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A single member of a galaxy pair takes centerstage in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. This beautiful spiral galaxy is NGC 3507, which is situated about 46 million light-years away in the constellation Leo (the Lion). NGC 3507βs classification is a barred spiral because the galaxyβs sweeping spiral arms emerge from the ends of [β¦]
The massive killing from airstrikes, the starvation, the expulsions from one area to another β Israel's cruelty is reaching new heights. Dr. Mimi Syed, an American physician who volunteered to help the Gazans, is now telling their stories
by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Here on Earth, we undergo a changing of seasons every three months. But what about the rest of the Solar System? What does a sunny day on Mars look like? How long would a winter on Neptune be? Letβs take a tour of some other [β¦]
The Yemeni armed forces have carried out another anti-Israel operation, targeting the regimeβs Ben Gurion Airport in response to the ongoing aggression against Palestinians in Gaza.
Todayβs post was contributed by Gina Gholston. You can find out more about her at http://ginagholston.com/.The set is now complete. Order your copies today! ...
@jazzilla @Valvoline It has taken me a long time to arrive at this very conclusion. If not simply because none of it makes sense the way it was taught and no questions were ever allowed to be asked.
Warum die #USA geostrategische GrΓΌnde hat, #Deutschland mit strategischen #Atomwaffen zuzubomben! Mehr #Diplomatie weniger dumme stumpfe Waffenprotzerei !
In Episode One of Q-The Series we review the mainstream mediaβs reaction to Q and the culture of 4chan. (THIS VIDEO WAS INITIALLY PART ONE OF A TWO PART EPISODE BUT NOW HAS BEEN RELABELLED AS JUST 'EP
"#Errands" is an amazing #Tasks app for #Gnome that syncs perfectly with #Nextcloud. It even supports sub-tasks (and sub-sub-tasks). This is perfect and everything I've wanted and had been looking for.
The only caveat is you need to create an App Password since you can't use your normal Nextcloud account password to authenticate which has nothing to do with Errands.
The image shows a screenshot of a software manager interface with the application "Errands" selected. The application is designed to manage tasks, as indicated by the title "Manage your tasks by Vlad Krupiniskii." The interface features a dark theme with a central window displaying the application's interface, which includes a sidebar with categories such as "Today," "Tags," "Trash," "Shopping List," "Errands," "Work," and "Home." The main window shows a "Shopping List" with tasks like "Breakfast" and "Lunch," each with sub-tasks and completion status. The application's name is "io.github.mrvladus.List," version 46.2.8, and it is 20 MB in size. It is available on the Flathub remote and is in the stable branch. The application has a 4.0-star rating based on 2 reviews. Features include multiple task lists support, adding, removing, and editing tasks and sub-tasks, marking tasks as completed, adding accent colors for each task, syncing with Nextcloud or other CalDAV providers, drag and drop support, and importing .ics files.
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I had backblaze, and it's really a bummer they don't support linux. The closest one I've found is Icedrive, but it costs a bit more. I don't mind paying a bit more though for a FOSS solution (technially not free but yeah). I probably only have 2 TB of actual important stuff but it would be nice to have more for future.
President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAβs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASAβs SpaceX Demo-2 mission on May 30, 2020. The mission was the first crewed launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencyβs [β¦]
President Donald Trump walks onstage to speak to a crowd at NASAβs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASAβs SpaceX Demo-2 mission on
βIf Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States.β Justice Clarence Thomas
~ Justice Clarence Thomas (1948- ) U.S. Supreme Court Justice dissenting in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), with respect to federal regulation of marijuana that had never been sold, had never crossed state lines, and had no effect on the national market
"If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States." ~ Justice Clarence Thomas
What does it take to get a top secret security clearance or TSI? There are three basic classifications for security clearances, and all who apply for them must undergo a [β¦]
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as β¦
βOur system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ... A dominant presidency has occurred with very little congressional opposition. Indeed, when President Obama pledged to circumvent Congress, he received rapturous applause from the very body that he was proposing to make practically irrelevant. Now manyβ¦
"Our system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ...
Why? Because Iβm a human rights activist and I get in the way of U.S. foreign policy. Your tax dollars well spent. And you thought that USAIDβs purpose was foreign aid and humanitarian assistance.
"When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees." ~ Jessica Mitford
Israeli occupation forces arrest Sanaa Daqqa, widow of martyr Walid Daqqa, while traveling with her child, following calls by Police Minister Ben Gvir.
Japanese specialists in renewable energies are reportedly working on a technical advisory project to introduce renewable energies in Cuba, a task led by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Things like donβt shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or donβt take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (donβt go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if itβs next to you and itβs cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if itβs only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.
(Please donβt think Iβm telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)
Children and sex. Recently on local social media, there was a discussion on our topless laws. Of course, there were the predictable comments about women not going topless where children might see.
Well, why not, Karen? It's utterly ridiculous when you consider what breasts are for, and what children are meant to do with them. Yes, it's true the children shouldn't be engaging in sex acts, and the details of adult sexual behavior should be kept from them, since they're not equipped to understand, e.g. BDSM and power play, yet. But if kids see a pair of boobs, if kids see naked people, or even if kids know the basic functions of body parts, they'll be fine. Lots of kids throughout human history lived in small dwellings and heard, or even saw, parents and other members of their community having sex, and they all survived the experience.
Communicable disease? Now there's something that we should be protecting children from...
My wife randomly sends me call signs when she sees them on license plates etc, and then I look them up in ULS and pretend like it's someone I know (she knows I don't actually)
Anyway, I think it's past time that the FCC lets private hams remain mostly anonymous. I wonder if anyone suggested that as part of all the Delete Delete Delete crap.
Anyway, I think it's past time that the FCC lets private hams remain mostly anonymous.
With deference and respect because I am going to have to disagree.
You want to use the licensed public radio spectrum, you can't be anonymous.
Want to be anonymous? Don't use the licensed spectrum. Most CB/ GPRS radio users are anonymous.
Really no different than cars or anything else that's licensed.
Want to be anonymous while you're driving your vehicle? Stay off the public roadways where you need to have a license and registration to drive.
(I mean no disrespect with this. And while I can certainly understand everyone's desire for more privacy but isn't the issue really someone putting their call sign on their license plate?)
@gme Not 100% sure how it works in USA, but in the UK the RSGB stopped publishing home addresses in their yearbook some years ago and whilst you can confirm via Ofcom open data if a callsign is valid, you won't get the operators name or QTH unless they choose to share it (usually on sites like QRZ).
You can also look up the details of anyones car you see on the street (like make/model/what kind of engine it has) via the registration mark but you can't trace these back to the owner, only public authorities and a few authorised places (like insurance companies and parking enforcement) can do that..
@vfrmedia @gme yeah - I should say anonymous with an asterisk - I don't mean completely - we should apply, get licensed, be in the FCC database, but I don't think that should in turn be public info for anyone to look up - using the car analogy, I can't just look up any license plate and get the home address of the person in the car...our callsigns should be the same.
I can't just look up any license plate and get the home address of the person in the car...
Hate to break it to you but yes you can. You just have to pay for it (because the data brokers want to make money from you).
Every "background check" website let's you pull up information about who owns a car and what not based on license plate or VIN, and most will even give you the drivers' license number and insurance information registered to the car too.
@gme @vfrmedia interesting- that is new info to me. Seems like that gets into dubious legal territory though because it seems that most state laws and some federal laws limit what and why you can use plate info. There are plenty of websites I see though that do offer the service, but I'm not about to give them money to test itπ
Regardless - there is quite a difference between having to jump through hoops and wade dubious legal landscapes, vs just having it freely published on an open database.
But it's public information. Same for the tail registration for aircraft. Another licensed, and registered activity. The only thing I'm not sure of is that extended to drone operators since those are legally required to be registered with the FAA.
duckduckgo.com/?q=find+the+add⦠Edit: This is what I got back when I put in my own license plate information. Only thing wrong is that my truck is white and not red. LOL.
@gme @vfrmedia do you actually get your home address back if you pay?
From my understanding that's where it gets dubious, and apparently there is all kinds of fine print in TOCs.
There are also (from casual searching) laws in place in most states about how that information can be used if you obtain it, so I'd still say it isn't "public." you might be able to get it, but using it may have consequences- it's still a far cry from the FCCs "here's all the info and you don't even need a login"
I've used these sites before when doing background checks on home care givers for my relatives and yes, you do get addresses.
Admittedly I've never run a "background check" against my own license plate number to verify but I have run a "background check" on my name and birthdate before just to see what was out there and it had all my previous addresses, even "unofficial" addresses of mine (PMB addresses I've used for business and other stuff).
Lexis-Nexis is the single largest data broker in the US, and the amount of information they have on us is STAGGERING.
I highly encourage every American to order their own Lexis-Nexis report. They have to give it to you free.
consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/r⦠Make sure you're sitting down, and make sure you've taking your high blood pressure medication before you open the rather large envelope that will be mailed to you with everything in it.
You will go through all the stages of grief as you read the dossier they have on you. Trust me.
@gme I work for a company that provides home carers, and whilst our staff are subjected to one of the most stringent background and ID checks available in our country (and their immigration/citizenship status is audited regularly) there's also strict rules about confidentiality of this information within the company.
We can't search their vehicle registration marks to check registered keeper details (only companies with a motoring-related reason can do so like parking enforcement and car insurance), although staff do need to submit details of what they are driving and we check the car has a valid inspection cert (MOT) and the driver has valid insurance for business travel.
One of these days we might get something similar to the GDPR but by the time all the companies and lobbyists have thoroughly attacked the law, and the legislators that sponsored or support it, it won't look anything like its proposal and will be so watered down it would be pointless.
As the world slowly but surely awakens to the real magnitude of #Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity in #Gaza, its officials' rhetoric intensifies and becomes even more vile than usual. You cannot hide #genocide by blocking foreign media access kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1145β¦, nor can you conceal it by establishing a fake aid operation designed to displace people from parts of the Gaza Strip you want to steal kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1145β¦.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry's use of "crusade" against #Franceβhistorically one of Israel's closest alliesβreveals desperation. This religious warfare language, combined with attempts to reframe genocide as humanitarian aid, shows how Israeli propaganda escalates as international legal pressure mounts. Clearly, when Israel's friends call out its genocidal leadership's war crimes, all that's left is to increase the volume and shout them down.
Quoting Itay Mak on how Israel's "aid plan" for Gaza is ethnic cleansing on a minimally full stomach:
Mak says Israel's 'aid plan' sounds like an antisemitic blood libel. Except that it's reality.
#Palestine / EBU Urges Israel to allow foreign journalists access to Gaza
The #EBU calls on the #Israeli government to unblock access to #Gaza for foreign journalists, who have been banned since October 2023. The EBU highlights the critical role of Palestinian journalists and the need for international media to support their efforts by reporting from inside Gaza. Unrestricted access is crucial for press freedom and independent reporting.
This appeal follows a similar request from the EBU last year. Israelβs participation in #Eurovision, despite restricting access to Gaza for foreign journalists, may be seen as inconsistent with the obligations of its membership. Shouldnβt this lead to KANβs ineligibility to participate in the Eurovision, at least? Youβd think that an ongoing genocide makes the absurd arrangements the EBU is insisting on seem somewhat redundant.
More than 70 media and civil society organizations, including the Associated Press, #BBC, #EBU and The New York Times, have signed an open letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to Gaza. They highlight that no independent media access has been permitted since the start of the war, increasing pressure on local journalists and creating room for misinformation. The organizations emphasize that over 100 journalists have been killed since the war began, and those remaining face extreme deprivation.
New York, July 11, 2024βMore than 70 media and civil society organizations have signed an open letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to Gaza.
I need to buy a lottery ticket today. (I actually might.)
Had a 6.5 hour sleep without any interruptions last night and without taking any melatonin to go to bed. Granted, I did wait until after midnight and for me to be sufficiently tired and exhausted before going to bed.
But to not have woken up after 90 minutes or even after 4 hours has been somewhat of a blessing this morning!
Itβs a relatively well-known fact that Israeli forces have attacked the overwhelming majority of hospitals in #Gaza and have launched hundreds upon hundreds of strikes on medical services in the enclave.
Whenever anyone mentions this fact publicly theyβll get #Israel apologists babbling about βhuman shieldsβ and absurdly trying to claim that there are #Hamas bases in all the hospitals. But these talking points are invalidated by the fact that weβve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals theyβve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.
The latest of such reports appears in the Greek outlet Efimerida ton Syntakton from a specialist surgeon named Christos Georgalas, who was at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza from April to May of this year.
According to machine translation, #Georgalas calls Israelβs onslaught βa war mainly against children,β and describes horrific injuries that Israeli munitions have been inflicting upon young Palestinians. Georgalas also describes repeated Israeli attacks on the hospital where he was working, which include the following: βA Spanish colleague told me that when the Israelis came to the hospital where the MRI machine was, they tried to destroy everything. But the #MRI machine is a huge machine. Itβs like a car. Even if you shoot it, it can be repaired. So they brought in a specialist engineer to permanently destroy it. Because even if a bomb went off next to it, it could still be repaired. They had to bring in a specialist who knew the heart of the machine to make it non-functional. And thatβs exactly what he did last February.
βIn our hospital, the Israelis went through the wards that were the incubators and systematically broke them one by one. The incubators with the crowbar! This has been recorded by my colleagues. The hospital where I worked was occupied by the Israelis for two months, in February and March 2024. The doctors who had remained in the hospital were tortured. They were lined up one by one and beaten. A total of around 80 of them were kidnapped. Of these, we do not know where 40 are or if they are alive. They killed many on the spot.β Because Israel has been blocking journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, doctors have largely become the de facto reporters on the ground there.
We saw another report documenting Israelβs pattern of systematically destroying individual pieces of medical equipment back in February of this year, this time at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin reported the following: βThere is no health system anymore in the northern part of Gaza. Kamal Adwan hospital has been razed, while Al Shifa, Al Awda and Indonesian hospitals are seriously damaged and only partially functioning. We were utterly shocked to observe that in Indonesian hospital every medical machine seemed to have been deliberately destroyed; they were smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore. You have to ask: What is the motivation of such action? These machines are made to save peopleβs lives, mothers, fathers, children. Itβs devastating to see the state of these hospitals.β
In April of this year Seguinβs report on the Indonesian Hospital was corroborated by an emergency physician named Clayton Dalton, who wrote the following for The New Yorker: βSultan led me upstairs, to the I.C.U., where wind blew through broken windows. He wanted to show me something that he had discovered after Israeli forces left the hospital. He pointed to a cardiac monitor near a wall. It appeared to have a bullet hole in its screen. Next to it was an EKG machine whose screen had been smashed. βWe entered a large storage room in the corner of the I.C.U. which was crammed with medical devices: ultrasound machines, I.V. pumps, dialysis machines, blood-pressure monitors. Each had apparently been destroyed by a bullet β not in a pattern one would expect from random shooting but, rather, methodically. I was stunned. I couldnβt think of any possible military justification for destroying lifesaving equipment.β
Indeed, there is no possible military justification for destroying lifesaving medical equipment. They were destroyed so that they could not be used to save lives. Israel has been systematically destroying Gazaβs healthcare infrastructure with the goal of making it uninhabitable, so that the territory can be seized by Israel.
Thatβs three separate accounts describing Israeli forces systematically destroying medical equipment in Gaza, from doctors whoβd stand nothing to gain from lying about such a thing. The evidence is too overwhelming to deny.
There were no Hamas fighters hiding in the MRI machine. There were no tunnels in the incubators. No arms stockpiles in the EKG machine. Israel has been lying about Hamas hiding in hospitals this entire time. Hamas was never the target. #Hospitals are the target. #Healthcare is the target. Thatβs established far beyond any reasonable doubt by now.
[ The Daily Galaxy: Shocking New Discovery Reveals What Really Controls the Atlanticβs Climate Engine ] dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/what-cβ¦ I'll save you the read: it's Uranus.
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So, Chrome is THE most used browser in the world, on mobile, and on desktop. Out of the box, it doesn't have an ad blocker, or a tracker blocker enabled. To use that browser to the fullest, you'll also need to use a Google Account, and thus everything you do in your browser will be collected unless you specifically disable it.
You can disable a lot of things in your Google account and the web browser settings, but you'll need to download extensions to block the most invasive trackers and limit fingerprinting. Chrome is also not open source.
On Privacy tests.org, we can also see that Chrome has weak fingerprinting resistance.
Firefox has a good reputation for privacy, but it's not the best choice either. By default, it collects telemetry data, including how many tabs you have open, how many windows, how many webpages you visit, the number and type of extensions, duration of your browsing sessions, and some technical data on your OS, the version of the browser, the language, and your IP address in their server logs. Firefox can also use this data to recommend extensions to you.
In terms of protections, Firefox doesn't block tracking scripts or pixels but it does block social media trackers, cross site cookies, cryptominers, plus all tracking when you're in incognito mode. Firefox is open source, so you can be reasonably sure that it doesn't collect more than what it tells you.
If you like Firefox but you don't want the telemetry, and you want improved fingerprinting protection, then there's Librewolf.
Brave offers a lot of what you'd be able to do in another browser with extensions, but it does so out of the box. They call them "shields", and they block ads, trackers, fingerprinters, and cross site cookies by default. They also auto redirect GOogle's AMP pages to the "real" website, and they redirect tracking URLs so you're not even visiting the tracking domain at all.
The ultimate private browser is probably Tor Browser, but it won't be for everyone. Tor Browser blocks everything that the website might want to learn about you, so there's no tracking at all, and no fingerprinting, but ads aren't blocked.
Edge is based on CHromium, the base for CHrome, but they remove everything Google related from it, to mostly replace it with Microsoft related things, like a Microsoft account.
Edge, by default, has an opt-out for telemetry. It will block trackers from third party sites, and some ad trackers as well. It also collects "required" diagnostic data that can't opt out of, and this data is used to personalize ads from microsoft. If you use a microsoft account, you'll also give MS a bunch of data in the process, including device information, usage data, browsing activity, bookmarks and more.
Opera is yet another chromium based browser, which gets the worst results on privacytests.org. It has a unique fingerprint, and doesn't block tracking scripts, or pixels, it doesn't resist fingerprinting, it doesn't remove tracking parameters, and it also doesn't block the major tracking cookies.
It doesn't send "do not track" signals by default either. Their privacy policy also states that they might share personal data with third parties, which can be worrying, as Opera has been bought by a chinese consortium in 2016.
Vivaldi is also a chromium based browser. At first start, it will ask you what you want to block.
Vivaldi doesn't collect any data, browsing history or anything else, even if you use a Vivaldi account, because everything is encrypted in there.
[ The Daily Galaxy: Itβs Official: Dolphins and Orcas Have Passed the βPoint of No Returnβ in Their Evolution to Live on Land Again ] dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/its-ofβ¦ I'm pretty sure they're ok with this.
SANAA, May 29 (YPA) - Sanaa-based armed forces of Yemen declared on Thursday it had launched a missile attack Lod Airport, known by Ben Gurion.Military spokesman Brig, Gen. Yahya Sarie, said in a televised statement that the operation accurately targ
U.S. President Trumpβs βMake America Healthy Againβ Commission cited a paper by Dr. Katherine Keyes on anxiety and depression among teens during the pandemic. She says she didnβt write it. Read more from @abc flip.it/FyO2sT #MAHA #Trump #RFK #Health #US #Pandemic #Anxiety
Prosecution might then assert that it was your responsibility to employ a system that DID allow for censorship. But I hate that one.
Another option would be to refer the offender to the LEOs. Just shift responsibility. Heck, it could be said that you're doing the LEOs a service. I like that one.
"Censorship" can mean anything from the government imprisoning you because you criticized it, to having somebody removed from your restaurant because they're yelling the N word in the faces of your customers.
Without being more specific you might as well ask if swimming is always wrong, or if hitting somebody is always wrong. Yes, hitting someone sounds like a scary wrong thing, but on the other hand there's boxing matches. Swimming is wrong if you're trespassing in someone's pool.
Everybody else in this thread seems to be clear on the meaning. But for you, here. By censorship I mean removing what you said from the conversation. Removing posts and replies.
I got my new tshirt before my big trip, so I can take it with me YAY!
I'm a HUGE fan of libraries --they prefigure a solarpunk future with their communal resources and third space and championing arts and knowledge -- and they're seriously under attack and need to be supported/defended.
Tshirt is in support of the *For the People Leftist Library Project* by @prisonculture.bsky.social and you can get one here: librariesforthepeople.org/gear
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