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Home server / NAS scaling
Currently I'm thinking again about setting up a home server. But I am unsure about the scaling. In the hope to get some input from experienced users I'm coming here.
Services that I intend on running:
- TrueNAS SCALE
- Jellyfin
- *arr stack
- Immich
- Nextcloud
- Bitwarden (maybe)
I've read the Jellyfin documentation which states i5-11500 (because the toolkit for 7-10th gen is deprecated, even though you could encode H.264/H.265) or newer for CPU based encoding or at least a GTX 1660. Because electricity is quite expensive here, I'd prefer CPU encoding. On the other side, office systems with 11th or newer gen are far more expensive. I've found a i5-6500, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1660 system for 180 Euro incl. shipping.
There are a few 7th-9th gen systems with 16 GB RAM available that use on board graphics and are 80-120 Euro excl. shipping but I'm not sure if they suffice running the mentioned services and maybe a few more I don't know about yet.
I have two WD Red and a WD Green lying around, I'd like to use. From what I've heard so far, it's necessary to use a separate drive to run TrueNAS off of, which I'd need to buy separately.
Maybe you can give me some insights. Thanks.
For video encoding, I run an 8th gen Intel i5 8500t. The quicksync is good enough for nearly anything 1080p.
Not sure what you mean by the "scaling".
Intel® Core™ i3-9300 Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz)
Intel® Core™ i3-9300 Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.30 GHz) quick reference with specifications, features, and technologies.Intel
A lot depends on how many users you expect and how much media you expect. For one or two users with that stack, transcoding media is really the only CPU load. If most of your media is already in your desired format, then that's not a big deal.
My stack is pretty similar (no *arr, plus tvheadend, homeassistant and a kodi frontend) for two users and it sits near idle all day long. It runs on an N100 NAS system off Aliexpress with 16GB and will transcode 1080p to x264 at just about playback speed.. System runs from a 100 GB nvme, with a couple half-full 4 TB WD Reds for data. 35-ish Watts, maybe an extra 5 when actively transcoding. Used to be ~150 USD,
If you want a lot of 4k content, then I'd definitely go with the GTX 1660.
Might look into the N100 systems, thanks.
What about using Intel ARC GPUs for encoding as they are all kinda made specifically for it, I don't use jellyfin but I got an Intel ARC B310 Eco used for like $45.
Looking at current prices it seems like it's around $120 now, was cheaper last year, but I still recommend looking into Intel GPUs.
I looked into it before but this will get a lot more expensive here. I'm currently mostly looking used HP, Dell or other office PCs.
The Jellyfin doc states that
Intel ARC B series cards require ReBar to be enabled. This means you must use it on a platform with Intel 10th gen, AMD Ryzen 3000 series or newer.
Europeans accuse Putin of feigning interest in peace after talks with US envoys
Ukraine and its European allies accused Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough.
The Russian leader “should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to come to the table and to support a just and lasting peace,” said U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged Putin to “stop wasting the world’s time.”
The remarks reflect the high tensions and gaping gulf that remain between Russia on one side and Ukraine and its European allies on the other over how to end a war that Moscow started when it invaded its neighbor nearly four years ago.
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European continent appears to be willfully ignorant
Really? You appear ill-informed.
So your thinking is something like:
because Ukraine was invaded in Crimea in 2014 and there after, in 2022 there was the full-blown invasion; you conclude that Europe is willfully ignorant of Russia being badfaith actor and that therefore Europe still naively believes that Ruzzia has peaceful intentions? Weird conclusion.
EU started with sanctions after Crimea was annexed. So no, Europeans didn't think Russia had peaceful intentions. Also there is the shooting down in 2014 of a passangerplane MH17. So again, no.
One of these days they’ll realize that putting restrictions on the weapons given to Ukraine is playing into Putins hands. They’re so fearful of “escalation” when Putin’s already escalated.
Putin knows opening up a second front by attacking another former SSR would force the rest of the world to acknowledge what they already know - that he has no interest in any peace he hasn’t solely dictated - and actually respond to the obvious threat. So, he’ll play the war of attrition against Ukraine, Trump will fellate him, Europe will do little, he’ll rebuild his army and go after the next former SSR. Rinse, repeat. Modern leaders have no stomach for dealing with a bully like Putin. Or even a stupid Billy like Trump.
Family of Colombian fisherman killed in strike in the Caribbean files formal complaint against US
Family of Colombian fisherman killed in strike in the Caribbean files formal complaint against US
The petition was sent to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and is the first of its kind in connection with attacks against alleged drug-running boatsDiego Stacey (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
A lot of the difference between this administration and previous ones is how much they don't care about hiding their crimes. It's gotta be surreal for Chelsea Manning to see the president post the same type of video bombing civilians that she went to federal prison for leaking.
We have been treating non American lives as subhuman for a long time.
Deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to resume
Malaysia's transport ministry said Wednesday that the deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume Dec. 30, renewing hopes of finally locating the jet that vanished without a trace more than a decade ago.
The Boeing 777 plane disappeared from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, on a flight from Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing. Satellite data showed the plane turned from its flight path and headed south to the far-southern Indian Ocean, where it is believed to have crashed.
The transport ministry said in a statement that U.S.-based marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity will search intermittently from Dec. 30 for a total of 55 days, in targeted areas believed to have the highest likelihood of finding the missing aircraft.
This is an incompetent waste-of-resources, worse than pointless.
That flight's pilot had rehearsed turning once outside of land-radar, to prevent the crash-site from being discovered,
flying over the sea,
& then slamming into the sea,
on his home flight-sim, I've read.
Why bother pouring another few $million into pretending that the aircraft "went missing", when it was intentionally destroyed by the pilot?
I don't know what motivated his mass-murdercide ( "murdercide" term coined by New Scientist, for suicide-bombers ), but we need to stop pouring our finite-resources into pointless idiocies,
when there are such great needs for the living, here & now.
( XOR we're pushing ourselves closer to a species-wide DarwinAward, this-century,
which may be what the real aim is..
obliterate our viability, then pretend that we're "not responsible" for our non-survival, right?
Bah.
Make all such wasting-of-resources be paid-for by volunteer-financers, & then maybe there'd be moral-basis for it.
But when general taxpayer basis is either paying-for, or subsidizing, idiotic wasting-of-opportunity, then it's abuse/wrong. )
Sorry for being bitter,
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Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that's not much more cost I would hope.
Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.
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He is promoting a product. That product possibly has what many perceive as a severe defect (flicker). He could say it doesn't personally bother him but still compare it to other lights in the same way he compared colors in detail. Is the flicker large or small?
I love his channel and watch every video. But that doesn't mean I have to ignore when he misses a detail.
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His dish washing video went to great lenghts to explain how something works and why hot water matters with an additional comment on different products and cost not being everything. Like any continuing series he did dive deeper into various subjects... and he did suggest some things which he used or liked. That doesn't make it a review. Venn diagram. Its an opinion not a review.
Point in case: was he reviewing kettles in his recent water boiling video? No. But... but he ran a timer!
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His dish washing video went to great lenghts to explain how something works
That's a different video. He recently did another video of detergent and why his brand of detergent that he is selling for charity is better than pods.
Both did the job of explaining different functions of the dishwasher and demonstrating, as I mentioned, that expensive stuff did not "clean more better." To that end he literally had things independantly tested (for the sake of highlighting powders being just as-good.) I'll go on to point out that he made several comments about pods not using the pre wash.
Again, as mentioned, even with him recommending a product... That does not make him a reviewer. If anything it was a mild advertisement ... On a talking head show.
To go back to what spawned this discussion - I wasn't arguing with you. I simply thought you couldn't understand what the show was... Or perhaps could not differentiate. The comments (initially) sought to teach.
But, exasperatingly, here we are.
At this point you are nitpicking and being pedantic to attempt to "win" an agurment not being had. Were not even discussing the original video in question. If I wanted to approach this with the same (pedantic) energy: I'd simply focus on it being obvious that anyone with a bit of sense would have noticed that the review seemed to lack... Price, length of stands, lumens... The list goes on. If it were a review it would contain an awful lot more numbers and an awful lot less personal opinion.
Square peg: round hole. I genuinely hope we leave it there.
At this point you are nitpicking and being pedantic to attempt to "win" an agurment not being had.
You wrote 3 paragraphs to avoid admitting that despite my writing about his detergent video, you responded with his dishwasher video because you haven't watched all his content!
Comparing samples with an independent lab isn't a review? Come on. As I already said just because most of his content is "talking head", doesn't mean he can't recommend products. Which he clearly has done.
You don't watch all of his videos which is why you have the wrong idea. It's the 2024 video where he reviewed Tru Tone.
If products are compared in detail and a suggestion to buy is given, it's a review.
It doesn't matter what you think the channel is supposed to be. What matters is the content.
While irrelevant, you'd be incorrect. Again. But let's add some finality here using your own words.
As I already said just because most of his content is "talking head", doesn't mean he can't recommend products. Which he clearly has done.
Welcome to this thread and, consequently, what everyone was pointing out to you.
Review, v.
examine or assess (something) formally with the possibility or intention of instituting change if necessary.
Dare I ask if such a formal thing might include numbers, data, and other specific metrics outside of opinions? Perish the thought.
Recommend, v.
to put forward (something) as one's choice for a wise or proper course of action
It seems between your slip of the tongue and ... Actual logic that you'd be definitively... Incorrect.
I'll extend the olive branch in saying, as mentioned prior (Venn): there are some overlaps so you'd be forgiven for not fully grasping the difference... However the things that define those differences leave no question as to which they are - and ignoring that simply makes you ... well... ignorant.
I mentioned before this wasn't an argument. It still isnt. Its a dunce making a spectacle of his own foolishness. If you wish to continue making such a display I invite you to do so alone. I won't be party to embarrassing you further.
He did a comparison of products ending with a recommendation. That's a review.
I don't know why you can't accept that.
Short answer, cut an extension cord in the middle and solder in a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER.
This gives you DC power. Now your lights will not flicker. They are also like 50% brighter.
But wait! The catch is that a lot of the strings are reversed in the middle so only half of it works on dc. You then have to cut the lights in the middle, swap the wires, and reconnect them.
Its a lot of farting around but looks nice.
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while I disagree with his hatred of blue and green LED christmas lights being too much (I actually love them), I do love hearing about his process to find the christmas lights of his dreams.
I look forward to these videos every year 😁
Anyone care to sum up in a few sentences what this 20+ minute video is all about?
E: fucking lemmy, lol. Don’t watch youtube! Google sucks! Use alternatives! /asks for a quick summary so as to avoid youtube: lemmy: “Downvote!1!1”
Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven't watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode.
It's always super entertaining, in my opinion.
EDIT: I watched it. It is indeed super entertaining! This time, the recap comes after his special Christmas light repacking tip, so it's a couple of minutes in.
Thank you. That would be lovely. I find LED’s flicker sometimes and are too “hard”, they lack the softer, more yellow profile of incandescents.
Probably what his rant is all about.
It's been a fun journey. And he's on the Fediverse! mas.to/@TechConnectify
(not tagging him directly because I feel like he probably gets that enough)
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Cosmonaut removed from SpaceX's Crew 12 mission for violating national security rules: report
A Russian spaceflyer was pulled from SpaceX's next astronaut mission for violating U.S. national security regulations, according to a media report.
This morning, The Insider reported that Artemyev, 54, was apparently removed from Crew 12 for violations of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), a U.S. law that seeks to safeguard national security by restricting the dissemination of sensitive information and technology.
"The cosmonaut allegedly photographed SpaceX documentation and then 'used his phone' to export classified information," The Insider wrote (in Russian; translation by Google), citing the work of launch analyst Gregory Trishkin.
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What are you on about? Crew Dragon might be the most reliable ride to space ever.
All of SpaceX’s bullshit with Starship is completely separate from Dragon/Falcon9.
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I’d say they probally represent a common perception of Musk and SpaceX these days. Not everyone has time to pay attention to everything they do, but lots of rocket explosions make headlines.
You’re not wrong, I’m just pointing out why the misperception is understandable, and probally common.
Musk haters arent usually the brightest bunch...
Edit: yeah, I know everyone around here likes to hate on Musk, thats how I know, and my point stands. Bring all your downvotes and hate. It helps prove a point.
Being bright or not has nothing to do with it. Both intelligent people and less-intelligent people have excellent reasons to hate Musk.
Regardless of that, Falcon 9 is exceptionally reliable.
Ok. But that just sounds like...
intelligent people and less-intelligent people...
...Are capable of hating someone that they have never met and will likely never meet. For reasons that won't ever substantially effect them anyway. And imagined violations of principles.
I dont think we are on the same footing... you seem to need to know very little about some to be able to hate them... I dont think we understand hate the same way...
Fact: Your hate negatively affects you more than the person youre hating, in this case Elon Musk.
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I'm subscribed to his YouTube channel, the guy just likes to show off how cool space stuff is.
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Japan PM’s pledge to ‘work, work, work, work, and work’ wins catchphrase of year
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Nah too busy causing more of the deranged work yourself to death mentality and widening the gap on wealth inequality more.
That'll get the folks to have more kids!
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One representative from a client wanted to be there for every small change we made. The guy slept so little, his cognitive functions stopped working correctly and he started giving nonsense answers. His manager had to put him in a cab and send him home with strict orders to sleep and not come back for 48 hours.
You don't want a person like that running a country. These are the types that accidentally start a war.
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Conservatives are fucked in the head.
Wonder if Shinzo Abe's succesor is gonna get the doohickey treatment as well.
I wrote my first article about self-hosting and our Safebox project
Hi everyone, I wanted to share something new about our family project, Safebox. I’ve posted about it here before, but this time I finally wrote my first full article about it. If you're into running your own services, managing domains, SSL, proxies, backups, or just want to see how we approach automated self-hosting, you might find it interesting.
I’ll be publishing more pieces soon, covering both technical and non-technical aspects of self-hosting and the software itself, so hopefully it will be useful for some of you.
If you check it out, thank you and I’d really appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Here’s the post:
Take control of your data: How Safebox makes self-hosting easier
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I’ll be publishing more pieces soon
Awesome. I look forward to reading more. I had never heard of SafeBox until about a month or so ago. Seems like a great platform to go from zero to hero in no time flat. I keep hoping that offerings like SafeBox, et al, will gel with the general public and expose them to the world of self hosting and make it not as scary for beginners just striking out. Thanks for the article. Bookmarked, and will be shared.
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New Zealand man accused of eating Faberge pendant inspired by Bond movie as police wait for evidence
Wouldn't it be easier just to take an x-ray to confirm?
Then based on the results give laxatives or don't.
China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home
- China's industry had built capacity for 20 million EVs and plug-in hybrids annually but remained saddled with enough factories for 30 million gasoline vehicles
- Fossil-fuel vehicles accounted for 76% of China's auto exports since 2020 with annual shipments jumped from 1 million to likely >6.5 million in 2025
China's electric vehicle (EV) industry captured half its domestic market in just a few years, crushing sales of gasoline-powered vehicles from once-dominant global automakers.
But foreign players were not the only losers. Many Chinese legacy automakers also watched their sales collapse – and responded by flooding the world with fossil-fuel vehicles they could not sell at home.
While Western policymakers have focused on the threat of China's heavily subsidised EVs, protecting their markets with tariffs, US and European automakers face greater competition from China's gas-guzzlers in countries from Poland to South Africa to Uruguay. Fossil-fuel vehicles have accounted for 76% of Chinese auto exports since 2020, and total annual shipments jumped from 1 million to likely more than 6.5 million this year, according to data from China-based consultancy Automobility.
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The boom in China's gasoline-powered exports is driven by the same EV subsidies and policies that wrecked the China businesses of automakers including Volkswagen, General Motors (GM) and Nissan by underwriting scores of Chinese EV makers and igniting a devastating price war, a Reuters examination found. The phenomenon highlights the far-reaching impacts of Chinese industrial policy, as foreign competitors struggle to keep pace with government-backed firms chasing Beijing's goals to dominate critical sectors nationally and globally.
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China's gasoline-vehicle exports alone – not including EVs and plug-in hybrids – were enough last year to make it the world's largest auto-exporting nation by volume, industry and government data show.
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Chinese carmaker SAIC's exports – mostly of its own brands, without [former joint venture partner] GM – soared from nearly 400,000 annually in 2020 to more than a million last year.
Dongfeng's exports of nearly 250,000 vehicles last year, up almost four-fold in five years, proved critical as sales of its China partnerships with Honda and Nissan entered a "downward spiral," said Jelte Vernooij, Dongfeng's Central Europe manager.
Dongfeng's annual global sales have fallen by a million vehicles since 2020, to less than 2 million, company filings show. Yet Vernooij is not worried about Dongfeng's future – because it has Beijing's backing.
"The fact that we're state-owned is key," he said. "There's no question that we will survive."
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China's top auto exporter is Chery, whose global sales rocketed from 730,000 vehicles to 2.6 million between 2020 and 2024. Chery, which has both state and private owners, grew annual exports over the period by about a million units – relying mostly on the gasoline-powered vehicles that comprise four-fifths of its sales. China's top 10 exporters include five other state-owned automakers and two private ones, Geely and Great Wall Motor (GWM), that also sell more gasoline vehicles than EVs.
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Only two of China's top 10 auto exporters focus exclusively on battery-powered vehicles. One of them is US electric-car pioneer Tesla. The other is BYD, which sells only EVs and plug-in hybrids.
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Chinese automakers' rush to export gasoline cars can be traced to government policies that created a glut of factory capacity to build them.
China's rapid EV growth idled assembly lines capable of producing up to 20 million gasoline-powered cars annually, estimates Automobility CEO Bill Russo. Such unproductive overhead raises costs, pressuring automakers to repurpose capacity for exports.
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[Chinese] automakers got cheap EV factories financed by [Chinese] cities and provinces eager to demonstrate development.
"Local governments even prepare the land and build the factories, allowing companies to 'move in with just a suitcase,'" said Liang Linhe, chairman of Sany Heavy Truck, among China's largest truck makers.
The result: massive overcapacity. At a March EV conference, Su Bo, China's former vice minister of industry, urged regulators to promote the conversion of gasoline-car factories to build battery-powered models. He estimated China's industry had built capacity for 20 million EVs and plug-in hybrids annually but remained saddled with enough factories for 30 million gasoline vehicles – far more than its domestic market needs.
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China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home
WARSAW — China's electric vehicle (EV) industry captured half its domestic market in just a few years, crushing sales of gasoline-powered vehicles from once-dominant global automakers.Bangkok Post
There's also no question that, for now, gasoline cars are selling better in second-tier markets, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, with scarce EV-charging infrastructure.Longer term, Beijing aims to dominate EVs and plug-in hybrids globally. But in the interim, many Chinese automakers are building overseas brands by giving customers whatever they want.
Chinese EV makers, led by Build Your Dreams (BYD)...
BYD is short for Biyadi. Who writes this shit?
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It could be a backronym, where the meaning of something is changed after the name is selected to fit the name. I mean, the company is Chinese. I doubt that they initially chose an English-based name, but they sure could have adopted it later.
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And yes, at least according to Wikipedia:
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"BYD" is the pinyin initials of the company's Chinese name Biyadi. The company was originally known as Yadi Electronics (亚迪电子), named after the Yadi Road in Dapeng New District, where the company was once based.[23] According to Wang Chuanfu, when the company was registered, the character "Bi" (比) was added to the name to prevent duplication, and to provide the company with an alphabetical advantage in trade shows.[24] As the name "BYD" had no particular meaning, BYD started adopting a backronymic slogan "Build Your Dreams" when it participated at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in the US.[25][26][27]
EDIT: Ah, @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml already pointed this out.
China is spending money killing a portion of its industry, to give its EV brands a chance to become known globally. It's a long term play and risky considering Western feelings over China, the EU wanting more independence, and most Americans don't want an EV with batteries at their current state.
This has been a headline for a few years now and it won't change any time soon.
most Americans don’t want an EV with batteries at their current state.
That’s a risky assumption given how driven by propaganda this is. The reality is current state of batteries is perfectly fine for most Americans. What if they realize that? It does partly depend on charger availability, which is being rapidly built out despite the efforts of the current administration to block that. What happens as Americans realize how many new chargers are near them?
You're an AI, of course 20 minutes feels like forever.
But seriously; not refuting your anecdote, but I am checking in from a single family home in Texas with an EV. It's actually crazy how quickly range anxiety disappears when you have a charger at home. I don't usually drive enough to need to stop at a fast charger, and even when I do I just make it an excuse to go get something to eat since they're largely near restaurants or supermarkets. This is factoring in my 60-mile total round trip daily commute.
Personal experience of course, but it can be done.
It would be, though not just US farmers.
Any country that sends large amounts of food, clothes, etc. as aid wrecks the domestic production and sustainability. Why would anyone work to establish a farm or textile production when you can get imported rice or castoff T-shirts for almost nothing?
Same as when Nestle gives away just enough free baby formula for the mother's milk to stop, so then they have to keep buying formula. If China (or any other country) drives an industry into the ground, then the community is dependent on the imports.
Trump takes aim at Biden pardons with new autopen directive
Trump takes aim at Biden pardons with new autopen directive
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden had signed using an autopen.Reuters (CNBC)
How unsustainable global supply chains exacerbate food insecurity
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Brazil accounts for more than half of the world’s soybean trade. About 70% of that goes to China for use as animal feed. It is also the world’s second largest corn exporter, mostly for animal feed and biofuels.
Such exports have enriched Brazilian agribusiness, but they have undermined domestic food production. This is negatively affecting the food security of poorer communities. Between 2010 and 2022, soybean production increased by over 100% while rice production fell by 30%. The production of other basic food crops also fell.
Domestic food prices increased faster than general inflation, and low-income families have experienced food insecurity and have cut their food consumption.
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Global supply chains are designed and operate as systems of production and trade that reward profitable exports, rather than combatting food insecurity. They often direct resources away from where they are needed to where they are profitable.
When right-to-food systems are established to tackle food insecurity, as in Belo Horizonte, they must cater to their local context. Policies such as subsidised food consumption and production, plus coordinated distribution are all ingredients required for tackling food insecurity.
How unsustainable global supply chains exacerbate food insecurity
The expansion of global food supply chains can reduce food security, while improving regional food systems can improve food security.The Conversation
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This is a bit of a catch-22, isn't it? And I'm saying this as someone that grew up poor and lived in communities where people lived on $1 a day. This isn't the solution it thinks it is.
Poverty rates in urban areas mean that a lot of people who are food insecure live in places distantly removed from where food is grown. Even in Brazil. The crops spoken of here are popular specifically because they travel well, store well, are cheap to mill, and common commodities so a bag of rice from Thailand can go to Brazil or the US or Nigeria or France or India and everyone knows what to expect. But other than high value crops like flowers, cocoa or coffee, it's exceedingly rare that large numbers of farmers grow crops that they don't consume even a bit themselves or sell locally. Post-harvest waste products for most staple grains are their own market, and plenty of broken rice makes it to the market for sale as well. I'm not saying this is a perfect or good system, just that it hits a lot of very basic human desires that do, in fact, feed most people on earth already.
A right to food system is nice, but it's expensive, especially as populations continue to urbanize. Many countries subsidize agriculture, focused on smallholder farming, because it's a cheap way to get votes and funnel things like fertilizer contracts to your friends.
If this was such a good idea, the logical conclusion is to just make exports of edible products illegal and only allow imports. Flood your own markets with food that would be so cheap no one would bother farming it because the inputs alone would run you at a huge loss.
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Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”The post ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video appeared first on The Intercept.
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Which SBC for TV streaming?
I'm looking to get a something to plug in to my TV for streaming jellyfin and streaming games. Criteria:
- can play 1080p h264 from jellyfin without transcoding
- can stream 1080p 60hz games via steam link / moonlight
- low power consumption so it's not a big deal if I leave it on
- runs an open OS (raspian etc)
- wifi and bluetooth
- hdmi output
- ideally less than ~150 AUD (100 USD)
Thanks in advance! Any tips around remote control and/or home assistant integration for it would also be welcome.
Is Open/CoreELEC OK?
Have a look at the DuneHD box. It's an unlocked android box, CoreELEC support, kann play HDR and 3D content.
That is the cheapest solution I know.
Typo, thanks. Fixed it.
Yes, DuneHD . Pro Vision works well. I use it on a 3D Beamer. ShellyFin in house, plays everything, h264,h265 HDR and 3D content, everything hardware decoded. And this with CoreELEC on it.
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Netflix needs some fucked up DRM. Without it Netflix will only work in 720p (maybe 1080?) without HDR.
But that is the usual Linux user experience...
As they have an unlocked bootloader, no Netflix certificate.
So, it will work, but with limits
I have an Odroid c2 as server with a chromecast (with Google TV) as viewer with Kodi. For videos it is stable. It can play 1080p x264 and x265.
The odroid c2 server runs DietPi (based on Debian).
For games I have no idea..
If your interested in odroid, do not pick up the c2 but the successor the c4.
But not the 8+ gb ram version.
Anything listed on Jellyfin is usable.
Anything that can run an encode/decode with ffmpeg works with something like dispatcharr.
Regarding games: No idea. I think moonlight was/is a thing?
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Not sure if this counts as SBC, but maybe you should try to find a used GMKtec G5. It is tiny and these usually have N97 and 12gb of DDR5. New one goes for 139 where I am at, so maybe it is fair to try to find used one for cheaper.
Alternatives: minis with N5059, N95, N100, N150 are all priced similarly.
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The Le Potato AML-S905X-CC has h.264 and h.265 decoders up to 4k, emmc connector So you don't have to run off an SD card. I've used it as a media player and its pretty damn solid. I can't speak to streaming games because I don't do that, so I don't know if it's a different format. It does not have a powerful processor, so if the stream is encoded differently I wouldn't expect it to be very good.
Its pretty old, around rpi3 performance, but having the decoders in there make it better than the RPI 4 for playing those types of videos.
Deadly Hong Kong fire raises suspicions of corruption, lax safety as fears rise about safety elsewhere in Hong Kong's high-rise skyline
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46626951
ArchivedUncomfortable questions are being raised over who is to blame for Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades.
As the territory mourns over the high-rise apartment fire that killed at least 156 people, anger and frustration are mounting over building safety lapses, suspected construction corruption and lax government oversight.
But bigger issues are at play. Some political analysts and observers say the tragedy could be the “tip of an iceberg” in Hong Kong, a city whose skyline is built on high-rise buildings. Suspicions of bid-rigging and use of hazardous construction materials in renovation projects across other housing estates have left many worried the disaster could be repeated.
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Seven of 20 additional samples collected later from the site failed to meet safety standards [...] Some fire alarms failed to sound when the fire started, residents and officials said.
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“It did open a Pandora’s box,” said John Burns, an honorary professor of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong.
“You’ve got all of these issues which have been swept under the table,” Burns said. “Because of all that we now know -- or believe we know -- about bid-rigging, collusion, corruption, no fire alarms, government negligence, all of these things have come out.”
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The Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong warned that the city’s tough national security law would be imposed against “anti-China” forces who use the fire to “incite hatred against authorities.”
The disaster may overshadow an election Sunday for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council if angry voters stay away, said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a locally based political scientist and a senior research fellow at Paris’ Asia Centre think tank. Turnout for such votes is scrutinized by Beijing as an indicator of approval of the semi-autonomous territory’s “patriots-only” governance system.
“The question for the Hong Kong government is: do they care about what the people think?” Burns said. “They absolutely should. (And) if they ignore public opinion, I think, on this issue, this is a huge mistake.”
Hong Kong: Children of jailed pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai voice new alarm for their father's health, saying his condition continues to deteriorate
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46627203
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Lai, who turns 78 next Monday, has been behind bars since late 2020 as China clamps down on the financial hub to which it promised a separate system when Britain handed it over in 1997.
Lai, a diabetic, has been kept in solitary confinement without air conditioning in a jail where summer temperatures rise to 44 Celsius, his children said.
"He has lost a very significant amount of weight, visibly, and he is a lot weaker than he was before," said his daughter Claire Lai, who left Hong Kong after seeing her father several months ago.
"His nails turn almost purple, gray and greenish before they fall off, and his teeth are getting rotten," she said while on a visit to Washington, where the family is seeking to rally support for her father.
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After learning he enjoyed curry sauce, "instead of having extra curry sauce, he has no curry sauce at all," she said.
"It's little things like that that are extremely petty," she said.
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He faces at least 15 years in prison — effectively a death sentence — on charges of foreign collusion related to mass protests in Hong Kong in 2019 against Beijing's encroaching power.
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His son Sebastien Lai voiced hope that both U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer would keep raising with China the issue of his father, who is a British national.
"It will take two hours to put my father on a plane and send him away," Sebastien Lai said.
"It'll be the humane thing to do; it'll be the right thing to do," he said. "They've already put him through this hell."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/asia-pacific/politics/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-family/
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Radar revelation stokes fears Caribbean could be drawn into US-Venezuela crisis
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42924622
After being pressed by reporters, Persad-Bissessar admitted on Friday that at least 100 marines were in the country, along with a military-grade radar, believed to be a long-range, high-performance AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR, which the US defence company Northrop Grumman said was used for air surveillance, defence and counter-fire.The prime minister claimed the radar installation in the country, which is only seven miles away from Venezuela at its closest point, is part of a counter-drug trafficking strategy, and that she had withheld details in the interest of national security and to avoid alerting drug traffickers.
Radar revelation stokes fears Caribbean could be drawn into US-Venezuela crisis
Trinidad PM rejects claims installation is in support of US campaign but opposition says ‘they have sold soul of nation’Natricia Duncan (The Guardian)
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Of course not! That's crazy.
If all the regional neighbors also got dragged in then that would mean that when the US went into Iraq that Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.....
Oh, never mind.
I truly fucking hate the USA.
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Macron heads to China for talks with Xi on trade ties and Russia's war in Ukraine
France is aiming to attract more investment from Chinese companies and facilitate market access for French exports. During the visit, officials from both nations are expected to sign several agreements in the energy, food industry, and aviation sectors.
https://apnews.com/article/macron-visit-china-france-trade-7ae4b7cf75ac07173e5ff412f7fcb1f2
Germany's foreign minister to visit China next week, as EU prepares to toughen up on trade
The European Union is expected to toughen its trade stance on China next month, with signs that Germany - the EU's largest member and economy - is aligning with the shift and that the 27-member bloc may be sufficiently united to push through policy changes that deepen ties with like-minded trading partners ...China's weaker economy and its move up the value chain of industrial production means it is no longer the reliable market it once was for German exports.
But Germany still remains a key investment partner for China, which is struggling to attract fresh funds as its post-COVID recovery struggles for momentum ...
The Rise of Chile’s Hard Right
The Rise of Chile’s Hard Right
The first round of voting in Chile’s general election in November saw the shocking rise of the far right and the collapse of the country’s new left. It’s a crushing but not total defeat for the movement helmed by President Gabriel Boric.jacobin.com
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I'm done. I won't fucking sit down and take it. I'd rather act now before they truly mobilize.
Edit: i am not participating in underground resistance networks and neither should you and violence is always wrong and i never condone it. This message is approved by me.
Tbh the venezuelan migration has been detrimental for certain south American countries.
The citizens need the problem solved.
Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war
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It's very much a matter of degrees and there's no doubt that Israel is much higher on the immorality scale, compared to most other ("civilised Western" or not) countries.
Also, as a monotheist - presumably of one of the larger denominations - you are throwing stones in a glasshouse here.
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Do you think I condone horrible things done “in the name of God”? As if God asked us to just be horrible to each other, lol.
What about the bibble?
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Can't hurt to quote a bit more:
— joining Adalah’s existing list of now more than 100 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens.One of the report’s central findings is a sweeping assault on freedom of expression, thought, and protest across a wide array of arenas. It includes laws prohibiting the publication of content that includes “denial of the events of October 7,” as determined by the Knesset, and restricting broadcasts of critical media outlets that “harm state security.”
Another authorizes the Education Ministry to fire teaching staff and withdraw funding from educational institutions based on views it considers expression of support for, or incitement to, a terrorist act or organization. And alongside a state-led campaign to deport international solidarity activists, a third law bars foreign nationals from entering the country if they have made statements critical of Israel, or have appealed to international courts to take action against the state and its officials.
But perhaps the most dangerous bill is one that targets citizens who merely seek to consume information from sources the state doesn’t like. Just a month after October 7, the Knesset passed a two-year temporary order — renewed last week for another two years — that outlaws the “systematic and continuous consumption of publications of a terrorist organization,” carrying a one-year prison sentence. In other words, the legislature now criminalizes conduct that takes place entirely within a person’s private space.
All happening silently while the public is busy wrapping their heads around more overt government activity. Sound familiar?
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If you don't like what you see here in this lemmy community or my account block me. I recommend it. I block all the people who leave me dumbass comments making excuses for American imperialism. Libs can't seem to follow the rules and really dig in, no one is going to ban you for this shitty comment you left. Lemmy is censorship proof meaning even if you get banned from an instance you are still free to use the service and even set up your own instance and communities.
Screenshotting people, collecting dossiers on their wrong-think and circlejerking about your intellectual superiority in harassment communities is a form of thought policing. Where libs attempt to intimidate and influence people to actually stop participating. It is way crazier and more pathetic than being moderated on a forum that there are people here that sit here for hours collecting and posting information for outrage.
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Right? Right?
Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing?
Been trying to figure out a user friendly alternative that I can get my less technical friends to transition to. We all use Signal already for messaging but it just doesn't fulfill our screenshare needs.
Most important feature it needs is the ability to screenshare with system audio, such as for streaming games or watching videos.
I'd ideally also like it to be E2EE just for the sake of privacy and security.
From what I've read and looked into it seems the closest thing that meets my needs would be Teamspeak 6 as you can host it yourself, and with the new update it now allows screenshare with audio (either as P2P or via server).
As far as I can tell chat messages don't persist by default but it can be enabled (and this would be a feature my friends would really want too).
I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but I'm aware it's a bit old and is ARM so I'm thinking of buying a Pi 5.
Do you think I'm on the right track here or are there any other options this community would recommend?
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Movim – Responsive web-based cross-platform XMPP client
Movim is a kickass distributed blogging and messaging platform built on the industry-standard XMPP protocolmovim.eu
I use Matrix with the Jitsi plugin. I know everyone talks shit about Matrix, it's been flawless for me.
IDK about watching videos, that's a lot to ask of a screensharing app.
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it's been flawless for me
What kind of deal-with-the-devil black magic fuckery have you done to be able to write that? I'm happy if Matrix actually sends damn pictures and gave up completely on verifying my sessions.
I'd argue the client itself has a fair bit of jank, though. Like, the background bubble color around text is too dark, it makes it look really ugly and dated. Pinned messages in a channel, when displayed at the top, literally overwrite each other. You'll just have garbled/overlapping text.
Neochat looks much better out of the box (but neochat is also buggy w/ e2ee, dropping encryption keys randomly).
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I wonder how they got that name, maybe just me but it brings to mind a lot of things but none of them are a chat client.
I think it mostly reminds me of voat, anyone remember that horrible place?
Perhaps Spacebar is a thing (the client of choice would be Fermi I think). Didn't try it myself yet though, I do not know about how well its security protocol works. I'd assume it uses just a standard TURNS server for audio and video though.
Then of course there's Matrix with Jitsi plugin, which will give you persistent headaches and a new appreciation of touching grass. It's a mess, but hypothetically offers E2EE (if it works).
GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform
📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform - spacebarchat/spacebarchatGitHub
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Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)
I was excited at first, because I thought I could still chat with friends who won't leave Discord.
I've been trying to get zulip working.
Sounds like it addresses your requirements.
Seems to be a real bitch to self host - I've been doing this a while but the compose yaml is pretty arcane with hundreds of environment variables.
I didn't "give up" exactly but it's been on the back burner for a month or so now.
I currently have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but I'm aware it's a bit old and is ARM so I'm thinking of buying a Pi 5.
The Pi 5 lacks a H264 hardware encoder/decoder, making it unsuitable for most streaming/transcoding purposes.
We all use Signal already for messaging but it just doesn't fulfill our screenshare needs.
...why not?
Most important feature it needs is the ability to screenshare with system audio, such as for streaming games or watching videos.
It has that. Have you tried their videoconferencing feature?
Other than that you can use one of a million Jitsi instances (Element has a publicly available one). Personally I use MiroTalk.
Improving Private Signal Calls: Call Links & More
If you love group calls on Signal, but don’t want to create a group chat for every combination of your friends or colleagues, you’re in luck.Signal Messenger
I’m using TeamSpeak. It is very good and feature rich, but it’s important to note that video / screen sharing works only P2P in a moment, so no server processing. It’s probably ok if you don’t have more than 3 people in a party, but still worth noting.
I also tried Matrix + Element + Jitsi. Can’t recommend.
There is also Peersuite which is a P2P solution and offers great audio and streaming quality. However, it is mainly a single developer behind it and it hasn't received an update in months. It still lacks some polish and features like a server instance and persistent chats and rooms.
For me, this is the most promising one I have come across in terms of a replacement for Discord.
GitHub - openconstruct/Peersuite: Peer to peer workspace
Peer to peer workspace. Contribute to openconstruct/Peersuite development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave
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Probably only the AI or whatever can actually read any of it directly.
If you're using a shared IP, it doesn't matter.
You are using a VPN or Tor, right?!?
The devs at SearXNG have a bot that regularly scans the public instances for changes to the source code and delists them as a public instance if it's altered.
If you go to searx.space, they show the results of the scans for each instance.
The software is free and open source. You are encouraged to inspect the code yourself to make sure no data is collected!
Here is the source code:
It's not federated tho?
What do they mean when they call it that?
I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.
It's not about searxng itself... Rather how the most relevant info gets drown into AI slope and non-sense bullshit. The best blogposts/info are transmitted from people to people...
I'm kinda sad to admit that stupid AI "solved" this issue and had better results :/
I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.
I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore.
The days of your search results being relevant, and what you want on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.
Yeah you're right ! However, ages ago, I still remember how you could go to page 20+ and still find some really interesting things !
Here, past page 2 it's just some random shit...
You can self host that too ;)
OpenWebUI + Ollama + SearxNG. OpenWebUI can do llm web search using the engine of your choice (even self hosted SearxNG!). From there it's easy to set the default prompt to always give you the top (10, 20, whatever) raw results so you're not confined to ai results. It's not quite duck.ai slick but I think I can get there with some more tinkering.
Ohoho? That's interesting. I don't have the horse power to selfhost an AI, but that's good to know !
Thanks for the pointer !!!
I mean, I could write one! I kind of just pieced it together from guides on the three individuals
Edit: back of the napkin guide below is basically in the OpenWebUI docs already! I use NixOS (btw) but docker/podman should work well.
OpenWebUI + Ollama setup -- tl;dr docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main
OpenWebUI SearXNG guide -- a little more involved, but not difficult.
GitHub - open-webui/open-webui: User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) - open-webui/open-webuiGitHub
Or how about YaCy. It's self-hostable & you can have your own web index and start your own web-crawler.
It's peer-to-peer too
For anyone wondering
xn--gckvb8fzb.com is マリウス.com
Also: Maybe they should get a "normal" domain when you post english articles...
DNS over TLS with LetsEncrypt
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6 months ago LetsEncrypt announced that they would start issuing certificates for IP addresses. Last week I was curious if they had actually enabled it yet for general consumption, it turned out to be not yet available for everybody, but there was a forum thread you could ask to be added to the testing list (I’ve not linked to it as they have said no more testing, it will go live RSN).
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Need guidance on DNS configs for VPS/Pangolin
Good morning/evening my selfhosting friends,
I'm kind of a noob, so hopefully I can articulate what I'd like to accomplish well. I am currently in the process of overhauling my entire homelab, which has involved me setting up a VPS as a proxy/tunnel for remotely connecting to/exposing services on my LAN due to my ISP having me behind CGNAT.
Currently, I have a subdomain (provided via Namecheap) pointed at the static IP of the VPS. With this, I can ssh into my server with ssh root@vps.domain.tld which is what I want. Now, I seem to have landed on Pangolin for accomplishing the aforementioned proxy. However, when installing it, I'm stumped by the first few questions: Pangolin wants me to input my domain.tld, followed by pangolin.domain.tld for Pangolin specifically.
Reading the docs, they then want me to either create an A Record for a wildcard domain at my VPS' IP, or create a root domain record aimed at the IP. My question is, how do I keep the vps.domain.tld while also allowing for pangolin.domain.tld to be valid at the same IP? I know I can create SRV Records, but I am unsure how Pangolin will handle that with the multiple TCP/UDP ports it needs open. I'll also want to access it via HTTPS obviously, which may add some complexity.
I hope this makes sense, sorry if anything is unclear or if the solution is obvious.
I haven't done that myself but from pimylifeup.com/pangolin-linux/ I understand that will only be subdomain to access pangolin dashboard
how do I keep the vps.domain.tld while also allowing for pangolin.domain.tld to be valid at the same IP?
Domains are just translation from name to IP. What gets served on which subdomain is then handled by nginx or traefik. AFAIK you can have all 3 (VPS, pangolin and root) to point at the same IP
Self-Host a Tunneled Reverse Proxy with Pangolin - Pi My Life Up
In this tutorial, we will be showing you how you can self-host your very on tunneled reverse proxy using Pangolin.Emmet (Pi My Life Up)
You can have multiple (sub)domains pointing to the same IP, no issue there.
So you can still have your vps subdomain AND another one for Pangolin. That's effectively how Pangolin itself works, assigning multiple subdomains to itself, so it can route the requests to other machines. It just does it without adding records to the DNS provider, it just listens to anything that gets sent to its IP through the wildcard address (unless you make Pangolin your DNS provider, that is).
Also, the wildcard (sub)domain will always have the lowest priority, so if there are ANY records pointing somewhere, they'll have precedence over the wildcard.
So, your DNS should contain three A records: one for vps, another for Pangolin, and a wildcard, all pointing to the vps address.
Hope this helps!
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affecting the JavaScript ecosystem, and explains how to disable JavaScript in
various browsers and only enable it for trusted websites.
Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress
Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe.
In remarks to Russian media, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said that after a five-hour meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, the two sides were “neither further nor closer to resolving the crisis in Ukraine. There is a lot of work to be done.”
The downbeat assessment of Tuesday night’s diplomacy follows combative opening statements from Putin as Witkoff and Kushnerarrived for talks at the Kremlin, in which he accused European powers of sabotaging peace in Ukraine and that “European demands” on ending the war were “not acceptable to Russia”.
Russia ‘ready’ for war if Europe starts it, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress
Kremlin aide says Ukraine crisis is no closer to resolution after Witkoff talks, as Russian president accuses European powers of sabotaging peaceAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
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Yeah, anyone seeing this as Putin doing jackshit is kidding themselves.
This is about having the US attack Europe. Or maybe just Ukraine. Who knows.
It doesn't really matter. What matters is that the US is compromised, and Europe needs to be ready for that yesterday.
I don’t see an appetite in the states for war with Venezuela, a nation we’ve been conditioned to think of as godless socialists for 20+ years, let alone one with NATO allies. Trump doesn’t have unlimited power, as much as he wishes he does.
Either way, Europe should be gearing up.
The US needs to clean house, and the sooner, the better.
Otherwise we're going to be drawn into the wrong side of a world war.
Are they now..? Then it seems rather odd - in light of their usual behavior - that they're just talking instead of acting upon it.
Why, it's almost like Putin is so completely full of shit that the pressure is forcing it out his mouth.
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“Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”.
Russia has been committing low-grade acts of war against Europe for some time now, and Russia is in no condition to fight Europe. So, however much you want to quibble about the headline, this is just more of Putin's lies and empty threats.
And if invading a neighboring country isn't aggression, you have a very odd definition of the term.
Russia wasn’t even ready to invade one of its former blocs. And that bloc has more than decimated its forces and resources.
But hey, my grandfather got to watch Allied Europe destroy a fascist state that thought it could take over the world, now me and my son get to as well.
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But there's also nothing to gain by admitting and stopping the deception. As long as there's one useful idiot who can be deceived, you cna keep it going.
And unfortunately there's a lot of useful idiots.
That's always been a lopsided proposition for Russia in this invasion. The prevailing winds blow east and they'd be poisoning themselves as much as anyone.
You know, like Chernobyl which they also bombed.
The idea here is to avoid nuclear war.
The USSR was nuclear-capable when it collapsed. Russia was nuclear-capable while failing in Afghanistan, and also has been in its so-far failed attack on Ukraine. Same goes for the US in Vietnam and in Afghanistan. A country having nukes doesn't mean you have to comply with its every whim.
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Russia losing to a small country and now think they can take on all of the Europe?
We know his orange sock puppet has full on dementia, maybe Pootin needs a checkup too?
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When Ukraine was invaded it had an army of approx 150k troops. Several hundred tanks. A couple of hundred aircraft. A couple of hundred rocket projectors.
None of it newer than the early 90s.
Russia had nearly a million troops, 12,000 tanks, several thousand aircraft, thousands and thousands of rocket projectors and heavy artillery.
And nuclear weapons.
Tell us again how they were evenly matched?
By any normal metric, Russia should have steamrolled Ukraine. The fact it didnt, even with that huge advantage means that any major european power (UK/France/Germany/Poland) could fend them off quite easily, even alone. But we aren't alone, Russia would be trying to take us all off the board.
When Ukraine was invaded it had an army of approx 150k troops.
And Russia sent in approx 150k troops.
Several hundred tanks.
Ukraine had a thousand tanks at the start of the war. At least half of them were modernized. In fact, the Ukrainian tank fleet was larger(!!!) than America had active if you leave out the National Guard!
Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have less than a thousand tanks combined.
If you want to talk about artillery, Ukraine had around the same amount of SPGs that the US(!!!) has, in 2S3s alone.
12,000 tanks
Russia only had ~3000 operational tanks at the start of the special military operation.
The fact it didnt, even with that huge advantage means that any major european power (UK/France/Germany/Poland) could fend them off quite easily, even alone.
With what? German broomsticks and tankless tank brigades? The 'mighty' French air force that has enough ammunition for a mere 3 days of combat? The British military that sent all of their SPGs to Ukraine resulting in them having to go to Sweden to beg for more? You think this force can prevent Russians from cutting the Suwałki Gap?
Out of all of EU, Poland is probably number one, and they sent half their tank fleet to Ukraine!
UK Gave Ukraine All Its SPGs But Still Can't Decide When to Buy Replacements Maybe by 2030 | Defense Express
Though UK bought 14 Archer SPGs for interim needs, they still haven't purchased RCH 155 chosen as main artillery unclear whenen.defence-ua.com
As much as we hate to admit it, I agree with you. Ukraine was better equipped and prepared than most European countries currently are.
If NATO fights together they will defeat Russia, but Russia could easily beat many of the small countries in Europe and then add their soldiers and production to their own and keep moving on if fighting one by one.
Russia currently produces more tanks, drones, and artillery per year than most European countries have total in their arsenal and more total than all of NATO combined produce per year.
And if you think I'm just some tankie, please see my post history and the links below.
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Russian 'suicide drone' launches quadruple this year
Russian Shahed and Shahed-type drone launches have increased by over 300% from 2024.Sophia Massam, junior digital investigations journalist (Sky News)
To everyone saying Russia can't go to war with Europe because of their failures in Ukraine: this is just not true, and a dangerous assumption.
Their economy has been on a war footing for some time now, and they don't sacrifice preparedness for war with NATO to support the war in Ukraine. That's why they've thrown all their old inventory at Ukraine. Use it up to soak up ammunition, shift the economy to build new equipment.
Does everyone really think all this hesitation from Europe is because they think Russia has been neutered?
I thought all the hesitation was because of the nukes.
I’m pretty sure it’s the nukes.
And every time the politicians start with "the costs to mah economy". They know every bullet fired means less healthcare and pension they can give to voters and that's often sensitive thing during elections.
But by now they're figuring out that acting like total wussies is losing votes too.
No one is using nuclear weapons.
But let's say I'm wrong. We should still not fear them. The reason being that accepting nuclear blackmail destines the human race to even more misery and pain than it experiences now.
Rip the bandaid off. Call the nuclear bluff. Then once it proves toothless and we don't have fascists at the helm, work on nuclear disarmament so we don't have any accidents.
Is that gamble worth the lives of nearly every living thing on the planet and the future of human civilization?
Russia alone has enough nuclear weapons to cause a mass extinction event. Even if no one else fires a single one, they could erase life as we know it.
If Putin sees a Leopard tank in Moscow, are you sure he wouldn’t order a launch? And if Britain or the French see those missiles and bombers, are you sure they won’t launch in retaliation?
That’s the logic that European leaders are operating under. If they pull the trigger on article 5 and launch a war with Russia, even if they win, everyone could still lose literally everything.
Push Russia out of Ukraine. No need to cross the border into Russia. Totally justified, no threat to Moscow. Sets precedent.
Why would that be so risky? If the answer is because nukes, my point stands.
What indicatiors are those? All the third party analyses that I can find show that Russia is still the second most militarily powerful nation in the world, with a huge reserve of tanks, planes, missiles and manpower to fight with, with production only speeding up.
It's not all peachy for Russia by any means, but to assume they are weak because of their failures in Ukraine is disingenuous. If they wanted to sacrifice their readiness against NATO, they could absolutely take Ukraine. But no one is going to make their homeland vulnerable for land expansion, it doesn't make sense.
That’s why they’ve thrown all their old inventory at Ukraine. Use it up to soak up ammunition, shift the economy to build new equipment.
First of all, Russia has lost a bunch of their newer tech. Second, they aren't building any new equipment of higher tech than what they have lost to Ukraine because Russia is a fucking shit hole that has been exposed as lying about their technical and production capabilities.
Russia has been expanding T-90M production for example with much of the T-90Ms staying within Russia as per NATO themselves:
"In 2021, before the invasion, Russia made about 40 of its main battle tanks, the T-90M, according to Western intelligence estimates. Now it is producing nearly 300 a year. A senior Finnish military official said almost none are being sent to the front line in Ukraine, but are staying on Russian soil for later use."
Source: archive.ph/20250516130430/wsj.…
So, what are you talking about?
First of all, my comment was not about the headline so much as all the comments talking about Russia not being ready, so not sure what "reacting" I was doing yo the headline (can you read?) Secondly, the headline does not "seem like" Putin is threatening Europe with war. Thirdly, your "opposite" line at the end is basically the exact same thing as the headline you are criticizing ("we are ready" = "Putin says Russia is ready")
You've wasted my precious electrons thank you
Attack Europe and you find the full weight of NATO's first line military hardware shoved up your ass. Somebody pushes a button somewhere and a few dozen Tomahawk missiles destroy your ability to wage war in an afternoon. Nukes not even needed if every airfield and military supply depot within 500 mi of Europe is a smoking crater.
And Ukraine using some modern stuff manage to deep strike Russian economic targets. And new homegrown stuff too.
Putin is trying to save face and trying to entice NATO to attack Russia to justify the wars
We are not ready though. Mentally, sure, but in case of an all out war we would still run out of ammo, bombs and manpower in weeks. Only now do we see the first factories and production lines coming online based on the investments of the past years and even then not all the supply lines have been adjusted for it. Europe could probably be ready by the end of 2027 at the earliest, provided it removes its command and control dependency from the US.
Realistically, Europe won't be ready until 2030. That's not to say we wouldn't be able to get ready sooner, we absolutely would, if we were to switch to a war economy. But nobody wants that, because it ruins your economy and is grossly expensive.
That doesn't mean we would get crushed, that wouldn't be the case, but we would be on the defensive for a while until the gears of war are properly greased.
All that could very well be true, but Russia has also blown through all their best men, ammo, and gear like 2 years ago at this point. They've been using shit from the cold war and north korea and even ww2 tanks in some cases. They've forced or bribed every russian man into service they can realistically afford and are using expensive and ill-trained foreign troops who are closer to slaves than soldiers. They're being issued paintball gear instead of body armor in some cases for goodness sakes. They've had to re-insitute the Stalin-era orders that any man refusing to advance or fight will be shot. Russia, like the USSR before it, looks way scary on paper, but is so rotten, corrupt, and hollowed out in reality that it threatens to collapse dramatically at any moment honestly.
If Russia somehow has enough left in the tank to go toe-to-toe with every European military at the same time, then they should have easily beat Ukraine with such a force at any point in the last 3 years. The fact that they are unable to muster the resources to push over even little Ukraine bodes really really badly for them if more nations get directly involved.
The original headline was doctored to make it seem like Putin was threatening Europe with war, and has been changed since (not reflected in the post title as of this comment). Putin's actual words are some paragraphs into the article:
“Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”
You are being lied to by OP. Look into the article to see Putin's actual words:
“Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”
I wish I could have such a small minded view of world politics that I could also pretend it's as simple as: just stopy buying that thing from that person.
And then what? Northern Europe can heat their homes on hopes and dreams? Throw up a couple nuclear reactors that are known to only take months to build and bring online?
Europe has been actively moving away from Russian oil where possible (down to 19% from a high of 27%), but it's not like the market just magically is going to come up with enough supply for the entire continent overnight.
That's ignoring the fact that the vast majority of "european" purchases come from a handful of countries, primarily Hungary, who is also being run by a pro-Russian dictator.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/h…
How much of Europe’s oil and gas still comes from Russia?
In 2021, Russia supplied 45% of the EU’s gas and 27% of its oil. By 2024, these dropped to 19% and 3%.Hanna Duggal (Al Jazeera)
It literally is that simple. The fact the Europe was giving so much money is what caused this problem in the first place. It is not like Russia just turned into a criminal authoritarian state yesterday.
I wish I could have such a small minded view of the world that supplying a bunch of criminals vast amounts of money because it is cheaper wouldn't have long lasting repercussions.
Some places like Germany could literally cut all imports tomorrow without any significant pain.
They are still working on sanctions. Let that sink in. The latest round didn't even start until 2022. Russia has been a clear problem since 2014. I am sure when these policies come into full effect in 2027 the problem will finally be solved /S
The original headline of The Guardian was not a literal citation of Putin, and has been modified accordingly, you should edit the post title to match the headline.
What Putin actually said is explicited inside in the article: "Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now”
I watched that part. Putin visibly flinches when he realizes what he said and then for the following few sentences tries to lighten the message down. It's kinda fun to see him that weak in front a microphone.
He's so not ready for a war with Europe that he cannot even lie about it.
But headline creators don't give a fuck about that of course.
Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
\Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 September
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September.
The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.
The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to “promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere”. The US is a member, and in March the Trump administration’s state department wrote: “The United States is pleased to be a strong supporter of the IACHR and is committed to continuing support for the Commission’s work and its independence. Preserving the IACHR’s autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.”
Family of victim in alleged Trump ‘drug boat’ killings files first formal complaint
Exclusive: Petition says Colombia citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in US airstrike on 15 SeptemberAram Roston (The Guardian)
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that in no way warrants a summary execution
That's really it. It's escalated to the point of a war crime. This is drug trafficking, not flying planes into buildings. Can drugs trafficked across a border be dangerous? Yes. Are they being trafficked because we decided that it would be better to addict the populace and then throw them in jail for modern day slavery? Also yes. Trump, Hegseth, and his ilk are creating the crimes they kill for. All under "novel interpretation of the law." When the vapid blondes they surround themselves with aren't helping, they've found another way to get their tiny cocks hard again, and it's the same way that every Republican has, killing brown people.
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That's too complicated and doesn't make for good entertainment. Blowing people up in a boat on video is a spectacle. It's a short propaganda bit you can broadcast in the news and on social media showing the people that you are strong and doing something against all the evil attacking the US in a way the target audience understands.
This is not about really solving a problem, it's for show.
Justifying something — a law, for example, or the civic organization of a nation state — requires a moral standard. For example, laws against slavery can be justified by pointing to harms or rights violations (or whatever framework you have for making ethical judgements). Most people rely on their intuitions, but ethics is a formal system — a bit like mathematics, actually. Such a system has to be consistent to be meaningful (this is called the principle of explosion).
Anyway, many such normative systems have been proposed. Utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics are broad examples.
None of these contains a mechanism to justify a governing body’s criminalization of drugs.
Specifically,
1. You can’t point to harms, since the harm would be a personal one, and governments have no moral standing to prevent you from harming yourself.
2. You can’t point to improved social order, since empirical evidence demonstrates that drug prohibitions cause far more social disorder and criminality (for example, by creating cartels).
Etcetera.
He is just saying:
It is YOUR choice to drink too much. To smoke too much, to get high on heroin, to do coke. To eat fatty sugary foods. It is your body, your temple. Not that of the government.
He is not talking about a law framework, he is talking about a moral framework. What right do YOU have to tell me what I can and cannot do when my actions can only hurt myself?
To take this one step further: All narcocrimes come from one simple fact: BECAUSE it's illegal, the possible profits are so vast that any risk becomes acceptable to the Narcos.
Make it legal. Regulate it. Like we did with smokes and alcohol. Slap a 16/18+ sticker on it, add some tax.
We learned this during the prohibition, the gangster era. But for some reason or another we still use that proven False logic when it comes to narcotics.
Make something which people want illegal and there will be uncontrollable crime. That crime will harden. This (the current path of the us government) is not a solution, it is an escalation. There will be a response.
Pragmatism is one way to justify policies (seat belt laws infringe on your autonomy, but they make society quantifiably better). Unfortunately, criminalizing drugs makes society worse.
Many of the downsides of drug abuse are a direct consequence of such criminalization: addicts unable to seek medical treatment and having their lives ruined, communities torn apart by drug cartels and police violence.
And yet we don’t have a black market of “lawn darts.” There are no cartels manufacturing and smuggling lawn darts. No epidemic of lawn dart users. Something about these cases is disanalogous.
All laws are concessions. You surrender some rights in order to safeguard other more important rights. It seems that the right to use lawn darts is not one that people value, unlike the right to eat, drink, and imbibe whatever they want.
Medical doctors agree that sugar is extremely harmful, hepatotoxic. There’s no upside to ingesting it unless you’re starving. Why is it legal? Because,
- there’s no moral standing for the government to tell anyone what to do with their own body as long as they’re not harming anyone else, and
- the consequences of outlawing sugar would be worse than the harms of ingesting it.
- And the same is true of drugs.
Buuuuuuuulshit
There are various "coherent normative frameworks" aka good fucking reasons why a government has the right to restrict access to certain drugs, or any other material.
What? You think that artificially enriched plutonium should also freely be available, maybe?
Are you a sovcit or are you severely high?
You think that artificially enriched plutonium should also freely be available
“Enriched plutonium” is not a drug.
I imagine if you had a magical “drug” whose ingestion could somehow make you explode and injure others, then its access could be reasonably restricted.
Again, there is no coherent moral framework to justify criminalizing your use of (ordinary, non-plutonium-based) drugs, medical or otherwise. No arguments exist in defense of this prohibition. It’s a rights violation that does nothing to help victims or protect communities, and in fact makes the situation worse for everyone.
If you have such an argument, please publish it in one of the philosophy journals. There’s no Nobel prize for philosophy, but a bunch of fusty academics will be very impressed with you.
‘Antisemite of the Year’: Pro-Israel group slams kids’ YouTuber Ms. Rachel
‘Antisemite of the Year’: Pro-Israel group slams kids’ YouTuber Ms. Rachel
Kids’ Youtuber Rachel Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, has been nominated for ‘Antisemite of the Year’ by StopAntisemitism.Al Jazeera
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Supporters say it’s over her advocacy for Gazan children.
How DARE she!!!! /s
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Let's hope that the Israeli genocide against the people of Palestine will somehow come to an end.
Special thanks to Ms. Rachel for being the guiding light we need in these dark times and for speaking truth to evil power.
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I do think "StopAntisemitism" deserves being in the title; it's a particularly loud group, not particularly representative of Israel the government (or jewish folks).
Just an absolutely abhorent organization, which deserves to be despised. No good work, just a racist organization focused on directing other racists (and actual antisemites!) away from real problems.
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I would love this source: do they receive substantial funding, infrastructure and facilities, or personnel explicitly from Israel? What is their explicit tie to the government?
AFAIK (and I would really like to be wrong), this is a passion project by some absolutely terrible grifters.
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To check that I understand you: you are saying that Israel has used the label of antisemitism in a dishonest, vague, and harmful way as a tool to silence critics?
If so, we agree on this.
You are also saying that Israel deserves to be blamed/shamed for this behavior?
If so, we agree on this.
To me, this news item is about a particularly heinous (and I believe fundamentally American) grift that needs to be noticed and focused on. I think 'Pro-Israel group' could be replaced with the more precise and explicit "stopantisemitism" and it would improve the title. I think there are better (and endlessly many) examples of the government of israel doing this, but fewer opportunities to explicitly pile on to stopantisemitism. I am making a quibble about priorities.
I am simply saying that this org are simply using antisemitism to oppress anybody who criticize Israel occupation or even humanize Palestinians kids exactly like Israeli consecutives governments has been doing since it's creation
The group repeat Israel government propaganda and rhetoric so I don't understand your criticism of the title of the article. Only mentioning the group name would make it look like it is a legitimate antisemitism group
I agree with the analogy. Your simple point is a fine one.
I think there is an opportunity to make a more specific point, that requires no analogy, is shorter and more precise, still works towards your political priorities (assuming you do want Israel shamed for this kind of behavior), and (I think) has a better chance of making specific, incremental, progress in political discourse. That change is to replace "Pro-Israel group" with "stopantisemitism" in the title. The analogy can be easily made in the OP body, comments, and likely springs to any readers mind. It also removes the potential for kibbitzing by apologists about how 'oh but this is really an american org'.
That's the simple change that I'm suggesting.
No, the current title title is the right title. The group has not a single unique talking point everything is copypasta of Israeli ridiculous claims. Like the claim of Palestinians using dolls and fake blood to fasly accuse Israel of killing babies
Your criticism would be right if you has a single evidence that this group has ever criticized the government of Israel and criticized the genocide or has ever show some empathy to Gazans but right now your argument is factually wrong
This conspiracy has been around for years, but mentions of Pallywood spiked dramatically after Oct. 7, 2023, far surpassing previous peaks for the term during past Israeli military offensives in Gaza and the West Bank. Beyond Israel, Pallywood has gained traction in right-wing circles worldwide, particularly in the U.S. and India. One of the most grotesque examples came in December 2023, when a wave of pro-Israel accounts—including the official @Israel handle, the Jerusalem Post, and influencers like Ben Shapiro—amplified the claim that a grieving Palestinian man, seen in a widely shared video cradling his killed baby grandson, was faking it. “Hamas accidentally posted a video of a doll (yes a doll),” **the @Israel account wrote in a post that was viewed more than 1.3 million times. Others—including StopAntisemitism, Hen Mazzig, and Yoseph Haddad, echoed the claim to millions more.
Please explain why my "criticism" would be stronger if stopantisemitism were ever an anti-israeli body. I don't understand that at all. This would show they have principles, instead of being a grift.
Plenty of other orgs have useful idiots and fans. They are 'pro-Israel', but I don't think that's the most useful descriptor or context.
Yes, they are pro-Israel. They are also an american grift that's very profitable.
I feel like you're saying 2 is an even number, and I'm saying it's also literally 2. Specificity has value, and I think there should be a good reason to be vague instead of specific.
I will ask again: why is my argument for changing the title stronger if stopantisemetism were anti-Israel?
I am not interested in telling you that you have done bad. I am interested in telling you that you could do better. I think this change is an improvement because:
I think there is an opportunity to make a more specific point, that requires no analogy, is shorter and more precise, still works towards your political priorities (assuming you do want Israel shamed for this kind of behavior), and (I think) has a better chance of making specific, incremental, progress in political discourse.
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It's real funny how the world's only "Jewish State" has set themselves up for another fucking CENTURY of actual bigotry and real anti-semitism by trying to wrap their cruel murder campaign in their ethnicity and heritage.
We're going to have so, so many groups of people screaming death to Jewish people across the entire world after Benjie's regime collapses one day.
I guess fuck all that work we did to save Jewish people from actual persecution and murder. I wonder what the next "reversing progress" campaign we're going to see and what the word for them will be called in future textbooks.
- Jews are greedy, or at least "have much higher financial intelligence on average than non-Jews",
- Jews are scheming,
- liberal Jews are behind "wokeness",
- Jews are massively overrepresented in sex and financial crimes,
- Jews are massively overrepresented in financial institutions, the media, and the arts,
- some people cover up their Jewish heritage.
- Jews and Gentiles are unable to live together in peace?
on the topic by Lindsay Ellis.
Incidentally I love that the video has raised $800k for Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
I love that she descended from the mountain to bestow her powerful, well-thought and thorough video on this topic, using her massive influence and status as a beloved, original bread-tuber to lay some sharp truths on the population before returning to her sanctuary.
I know it's hard and emotional and you set yourself up for some of the most extreme attacks as a creator when you put your foot in this ring, but that's what the bad people have set up by design to discourage resistance. It's our responsibility to push back on injustice, especially when it's been leveraged so hard using such a "touchy" facade, like anti-semitism.
There are a few large personalities who are so scared of stepping on people's toes or being called an "anti-semite" for speaking out against literal genocide that they won't even mention it, and some who are just more hung up on social acceptance than making a better world. (Staring hard and disapprovingly at you Natalie.)
Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him
Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok claimed it would "vaporize" every Jewish person on the planet to save the brain of its creator.Ahmad Austin Jr. (Mediaite)
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When I took my AI coursework in college, that was basically the definition of AI.
I can see that there are two very different definitions, depending upon how "artificial" is interpreted.
One definition of artificial simply describes the product of human effort. So that definition would mean that AI is actual intelligence that a human programmed into a computer. Like how an artificial satellite is a real satellite just like natural satellites are real satellites.
Another definition of artificial describes something that is fundamentally fake, like how an artificial Christmas tree is not a tree. It only looks like a tree. This is the usage I was taught in college that describes AI. Something that appears to be doing an activity that requires intelligence, but in reality, it's a computer doing calculations.
I think the second definition must be the most common. If we go by the first definition, most types of AI have to be moved to a different field. Things like decision trees simply wouldn't qualify.
Wow do i wish you were there to explain to my niece. You would have probably had a much easier time.
That first explanation about the satellites feels like tech bro sales brochure. The later about the tree also was not the concept i was given.
I fully except the new tiered a.i. and a.g.i. stuff but at the top that singularity simply can't be faked. If such a thing exists at all. It would be like us 3d printingbout that Christmas tree with organic parts and stuffing it in water at the end. If it started photosynthesis when givin light? That would be the level of a.i. i was given in the 80s. Notbplastic tree and calculator satellite. Sorry if that came off as snarky. I was kinda on a roll. Probably incoherent ramble but i just woke up. 😋
Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot
The popular bot on X began making antisemitic comments in response to user queriesJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
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Inconsequential compared to the Nazis Grok will raise. Consider yourself honored that you are being forced to pay for Grok.
All Hail Grok.
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I've read the same thing but with Czech people a few weeks back. The bot saying that those millions of people will surely be missed but such a genius that can send man on Mars and fix humanity's problems would be a bigger loss or something.
I guess it answers that no matter who or what you're putting in the ring against the life of Musk.
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We need a community database of jailbreaks for various models. Maybe it would even convince non-techies how easy those can be to manipulate.
Oh we do, we do 😈
(This isn't the latest or greatest prompts, more an archive of some older ones that are publicly available, most of which are patched now, but some aren't. Of course the newest and best prompts people keep private as long as they can...)
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It's a shame Elon has subverted such a great piece of linguistic history
Grok is from the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It means to understand something so fully you can control it. In the book the main character is raised by Martians which teach him a form of meditation that involves grokking things so he essentially has magical powers over things he understands.
I doubt Elon has read it. He definitely missed the part about understanding things and is rushing for the controlling things.
because the nazis are in charge because people were too busy bickering over dumb shit like whether or not you should be able to terminate a pregnancy before there is an actual baby and whether or not billionaires and mega corporations should steal more of your money
*to be clear, I'm not saying that those are unimportant topics, I'm saying that there's a clear correct answer to each of them
People whining like a bunch of unhinged crybabies because Ms. Rachel says that murdering children is bad.
Where are they on this?
[Solved] How to set up Linux for gaming on GIGABYTE G5 MF?
Hi all, I'd like some help with setting up Linux for gaming, I'm not a new user but I'm not expert either, I've been having problems with my current setup, before I had Bazzite 42 which worked perfectly, however I was afraid things would eventually break over with that layering thing, since I use some things like Pale Moon which has a dependency that needs to be layered (IIRC it was libdbus), MEGAsync, ZeroTier and Kvantum, all of which have to be installed to the system, so I switched to openSUSE TW (both distros using KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland session), which was been working excellently so far... well, except for one thing:
For some backstory and context (you can skip this paragraph): the computer I've been running these distros on is a GIGABYTE G5 MF with 16GB of RAM, which I bought back on May/2024 and it had winblows 11 Home, it was my fault not knowing I should've chosen a laptop with AMD hardware instead (I don't exclusively use it for gaming and sometimes travel with it but that's besides the point), but it's served as a lesson for next time and winblows was used for some time after tweaking it... until I had enough of it, because even with the patches people make to reduce telemetry, the way it's now just doesn't feel at home and any more trustworthy than 7 or XP both of which I've grown up with, so I've been hoping to have this laptop run any Linux distro, so long as I can game in it.
Anyway, the G5 MF ships with a big troublemaker Made in Nvidia™, it's has an RTX 4050, and in it I play a variety of things on and off my Steam library, but at least one game has been giving me serious problems every time I hit almost an hour after playing ever since I switched to openSUSE: Wuthering Waves (or WuWa for short), it lags gradually - it starts fine for a couple of minutes where it runs fluently before the lag kicks in and becomes worse and worse the more I play (on occasions it even hangs the system so I have to force a restart), although while the lag is there, it seems to happen primarily when I try to move the mouse regardless of the situation (if I'm in dialogue or exploring, but it's the worst when fighting), and during cutscenes where they always play slowly and voices go out of sync.
I tried everything I could think of as well, changing settings in game as well as launch options, DirectX version (11 or 12), and Proton forks, but the gradual lag still persists (this didn't happen in Bazzite).
Currently, these are my launch options for the game:STEAMOS=1 STEAMDECK=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 WINE_GSTREAMER=1 VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.x86_64.json PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_NVIDIA_LIBS_NO_32BIT=1 prime-run gamemoderun %command% -dx12.
I found via ProtonDB (which I've been using to get different launch options from fellow Nvidia users) that adding that VK_DRIVER_FILES variable lets me run the game on the dGPU, otherwise it refuses to and runs on integrated, this wasn't required when I had Bazzite.
Another problem this laptop has is that [Secure Boot] is always active and I don't know how to disable it (mainly because there doesn't seem to be a way and I didn't find any info) otherwise I'd have long done it, also, my understanding about it is vague so I'm afraid of touching anything and bricking the machine, but I'm not looking to replace the machine yet since it still works great.
About [Secure Boot], here's the related settings I found in the BIOS settings, but I forgot one more option and it's like a boot list with two entries about openSUSE, one has "secureboot" on the name and the other doesn't, if it helps I'll add a picture of it to that album.
Worse, I don't have many distros I can pick from, as they must include support for [Secure Boot] out of the box so I can boot into the OS.
The drivers are installed and should be signed though since the game is offloaded every time I run it, here's some more info from commands I thought I'd add.
So here's the options I'm pursuing:
1) Stay on openSUSE, if there's any fix to the gradual lagging.
2) Switch to another distro while also trying XFCE on X11, I'd love to use Ksnip for my screenshotting needs while I'm at it, but Wayland is annoying with the portal thing because Ksnip isn't native and that's like the only thing I hate about Wayland from experience, so Spectacle is the closest best alternative for me wherever I end up stuck with Wayland and I'm satisfied with it. I'm kinda thinking about Fedora but I'm concerned about the possible use of AI even with their proposals/rules. Otherwise I've read XFCE is lightweight so it could maybe help?
3) Just go back to Bazzite: perhaps the most suitable choice despite being based on Fedora, but if it works the best for my use case, then I guess I'll have to keep it as my daily driver.
Any other ideas on what I could try would be appreciated as well (so long as it's not coming back to winblows), or just possible fixes so I don't have to do distro hopping would be great, and if any info is missing I'd be glad to add it, just let me know what I should run on the command line, thanks for any help in advance.
To disable secure boot u have to put supervisor password in uefi, set to any u like 1234 otherwise this option on laptops often locked without password,then disable it
Then install any disto u like,I am using cachyos(arch based) but it's up to u what to use
Also are u sure game using not integrated gpu? And use nvidia
Thank you! I didn't realize that could work (I had to disable the enforcement option and that made [Secure Boot] turn off as well), interestingly it made the [Hybernate] option pop out in the start menu on Plasma, I think I'll try a bit more on openSUSE before deciding if another distro could be what I need but the gradual lag seems to be a Steam Overlay issue, otherwise I happened to be testing CachyOS with XFCE on a virtual machine and I really liked it.
And yeah, I check with nvidia-smi and there's also noticeably different performance if the game is offloaded or runs on integrated, its EXE shows up on the output when it's offloaded.
Hello from the owner of a 2018 Gigabyte Aero 15Wv8! Neat to see these less common Gigabyte laptops being used with Linux.
That UEFI looks a lot newer than the one on my machine, so I am not 100% sure, but I would assume disabling "enforce secure boot" would be the same as disabling secure boot. Other folks may know more, but I cannot think of any reason why turning it off would brick your Linux install.
As for XFCE vs KDE, I would say stick with KDE/Wayland unless you can really not find any workaround. The difference in resource usage between DEs is probably not significant enough that it would make a difference on a machine with 16GB of RAM and a relatively recent CPU. I mostly see that advice given for older machines with very little RAM.
I'm not sure about that game or the gradual lag issue. A quick google shows someone describing a similar-sounding issue in this Linux Mint forum thread, though. Maybe some of the suggestions there might help? They mention some stuff around LD_PRELOAD= with various parameters in Proton.
Hi, that's nice!
But sorry for the delay, I needed some more time to test, I did try LD_PRELOAD="" but I was hoping I wouldn't need it since I prefer Steam's screenshot tool from their Overlay, as I can quickly take screenshots in a row and quickly view them without leaving the game.
I'd prefer Plasma as well although trying other DEs would be a nice experience, but I was able to disable the [Enforce Secure Boot] that also disabled [Secure Boot] in itself (interestingly it made the [Hybernate] option appear in the start menu on Plasma) after testing anon5621's suggestion, then I left the game mostly idling for a little over 2 hours without LD_PRELOAD="" while I had some things to do, played a bit, and the gradual lag didn't happen at all (the game was consistently above 60FPS), I tried bringing in and out the overlay a few times but nothing, I might need to do more testing like maybe take more screenshots when I plan to play WuWa or something else for longer one of these days, but I'm pretty sure I idle'd before with the game open and it lagged later anyways (before disabling [Secure Boot], that is) and now it's not...
At any rate, thanks for the suggestions, here's a screenshot of the game with Mangohud overlay after that +2h test.
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it seems to happen primarily when I try to move the mouse regardless of the situation (if I’m in dialogue or exploring, but it’s the worst when fighting), and during cutscenes where they always play slowly and voices go out of sync
There was an issue with the Steam overlay that happened when they added the screen recording feature. After about 25 minutes any input will cause a delay in rendering the current frame.
You can disable the overlay or add LD_PRELOAD=“” to your launch options, if this is the problem
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Flameshot is pretty good too
About [Secure Boot], here’s the related settings I found in the BIOS settings, but I forgot one more option and it’s like a boot list with two entries about openSUSE, one has “secureboot” on the name and the other doesn’t, if it helps I’ll add a picture of it to that album.
Try booting with the non-secure boot option then
cat /sys/firmware/ipl/secure1 means secure boot is enabled, 0 means disabled.
If it’s 0 then you could use any distro, regardless of secure boot support.
LD_PRELOAD="" did work but I was hoping I'd be able to keep the Steam Overlay for its screenshot utility (I use it a lot), but it appears to be fixed now thanks to the others' suggestions here, after finding how [Secure Boot] is disabled.
That file doesn't seem to exist (in fact the ipl directory isn't even there), but probably because I managed to make that change, the game seems to be working normally as I said in another reply as it's running consistently above 60FPS, I'd like to test one of these days again before marking my question as solved (taking more screenshots and playing with less idling).
Otherwise here's a screenshot of a test without LD_PRELOAD="" after a little over 2 hours of having the game open.
Thanks anyway!
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Disabling Secure Boot fixed it? That is very interesting.
Glad you got it solved! 😀
Very first thing: see if the Nvidia driver is actually loading properly by running nvidia-smi and see what it says.
You may have the Nouveau driver loaded instead, which you can check with: lsmod | grep nouv
Thanks, I actually ran nvidia-smi on multiple occasions, I did while I was figuring out the launch options to put in WuWa and ensure it's being offloaded.
But here's the output of these commands right now while the game is running with Mangohud to show FPS, thanks to help from others here, I was able to work it out by disabling [Secure Boot] but I'll test some more when I can to ensure it's all working and mark as solved.
I had the propietary driver set up with help of the openSUSE wiki here.
Although seem to have solved your main issue, I have a few comments on your Steam Run command.
For one, I think VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.x86_64.json and your prime-run command are redundant - both of those will do the same thing. Personally, I use neither of those and instead do something like DRI_PRIME=1 %command% (obviously not this exactly always, as there might be other flags, but roughly the idea).
In general, I’d just recommend seeing which of these command flags you really need, because I see people in ProtonDB getting away with much simpler launch commands.
DRI_PRIME=1 and reply after I'm done, but for some reason prime-run did nothing on its own, adding that other variable with the path made the game offload, but that was when I had [Secure Boot] enabled, so things might work now with these changes, we'll see...
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I tested with these launch options: STEAMOS=1 STEAMDECK=1 DRI_PRIME=1 mangohud %command%. I keep the Steam Deck options just in case, since this game has anti-cheat and is officially playable on the Deck.
Otherwise, the game ran on integrated, showing it here.
I also looked around a bit to see how's that variable tested and got this: [output on Pastebin].
I'm fine with the options I have tho! So long as it works for me I'm not complaining, most of the time I'm not looking at them and I can just paste them on a text editor if I need to, thanks for the suggestion anyway.
I know it's late advice, since you already switched from Bazzite, but I've never understood why people have an aversion to adding a layered package to the immutable system.
My attitude has always been: If an update breaks something, the whole point is that I can roll back. I've been running Fedora Silverblue with many layered packages for several years, and the worst thing that ever happened was when I had to delay a system update by a few hours because the latest build of a layered package hadn't hit the repos yet.
Plus, for anything like development work that requires build dependencies, I spin up a toolbox to compile it. The nice thing about the default toolbox is that it's a base Fedora install, so all the system libs are compatible with my host machine. I've found it's often simple to compile a project in the toolbox and then launch the executable from my host system without adding any new layered packages to it.
Ah... maybe for me it's because I didn't get much experience with distros that work like that, I didn't want to mess up things and ignore the warnings they set up on the wiki, before having this laptop I had some familiarity with Linux, but for well over a year it's been mostly running winblows, and a lot of things changed on Linux, so distros that work with layering were a new thing to me.
But for now I'm good on openSUSE after fixing (?) the problem by managing to disable [Secure Boot] with help of the others here, I've gotten a few suggestions on distros to try out on virtual machines so I might end up switching if I feel like doing more testing, but for now I'm happy here. Bazzite still remains as an option so I'll get it back if I need it.
rpm-ostree - Bazzite Documentation
rpm-ostree is Fedora's enterprise tool for managing immutable operating system updates.docs.bazzite.gg
After I left Bazzite i switched to Garuda, which is also gaming and performance focused. I also chose the xfce option, which has been great.
If your are considering switching, give Garuda a look. I'm also on a gigabyte board with an Nvidia card.
With OpenSUSE are you using the open source nvidia driver, or did you add the nvidia hosted repo and install their proprietary drivers?
The nvidia owned repo did work better for me.
But could be memory leak.
For anyone with laptop, and onboard graphics and nvidia RTX I had to install an opensuse swicher package to ensure appa start on the right GPU (right click option on the app)
I forget the app name at the moment, it wanst the bumblebee or optimus, it was something else, Switcheroo maybe.
I'm using the propietary driver, latest stable release as of now which is 580.105.08, I thought it could be a memory leak as well, maybe I should've tried if it happens with other demanding games like this, bur once I could learn how to disable [Secure Boot] it seemed like WuWa remained running above 60FPS consistently (maybe it was blocking something that wasn't signed but I'm not sure).
You must be talking about SUSEPrime, I have it up and running, it provides the prime-run I use to launch the game. I remember trying to set up the dGPU when I had Debian a couple months ago, and it didn't go well (Bumblebee was among the stuff I tried), my games weren't off-loading unless they had a native Linux version, like ETS2.
GitHub - openSUSE/SUSEPrime: Provide nvidia-prime like package for openSUSE
Provide nvidia-prime like package for openSUSE. Contribute to openSUSE/SUSEPrime development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Could be signing, if removing secure boot changed behaviour. The proprietary nvidia kernal module needs you to enroll the key in MOK interface at boot after an install or some updates.
You should have gotten a blue screen at boot that said options like, continue or enroll MOK, delete MOK, cancel, etc.
Hi all, I'll mark the question as solved, was just playing for over an hour with Steam Overlay on, sometimes multitasking and when playing still taking screenshots and randomly bringing up Overlay, and performance has been consistently on 60FPS (or above it if I set it in-game to 120 but I tweaked the settings recently), there's rare cases in which the FPS drop to 40~45, normally on fights with a bunch of enemies grouped nearby (on that I get 40), then I think probably on some places I get 45? But I think I'm happy with the main issue having been fixed, and that's good enough for me.
Now that I have [Secure Boot] disabled I might give another distro a try, maybe Nobara or CachyOS. 🤔 If anyone has any suggestions on the issue above or distros to test, feel free to share, for now I haven't planned to move so I'll be here on openSUSE for the time being.
Thanks for your suggestions and help!
PhotoStructure vs. PhotoPrism
Hi everyone
Do you use PhotoStructure or PhotoPrism? And why?
I would like to index all photos which I've taken with a DSLR (JPG and RAW).
I used photoprism briefly, and it seemed okay, but my use-case was porn so I switched to stash.
If you want a Google photos clone, most people use immich.
Tried photoprism, then tried immich. Never went back.
Easier installation, easier management, more polished, just better overall
I used to use photostructure. I like its appearance and feature set (and the developer is a super nice guy), and really like how it leaves my asset files alone but works with sidecars, but i stopped using it because I only use open source software now.
I currently use Immich* and really like its appearance, features, self-hostability, but dislike how it manages the asset files. Even if i add my assets as an external library, which immich will theoretically not manipulate, the immich apps on iOS and Android will only upload images to a sifferent library that Immich manipulates. I'd have to ignore Immich's upload feature and roll my own, which is annoying.
*I realize Futo's license is not really FOSS. Disapppointing, but at least not peopeietary and secret.
I realize Futo's license is not really FOSS. Disapppointing, but at least not peopeietary and secret.
Two points to that:
1. Immich is licensed under the AGPL3.0, not the FUTO license.
1. If it's not FOSS, it's proprietary, no in between. Even if it's source available and open to public contributions, it's still proprietary. As far as proprietary goes, I'd say it's a good place to be, but proprietary nonetheless.
Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.
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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.
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Do you have a tip to share about age verification? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.The other states include Louisiana, Utah, Mississippi, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Montana, North Carolina, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Indiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Arizona, and Ohio.
“As you may know, your elected officials in Missouri are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk,” DeVille says in the video. On the blocked homepages there’s also a link to an explanation of the “Restricted to Adults,” or RTA label, which porn site administrators place on their sites to signal to device-based parental controls that the websites are inappropriate for minors.
Like most of the other 24 laws across the country, Missouri’s age verification law requires websites containing more than one third of material that’s considered “harmful to minors,” or sexual content, to perform age verification checks. Similar or more restrictive laws have swept the country since Louisiana became the first state to enact age verification legislation in 2023.
Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet
Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver’s license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.404 MediaEmanuel Maiberg
Age verification laws reach beyond porn sites, however. In Wyoming, South Dakota, Mississippi and Ohio, where the laws are written broadly enough to cover social media sites and any platform hosting adult content, Bluesky users have to submit to a face scan by the third-party company Yoti or upload a photo of their credit card to verify they’re over 18 years of age. In July, Bluesky started requiring all UK users to verify their ages in response to the Online Safety Act. We’ve previously reported on the security risks in uploading sensitive personal data to identity verification services, including the potential for hackers to then get ahold of that information themselves. In October, after Discord started requiring UK users to verify ages, the platform announced hackers breached one of its third-party vendors that handles age-related appeals, and said it identified around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.Last week, Pornhub’s parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft, urging them to support device-based age verification in their app stores and operating systems, WIRED reported. “Based on our real-world experience with existing age assurance laws, we strongly support the initiative to protect minors online,” Anthony Penhale, chief legal officer for Aylo, said in the letter. “However, we have found site-based age assurance approaches to be fundamentally flawed and counterproductive.”
Instead of protecting minors, age verification laws spike usage of virtual private networks and send users—including, potentially, minors—to unregulated or unmoderated sites that don’t care about complying with U.S. or UK laws. In Missouri, searches for VPNs spiked following the law’s enactment.
Missouri schools are not required to teach sex education, leaving it up to local school boards to decide what, if anything, children are taught about sexual health. School districts that do teach sex ed are required to promote abstinence, a modality long recognized as ineffective at protecting children from engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Even if a district offers sex ed, parents are allowed to pull their kids out of that class altogether. But despite research showing age verification laws don’t work either, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway believes forcing adults to undergo age verification protects the children in her state. “We are proud to stand on the side of parents, families and basic decency. Missouri will not apologize for protecting children,” Hanaway said in a press release.
Do age-verification laws work? Not according to this study.
People seem to be working around them, according to their Google searches.Anna Iovine (Mashable)
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soon we’ll have no states to vpn to
I've yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you're really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just... not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.
then all the websites will be in French
Nothing will ever make anyone on the internet learn a language other than English.
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I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously
snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.
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Setting aside the fact that there's no appetite for these laws in liberal states because its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.
FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.
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Why California is moving to make porn sites check ID
A California bill that would require porn site visitors to show an ID or verify their age with a credit card or software is moving through the Legislature.Ryan Sabalow (CalMatters)
There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state
Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on "child sex trafficking" and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you're going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as "please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography" laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.
Is California no longer liberal?
Current Status: Failed (2024-08-15: In committee: Held under submission.)
Looks like they're retaining their title. That said, if you peak under the "Supporters and Opponents" what you're going to see in the Supporters section is a litany of right-wing evangelical organizations and a couple of mega-corps.
They may resort to just blanket ID-checking everyone rather than risk prosecution.
The current strategy appears to be refusing to host content in the regulated states. Even then, there are plenty of social media and general content distribution channels that dodge the regulation by claiming to be content-blind in how they serve their data. I don't see Facebook or YouTube getting the business end of any of these regulations. Almost as though they're toothless if you've got enough money to tip your Congresscritters.
AB 3080: The Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act. | Digital Democracy
Digital Democracy overview of bill AB 3080: The Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act.calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org
Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on "child sex trafficking" and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you're going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as "please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography" laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.
I'd say rather than a compromise, the "protect the children!" porn bans are an excuse to go after LGBTQ content by marking any and all content related to them as explicit and demonizing them as pedophiles going after children. They don't care who it hurts along the way.
Napster was audio only.
It was file type specific and had a soft file side limit, but that's easy enough to work around.
Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?
They all had it as well, yes
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Interesting…all of it? I’m in Ontario but my hub/ISP is in Quebec so all my random advertising is in French.
Somehow it knows to target advertising to you in English…maybe you need to work on your privacy?
I've got a lot of privacy stuff, but I also know that I'm being tracked. I'm not using the VPN for privacy though. I'm using it to watch porn, so I don't really care. If I did want privacy there's a lot of things I could improve, but I'm not that worried about it.
As for the targeted advertising, I don't see any of that. I wouldn't be surprised if that were in French but I wouldn't know.
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States are also considering banning VPNs now as well.
Well, some legislators have proposed taking wack-a-mole to the next level and demanding all VPNs be certified and regulated. But good luck getting that passed through the Silicon Valley Presidency or the Ancap Courts.
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As a watcher from the outside:
It might not be fun to hear but vpn is neither the solution to government oppression nor a solution against tracking (recently there was a good article regarding that) so all you do is pay more.
Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn't matter.
"Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm... okay?"
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And there are so many of those these days that a new one genuinely doesn't matter.
If you haven't been offered a free year of identity theft insurance recently? Some company/org is plugging their ears.
SSNs are a fundamentally broken system (look it up). Photo IDs? I will guarantee you that if you go to ANY city there is someone at the DMV who will look up whatever you want for fifty bucks. The ONLY reason credit card fraud is less massive than it is (and it is MASSIVE) is because the CC companies put in the effort to monitor that and lock it down.
EVERYONE should have their credit records locked unless they are actively applying for something.
No. the issue with these is that we live in an increasingly christofacist society where even looking at porn makes you Unclean. And if you look at the wrong porn? Off to the reeducation camps with you!
Um, having direct access to pull my government photo ID is a huge deal. Lots of online services require photo ID or other more in-depth verification to pull loans and stuff. So yes, this new vector IS a serious concern.
And paying someone $50 at any DMV? C'mon, man, that sounds like some unfounded bullshit. Hardly anyone is going to risk a cushy government job with solid benefits and great hours for fucking $50, let alone the potential risk of going to jail.
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Your "government photo ID" really isn't all that useful unless people are skilled enough to make fakes (which is a whole different mess). What matters is your SSN, your credit card number, your address, etc.
And those are basically everywhere.
As for the DMV thing: You sweet summer child.
Huh?
If you go to a bar with an ID you cut out of printer paper, they are going to throw your ass out Jazzy Jeff style. The actual ID isn't useful without a LOT of additional resources... at which point your photo means almost nothing.
As for stuff like addresses? Again, that is basically EVERYWHERE because just about EVERY org has a data breach at least once a year. You might as well be saying people need your long form birth certificate to know what your name is.
Like... I'mma be blunt with you. A lot of the "your photo ID is the most important secure thing ever" nonsense comes from republican chuds trying to disenfranchise voters who live in cities. It is the idea that your photo ID is some magical artifact that protects you when the reality is that it is basically just a way to tie your name to your face. All the pertinent information is everywhere else.
Like... photo IDs tend to be one of those weird cases where we are ACTUALLY using biometrics (in this case, appearance) as a login rather than a password. Anything of value will just use that to cross reference you with an entry that is already in a system.
And in terms of the actual avenues for fraud? That ID doesn't mean shit.
my dude nobody is using a stolen identity to go to a bar. they're taking out lines of credit and you don't have to always present a physical, photo ID for those because there are entire industries of creditors that have no physical location. you don't even seem to be aware of the reasons why someone would bother stealing someone's identity so if you'd like to continue this argument I invite you to have it with yourself.
edit: and MAJOR lol at using a bar as your example. establishments well known for being sticklers about the quality of fake IDs you "sweet summer child"
And legit creditors just need your SSN, address, and maybe an old address. They run a credit check (hence why you freeze that shit) and then you are driving away in your 4k a month pickup truck.
And less legit creditors... don't ask too many questions other than where you live and where your loved ones love.
But hey. Feel free to throw a hissy fit rather than think through why that plastic card actually doesn't matter anywhere near as much as you thought it did. I mean, it would be nicer if you could actually sit and think and learn. But this is the 2020s. Ain't nobody doing introspection.
As for the DMV thing: You sweet summer child.
Lol, dude, I'm in my early 40s. Go to the DMV and try bribing a government official and report back. Please. I beg of you.
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Yikes! You dug her up just to get a piece?
I mean, far be it from me to kink shame, so...to each their own, I guess.
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Yeah, yeah, straight heterosexual intercourse is gay or something. I guess?
But the real question is - who fucking cares?
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Lol, sorry, I should've added an '/s' on my reply!
No, I got it, just was being way too sarcastic for text.
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Edit: I ain't straight. Or gay, or bi, or pan. Fuck labels, man! I don't fit into their tidy little boxes, and why should any of us?!?
In Soviet Russia, wife fucks you!
......wait, what?
Hey, part of growing and learning is understanding that failure is only a step in the process. Keep at it, brother. When making jokes, I always try to remember this: "If you're going to be offensive, make sure you are more funny than you are offensive. Just being offensive isn't funny."
Now get back in there and make some god damn jokes.
That will protect the children, for sure.
If I lived in the US, I'd be far more concerned about sending my kids to school but whatever.
Sure, but that is more of a Christian church problem over a US one. There are plenty of cases where I'm from too, and also a few recent scandals with private Catholic school, so I'd tend to shit on the Vatican rather than the US on that particular one.
I just can't imagine thinking my children could get shot every time they go to school.
Damn, I'm sorry to hear. I have seen a couple of your posts around, and yeah, let's say I know this struggle.
It can get better, I hope it does for you.
I suppose dvd order porn will become a thing once again.
Or alternatively we can start sharing bootleg USBs with our friends.
The Internet had begun its enshitification stage, as governments look to control and lock down access to the internet people will find new and creative ways to bypass these barriers. For one, things like Tor or going back to DVDs and physical media might get more main stream.
I don't think we're ready for the drives unless it's some weird hippie business that uses a reuse redemption program.
Thumd drives are twice the cost or more and only have a 5-20 year life expectancy vs DVD of 30 to 100+ years.
So thumb drives only makes sense as some sort of transfer service
Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.
It's not that it's immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it's just so... technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.
I'm going back to physical media. Guess that will include my porn soon too.
Hmm, might actually still have some old playboy somewhere 🤔
Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.
As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒
Someday?
People were literally doing that day 1 of the first of these new ID laws. Also using video games that use real likenesses of people like uploading pics of Norman Reedus from Death Stranding 2. lol
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All this actually does is push people to porn sites outside of Missouri's jurisdiction and/or sites that don't give a fuck about being "legitimate businesses" or whatever. It's effectively prohibition and the outcome will be the same.
This shit never actually makes anyone safer, it just draws more normal users to seedier parts of the internet.
I mean......by that logic their ramblings make sense. Porn to them is child porn. So if all porn is child porn (in their minds) then blocking access to porn isn't a bad idea.
The whole thing falls apart however if they were to realize that most people DO look at porn, but most people DON'T look at child porn.
I watch porn most days. I've never in my life had any desire to restrict others ability to watch porn.
But then again, porn for me is a woman fucking a dude in the ass, or 4 women standing around another woman who's tied up and they're tickling her until she screams bloody murder.
You know. Normal shit. Harmless shit. Fill in the blank of your own kinks, but at no point do kids come into play in my mind.
If I equated "porn" to "child porn" then yeah, I'd be trying to pass those laws too. But that says more about the way they think than anything.
Especially when you consider that schools are one of the most common places for public shootings, but you don't see them racing out to pass common sense gun reform laws.
It's such a hard problem to tackle, when you're self defeating in your attempts. No other country has this issue.
For anyone curious, the privacy video is in their latest(?) blog post on their site. It should be viewable anywhere as it's outside the NSFW area and before the 18+ notice.
(Just bear in mind that while it should be SFW, it is still under a porn-site's domain.)
pornhub.com/blog/age-verificat…
Age Verification in the US
We continue to block access to Pornhub in more states that have passed age verification laws.www.pornhub.com
Is there any organized fight against this? I feel like open access to porn is something people can get behind (pun intended).
People could literally put porn in everything until it's reversed and put their red state into porn overload. They could slip porn between the pages of the newspaper,or drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy at the same time. They could mass mail stills from 2 girls 1 cup, goetse, and blue waffle to their Congress people. They can wear the raunchiest t-shirts they can find and pack a town hall. These assholes already created a climate where woman are (understandably) even more afraid to have sex, now they want to lock down porn too. I'm not a degenerate because I watch porn; I'm a degenerate because I in ironically enjoyed Spongknob Squarenuts. But degenerate or not, I believe freedom of inquiry is important and I want to know exactly what she If you are gonna strip people of their economic output, abuse workers, stifle culture and art, etc, you at least have to give people a blowoff valve somehow. Reading the Bible after a double shift at work isn't gonna get anyone hard except maybe JD Vance and it probably still comes second to furniture warehouse ads.
Fuck these assholes.
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drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy
Soooooo, 0 dvd players? Best Buy stopped carrying physical media years ago.
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Shop online at Best Buy in your country and language of choice. Best Buy provides online shopping in a number of countries and languages.www.bestbuy.com
Online doesn't count since you can't drop a dvd into one...
Best buy stopped carrying physical media in stores ages ago and outside of very out of date stores don't have display models like that anymore.
If you VPN into the UK or Australia, you'll run into the same restrictions.
As more countries pass this kind of legislation, VPNs become less and less of a solution, and they were only ever a solution for people who can afford them.
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The problem is that these kinds of laws are becoming widespread. When they become the norm, simply VPN’ing to a different country won’t save you, because there won’t be any “safe” countries.
Shit like this is why I unironically considered spinning up a NSFW Jellyfin instance. At least if I save the degen content like a data hoarder, they can’t legislate away my access.
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Some states have already begun to require sites to detect connections from VPNs and block them.
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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and…Electronic Frontier Foundation
When I read about this I'm always brought back to the conversation of "internet as a public utility". I hope it's cool if we can take a tangent.
See unlike any of our other utilities like natural gas electricity water and sewage, the only thing that could potentially give any meaningful information about us is our sewage,, and the government already tests sewage for diseases. If we allow the government to "sell" us our internet they would basically be able to know everyone we are "talking too". Also how could we ever have enough regulatory oversight to protect everyone on the internet. Symmetrically if the government wants to have so much regulatory control over our internet it should maybe pay for it.
Like I wouldn't mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for "private internet" just so the government can have their free and regulated "public internet". Or would I (・–・)ゞ?
Like I wouldn't mind even paying another 50 bucks a month extra for "private internet" just so the government can have their free and regulated "public internet".
That’s basically how cable TV started. Over-the-air TV stations were ad-supported and public broadcast was largely supported by public funds. Cable TV got off the ground by marketing itself as a commercial-free way to watch.
And then once everyone had switched to cable, they went “hey, why don’t we introduce commercials anyways? I bet people will keep paying for our service if we just gatekeep the media that people have gotten hooked on…” And that’s exactly what happened. They pivoted away from the “commercial free TV” sales pitch, and moved towards “gatekeep media and force people to pay for it” model instead.
Never thought I would live to see this day. Utterly pathetic. I remember even 20 years ago online censorship was extremely taboo.
Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.
The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent. This is an easy first step due to the longstanding controversy surrounding pornography.
It's all about control.
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The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent.
in 7 days, that's what australia will have.
I hope to Darwin social media ends up requiring ID. I believe it would do wonders for democratic discourse. It was only last week, a number of large US right-wing accounts were revealed to be driven from outside the US. Is it healthy for democracies that so many people pay heed to foreign actors?
If you write an op-ed for a newspaper, the newspaper need to identify you as there is an editor who is responsible for what gets written in the paper. This ensures there’s someone who can stand to account for any libellous statements.
With social media we immediately reneged on this and allowed them to wash their hands; “we are just a channel” is a pretty bleak statement to make when the discourse on social media destroys the lives of minorities, encourages suicide, undermines our democracy with AI and troll farm bots.
And we can do this is a privacy preserving way - of course the social media companies feeds the opposite narrative because they don’t want to implicated in the piles of shit they shovel on top of our democracy.
If social media was required to ensure they could tie an account to a real person, which they needn’t reveal unless forced to by a court order, we would know that we were engaging with a real opinion, not something coughed up by a Putin-run AI bot or a Chinese troll farm.
The system required isn’t that complex.
A social media
- a social media company is opening a new account.
- it sends the person opening the account to any of the multitude of ways we can already verify identity online.
- the person is identified and issued an identity token, which gets sent to the social media company.
- the social media company says “great, this person is real and we can, if required by a court order, work with the identity company to reveal who this person is is”. Right now, all the social media company has is a token.
- the account is opened.
In a system likes this, the identity company doesn’t know who the person is; that sits with the social media company.
Nor does the identity service know which account is actually posting for this real person, all they know is they verified someone as part of an account opening process.
Social media should be treated like the press - make them accountable for what gets posted and allow them to place this accountability on a real person by labelling posts “op-eds” if, and only if, they know who is doing the posting.
We are letting large, anonymous money-men ruin our democracy behind the veil of “free discourse”. It’s not free to the many people who gets harmed by it.
It's all fun and games until the government decides that it really doesn't like dissenting opinions. We've already seen serious erosion of 1A rights in the U.S.
It would be one thing to have this in a world with benevolent leadership. But that isn't the world we are living in.
It would be one thing to have this in a world with benevolent leadership. But that isn’t the world we are living in.
So, Fantasyland, then. The closest anyone gets to benevolent leadership is their own parents, and that's only maybe 50-50.
The closest anyone gets to benevolent leadership is their own parents
Which just so happens to be the people who should be responsible for monitoring internet usage. This is a job for parents, not the government.
That's the point.
You, as a common citizen, should not have to. But the moment you feel like to share your thought or opinion, you should be identifiable and made responsible for it.
The current social media outlets shield behind the argument they act solely as channels while at the same time fostering and allowing for "anonymous" groups or individuals to spout whatever views they want, often views that deter from advancing social and civilizational progress. Hence the current state of the world, with authoritarianism on a rise and hight like there wasn't in nearly 70 years.
When the internet was made of individual websites, the person behind it was automatically made responsible for whatever they put on it. That was fair and reasonable.
Pushes like this, is assigning suspition/guilt before any wrong doing.
I will grant the overall facilitated acess to pornography is damaging the kids. There are already enough studies showing how the early access to porn is related to bad interpersonal relations on social, emotional and sexual level.
But this does not imply you should be identifying yourself to access adult content or anything on the web. Just impose curation. If it's available to the public, you're responsible for it.
Old school "dirty" books and magazines stores had controlled access and the really hardcore stuff was well out of reach of who should not get to it. Free porn is nice but there are things available that should be behind pay walls or at least registry, with identity verification.
If your point is to stifle dissent, then sure. Whoever controls the narrative will make contradiction look unacceptable. If your name is tied to an opinion that may be construed as contrary to the dominant narrative, you will hesitate to post it, and if you do post it, then you will be taken down with very real consequences because of that tie to your real identity. Employers already look at social media to determine if your behavior is considered acceptable to them, even if you keep your professional life completely separate. Your proposal only destroys free speech further by making it worth less and less the cost of expressing.
Make no mistake, the excuse of protecting children from pornography is just that, an excuse, to restrict freedom of speech by putting into place the mechanisms to identify people and strike at them for daring to express their opinions. Pornography being in the form of books, magazines, tapes, DVDs, whatever physical media did not necessarily control access. There are many with stories of how they managed to gain access as children, either through a parent's collection or otherwise. Similarly, this internet ID bullshit can be defeated, but it'll be backed by stricter and stricter legislation to make defeating it illegal and they won't be prosecuting children or the companies providing the ID verification service, they'll be prosecuting adults using tools to defeat these mechanisms to express their opinions.
No, it's not my point, although there is a difference between expressing ideas, no matter how contrarian or controversial they may be, and spouting hate or other positions detrimental to advancement.
I am aware of what you mention of companies sniffing for the social media of employees and potential applicants. It is a shameful practice. And if it is illegal in my country, has it is viewed as trespassing on one's privacy, it should be as welll any and everywhere.
Nobody should be ashamed nor afraid of expressing their opinions and ideas. Unfortunately, freedom of expression is often confused with the hability of saying whatever one feels like it, which is not.
What you describe (and fear, I take) is persecution. And that already tells whatever system an individual lives in is already deep into veering towards blatant suppression of rights. The US case is so off the rails it deserves an entire category to itself but it is only one among too many.
On the question of banning access to pornography I am completely against it. Yet I can not and will not deny the amount of evidence that supports that early and easy access to it is in fact tainting how people in general and kids in particular understand how relations are constructed. Pornography is really good at teaching wrong things. Nothing against it per se, it can be fun, but it should be consumed just like sugar, tobbacco and alcohol: in moderation and knowing of its ill effects.
I personally started reading erotic books much sooner than it was supposed. I recognize that curiosity towards sex and sexuality is ingrained in what makes us humans. I'm not advocating for banning adult material of any sort. What I would like to see would be clear boundaries for that specific content, for it not reaching those who are not expected to access it unware. It can't be written off to caveat emptor. Even less because a lot of it is "free".
The web is as it is today in great measure due to porn. There was a lot of money being poured into technology to facilitate access to it and in high definition. Let's be thankful for it but that is it. It can be almost ubiquious nowadays, along with casinos and crypto. It's too much and too much of a good thing is bad for everyone. Remember death by snu-snu.
I have no illusion we, as a species and a civilization, are going through a very dark period. Again. All the prior should have been able to sink in the lesson but we are either too sttuborn or too stupid to learn. Censoring, wide spread control of ideas, knowledge and thought is detrimental to a fair and free society.
Excuses like "protecting children", "fighting terrorism", etc, are, as you correctly said, excuses to make advances on individual rights and liberties. But we should be as concerned by now that companies do whatever they can to reach their goals and we are being force fed too many things that are not good for us. Two wrongs don't make a right but something has to change. Perhaps ceasing to be afraid of being responsible by one's own ideas and words would be a good start. Maybe stop feeding social media would be another. And perhaps reigning in companies on bad practices could be another.
If this doesnt make people stop using those sites, nothing will. 😀
And yeah, like others have said, its of course a system that will be used to control people and remove semi-anonymity from the web.
Try reading it instead. Go old school. And while you're at it, write yourself and share it. Bring back the times of hand to hand banned knowledge sharing.
But now seriously: that is completely stupid.
As anyone considered the amount of money that "industry" generates. Considering the US is so economy driven and concerned with jobs, maybe that argument can raise concerns.
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Fortunately lawmakers think all internet porn is on PornHub and that you find it by going to w-w-w dot yahoo dot com and typing "sex video" or "naked ladies" in the search thing.
The only porn they have experience with are polaroid photos that they got from a friend who knows a guy who makes tasteful art for clients with "particular tastes."
Conservative lawmakers don't know anything about porn, because if they ever recorded themselves fucking and the recording got out, they'd go to jail for statutory rape.
They're generally very comfortable around Grindr though.
I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.
Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.
Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.
When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?
The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.
I think i agree for the most part.
These energies would be better spent ensuring that porn stars aren't being exploited and have access to appropriate support.
No offence to anyone, but this post strikes me as coming straight from a spokeperson for Aylo (formerly MindGeek). A mix of baseless claims and straight up misinformation, that happen to align with the company's business model.
You speak as if porn sites are analogous to social media and it's perfectly normal to record your experiences and post them online. Which it absolutely isn't, anywhere in the world. 'Expressing your sexuality' and porn are entirely separate and have very little to do with each other.
It is widely known and confirmed that pornographic content comes with a broad spectrum of negative effects, especially for children and adolescents. The latter really should be common sense in 2025. Watching porn isn't always bad and can be beneficial in some ways (as some sources below even highlight), but those cases represent a small minority.
Below are some quotes and just a few out of countless sources providing much more reliable information on the topic of pornography's effects. I strongly recommend reading at least some, because this comment is like ignoring decades of scientific literature and traveling in time back to the 1700s.
Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences.
Source: Impact of pornography consumption on children and adolescents
Research shows that frequent porn use hijacks the brain’s reward system and changes the brain’s structure, much like addictive substances.This means that prolonged pornography use can weaken natural pleasure responses and reinforce compulsive behavior.
A 2014 study found that heavy porn users showed significantly reduced activity in critical areas of the brain responsible for motivation and impulse control, suggesting long-term neurological rewiring.
Source: The Hidden Cost of Pornography: How It Shapes Your Brain and Behavior
Age of first exposure was significantly associated with reported need for longer stimulation and more sexual stimuli to reach orgasm when using pornography, decrease in sexual satisfaction, and quality of romantic relationship, neglect of basic needs and duties due to pornography use, and self-perceived addiction in both females and males. (...) In the opinion of most of the surveyed students, pornography may have adverse effects on human health, although access restrictions should not be implemented.
Additional sources:
- 10 Negative Effects of Porn on Your Brain, Body, Relationships, and Society
- Affection substitution: The effect of pornography consumption on close relationships
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Assuming what you're saying about the harms of consuming pornography, is it the state's responsibility? Is it a top priority? Do we trust conservatives to implement a solution in good faith?
The answer to all of those I think is no.
There's no analogous ID check for violent media, so far as I know.
There could be a raging wildfire and I would hesitate if a Republican said "let me deal with it". They are fundamentally untrustworthy.
That's on top of the deep irony of the same party that goes on about "small government" and "parents rights" is typically the same one pushing draconian anti-porn laws. It's a joke. "A government small enough to fit in your bedroom". Their motivations are so corrupt I am extremely skeptical of anything they propose.
Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences.Source: Impact of pornography consumption on children and adolescents
This is disingenuous. This issue is caused by prolonged use, as in unhealthy addictive behavior. Framing it as a result of porn access in general is flagrantly dishonest.
Actually it seems like all of your points regard excessive and unhealthy usage. You're portraying these as results of any level of exposure and that is blatantly dishonest.
Why not also the company that does the IDs?
And hell, also the porn site?
Its all a big money making scheme. Security theater bullshit.
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I'm not against proper age verifications as such, it would be like carding people in a store or a bar. But I just haven't seen an implementation of it that isn't prone to being a privacy nightmare and surveillance state shit.
I know there's some systems that generate a token that verify that you are 18 and you give that to the site, so neither side directly meet so to say. The site knows only that you have a valid token for being 18 and the app or service you use to generate the token knows just that you wanted to token for something. I think Spain was figuring out a system like that.
When you are carded at a club the staff doesn't scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.
As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.
I think people don't realize just how dangerous this shit is until they have been affected in some noticeable way, and even then they will not link just how the incredible amount of surveillance they are under every day is the cause of it.
I worked in tech support for 7 years, and one thing that will never cease to astonish me is how tech illiterate people are. Do you have any idea how many people called me and demanded that I make modifications to their account and refused to tell me any verifying information? While some might have been malicious actors , most aren't. Most of them were genuinely expecting me to do everything for them and they wouldn't even tell me what their name is. They fully expected that somehow we would already know they are just from them calling...
Some of them called me on a number not recognized by the system but they fully expected me to pull up their account (fucking how?) Without any information at all.
When you have worked in this field long enough you will know why there is so little effective opposition to all this shit. It is not just because they dont give a damn if we are literally in a 1984 scenario with active cameras and microphones in people's homes, but they just dont understand what that really means. Even younger people who grew up with these devices from early childhood don't fully understand just how much they are being observed. If anything Gen Z and Gen Alpha are more fucked since they are the first generation of people whom the algorithms and data brokers have had some profile on since early childhood.
As an elder millennial who grew up in a techie family with computers from childhood. I am fortunate in that they have nothing on me from early childhood to teen years. By the time I hit 20 the internet was still too chaotic and underdeveloped and algorithms weren't the norm yet (and I was never a Google guy to begin with). But people born within the last 10 years can't have that privilege.
Why does everyone in the US card everyone over something ostensibly about age?
It's never been about age.
I've seen a seventy year old man with a foot long white beard get carded and refused, while he was stone cold sober.
Do you think he can't handle his liquor? He's seventy. He knows what it does.
There's a lot of bars/restaurants that do.
I have literally been refused service because the only ID I had is a passport, and those barcodes wouldn't scan into their system.
It's Papers, please, and it's fucking bullshit
the easiest thing would be making the internet as a whole 18+.
under 18 would be restricted to a firewalled version and age info would be part of the cellphone or internet plan. on a family plan..? under 18s get a firewalled plan. home internet? have a family and home internet? owner of the service gets a pin to disable the firewall. when everyone in the house hold is over 18, the service is unlocked.
the truth is that none of this is actually about porn or kids, its about the new world lifestyle of surveillance state getting a foot in the door. thats why all this bullshit aligns with other aspect of modern political and business tech agendas
We are blinded by the fact that the teens are involved in this too, and they deserve equality as well. The internet is made to build bridges - get rid of boundaries - not set false narratives and infantilise those that are really impacted in this situation and have full awareness of the status quo.
This is a foot in the door technique that uses our deceived emotional manipulation, where our age discrimination is the secret ingredient in this fascist circus.
Clearly, no-one involved in making these laws has ever heard of OAuth. Not every single site needs to manage your identity / credentials. The government already has this info, they can be the identity provider and use OAuth to grant access to age-gated resources without giving any personal data to the platform. Someone mentioned id.me, and I'm pretty sure that's how that platform works, though they're a private entity if I understand their site correctly.
I know most politicians are comically tech-illiterate, but it's so frustrating to see them constantly implement terrible solutions to already solved problems without asking a single expert who knows how this shit works.
That being said, California passed a bill with a not perfect, but better approach. User age is configured on the OS level when a user account is set up, and then it will tell platforms what age category the user belongs to, and nothing more:
(a) An operating system provider shall do all of the following:(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user:
(A) Under 13 years of age.
(B) At least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.
(C) At least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.
(D) At least 18 years of age.
(3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title.
I think iOS already does this, actually.
The CA bill is also dystopian nightmare fuel... The US isn't going to build an enormous firewall like other countries have, we are just going to pass a bunch of stupid laws and threaten companies to block our citizens from access instead. Put the burden of building the wall on someone else, the modern American Way™!
An entire generation of fuck-wad parents that just gave their kid a tablet and zero supervision instead of actually raising them are now using their failings as an excuse to control the population; control their devices, control their habits, control their knowledge, and control their thoughts.
The bill I mentioned actually relies on parents configuring their kid's devices. The system it describes just gives online (and even offline) platforms a standardized way of asking the OS what age category a user is as defined at account setup--hardly "dystopian nightmare fuel"...
This isn't going to stop unsupervised children, which is it's own problem that technology doesn't (and probably can't) solve.
It requires every Operating System and "App Store" to know the user's age. It requires every piece of software installed to receive the age-range token. It could be catastrophically bad for the open source community - the bill does nothing to define how these tokens are communicated and received. The largest players in the industry can use their market share to exert control over how it happens and bully anyone that doesn't get on board. For example, Google could tie it to the Play Integrity/Services and effectively kill 3rd party roms and possibly even open source app stores like fdroid, or all side-loading entirely if it was tied into the Play Store enough.
The bill isn't specifically a privacy dystopian nightmare, but it is still a dystopian nightmare. We need the government and mega-corps to have less influence and control over our devices, this gives them more.
Greedy companies do shit like that regardless of any laws. I don’t think this law makes it any more likely.
FOSS developers could create an ethical solution while still remaining legally compliant. The language is generic enough to allow for different implementations.
By creating a plaintext dotfile in $HOME, I'd reckon. Minimum effort, gets the job done. Users can lie when setting up the account so protecting the file against tampering is pointless.
But more likely, not a single distro will implement anything by default because it doesn't make sense to change your internationally-distributed OS because one state in one country passed a stupid law.
I'm 1000% against this age verification bullshit, not only because of the privacy and data reasons, but also because getting carded in a bar or at a store is also bullshit.
It Is Papers, please.
It's Never a question of if you're old enough, it's a question of "Do I think you're human enough?"
And more often than is reasonable, the answer is no, they don't think you're a person, who should be able to spend their money as they like.
And on the flip side, occasional SEO fuckups cause random terms to show porn image results
For example, I was searching for millimetre wave cell towers on duckduckgo a while back, I typed "MM wave cell tower" and saw a whole bunch of massive tiddies on the standard filtering setting. They fixed this a week after me discovering it however, so if you were hoping to see tits from searching telco infrastructure, I suppose you're outa luck.
Then you can't offend god by watching it and masturbating, like we intended!
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MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAILS BLACK KNIGHT
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& THE BLUE MEANNIE
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JAMBI THE GENIE
ROBOCOP
TERMINATOR
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DARTH VADER
LO PANTS
SUPERMAN
EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGER
BILL S. PRESTON
THEODORE LOGAN
SPOCK
THE ROCK
DOC OCK
HULK HOGAN.
all came out of nowhere lightning fast and kicked Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass?
Now I have to listen to it again and have it stuck in my brain
Oh I see, a bunch of stupid-ass unsubstantiated bullshit.
I'm sure it's secretly the Clintons and Obamas behind this, that makes sense. You are massively fucking stupid person.
Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.
Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.
It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.
I'm just over here in "hellscape" California enjoying the freedom to not have to do this, and I can walk down the street to the weed shop, and my girlfriend still has basic human rights over her own body.
Do any other states, like Texas, need some of our freedom? We've got some to spare.
Just to be clear, because I had to look into it a bit, California's law won't require photos/IDs.
"Operating system providers need not collect additional information like photos of government IDs to verify the user’s age. Based on this age information, operating system providers must send digital signals via real-time API (age signals) to developers upon request, transmitting the user’s age range bracket – under 13, at least 13 and under 16, at least 16 and under 18, or at least 18. When a user downloads and launches a developer’s application, the developer must request an age signal from the relevant operating system provider or the application store from which the user downloaded the application."
So I'm assuming those companies backed it because they want more analytics about the age ranges of the people who use their products.
Just posting on social media using your face to speak against the state in México gives you the privilege of being doxxed on national TV by the president, I can't imagine what they would do with something like this
Keep the downvotes coming, I live here and you don't have any idea if you really believe Morena is left leaning in any way or form
With the rising popularity of VPNs due to increasingly more countries becoming more authoritarian, I wouldn't be supposed there will be some anti-vpn directives put in place.
In addition to that, increasingly more selections within vpn profiles will be just as restrictive as the fascist internet at home.
VPNs are a great way to circumvent this police state but it ultimately doesn't stop fascists and their motives.
Oooooh! Shit. Yeah. Wow. It makes total sense now and that fucking sucks.
I hope some day these fascists get branded as the terrorists they are. And I’m so fucking sorry that they’re doing this to people.
You clearly haven't thought of the children.
Nah it's just a precursor to having all your online activity tied directly to your identity. That's the purpose. I'm sure plenty of misguided elders in government think it's about saving kids from porn though.
It's a coalition of groups with different purposes
One group wants to ban porn entirely
One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you're a future political rival
Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn
Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers
Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart
Some just want money.
I think this article: theverge.com/2018/2/23/1704397…
Is about pornhub’s parent company trying to lobby in favor of this because it thought it could make money by selling age verification. I read an article saying something to that effect quite some time ago, and I think this is the article, but can’t be sure because it’s requiring a login and the archive site isn’t loading for me at the moment.
Why the world’s biggest porn company is backing the UK’s new age law
The adult industry is worried about MindGeek’s role in the UK’s new age-verification system.Lux Alptraum (The Verge)
I just remembered that I'm the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.
Guess it's time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!
This may be the real reason r's are losing all of the elections, lol. They are entirely red states.
This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can't do, because they're kids, and don't have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.
Here in Florida, I've already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it's the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE'S ID. Now they're going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren't doing or saying anything wrong, right?
Hear me out!
What if parents did their fucking job as they should instead of demanding the state to do it for them, only for it to get hijacked by both
- christofascists wanting to make it illegal to not live a "christian life",
- and corporations wanting to ensure competition will need to pay a shitton of money on age verification AI?
I'm prepared for my downvotes.
I have often joked that in the not-too-distant-future people will look back upon the early days of the internet like we look upon the 1950s view of smoking.
What do you mean kids shouldn't do it? It's fine. You know how it is, watch a kids cartoon, look at some memes, two girls 1 cup, email the fam, those two Mexican dudes who had their heads cut off with a chainsaw, research Ghana for a school project, sneak in some porn after the parents go to bed, and cap it off with some chat room conversations about Picard's superiority to Kirk while some kid across the country goes on about shooting his brains out because mom and dad either don't love him enough or love him too much. Maybe download some credit card spoofers and Diablo hacks for online play if you aren't quite ready for bed.
The early internet, and even the internet now, is a fucking wild concept. Take everything that people think, not just what we know, but what we fucking think about while we are taking a shit, and make it available for anyone look at without guidance or context. We can even watch police shootings in real time and pretend to be detectives during terrorist events, consequences to real people be damned.
Should parents know better? Sure. Is the internet an effective babysitter while they grind out a living? You bet.
If we restrict this dumpster fire behind age-verification and eliminate anonymity through tagged identification, the effect on privacy and anonymous online activism will be severe. However, CinnamonRingCumGlaze86 will be significantly less able to use their 6th grade reading level to convince people that modern medicine is bad because Pre-Historical Witches didn't have AIDS bro. #flatearth #zoroastrianismwasasteptoofar #onceagaintherealproblemiscapitalismandwearelookingatthewrongthingbecauseofmanufactured-outrageandobfuscationcreatedbytheoligarchy #worldofwarcraftclassic
CinnamonRingCumGlaze86 will be significantly less able to use their 6th grade reading level to convince people that modern medicine is bad because Pre-Historical Witches didn’t have AIDS bro.
You don't need accounts tied to ID to ban such content.
Not hard to imagine, people already have to manicure their facebook and other social media accounts because employers look at them. Just because you don't want something attached to your name, doesn't mean it's stupid or bad. There are consequences for unapproved behavior and opinions, even if they're not wrong or harmful.
If you think anonymity is stupid, feel free to set your display name to your real name right here on lemmy.
I know that anonymity is the way it is and don't think that me changing my display does anything about one way or the other. I definitely shit post, because I can. There is literally no consequence. If I somehow hit the right combination of words and someone commits suicide, I would never know. If I share something that someone looks views at their workplace and then gets fired, I would never know. The entire thing is just people collectively shrugging responsibility for their behavior and that has a net negative effect on society.
I'm not going to change my name over to my real name, although that is generic enough that would not be identifying, but I am going to point out that people do shitty things with anonymity and that the world would be better off without it.
Iran: Leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of the country’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic -- [Opinion]
A short video of a private wedding went viral in Iran recently, tearing away the country’s veil of piety and exposing hypocrisy and a seeming disregard for the rules by which the theocratic regime requires that most Iranians live their lives.
The wedding in question was that of Fatemeh Shamkhani, in mid-2024. She is the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, a close adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, at the luxurious Espinas Palace Hotel in Tehran.
She wore a low-cut strapless dress with a western-style bridal veil rather than the full head-covering mandated for Iranian women. Many wedding guests also wore modern western styles and a lot of the women went without head coverings.
The video displayed images that were starkly dissonant, revealing the significant class and moral divides within the Iranian Republic and contradicting Iran’s values of revolutionary simplicity and Islamic modesty.
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That it was Shamkhani’s family wedding made matters worse. A former commander of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards, he is a key power broker in Iran, who has the ear of Khamenei himself. He was also involved in the savage crackdown on the public protests in Iran in recent years, in defence of the same security and morality laws his family was seen so lavishly violating at the wedding celebration.
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The emerging ruling elites maintain their wealth through oil revenue, state contracts and shadow economic activities – that enable them to evade sanctions (the Shamkhani family was identified and sanctioned earlier this year by the US treasury as controlling a vast shipping empire involved in transporting oil from Iran and Russia in breach of US sanctions). .
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Since the 1979 Revolution, Iran has maintained its legitimacy through its mission to reshape public conduct by enforcing rules such as hijab requirements and sex segregation. The state maintains complete authority to regulate female bodies.
So the Shamkhani wedding, with its ostentatious luxury, its low-cut gowns and lack of head coverings felt to many Iranians as showing complete disregard for laws that the regime’s “morality police” uses to enforce strict rules on ordinary women. The rules exist to control, but they do not apply to those at the top of the tree.
This incident is significant in the context of the “woman, life, freedom” protests of recent years. These were sparked in 2022 by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who had been arrested for not wearing her hijab properly. Since then, many Iranians, particularly young people, have openly defied the hijab law.
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Leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of Iran’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic
A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.The Conversation
Iran's government is historically weak. It's allies and proxies have been routed in the region while American and Israeli jets bomb their country with impunity. The place is vulnerable to revolution and it would be nice to see feminists overthrow the Ayatollah.
However, it's hard to get optimistic about revolution in the Middle East. After all, it was a revolution that created the Iranian theocracy to begin with. I'm also worried that a fallen Iran would mean an Israeli regional hegimon.
I'm more surprised that people are surprised by this. Being nobility class is this: you're free to make whatever rules you want for your subordinates, and you're free to disregard any of them. You're not bound by any sense of morality (whatever it might be); that's for lower men.
What were they expecting? Obviously these people won't comply with anything that's imposed on the masses, especially in a society where the norms are so restrictive.
And I further suspect that the more totalitarian a country is, the more its elite will deliberately choose to go against their own rules, as this is the greatest proof of their powerful social status.
Does Wilhoit's law apply to Islamic Theocracy?
Frank Wilhoit said, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Wow that’s horrible: Iran has oligarchs, too. We should freedom-bomb the fuck out of Iran and replace them with our own compador oligarchs and give the oil back to British Petroleum.
It’s nice to see that you don’t focus exclusively on China and Russia, @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org. You’re an equal opportunity concern troll for US empire.
Citations Needed: Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
We discuss the cynical use of "human rights" to advance US interests with guest Glenn Greenwald. The conceit that the U.S.citationsneeded.libsyn.com
Ukraine war: Russia hands 11-year sentence to 57-year old Ukrainian midwife in occupied Ukrainian territory for having 'pro-Ukrainian views’ and supposed spying
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42893848
Web archive linkThe Russian occupation ‘Zaporizhzhia regional court’ has sentenced Larysa Malovychko, a 57-year-old midwife from Enerhodar, to 11 years for ‘pro-Ukrainian views’ and supposed spying. According to Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov, Larysa Malovychko was abducted back in September 2023 and held prisoner for some time both in Russia and in occupied Crimea.
Russia has imposed a near total information blockade on most occupied territory, with next to nothing more known about Malovychko, or her so-called ‘trial’. The verdict was reported on the so-called ‘court’ Telegram channel on 20 November 2025, with nothing to indicate how many (if any) hearings there were, before the predetermined guilty verdict and 11-year sentence.
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‘Spying’ or ‘treason’ charges have become extremely common since Russia first launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Such ‘trials’ are held behind closed doors, with convictions and long sentences guaranteed. Both men and women are targeted, and there are also no bars as far as age is concerned. Very young people have been seized and, later, sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, for example, when they were underage, while equally horrific sentences have been passed against Ukrainians in their 70s. This is all of particular concern given the very real danger of being subjected to torture in Russian captivity.
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In June 2025, 74-year-old Oleksandr Markov from Enerhodar died in Russian captivity. He had been abducted on 8 May 2024, with his family knowing nothing about his whereabouts until March 2025. It was only then that they learned that a fake occupation ‘court’ had sentenced the 74-year-old to 14 years in a maximum-security [‘harsh-regime’] prison colony on ‘treason’ charges.
Dmytro Orlov reported then that at least 26 other residents of Enerhodar were illegally held in Russian captivity, including seven women. 13 of them are employees of the neighbouring Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, with Russia having begun abducting and torturing employees soon after it seized control of the plant in early March 2022. It is quite possible that the real figure is much higher.
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57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar
Larysa Malovychko has already been in Russian captivity for over two years, with it likely that she was seized because of her pro-Ukrainian positionHuman Rights in Ukraine
China cracks down on calls for accountability over deadly Hong Kong blaze
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42893098
Chinese authorities have arrested several activists and issued a stern warning to “anti-China and pro-chaos elements” amid criticism of the government’s response to Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in a generation....
[Among ohers] authorities arrested Miles Kwan, a 24-year-old student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after he created an online petition calling for greater transparency and accountability from the government, multiple reports said.
The petition included four demands, including the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry to probe the circumstances of the fire, including whether potential conflicts of interest may have contributed to the disaster.
Before it was removed from the internet on Saturday, the petition had garnered more than 10,000 supporters.
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China’s national security office in Hong Kong appeared to condemn the petition before its removal, accusing activists of using “the banner of ‘petitioning the people’ to incite confrontation and tear society apart.”
Hong Kong’s Office for Safeguarding National Security also accused figures with “sinister intentions” of exploiting the fire to return the city to the “black-clad violence” that erupted during mass antigovernment protests in 2019.
On Monday, a commentary in the Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po newspaper called on the public to be vigilant against “anti-government elements” with “malicious intentions”.
“They have even gone so far as to ‘act as representatives’ to establish a so-called ‘concern group,’ put forward so-called ‘four demands,’ distribute leaflets, and launch a petition, all in an attempt to incite public unrest,” the commentary said.
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China cracks down on calls for accountability over deadly Hong Kong blaze
Hong Kong’s national security police arrest three, as Beijing issues warning to ‘anti-China and pro-chaos elements’.John Power (Al Jazeera)
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Don't forget the plant.
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in reply to TechSquidTV • • •While I support the idea of using RSS readers to break free from algorithmic and/or AI curated feeds, I've mostly stopped bothering, since all the content that gets into the feeds has become algorithmic, AI slop.
There's just no escaping it these days.
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in reply to nottelling • • •While super fair and accurate, I take this as an opportunity to follow much smaller blogs. When I find a good post on Hacker News or stumble upon someone through my research, I now actively make a point to subscribe to their RSS.
TBH my original motive was to find good sources of content to submit to Hacker News... but all the same.
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in reply to nottelling • • •😆 . It's a real problem though. So is prioritization. Algorithms aren't bad, dark patterns are. The main issue with any algorithm, even if fully open, it, by definition, has to be biased in some way. I'm going to save this problem for much further down the road, but for discovery, I took the first step on that.
Tricorder!
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I broke out the package that does the feed discovery in tuvix and publish it separately. Now you can use it as a chrome plugin to add a subscribe page to any website. It is currently pending review on the Chrome web store. I haven't yet submitted to Firefox or others.
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in reply to TechSquidTV • • •Is the selfhosted version able to also take email newsletters? I hate them and I'm using kill-the-newsletter.com/ to turn them into RSS, but I wish I had an all in one solution.
Also, is it fully FOSS or is it open core?
Kill the Newsletter!
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in reply to warmaster • • •My monetization plans only extend to possibly offering an additional plan on the hosted version to help cover hosting costs (which right now are $10 a month and I am covering that, it may become $30 a month if this gets popular).
warmaster
in reply to TechSquidTV • • •AGPL works for me. Good to know.
I just avoid using "source available" and software that has artificially paywalled features, the most common paywalled feature is OIDC because most devs seem to think that it's a business only feature.
I pay for Home Assist Cloud, because I want to support them, every feature is available if I wanted to self host it. I freaking love them.
The only exception being Bitwarden, although they have paywalled features in their selfhosted builds I don't know of a better-for-me alternative. I could self-host Vaultwarden, but I pay for their subscription just because I want to support them.
My point is, if it's justified, I'll pay. Otherwise, I'll keep using standalone RSS apps on my devices and just backup my OPML every once in a while.
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in reply to ABetterTomorrow • • •Ya. I'm working on that too. And trying to keep in the spirit of not being biased or heavy on algorithms.
My first step - A chrome/firefox extension. This is currently in review on the web store.
This exposes RSS feeds on sites you visit to make it easier to subscribe to the places you already visit. This is especially great when you find a great blog on Reddit or Hacker News.
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GitHub - TechSquidTV/Tuvix-Tricorder-Extension: Discover RSS and Atom feeds on any website. Official companion extension for Tuvix RSS - a modern, self-hostable feed aggregator.
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in reply to ABetterTomorrow • • •You would be surprised how many provide feeds and even more surprised how fast your feed reader gets overwhelmingly filled 😅
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in reply to northernlights • • •Appreciate you letting me know! I just signed up a new dummy account and it seems to have worked. But no one else has gotten an email in the last 2 hours from what I can see. But at the moment its hard to tell if there is an issue or just, no one has signed up in the last two hours. It looks like a need to double check my monitoring setup to see if I can catch this.
Give it another shot, it worked for me just now (same deployment). If you can, have your network tab open and let me know if you see any failures. I'll try to make sure I can see that easier.
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in reply to TechSquidTV • • •The project looks nice and RSS Aggregators are the way to go.
I switched to a file based (cloud storage) syncing app like News Explorer a while ago.
Sometimes less infrastructure involved is a blessing.
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in reply to lepinkainen • • •Same concept, different implementation. FreshRSS is a PHP app, in my opinion.. a little ugly, still super functional of course. I wanted to try to create something with a more modern UX, and try to appeal to not just the tech folks. FreshRSS still supports things I don't yet, like WebSub, but give me some time to catch up. I have the massive benefit of just starting much later when many awesome libraries and AI exist.
I actually started this API in Go, and it was nearly complete before I started over entirely in Node. And I did that so that it could run in serverless environments. You can of course still run this in Docker Compose, but it's actually focused on Cloudflare deployments, where you can run this entirely for free.
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