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in reply to jackeroni

Oh? Negotiations must not going well... Vlad was quiet for a couple days but is back at bullshitting. Of course the orange puppet is busy with something else so Vlad has to do all the work. Poor Vlad
in reply to jackeroni

NATO does. I mean, broken clock right twice a day and all that.


Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office


Andriy Yermak, the influential chief of staff of Ukraine's President, has resigned hours after the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) conducted searches in his office.


I keep seeing the same things in my feed


On another popular site I can refresh my feed and it's instantly all new things to explore. But here on Lemmy when I refresh, I get either the same top posts (with little new activity) or I see them just down a bit.

I've chosen subs that are active, and a mix of subscribed and local subs.

What settings are best to have a similar experience where if you refresh your feed you see new things to subs you're interested in? Even choosing 'new' its like.. there's no new activity when I refresh.

Thank you in advance

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in reply to phed

I go by all but I block communities I have just zero instance in. I select the setting to not show things in my feed that I have read or interacted with. Works for me.
in reply to phed

Go into your settings and unclick show read posts , and save. Then you won't see any of the same posts again after you've read them.





UAE launched 'lobbying blitz' on European Parliament over Sudan war resolution


The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Dutch Member of European Parliament (MEP) Marit Maij told DW News about plans to “call on the European Commission to stop the trade negotiations with the UAE for as long as we see that weapons are going through the UAE to the RSF,” referring to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The call comes in the wake of the widespread atrocities committed by the RSF during its siege and eventual capture of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, which were abetted by advanced weaponry from the UAE.

But following a lobbying effort from an Emirati delegation to Strasbourg led by envoy Lana Nusseibeh, the final resolution passed on Thursday included no references to the UAE’s role in the war.




Possible to avoid Google's future open source ban on Android devices?


If I am already using a rooted but proprietary smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S23), downloading my apps from other sources than Google Play, how would Google be able to control what I do with it? If necessary, I could just stay on my current OS build as well. All in all, while politically and philosophically, Google's new policy is bad, I don't feel threatened by it with my current understand of the situation and technology...
in reply to emotional_soup_88

From what has been explained to me in some other posts, the issue is that most probably this will land on AOSP level from which all de-Googled androids fork. And with Linux phones not quite ready yet (I'm observing liberux.net/ though) that leaves us at their mercy
in reply to Special Wall

I'm guessing that maintaining such forks would be prohibitive. Especially since they do have resources to play cat and mice

But I don't really know much about Android code, I'm just relying what I've heard

in reply to Special Wall

Reversing malicious changes is an extra burden. Google has been slowly making everything worse for years and the forks haven't been able to do much about it.
in reply to INeedMana

LOL AdAway blocked liberux.net wtf😂 but thanks! The specs are surprisingly good too! 😮
in reply to INeedMana

Looks nice, but I tried this sort of thing with the FXTec Pro, and never received it. After 4 years, they announced the last ones going out, and they apparently "lost" mine. Contacted them and their response was equivalent to a shrug. Next time I buy a product, it's going to be verifiably on sale publicly.
in reply to MasterBlaster

It's not crowd-funded anymore mastodon.social/@Liberux/11561…


Great News, Liberux Community! 🎉

1️⃣ The Liberux NEXX is moving forward with new self-funding. We listened to your feedback, and the NEXX will come with improvements. We maintain our #opensource commitment and #privacy focus. More details soon!

2️⃣ We are looking for a Developer (Open Source, C++, Wayland, Linux Kernel, ModemManager, D-Bus, PulseAudio) for #liberuxos. If you are passionate about digital freedom, join our team!

➡️ Send your CV to people@liberux.net.

#liberux #Linux #Jobs


in reply to emotional_soup_88

Google has partly backed away from this plan, and it was only announced for "certified" Android devices, which yours isn't after rooting.

It does affect you indirectly though. If open source on Android gets harder, fewer people will do it.







Average Debian system update experience:


No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it and I guess my little experiment failed here, I never had a smooth experience with Debian before it always break itself when doing a system updates.

don't like this

in reply to Villainess

No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it


Sorry but.. why on earth would you do that? Kali is a specialized distro, it's not made for day to day desktop use, much less for gaming on it. If you want to game on Linux, pick either a generic or gaming-oriented distro, and use Kali in a VM or dualboot.



Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts.


I purchased a custom domain to use with mailbox.org.

The MX records are setup and basic tests are working. I'm getting myname@customdomain.com showing up in my mailbox.org account.

But I got confused with setting up a family member with theirname@customdomain.com

Do they need to pay for a plan too?

There not worried about the privacy they just want the custom email address. Is there anyway to do this for free or cheaper, without self hosting email?

Side question. I've been paying for anonaddy to hide my normal @outlook account. Are there any benefits in keeping anonaddy to send emails to my custom domain. Instead of just using a catchall, or pre-configuring some aliases?

The only benifits I see are

  • Anonaddy can make accounts on the fly
  • On The Fly accounts might be easier to disable than
    things sent to a catchall
  • Anonaddy dosnt reveal your domain (maybe this is the big draw card?)

Thanks.

in reply to trailee

Is this via a rule, as in the email hits the inbox then gets sent on.

Or is it a setting when you configure the alias.

Where the email goes to fastmail then gets sent onto gmail, are you limited to replying from the gmail?

in reply to GlenRambo

Each alias has a configured delivery destination. Aliases that only point externally never reach the main account inbox.

You are limited to replying from the gmail unless you jump through more advanced hoops. Those include telling gmail in its settings that it can “Send mail as” something else, and also giving gmail authorization to send mail for your domain by adding them into your SPF and DKIM records. Those are more complicated than I want to describe here, and it will be complicated to merge both mailbox.org and gmail into them, so if you don’t already know about them, let’s just say yes, you can only reply as the gmail user.




10 Syrians killed in Israeli operation in southern Syria’s Beit Jin, 6 IDF soldiers injured


An Israeli operation in the village of Beit Jin in the Damascus countryside killed 10 people, including women and children, Syrian state media reported, marking the latest Israeli incursion into southern Syria.

The Israeli military said six soldiers were wounded — three of them seriously — after troops came under fire from gunmen during an arrest operation early Friday.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, shortly before 3 a.m., soldiers from the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade entered Beit Jinn — around seven kilometres (4.3 miles) east of the Israeli border — to arrest two members of the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) based on recent intelligence suggesting they were planning attacks on Israel.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/10-killed-in-israeli-operation-in-southern-syrias-beit-jin-6-idf-soldiers-injured-13954788.html

in reply to geneva_convenience

to arrest two members of the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) based on recent intelligence suggesting they were planning attacks on Israel.


Always the same lie about security concerns because they know they can

in reply to geneva_convenience

55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade entered Beit Jinn — around seven kilometres (4.3 miles) east of the Israeli border


Golan Heights are not Israel territory, Israel-Syrian border it's at 20 km






Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR


Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/40232992

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Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR

Since then, two things have happened:

The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.

noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.

What noyb has now put on the table

On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles

Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:

New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs

The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.

This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).

Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.

Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.

For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.

Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.

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Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR

Since then, two things have happened:

The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.

noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.

What noyb has now put on the table
On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”

Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:

New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs
The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.

This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).

Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.

Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.

For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.

Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.

Weakening ePrivacy protection for data on your device

Today, Article 5(3) ePrivacy protects against remote access to data on your devices (PCs, smartphones, etc.) – based on the Charter right to the confidentiality of communications.

The Commission now wants to add broad “white-listed” exceptions for access to terminal equipment, including “aggregated statistics” and “security purposes”.

Max Schrems finds the wording of the new rule to be extremely permissive and could effectively allow extensive remote scanning or “searches” of user devices,ces as long as they are framed as minimal “security” or “statistics” operations – undermining the current strong protection against device-level snooping.

Opening the door for AI training on EU personal data (Meta, Google, etc.)

Despite clear public resistance (only a tiny minority wants Meta to use their data for AI), the Commission wants to allow Big Tech to train AI on highly personal data, e.g. 15+ years of social-media history.

Schrems’ core argument:

People were told their data is for “connecting” or advertising – now it is fed into opaque AI models, enabling those systems to infer intimate details and manipulate users.

The main beneficiaries are US Big Tech firms building base models from Europeans’ personal data.

The Commission relies on an opt-out approach, but in practice:

Companies often don’t know which specific users’ data are in a training dataset.

Users don’t know which companies are training on their data.

Realistically, people would need to send thousands of opt-outs per year – impossible.

Schrems calls this opt-out a “fig leaf” to cover fundamentally unlawful processing.

On top of training, the proposal would also privilege the “operation” of AI systems as a legal basis – effectively a wildcard: processing that would be illegal under normal GDPR rules becomes legal if it’s done “for AI”. Resulting in an inversion of normal logic: riskier technology (AI) gets lower, not higher, legal standards.

Cutting user rights back to almost zero – driven by German demands

The starting point for this attack on user rights is a debate in Germany about people using GDPR access rights in employment disputes, for example to prove unpaid overtime. The German government chose to label such use as “abuse” and pushed in Brussels for sharp limits on these rights. The Commission has now taken over this line of argument and proposes to restrict the GDPR access right to situations where it is exercised for “data protection purposes” only.

In practice, this would mean that employees could be refused access to their own working-time records in labour disputes. Journalists and researchers could be blocked from using access rights to obtain internal documents and data that are crucial for investigative work. Consumers who want to challenge and correct wrong credit scores in order to obtain better loan conditions could be told that their request is “not a data-protection purpose” and therefore can be rejected.

This approach directly contradicts both CJEU case law and Article 8(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Court has repeatedly confirmed that data-subject rights may be exercised for any purpose, including litigation and gathering evidence against a company. As Max Schrems points out, there is no evidence of widespread abuse of GDPR rights by citizens; what we actually see in practice is widespread non-compliance by companies. Cutting back user rights in this situation shifts the balance even further in favour of controllers and demonstrates how detached the Commission has become from the day-to-day reality of users trying to defend themselves.

EFRI’s take: when Big Tech lobbying becomes lawmaking

For EFRI, the message is clear: the Commission has decided that instead of forcing Big Tech and financial intermediaries to finally comply with the GDPR, it is easier to move the goalposts and rewrite the rules in their favour. The result is a quiet but very real redistribution of power – away from citizens, victims, workers and journalists, and towards those who already control the data and the infrastructure. If this package goes through in anything like its current form, it will confirm that well-organised corporate lobbying can systematically erode even the EU’s flagship fundamental-rights legislation. That makes it all the more important for consumer organisations, victim groups and digital-rights advocates to push back – loudly, publicly and with concrete case stories – before the interests of Big Tech are permanently written into EU law.



Israeli forces execute two surrendered Palestinians at point-blank range


Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinians at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.

The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers.

The troops then shoot them dead.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood of Jenin.



in reply to Chloé 🥕

... calling them partially responsible for the Nazi genocide is a stretch at best. If I am wrong feel free to educate me with a source.
in reply to VoxAliorum

i’m saying this because the nazis were greatly inspired by the usa’s genocide of Indigenous people for the holocaust, that’s why i wrote "partially" (as opposed to the Gaza genocide, where the usa’s responsibility is much more direct)

obviously I’m not denying the agency and responsibility of germany in the holocaust

in reply to VoxAliorum

The concept of "Lebensraum" literally stems from Manifest Destiny.

The Hitlerites were also very impressed by the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the USA


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in reply to Maeve

Hope you have a swift recovery, im personally okay but to be honest with climate exacerbated disasters here it's hard to read the stuff westerners say online it's really inhuman. I like to show it to liberals who tend to get weird when drunk and say they think US does such and such better. It just makes me want to ride the canoe all the way back and clobber people tho. Oh yeah its a bit offbeat I can just give you an email address, i like cheogram and delta chat bc they are nice for being in the mountains and shit with horrible internet, saves downloads for later. Delta chat is actually just a weird clientside email managemebt thing so it can use regular emails
in reply to Avatar of Vengeance

Hm, climate disaster is real, and alarming. Photos of Vietnam are quite shocking, I just checked weather for a few areas, more rain. So many lost, already. How are things in your mountains? I do hope you're safe. I understand your anger toward US in general and callous, flippant USians, and even our ignorance, including mine. I just want you to be ok.

Thank you for your kind wishes, friend. I know others have it much worse and remain grateful for what is right with me, even if it means I have to check myself, occasionally. Please know I think of you often and fondly.

Edit: I'll have to sort something for email. Pretty sure free providers in US won't do. I had a $1/month paid in Germany I let lapse because uhh... They won't do either.

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in reply to jankforlife

RT is literally Russian propaganda. If the poster can't find a better source it's not news.
in reply to muzzle

Please recommend me a news outlet that isn't propaganda. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? lol
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in reply to jankforlife

Context:

swentr.site is a domain registered in March 2022 and is managed by RU-CENTER, a Russian domain registrar. The domain is associated with ANO “TV-Novosti,” which is the organization behind RT (Russia Today), a Russian state-controlled international news network. The site has been identified as a content mirror or alternative domain for RT, often used to circumvent sanctions or restrictions placed on the main RT domains.[cside +4]

Domain Details

• Registered: March 5, 2022

[whoxy]• Registrar: RU-CENTER (Russia)[cside +1]

• Hosting: ANO “TV-Novosti” (Russia)

[easycounter]• Purpose: Used as a mirror or alternative domain for RT (Russia Today)

in reply to hornedfiend

"Censorship is good, actually"
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in reply to jankforlife

About time..... RN (ex-FN) has been peddling hate for over a decade with russian funds. Many of my countrypeople have ceded ground to fascist ideology because of that money. I hear it in the news... in the streets... my own neighbours have started losing their legendary empathy. Having principles is great but we have to defend ourselves at some point. Russia is doing real damage to the minds through their local proxies



Why use a terminal pdf viewer?


I've been using Firefox to view PDFs and it works fine. Recently though I wanted to try something more minimal with vim keybindings. Found two options: Zathura and tdf (terminal pdf viewer).

What I'm curious about is why someone would choose a TUI pdf viewer over a regular one (like Zathura). What are the actual advantages people find in practice. tdf mentions being fast but I wonder if that's something you'd actually notice day to day?

Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ? Maybe someone uses one here?

Tdf seems relatively popular with 1.4k github stars.

in reply to chasteinsect

Huh, I mostly use apvlv and mupdf. They are command line binaries but they have a gui; I don't really see a point in looking at a PDF with something other than a gui.
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New to Linux Advice


Ive not had a PC or gaming PC in 15 years. I want to get back into it now.

Im fairly against windows. I'd like to try a Linux system and thought this would be a fun way to get into Linux.

Ive been looking at some black friday sales here Newegg sales

Its been so long since ive looked at PC specs I feel like im completely new. Ive read that an AMD GPU can be easier for Linux so I started there.

So Ive got two questions!

What are some must have specs in you opinion to run most modern games, and would you have a #1 recommend for a prebuilt to get started with?

What disto is best for a total newbie who wants to use it for gaming and eventually transition for anything/everything else?

in reply to BingBong

Even after using PopOS I dont understand the hype. It is Ubuntu-based, meaning that its packages are stale and often quite out of date, which isn't something I would recommend for a gaming distro.

Better to pick one of the following, which are gaming focused, user friendly, and have up-to-date packages for {Mesa, Vulkan, Wine, Kernel, etc}:
- PikaOS
- Bazzite
- Nobara

Edit:
My reason for saying that up-to-date packages are paramount is because a newer kernel supports more features, better performance, new hardware support, less bugs, and the same is true for packages that effect gaming. Desktop environments get better quickly through updates and bug fixes that effect gaming may take a year of more to reach pepetually out of date distros like Ubuntu. It is generally quite important, but less important if you use Steam Flatpak because it is slightly sandboxes.

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in reply to N.E.P.T.R

Regarding Pop!_OS, (at least historically) it was the easiest distro for Nvidia users. Add to that some neat stuff like a Recovery Partition^[Btw, if you happen to know any other distro that offers something similar, then I'd love to hear about it.] and I can understand where (at least initially) the hype was (IMO justifiably) coming from. Unfortunately, erupting COSMIC DE from the ground hasn't done Pop!_OS well for upkeeping its good name and reputation. I suppose they're lucky that Linux users are seriously delayed when it comes to adjusting their recommendations. (Like how a chunk of peeps continued to proselytize for Manjaro till last year or so.)



I just wanted to compare FOSS Linux budgeting software


Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this:
i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screensh…

Scrolled down some more and this:
i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screensh…

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don't think I've ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I'm just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use 😀

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in reply to Thorned_Rose

I don't have a video for you but I've been using Actual for over a year and really like it. I recommend it. Caveat, I very actively interact with my budget (inputting things manually) and cannot speak for it's account linking features.
in reply to iAmTheTot

We just switched from YNAB to actual and my wife really likes it. I host it locally with tailscale so she can access it from her phone anywhere.