Solar Powered Wifi Camera with Wireguard
Hello --
I know this is not a 100% fit for this community and I apologise - but I don't really know where to ask best. There's some selfhosting involved, so maybe the smart crowd here has some recommendations.
Here goes:
I want to mount a camera at a quite remote location. I have Wifi there that I can use (I pay for it, but its usage is shared, I don't monopolize it). I do not have power there. It's outside, mild in winter, quite warm in summer. I will not get there for months at a time. I want the camera to be private, not open to the world. Ideally I'd like a solar powered wifi camera that can connect to my home via Wireguard (I have that bit going, multiple roaming notebooks and phones connect to home, terminated in an Opnsense router).
I do not need any specific smart features on the camera - PTZ would be nice, but not even fully required.
I can come up with a configuration that involves a Raspberry Pi routing an off the shelf camera via a Wireguard tunnel, or similar, but that doubles the power issues I need to solve. I am not opposed to DIY a solution, but there's the challenge of getting it well packaged in a waterproof way.
Considering I can't really touch the wifi setup (cheap commercial router), I don't really see a way to have a private connection without having some sort of a VPN (I could do others than wireguard in a pinch).
If you'd like to help me chip away at one or the other bit of this problem, I'd be very grateful.
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World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion
Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to reverse decades of progress, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, ahead o…UN News
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Israeli attack kills two children in Gaza, medics say
An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.The children's uncle said an Israeli drone fired on Fadi and Goma Abu Assi, brothers aged 10 and 12, while they were gathering firewood to help their wheelchair-bound father east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
"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," Mohamed Abu Assi told Reuters as their funeral took place.At the funeral, the children's father wept over the body of one of the boys whose white shroud had been peeled back to show his face.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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Since the October 10 ceasefire, over 354 Palestinians have been killed in the largely devastated enclave, according to Gazan health authorities. Many of the deaths occur when Israeli forces shoot at Palestinians it accuses of crossing the yellow line set up during the ceasefire to mark territories still under Israel's control in the strip.On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said their troops "identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat," adding that the troops "eliminated the suspects to remove the threat."
Gaza: Israeli fire kills 2 Palestinian boys
Palestinian sources say two brothers were killed in Gaza by Israeli drone fire. In the occupied West Bank, meanwhile, attacks by Israeli settlers injured 10 Palestinians.Kalika Mehta (Deutsche Welle)
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DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian
DEP-18: A proposal for Git-based collaboration in Debian
I am a huge fan of Git, as I have witnessed how it has made software development so much more productive compared to the pre-2010s era. I wish all Debian source code were in Git to reap the full benefits.Otto Kekäläinen (Optimized by Otto)
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This is so stupid, Vietnam was trying to avoid dependency on China, and was actually seeking closer ties with USA.
Only the stupidity of Trump has allowed China to increase influence globally, when the world actually trust China less than ever, Trump has managed to make the world still trust China more than USA.
Trump couldn't have done a better job for Putin and/or China if he was 100% controlled by either of them.
America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China
Thailand increasingly depends on its bigger neighbour for trade and security
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/11/27/americas-oldest-ally-in-asia-is-drawing-closer-to-china
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Wow. Try inventing a partition line like Yosemite Sam and saying "I dares ya ta cross this line" and when the Korean people tried to push the racist American colonizers out of their country. Try forced them to lives in caves because of the amount of napalm they dropped. Try bombed every single building to the point where bombers were sent out and and there was nothing left to destroy.
There was no North/South division before the US created it, and they created it because they wanted to nuke China.
The US was taking over the occupation of Korea from the Japanese. The USSR wanted the Koreans to govern themselves and be self-sufficient enough to not become vassal states of the USA which the USA would use to invade and nuke the USSR.
It's not just a both sides wanted to control Korea thing. That's not accurate
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America has always wanted for its own interests. It's never been to actually help another country.
Except now the America First group is in charge and has exposed the eugenics and racism inherent in our system. Who wants to be part of that?
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Netanyahu requests a pardon during the Israeli prime minister's ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges, seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu, who has been at war against Israel’s legal system over the charges, said the request would help unify the country at a time of momentous change in the region. But it immediately triggered denunciations from opponents, who said a pardon would weaken democratic institutions and send a dangerous message that he’s above the rule of law.
Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department of the Office of the President, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. The president’s office called it an “extraordinary request,” carrying with it “significant implications.”
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-netanyahu-pardon-5dbc2461b440c8edc8d82d31650cdbe8
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Time to wake up the world ,keep it on the news
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Never forget that Netanyahu allowed the Oct 7th attack to happen so he could use it as an excuse to scare congress into letting him declare martial law so he didn't have to go to prison.
Every single Israli and Palestinian that has died as a result of this conflict since the attack, has their blood on Netanyahu's hands.
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yup. his only chance at avoiding consequences is to stay in power as a wartime president.
this is why the ceasefire isn't a ceasefire. I hope Israel does better but..... not holding my breath.
If we had done better with trump in 2016 or j6th none of this shit would have happened.
Absolutely. Just do the following first...
- Officially apologize to every Palestinian family for every life lost in decades of conflict.
- Fully dismantle all settlements built on occupied land and return every home, school, and farm.
- Compensate for every square meter of land taken, including lost income and cultural sites.
- Ensure full and unrestricted access to Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, with reparations for every blockade-induced hardship.
- Return all property confiscated during evictions or military operations.
- Admit and make amends for every instance of detention, displacement, or imprisonment without due process.
- Rebuild all destroyed homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure.
- Recognize all refugee claims and fund safe, dignified resettlement or return.
- Fully acknowledge and compensate for the psychological trauma suffered by generations.
- Publicly commit to ending all military occupation and systemic discrimination permanently.
- Implement complete equality in law, services, and political representation for all Palestinians.
- Renounce any historic narratives that justify oppression and commit to truthful education about past wrongs.
- Fund and actively support the creation of a fully sovereign, functional, and internationally recognized Palestinian state.
- Lead and finance the complete rebuilding of Gaza, including infrastructure, housing, healthcare, and education, to meet modern standards.
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I can think of another one.
What if religion was separated from government, and all people were treated equally under secular law, as is the case in every advanced country where even non-cis-males are allowed to read freely and have a complex pluralistic civilization ?
IOW what if all the Sky Daddy people fucked off with their cosplay and let the adults manage things?
No. Not disengagement; quite the opposite. De-radicalization and modernization.
The way Germany stopped worshiping Hitler and the mythical Great Germanic Past. The way Japan stopped worshiping Hirohito and the mythical Great Japanese Past.
Both were quasi religious states, depending on a population steeped in a culture of credulity coupled with unchallengeable authority.
Related but not identical: North Korea, Iran, Putin's Russia, MAGA
Germany and Japan were subject to complete and total American led nation building. Douglas MacArthur basically wrote the Japanese constitution and modeled it on America.
Who do you plan to appoint as leader of this new project of yours?
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Yeah that's the real serious problem here
There is no Force Majure. America that was, is no more.
Learn to swim?
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What an uninformed, specious thing to say. I almost suspect trolling
Are you seriously suggesting Bibi's Likud, or its partners Shas and Mafdal are ... secular ?!?
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I think a key distinction is that the religious rhetoric is often precisely that — rhetoric. Specifically, it's rhetoric aimed at an international audience, because conflating Judaism with the Israeli state is essential to how Israel frames itself and its genocide. It allows them to denounce all criticism of zionism as antisemitism, even if those critiques are coming from Jewish antizionists. Meanwhile, Israel's actions have been helping drive an increase in actual antisemitism, which is also useful for Israel, because it helps them to justify the existence of Israel as necessary for Jewish safety.
That might seem like splitting hairs, but it's important if we want to understand what's happening. Many of the most vehement pro-genocide voices in Israel are secular Jews, as is a decent proportion of Jews in Israel. Judaism is more than just a religion, but an ethnoreligious group, and that distinction is important because Israel cares more about the "ethno-" part of that than the religious part (because like I say, there are many people who identify as secular Jews).
It's somewhat analogous to how Trump performs a particular kind of conservative Christian rhetoric that's more about white nationalism than any Christian ideals. The religious component is important to acknowledge, because many prominent MAGAs aren't doing it performatively in the way that Trump and some others do, but rather their Christian faith is tightly intertwined with their white nationalism. However, to see this purely as a religious issue would lose crucial nuance of the issue.
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People do respond to rhetoric, especially rhetoric that is reinforced by their culture
It is crucially important that the memes people internalize are not based on belief-without-evidence, nor or specially-chosen-people.
Those are toxic memes for a successful modern diverse inclusionary civilization
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Exactly - this is being missed because the propaganda has framed this as a 'Jews vs. Muslims' religious conflict.
It's not. It's an ethnostate built for Zionists, not Jews - as shown by the way the state is treating orthodox Rabbis who are protesting against the occupation.
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It's definitely the excuse they use to justify it.
It's just surprising how many people fall for it, including those critical of it.
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Rename it Sky Daddy Land and let it be run by a council of atheists.
Then the Palestinians and Israelis will have a common enemy and will stop fighting.
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Realistically, I don't see the conflict ending until climate change renders the area an uninhabitable wasteland.
Given how climate change seems to be accelerating, this is probably a few decades.
Pope Leo said on Sunday that the only solution in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican's position.
Title sounded like he was supporting a single state solution with Palestine as the state, but it's the same two state solution that Vatican has supported for some time
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I guess it depends on what you mean by almost done. They've taken 50% of the land in gaza. They've killed 3% of the Gaza strip and .06% of the West Bank. These are massive extinction events by population percentage, but the Palestinians are still very much there. As soon as people give up, the Palestinians are in a much much worse state than they already are.
It won't be as easy for them to push through the other 50% without displacing or killing 2 million people, which is a world of difference from 70,000. I'm not optimistic, but I also don't see a current path for Israel to "finish the genocide" that doesn't simultaneously eliminate a large percentage of their remaining political and economic power in the process. On the other hand fascist counties aren't know to act rational. Either way, this genocide is far from over. Imo, it will last at least another decade, if not much longer, if it's bent on geographic, cultural, and/or population annihilation. I think there is at least some hope that the political winds can change before that happens.
This is liberal Zionist gaslighting. Its like saying the only solution to Apartheid South Africa is for the blacks to have their own bantustan.
The only solution which no one in the mainstream dares to say is to dismantle the genocidal state built on Jewish supremacy.
Two-State Solution has never been viable for the same reason Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan have never been viable outside the sphere of Israeli influence. Any state that isn't aligned with Israel is targeted for a combination of assassinations/bombings and infiltration/regime change.
Why would an "independent" Palestine be any different? A popular government would never be allowed to rule. At best, you'd have an Egyptian style military dictatorship or Jordanian monarchy which rules the public with an iron fist. At worst, you'd have a Libya or Yemen, where the native government is merely a proxy for the Israelis to continue their genocide of the local population.
agree that the only solution is one state for all. basically expand the right of return.
the "two state solution" isn't a solution, but just Israel following basic international law. Which is too high a bar for Israel
Zimbabwe: Chinese firms tighten grip on country’s lithium sector as Environmental Law Organisation urges for more domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46485447
[...]While Chinese investment has helped revive Zimbabwe’s lithium industry, ZELO [the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Organisation] found widespread concerns over poor labour standards and environmental violations, particularly among medium- and small-scale Chinese operators across the lithium, gold, coal and chrome sectors.
Reported issues included non-compliance with Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations, dust pollution, water contamination from mine effluent, low wages, inadequate protective equipment and allegations of worker abuse and discrimination.
The report warns that such malpractices have contributed to the perception that Chinese companies have a poor human rights and environmental record in Zimbabwe. It says this presents reputational risks for the country’s lithium exports at a time when global supply chains increasingly prioritise strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards.
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ZELO's latest study, 'Mine to Market for Critical Minerals: Zimbabwe’s Lithium Supply and Value Chain Situational Report', finds that Chinese companies now control most major lithium mining and processing operations in the country.
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Although Australian and British companies also operate in the sector, ZELO says Chinese dominance has created an imbalance that weakens competition and reduces Zimbabwe’s bargaining power.
“This imbalance restricts the Zimbabwe’s ability to derive optimal value from its lithium resources,” the organisation said. “It also exposes Zimbabwe to external risks linked to fluctuations in Chinese global investment or commodity demand.”
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Data from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) highlights the stark value gap between raw and refined lithium. A tonne of lithium concentrate with 4%–5.5% Li₂O content sells for between US$300 and US$600. By contrast, refined lithium hydroxide or lithium carbonate can fetch more than US$26,000 per tonne.
ZELO says this disparity underscores the need for Zimbabwe to prioritise domestic production of high-value, refined lithium products instead of exporting low-value concentrate.
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ZELO recommends increased investment in beneficiation, production of industrial by-products such as sodium sulphate anhydrous and alumina silicate, and stronger local content rules to promote skills transfer and technology adoption. It also calls for tighter enforcement of labour, safety and environmental regulations and strategic partnerships with non-Chinese investors to diversify markets.
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s journey from CIA-backed ‘Zero Unit’ to DC shooting suspect
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Quitting Spotify for Navidrome
Listen to music like it’s 2005 : Luke Cyca Dot Calm
Getting off spotify and rediscovering my own music collectionlukecyca.com
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Android or iOS?
On android I found symphonium to be a great app to use with my navidrome server. On iOS, play:sub was the best experience I found
On iOS, ply:sub was the best experience I found
I'll check out ply:sub. Thank you for the recommendation.
If you’re doing a search, it’s play:sub. Here is the link on iOS. apps.apple.com/us/app/play-sub…
Also, it’s a fantastic app and I use it every day.
play:Sub Music Streamer App - App Store
Download play:Sub Music Streamer by Michael Hansen on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like play:Sub Music…App Store
Nope. You can buy an infinite trial via the developers ko-fi!
There's info about it on the symfonium forum.
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Yeah, you will have to send the dev the new trial ID for a re-activation.
That's also why it's costs more, because it's more manual work for him.
It's a chore, but really cool by the dev to offer it as an option for people with de-googled devices.
I plan to switch to Android in the next year, so I’m always interested to hear what clients people like over there too.
Symfonium is great, and in its current state, probably the best Subsonic client for android. (Tempus is good enough for me though.) But best of luck if you ever have a nontrivial issue and ask the dev for help. That's one abrasive mf. (Just take a look here. It's hard to find anyone so full of themselves.)
That said, if it works for your needs, it's a great app. I won't judge anyone for using it, but I'm someone who can't and won't separate the art from its artist. If that applies to you, you've been warned.
The joy of Play Store :)
Using this thread as a compilation of all the nice comments on Play Store 🙂 And also maybe as a reminder to real users that it takes 15 five stars rating to just counter 1 one star rating.Symfonium support
GitHub - eddyizm/tempus: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android. - eddyizm/tempusGitHub
DSub2000 | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Android client for Subsonic servers.f-droid.org
Too bad it's unusable if you're like me and have huge playlists that you want to offline for shuffling due to spending long stretches of time without an Internet connection.
When I asked about this limitation, I was told that it was stupid to have such big playlists and needing to offline them because nobody is without Internet for long enough times for it to matter.
Great response from the developers that.
Doesn't finamp provide music player features?
I wish jellyfin would support downloading music out of the box.
My experience with self-hosted apps on my phone are limited. I've never used Plex so I never used it's mobile app.
So thank you for the clarification.
Finamp certainly needs some work but it’s far better than the native Jellyfin application, at least for iOS/iPadOS, I can now listen to music in the background.
Hell the Finamp contributors took my suggestion on a way to sort playlists and actually implemented it so I gotta say much props to them.
[FEATURE REQUEST] Sort by Album, Artist, Release Date, Etc
Type: New feature The ability to quickly Sort your track library & playlists by Song Name, Artist, Album, Release Date, Etc Explanation This unfortunately is not native to Jellyfin and i don't see ...BugZappa (GitHub)
You’re right about that.
I do sometimes miss PlexAmp, but the native Emby application for music on iOS is pretty decent. Just kinda wish it was decoupled from the main app.
Can't crossfade, developers won't add the features the server doesn't support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don't feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn't stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.
The beta is a little smoother but doesn't address any of my issues with it.
Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.
A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.
So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can't even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:
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And yeah, I've got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don't even need an SD card in my case.)
Really feeling this, the first paragraph could've written by me and I switched to Navidrome as well some months ago.
Btw, your RSS feed seems to be broken:
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I migrated from Apple Music to Qobuz as part of my dropping of US services.
It’s very much playlist and release based which is great for both curation and discovery. At least I’ve found myself discovering more music from their playlists, which are often curated by musicians.
They do have a “for you” list but for whatever reason only show it on mobile, and it’s not my favourite algorithm.
I disagree.
I don't necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven't encountered.
Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I've found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.
Discovering something new that scratches my music itch is in itself a pleasure for me, and I can go back to it at a later date, like everything else.
This doesn't mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.
Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.“Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.
This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.
I am actually in the process of setting up my own navidrome server on my proxmox host running on my old desktop hardware.
I was initially inspired by the following post and am very excited to get rid of Spotify.
Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes
For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here's how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.
GitHub - jeffvli/feishin: A modern self-hosted music player.
A modern self-hosted music player. Contribute to jeffvli/feishin development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I don’t know why so many people think you have to do one or the other, that you can’t host your own and use spotify.
No matter how much you might hate Spotify from an ideological point of view, you cannot deny its amazing music discovery ability.
I use Spotify as a way to find what to add to my collection, which I then stream using Plexamp when it makes more sense than just using Spotify - which isn’t very often tbh, only really when license issues prevent an album being in my country on Spotify. I can share my plex music library with friends and family though.
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy director prefers “natural immunity” over vaccines
Ralph Abraham is “dangerous,” but somehow not the worst among those considered.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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VoidAuth Release v1.5.0 - Multi-Factor Authentication 🔒
VoidAuth is Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe! 🐈⬛🔒
This release includes Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support through TOTP Authenticators! There are other features in this release, like a migration from pug to ejs for email notification templates and quality of life improvements like a built-in container healthcheck, navigation between some admin pages, and reducing the character minimum for usernames to just three letters (sorry ted); but MFA is the big one! Users can enable MFA on their accounts to require an Authenticator or Passkey during sign in, and admins can add MFA requirements to groups, OIDC Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains to require users to setup and use MFA in specific scenarios.
Since the last major release functionality has also been added to migrate your database between SQLite and Postgres, check out the docs! Here is the release notes:
Features 🚀
- MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys
- MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains
- Email Templates Migrated to EJS, Defaults Templates Are Now Re-Written on Start
- Navigation Between Admin Pages for User and Group
Fixes 🔧
- Change Username and Name Character Requirements (3 Character Minimum)
Chores 🧹
- Added Dockerfile Healthcheck
- Update Dependencies
Docs 📖
- Update OIDC-Guides.md by @Cherryblue in github.com/voidauth/voidauth/p…
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This release includes the first outside contribution to the project as well as the first sponsor! The VoidAuth repository also blew up a bit over the week, going from ~200 to ~600 stars on GitHub. I have no idea why, but seems pretty cool! Thank you to everyone who engages with VoidAuth in any fashion, you are all greatly appreciated 😊
Release v1.5.0 · voidauth/voidauth
What's Changed Features 🚀 MFA Support Through TOTP Authenticators and Passkeys MFA_REQUIRED Environment Variable and MFA Requirement Option for Groups, Clients, and ProxyAuth Domains Email Templat...GitHub
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There is no direct feature comparison between VoidAuth and pocket-id ('comparison is the thief of joy' after all). At least one major difference is that pocket-id does not allow users to sign in with a password since passkey-only accounts are one of their design decisions, and VoidAuth does not support LDAP integration while pocket-id does. My main motivation in creating VoidAuth was to fill gaps in my own user experience while using SSO, previously I ran Authelia+LLDAP (which is still an excellent combo) but found the setup lacking in some common use-cases and devoid of an Admin Interface.
I am glad you like the interface and logo, it is inspired by my own black cat who right at this very moment is yelling for pets 😹
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, Middle East Eye can reveal.
In a statement issued on Wednesday after its annual meeting in The Hague earlier this week, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) vowed to uphold the integrity of the Rome Statute and said it was “gravely concerned” by threats and coercive measures targeting the court.
Diplomats speaking on the sidelines of the event told MEE that the Trump administration had tried to exert further pressure on the ICC in the leadup to the ASP meeting by calling on the court to drop its investigations into war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan as a condition for lifting sanctions.
The US also called on member states to amend the Rome Statute to prohibit prosecutions of citizens of non-signatory states, a move that would have effectively granted immunity to American and Israeli nationals. An amendment of that nature would also end the Ukraine investigation into alleged war crimes by Russia, a non-member of the ICC.
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
The oversight body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has shunned US demands for the court to drop its investigation into Israeli war crimes and to amend its founding treaty to prevent the prosecution of nationals from countries that do not re…Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
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U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns
U.S. military detains civilian, raising Okinawa police concerns | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture–A video showing an American civilian being slammed to the ground and detained by U.S. military police outside a local bar has gone viral, raising concerns about infringement of Japanese police authority outside U.S.The Asahi Shimbun
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NATO Is Preparing to Confront Russia With Limited US Support
The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone.
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side. “The direction of history is a progressive disengagement of the United States from the European continent,” he said.
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It's kind of funny how the West is getting beat by its own game.
We only care about the money.
Edit: Apparently this reality upsets a lot of you.
We only care about the money.
Trump does. Oligarchs & dictators too. What's your point?
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The West will only do what it believes will make its rulers the most amount of money.
If Americans think it's more profitable for their rulers to avoid supporting NATO, then that's what they're going to do.
The West
Yeah that really clarified everything about your POV, thank you.
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Is there any credible material proof that Russia is preparing for an invasion of Europe???
They are just barely capable of winning a slow war of attrition against Ukraine, how can you make a credible argument they could achieve any war aims against all of Europe?
You can’t even argue they can take one country at a time, the entire border is riddled with NATO tripwire troops, guaranteeing the direct involvement of each major European military from the get-go.
Is this just fearmongering to drum up support for more military Keynesianism?
They already have invaded Europe. For the second time in the last decade.
Fyi, Ukraine is in Europe.
Fuck USA for abandoning it's allies, the whole world is realising they cannot be trusted.
The EU is doing the right thing by arming up.
They have invaded Ukraine, a country that is not in NATO nor in the EU, this article is talking about a war with all the European member states of NATO. I think my wording was clear.
And considering rearmament, do you know what the security dilemma is, and what that means for the security of everyone in Europe?
Geography is not interested in this bullshit and you shouldn't be, either.
Europe is not going to defend a sovereign state. Europe is not defending itself as you understand it. Europe consistently pushes for us/them.
it was Russians who made themselves the morally corrupt 'them' by killing people in Europe.
Geopolitics is not about morals. But I'm sure Rheinmetall is happy to hear your perspective.
Are we the baddies?
All countries are the baddies from some perspective.
It was an invitation to reflect your deranged yapping about what is morally correct and who deserves what. You're basing your moral perspectives off of western propaganda and are unable to see through it, because you don't even try.
But morals, as I mentioned, are not part of the decision tree of imperial war efforts.
The most efficient thing to do, would be to do any and everything to stop the killing. Europe's capitalist class is not interested in that. But me telling you that probably triggers some kind of brainrot accusation of being a Russian bot from you. Breath, don't, I'm not, chill.
You sniffed the NATO stuff a bit too hard and fell off the deep end, my friend. Off to the front you go. It's the only morally correct thing for you to do.
Alright, this answer has a lot of questions. They are rhetorical, tho, I want you to ask yourself these kind of questions and think about their implications. I'm not going to keep discussing this, I'd rather stop wasting my time on randos on the internet, but alas, here we go.
The long term efficient thing is to support Ukraine and continue to wear down and embarrass russia.
To what end? Have Russia collapse? Then what happens? And why do you want that? Do you want that, because you think they are evil and a shithole country? Don't you think that's a dumb take? What happens with the civilians, do they have it coming?
The long term efficient thing is to not be in a constant state of war. Ask: Who benefits from a constant state of war?
If russia is allowed to expand based on violent expansionism, it will only be encouraged to do more
Would considering NATOs expansionism be marked as Russian propaganda for you? If so, why? NATO is a military alliance lead by the world hegemon, which is a hyper-aggressive bully on the world stage, projecting its power with more then 800 bases around the globe and attacks other sovereign nations at will, as a standard mode of operation; NATO countries like the USA, the UK and Germany are complicit in the abhorrent genocide against the Palestinian people; why are these nations the ones to decide, at which point they themselves are getting too close to another sovereign state and not the state that's being cornered by them? And why are they suddenly trustworthy in regards to Ukraine/Russia? Isn't that creating dissonance in your mind?
and that will cost Europe more in lives and resources in the long run.
It will cost Europe AND Russia more lives of the working class people to keep on fighting a war of attrition. What are they fighting for, do you have a coherent answer? Good versus Evil? Does Russia want to own all of Eurasia? Does Europe only want to "restore order"? Tell me, why you think they are at war, at all, what's their endgame? And why do ordinary people like you and me have to die for these goals, while the military industry thrives with exploding stocks? And why do these stocks plunge, every single time when peace talks are being held?
Of course, they don't want to slap russia too hard, or it might have a tantrum and escalate.
Escalate how, nuclear? Because either Russia is too weak to win against Ukraine or it's such a big danger, that they might invade (western) Europe soon, which is it? They might have a tantrum and escalate, but Europe still wants to keep fighting a war against them. Dunno, seems unreasonable and incoherent.
So the slow bleeding off of its capabilities is the goal.
You don't think Russia would know this? Why aren't they just escalating anyway then, or change strategy? You agree, that Ukrainians are bleeding, too, right? Again, ask: Who is the beneficiary?
It really sucks for the Ukrainians, but they clearly would rather fight it, (...)
Who are "they"? The nationalist government? The men being kidnapped off the streets to be sent to the frontlines? Who wants to fight? The people of Luhansk and Donetsk? You don't think they'd rather be alive, no matter where some random border is and which passport they have? Polls suggest, that the Ukranians are in fact not "clearly" in a mood to fight, anymore, but quite the contrary.
Maybe, it's not the Ukrainians that want to fight. Who does, tho? Who benefits from this?
(...) than become part of the shithole country that russia is.
That's a value judgement based on your own biases. Why isn't Ukraine a shithole country, too? Or dunno, Poland, or hell, Germany? And do you think the Russian speaking people from the Donbas region, as well as other regional minorities would rather be part of shithole Ukraine, the country that suppresses their primary language and that were at war with the Ukrainian government since the Maidan in 2014? Or should they all just be executed anyway, as they are Russian traitors to the Ukrainian nationality?
Look, this is tiresome as fuck. I'm not saying Putin a cool guy, alright? I'm not "supporting Ruzzia", but I seriously think that a lot of you folks here on lemmy.world are only repeating what NATO-aligned media is telling you to think and that's: WAR WAR WAR. RUSSIA BAD. CHINA BAD. It's 100 % NATO propaganda. You are not NATO, you are not the capitalist class. You don't have to identify with these narratives. You will not benefit from this.
You are not going to defend "your way of life". The capitalist class is defending theirs. All there is for you is misery, stop cheering for the war machine, it's dumb.
What you miss is that by supporting appeasement to russia, you are the one encouraging more war. Yes russia wants to keep expanding. Putin has said this directly.
NATO 'expansion' is when countries ask to join and then are admitted . Around russia, countries join nato for the defensive pact. If russia doesn't want countries on their borders banding together to protect themselves from Russian aggression, then they shouldn't have been so aggressive. Russia has absolutly no right to attack it's neighbors just because they want to be able to defend themselves.
Yes, it sucks for the civilians on all sides when Russia attacks. The only solution is for russia to stop attacking - which they could do any day. But they're a war mongering country, so will only stop when they run out of the ability to attack.
See now, I tried telling you, that you're whole thought process is taken over by the absolutely normal bias one gets from living a normal live in the west and is only mildly interested in politics. One can only think in the propagandized patterns learned from the ruling system.
Good guy Marx said: "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
You actively have to break through that, by critically open your mind for different perspectives. Here in this thread has been another conversation that also touches on your appeasement critique, I recommend you read the very thoughtful commentary of @Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com from this comment on downwards, it's not that much and while they're in discussion with someone else, they're explaining it better and calmer, than I'm able to. Have a good day.
Russia is pushing all these far right movements in europe and usa. They also attacked critical infrastrucure e.g. the internet cables and send their drones into europe. Also Russia send killers into europe to kill certain individuals e.g. in Berlin the "Tiergarten killer".
Russia needs to feel that it can no longer do this without consequence. Europe needs to walk the talk.
Stop repeating NATO propaganda, these are the voices of the war ministers!^a^
NATO is already attacking Russia/China^b^ with their hybrid war. The capitalist system^c^ is pushing all these far right movements in Europe and the rest of the world. The US and its allies also attacked critical infrastrucure e.g. the north stream pipeline, the Ras Issa Port in Yemen^d^, Iranian nuclear sites^e^ and send their drones everywhere and keep killing civilians^f^. Also the US sends killers into wherever the fuck they want to kill certain individuals^g^. The USA needs to feel that it can no longer do this without consequence. Europe needs to chill and leave NATO, asap.
a) \
b) Center for Strategic and International Studies: Pivot to China\
c) Science & Society, Vol. 83, No. 2, April 2019, 481–509: Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype\
d) Human Rights Watch: Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime\
e) Wikipedia: United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites\
f) Wikipedia: Civilian casualties from the United States drones strikes\
g) Wikipedia: List of assassinations by the United States
Such is life currently: hyperbolic questions in ironic comments like " have you proof about Ruzz agression, because the West..." etc.
Smh, about the contrast between their potential to embrace a grand selfdeception and the arrogant stubbornness to look away from the invasive destruction and killings Shahed drones cause on a daily bases for more than a thousand days.
French four-star General Philippe de Montenon said he’s confident Europe could prevail, even without the US on side.
This is discussed too rarely. Does anybody know of a source that makes a reliable comparison?
Only the former head of the US forces in NATO, Ben Hodges , has oftentimes said similar lines afaik, like here :
Europe should “quit whining” about the threats it faces and “act like the superpower” that it is, according to a former senior US army officer.
Generally, he's quite confident about Europe defending itself.
Europe should stop whining and ‘act like the superpower’ it is, former US general warns
Ben Hodges tells a London audience that Nato members on continent should prepare for future Russian strikes on their air and sea portsMark Paul (The Irish Times)
Well, France has the second or third largest/most powerful individual Navy in the world, and Russia has severely diminished trained personnel, so unless China enters it would be a one sided massacre in Europe's favor.
Probably why Russia has worked so hard on the south of Ukraine to secure the sea border even losing territory in the north.
The issue is when China enters, and whose side they will be on. Does Xi Jinpooh see more profit in helping his cabal of friendly dictators or would he just carve out a slice of the Russia Pie?
I can't see China wanting to get involved in the war. Wars are expensive, and the outcome is not guaranteed.
Besides China has improving relations with Europe, what is the point in risking that?
China is invading like 4 territories every day of the week and they attempted to covertly build a partially underground military citt in Beijing 10x the size of the US Pentagon, in addition to being the origin country of the vast majority of cyberattacks.
They vetoed the only Israel Palestine ceasefire agreement that the US would agree to last year and endorsed the bloodthirsty Trump admin, openly promoting him with their TikTok platform.
They bankroll North Korea and Iran.
If War incarnated on earth he would be taking notes from Pooh Bear.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, maybe War has incarnated, riding a RED horse.
And projection force from our aircraft carrier is also a good asset.
Long range missiles and Fighter Jet deployments control modern warfare. The only way around it is a decentralized power structure bunkered down for infinite guerilla warfare, but Russia's power structure is very much centralized.
Plus, if you can take the shores you can spread from there to cut off supply lines.
Why do we fucking still Need to use military confrontation for everything?
Fr in this modern world with phones, internet and much more, why do we have to confront by sending young people in a year grinder?
I am ashamed of my species
Russia should know full well ... countries on the path to destroy themselves ... wait a decade and win.
There is a growing division of the AfD in Germany between eastern and western oriented politicians. I am not sure if Russia can rely on controlling those parties in 10 years.
They could just... wait a decade and win.
Is Putin going to be alive in a decade? He doesn't give a shit about Russia, he only cares about his own glory. What good is controlling the world after he's dead? He'd rather control Ukraine now and let the entire country crumble after he's dead.
Haaai :3 i already saw you a couple times herw on lemmy.
Yeah btw these fuckers are everywhere .
Ik Surprised no One told me to go kms yet
the situation in ukraine did not happen in a vacuum. there are reasons why russia decided to invade.
there is no logical explaination why russia would want to attack NATO and trigger article 5.
but hey as long as the fear exists we can watch line go up in rheinmetall, saab & dassault stocks so the capital of a stagnating empire can save itself.
there are reasons why russia decided to invade.
Yeah the reason being that they believe that Ukraine had little in the way of defence and that they would be able to get away with it. Hence why military posturing is necessary, to convince the Russians they wouldn't be able to get away with it.
If some disaster took down Poland's electrical and communication network Russia would be in there like a shot. Don't try and claim otherwise they have form of taking advantage.
Yeah the reason being that they believe that Ukraine had little in the way of defence
This is bad analysis. You may disagree with the invasion and call it illegal while simultaneously understanding that NATO is a military alliance created specifically against the USSR and should have been dismantled (as was promised to former Soviet citizens during the dissolution of the country). NATO was never supposed to get to Poland, let alone Ukraine or Finland.
Add to that the Victoria Nuland leaked audios discussing which president the US would put in place during the Euromaidan in 2014, the anti-Russian policies the Ukrainian government has taken for the past decade towards ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, and you have plenty more arguments than "Russia just wanted to invade Ukraine and spoil their economic and diplomatic relations with all of Europe just because Pootin bad".
Again, you can still oppose and criticize the invasion, but try to do some realistic geopolitical analysis beyond the Lord of the Rings "Sauron is very evil and so are the Orcs".
I don't know what Nita was never supposed to get to Poland is supposed to mean. NATO was a defence pact to defend against any threat to its members, the idea was to prevent something like what happened in the first world war where everyone ended up fighting each other because of all of the complicated interrelations that had all been independently agreed.
The reason they ended up being butting heads with the USSR was the USSR was constantly interfering with Western affairs. Just as Russia is doing today.
NATO has a policy of never initiating an attack the only reason the military would ever enact would be if a threat was made against one of its member states.
There is zero reason for Russia to consider NATO a threat. But they clearly do so NATO has to defend itself that's not fear-mongering that's just being pragmatic.
My problem is your interpretation of NATO's fairly logical response to a potential threat as seditious or part of some evil conspiracy on the part of the industrial military complex. Sure they're benefiting from this but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're involvement isn't partisan.
NATO expanding into Poland as per Wikipedia article on controversy of NATO expansion eastwards.
NATO was a defence pact
...which has historically been used to bomb considered enemy nations such as Yugoslavia or Libya.
the idea was to prevent something like what happened in the first world war where everyone ended up fighting each other
Not true. Per Wikipedia's article on NATO: "Throughout the Cold War, NATO's primary purpose was to deter and counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states, which formed the rival Warsaw Pact in 1955".
NATO has a policy of never initiating an attack
Ask Libyans or Yugoslavians what they have to say about that. And that's just official NATO interventions, without counting Iraq or Afghanistan, in which some but not all NATO members participated.
There is zero reason for Russia to consider NATO a threat.
This is absolutely delusional, it's patently obvious that you have never talked to a Russian person, and I say this as a Spaniard. NATO has consistently been a formation hostile to Russia, and has for the longest time been carrying out "simulacrum exercises" in the Baltic sea and regions near Russia.
Aremed confrontation as in military, especially if the people dont want to be there fighting, Isnt good.
Unfortunately with some governments you cant treat in peace and the people Will Need to arm themselves and do stuff.
I still Think that in any case there should be the leasts deaths possibile
No one is arguing otherwise.
But your original question is why do we still need the military when we have smartphones, and of course the answer is because the existence of smartphones does not dissuade the likes of Putin, because why would it?
The devs for Lemmy are Marxists and they setup lemmy.ml as the first lemmy instance. They chose .ml because for them it stands for Marxist-Leninist, despite what ICANN officially regards it as.
Also, like you point out, the instance pushes a lot of bizarre propaganda and dissent is often met with bans. From my observations, criticism of Russia or China can get you banned, presumably because these countries have a history of communism. Also, they even defend Putin and justify the invasion of Ukraine.
In my view, it’s one thing to be communist. It’s another to align yourself with the worst examples of it. Many communists distance themselves from the CCP and USSR, arguing that these were not real examples of communism. But, these folks in .ml seem to be defenders of it.
Many communists distance themselves from the CCP and USSR
Which is somewhat like being a nazi but distancing yourself from Nazi Germany.
I love you got three angy downvotes for explaining this.
I'm sad there isn't an appropriate gif of an "angry tankie" shaking his fist.
Congress declares war, not the President.
Congress has already authorized the President to deploy military units at the president's discretion, per the AUMF which renews biannually under the NDAA
If the US fails to honor NATO's Article 5 then the rest of the world will worry the US won't honor their defence packs.
Japan
Taiwan
Philippines
South Korea
Nuclear proliferation will follow
Japan Taiwan Philippines South Korea
Are client states under the occupation of the US military. They aren't worried the US might fall to act. They're worried the US might act to remove their leaders and replace them with more pliant ones.
Nuclear proliferation will follow
Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?
Why would the US allow them to do so?
Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?
Many of them already do have nuclear weapons of their own. Also the US wouldn't have any say in whether or not they produce nuclear weapons they could announce their preference but they have no ability to enforce it.
Again, very bizzare take. There are people in literally every country that wants foreign influence or bases out, that proves nothing and that number of people is very minimal compared to people who want them. The locals in Okinawa are one such example as the military presence is disturbing and soldiers are not known for ethics. I'm in one of your so claimed "occupied states", and everyone's thankful for the alliance (literally no one calls it occupation except Russian people living here who hate everyone who tries to defend themselves from the next invasion).
Random, but did you know an alternate name for Russians where I live is "occupiers"? If you say "occupiers", literally everyone knows that means Russians.
There are people in literally every country that wants foreign influence or bases out, that proves nothing
You don't think an enormous population of foreign military resulting in high rates of unprosecuted sexual violence and organized crime demonstrates anything about the state of politics in the host country?
So you believe people in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines at the highest levels of power just... want this for their people? Or do you think they're so beaten down they don't believe in their own capacity for self-defense?
Random, but did you know an alternate name for Russians where I live is “occupiers”?
I mean, you keep coming back to Russians, as though you think they're a different species.
I guess you'd call them, what? Orks?
Is the violent occupation of conquered territory only a problem for you when the occupying army is Slavic?
You don't think an enormous population of foreign military resulting in high rates of unprosecuted sexual violence and organized crime demonstrates anything about the state of politics in the host country?So you believe people in Korea, Japan, and the Philippines at the highest levels of power just... want this for their people? Or do you think they're so beaten down they don't believe in their own capacity for self-defense?
Please read the article you yourself sent me and give me source for your "high rates". I'm not denying the issue exists, but officials have been fighting this issue with good results. If you think few bad apples are worse than risking entire country and millions of people then.. I can't even argue that, I'd just call you extremely dumb and move on.
Is the violent occupation of conquered territory only a problem for you when the occupying army is Slavic?
The irony here is that I'm Slavic. I also clearly signalized against Chinese aggression. I'm not anti-Russian, I'm anti-whoever-can't-stay-in-their-borders-and/or-do-colonialism
EDIT: Random, but who do you think is responsible for more Slav deaths - Nazi Germany or Russia?
Please read the article you yourself
Buddy, you can try reading past the first paragraph. There's an extended back and forth in the interview discussing the violence around these bases and their broad unpopularity.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1…
Do you have a source for your claims? Because I do for mine. Also, look up land used by US in Japan. It has reduced by nearly 50% since they entered Japan.
US Military Bases and Human Security in Okinawa
This chapter tries to describe human insecurity in Okinawa and to investigate issues in applying the concept of human security to the periphery of a developed country.Eiichi Hoshino (Springer Singapore)
And how exactly would they force the United States to do anything?
“Join Us or we’ll start a two front war to make you join us” is hardly a convincing argument.
Aren’t things like Article 5 basically a ride-or-die pact that obligates member nations to come to eachother’s defense?
They aren't self enforcing. Someone at the Pentagon actually has to give the order to mobilize
It would be better if the U.S. just waits a minute sees shat happens, and then congress votes to declare war and the executive branch would have to act based upon their vote or would be directly disobeying the legislature again. Congress declares war. Not the executive branch. And in the end we are the only country to enact article 5 in history, when 9/11 happened and NATO countries answered the call even though many probably did not wish too.
The thing here would be that unless Russis initiates the attack, it wouldn't trigger article 5 and congress could just ignore it.
And a lot of people would like to ignore it even with the long term pitfalls, because all they care about is themselves and right this very second
Congress declares war. Not the executive branch
Congress authorized enormous discretion to the president under the NDAA and AUMF. There's no actual need to declare war in the modern era.
That is for the best. The US is a hostile power, and allowing it to embed enemy troops or sabotage NATO operations should not be permitted. Europe is better off without the traitorous Trump Regime.
It sucks that it has to be this way, but to deny the intent and nature of the current United States, is to invite disaster.
It’s by no means clear the Europeans would succeed. Romanian and other European officials at the exercise in Cincu, about 260 kilometers (162 miles) north of Bucharest by road, voiced concerns about how long it would take for NATO allies to make it to the front.
Those two things are not synonymous.
Romanian military are concerned it would take allies time to get to the front (I.e. it would take time for NATO to mobilise in the event of an unanticipated invasion of Romania). However firstly that doesn't mean victory wouldn't be ultimately achieved (allied forces had a bad time of it during the first part of the second world war, but ultimately were victorious) and secondly it assumes that Russia would be able to rally its forces (what forces) and initiate a surprise invasion despite Europe heavily monitoring Russian military activity. Which all seems unlikely.
I'm also unclear about why 260 km is considered an insurmountable distance. In an emergency that distance could be covered in a couple of hours, (I'm assuming that liberation forces and not required to obey the speed limit) presumably everyone would be going the other way in any case.
it would really be something else if they fought them
No it wouldn't be. Germany is suggesting forced conscription already, and so is France. I don't want to see young men thrown into the meat grinder to satisfy the imperial wishes of either Europe or Russia
In my opinion, the morally correct answer is to have a mild relation with Russia, consisting of trade and not much more. Europe would get access to a huge pool of resources to boost its industry, and stopping to antagonize our neighboring countries would help to drive down military tensions in the continent.
NATO was conceived as an anti-Soviet military pact, and any excuse for its usefulness expired after 1991. Now it's just a military playground for US interests, keeping European money flowing to the Wunderwaffen of the USA Military Industrial Complex, and maintaining Yankee military bases in the continent.
Big imperialist capitalist countries want to have spheres of influence, especially in their immediate proximity, this is basic geopolitics. Intruding reach other's leads to escalation. It really is that simple.
Also, in case you didn't think of this: joining a military pact isn't a human right. It is totally possible and sometimes very rational to say "no" to a country who wants to join it. I'd bet my ass you would have absolutely no problem with the EU rejecting countries from joining such as Morocco, Algeria, Libya or Saudi Arabia. If you don't see that NATO allowing neighboring countries to Russia to join it is an escalation towards Russia, I don't know what to tell you. I tried to explain how Mexico joining a military pact with China and/or Russia would be a horrible idea in terms of escalation and risk of war.
How did Europe respond to the genocide in Gaza? To the invasion of Iraq? To the blanket bombing of Vietnam, Laos and Korea? To the invasion of Afghanistan? To the coups in essentially all countries in Latin America? To the invasion attempt on Cuba?
Why should Europe exclusively react to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
that isn't much of an answer. I still have no idea what your position is.
to answer your question though, I don't think any of those invasions you listed are good things. I don't think they had good outcomes, and I don't like them
I equally condemn them, yes.
My position is: Russian government sucks, it's a far right wing nationalist antidemocratic regime. Europe is just not really better or in a moral position to believe itself better than Russia. We have our own far right problems that we should locally take care of. If you ask me, a communist, I suggest having radical left wing organizations, strong unionization, and class struggle against the oligarchs and capitalists in Europe, and I would strongly encourage Russian citizens to do the same with their own government.
That said, I think that war is the least desirable outcome, possibly especially because I'm a young conscriptable male by demographics. My stance as a European is antimilitarism, I think Europe is as much an evil empire as Russia if not worse, and I don't want state expenditure to be directed towards weapons and tanks, I want it to be directed to healthcare, education and pensions.
I believe that Russia assumes an aggressive militaristic stance with its neighboring countries that it considera its sphere of influence, because it doesnt have the soft power tools (propaganda, economics, intelligence, media control, cultural hegemony) that the west does, and it sees the west intruding in its sphere of influence (e.g. color revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia). The only way the Russian oligarchy and capitalists have of maintaining its sphere of influence, given the lack of soft powers to do so in comparison with the west, is through military power.
I want to leave Russia alone with its sphere of influence, and have friendly relations with it and China, and not have war.
Because appeaemt doesn't work?
They're not willing to engage in good faith. If they were they never would have started the "special operations" in the first place. Nor would they be asking to keep all of their gains in the war.
They were more than willing to engage in good faith from late 1990s to early 2010s, it's the constant western meddling in Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and other Russian sphere of influence countries, coupled with the expansion of NATO, that pushed Russia to isolation. Russia doesn't have the economic or soft power to fight the US+EU in that field, so either US+EU accept Russia peacefully having its own sphere of influence, or Russia will naturally attempt to do so militarily.
The USA doesn't need to militarily engage in Mexico because it already belongs to its sphere of influence, in Venezuela they don't enjoy that so the natural response is to threaten with military invasion (as it's doing now). It's basic geopolitics.
so either US+EU accept Russia peacefully having its own sphere of influence, or Russia will naturally attempt to do so militarily.
Aww poor Russia, they were just trying to "peacefully have its own sphere of influence".
Give me a fucking break.
And what the US is doing in Venezuela is not a "natural response" to anything, and to try to point to it as a justification for Russia's actions is actually insane.
What about the stolen ukrainian children
It's mostly magnified out of reality. The source for the vast majority of "stolen Ukrainian children" numbers (supposedly hovering around the tens of thousands according to western media) is a Ukrainian ministry. You don't believe Ukraine has any reasons to exaggerate the numbers in atrocities for international image purposes? When the numbers are roughly confirmed by independent journalistic work, I'll take the claims as they are, but until then I'll be cautious and not take Ukrainian government propaganda at face value, the same way that I don't take Russian government propaganda at face value when they talk of genocide of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine pre-2022.
theses russians are some of the worst neighbors europe could have
Russians could say the same about Europe contributing to genocide in Palestine, to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the bombing of Libya and Yugoslavia. Or those don't count somehow? Do you really think Europe has any moral high ground to stand on seeing its current support to the Netanyahu genocidal regime?
Cyber warfare is universal, and CIA actually dominates simply by the fact that most social media are owned by US companies. If you don't think Twitter being owned by Elon Musk counts as western Cyberwarfare you're plainly wrong. Chinese cyberwarfare through TikTok arguably is the biggest contributor to awareness of the Palestinian genocide in the west. As for the rest of comments, they're isolated minor incidents during wartime, I could be talking shit about Poland keeping a Spanish journalist prisoner for years without evidence because he has Russian ancestors, but I don't bring these things up because all states do dirty shit.
Already tried that. We hoped that by buying massive amounts of Russian oil and gas they would see that peace is worth a lot more than war.
But they decided war anyways. And suddenly we had to find a replacement for all that energy.
Already tried that. We hoped that by buying massive amounts of Russian oil and gas they would see that peace is worth a lot more than war
And Russia responded to that positively. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were even negotiations to make Russia enter the European Union. Those hopes for Russia were shattered when Europe and the US kept interfering in its sphere of influence (Georgia, Ukraine, etc) through colour revolutions and propaganda. The culminating point where Russia saw there was no possibility was when in 2014, the democratically elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich was removed by a US-sponsored colour revolution (see Victoria Nuland's leaked phonecalls), that's actually what triggered the invasion of Crimea. It was Russia's way of saying "I cannot win the soft-power competition against the US, so if my only way to maintain a sphere of influence is through military power, so be it".
If you still don't believe allowing for a Russian "sphere of influence" is an important geopolitical item if we want worldwide peace, imagine how USA people and their government would react to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru entering a military alliance with Russia and China and started to import military material from said countries and have Chinese and/or Russian military bases. Last time something similar happened with Cuba, the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
My brother in foreign affairs, Russia has been an aggressor of Ukraine it's whole existence.
Ukraine signed an agreement which cited that it would give up nuclear warheads for protection by the USA against Russia.
That protection never happened. Crimea was taken. Chaos ensued on the borders. Then Russia struck their fucking capital.
AND YOU WANT US TO FUCKING TRADE WITH RUSSIA, lol... Surely that will fix everything.
This you?
I implore them to try something it shouldn't take much to fuck them at this point.
Bro I'm not gonna be in any trenches
Then you'll be in jail. Disobeying your country's military or dodging conscription gets you that.
USA has never been happy about coming to Europe's defence. But they eventually have plenty of times.
I mean, before Pearl Harbor, 88% of americans were opposed to joining the war. After Pearl Harbor, 97% supported joining the war. If Japan had kept it in their pants, so to speak, a lot of things might've been very different.
If Russia decides to go from Temu Nazis into actual Nazis and attack the rest of Europe, USA is going to be part of it at some point. I'm hoping on our side.
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
At least 11 killed in South Africa mass shooting
Gunmen stormed a hostel near Pretoria and opened fire, killing 11 people including a three-year-old.Jessica Rawnsley (BBC News)
illegal drinking establishments, where mass shootings are common?
police shut down 12,000 such premises outlets between April and September this year
Why is licensing bars so difficult, and why is there such "anger" over them? Sounds almost like 1930s US prohibition, where organized crime (police???) are intimidating for protection?
One of the very few businesses excluded from the municipal licence exemption.
Cannot start a watering hole without the municipality's blessings (some money needs to grease the wheels).
But basically led to a lot of underground drinking spots. They were a godsend during COVID lockdowns, any sale of alcohol was prohibited, there was some guy that was killed by the military when they found him drinking a beer in his own yard (which technically was legal).
But yeah some stupid alcohol rules here in SA, not all for example drinking and driving, but most
Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.
I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.
But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.
I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.
I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.
But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.
Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time
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You got two options. Both suck.
- Call support. Have fun. I'd rather rip out my eyeballs in this scenario because you're not a paying customer. You will get the shit-tier service, will likely be hung up on, and reexplain the situation to 3+ individuals over the course of 4 hours and ultimately get nothing done.
- Resubscribe. Finish the job. The odds of your accounts db being wiped are kinda slim. Sucks because you do what you explicitly sought to avoid: pay Microsoft.
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No backup plan for Milan Olympic ice hockey arena as construction goes down to the wire
MILAN (AP) — There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on time.
Construction on the arena that is set to welcome NHL players back to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and its completion is going right down to the wire.
A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena — the new, 16,000-seat venue on the outskirts of Milan — had to be moved, and new test events aren’t scheduled until Jan. 9-11.
https://apnews.com/article/milan-cortina-olympics-hockey-arena-bb158ccdaadf24daea1c3ae73250264f
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I saw this headline and my thinking is: "Good".
It's always felt really, really stupid that part of landing the Olympics is the promise of building new arenas and stadiums, and those arenas and stadiums seem to sit unused afterward. Just a huge waste when so many countries and cities already have facilities for professional sports.
I thought for a long time that there should be 4 sites for the Olympics, two for summer and two for winter. The Olympic committee maintains them with help from the host county and donations or dues from the participants counties.
Pick 4 suitable sites in as stable countries as you can find, and build world class facilities there. This whole building all new facilities every time is fucking stupid and wasteful. Besides it's been shown that the "revenue generated" doesn't make up for the costs to build, run, and clean up after all of it.
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Apparently NodeBB has it, there was talk of getting them to work together
Interstellar works for me.
PieFed : Front-end and Apps
[Client apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)piefed.social
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Sudo Clean Up My Workbench
[Engineezy] might have been watching a 3D printer move when inspiration struck: Why not build a robot arm to clean up his workbench? Why not, indeed? Well, all you need is a 17-foot-long X-axis and…Hackaday
Swiss voters reject mandatory national service for women and new inheritance tax
Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as all men must do already.
Official results. with counting still ongoing in some areas after a referendum, showed that more than half of Switzerland’s cantons, or states, had rejected the “citizen service initiative” by wide margins. That meant it was defeated, because proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.
Voters also heavily rejected a separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or inheritances of more than 50 million francs ($62 million), with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-national-service-44e23e7d0579058f2bc69dd9ce7e655d
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Sexist is debatable but... yeah
But everyone worshiping the rich? Yeah, that is Switzerland in a nutshell. A decade or so ago I spent a week in Switzerland on holiday and... even the state funded museums kinda felt like "And then so and so developed a really cool technology that saved countless lives. AND THEN THEY GOT RICH!!! FRANCA FRANCA BILS Y'ALL!!!! And here is what they bought with it and the house they lived in and how much paper it takes to print out their monthly statement and... Oh, the tech? Whatever, nobody cares about that"
I don't really see women voting to have themselves be drafted.
I also don't see them voting to make rich people slightly less rich.
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It would also work if more men would take care of kids, the elderly or do other chores without any pay and skip any career for that.
Being drafted is different than doing chores or working in care roles. Everyone capable should be responsible for the defense of those who are not in times of war regardless of sex.
There are also plenty of care roles, and chores, in military service.
Yes more Men should take on the life outside of work, but that has nothing to do with 50% of a countries population being forced to give up and risk their lives while the other isn't even though they are capable of, and excel in, combat and support roles.
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Being drafted is different than doing chores or working in care roles. Everyone capable should be responsible for the defense of those who are not in times of war regardless of sex.
And working in factories, taking care of kids, and just existing are very much part of the war effort. And their lives are very much at risk during a war. Just ask Ukraine.
It is one of those knock-ons from (especially) WW1 and 2 where draft dodging and "conscientious objectors" were such a risk as more and more people came back from the front with grotesque wounds and mental trauma. A culture of "only cowards don't go to war" was built up VERY rapidly... and caused immense issues as young men were unable to fight due to physical ailments or mental trauma so bad that even the 1910s/40s cared.
Except also Rosie the Riveter and all that.
It all ties into the "myth" of "civilian targets" during a full scale war. EVERYONE can agree that blowing up a hospital is evil. What about a factory that makes shoes? What about one that makes boots? Shells? Similarly, EVERYONE can agree that blowing up a residential area is how you go to hell. Now about about a residential area on a military base? Now what about the barracks on a base? Are you only allowed to attack the enemy once they step foot off base?
And going back to that hospital... what about a power plant? Because a LOT of lives are lost when hospitals have extended outages. But those plants ALSO literally power the war effort.
Which is the reality of things. When you just have a massive global north military destroying a country in the name of "counter-terrorism"? Yes, the reality is that a lot of the terrorist/guerilla cells are going to fundamentally be in residential areas and next to hospitals both for optics and convenience. But there is a LOT of "oh... there were some hamas soldiers in that children's ward, sure" evil.
But when an entire country is mobilized for war? The distinction between civilian and military becomes INCREDIBLY murky. Which... we can very much see in Ukraine and russia.
Because, yes, you need people on the front line. You also need people on the backlines for logistics and support. And... you need people just living their lives so that there is something worth fighting for. Rotating troops back for leave is immensely important for morale and... if they return to a skeleton crew raising children in abandoned dormitories? They can never recharge from The War and that leave stops mattering. Which leads to rapid desertion and even worse mental trauma.
And... The Enemy is very aware of that.
There is also the emprical evidence that women make less over the course of their careers. An extra year or two of work experience can help to offset that.
Obviously not everyone falls into those gender norm buckets. But... they are "gender norms" for a reason. And while I don't know how our trans friends impact that (or if Switzerland acknowledges their existence...), it isn't the worst way to break things down to having roughly half the population on the frontlines and the other half keeping the country running.
But this is the kind of thing that brings out the MRA tendencies in everyone as a kneejerk reaction.
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Like no one says "if more women are raped than men, we should rape more men to make it fair". I know it's not the same situation its just a abusive comparison to strongly show the pertinence of a stance like "even if it's not fair, the most people we can get out of horrible situations the better it is".
Oh give me a break, women are getting away worse in so many facets of life. When we have fixed discrimination against women we can talk about them doing mandatory civil service.
Edit: Did not know that on Lemmy we have such an issue with women's rights.
Nobody claimed that women are not capable. Where are all these weird claims coming from that nobody ever said a word about?
And nobody ever asked to maintain privilege. Claiming however that voting against this was in any way sexist is absolutely ridiculous as long as we maintain a system where women are not seen as equals but as unworthy of equal treatment.
No they should not? Nobody said that.
Also nobody who is in the army here actually believes they will ever see a war. Most people who serve just hate it and see it as a waste of time that will never amount to anything.
slightly more equal
all animals are equal but some are more equal than others (/s)
But then Men's blood is cheap to you right. So what if they get their limbs blown up.
That's not suffering to you.
Personally, I think having a draft is a terrible idea regardless of gender.
They voted down adding women to this already bad idea. Potentially in the future, they remove the draft altogether.
I guess my point is, why would you want them to make the situation worse just so it is equal?
Potentially in the future, they remove the draft altogether.
Support for mandatory military service in Switzerland has been going up in recent years, so I wouldn't count on it.
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I think, the initiative was rejected by all parties,but probably for different reasons. If you look at the position of the parties in this table
Edit: this is the position of the left
NON à l'initiative « service citoyen » - PS Suisse
Encore plus de travail non rémunéré pour les femmes, NON à l'initiative « service citoyen » le 30 novembre 2025.Maxime Barbey (SP Schweiz)
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Hey! You lost this:
*Hand over a "/s"
What is not well enough reprensented in this post is that the Service Citoyen was not only about makimg women do a mandatory service. It was to transform the outdated and regressive mandatory service for men into a more general service to the collective that treated security not as a entirely militaristic issue but as a wholistic one.
Now parliament will interpret this as a mandate to cull the existing useful civil service and force every men (and potentially women too) into the military.
I have become desensitized
Weird that hearing about fascism has left you incapable of identifying fascists. I never see your type have this problem with Muslims, Feminists, or Tankies.
As an American, I have no room at all to judge this decision. But
proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.
That sounds amazing. Let's do that, please.
I mean, straight popular vote would probably be better. But this could really do what the Electoral College stans say that it was made to do, without doing what it actually does.
That sounds amazing.
It sounds arbitrary and heavily weighted to favor the smaller cantons. Same problem we have with the US Senate and the filibuster. Representatives for a meager 30M voters can obstruct policy championed by the other 300M
This bullshit-argument again.
Guess what, money will circle around the economy and it will be taxed on different occasions and often several times during its lifespan (whatever that means for todays mostly digital money anyways).
Especially when things (or money) change owners, tax is to be expected.
When you got paid, you paid income tax, and when you buy stuff with it - oh my gosh! - taxes again!! (In the form of VAT) Outrageous!
This is such a common thing, that it simply baffles me how anyone could think that "that money has been taxed already" is a sound argument.
You don't pay VAT/GST on the money, you pay it on the product's price (and you can avoid it if the receiptent agrees to get paid in cash and don't show it in the books). For assets, you are buying it with your money that you have already earnd that has been already taxed. You also have to pay a stamp duty to the government when you buy any asset, you pay registration fees, you pay all the property & Municipal taxes and when you sell it, you will be paying a capital gains tax anyways, so what's the point of charging an inheritance tax?
Simple question to you: My networth is just 100k USD, I inherited 500k USD (current market value) house from my parents, and the inheritance tax is at 20%, wouldn't I lose all my existing money and assets I for something that is just worth 500k USD as an unliquid asset?
To sell that house you will have to find a buyer which is not an easy or cost-free task. If the house doesn't sell, you will be paying property taxes anyways, and once you sell it, you will pay the capital gains tax as well so what's the point of inheritance tax?
What I think is a better solution: Define a certain threshold where the value of inheritance is above a level where the person inheriting becomes wealthy beyond their and their family's actual needs, and distribute that wealth among the lower income people in the form of permanent housing.
You don't pay VAT/GST on the money, you pay it on the product's price
And how do you pay that price? With money. This is pure sophism.
And, duh, you can avoid paying taxes if you cheat... that's not exclusive to VAT.
And you are further elaborating my point. You will be taxed on different occasions even when the money or asset doesn't even change ownership. That's my whole point. The argument that you already paid taxes on some money isn't really a solid point against inheritance tax, it's a common occurence in many areas of life. Yet it always comes up when inheritance tax is discussed.
Just like your example with the inheritance of a small home that will ruin the recipient. The example is always constructed in bad faith with a lousy tax policy in the first place. No one is trying to ruin the average joe who happens to inherit grampas house.
A better design, and the one all supporters of inheritance tax I know argue for, is one with a reasonably high allowance, to avoid these scenarios, and even if you cross the allowance threshhold by a little bit, you only have to pay the fictious 20% on the amount exceeding the allowance.
So say we have an (unreasonably low, but just for the sake of the example) allowance of 400K, now you inherit that 500K property you'll have to pay (500K-400K)x0.2=20K.
If you wanted to protect small inheritances even more, you could design a progressive tax, too.
This, with a much more reasonable allowance sounds a bit like your so called 'better solution'.
This, with a much more reasonable allowance sounds a bit like your so called 'better solution'.
That is exactly what I said. Couldn't put it in better words. Exemptions. Only difference I said is exempt the amount upto, let's say, what a family of 3 people needs for let's say 3 years. That way the inheriter won't have to pay a superficial tax while still maintaining a livable lifestyle. Charging inheritance tax on poor people (however little) puts a lot of burden on them for something they are not willingly earning or purchasing. Charging millionaires and billionaires with inheritance tax is better as there will be a continuous cycle of wealth redistribution and thus they won't be able abuse their powers. But wealth tax is more efficient that way as it would prevent someone becoming obscenely wealthy in the first place.
Taxing the poor has never worked, they will hoard more unaccounted whatever wealth they have to avoid those taxes rather than owning real estate, shared, bonds, etc and participating in the economy. No one likes paying taxes — especially on something which they are not willingly earning or purchasing.
And how do you pay that price? With money. This is pure sophism.
Also you pay VAT and GST only once — so it is not an example of double taxation. These have been designed in such a way that the only the final customer pays tax on it as the final entity in the supply chain. Whatever VAT/GST the retailer, supplier and the service provider paid is refunded by the government in the form of ITC (Input Tax Credit).
Charging millionaires and billionaires with inheritance tax is better as there will be a continuous cycle of wealth redistribution and thus they won't be able abuse their powers. But wealth tax is more efficient that way as it would prevent someone becoming obscenely wealthy in the first place.
And that is the point of inheritance tax. There might be other means to achieve that same goal, but I suspect inheritance tax is politically more realistic. In our western societies theres a deeply ingrained narrative of 'rags to riches' and how the rich earned their money because they contribute so much to society and worked hard for it, coupled with the wishful thinking of 'it might be me some day'. I don't have to preach, how flawed those ideas are, but it is much easier within that ideology to argue for an inheritance tax, where it is obvious that the heir didn't have to do anything to really deserve it.
Wealth tax needs a bit more of a marxist understanding of economic mechanisms.
Not that insane. Most people only concern themselves with their own issues. And if you're a 40 year old whose childhood home is now worth 500k or whatever and you have to pay 200k in taxes in order to inherit it, then you probably want to vote against it because otherwise the government will take it.
Okay, take all that with a grain of salt because I'm not too familiar with inheritance law, but it's based on multiple similar stories I've heard from people.
I still think it should be taxed, don't get me wrong. But I understand why people are against it.
with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Maybe the people wanted to have actual social services provided to them instead of climate action.
Over 60 Million dollars is a lot of money. More money than your kid needs to live comfortably and never have to work ever again. That's so much money you are creating a family that never has to experience the life of a normal person and can use that money to influence politics to compound that effect.
How much money does a person need to live comfortably without having to contribute labor? 2-5 million? Is living in luxury but not so much that someone who's never had a real job can just buy elections unfair?
ITT: people judging the vote and the voters by the magnanimous title alone.
The initiatives were worded and implemented so poorly, that it wouldn't surprise me if the initiants wanted to lose both these votes.
- The inheritance tax would have caused mass nationalisations and it had pegged the tax proceeds to go towards climate goals instead of let's say the federal pension fund deficit (AHV-Loch). It would be incorrect to state that the voters don't support an inheritance tax or climate goals based on this vote.
- The "service citoyen" proposal would have made some kind of civil or military service mandatory for all, but would have essentially reduced the military to a volunteer force, which would be socially unacceptable. The Swiss have a historically repeatedly confirmed will to keep a citizen's militia as the country's only security force.
I'm against the second initiative too, but your rationalization is wild.
Sumatra residents loot for food and water after deadly floods
Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday.The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — with the number expected to rise as more bodies are recovered — and displaced thousands. The deluges triggered landslides, damaged roads, cut off parts of the island, and downed communication lines.
The challenging weather conditons and the lack of heavy equipment also hampered rescue efforts. Aid has been slow to reach the hardest-hit city of Sibolga and the district of Central Tapanuli district in North Sumatra.
Sumatra residents loot for food and water after deadly floods
Authorities report that some residents of flood-hit Sumatra have resorted to looting, seeking food and waterThe Associated Press (ABC News)
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But now that we have "peace" in Gaza, we can continue shipping weapons with a good conscience
It's all so fucked up. It took 80 years to get that way. How long to unfuck? In theory, we (several countries) just need to stop actively supporting Israel. But there's so much political fuckery in the way, and the more one side of the political spectrum demands this, the more certain others will ride the opposite.
Alaskan tribes sue B.C. gov't over mines in far northwest
A group of tribal nations in Alaska has gone to B.C. Supreme Court demanding their voice be heard on major mining projects in the province’s northwest.
They claim the British Columbia government has failed to consult them on major mining projects proposed for the region — some of which have been identified for fast-tracking by the provincial and federal governments against the backdrop of the trade war with the United States.
"Our main goal is protect the rivers, protect the salmon, protect the culture,” said Guy Archibald, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC).
The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.
Isn't Alaska part of the US? Why are they fighting this in a Canadian court?
US citizens in Alaska don't get a say in the affairs of another, sovereign nation like Canada.
The commission represents 14 tribes, which include members of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian, whose territory extends across both B.C. and Alaska.
Are they marked on a map? Are they recognized by any other nation (not including by their own)?
If not, then they aren't a nation.
Edit: Just to be clear, Canadian citizens DO have the right to challenge their government. American citizens, however, Don't get a say in the matter. This is between Canada and IT'S citizens, not the citizens of another, entirely separate country.
Sanctions haven’t sidelined Russia’s shadow fleet. So Ukraine has turned to drones
Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey.
The Gambian-flagged ships Kairos and Virat sustained explosions Friday evening after crews told Turkish officials the boats had been struck.
Kairos, which was headed to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, was partially engulfed in flames, and all 25 crew members were evacuated to safety. The crew on board Virat reported it had been hit twice and sustained what appeared to be minor damage. Neither vessel was carrying a shipment of crude at the time.
In a statement, an official with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the attacks on the two ships were carried out by the SBU and the Ukrainian navy using “sea baby” drones, which can travel long distances and are equipped with reinforced warheads.
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As long as they are not full of oil, which would cause ecological damage, Ukraine is doing us all a service in 'retiring' these boats. These shadow vessels are catastrophies waiting to happen, as they are below standard, non insured, poorly maintained, and falling apart while transporting crude oil and chemicals. They also turn off their transponders, increasing likelyhood of collisions.
When they spill their oil in your countrys waterways, you will have to pay to clean it up. It's not cheap. To Putin that is an externalized cost for his invasions of neighboring countries.
The only way they stop is if it's not economically sound. That happens when the ships start sinking. It's cheaper to sink all the ships than it is to clean up an oil spill.
Help nature, help your wallet, help Ukraine, sink a shadow tanker.
I was thinking this as well, but it seems to me that the risk of a full tanker ship sinking because of poor maintenance is extreme enough to justify taking them out when they're mostly empty.
It's another tough decision that Ukraine is being forced to make. They have my respect.
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Apologies for the poor grammar, English IS my first language and so I'm rather flagrant with runons.
I'm really not half as tech literate as half the people on the fediverse, but my noia about the state of online cloud hosting and lack of control over my data has led me far out of my depth.
I'm wanting to set up a LibreCMC router and connect it to some type of home server (made of local office E-Waste) for media storage, email hosting, and fucking Minecraft servers or something.
I promise I've tried my best in searching for the problem but often find myself floundering in 3-letter acronyms, and relations between systems I don't understand (like dockers, or the Jellyfin vs Plex argument.)
I don't need an explanation but maybe some orientation on where I am to look for resources on these topics that assume I'm the 6 celled neurobase I am.
Thank you for your help, or your chastising.
Edit: thank you everyone for your replies! I'll hopefully keep you all updated as I work through learning Linux terminals, and destroying terabytes of data in horribly predictable mistakes : )
If you go for openwrt instead of librecmc the amount of guides and docs will skyrocket.
Compatible hardware for openwrt is found here:
toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal
A tip is to sort on the 5.0GHz table so all the devices that support ac and ax (newer wifi standards) are shown first.
They have a lot of good guides here:
openwrt.org/docs/guide-quick-s…
Regarding home server you would want to decide on the host operating system first. Examples are proxmox (hypervisor, controlled mainly through a web ui), a standard linux server with kvm/qemu and docker, openmediavault (NAS operating system) or Windows 11 with HyperV (please don't).
First thing after that is to figure out of to make and restore backups of the system. Knowing that you can restore everything to how it was last night makes tinkering a lot less frustrating. Proxmox has builtin backup systems, with linux I like BORG Backup.
Regarding services you will want to read up on dockers and find a docker management system you like. I run portainer, others swear by dockge and yet some prefer the command line.
Regarding video streaming; If you don't a lifetime license for Plex I would go for Jellyfin. Plex free is continuing to lose, not gain, functions as of now.
Immich is popular for photo storage.
Regarding game servers I think pterodactyl.io/ is popular to make it simpler but you can probably find a plain docker image to host minecraft. If you wanna mod mc I know Pterodactyl makes it simpler to add mods on the server.
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Comprehensive list of devices compatible with OpenWrt firmware. Find the perfect hardware for your open-source networking project.toh.openwrt.org
I had never heard of dockge before, but this sounds like the killer feature for me:
File based structure - Dockge won't kidnap your compose files, they are stored on your drive as usual. You can interact with them using normal docker compose commands
Does that mean I can just point it at my existing docker compose files?
My current layout is a folder for each service/stack , which contains docker-compose.yaml + data-folders etc for the service. docker-compose and related config files are versioned in git.
I have portainer, but rarely use it , and won't let it manage the configuration, because that interfered with versioning the config in git.
Does that mean I can just point it at my existing docker compose files?
You add the compose via the DockGE UI, it then creates the necessary files and folders in /opt/stacks/. Not sure whether it works the other way around: to create the folder, copy the compose file in there, and see if it is recognized.
I've been using it for over a year, works very smooth.
/opt/stacks to borgbase. I imagine it should be possible, but it might depend on how the projects are arranged in git. Monorepo might give trouble, but separate repo's might work.
I tried out Komodo, but gave up on it. I looked at dockge after, but opted not to try it out. I prefer the IaaC setup with my compose in a repo for versioning and rollback. And while I think you can probably combine the two, komodo was getting in the way most of the time. It centered around secrets management and generating those secrets at run time.
That said, I feel like if I expand beyond a single server I may go back to one of these tools
I hope someone else can pitch in with a more indepth instructions, but two things I wanted to mention:
First, forget about hosting your own email from home. Seriously. Even those who do it professionally don't want to deal with that at home. You'll find people on fediverse who do it but I'm sure plenty will give you this same recommendation/warning. It's a huge hassle and it's so easy to get your domain blocked/ending up on a blacklist and way harder to get out of it.
Second, I can personally recommend linuxupskillchallenge.org/ if you are really starting from scratch ( there's a community here: !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev ). This is how I started and set up my own linux server and started self hosting stuff on it. It's really basic and won't teach you everything you need but it's a great start for setting up your own server. You can do everything with a local server at home that you have set up.
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I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.
To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.
Omg thank you so much for providing that first link. I’ve wanted to try Linux and to run a home server, but I am like OP. I’m not as tech illiterate as most, but I also don’t know nearly as much as others here. I know just enough to not fuck up my pc, but I had trouble finding a start from the basics instructions.
The Linux skill challenge looks like exactly what I wanted,
Maybe I can start shedding some light off docker.
When you start setting up a server, you end up having to setup many things. You install various programs and their dependencies. Sometimes those dependencies can conflict with each other, or you mess up your system by manually pasting some command you found on stack exchange. Then you need to manually keep all the software you use up-to-date and pray they don't brick your server and force you to start over. And then when you need to update your OS or move to a new machine, you need to repeat this whole dance again.
Docker is like legos. You want to install jellyfin? There's already a docker imagine for that. You just spin it up with some little configure file and you're done. You want to setup a firewall? You want to setup https access? Automatic updates? There are docker images already made for it.
So you keep on setting up those docker containers and they all run in isolation but can communicate with each other. If you break something, you just restart one or all the containers and you always start fresh. Docker keeps nothing in memory, unless you explicitly want it (e.g. Your jellyfin config will presist in external config files).
Want to move to a new machine? You can just copy over the scripts that run the docker containers and those config files. Software updates? Just update the docker container and it handles all dependencies.
Also, Jellyfin all the way. It's open source and free all the way.
I highly recommend you use Proxmox as the base OS. Proxmox makes it easy to spin up virtual machines, and easy to back up and revert to backups. So you're free to play around and try stupid stuff. If you break something in your VM, just restore a backup.
In addition to virtual machines, Proxmox also does "LXC containers" , which are system level containers. They are basically a very light weight virtual machine, with some caveats like running the same kernel as the host.
Most self-hosting software is released as a docker-image. Docker is application level containers, meaning only the bare minimum to run the application is included. You don't enter a docker container to update packages, instead you pull down a new version of the image from the author.
There are 3 ways to run docker on Proxmox:
* Install docker inside a virtual machine (recommended).
* Install docker inside a LXC Containers (not recommended because of various edge cases)
* Install docker directly on the Proxmox host (not recommended for various reasons).
* (There is ongoing work for running docker images directly in Proxmox, this is in beta/preview since Proxmox 9.1).
The "overhead" of running docker inside a VM on the host is so negligible, you don't need to worry about it.
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I think your best bet is to pick one thing that you can get a good guide for and start from there. If you really want to learn its probably better to start with a Debian or arch setup than proxmox, but that's really going to depend on what you really care about learning.
I know it will be an unpopular opinion but you can use perplexity or Claude to help you find useful sources online if you're striking out on your searching. Most of the time I find they do better with more obscure issues, but those should be rare if you're following a guide
but you can use perplexity or Claude
For things that are not super complicated, Grok is pretty fair but it has it's limitations when you get into complexities. At the very least it gives you something to go on for further reading of a topic you don't necessarily have a firm grip on. I've also found that if you ask a question, finish up with 'explain it for a noob' or 'EILI5'. That seems to get the more accurate, step by step instructions, broken down into bite sized chunks, and doesn't assume you know what to do in between steps.
Using an AI is a great way to get learning materials tailored specifically to you.
But after you've learned from it, before you move on to another topic, you HAVE to verify your understanding against more trustworthy sources that you previously couldn't understand. Ideally with an online course that actually gives you a test.
I got started self-hosting using a small Lenovo Thinkcentre and an HP EliteDesk. Both are available to purchase for around 100 dollars on ebay. I have installed Proxmox on both of them. Proxmox is an operating system built on Debian Linux and is used to host containers and virtual machines. It has a great WebGUI to access the server.
Using Proxmox I have set up a Pelican container for game servers hosting, I run my own personal wiki, I have PiHole, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and a lot more.
To access your things out of home you can use a VPN to connect to your own network or open ports in your router. I only had to open port 80 and 443 to expose my reverse proxy to the internet and then I use the reverse proxy to route the traffic internally to the correct port and project. I also purchases a domain name and now I can use jellyfin.mydomain.com or wiki.mydomain.com or whatever.mydomain.com to access each project I self-host. It's very convenient!
Trying new projects is super easy and if you want to remove something then just delete the container. No old leftovers will stay on the host system.
There are also community scripts available to make hosting even easier. It will install and configure the containers for you.
community-scripts.github.io/Pr…
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The official website for the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community) repository. Featuring over 400+ scripts to help you manage your Proxmox Virtual Environment.Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
Russia accidentally destroys its only way of sending astronauts to space
Russia accidentally destroys its only way of sending astronauts to space
For the first time since 1961, Russia has lost the ability to launch crewed rocketsAnthony Cuthbertson (The Independent)
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Roscosmos shared footage of the launch, which showed part of the launchpad collapse into an exhaust trench below as a result of the rocket’s blast.
Whelp, guess that's the end of things for a bit. It'll be interesting to see where Pootin manages to dig up the millions he'll need for repairs.
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Russia isn't socialist. Defenestrated oligarch pocket's content moves to the next oligarch in line.
But calling them oligarchs isn't correct. In Russia those people don't control the government as oligarchs should by definition, they are just temporary wardens of the objects and in charge only while the tsar is pleased with them.
Sounds like they haven't had sufficient funds to keep it in good repair, yet they're announcing that after decomissioning the ISS they will launch their own Russia-only space station. Baloney?
Anyhow I feel they're busy with other things right now and launching astronauts is not their #1 priority. But this could point to Russia's economy/society crumbling more and more, so it's still a net positive.
The only thing that really pisses me off here is that it will most likely play into Musky Melon's hand.
They'll find a way to launch it. They'll go back into the old Soviet mindset of ~~throwing blini at a wall until something sticks~~ sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn't exist.
And they'll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you're going to space!
automatically looting their country for more than 30 years
Even the Soviet Union did this. While Russia itself was unable to sustain itself, more and more countries from the fringes had to help out by exporting the fruit of their work, resources etc.
SIM binding in India: What it means for WhatsApp, Telegram users and why the government wants it
The Department of Telecommunications has told these apps that within the next 90 days, they must make sure their services work only when the correct SIM card is in the phone. If you remove that SIM, the app should stop working. This is known as SIM binding.
- Continuous SIM presence:
Apps must check regularly whether the original SIM card is still inserted in your phone. If not, the app must automatically stop working until you insert the correct SIM again.- Web access restrictions:
If you use WhatsApp Web or similar web versions, the government wants you to get logged out automatically every six hours. To log in again, you will have to scan a QR code with the app. This is to ensure the device and user are genuine.People who use these apps on secondary devices without a SIM, or those who keep their SIM in one phone but use the app on another, may face interruptions
I don't even see the point of this:
- Surveillance?
- Some Incoming telecom plan change which will require you to have a special plan for using Messengers because no one uses SMS and don't bother to have an SMS plan? so telecom networks can make some more money?
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Charitable explanation: by allowing people to use WhatsApp/signal etc without holding onto the sim card, it opens them up to risk that someone else gains control of the phone number, and can then take over that account.
But that doesnt really require that the number stays in the same phone, just under the same persons control. Periodic SMS code check-in would be sufficient.
If a phone gets stolen, you can easily file a complaint, get that sim deactivated and a replacement within an hour. Put it in another phone and logout of any accounts from the stolen phone. If the stolen phone has a lock, then it is pretty difficult for a random thief to extract the data from the phone.
Source: My phone was stolen in 2014 and had my brother’s phone number in it who was in another country. My parents lodged a complaint the next day, deactivated the sim and got a replacement in 3 hours. My phone didn’t have a lock but thankfully I did not have any sensitive data on it and I reset my google account password ASAP after I lost it and logged out of all devices. I still use all the important accounts that were on that phone till this date.
So I doubt the new measures will be any useful given that you already need to verify your govt id and biometrics to get a phono number in the first place.
What can you really do when your phone number automatically gets blocked when calling and people will automatically assume you are sketchy when they hear your accent.
And I follow tons of Indian academic content, they tend to explain really difficult concept really easily. I even understand their language so theres that.
Sheer uselessness. It will do as much to reduce fraud as the UK law has done to reduce porn content for non adults. What it will mean is that people with multiple SIM, will need to have an always active plan on that number, something telecoms will really like.
Also, it essentially means the death knell for WhatsApp Web (in India) because as stated in article, who wants to log in every SIX hours.
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Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale)
TL;DR:
Unsure if I should just run Syncthing, or do a Nextcloud. Tailscale seems at risk of enshittification, so do I find alternatives or just use it for ease? Is Immich easy enough to set up without Tailscale? Stick with docker or podman for ease? Are externsl drives easy to work with? Should my RAID1 be NTFS or Ext4?
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I recently got my drive bay and Optiplex and have already flashed Proxmox onto it so I could eagerly spin up some local services to see what I wanna stick with. Or at least I tried anyway 😅
Jellyfin in a debian container was quick, painless and seems to work fine. But I was trying to set up Nextcloud and I felt lost, with the many different ways people go about it. When I tried to set up Nextcloud AIO in a Debian VM with docker it forces you to set a domain for your instance, but I only want to do local for now (ease and security until I get the hang of things). Which then runs into the hosting a domain via Tailscale problem. 90% of guides, videos, scripts, etc. seem to only focus/support Tailscale, but they force you to use third-party accounts for logins, and I started this whole thing to distance myself from Big Tech. Is Headscale or NetBird a better idea (when I do decide to remotely access)? Who's more beginner friendly? Similarly, docker or podman?
I do know the difference between Syncthing and Nextcloud, but I wonder which I should stick with. I want to start being better about backing up my phone and laptop, and I know I could use syncthing to share these backups with each other, but I thought it'd be nice to try to replace my minimal Google Drive and Onedrive usage with Nextcloud and just put everything there. I'd still have to backup that data to an external location though if I want to follow the 3-2-1. So should I just do encrypted backups and put them in a cheap provider's cloud, and drop the idea of a selfhosted cloud?
Similarly related to the Nextcloud issue, is Immich another heavily Tailscale dependant service?
Side note: How easy is it to use external drives with these services I've mentioned? I plan to use my drive bay that currently has 2TB (4 drives running in RAID1), so I can only connect to it via cable. Can I have most of my media stored on the drives, or will that not work? Also, I swear I had to keep verifying my login every few mins when accessing my drives on ext4 format? I switched it to NTFS recently but Windows can't read/see the drives at all (does it not like Linux formatting it?)
Future Ideas: Once I get these first few down, any suggestions? I'm feeling the power rush and craze from being free and able to run my own stuff, and I want to prove to my mom how useful it'll be. I want to move away from YT Music, and I've heard Jellyfin + Jellyamp works good, but is there another I should run (Navidrome)? Should I get into the arr services and torrenting (I do have ProtonVPN)?
I tried looking at previous posts but I just wanted a little more personalized advice. I'm extremely greatful for any help and I will make sure to post my beautiful setup later once I get it going after y'alls input. It's really exciting thinking about the possibilities!
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Tailscale is great. You should use it. Most of their code is open-source. Their coordination server is closed-source, however there's a self-hostable open-source reimplemention called Headscale if you want a fully-open-source Tailscale stack.
Tailscale is a peer to peer VPN, meaning there's no central server like with OpenVPN. Systems on the VPN connect directly to each other. You can also use Wireguard in this way if you configure it as a mesh (every device on the VPN has every other device configured as a peer, and for each pair, at least one of them has the port open and forwarded). Tailscale is more reliable for that as it uses several NAT traversal techniques, so you don't need to open the port and it works even if both ends are behind NAT.
Immich doesn't rely on Tailscale; you can use any VPN. ~~They don't recommend exposing it to the public internet at the moment though, which is why you'd use a VPN~~ (edit: as per a reply, this is not the case any more). In general, never expose anything publicly unless it absolutely has to be (like a website that anyone can access). For giving access to friends, you can share a device with them via Tailscale and configure an ACL so they can only access particular services on it.
For the drives, I'd recommend ZFS instead of Ext4 or NTFS. ZFS can detect bitrot and corruption using checksums, which neither Ext4 nor NTFS can do. NTFS isn't recommended unless you're running Windows Server, but you already said you're using Proxmox.
IMO, use Syncthing instead of Nextcloud, unless you'll be using all the other apps that come with Nextcloud (calendar, office tools, chat, etc). Syncthing does one thing and it does it well, which is almost always better than using software that tries doing a large number of things. Consider Seafile too.
For backups, I'd recommend Borgbackup and Borgmatic. Get a cheap storage VPS to store it. You should be able to get a deal for less than $2/TB/month during the current Black Friday sales. Check LowEndTalk for deals. A Hetzner storage box would work great too.
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Tailscale serve might work; I haven't tried it so I don't know what it's capable of.
Usually I'd recommend getting a real domain name and using Let's Encrypt. .com domains are around $10/year but some TLDs are even cheaper. If you don't mind which TLD you use, go to tld-list.com and sort by renewal price.
Edit: I forgot to mention - a server does not need to be publicly exposed to use Let's Encrypt. You can use a DNS challenge instead of a HTTP one.
On the public Immich bit, they have docs on how to setup a reverse proxy correctly. No security warnings.
That sounds like a thumbs up to me?
Reverse Proxy | Immich
Users can deploy a custom reverse proxy that forwards requests to Immich. This way, the reverse proxy can handle TLS termination, load balancing, or other advanced features.docs.immich.app
[Feature] Security Support for Non-VPN Deployment + Notification When This is The Case · immich-app immich · Discussion #13008
I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request. Yes The feature Request I would be very grateful if you all could provide a timeframe for a release that ...GitHub
That pretty much says: safe when stable. (Which it is now) Makes some sense.
Mine is public, so I hope it's safe (ish)
I did this about a year ago, and started with tailscale. But for some bizarre reason, tailscale would cause my entire internet connection to drop. I had the internet provider come out 5 times to fix it, i got a new router twice, they even checked for cable problems between my house and the neighbourhood switch. All to no avail. I would lose internet connection several times a day until i would reboot my router. I then found someone on their forum mention that tailscale was causing problems, so i turned it off. The problems stopped. I found no way to mitigate this.
I ended up running wireguard, which works great for me, but does have a bit of a learning curve. I have rented a tiny cloud server which is the central hub, and all of my services run in podman with their own wireguard config. I run my own dns for the lacal domains. It took me a bit of effort, but is now running very stable.
To answer your first bit:
I went owncloud --> nextcloud --> syncthing + radicale.
Not looked back.
I run everything through a proxy in my home-built pfsense box.
I use wireguard directly instead of tailscale. Not sure what router you're using, but mikrotik support it out of the box. I am sure they are not the only ones. My phone runs on it 24/7 and has access to the rest of my services.
I haven't setup nextcloud, so can't give any advice on that. Immich was insanely easy to setup though.
I like navidrome, but I am not using jellyfin, so I have nothing to compare it with.
Id recommend setting up a domain even if just for local use. No-ip.com is at least working for me right now (i have free throwaway domain set up there and my router is keeping my dynamic ip dns records up to date so i can wireguard into my router/lan even if the ip changes).
You dont need to expose your services but if you ever do want to, it’s so much easier if youve got a working reverse proxy infront already set up plus you can use https via let’s encrypt certifications inside LAN
Setting up (sub)domains in lan forces you to learn to use a reverse proxy like caddy traefik or nginx. Personally to me NPM(nginx proxy manager) was the easiest to use but i use caddy nowadays. For half a year i didnt expose anything but after wanting to share some albums with the extended family i decided to do so via pangolin hardened with crowdsec running on a virtual private server. Pangolin - while not as easy as tailscale is selfhosted and is very well documented and works well. Then internally, i still have my casdy reverse proxy and certs.
All the services work with the same domain names internally (via the routers dns) and externally. Internally the domain simply points to my severs LAN address. Externally the domain points to my VPS where Pangolin relays my internal domains to the users but adds an extra authentication layer/recerseproxy/access control layer infront. For authentication i use Pocket ID. I can reach nextcloud and access and edit all my documents and other files right there in the browser from any computer which is very convinient.
I also had a lot of difficulty setting up NextCloud. Based on the various reviews and comments, it seems like I may have actually dodged a bullet.
In general, as I've tried different self-hosting solutions, I've found that using a dedicated solution for each purpose has given me better results. I use Radicale for contacts and Calendar, Immich for photos, Jellyfin for media (Navidrome for music is great, but I ended up keeping my music library in Jellyfin because I liked the client apps better).
I'm using OwnCloud for filesync, although I'm also testing CopyParty, which is pretty phenomenal and stupid simple.
Tailscale is GOAT. Some people have speculated that it could be subject to enshitification some day. It's managed by a for-profit company, but everything they do is open source. There are already well-tested forks like HeadScale if you ever have the need to self-host it in the future.
NextCloud seems great if you can get it working and provides a lot of services in one. Some people have said that causes bloat and slowdown, so there are two sides to the coin.
Syncthing is likely not a good option for a file server. It's great if you want to have a shared file or folder on multiple devices, especially if you just want to transfer files quickly and seamlessly. It's fantastic at what it does, but it's not a file server. There are a lot of opportunities for error when using Syncthing.
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
Bardella was at an event in Moissac, southwest France, to promote his latest book when a man broke the egg on his head.
The suspected attacker, a 74-year-old man, was arrested and taken into custody for violence against a public official, prosecutor Montauban Bruno Sauvage told AFP.
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No, the next step is panko/breadcrumbs.
And after three strikes, you dunk him in hot oil.
To be fair I never imagined that "eat the rich" (or in this case, eat the Reich) would turn out Kentucky Fried, but I'm all for it.
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America: throw a whole pre-made sandwich at a cop
France: individually throw every ingredient to make every part of a sandwich from scratch
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jokes aside, this is good protesting
I've never fully understood this phrase because don't you have a cake by eating it?
"what did you eat last night?"
"I had a cake instead of dinner"
The Marsha P. Johnson method suggests that a brick is more effective at creating change.
Make fascists scared again.
I'm sorry but this is fucking hilarious
I'm desperate to know what will be next. Jam? Chocolate spread? Cream?
I mean, hitting someone with an object, whether solid or fragile, is violence. Mild violende is still violence. Justified violence is still violence.
It should be up to a court to decide the severity of the assault and whether it warrants punitive action. In a fair and just society at least.
And in a fair and just society, the decision should be a reprimand because judicial encouragement of violence is a bad idea, but no further action.
I can't understand if I should praise aiming skills or if the egg was cracked up close and personal. Tried to check in the article and saw what Bardella made of it:
The more we make progress, the closer we get to power, the more the violence from the far left, intolerance and pure stupidity are unleashed
For fuck's sake, he just barely survived an assassination no less
I think people have been throwing produce for a long time in general. But there's a list of stuff thrown at politicians on wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident…
I'm partial to the Australian "egg boy" because a ska band wrote a song about it
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'Egg Boy' goes viral after teen cracks egg on Australian senator's head following comments about New Zealand mass shooting
The senator from Australia struck back with egg streaming down his face.Soo Youn (ABC News)
Everyone knows that the egg goes first, because it helps the flour stick.
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
The technology so good that everybody is going to rush to it can only be monetized by …
… advertising.
This is undermining your message, OpenAI.
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Couple from Kazakhstan allegedly used hidden camera and earpieces to win $1.18m from Sydney’s Crown casino
Woman, 36, and her husband, 44, arrested at Barangaroo and charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantageGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Senators Launch Inquiry After a White House Official Intervened on Behalf of Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Senators Launch Inquiry After a White House Official Intervened on Behalf of Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
In letters to the White House and DHS, Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Gary Peters called the intervention a “brazen interference with a federal investigation.”andrea.wise@propublica.org (ProPublica)
MDB II - 2025.76 - São Paulo não tem isso #podifusão
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Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app
Im using Summit. Its really nice and the developer is active and listens to the community!
Fourth for Summit.
Say what you like, Summit Squad are nothing if not dedicated.
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Voyager hands down
Voyager for Lemmy
Voyager is a beautiful mobile web client for Lemmy. Enjoy a seamless experience browsing the fediverse.vger.app
There's a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it's a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it's enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.
Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.
Voyager's UI is great, mainly because it's not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.
The biggest two things is that the profile button is all the way up in the top right corner, away from the thumbs, which is inconvenient if you want to find your past posts / comments.
I do really like the color scheme of blorp, especially the color of the heart for a liked post! And I still use it daily because Voyager doesn't support piefed. Thank you for writing your software, giving it away for free, AND listening to users!
„Lemmy Redirect“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Deep linking proxy for Lemmy, to launch your selected client automaticallyIzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
Great. Now do me the favour, select the first option in that list ”Voyager app (vger.to)” and open a link shared like that it in a browser, not in Voyager (important, it might automatically do that for you since you got it installed) and tell me what you see. That is set as the default link sharing behaviour and that is what I am criticising.
Maybe you don't care about it and as a Voyager user you will never see that. But I care because I keep seeing more and more people sharing these links, which instead of actually linking me to the thread in question, in MY app of choice, lead to my browser opening, showing me the content plus a quick plug to the Voyager app.
I cared enough to change it to have it ask me everytime based on who or where I'm sending it.
I can't change what other people do, but if you want to bring it up with the dev at !voyagerapp@lemmy.world go for it.
Settings --> Posts --> Interaction Bar
Then remove the combined up/down thingy and add the separate up and down chips. They show separate numbers.
Then do the same thing under Settings --> Comments --> Interaction Bar.
I’ve been pretty happy with Blorp. They have mobile and web clients available
GitHub - Blorp-Labs/blorp: Blorp – a Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more!
Blorp – a Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more! - Blorp-Labs/blorpGitHub
Boost!
The best by far. He had a great app for that other shit site.
Try it, you'll like it. Guarantee.
As in the other comment... You can change all types of UI settings.
Layout, fonts, title font colors, comment font colors, etc.
Honestly, so much available, it's actually a little overwhelming for me.
Why? Be specific?
Boost has anything I can think of and it's a one man show. I like to support him.
So, where exactly in the Summit app can you have the setting to show BOTH up/down votes?
I can't find it.
I tried it for 2 days. Has some interesting features.
However, I definitely prefer being able to control the color spectrum of the fonts in the Title, Comments and Instance.
Makes the flow much easier to identify each section. And the colors I use are less stress on the eyes.
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Thunder github.com/thunder-app/thunder
GitHub - interstellar-app/interstellar: An app for Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed, connecting you to the fediverse.
An app for Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed, connecting you to the fediverse. - interstellar-app/interstellarGitHub
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If you liked RIF you're gonna like Jerboa.
NB: The jerboa dev is one of the lemmy devs and it works great for lemmy, but it is never gonna support piefed.
Seconded. Tried others but keep coming back to connect.
It's not the flashiest, but has the best options for me
Eternity is great
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Eternity | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
An Lemmy client for Android, forked from the Infinity for Reddit project.f-droid.org
I used sync for a while then once it became sort of dead tried a couple others and settled with boost. The most important factor is that it is the only Lemmy app (that I could find) that orders saved posts according to the time you saved them and not when it was created.
ps: After looking at some of the comments here I checked a couple others and jerboa also does the same
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
Well, since you're available, I'd like to tell you about another thing that annoys me a bit. Which is when I reopen the app after it has been in standby, it automaticaly refreshes the feed after a few seconds once. Which results in it refreshing while I'm already in the middle of watching the "old" feed content. Does this not happen to you?
Would be great an option to let it refresh feed automatically or not after reopening the app.
Apollo for reddit was considered one of the best apps. Unfortunately, it was iOS-only.
Voyager for Lemmy is pretty much a clone of it and it also runs on Android. It's also a progressive web app so you don't have to download the app off the store if you don't want to - you can just go to vger.app on your phone and either browse it like that, or install the PWA (basically creates a separate browser profile and everything so it feels like an app, but really you're using the website, with some of the files living on your phone). If you really wanted to, you could even run it on a desktop browser (or as a PWA on desktop), but it's really meant for touchscreens, not mouse and keyboard usage.
I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification
Maybe it's well known but I just came across journalctl-desktop-notification and I find it very useful so I thought I'd mention it. It's basically a bash script that monitors systemd's journal and pops up a notification when there are warnings or errors (or anything else you want to make it catch besides the default config).
What makes it so useful for the selfhoster is that it can monitor the journal on hosts your user has ssh access to with key authentication (set up in 2s with 'ssh-copy-id').
So case in point, this just popped up:
My reverse proxy can't renew certs, that's bad. For some reason netdata didn't catch it, and the service didn't trigger a system email that would have been forwarded to my smtp. Uptime kuma would have caught it when I would have had only a few days to fix it, but this caught it immediately, and I have 52 days to figure it out.
So you install that on your daily driver and you get these notifications on your desktop. They only have packages for Arch and Gentoo but the thing is just a batch script and a systemd unit. So to install anywhere you just download the "source", extract it, cd to it, and run 'sudo cp -r usr etc /' which is exactly what the Arch package does (line 22).
Just a nifty little tool I wanted to share in case others haven't heard of it.
Edit: I made .deb and .rpm packages so it's a lot easier to install now 😀
Gray lot requires a newer version of mongo. Mongo now requires a processor with the AVX instruction set; and my aging homelab is one gen before Sandy Bridge.
So basically no graylog for me because I ain’t got money to run that shit anymore let alone upgrade it
Assuming the uptime of your services are in any way important.
I'm not running a business here, I've got no big stakeholders. If something doesn't work, at most me or someone close to me is affected. No one really cares if something is not available for a day.
I spent 0 minutes on monitoring and don't intend to start now 😁
Does your data matter ? There's a data loss prevention risk and security.
If you don't care about those either, then I guess your decision makes sense
What do you need quick? I have a Minecraft server, a wiki for random stuff, a shopping list, a calendar sync, photo hosting, a media server and probably some other shit on there.
I can think of many situations where I'd want those quickly, but need I don't anything.
You don't need something ever. Sometimes you just want something because the alternative is realy bad. I don't need to eat. I want to eat because I don't want to starve.
I want to watch a movie with my partner at the agrees time because otherwise they will be mad. I want to access my digitalized documents to send a letter in time because otherwise I will have to pay late fees.
I want to access my gameserver because that's the one time a week I get to have fun with my friends from my college time.
There are many situations where I'd rather do the thing I want instead of doing maintenance.
Yep and I have less time for all these things when I spend the time setting up monitoring.
Fixing takes the same time either way. But I barely ever have to touch my setup anyway, because usually ot doesn't just break randomly.
Ha ha ha.
I love how lennart's cancer tries to replicate fucking syslog and it's this bad. What a mess the kids worship.
benagain
in reply to johnnychicago • • •There's a pretty cool write up by KittenLabs about their SolarCamPi project - it's pretty involved as far as DIY projects though, even down to stripping features out of the Raspberry Pi so it would use as little power as possible..
Awhile back I dabbled with a timelapse setup where I had a battery, GoPro and a Raspberry Pi with a 4G hat for remote monitoring - using Tailscale as the VPN - but that was never intended to run 24/7. I just set those up and accepted that they'd run for as long as they ran and then collect them.
Lots of 4G/WiFi solar security cameras around as another sort of 'all in one' solution - typically the main issue is they all want you to use their app. If you can find one with rtsp or ONVIF it's easier to make them work with whatever you want, though again you'd probably need a Raspberry Pi or something inbetween in order to create the VPN/Tailscale/WireGuard connection to keep it secure.
SolarCamPi
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in reply to johnnychicago • • •GitHub - gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks: wz camera mods... make your camera better.
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in reply to gaylord_fartmaster • • •ClickyMcTicker
in reply to johnnychicago • • •Works out of the box. Not sure what the need for Wireguard is here.
Argus PT - 5MP Wi-Fi Solar Battery Camera with Pan & Tilt | Reolink Official
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in reply to johnnychicago • • •4am
in reply to Brkdncr • • •It’s not always about hiding only payloads.
Although if you are wireguarding to your home IP you’re still not really hiding the destination.
NutinButNet
in reply to Brkdncr • • •Probably a direct link to the home network so the camera looks like it’s on the same network.
I’ve thought of and tried this for my VR headset to my home in a similar manner. The VR headset will only stream from my gaming PC if it’s on the same network and so I’d hope to use a VPN to tunnel into my network when not at home to play remotely. I’ve not gotten this to work, but this sounds like a similar hope for OP with a camera.
johnnychicago
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in reply to johnnychicago • • •ikidd
in reply to johnnychicago • • •Grab a regular ethernet connected camera with 12V supply and ONVIF compatible (most PTZ cameras like Amcrest or Vikylon are 12V), and a OpenWRT router like GLiNet's cheapo units in bridge mode. They have a wireguard VPN active already, you just need to get it set up. Then you specify what subnet the inside of that router is so you can get to the camera, and access it via IP.
Put down a car battery, a cheap MPPT charger and a panel or two. The PowMr charge controllers have a couple of USB ports on them to power the router and they're $50.
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in reply to ikidd • • •https://a.co/d/0dkouiZ
ikidd
in reply to unphazed • • •Yah, that's a PWM charger. You'd likely see up to another third more power stored with an MPPT at temperatures below freezing from my experience running various offgrid livestock pumping systems over the years. I still use old PWM controllers on things like fencers because they're pretty low draw, but I haven't bought a PWM for years now since MPPT prices came down to earth.
Just a suggestion, idk what your particular scenario is but it sounds like you're running out of power pretty quick. And for batteries, I've personally moved to LFP with heaters in insulated boxes for the sheer life expectancy, power density and reliability compared to LA in cold temperatures. But I wouldn't say it's the cheapest way to do things.
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in reply to johnnychicago • • •Well, I guess whatever camera you get should give you a power requirement and you can work backwards from there as to storage and panel requirement. My off the cuff notion would say you'll need a deep cycle or a group 31 of 100aH to last for a day or two depending on weather and length of day, and lithium batteries will get plating if you try to charge below freezing so they're out.
It's all in the math, then double it because nature hates you.
Possibly linux
in reply to johnnychicago • • •I would do a outdoor POE camera connected back inside to a WiFi router running OpenWRT. You can then set it up as a WiFi client (base station) and a VPN tunnel.
I would also look into Netbird since it is easier to manage.
fubarx
in reply to johnnychicago • • •Just saw a new outdoor Wyze camera with a motorized head, small solar panel, SD-card, and wifi for around $80. If you figure out the server side, it might be a good hardware foundation.
Other option is a Pi-based camera.The server side would be easier to set up, but you would have to figure out power, enclosure, and weatherproofing.
Edit: this might allow access to the video stream: github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-b…
GitHub - mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge: WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS bridge for Wyze cams in a docker container
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