sorry, New York Post is the only source of the video itself, in its entirety, with no editorializing, that I can find at the moment.)
[EDIT] Thanks to DemBoSain:
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In case you missed it, this came soon after a 427-1 vote by the House of Representatives to release the Epstein Files.
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"Can" is less likely to trigger a Reactive response IMO.
Also appeals to conscience and duty rather than authority, which is more intrinsically motivating.
Not as easy to disobey as you make it out.
Good luck. There is plenty of law and precedent to examine if you want to put in the time.
tl;dr: Make the call on "lawful" orders at your personal peril, and you will almost certainly lose.
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Take an hour, even half an hour, and see what experts have to say about making the call on "illegal orders".
tl;dr: Make the call to disobey, you are fucked.
Unlikely those on deployment in those Navy vessels will get this message.
They do have satellite news but it's grainy and often not watched.
Oh, thanks!
I don't use X or Bluesky or ... anything 'social meda ish', other than lemmy, I'll add this to the main post!
U.S. deports dozens of migrants to Ukraine amid war
The U.S. deported 50 people to Ukraine this week, a Ukrainian border official said on Tuesday, in what appears to be the single largest such deportation from the U.S. since the country has been at war with Russia.
The flight landed near the Polish border in the early hours on Monday. Since Russia's invasion in 2022, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported 105 Ukrainians in total, with 13 in the last quarter of 2024, according to the latest data available in ICE's publicly available tracker.
The Trump administration originally wanted to send 80 people on the flight, according to Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's ambassador to the United States. That original list also included at least one person that Ukraine had previously been unable to claim as a citizen of the country.
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Immigration lawyers have raised concerns that those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war.
They should be. This isn't an optional or unjust war for Ukraine to fight. Every capable man should be returned so they can fight.
Keystone Kash Vows to Track Down National Guard Shooter Already in Hospital
Keystone Kash Vows to Track Down National Guard Shooter Already in Hospital
The embattled FBI director found himself embarrassingly out of the loop during a news conference on the shooting of National Guard members.Erkki Forster (The Daily Beast)
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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
Following the same legislative and narrative pattern as the EU for “Chat Control”, similar laws and rhetoric are now cropping up in the US. The narrative is “save the children from porn” but the action is censorship, mass surveillance, and the elimination of privacy on the Internet.
As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children” in A.B. 105/S.B. 130. It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN. The bill seeks to broadly expand the definition of materials that are “harmful to minors” beyond the type of speech that states can prohibit minors from accessing—potentially encompassing things like depictions and discussions of human anatomy, sexuality, and reproduction.Wisconsin’s bill has already passed the State Assembly and is now moving through the Senate. If it becomes law, Wisconsin could become the first state where using a VPN to access certain content is banned. Michigan lawmakers have proposed similar legislation that did not move through its legislature, but among other things, would force internet providers to actively monitor and block VPN connections. And in the UK, officials are calling VPNs "a loophole that needs closing.
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Lawmakers ~~Want to Ban VPNs—And They~~ Have No Idea What They're Doing
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Well, no, it wouldn't. The bods that make these decisions still live like it's 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.
What good is The Google or The AI when you're sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?
pingfs: a filesystem backed by ICMP
GitHub - friedrich/hans: IP over ICMP
IP over ICMP. Contribute to friedrich/hans development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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My IT experience is fading fast so can anyone explain this bit?
block the access of users connected via VPN
I'm running a Digital Ocean droplet on the other side of the Pond with my own, static IP. How could a site detect I'm using a VPN? Imgur blocks me if it's on. How do they know?!
Generally, they know you're using a VPN because of where your traffic is coming from.
They probably block Digital Ocean's IP pool as a whole as it's often a hub for cybercrime and it would only affect a fraction of users.
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The thing is, VPNs won’t protect your privacy much. Browser fingerprinting technology has achieved its goal. True anonymity online is damn near impossible now.
VPNs are able to help circumvent authoritarian bullshit by making the traffic appear to come from somewhere else. So states that implement laws banning what is essentially protected speech aren’t able to really be effective in their efforts because the people that live there just route their traffic outside the state the have it all bounced back in. Banning VPNs would help them censor anything they consider porn.
That’s the real danger. A teenager jerking off is not the concern. It’s the excuse.
I wonder, what if we end run this with the cheap GPUs about to hit the market once the AI bubbles pop? Just set up a bunch of Remote Desktop instances people log in to pull shit up on and stream that to the browser. When they disconnect, nuke the container and pull the instance up again, route everything again. It’s basically Netflix of a remote session. And if they ban that, it would invoke the wrath of some incredibly powerful industries.
All because naked people are scary.
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The thing is, VPNs won’t protect your privacy much. Browser fingerprinting technology has achieved its goal. True anonymity online is damn near impossible now.
except for traffic that does not come from a web browser at all. like API calls to download linux ISOs.
Given that the only way for those websites to block VPN traffic is to block the IP addresses of all known VPN exit points, what you would see is first the commercial VPN providers regularly rotating those IP addresses of their VPN server exit points, and second people simply setting up their own VPN servers software in rented VPS machines in cloud providers anywhere in the World to run their own personal VPN.
You don't really need a full blown remote session, just a VPN server in a machine (physical or virtual) with an IP address which isn't yet blocked by such a site.
Now, the sites might try and block this by only allowing in connections from blocks of addresses which are known to belong to ISPs (which would theoretically only be direct connections from individuals, so not using a VPN), but that's way less reliable than merelly lists of IP addresses of the VPN servers of big providers, plus it would block thing such as the entirety of Amazon AWS.
Ok, so basically when your computer uses a VPN it just connects to a VPN server over the Internet using an encrypted TCP/IP or UDP/IP connection. On your computer side all your connections to the Internet just get shoved into that encrypted tunel instead of going directly into the whole wide world from your own network connection - so nobody but that server sees those connections - whilst on the VPN server side they're recieved from that encrypted tunel and then exit to the whole wide world from that VPN server as if they're connections initiated by that server not by your own machine, so to the whole world they look like connections coming from the VPN server machine.
Nations with nation-wide firewalls can try and block VPN by blocking the actual encrypted network connections to VPN servers (there are ways to recognize those, but there also ways to disguise them), but for websites to block them (which is what this legislation demands) the websites have to block the actual VPN servers since the websites can only see connections to them which seem to originate in those servers, not traffic elsewhere on the Internet such as the encrypted connections from VPN customers to VPN servers.
Now, there are lists of the IP addresses of the exit points of VPN providers (generally the VPN server internet address), which are the IP addresses were the traffic of somebody using that VPN enters the Internet, so to try to comply with this legislation those sites would start by blocking all traffic from any of those IP addresses - remember those websites don't know were the traffic coming from a VPN server to that website really comes from, so they can't tell traffic from people in Wisconsin using that VPN server from traffic from people elsewhere using it, hence have to block everything from it to catch everybody from Winsonsin.
This would affect everybody anywhere in the World using those exit points of those VPN providers.
Then there's the problem that the legislation applies to all VPNs, not just commercial VPN providers serving retail customers, meaning that the websites would also theoretically have to block VPN servers from business VPNs (and given how the networks of many large companies work, that might mean blocking the entire company) as well as things like schools using VPNs and, even more entertaining, VPNs set up by individuals by, for example, renting a Virtual Private Server or physical server and installing a Linux there running their own VPN server software or even installing the VPN server software on something like Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, which means they might have to block every single IP address of any provider of servers space anywhere in the World (as any Wisconsian could, theoretically, over the Internet rent a cheap VPS in, say, Malasia, and install a Linux with running the VPN server software in it) as well as of all AWS and Azure servers since again any Wisconsian could theoretically run VPN server software hosted in one of those providers.
The whole things is insane as fuck and would have some trully fucked up implications for any website that tried to comply, as well as for anybody anywhere in the world using VPNs who might want to access such sites.
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Could be a Wisconsin resident away on a trip longer than intended, wants to check schedules before deciding to ask a friend to drag some of their bins to the kerb and back?
What's the benefit to WI in denying them access?
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People's Republic of America
美利坚人们共和国
Long Live Chairman Trump
Maybe he reign a thousand years!
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They understand what they're doing. They're treating the problem as a black box - they want to decide what you can do in the field where they are strong, making laws and rules as the (in their piss cockroach opinion) dominant apes in the crowd. They are breaking the technical possibility for you to avoid that. They don't see a problem with breaking it for everyone, because if some use they need as well is broken so, they can make an exception for themselves, it's in the domain of making rules too, and they can make punishments so gruesome that nobody will bother except for mafia and law enforcement, just like with heroine.
And the answer doesn't lie in protecting VPNs or making technical means to avoid them further, by using plentiful possible information channels in the standards comprising the Internet. The answer lies in dipping them face into their own shit and saying "don't do that again or I will kill you". Because it's a social, not technical, problem. It can be reduced to unauthorized people telling you what to do and you obeying.
Lawmakers Have No Idea What They're Doing
Sounds like a headline for literally every issue regarding technology.
TOR Wikipedia page - explains the key concepts and gives a link to the website so you can download the Tor Browser.
Tails (Amnesiac OS) Wikipedia page - If you want the real Fort Knox solution to browsing something or sending something without anyone finding out. It's more of a process than downloading Tor Browser, but probably the most secure option possible for browsing the web. (The OS runs everything through the TOR network, is only retained in RAM, and wipes the RAM clean during shutdown)
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It's a half-measure, kind of like using a VPN. The problem with using your preferred browser is that it's not designed to prevent any identifying leaks, so you could be fingerprinted at basically any time and your efforts will have been for nothing. Also, if you're using an insecure OS (like the version of android that comes preinstalled with your phone), that'll prevent its effectiveness full stop.
For situations like those, you aren't really using Orbot (or any VPN-esque solution) for genuine privacy. Those tools are useful for Utility (circumventing region blocks, ISP filters, IP blocks, so on), and Plausible Deniability (Piracy, usually through torrenting). If what you seek falls into those two categories, good for you, but true privacy has to be achieved through something like Tails or a secure OS with Tor Browser, sorry.
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Also schools. My kids state issued laptops use vpns to connect to the schools networks as well as in a true irony limit what sites they can access.
It's actually so limiting it's nearly impossible to print the required assignments on a printer in our home but that's a different rant.
That's not what the article summary is saying, though. To clarify my question, I'm referring to this part:
If it becomes law, Wisconsin could become the first state where using a VPN to access certain content is banned.
How are they going to enforce that? Assuming the VPN provider is doing their due-diligence, they have no way of knowing what kind of traffic is going through a privacy-based VPN when someone uses one.
It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN.
They intend to make the websites enforce it.
Honestly I expect this to happen more and more, which is BS.
Is it due to geo-blocking?
I have noticed that some sites would load my local language version even if I point out original site. E.g. southpark.cc.com would stubbornly redirect to southpark.de no matter how you tried to trick it. And, of course, some content on some sites would also report that is is unavailable in my region.
Or.. They ban VPNs and overnight the VPN providers start offering cheap VPS services that can run a self-managed VPN over them, or proxies, or tor exit nodes, or Wireguard/Tailscale exit nodes, or.. .
You can't ban people running private servers and routing encrypted data through them unless you want to shut down 90% of the internet.
Most elected officials have not grown up with computers, which is already likely to make them incurious about them.
Couple that with being in office so long, likely developing a very high opinion of themselves that they know best.
I would guess a significant minority is actively hostile to learning anything about computers, so you can hire any professional to explain stuff with baby talk, it won't work on them.
Combine that with the rest of the technologically illiterate politicians just being indifferent, and you get this kind of policy.
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If I understood it correctly, per that legislation and given how the technology works, adult sites would have to block everybody coming to them from a known VPN exit point, not matter where the user actually is (because a site can't really tell were a user actually is when they're behind a VPN) to comply with it, meaning that it would impact everybody everywhere in the World using a VPN.
De facto Wisconcin's legilslature is trying to imposed their will not only on those who live in Wisconsin, not only on those who live anywhere in the US but on those who live anywhere in World.
Aaaaaaand I can switch to residential proxies, I can still appear from wherever the fuck I want.
You. Can't. Stop. This.
All this will do is cause actual criminals to hide it better, that is it.
Theoretically the sites would have to block all IP addresses of all cloud providers, including massive ones such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, because people in Wisconsin can just run VPN Server software - which is side of the VPN were the network connections exit the encrypted tunnel and enter the Internet - in a container or virtual machine inside one those to have their own personal (or shared with whomever they want) VPN.
Similarly they would have to block all exit IPs of most companies because somebody in Winsconsin might be using the VPN of the company remotelly go to their company network and via that network access those sites and which point the connection will probably appear as originating from one of the company's routers because of NAT.
The way the VPN technology works, theoretically every single IP address on the internet might be an exit point of a VPN which is being used by somebody in Winsconsin to access one of those sites, since one can even run VPN Server software on a mobile phone or Raspberry Pi.
Theoreticaly those sites have to block every single IP address which might directly or indirectly be used that way.
This law is completelly insane.
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well, ultimately too many lawmakers, elected or not are "let them eat cake" people. Living in their own world, uncaring and unknowing about things they rule over. Too many are likely there for their own hubris, thinking how they are so excellent that they must deserve to be there and maybe to line their own pockets. Though obviously there are some that are genuinely competent, otherwise the whole thing would come crashing down too fast, but they are most likely quite suppressed in favor of the pieces of shit that care only about their own interests.
They COULD have consulted people who know about this, considered extensively if its good idea to do this or not and maybe even explain themselves why its necessary without resorting to propaganda and lies, such as how this is to "save the children". But they do not, because they dont care and they dont have to care.
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US EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
Oil and gas firms were supposed to start reducing methane, a powerful driver of climate change. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement.
Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns
Willie Shane broke the asphalt on Elon Musk’s Music City Loop project this summer. Seven of his crew had been the sole excavators, fabricators and dump trucking company on The Boring Company’s proposed tunnel through Nashville for months.Then came Monday night, when they walked off the site.
“I moved the equipment myself,” Shane said in an interview with the Banner on Tuesday.
“We were really skeptical from the beginning, and then since then, things pretty much just went downhill,” he added.
Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns
Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.Sarah Grace Taylor (Nashville Banner)
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Ci sono solo due paesi europei in cui le persone sono più povere di 20 anni fa - Grecia e Italia
Ci sono solo due paesi europei in cui le persone sono più povere di 20 anni fa
Uno è la Grecia, l'altro provate a indovinareIl Post
European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament
MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.www.europarl.europa.eu
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CRINK in 10 Charts
CRINK in 10 Charts
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK) are increasingly cooperating to challenge the United States and global governance.www.csis.org
Kansas attorney general site hosts illicit content in apparent national scam campaign
Kansas attorney general site hosts illicit content in apparent national scam campaign
Documents promoting AI deepfakes, money scams and pornography appear under the “ag.ks.gov” domain and dozens of others. The links are now inactive, but the source remains unknown.Zane Irwin (KCUR)
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in reply to northernscrub • • •Time to read the code and debug it.
When you find the cause, open a bug report with the project.
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in reply to frongt • • •But ruby is so hard 🙁
I come from c# land and my skills are soft and squishy
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in reply to northernscrub • • •Jerry on PieFed
in reply to northernscrub • • •A relay, as in the Mastodon relay feature? As in Administration->Relays? If so, does mastodonapp.uk have an active relay? It can't be used to connect to just any Mastodon server. It has to connect to a special relay server.
Not sure whether this is helpful.
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in reply to Jerry on PieFed • • •fedibuzz alleges that you can follow a single specific instance with their relay, and I see nothing to suggest that I can't use it better federate with mastodonapp.
I did note, though, that both my instance and mastodonapp are connected to relay.intahnet.co.uk - and whilst it has a few issues in the logs, it has none since i reset the instance again after attempting limited federation mode.
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in reply to northernscrub • • •Yes, it claims to proxy the traffic, but then you have to connect to the fedibuzz relay server.
It sounded from the post that there was an attempt to directly connect to a Mastodon server through the relay connection, which won't work.
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in reply to Jerry on PieFed • • •