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DW - Police have arrested three suspected Reichsbürger members accused of plotting to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order. dw.com/en/bavarian-police-arre…
Police have arrested three suspected Reichsbürger members accused of plotting to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order. The arrests follow early-morning raids in three states.
More than 1,200 truckers have been removed from U.S. highways since late June for being unable to communicate adequately in English or read English-language highway signs.
On July 4th, 2025, officers from the Bono Police Department were called to a residence following two separate reports from people who lived there, they told ...
There are a couple generations of non-Christian names out there. In the 90s all the single Moms thought their sons were cowboys and Indians. Kaden, Cody, Dakota, Austin, Wyatt, Cash, Colton, Clay, Levi...
We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.
With this money, we will open a farm in Baku, Azerbaijan to produce animal-based food.
We will also make our own animal feed, so our products will be healthier, better quality, and cheaper.
Because we sell quality products for less and have strong advertising, we will sell more worldwide and make big profits.
Why Azerbaijan? Because animal farming makes a lot of money there, but few people do it. That’s why we will earn more by starting in Azerbaijan.
Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.
Since we can sell quality products cheaply and thanks to our strong advertising network, we will be able to sell more internationally and make huge profits.
The reason for establishing the business in Azerbaijan is that animal husbandry is a very profitable business in Azerbaijan, but since there are very few people doing animal husbandry, establishing the farm in Azerbaijan will provide us with more income.
Your profit:
You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.
Your earnings will be great. When 22.03.2026 comes, you will get your money back as 953.00 US dollars.
You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.
When 22.03.2026 comes, I will give you back your money in the amount of 953,000 US dollars.
That means you will earn 716,000 US dollars profit in just 9 months.
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London (Quds News Network)- The British military has secretly hired a US private company to conduct aerial surveillance over Gaza in search of Israeli soldier prisoners, according to The Times. Due to
@Java Good morning, Rose.☕ Oh, btw, I was just texting with Barbara Archer, you remember Mad Beach Bimbo, and she asked about my recovery from the fall. After I updated her, she replied: "It takes a looong time when you’re old. Not saying you’re old but face it, we are. 😂"
A U.S. Army soldier in Texas with a top security clearance has been charged with handing over sensitive information about the military's main battle tank in exchange for Russian citizenship.
Taylor Adam Lee, 22, was arrested Wednesday on charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license.
"This arrest is an alarming reminder of the serious threat facing our U.S. Army," said Brigadier General Sean F. Stinchon, the commanding general of Army Counterintelligence Command.
web browser update: I pretty much ended up with an ugly version of qutebrowser with some extra stuff and I don't think I'm happy with it.
I need to re-evaluate the design of it. I need to step back from it for a couple days and just think about it. it's rough right now and yeah there's no point in using it when qutebrowser exists.
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My ex was a vet tech and would bring home the babies that fell out of the nest, so we could raise them until they were big enough to release - we had several over the years. They really ARE a cool little critter, that is until they start stealing your shit to make a nest -- they'll steal anything - pen caps, dollar bills - you name it. Then they get WILD and you have to let 'em go. minds.com/newsfeed/18001530144…
... fell out of the nest, so we could raise them until they were big enough to release - we had several over the years.
They really ARE a cool little critter, that is until they start stealing your...
Να γαμηθούν. Τόσα χρόνια μούγκα. Όταν ο τράγος ο Θεόφιλος πούλαγε στους σιωνιστές η κυβέρνηση πετούσε χαρταετό. Τώρα να γαμηθούν. mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa…
The pop-behaviorist canard that refuses to die is that an extrinsic inducement just provides a helpful jump-start: Once you experience the intrinsic value of reading, learning, helping, being physically fit, etc., the reward can be phased out.
Alas, the evidence, which I updated in 2018 (alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards…), proves this belief is naive. Introducing $, grades, food, or praise for doing x promptly devalues x so the person being manipulated with goodies sees it as less valuable or appealing.
"« Liberté chérie » par le « Banksy de Loudéac », œuvre de street art (Loudéac 2020). « Pour les sophistes et les imbéciles nous tenons, tout d’abord, à déclarer ceci : relevant de la semence expérimentale, nous ne pouvons récuser ses déductions et ses..."
« Liberté chérie » par le « Banksy de Loudéac », œuvre de street art (Loudéac 2020). « Pour les sophistes et les imbéciles nous tenons, tout d’abord, à déclarer ceci : relevant de la semence expérimentale, nous ne pouvons récuser ses déductions et...
“Delusional”, “ridiculous”, and “pie in the sky” are the adjectives coming from analysts after Donald Trump put fossil fuel exports at the centre of a framework trade agreement with the European Union.
Der Rückgang der Armut in Argentinien hat alle Altersgruppen gleichmäßig erfasst. Die Darstellung zeigt jeweils die Jahre 2022 bis 2025 jeweils 1-tes Quartal (farbig). Dazu das letzte Quartal 2024, also zum Ende des ersten Amtsjahres von Milei (grau). Der ungebremste Anstieg unter Mileis Vorgänger (grün) zeigt, welchen Stellenwert Sozialisten den Menschen einräumen. Insbesonders die Kinderarmut ist erschreckend. Hier hat Milei noch einiges vor der Brust.
"L’agence France Travail de La Côte-Saint-André fermée une semaine à la suite d’un incendie volontaire France Bleu/Le Dauphiné, 4-5 août 2025 Les faits se sont produits dans la nuit du dimanche 3 au lundi 4 août. Un véhicule de service de France Travail stationné sur le parking de l’agence, rue du commandant Julhiet, à La … Continuer la lecture de La Côte-Saint-André (Isère) : Feu à France Travail
"[Traduit de l’anglais sur indy nantes de Rose City Counter-Info 3 août 2025] Le 25 juillet, le FBI a mené une descente matinale sur une maison à Portland et kidnappé une personne âgée de 24 ans sur des accusations fédérales reliées à une manifestation au bâtiment de l’ICE. Iel encourt 20 ans de prison prétendument … Continuer la lecture de Oregon (États-Unis) : Toutes les caméras sont des
Ten events, ten photos | From the Hiroshima atomic bomb victims memorial to the traditional hunting festival in Kyrgyzstan parstoday.ir/en/news/world-i23…
In May, I published a deep dive on a Pakistani firm that had just been charged w/ shipping fentanyl analogs to the US and was behind a sprawling empire of scam ghostwriting, app and logo design companies that were spending millions on Google ads to promote their scam businesses.
The story received a decent amount of attention, but it almost immediately dropped off Google search entirely. Searching for the headline brought only links to other sites covering my report. This persisted for almost two weeks and I never got a satisfactory answer from Google about why the story dropped from search.
Just read a story at Ars Technica about how a tech CEO who was trying to quash reporting about his alleged misdeeds used a feature in Google known as Refresh Outdated Content to trick Google into deindexing the unflattering stories about him. The method he reportedly used was working until last month. Makes me wonder how widely known this bug was.
Weirdly, this story appears to now be buried in Google. If you search on the headline in Google (Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US) you will see tons of places linking to my story, and you will see tags from the story. I don't see this behavior for any other story of mine on the homepage of KrebsOnSecurity.com now. But the story itself is basically gone from Google's search results. Gee, I wonder how that happened?
Quoi que dise le Conseil Constitutionnel ce soir sur la loi Duplomb, il faudra retenir le rôle des médias depuis un mois, qui ont laissé les députés macronistes, de droite et d'extrême-droite mentir sans contradiction. Les scientifiques ne devraient pas passer leur temps à combattre les fake news.
Gaza Ministry of Health: - 100 martyrs and 603 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours. - The toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 61,258 martyrs and 152,045 injuries since October 7, 2023. - The toll of martyrs and injuries from March 18, 2025 to date has reached 9,752 martyrs and 40,004 injuries.
1.92 per 100k, okay, they're excluding small towns, because I guarantee you somewhere there is a "city" with 300 people and a strip club, just because it's on a highway and truckers pass through all the time.
I'm first encountering the term "pathocracy" in Andrew M. Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology" book (which admittedly, after a skim read of the index, I jumped straight to page 324, "Immunization"]. And seems like the precursor, the selection process, that leads to kakistarchy. Ruled over by the worst.
[From the brief little I've read so far] This #book seems a #good #read to accompany Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism, and Don Barlow's Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery.
South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday questioned the government's recent trade deal with the United States, calling it a "failed "agreement that erodes the country's advantage.
Simps will buy it thinking it's from some hot anime looking chick. They won't realize that, at best, it's just chemically manufactured garbage or, at worst, comes from droopy rejects from the old National Geographic magazines.
Are there any benefits, in terms of performance or security in 'wiping' or overwriting an SSD before reinstalling Linux? And if so, what is the best way of doing it?
I'm planning on doing a clean install of Debian 13 on my laptop soon.
I'm currently on Fedora and using encryption and will be using encryption on Debian too. I do not have a separate home partition.
Security … Depends. If you want to sell the SSD, then yes, wiping the SSD is advised. You don’t need complicated random multiple-write patterns. Just make sure to wipe everything (keywords: wear-leveling, cache), you could use blkdiscard for that.
Performance-wise nothing noticeable would change. Physically, SSDs are fast enough to modify the charge traps to store the bits as needed to store files regardless of what’s in those traps ().
If you plan using the SSD for your own, you don’t need to wipe it, just repartition as needed and create the file systems in the partitions. What I do, is writing some data to the storage to destroy the partition table (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/XYZ where XYZ is my target device – and then leave it runninf for a few seconds).
Since you’re using encryption, the common tools only see garbage and no data (i.e. file system). So simply don’t decrypt and work with the mapped partition but use the device directly.
You can hold all the data in the American Library of Congress AND all the data from Wikipedia on a small stack of solid-state drives especially considering a...
There's no performance improvement to wiping an SSD. At least not meaningfully, on a completely empty SSD that has been factory wiped. You may see a first time right improvement but that goes away as soon as the SSD starts doing garbage collection.
As for your other reasons, they're completely up to you.
If you are using encryption now, you do not need to wipe the SSD, after a new install the remaining data on the "disk" will still be encrypted, without the key.
I've heard that SSD have a relatively limited number of write cycles, and that wiping/compacting data can even be a slightly bad thing in this regard. I am not sure at all if this is true though, don't take my word for it and correct me if i'm wrong.
Not really, unless it was previously used to store unencrypted data.
If you want to destroy old unencrypted data, the fastest way that uses the fewest P/E cycles is to run Secure Erase with hdparm. Many modern SSDs perform hardware encryption, whether you set a password or not. Secure Erase just wipes the encryption key and installs a fresh one. That's usually good enough for personal use, but it also depends on how well the manufacturer implemented hardware encryption, if at all.
If you want the data gone and don't trust the manufacturer, the Debian installer offers an option to overwrite free space when setting up partitions. Disclaimer that this would not touch the ~7% hardware-reserved spare blocks that may have been cycled in and out of service.
The following are anecdotal:
Some SSDs might understand the idea of wiping with zeros and just throw out writes from dd in conjunction with if=/dev/zero, resulting in an apparent, but insecure wipe
I run wipefs -a /dev/yourDrive on fresh or reused drives to eliminate any potential issues with the remnants of an old partition table. This only erases partition tables, not data blocks.
A SSD in poor health started throwing errors about bad sectors and stalled the boot process. This was a test rig, so I didn't really care about data longevity. A full overwrite with dd forced the SSD to retire the bad sectors and gave it a couple more years of useful life.
Maybe. Some people have used SpinRite 6.1 to rewrite every sector, and that’s improved performance on some SSD’s. It rewrites each sector and restores the cell’s charge. That’s great if you need the data on there now.
Now, if you’re erasing the disk (by any means, including just a quick format C:), any sectors you use will be written with new data, so that shouldn’t matter.
Just erase the disk (securely, if you want) and get going, and it should be fine.
AFAIK it's a bad idea to use dd or another wiping tool that just overwrites the logical partitions on flash based media, and is also not that effective for security. SSDs have wear leveling and what the computer sees does not map 1 to 1 to what's actually on the flash chips. They also have extra overprovisioned space inaccessible to your computer specifically for shuffling data around when wear leveling. So not only are you wasting write cycles, it's not guaranteed to actually overwrite all your data on the flash chips themselves.
If you want to wipe an SSD, use secure erase from a tool like nvme-cli which will directly tell the controller to erase all the data. How well the controller implements that is anyone's guess though.
I'd say if you're going to the effort of fully encrypting your new install, doing a secure erase will be in that spirit and won't hurt. There won't be any performance benefit but it will (probably) ensure that none of your previous unencrypted data is still there, though even if you don't do this, just writing to the drive in normal use will eventually fill up the free space and make it less and less likely that sensitive information is recoverable, but how long this happens depends on how you use the computer.
It's generally accepted that SSDs cannot be securely wiped by writing patterns to the drive, due to features such as wear leveling and over-provisioning, and that the most secure way to wipe a mode...
Israelis are engaging in a classic genocide denial tactic: blurring atrocity with arithmetic. Any mention of Palestinian suffering is seen as a threat to the nation's image and survival
one of my work colleagues has shared their "fancy wedding pen" on Slack and... it's hideous... it sort of sounds amazing if you describe it, but seeing it is something else entirely...
it's gold glittery body with then a big circle with their names in at the top (gold) and a (fake?) Pink(?) feather spouting out the top...
It goes beyond camp and into previously undiscovered realms...
❞ I’m not a lawyer or an expert on international law. Therefore I have no authority with which to judge on the question of genocide.
This is a copout.
It’s true that I cannot offer an authoritative legal answer. But I respond to these questions the way I do because it’s been hard for me to talk, or even think about the question. For a long time, it wasn’t clear to me exactly why. In a private conversation many months ago with an Israeli colleague who is a law professor and a scholar of international law, I let my guard down:
“Surely, this is not a genocide, right?”
“Why do you think that?” she asked.
“Because I hope it is not a genocide,” I answered.
With a lot of compassion, she told me that it was important that I hoped it was not a genocide, but that did not change the facts on the ground. “You should think about why it’s important to you that what you see in front of your eyes is not a genocide,” she said. ... For many Jews, and even more so for Israelis, our education about genocide begins and ends with the Holocaust. We have been educated to understand genocide as presenting in one, very specific fashion. Yet, the Holocaust was a unique instance. Sadly, there are many other expressions of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shares case studies from its Center for the Prevention of Genocide of “threats of large-scale, group-targeted, identity-based persecution” that could possibly become a genocide. They include incidents in Sudan, Ukraine, India, China and many others. None of these cases include gas chambers or numbers tattooed on forearms; most of them do not have a death toll in the millions. Yet they are deemed dire enough to appear as cases to monitor under the museum’s mission to “confront genocide.” ... The difference between me and Segal was that I thought the threats barked by Israeli politicians and generals were the macho bluster of panicked leaders responsible for the worst security failure in Israeli history. I didn’t believe they intended to do what they said they were going to do. He, however, believed them.
I realize now, as the international community has failed to stop the total destruction of Gaza, that the speed of his and others’ prompt pronouncements was not irresponsible, knee-jerk scholarship. If anything, when it comes to the threat of genocide, being alarmist is precisely what is needed. ...
I am familiar with emotions of outrage and revulsion with the conduct of the Israeli government and the dissemination of Jewish supremacy, but the question of genocide, I now understand, provoked new feelings I had not encountered before — shame and guilt. … Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or even deny the reality of Gaza. Instead, we must grapple with guilt; guilt not in the sense of personal culpability, but rather in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and our Palestinian neighbors. Writing this article is my first step in this direction. ❝
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Today, we'd like to show you what is probably the most deadly object in our collection: a tampon. Specifically, a Rely brand tampon, on sale between 1975 and 1980 in the USA.
In the 1970s, a combination of new synthetic materials and huge market competition led to an arms race among tampon manufacturers. There was a drive to be the most absorbent, the most leak-proof. Rely tampons, manufactured by Procter & Gamble, were highly absorbent, and expanded wide to prevent leaks. They quickly became a market leader owing to the innovative design and super absorbency.
Meanwhile, in the late 1970s, something else happened: a new syndrome was identified and named. Paediatrician James K. Todd reported an illness among childen aged 8-17. The childen had developed a condition after infection with Staphylococcus Aureus. He suspected toxins caused by the bacteria. He called the disease Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)
Brilliant thread, I knew all about the illness, but didn’t realise there was one brand of superabsorbent tampon that was linked, nor how it was linked to TSS. Makes sense now why we don’t see as much of it now, even in people with retained tampons, as fluid tends to go round them and there is less abrasion.
I used these, I remember them. I stopped using them because of the toothed plastic on the top that opened when the bottom was plunged to insert. They were super effective at stopping leaks. But I felt it scratched, even as the plastic body was less resistant to insertion than the cardboard tubes. Happily post menopausal now. Don't miss the monthly week of cramps, blood, mess, and bloating.
Excellent news (in the long term). A very long and detailed look at how bottom-up boycott of academics everywhere increasingly doing the right thing hits Israel where it hurts.
Growing backlash over the Gaza war is fueling both open and silent boycotts of Israeli scientific research. Grants are drying up, emails go unanswered, and once-regular collaborations are unraveling.
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Requiem For D August 7, 2025
for a bunch of hick kids who didn’t know horses most especially the farmerst farmer amongst us who had horses in the stable and the field who, on a whim, decided cow tipping wasn’t the thing that horse tipping was a higher level of difficulty
we got on all right
visiting each other’s farms and bedroom community houses watching D, name changed for the sheer and utter gall of it sneak out in the moonlight, pick out the stallion, and bounce off stallion, not putting up with yet more of their madness grabbing their jacket in their teeth and yeetting ‘em over the fence
we laughed, that’s not a break
even when it pretty clearly was, but D, farm macho, took two days pursued by stallion at feeding, twice more launched, before cast doc saying – if you keep messing with it, it’ll fall off, and kid I don’t rightly think I’ve ever said that about a leg before your ma said I was to say maybe don’t – we never stopped laughing
but we gave good caution
marsh below pasture sometimes spitting up the other horses to the tune of D’s ma yelling again – goddamnit D what the hell was that – stallion kicking the ever-loving crap out the metal water trough, drawing attention, pa up top loading the 30-30, making sure the kids were counted
we’d spend nights like that
waiting to see if the camp fire would get a spray can tossed in bloom half red paint, half bass crump raising baby mushroom drawing attention uphill, D saying – if we can draw them out maybe they can’t see in the dark, maybe we won’t bounce off maybe, just maybe, they’re tippable – break another leg
but we got on all right
child mortality those days speculated fifty-fifty on the gap somewhere between abuse and fluid aspiration, lungs all silted up playing keepsies with the underdark, while forty years on somewhat fewer of us sit around a much smaller fire above pasture shroud concealing rail gun, HUDs set low, waiting
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