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Trump invites ‘cute’ Japanese kei trucks to come to America
Kei trucks have a new fan.
Trump invites ‘cute’ Japanese kei trucks to come to America
President Donald Trump said he was authorizing the Transportation Department to allow small kei trucks to be built in the US.Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)
[Article] Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg Are Full of Shit (Literally) in New Art Exhibit
Would hate to have to clean up that mess.
Israel emptied half of Gaza: What’s next?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39791607
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
Nov. 30, 2025Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada examines how Israel is using the ‘Yellow Line’ to re-engineer its control over the Strip even after the ceasefire. [Podcast]
Also:
* Why the death penalty would cement the Israeli radical right’s ascendancy
* At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
* Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
* AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoils
Israel emptied half of Gaza: What’s next?
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
Nov. 30, 2025Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada examines how Israel is using the ‘Yellow Line’ to re-engineer its control over the Strip even after the ceasefire. [Podcast]
Also:
* Why the death penalty would cement the Israeli radical right’s ascendancy
* At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
* Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
* AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoilshttps://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=188727
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Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye
It appears Meta's Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.
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Honduras Vote Stuns Libre with Return of Traditional Parties as Trump’s Endorsement Reshapes Election
José Luis Granados Ceja
Dec 02, 2025
Hondurans, particularly those from the country’s social movements, expressed a prevailing sense of disappointment in Libre.“We found that, in the short time they had, they generated a lot of frustration among the population because there was no clear government plan—no clear roadmap for where they were going to lead us—especially in seeking structural solutions to the major conflicts affecting the population,” Juana Esquivel, a member of the coordinating committee of the Tocoa Municipal Committee, which has been heavily involved in campesino land struggles in the department of Colón, told Drop Site News.
Honduras Vote Stuns Libre with Return of Traditional Parties as Trump’s Endorsement Reshapes Election
Hondurans delivered an upset vote that sidelined the ruling Libre Party, boosted traditional elites, and underscored the impact of Donald Trump’s unprecedented interventionJosé Luis Granados Ceja (Drop Site News)
Nearly 2 Months Into 'Ceasefire,' IDF Kills 2 More Palestinian Children as Gaza Death Toll Passes 70,000
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6910542
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The Palestinian Health Ministry reported Saturday that nearly two months after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement, the death toll in Israel's war on Gaza has passed 70,000 as the Israel Defense Forces have continued to claim they are targeting only Hamas fighters—while killing civilians including two children who were gathering firewood for their father on Saturday.
Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were close to a school sheltering displaced Palestinians near Beni Suhaila in southern Gaza when the IDF fired a drone in the area, killing both boys.
"They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire," the boys' uncle, Mohamed Abu Assi, told Sky News.
Breaking the Silence, an IDF veterans' group whose members speak out against Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, condemned the military for a statement it released on the killing, which the group said amounted to "a pile of words meant only to keep justifying endless killing under insane and ruthless rules of engagement."
The IDF told Sky News that troops had "identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line," the point to which the IDF withdrew as part of the ceasefire deal in October.
The military said the two boys had "conducted suspicious activities on the ground, and approached IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip, posing an immediate threat to them."
The IDF claimed it identified the eight- and 11-year-old boys and "eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat."
Despite the ceasefire, said Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, "the Israeli military is still killing children."
— (@)Drop Site News condemned the New York Times' coverage of the boys' killing, with the newspaper writing in a headline that "Gazans say" Fadi and Goma Abu Assi were killed by Israeli forces.
"The boys’ bodies, their ages, and their identities are fully documented—including videos of their lifeless shrouds and their wheelchair-bound father weeping over them—backed by eyewitness accounts and hospital confirmation," said Drop Site.
⭕️ Israeli Troops Murder Two Gaza Boys, 11 and 8, as They Collected Firewood for Their Wheelchair-Bound Father — IDF Says “Suspects” were “Posing an Immediate Threat.”Two Palestinian brothers — Fadi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, 8 — were killed by an Israeli drone strike near a… t.co/VKCHVKnIaa pic.twitter.com/vNeIoapKjk
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 29, 2025The Times also reduced "the 350+ Palestinians killed since the October 10 ceasefire to 'persistent violence,'" said the outlet.
The health ministry, whose statistics the World Health Organization and other international agencies have long viewed as credible, said 356 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the first phase of the truce began.
The Times' framing, said Drop Site, "hides the truth that the violence is one-directional, systematic, and directed at civilians who pose no threat to Israelis."
On Sunday, the outlet reported that the IDF was "boasting about breaking the ceasefire" as it announced troops had killed four Palestinian fighters as they emerged from underground tunnels in eastern Rafah.
"It remains unclear whether today’s casualties were fighters or civilians or children," said Drop Site.
Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas' political bureau, told Al Jazeera Sunday that the group is searching for the two remaining bodies of deceased Israeli captives, to be returned to Israel in accordance with the ceasefire deal, and accused Israeli officials of "using these bodies as a pretext to delay movement to the second phase of the ceasefire."
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Updates: Gaza death toll rises as Israel intensifies West Bank attacks
Health Ministry says 356 killed by Israel since October ceasefire as army ramps up detentions, arrests in West Bank.Tim Hume (Al Jazeera)
Maduro Vows Venezuela Will Be a 'Colony Never Again' as Trump Intensifies Threats
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6921788
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1116…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro remained defiant on Monday as US President Donald Trump plotted "next steps" against the South American nation with top national security brass.
Before thousands of Venezuelans at a rally in Caracas, the nation’s embattled president said he would not accept peace on US terms unless it came “with sovereignty, equality, and freedom.”
“We do not want a slave’s peace, nor the peace of colonies! Colony, never! Slaves, never!” he said.
The speech came days after Trump announced that the US would close Venezuelan airspace, which many interpreted as a final step before a series of strikes on the mainland.
The US has framed its military buildup in the Southern Caribbean as part of a campaign to stop drug smuggling, the same justification it has used to carry out the extrajudicial bombings of more than 20 boats in the region—which have killed at least 83 people—while disclosing zero proof of the victims' involvement with drug trafficking.
Trump has also accused Maduro of being the leader of the so-called "Cartel de los Soles," which he slapped with the label of “Foreign Terrorist Organization” last month, even though it is not an "organization" at all, but a media shorthand to refer to alleged connections between Venezuelan leaders and the drug trade.
Meanwhile, both US and international assessments have found that Venezuela is but a minor player in the global drug trade.
The US has amassed more than 15,000 troops outside Venezuela, the most it's sent to the region since 1989, when the administration of former President George H.W. Bush launched a land invasion of Panama to overthrow its drug-running dictator Manuel Noriega. Documents obtained by *T**he* *Intercept* last week suggested that the US seeks to maintain "a massive military presence in the Caribbean" for years to come.
"By a factor of at least 10, the US presence is too great for even an intensified anti-drug operation," wrote US national editor Edward Luce in the Financial Timeson Tuesday.
Trump's motive for stopping drug trafficking was further called into question after he pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a onetime US ally who was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for helping to traffic at least 400 tons of cocaine to the US. The pardon was issued as part of Trump's efforts to influence Honduras' upcoming election to secure the victory of right-wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura.
The goal of regime change was essentially confirmed on Monday when Reutersreported that Trump had offered Maduro safe passage out of Venezuela if he were willing to abdicate power during a phone call on November 21.
“You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” Trump reportedly told Maduro.
Maduro reportedly said he'd be willing to accept the offer if his family members were granted complete amnesty and the US removed sanctions against them, as well as over 100 other Venezuelan officials. He also asked for the case against him before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be dropped.
Trump rejected that deal, and his offer of safe passage expired on Friday, the day before the US announced it had closed Venezuelan airspace. Trump confirmed to the press on Sunday that the talks had happened, but provided few additional details.
Maduro has categorically denied involvement with drug trafficking and has portrayed the White House's sabre-rattling as a "colonial threat." Last week, while brandishing the sword of South American anticolonial hero Simón Bolívar, he pledged that Venezuela would be a "colony never again."
On Sunday, he accused Trump of trying to "seize" the nation's oil reserves. He has called for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to step in to help the country counter what he said were “growing and illegal threats” from Trump.
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves—about a fifth of the Earth’s total, and more than Iraq had at the time of the George W. Bush administration's 2003 invasion. However, US sanctions against Venezuela largely block American oil companies from accessing the reserves, which are controlled by the nation’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela. These sanctions, which have limited Venezuela's ability to export its most valuable natural resource, are considered one of the primary reasons for the nation's economic instability in recent years.
While at a rally in 2023, Trump said he regretted not having "taken [Venezuela] over" during his first term. "We would have gotten to all that oil; it would have been right next door,” he said.
"We’ve seen this tragic play before," wrote Richard Steiner, a former marine professor with the University of Alaska, this weekend in Common Dreams. "The Bush administration justified its disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq with the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which, as it turned out, it didn’t. And as US Central Command commander General John Abizaid admitted about the Iraq war at the time: 'Of course it’s about oil, it’s very much about oil, and we can’t really deny that.'"
"A similar pretext—this time 'drug interdiction'—is being used to justify a potential US invasion and regime change in Venezuela," he continued. "But this is not about stopping the flow of dangerous drugs, it is about actually increasing the flow of the dangerous drug some pushers want to keep us all hooked on—oil."
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Trump's Threat to Invade Venezuela Is Indeed About Drugs–Oil, That Is
This is not about stopping the flow of dangerous drugs, it is about actually increasing the flow of the dangerous drug some pushers want to keep us all hooked on.richard-steiner (Common Dreams)
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Radar revelation stokes fears Caribbean could be drawn into US-Venezuela crisis
After being pressed by reporters, Persad-Bissessar admitted on Friday that at least 100 marines were in the country, along with a military-grade radar, believed to be a long-range, high-performance AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR, which the US defence company Northrop Grumman said was used for air surveillance, defence and counter-fire.The prime minister claimed the radar installation in the country, which is only seven miles away from Venezuela at its closest point, is part of a counter-drug trafficking strategy, and that she had withheld details in the interest of national security and to avoid alerting drug traffickers.
Radar revelation stokes fears Caribbean could be drawn into US-Venezuela crisis
Trinidad PM rejects claims installation is in support of US campaign but opposition says ‘they have sold soul of nation’Natricia Duncan (The Guardian)
Which private (no cloud requirement) wireless home security cameras save footage locally without monthly subscription?
I tried wyze and find it silly how video clips are limited to 5 seconds unless you give them money every month. I want something where the footage is saved on a local sdcard/hdd without any cloud reliance.
Even better if I don't have to be locked into using the manufacturer's app, but I'm flexible on that.
I hope someone here shows up with good modern options.
For OP. Reolink has a DVR and wireless type cameras.
However be careful on which cameras you get as not all the wireless versions work with the DVR. Think this is mostly the battery powered ones. Also not sure if this has changed since original purchase a few years back.
ZoneMinder - Home
A full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system.zoneminder.com
I use TP Link C100 cameras in local network mode and a Reolink doorbell in a similar manner. Standard RTSP feeds and an internal mini web server, plus plenty of privacy controls.
Both of these products are pretty cheap considering their configurability — they do both provide the option to do the whole cloud subscription thing, but work fine for me without it. I have Home Assistant on the back end to manage live streams, but find I usually just read data off the internal SD card instead.
I would recommend PoE security cameras. You probably want support for RTSP / ONVIF.
I have some Amcrest cameras talking to Frigate. It is completely local---cameras on a separate VLAN that can't talk to the Internet, footage is recorded on a server running Frigate. Works very well for me. No vendor lock-in is also nice!
Cameras can be battery powered only, or use a solar panel for continual recharging or the battery.
The only flaw is the flaw with any wireless camera, that there is a delay from activity recognition to the record time. So you might miss something depending on your camera positioning.
If you don't already have device powerful enough to run frigate, I would advise to look for a mini pc with n100 or n150 processors, they are not very expensive (around 150€) and don't consume much electricity (close to raspberry pi 5 while being more powerful).
I have multiple Reolink cameras at this point and just have them recording to a SD card and blocked from the internet.
They have local ML models for human, animal and vehicle detection, so something like Frigate isn’t strictly necessary, though I haven’t bothered setting them up with Home Assistant yet and mainly use them with the Reolink app and VLC with RTSP. Sometimes, I unblock them from the internet temporarily if I’m going to need to access them remotely.
Since nobody else has mentioned it yet, you can install a version of the firmware that enabled RTSP streaming, which you could point at a Linux server with an NVR application on it, or any consumer/commercial NVR with RTSP streaming enabled
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There might be a better one out there. This one sometimes displays the text wonky.
Yeah I'm lucky I made my account lemmy.ml and stay in local.
Hold on...it's always you
On a similar note, the UFO sightings from yesteryear are the drone sightings of today.
It was ~~Aliens~~ Putin
Kiev will have to make ‘painful concessions’ to achieve peace – German foreign minister
Kiev will have to make ‘painful concessions’ to achieve peace – German foreign minister
Now is a good time to settle the Ukraine conflict, but Kiev must make “painful concessions,” Germany’s foreign minister has saidRT
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Well if we're not going to bother helping them win, then yeah, I guess they should surrender for now until Russia's recovered enough that they can finish the job.
Fuck Ukraine, not our problem, there's nothing we can do anyway and none of this is ever going to affect any of us. /s
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Well if we’re not going to bother helping them win
We've been happy to lard them up with debt and sell them overpriced military surplus. Idk if that counts as "helping them win" but we've made a handsome profit off it.
Fuck Ukraine, not our problem
Hey now. Don't look at Ukraine as a problem. Look at Ukraine as a big play for recently vacated real estate. Jared Kushner is going to make so much fucking money leasing Ukraine's land back to its residents.
Now Ukrainians? They're going to get fucked.
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I don’t know why they can’t single-handedly win a war against a country 10x their size using only our obsolete overpriced leftovers
I mean, ask Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Korea.
But also ask why these wars popped off to begin with and why they dragged on long after any foreign country had a material interest in continuing the fight.
Also maybe look into the UON and question why the Canadian Parliament was applauding an elderly SS Officer who described WW2 as the best years of his life.
Tons of profit in war mongering.
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you’re bringing in other entities into the discussion
No mate, that was you.
Russia already took over Georgia
Yeah? Really?
"No investigation, no write to speak" really should be enforced policy.
they’d do so with votes or formal agreements.
Donbas and Crimea tried, Ukraine forbid it.
When foreign tanks roll across borders, any claim of a peaceful integration is a fucking lie, and is in fact a bullying, aggressive act of war.
Local liberal condemns D-Day landings.
I keep mentioning just Russia and Ukraine, no one else
Well that's just straight up false:
I hate that my country isn’t doing more. Russia already took over Georgia . That just shows the world .Ummm, you’re saying DDay was the same as Russia invading Ukraine?
You said:
When foreign tanks roll across borders, any claim of a peaceful integration is a fucking lie, and is in fact a bullying, aggressive act of war.Seems France wasn’t operating at that time as an autonomous power.
Unlike Donbas and Crimea....
Once again, you went off track and I was fool enough to follow. Smh.
Local liberal furious that someone actually responded to the words that they wrote.
Don't get your hopes up yet. The EU is interested in prolonging this war as long as possible. Else betting on war economy is even worse than it already is. Germany simply likes to pretend that they love peace (we aren't Nazis anymore pls we promise OK?). In the meanwhile we will supply weapons like the killing machines we always wanted to be. And when the world is ready for our peace....
...pls let someone else be the pos this time
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German officials hint that Ukraine may face "painful concessions" ending in referendum
Before any lib confusion, pravda.com.ua is the Ukrayinska Pravda, a Ukrainian online newspaper.
German officials hint that Ukraine may face "painful concessions" ending in referendum
МЗС Німеччини: Україна може погодитися на поступки для миру з Росією та провести референдум.Ivanna Kostina (Ukrainska Pravda)
How many Z's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Well we've verified about 152,000 attempts - some even say as much as a million - but Ukraine is still stacking the bodies to find out.
Also, how's Putin's boots taste like?
No argument that Ukraine isn't run by nazis, just immediate childish defensiveness. That's how you know you're on the right side
You are a nazi supporter. Allow this fact to permeate your awareness
Trump administration says it will withhold SNAP from Democrat-led states if they don't provide data
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless they provide information about those receiving the assistance.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday that the action is in the works because those states are refusing to provide data the department requested such as the names and immigration status of the aid recipients.
She said the cooperation is necessary in order to root out fraud in the program. Democratic states have sued to block the requirement.
About 42 million lower-income Americans, or 1 in 8, rely on SNAP to help buy groceries. The average monthly benefit is about $190 per person, or a little over $6 a day. The program is not normally in the political spotlight, but it has been this year.
https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-rollins-blue-states-edf7a10ab409fe471ae81a13823484ab
Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month
Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now
One of the best gaming Linux OSes just shifted 1,000,000 GB of ISOs in a single month
That's a lot of downloading.Simon Batt (XDA)
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Yes but they force you to use GTK apps by default for the core apps.
They even replaced Discover with Bazaar where you can't see certain package types (like mangohud) and have to install them manually, can't browse by category and just get "selected" games shoved in your phase, as well as getting no update notifications and it will silently fail sometimes in the background with no notifications or messages.
Bazaar has the best search by far, try them all, youll actually find stuff using bazaar, like fps will actually show all the fps, the rest wont, tried them all trying to find the best appstore
The first thing I noticed was how bad the search was on kde and gnome for the software stores.
(Tried cosmic, appcenter, etc. also)
By "core apps", you mean literally only two applications.
The terminal is replaced with one that has a container workflow because that is the recommended and expected workflow for anyone working in a terminal.
The store is replaced with Bazaar because it is the only one that is even trying to provide a good flathub experience.
That's it. Everything else is stock KDE.
My understanding is that one of the upsides to Bazzite is that Nvidia drivers are pretty easy to install and manage. That was the thing that turned me off of Fedora when I tried making the switch to that a couple years ago.
Is that easy to do in Kinoite? This is the first I’ve heard of it, and it sounds like exactly what I would want out of Bazzite.
What about steamOS for a steam machine that has all AMD hardware so Nvidia drivers will not be an issue.
I'm building an htpc that will never be used in desktop mode just couch gaming used by kids too. Still trying to decide which os to go with.
Just want to know what the downsides if any of installing SteamOS if I just want valve to handle it for me.
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Should be manageable and it is probably less than you would imagine. Just checked real quick: the isos load from download.bazzite.gg, which is a Cloudflare IP. So they are either using it as CDN or even more likely use Cloudflares R2 storage for isos - which would mean they pay for storage (~15$/TB) and operations, but not for egress. This is seems ideal for few but huge files.
So for a single iso (~7 GB) they would pay 0,105$ for storage monthly and additionally 0,36$ per million of class B operations (reads/downloads). Of course they host more than one ISO, but for this example it would have been downloaded about ~150000 times to reach the petabyte.
So yeah, the ISO download is probably less of a problem. (Disclaimer: lot of assumptions, check in with a bazzite dev for clarity)
Bazzite ($) - Open Collective
Bazzite is an operating system for gamers: latest drivers, unbeatable stability, great game support.opencollective.com
Founder here, we have a sponsorship deal with Cloudflare that thankfully covers the vast majority of this. Our hosting costs right now for everything, including the GitHub runners, are $65, with the domain being another $100/yr.
The intention with the donations is to pay for those costs, travel for Linux conventions, and for us to have a fund for additional higher cost items like eventually doing proper secure boot support. At no point will myself or others be collecting a paycheck out of those funds, and I've been paying our bills for the last 3 years or so. I'm privileged to be able to do this as a hobby and not as a job.
Thank you for thinking about us! I appreciate the sentiment
Eh costs likely basically nothing. They appear to use cloud flare CDN which has unlimited bandwidth.
So really all they're doing is getting their money's worth from their subscription. Lol
Watch around 00:45 ☺️
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There's a link with the time appended.
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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
Gamer's Nexus has heard a lot of interest in their community about gaming on linux. So they've been working with Wendell from Level1Techs to put together a Linux benchmarking workflow. They chose Bazzite for those efforts.
Gamer's Nexus likes to make frequent use of a clip from an Intel presentation where one of the presenters says "Thanks Steve," because the main personality on Gamers Nexus is Stephen Burke.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4vr4reTN8&t=6s
Yes... ha ha ha... YES!
(i dont even use bazzite but love that for them)
I'm doing my part.
I set up bazzite in a VM and passed my GPU thru it.
Now I've got a nuc clone in my office with bazzite on it as well and it's just a moonlight client. But it's silent. Or damn close. The GPU is two floors away, I hear nothing!
That was two separate downloads, too...Nvidia-gnone and gnome-standard.
I was on Nobara a couple months ago and liked it...but a colleague piqued my interest on immutable distros and now here I am.
Aurora sitting down there at the bottom of the desktop OSs. I'd love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.
If you're not aware, switching between different Universal Blue OSs is super easy, with one caveat. Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.
Bluefin comaintainer here. The metrics are flathub and app developer donations, not the base image. You spread the love when you install a flatpak or buy a linux game and make those numbers go up.
The idea that the base OS is important isn't a thing, the only way to fix the economics of the linux desktop is to focus on applications, not distros.
Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.
I did that a few times already on different installs and never had any problems, besides the window decorations/ theming being off and needing to set them again.
What issues could be expected?
That's not how these OSs work. You're thinking in terms of traditional distros.
Think of it like this. With an image-based OS like Bazzite, whenever you do an update or you switch between different flavors, it's like completely wiping the system directories and reinstalling them fresh, while leaving the user directories alone.
So you're not removing GNOME or KDE. It's like they were never installed in the first place.
Cosmic is subjectively the best DE out there. Popos 24 is scheduled for release in a week, it’s awesome.
It’s a Ubuntu fork so it’s easy to follow Ubuntu based guides. Starting with 24 they’re going to stay much more in sync with Ubuntu LTS.
Besides that, modern kernel, out of the box nvidia and disk encryption. Oh and pop is maintained by system76 that ships actual hardware (laptops and desktops) so it’s in their own best interest to have good modern hardware support. It’s a fantastic distro
If you want a console like experience on your PC then use bazzite. If you want the same experience but with out the console lock down use cachyOS.
Depends on how much you do with your PC really. Like bazzite has one of the best out-of-box experiences there is. Basically everything is preset up. But if you need to say, leave the steam ecosystem. Things become infinitely more complicated than any other distro to do anything with that is both the benefit in downfall of an immutable distro. It makes sure you can't f*** anything up but it also means you can't f*** anything up if you get what I mean.
While cachyOS has the exact same out-of-box experience with the sole exception of you have to push one button and type in your password. And if you do need to leave the steam ecosystem, it's at the end of the day a normal distribution so you can just do whatever you want.
The downside is you can do whatever you want so you can break s***.
Basically comes down to bazzite is basically old Windows. You are not allowed to do anything really without a lot of jumping through hoops. It means you're going to get a consistent experience and it's going to be reliable, but only within the operating parameters set out by the distribution.
While cachyOS is basically all of the same upsides but without any of the guardrails. So if you want just a good out of box experience it's there. All the compatibility is the same if not generally better in the real world. But again, if you're stupid or unable to read basic instructions there's a good chance that you break something and you'll have no idea how to fix it. Short of a reinstall.
I would give a child bazzite 100% of the time. Immutable this shows work is a fantastic form of parental control. Because while the barrier exists and will prevent most kids from doing something stupid with their computer, it's not insurmountable and you still can do whatever you want with your computer. It's just not easy.
But in either case, I would choose literally shooting myself in the foot before using anything in the debian or Ubuntu family if my primary goal is gaming. I love Debian but it in its family of distros are so out of date and require so much f****** to actually bring in newer packages and make sure that they actually compete even half as well as a fedora or arch-based option that it's not worth the hassle. You're far more prone to breaking a Debian mint popos install. Trying to make it equivalent to bazzite or cachy for gaming. Than you are breaking an arch install by just randomly installing packages from the aur without reading anything.
I‘m one of them. I already only used Windows for gaming and seeing where this OS is going, made me try Linux again and this time might be the first time I might stick with it, thanks to Bazzite.
Games run incredibly well and compatibility is surprisingly good at this point. The only exception are games with invasive anti-cheat like the new Battlefield. But I guess it’s just a pro that I won’t buy a game that essentially has malware included with it.
Problem generally is that the moment you do have to leave steam. It's infinitely worse and basically impossible to use for a low skilled or new user compared to other gamer distros that do the exact same thing as bazzite but arnt immutable.
Immutability is great till you need to actually do anything at all. It's such a catch 22. To a new user, it means you can't accidentally f*** anything up, but also to a new user basically means your computer is a glorified console and you can't do anything with it because you lack the skill set in knowledge to actually do anything in looking. Anything up basically isn't going to be helpful for you cuz basically every guide and written account anywhere you find isn't going to be geared towards an immutable distro.
The immutable gimmick that's currently going on right now is still way too flavor of the month for new users who are trying to learn from a ground set of nothing.
If I was giving a computer to like a kid who I didn't want to be able to do anything I would give it to them as a form of parental control more than anything.
The immutable gimmick that’s currently going on right now is still way too flavor of the month for new users who are trying to learn from a ground set of nothing.
New users aren't going to administer their computers either. there's no "flavor of the month" it's just teaching new users how to administer linux systems properly. And of course directions on the internet are going to be incorrect, the only correct solution is to follow the documentation, not random guides on the internet.
What exactly do you think someone is going to have to do that isn't easily done on Bazzite? Bazzite isn't based around Steam. 99% of users will install everything they need from Flathub and be perfectly fine.
Also, you can do anything you want with an "immutable" distro, it's just done differently. Immutable is a bad and unclear descriptor, which is why Bazzite uses atomic.
As I understand it, it's atomic Fedora with virtually everything you might need to game on Linux baked in (no need for layering) and more or less preconfigured. Off the top of my head, proprietary Nvidia drivers, Steam, Lutris, Hero launcher, support for Xbox One wireless controller dongle, plus a number of useful tools like Tailscale. An app with a catered list of gaming-oriented flatpacks, one click updating. Also a lot of effort into replicating the Steam Deck experience for handheld devices or devices connected to a TV.
I believe they also do Aurora, which is similarly geared toward workstations with a ton of container-related tools like distro box readily available to easily use containers instead of layering where possible. The same tools may be available in Bazzite but I never checked. I have Aurora on my laptop and use a dedicated gaming device with Bazzite.
I'm not a Linux veteran by any means but I was hopping distros looking for something I could install on my family's computers I tried atomic Fedora. When using it for myself, I became frustrated with the number of tools I use that needed to be layered or run in a container and eventually found myself on Bazzite and Aurora. So far so good.
Immutable distros are currently the flavor of the month and it's basically just that. Bazzite is just a worse cachyOS. But because it's immutable it's the flavor of the month and therefore it's the hype new thing.
Everyone loves the hype new thing. Even though in all realistic aspects, it's more overly complicated. It's more prone to causing issues for new users. It's less proven.
There's a good argument to be made that the project might just end up imploding in a year or two and dying out and f****** over all these new users who are flocking to it because of rampant suggestions.
Is also the general issue of Fedora and its family being prone to breaking itself from early adoption of new ideas. People love to give Arch s*** but Fedora tends to be the one that actually implodes itself for low-skilled users.
Got to love flavor of the month
There's a good argument to be made that the project might just end up imploding in a year or two and dying out
Could you make this argument?
No they can't, they can only say "flavor of the month" nonstop until another parrot catches it and repeats it
I can counter argument their non-existing argument, if bazzite dies tomorrow you are free to rebase to any other Fedora Atomic distro
It's nonsense you can just use one command to swap from bazzite to kinoite if it does, it's very easy and low effort to distro hop on fedora atomic based distros
And half of the project is mostly just automated package update pulls and compiling them into images
A lot of things are built into it to be easily installable with less user effort. Has nice defaults. I use cachyos on my pc but on my handheld a lot of stuff wasn't working by default, like the handhelds buttons/joystick. On bazzite everything works by default. (Think it's one terminal command to install what is needed for controls in cachyos, but it didn't work by default) You can still download whatever using rpm ostree, as a user idr know the difference. Grabbed gparted that way. Bazzite has the ujust command which gives you a lot of options for modifying and installing stuff easily like waydroid, emudeck, plugins, etc.
Also prefer gnome with extensions on touchscreens and handhelds, while everything else comes with kde and it's apps by default. Kde isn't bad at all and only 1 extension on pc (window thumbnails to pip any window) has me staying on gnome, but gnome works so much better for touchscreens and smaller devices.
Kinda makes linux look like a weird old windows clone, while other desktops can be very modern and way prettier than Windows
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Booting Gnome for the first time is such a baffling experience. Then you discover extensions and it feels pretty good.
I don't like that I'm beholden to extensions that may break after an update to get what I want out of it, but I still use it on my laptop cause it's the best touchscreen experience I've had (after tweaks)
Why is Mint wasting their spot as the recommendation for Windows users? Is it simply no longer developed or are the devs set in their ways of the UI having to look like Windows7?
Also it's getting confusing with Zorin and Bazzite and even Aurora which is a Bazzite desktop spinoff as a recommendation.
I spent years running Ubuntu. I've typed 'sudo apt-get install' so many times I got carpel fingernail from doing it. 'sudo dnf install' is less typing and could have saved my fingernails. Now I use Kinonite and have all updates set to automatic and I very seldom even need to do anything at all.
Yes, I'm old, lazy, and can't be bothered anymore. Why do you ask? ;)
How about
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Even more simple, and now guess the update command
Yea, it is just
yay
Damn I love endeavourOS (Arch for lazy people)
Edit: ohh, automatically, yea, for that I use opensuse TW as it updates automatically prior shutdown
Mint is great! It taught me the basics of linux.
Meanwhile SteamOS bewildered me with no printing support
It suffers from the same problem all Debian/Ubuntu family distros suffer from.
Being horribly out of date. It's a very slow moving family of distros. Which can be a good thing if your work load doesn't involve new hardware and software along with a focus on stability and reliability. Since if things don't update they can't break.
This can result in support for hardware and software being upwards of two to three YEARS out of date. Which for gamers for example is unacceptable and causes issues more often then not.
It's the why fedora or arch based distros are generally speaking the better option to suggest to people. Depending on their level of intelligence, education and willingness to learn.
Bazzite and cachyOS for example are both fantastic for gamers.
Fedora or endeavour for your run of the mill office PC.
There is a serious argument to be made that the mass adoption of bazzite and the general flavor of the month affection for immutable distros is very likely going to cause issues for loads of users down the road.
So bazzite being overly popular is somewhat concerning. Flavor of the month distros have a bad tendency to implode randomly.
This can result in support for hardware and software being upwards of two to three YEARS out of date. Which for gamers for example is unacceptable and causes issues more often then not.
I think your perspective might be a bit biased towards your own bubble here. People are still buying Nintendo Switch's. People are still buying Steam Decks.
I am getting close to 600 games in my Steam Library, but only 2 were released this year. Both were Indie games (Fragrance Point and Tower Wizard).
Ram is costing hundreds of dollars. GPU's are costing thousands. Desktop gaming, heck desktop ownership in general, has been falling off. If people are still on x86, they are more likely to be on laptops.
For the average person, the idea that you need your OS to be updated every couple of weeks so that you can check your email and play Minecraft with your kids is insane.
I feel like this might come down to more people building their own towers vs buying them outright, whereas those who wouldn't be inclined to build their own PC are instead defaulting to laptops.
I'd be curious what it looked like during Covid, because a lot of non-PC gamers I knew all of a sudden were interested in building their own rigs.
I had issues daily and each time I looked it was actually fixed but not available in the distro.
It was especially amnoying for development where I had to manually compile newer versions.
Snap being forced while being outdated as well was also part of it.
So bazzite being overly popular is somewhat concerning. Flavor of the month distros have a bad tendency to implode randomly.
If it implodes you can just rebase to kinoite with a single command without needing to backup anything
if you're running a pc with no major components newer than ~2-3 years old then mint is fine
the idea that it's "bad for gaming" is nonsense unless you're running near-bleeding edge hardware or are exceptionally sweaty about eking out an additional couple of frames per second
Absolutely nothing. If you're vibin' with Mint, 3 Huzzahs for you! If you get curious to try something else later, that's great too!
It's not the distro you use that matters in the story of Life, it's the fact you use Linux that matters.
If you have 0 issues and aren't bored with it either, keep using it. It's completely fine.
People often have various reasons for not using it. E.g they want more up-to-date packages so they go with a rolling release distro, or they want to use a different package manager, or they want an immutable distro. Mint is just a generalist distro that works fine for most people, but doesn't excel at any particular thing. Same as Ubuntu LTS, but with a nicer UI and less commercialization, so I see it as a great alternative to Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu non-LTS may be more up to date though.
There's nothing wrong with Mint, it's solid. If it works for you don't stress about it
The only thing is that it's based on Ubuntu LTS so it's packages can be a bit old. Doesn't really matter much unless you have very new hardware and need the hardware support. Then something Fedora based like Bazzite would be better.
For getting newer software you can use flatpak/Flathub.
Bazzite is also "immutable" which makes it harder to break on a system level, but also harder to tinker on a system level. Mint is a "normal" distribution in that regard. Mint does have Timeshift for taking system level snapshots, on the off chance that an update or your tinkering breaks something. Its worth checking that Timeshift is set up for automatic snapshots
If you're looking for the immutable Plasma experience, Kinonite IS the best choice. Bazzite, Aurora, and I think Zoran, are reliant on whatever their foundation distro is doing. Other than having some presets you might like, they offer little else.
But if you like one of them, more power to you, use it and enjoy!
besides all its desktops not supporting Wayland (ig X11 is better for beginners??)
Why? me and SO have been on mint only for a year now and love it.
Couple other pcs have popos which is OK but a bit buggy for me
I'm perfectly fine with Mint as a recommendation. It's not what I would choose, but it does work for a large portion of people without issues.
I am very glad that I hardly ever see Manjaro recommended to new comers anymore though - that's a curse/trap. There are so much better "Arch but easier" distros now that are rock solid.
Why though? I don't like it personally but it's my #1 recommendation usually. (can't recommend slackware to noobs)
If they have issues they're gonna ask me for tech support, and I don't know how to use immutable distros (lol)
Mint's mouse acceleration was what killed it for me. Setting acceleration to "constant" still felt rubber-bandy and fucked up, and there's no obvious "Off" option. That was a hard stop. It never felt like I was using my PC but instead a rubber-bandy immitation. I immediately switched. It's frustrating considering that the rest of the OS seemed OK, I could have seen myself using it if not for that.
Bazzite immediately felt "good" to use right out of the box. No baked in acceleration weirdness. Kudos to the team for really putting in the effort to make this old gamer feel right at home in it. Now going on over a year of it and still loving it.
podman works well, docker is a little finicky due to some systemd weirdness and the whole immutability of it all.
it mainly tries to get you to use distroboxes which are awesome. you can even install something in a distrobox and expose it to the host.
they're all containerization programs yes. I believe they differ in some minor details but thanks to the OCI standards a image built with docker will run in podman or vice versa.
distrobox is a little more feature rich for development, meant for exposing services and are interactive by default, vs dockers run and forget methodology.
Distrobox is more like running an entire other Linux distro to run your program, so like before my laptop died completely I had Bazzite and needed to install something locally that was way easier to do in an Ubuntu Distrobox, any time I wanted to run that program I open up my distrobox and run it, felt very native and the app and its files were still in my normal home directory yet ran with dependencies and such I had in the distrobox only.
Definitely nifty but different from the goal of podman/docker imo
Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you're installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.
I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I'd had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.
To me that's impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.
If you've got actual work to do, don't.
I've got Bazzite on my TV PC, and it's pretty cromulent for that, but Flatpak alone doesn't have everything I need to do actual work.
I had such a good experience switching to bazzite (from arch btw) that I put Aurora on my wife's Ryzen 2500u laptop when windows 10 was taken out to a nice farm.
That went well until she said her friend's kids couldn't play games anymore. I quickly and flawlessly rebased it to bazzite and set up games.
A few hiccups with lacking Microsoft Office and having to learn the alternatives was the only issue she has had but that only took a few days for her to get down.
Plasma/KDE as a first class citizen.
KDE is second-class to GNOME on Fedora.
KDE is second-class to GNOME on Fedora.
It is? I ask because I've always used Fedora KDE and honesty it's been the best KDE experience I've had. Now I'm curious how much better the Fedora GNOME experience might be if it's prioritized so much more, but I've never seriously used GNOME so I don't think I can make a fair assessment. In what ways is KDE deprioritized?
They should use this technology we used purely for uh... "Linux ISOs' back is the day.
BitTorrent.
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Back in March 2011, the Israeli consulate in New York City had a problem. A group of soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were coming to the U.S. on a PR trip, and Israeli officials needed help persuading influential media outlets to interview the delegation.
Luckily for the consulate, a new organization called Act For Israel, led by Israeli-American actor Noa Tishby, was prepared to swing into action. “[I]n mid March 2011, the New York Consulate requested our assistance,” Tishby’s organization wrote in a document revealed in a recent trove of leaked emails.
“Act For Israel quickly arranged seven interviews with the top ranks of U.S. blogs and radio shows,” the document explained, highlighting that their efforts helped promote “Israel’s narrative” in Red State, which it described as the “most read blog by US Senators and Congress representatives.”
The previously unreported campaign appears to have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which mandates that American citizens and organizations publicly disclose any work that seeks to influence American politics on behalf of a foreign power. “That sounds like a slam-dunk case of activities that should have required FARA registration,” said Ben Freeman, a FARA expert at the Quincy Institute, which publishes RS.
The leak provides a rare window into how some pro-Israel activists have skirted rules aimed at providing transparency about foreign influence over American politics — a practice that has helped obscure the scale of Israeli propaganda efforts in the United States. In public, Act For Israel appeared to be no more than a group of pro-Israel Americans advocating for a stronger U.S.-Israel relationship. But the leaked emails and documents show that representatives of the organization sought to shape U.S. public opinion while boasting privately of their intimate collaboration with the Israeli government.
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, led by Noa Tishby, worked on behalf of Israel to advance its interests in the United StatesConnor Echols (Responsible Statecraft)
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Back in March 2011, the Israeli consulate in New York City had a problem. A group of soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were coming to the U.S. on a PR trip, and Israeli officials needed help persuading influential media outlets to interview the delegation.
Luckily for the consulate, a new organization called Act For Israel, led by Israeli-American actor Noa Tishby, was prepared to swing into action. “[I]n mid March 2011, the New York Consulate requested our assistance,” Tishby’s organization wrote in a document revealed in a recent trove of leaked emails.
“Act For Israel quickly arranged seven interviews with the top ranks of U.S. blogs and radio shows,” the document explained, highlighting that their efforts helped promote “Israel’s narrative” in Red State, which it described as the “most read blog by US Senators and Congress representatives.”
The previously unreported campaign appears to have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which mandates that American citizens and organizations publicly disclose any work that seeks to influence American politics on behalf of a foreign power. “That sounds like a slam-dunk case of activities that should have required FARA registration,” said Ben Freeman, a FARA expert at the Quincy Institute, which publishes RS.
The leak provides a rare window into how some pro-Israel activists have skirted rules aimed at providing transparency about foreign influence over American politics — a practice that has helped obscure the scale of Israeli propaganda efforts in the United States. In public, Act For Israel appeared to be no more than a group of pro-Israel Americans advocating for a stronger U.S.-Israel relationship. But the leaked emails and documents show that representatives of the organization sought to shape U.S. public opinion while boasting privately of their intimate collaboration with the Israeli government.
Inside Israel's shadow campaign to win over American media
Leaked emails show how Act for Israel, led by Noa Tishby, worked on behalf of Israel to advance its interests in the United StatesConnor Echols (Responsible Statecraft)
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking
In a 26th floor courtroom overlooking Manhattan’s frigid winter skyline, dozens of immigrants sat in on the trial of their former president, the once untouchable symbol of a “narco-dictatorship” that reorganized of the government’s judicial, police, and military leadership to collude with drug traffickers.
It wasn’t Nicolás Maduro — though the Venezuelan president had likewise been indicted in the Southern District of New York. It was Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president who, as U.S. prosecutors said in their closing arguments in 2024, “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States. In a monthlong trial we covered from New York that winter, Hernández was convicted of three counts of drug trafficking and weapons charges, earning him a 45-year prison sentence.
Now, as B-52s plow the skies near Caracas and U.S. President Donald Trump announces the closure of Venezuelan airspace via social media, Hernández is poised to have his conviction erased. A key asset likely working in his favor is something Maduro pointedly lacks: a long-running allyship with the United States. Before his prosecution, Hernández spent years promoting Washington’s goals of militarization and migrant crackdowns as a friend of Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, and Trump.
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing “Narco-Dictator” Convicted of Drug Trafficking
The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”Jared Olson (The Intercept)
Nas Daily claims biggest threat facing Palestinians is 'fellow countrymen' in bizarre rant on LBC
Vlogger Nuseir Yassin, a Palestinian citizen of Israel commonly known as Nas Daily, has drawn widespread criticism after saying that “the worst thing for a Palestinian is not Israel, it is our fellow countrymen”, and describing the term genocide as “a very emotional, non-scientific word”.
When asked by Swarbrick whether he had experienced apartheid growing up in Israel, Yassin similarly dismissed the term as "bullshit", saying it "is not like South Africa".
He went on to claim that the UK is receiving "some of the most dangerous immigrants in the world". "They’re coming in the UK, setting up as a base to create essentially media to destabilise the Middle East," he continued.
Nas Daily claims biggest threat facing Palestinians is 'fellow countrymen' in bizarre rant on LBC
Vlogger Nuseir Yassin, a Palestinian citizen of Israel commonly known as Nas Daily, has drawn widespread criticism after saying that “the worst thing for a Palestinian is not Israel, it is our fellow countrymen”, and describing the term genocide as “…Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
My cat won't talk to the police.
My dog won't shut up about how he's a free canine on the land and the postman refused to make joinder.
If Cats Could Talk to Cops Sticker
These "If Cats Could Talk to Cops They Wouldn't" stickers, featuring original artwork by Teev, are so popular we just keep reprinting them. They measure 4.25" wide by 2.75" tall and are available in different color options.Burning Books
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf
is now caught up with the collection on YouTube. From now on, new #videos from YouTube will be quickly loaded to #PeerTube as well. [The previous Cuddly.Tube channel will be taken down soon.]URL: peertube.wtf/c/cuba/_botb/_vid…
Also significant is the expansion of playlists. BotB produces a lot of videos, and it is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. I spent some time going through the collection and adding playlists.
If you set up a login on PeerTube.wtf, you could also develop and save your own private playlists. But logins are not necessary to browse videos on PeerTube.wtf.
One playlist that will probably get a lot of use is Cuba and #Palestine, which contains 17 videos.
When you get a chance, please check them out.
#LetCubaLive #EndTheEmbargo #Solidarity #FreePalestine
#politics #BellyOfTheBeast #Cuba #Gaza
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The Northeast Passage is becoming navigable and could rearrange world trade. While China and Russia are pushing ahead, Europe is threatening to miss the strategic opportunity in the far north.
Nordostpassage: China und Russland formen neue Route – Europa schaut zu
Die Nordostpassage wird schiffbar und könnte den Welthandel neu ordnen. Während China und Russland vorpreschen, droht Europa die strategische Chance im hohen Norden zu verpassen.Berliner Zeitung
US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/npr.org/2025…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikes
‘Double strikes’ allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were also used extensively under the US’s Obama administration.
A double-tap strike essentially means carrying out two strikes on the same target – often wounding or killing medics and civilians who are coming to the aid of people harmed in the first attack. Here is more about how the United States has used such strikes throughout history.
The US is believed to be one of the main countries to have used double-tap strikes extensively in recent history. Here is a brief timeline of Washington’s alleged or confirmed use of double-tap strikes on various targets.
2025: Yemen
In April, the US conducted air strikes on the Ras Isa oil port in Yemen.
In a social media post, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the objective of these strikes was “to degrade the economic source of power of the Houthis, who continue to exploit and bring great pain upon their fellow countrymen”.
The strike killed at least 80 people and wounded another 150, according to the Hodeidah Health Office in Yemen. The Houthi-led government said that the strikes had been made on a civilian facility.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, said the US struck the site a second time – a “double tap” – just as first responders were arriving at the scene. The US has never confirmed this attack was a double tap.
2012: Pakistan
During the administration of US President Barack Obama, US missiles hit a tent in Zowi Sidgi, a remote village in North Waziristan, in July 2012, in what was described by people on the ground as a double strike. The US claimed it was targeting alleged al-Qaeda sanctuaries in the region.
According to Amnesty International’s Mustafa Qadri, who was speaking to the BBC at the time, a group of miners and woodcutters had gathered in the tent for dinner.
Moments after the first strike, when people had arrived to assist those who were hurt, a second US missile hit the same location, local people said. Eighteen people died in total in the two strikes.
2003 and 2004: Iraq
In 2004, US soldiers attacked the Fallujah mosque in the Al Anbar governorate of Iraq, claiming they were being fired upon. Afterwards, they shot at injured Iraqis inside the mosque.
NBC News correspondent Kevin Sites, who was embedded with the US military, reported that a US soldier had shot an unarmed, wounded Iraqi prisoner at the mosque. The next day, Sites filmed an American soldier shouting at Iraqis in the mosque, accusing them of pretending to be dead.
Footage from the mosque attack sparked controversy, prompting an investigation by the US military into whether a US soldier who shot a prisoner had acted in self-defence, legitimately fearing a surprise attack. Investigators found insufficient evidence to charge the soldier.
Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikes
‘Double strikes’ allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were used extensively under Obama.Sarah Shamim (Al Jazeera)
Theoretical Physics with Generative AI
Theoretical Physics with Generative AI
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case.Steve Hsu (Information Processing - Steve Hsu)
Trump’s “Blue-Collar Boom” Is Over. The Charts Prove It.
Trump’s “Blue-Collar Boom” Is Over. The Charts Prove It.
AI panic is about white-collar jobs. Blue-collar workers are the ones quietly getting wiped out.Neil Zhu (Grumpy Chinese Guy)
Amazon keeps pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5
re:invent: The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years
Romania’s president admits country is corrupt
‘Romania is corrupt,’ country’s president admits in jaw-dropping confession
Nicușor Dan said it is wrong that “corrupt people give moral lessons on television.”Ewan Jones (Telewizja Polska S.A)
German economy in ‘deepest crisis’ of post-war era: industry group
German economy in ‘deepest crisis’ of post-war era: industry group
Germany’s economy is suffering its “deepest crisis” since the aftermath of World War II, an industry group warned Tuesday, calling on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government to take urgent action to spark a revival.AFP Staff (CTVNews)
Apple announces even more major executive turnover
Apple and Meta are trading execs.
Apple announces even more major executive turnover
Apple announced that Lisa Jackson is going to retire and Jennifer Newstead will take over as general counsel from Kate Adams.Jay Peters (The Verge)
How do I check my router for malware?
I have a store bought consumer router connected to my ISP's router which is in bridge mode, and it's one of the few remaining proprietary mystery boxes in my network that I don't know how to audit. I recently made a post about whether I should switch to PFsense, and this was one of my motivations (though I forgot to mention it in that post).
Is there an effective way to check whether my router is part of a Mirai botnet or some other malware that scanned the internet and found some vulnerability in my router? As far as I know, once infected, things like updating the firmware or pressing the reset button aren't guaranteed to remove it because it can just take control of those processes and persist. In my specific configuration, can malware from the internet even see my main router or just the ISP router it's connected to?
In my threat model, I'm most concerned about my local traffic to and from my server being exfiltrated by some cybercrime group as a lot of it is HTTP or HTTP proxy data. Not so much general internet bound traffic which is usually HTTPS or VPN. Obviously I don't want to be "participating" in botnet attacks or other cybercrime infrastructure either.
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You said the ISP’s router is in bridge mode, which means your router is exposed to the wild, so it’ll be attacked as well, and of course it’s up to you to run a good firewall on it.
I don’t know how to test for malware, but I do know that basic consumer routers that can run OpenWRT are very cheap. I can’t speak to pfSense as I don’t have experience with it.
Check the reputation of your IP address (in addition to the other comment suggesting reflashing the devices firmware)
If anything is reaching out en masse, your address will likely be reported and some sites will block you. This is not to say that you're 100% definitely clean, but that you're probably not in a botnet
GreyNoise IP Check
Check if your IP address has been observed by GreyNoise sensors. Instantly detect malicious activity, compromised devices, and security threats affecting your network.GreyNoise Labs
I'm not familiar with how malware like that masks but you can pretty much find any traffic with a tool like WireShark. It's just a matter of finding out how processes recreate themselves once killed.
If something lives in the storage of your router, specifically, I'd see about formatting the storage and flashing new firmware. As you stated, that may not solve anything.
Regardless of how they enter and what is installed where, once it's inside your home network it can pretty much access anything. If you wanna be fully secure you'd need a firewall and just block any traffic you don't specifically whitelist. As you can imagine, this is cumbersome.
Are you worried that something has infected your network devices? Do you have any reason to suspect something? In some countries, ISPs do some passive monitoring on what goes in and out of your home and if they see anything untoward they'll disable that bridge device and notify you.
Especially when switching to pfsense
::: spoiler The easiest way I know of to check any machine is to put another router or machine in front of it with a white list firewall or way of logging DNS traffic. You just need to spot the address in the list.
DNS filtering usually only filters on incoming packets, but for bot stuff that should catch issues.
In general, most routers run everything from a serial flash chip on the board. These are usually 8, 16, or 32 megabytes. They have a simple bootloader like U-Boot. This is what loads the operating system. These devices have a UART serial port on the PCB. You can use a USB to serial UART adaptor to see what is happening in the device. With a proprietary OS, you are still likely to see the pre-init boot sequence that the bootloader prints to terminal. Most operating systems also print information to this interface, at least of the couple dozen junk devices I have been given and messed around with. I make a little mount for a USB to serial adaptor and add it to all of my routers when new, so I only need to plug in USB to get to the internal bootloader and tty terminal interface of OpenWRT. You will need to know the default baud rate of the device, although it is probably listed somewhere online or can be guessed as one of the common high values at or above 9600.
Getting into this further gets complicated. It is probably better to look for any CVE that is relevant to the device or software and work backwards. Look for any software updates that have obfuscated the risk for each CVE. If the issue was not fixed, that is where to look to see if someone has exploited the device. Ultimately, they need clock cycles from the CPU scheduler. So it must be a process or some way of executing code from unregistered memory.
This is getting to the edge of what I have messed around with and understand. There may be a way to get a memory map that includes unused pages, and compare that with a hex dump of the flash memory. This is outside of your scope of a proprietary OS, but hopefully frames the abstract scope of what is possible on this class of device when you have an open source stack. The main advantage of this kind of device and issue is that you can physically remove the flash chip and then see and manipulate every page and memory location. The device likely doesn't have microcode loaded into the CPU(s) that make it challenging to determine what is going on.
There is probably an easier way, but a hex dump of the current system can be hashed against the factory updated version to see if any differences are present. It is likely that any exploit will include a string with the address to connect to somewhere in flash memory. It could be obfuscated through encryption or a cypher, but a simple check for strings in the hex dump and a grep for "http" is a simple way to looks for issues.
The OpenWRT forum is a good general source. The people behind the bootloaders for these devices are also Linux kernel developers and on the OpenWRT forum.
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What router?
Point Shodan or grey noise or something at your public ip. Find your public ip by disabling your computers vpn, asking google what your public ip is then comparing that to the address shown at your routers wan interface.
Another person said to just update it. Just update it. But before you do:
Look at freshtomato, openwrt, pfsense etc to see if any of the open firmwares support your hardware. You may like them better.
About the best you can do without opening it up, finding a uart and watching is to put a device you control between it and the isp device.
Why I use OPNsense over pfSense, and why I don't trust Netgate at all
Both platforms have their uses, but Netgate has a lot of controversial history.Adam Conway (XDA)
British police chief reiterates 'legitimate' decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
The head of a police force at the centre of a row over a ban on Israeli football fans has defended his decision in front of British MPs.
The West Midlands Police assessment which led to the ban was based on intelligence provided by Dutch police about the conduct of Maccabi fans during a match against Amsterdam in November 2024.
A Guardian report on 21 October said that the police assessment "concluded the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club".
Middle East Eye seperately revealed that Dutch police told their British counterparts that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam were "linked" to the Israeli military.
Documents seen by MEE said hundreds of fans were "experienced fighters", "highly organised" and "intent on causing serious violence". Dutch police reported that "significant numbers of Maccabi fans were actively involved in demonstrations and confrontations".
Early reporting by media outlets on the violence in Amsterdam in 2024 characterised the violence as a "pogrom" against Jewish football fans. Footage later emerged of Maccabi fans attacking locals and chanting racist slogans against Arabs.
Violence involving Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is not limited to matches outside of Israel. On 19 October, Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv cancelled the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv due to what police there described as "violent riots".
British police chief reiterates 'legitimate' decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
The head of a police force at the centre of a row over a ban on Israeli football fans has defended his decision in front of British MPs.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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