New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

Link: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Israel's top rabbi rules against repatriation flights on Shabbat amid war with Iran haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Israel is much more important to Trump than Ukraine – Berliner Zeitung en.news-front.su/2025/06/18/is…

Maintaining P&H Cranes: OEM Parts vs. Aftermarket Alternatives


The OEM vs. third-party debate for P&H crane parts hinges on your specific circumstances. OEM parts are ideal for critical systems, while third-party options offer savings and availability, particularly for older equipment.

Scheduled maintenance is essential for keeping cranes running smoothly, minimizing downtime, and ensuring safety. But when it's time to replace parts during these intervals, a key question arises: should you stick with OEM parts or consider third-party options?

For P&H crane operators, this decision is particularly important due to the equipment's complex engineering. Whether you're overseeing operations or performing repairs, the parts you choose impact performance and costs. Let's dive into the debate.

Why Maintenance Schedules Matter


P&H cranes follow servicing schedules based on operating hours, workload, and site conditions. Skipping these intervals can lead to hydraulic breakdowns, worn drivetrains, or structural damage. Regular maintenance prevents these issues by addressing wear before it escalates.

During servicing, though, the choice between OEM and third-party parts becomes a critical consideration.

OEM Parts: The Trusted Standard?


OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) parts come from the crane's original builder. For P&H crane parts, this ensures components are designed to the machine's exact specifications. Benefits include:

  • Perfect compatibility. No need for modifications or workarounds.
  • Reliable quality. OEM parts meet the crane's original performance standards.
  • Warranty assurance. Using OEM parts often preserves warranty coverage.

However, OEM parts can be expensive, and for older P&H cranes, they may be hard to source due to limited stock or supply chain disruptions.

Third-Party Parts: A Budget-Friendly Option?


Third-party parts, or aftermarket components, are made by independent manufacturers. They're generally more affordable and accessible, especially through a specialized crane parts supplier that carries parts for P&H and other brands.

Potential risks to consider:

  • Inconsistent quality. Some aftermarket parts are excellent; others may fall short.
  • Fit challenges. Slight variations can lead to installation issues.
  • Limited OEM support. You may depend on the supplier for technical guidance.

Despite these concerns, many operations use third-party parts effectively for routine components like filters, seals, or hydraulic hoses, especially when sourced from a reputable crane parts supplier.

P&H Crane Parts: Balancing Quality and Availability


P&H cranes are built for tough jobs, but their intricate systems require precise components. For critical parts like slew gears, hydraulic pumps, or control systems, many owners opt for OEM P&H crane parts to ensure safety and performance.

For older P&H models, however, OEM parts can be scarce. Third-party crane parts suppliers step in, offering aftermarket solutions designed for legacy cranes. Some suppliers even produce reverse-engineered P&H crane parts that rival OEM standards, providing a cost-effective alternative.

Making an Informed Choice


Here's a straightforward approach to choosing parts:

Go with OEM parts when:
- Your crane is still under warranty.
- You're replacing high-risk components like boom assemblies or safety systems.
- You've had issues with third-party parts in the past.

Consider third-party parts when:
- You're maintaining an older P&H crane with limited OEM support.
- The part is non-critical, like gaskets, belts, or wear strips.
- Your crane parts supplier has a strong reputation for quality and reliability.

The Importance of Skilled Installation


Whether you choose OEM or third-party P&H crane parts, proper installation is crucial. A poorly installed part can fail quickly, regardless of its quality. Use technicians with experience servicing P&H cranes, preferably those familiar with your model.

Document all maintenance thoroughly—parts used, service dates, and operating hours. This helps with compliance and spotting early warning signs of trouble.

Closing Thoughts


The OEM vs. third-party debate for P&H crane parts hinges on your specific circumstances. OEM parts are ideal for critical systems, while third-party options offer savings and availability, particularly for older equipment.

Most P&H owners benefit from a hybrid strategy: OEM for high-stakes components and a trusted crane parts supplier for routine parts. Whatever you choose, never skip scheduled servicing—it's the foundation of a reliable crane.

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Verified apps are an implicit guarantee that this thing is as the developer intended. What app verification isn't, is a guarantee that the package you're downloading is safe, or has no security problems.

If the repo has been hacked, if one of the maintainers for the app is malicious, then the official package will also contain that code.

The security argument will often be used to push people towards distro packages instead of flatpaks and snaps, but this is also not really how things work.

The general view of distro packages is that they can be safer, because there's a trusted maintainer that will create the package, and thus can detect any unwanted change, backdoor, or problem, and prevent you from getting the infected or buggy version of the package.
This is not really the case though.

Log4J, the recent SSH vulnerability, the XZ backdoor, and basically every CVE ever discovered points to the fact that maintainers DO NOT do security reviews on most packages they build. That's not what is expected of them either. A lot of maintainers aren't developers and couldn't conduct these audits in the first place.

unixdigest.com/articles/how-se…

flameeyes.blog/2022/02/15/on-t…

Another big misconception is around the sandbox for Flatpaks and snaps. A sandbox basically just means that the app you're running has a system of permissions that limits what the app can do, and how it can interact with the system. It CAN be more secure than not having a sandbox, but it doesn't mean it IS always more secure.

Another example of the sandbox not doing anything to protect the user is with the recent scam crypto apps on the snap store: these WERE sandboxed, because they scammed you through a web view, a website basically.

Another common misconception around packages is how dependencies work. You'll often read that distro packages use the system dependencies, and thus use less disk space, and are more secure, because you know that the library the app relies upon is updated by your distro, compared to a flatpak, snap or AppImage, where the dev might have bundled a dependency on their own, and never bothered to update it.

First, you CAN check which versions of dependencies the package comes with. A flatpak is open, you can see how it's built. Second, distro packages aren't always up to date either: just because it's a shared library doesn't mean it has all the latest security fixes.

This example will be clearer: MariaDB got a security update in 2021 in November. While Arch and Artix updated things the same day, Debian took 3 months to apply it, and Alpine took 4. Same goes for fixed linux kernel versions: when your distro is locked to a specific kernel version, it's been factually proven that this version becomes more and more buggy and vulnerable over time, as maintainers simply don't apply every fix, and don't backport everything. For example, the current RHEL 8.8 kernel had more then 4500 bugs open that have fixes in later kernel releases.

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ciq.com/blog/new-research-the-…

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Gazans watch Israel’s war on Iran with a mix of hope, skepticism, and frustration #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/gazans-…

This is your daily reminder that Microsoft is subject to a BDS boycott due to its ongoing collaboration with the IDF and the genocide in Gaza. This includes all gaming subsidiaries owned by Microsoft - for instance, Bethesda, Activision, ID Software and Blizzard, alongside many others - alongside the Xbox platform as a whole, Game Pass included.

You can read more about the boycott here:
bdsmovement.net/microsoft

#palestine #gaming #games #doom #oblivion #overwatch #microsoft #politics

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"NO WAR WITH IRAN: US veteran Josephine Guilbeau bravely calls on active duty members to push back against war with Iran and expresses how this war is for ..."

Ça sonne québecois, Guilbeau... (trouvé ça sur FB)

#Iran #ForEverWars

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Don't know if this is legit, but if it is, it will come out sooner or later so I'm not going to try to figure it out. Just thought it was interesting. If it is real, it's a bombshell, but with AI voice mimicry you just never know.

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Giuffre’s ‘Deadman’s Switch’ Released: “I Have Been Murdered - This is the REAL Epstein List”
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1,000 Fenway Park Concessions Workers May Strike For First Time in 113 Years working-mass.com/2025/06/18/10…

How A Mass. Special Commission Became a Trojan Horse Against the Powerful Statewide Educators Union working-mass.com/2025/06/18/ho…

Not a criminal? A fighter for Democracy in Hong Kong? Holder of a Master's Degree? Legally and faithfully following the asylum process?

Doesn't matter. No one - not Chao Zhou, not even citizens - are safe from Trump's masked Gestapo, just filling up the boxcars any way they can to meet Stephen Miller's quotas.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/1…

A new kind of war has just been normalised through global responses to Israeli aggression: threshold war, in which nuclear states conduct wars of aggression against almost-nuclear opponents out of fear that the latter will obtain weapons that reshape geopolitical power balances, while the potential targets of such aggression are incentivised to rush towards acquiring these weapons to avoid the very threat of such aggressive actions.

Also being normalised: attacks on nuclear facilities.

theconversation.com/iran-israe…

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Broad Lebanese solidarity with Iran against the US-led Israeli aggression tehrantimes.com/news/514623/Br…

i am so embarrassed that i didn't know tons of our corporations got #reparations from #iraq no joke, at the 10-minute mark. but the whole video is good even though you've probably already the 1,000,000 reasons why this premise of this war is absurd.

doubledown.news/watch/2025/jun…

#iran #iranisraelwar

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Farmers suffer heavy losses in Jordan Valley and northern West Bank due to blockade, crossing closures middleeastmonitor.com/20250618…

The immigrant from El Salvador, who built a mass following on social media through his work documenting ICE raids, will now have to fight in immigration court for his right to remain in the country and ward off deportation.

amren.com/news/2025/06/hispani…

If all of the third world died tomorrow, (a) nothing would be worse and (b) no one would notice.

A former National Intelligence Officer for Cyber under President Trump and Joe Biden has come forward with explosive allegations: the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) deliberately buried evidence of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in the 2020 presidential election—and fired him when he refused to play along.
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/f…

Dr. Murakami: We found that as the number of doses increases, the peak of deaths appears faster, meaning the more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die, within a shorter period. So, the risk increases with more doses. If the vaccine had no toxicity or didn’t induce death, there wouldn’t be a peak. That’s the point.
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Israel Censors Zionists' Death Toll Amid Heavy Iranian Missile Strikes tn.ai/3337549

La IA como compañera y herramienta de programación


Llevo unas semanas usando la IA como herramienta de programación en mis proyectos, he aprendido a manejar los agentes de IA que son un paso más en la evolución de la inteligencia artificial; parecidos al agente Smith de Matrix, los agentes son modelos de IA que pueden tomar decisiones por ellos mismos, evaluar resultados y actuar en consecuencia, llegando incluso a autocorregirse.

Con ayuda de los agentes se pueden crear proyectos de software desde cero con unas simples órdenes, basándonos en un código con buenas prácticas y/o seguridad. Algo a lo que creo que ningún programador llegará por muchos años de experiencia que tenga. El discurso negacionista de la IA se irá diluyendo conforme se adapten los trabajos a esta herramienta, o se corre el riesgo de ser un parado digital más.

Hoy han cambiado las políticas de uso de GitHub Copilot, y ya no será ilimitado como hasta ahora, todo lo bueno se acaba. Mientras tanto me ha dado tiempo a refactorizar proyectos, crear temas y plugins de wordpress, empezar nuevos proyectos como ringnet.cloud o comenzar a implementar un kernel desde cero en rust basado en Linux. Las posibilidades son infinitas si esta herramienta sabe usarse correctamente, no solo ahorrará trabajo sino que lo potenciará con una alta calidad y eso depende de nosotros. Saludos 👋

Two hundred and fifty years after the American Revolution began, we are again at war, and Los Angeles is ground zero. Thugs waving the Mexican flag is not just a case of ethnic Mexicans expressing pride at being Mexicans. It is a declaration of war — physical and metaphysical — against our country and everything she is and stands for.
thefederalist.com/2025/06/18/l…

i switched mobile carriers and the new one has a voice AI assistant. the voice AI was actually better than the human pajeet i talked to. the jeet was completely bullshitting me and just talking out their ass, had no idea how to configure the access point manually for their mobile service and just basically pretended to do some technical bull crap on their end, put me on hold a few times, then didn't solve my problem

the AI at least got me pointed in the right direction, even though it gave me bad info.

eventually i figured it out from their web docs.

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i kept my last phone until i was absolutely forced to buy a new one due to obsolete radio frequencies that nobody supported anymore. the phone itself was still working fine, just network changes made it obsolete. kind of unfortunate. i like my current phone too and don't want to be forced to buy a new enshittified one with no headphone jack
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didn't i just see any new sandman season announced though?

I feel like we have to be able to separate artists' bad behavior from our evaluation of the quality of their work.

Maybe there's a time limit? Maybe they have to be dead so they can't benefit from their work being sold.

Are there any non problematic artists/creators from 500 years ago who we nevertheless find their work product valuable to society today? What about science? Especially medicine with all the body snatching.

Neil Gaiman is almost certainly a sex pest based on all the women reporting. So I get not wanting to give him money. He hopefully gets it, too.

I like the suggestion of piracy as an approach...

I genuinely do not understand people who have deep fried opinions about Signal needing a goddamn phone number in 2025.

Many privacy nerds were outraged when you needed to give out a phone number to other people in order to talk with them. I was one of those nerds. They fixed that with the usernames rollout.

As a mobile phone app, Signal uses your phone number to bootstrap your enrollment into the protocol. This is literally the path of least resistance as an SMS replacement app, for most users.

If you want to know whether Signal can obtain enough metadata to target users that have enrolled, the answer is complicated.

The way profiles are encrypted, and how sealed sender works, makes any targeting seem infeasible. (Your profile key rotates, at mininum, when you block someone.)

Signal currently does not have IP addresses, etc. stored. If this changes in the future, it will not be retroactive. If you're worried about that, Molly boasts Tor support. Maybe that's fine. I haven't audited Molly, and won't.

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I'm on the side of the Iranians, I always side with anyone that goes up against Israel, even if it means Americans are going to get killed.
I don't care anymore about stupid brainwashed American morons, they have the internet in front of them, 24/7 and chose to look at porn and play video games instead of educating themselves. They deserve to die in the Middle Eastern meatgrinder.

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