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What was the role of Americans on the ethnic cleansing of #Palestinians before 7th of October?

"What’s a guy from Virginia doing building a fence outside a Palestinian family’s house?

In exclusive footage obtained by AJ+, a group of Americans were filmed installing wiring and a fence around the land just outside the Salem family home in occupied East Jerusalem.

The incident happened just days after the family was served an eviction notice by settlers who are linked to U.S. charities.

In this report, we explore how the effort to displace the Salems has been decades in the making."

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#USA #colonialism #ColonialViolence #zionazis #Jerusalem #AlQuds #JerusalemIsPalestine #Palestine #FreePalestine #ethniccleansing


Americans in Jerusalem Are Helping Kick Out Palestinians

What’s a guy from Virginia doing building a fence outside a Palestinian family’s house?In exclusive footage obtained by AJ+, a group of Americans were filmed...
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Trump Tightens US Blockade on Cuba, Bans US Tourism orinocotribune.com/trump-tight…

Trump Tightens US Blockade on Cuba, Bans US Tourism

US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum reinforcing the US blockade on Cuba and banning all US tourism to the island. The move targets Cuba’s economy and aims to isolate the Cuban government.
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Here I am the wet blanket.

July 4th was NOT the founding of the United States.

July 4th was the secession of the States of America from Great Britain.

It was NOT about taxes. It was about local control and local authority to impose taxes.

It ushered in a War. The war ended with thirteen individual peace treaties with the 13 States.

We were NOT a united body at that time any more than we are today.

Celebrate the ability to seceede from those organizations that abuse you.

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Arthur_500

@istvan

Unted States' ,notice the apostophe, free, sovereign and idependent States

This treaty and the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause, including France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic are known collectively as the Peace of Paris.[3][4] Only Article 1 of the treaty, which acknowledges the United States' existence as free, sovereign, and independent states, remains in force.[5]

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Devlet sustuğunda, katiller konuşur…
Mahmut Uzun

2 Temmuz 1993. Sivas’ta bir otel yakıldı. İçinde insanlar vardı. Aydınlar, sanatçılar, ozanlar, çocuklar…
Canlı canlı yakıldılar. Dışarıda toplanan binlerce kişi “yakın, yakın!” diye bağırıyorlardı. İçeridekiler ise insanlıktan medet umuyordu.
Gelmedi...

Bu bir halk isyanı değildi. Bu bir linçti. Bir katliamdı. Devletin gözetiminde, devletin bilgisiyle, devletin gölgesinde yaşandı. Herkes izledi. Herkesin izlediğini tarih kaydetti.

Ve sonra ne mi oldu?

Tansu Çiller çıktı, “Çok şükür otel dışındaki halkımıza bir zarar gelmedi” dedi.
Yani içerde yananları “halk”tan saymadı. Onları bu milletin parçası olarak görmedi.
Bu, yalnızca bir cümle değil, bir zihniyetti.

Süleyman Demirel ise “Olay münferittir. Halkla güvenlik güçleri çatışmamıştır”
dedi.
Sanki bir tesadüfmüş gibi, sanki binlerce kişi bir anda “aniden” galeyana gelmiş gibi…
Sanki öncesi yokmuş, yıllarca biriken nefret yokmuş, devletin ideolojik mühendisliği hiç yokmuş gibi…

Erdal İnönü ise sorumluluğu başkalarına devretmeye çalıştı: “Benim kadar onlar da sorumlu.”
Hayır! Siz hepiniz sorumluydunuz! Çünkü o gün orada susan herkes, yanındakinin çığlığını bastırdı.

Fehmi Koru, Aziz Nesin’i suçladı.
Mehmet Gazioğlu, inançlara hakaret ettiğini iddia etti.
Yani bu insanlar, “Aziz Nesin vardı, o yüzden insanlar yakıldı” diyebildi.
Faili suçlamak yerine, mağdura yöneldiler.
Tarihin en alçak diliyle konuştular.

Bu sözler rastgele değildir. Bunlar bir zihniyetin, bir devlet aklının, bir cezasızlık geleneğinin göstergesidir.
O gün orada yakılan yalnızca insanlar değildi. O gün insanlık da yandı. Vicdan da, adalet de, hakikat de…

Bugün hâlâ Madımak Oteli bir utanç müzesi
değilse…
Hâlâ faillerin bazıları korunduysa, bazıları serbest kaldıysa…
Hâlâ devlet yetkilileri o gün söylediklerini düzeltme gereği duymadıysa…

Bu, bir devam halidir. Sivas katliamı geçmişte kalmadı. Sivas sürüyor.
Ve o gün “yakın” diye bağıranlar bugün başka meydanlarda, başka isimlerle, başka sloganlarla hâlâ aramızdalar…

Ama artık yeter.
Çünkü devlet sustuğunda, katiller konuşur.
Ve biz sustukça, tarih yanmaya devam eder.

Mahmut Uzun
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Mahmut Uzun on Instagram: "Devlet sustuğunda, katiller konuşur… Mahmut Uzun 2 Temmuz 1993. Sivas’ta bir otel yakıldı. İçinde insanlar vardı. Aydınlar, sanatçılar, ozanlar, çocuklar… Canlı canlı yakıldılar. Dışarıda toplanan binlerce kişi “yakın, yakın!”

9 likes, 0 comments - muzun58 on July 2, 2025: "Devlet sustuğunda, katiller konuşur… Mahmut Uzun 2 Temmuz 1993. Sivas’ta bir otel yakıldı. İçinde insanlar vardı. Aydınlar, sanatçılar, ozanlar, çocuklar… Canlı canlı yakıldılar.
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📰 To Read...

🔖 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mississippi Masterpiece Lists for $2.5 Million
🗓️ Published: 2025-07-03T19:02:14+03:00
📄 Summary: The rare Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Mississippi has been listed for $2.5 million. This architectural gem stands out as one of only four Wright designs in the state and holds the distinction of being the sole Wright property on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi. A true treasure for enthusiasts of modernist architecture and Wright’s lasting legacy.
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💓 #FrankLloydWright #UsonianHomes #ArchitecturalHeritage

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A Hebrew University poll shows that roughly 82% of Jewish Israelis agree with the genocidal idea that there are “no innocents in Gaza.”

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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel


Poll: Overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis share genocidal belief there are ‘no innocent people in

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Turns out bunker busters work better than $150 billion cash on pallets.
The total cost of the recent U.S. bombing campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear sites is estimated to be around $500 million, reflecting a complex and costly military operation. This figure includes the deployment of seven B-2 stealth bombers, each valued at approximately $2.1 billion, which delivered at least 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker-buster bombs costing $15-20 million apiece. Additionally, about 30 Tomahawk missiles, each costing around $2 million, were launched. The operational costs—including fuel, maintenance, aerial refueling, support aircraft such as F-22s, F-35s, AWACS, electronic warfare platforms, and personnel—added tens of millions more, with total mission expenses likely exceeding half a billion dollars. Over 125 aircraft participated in the mission, underscoring the extensive logistical and financial investment involved[1][2][3][5][6][8].

Beyond the direct military expenditures, the strikes have also contributed to broader economic impacts, including increased volatility in global oil prices and inflation concerns due to fears of disruption in Iranian oil exports and potential retaliatory actions. These indirect costs, while harder to quantify, amplify the overall financial and geopolitical consequences of the bombing campaign[2][5][7].

In sum, the U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities represent a significant financial outlay in both direct military spending and wider economic ramifications, with the immediate operational costs alone estimated at around $500 million.

[1] timesofisrael.com/cost-of-dama…
[2] aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/24/h…
[3] foxbusiness.com/politics/ameri…
[4] cnn.com/world/live-news/israel…
[5] usatoday.com/story/news/world/…
[6] cnn.com/2025/06/21/middleeast/…
[7] nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/poli…
[8] aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/23/u…

To understand **how many water systems and power plants could have been built for \$500 million**, we can estimate based on average construction costs of these infrastructures. Below is a rough breakdown using typical U.S. figures (note: actual costs vary significantly by location, scale, and technology):

---

### 💧 **Water Systems**

**Average cost to build a new municipal water system** (small to mid-sized community):

* **\$5 million to \$15 million**
(Includes treatment facilities, distribution pipelines, pumps, etc.)

#### 🔹 Conservative estimate:

* **\$10 million per water system**
➤ **\$500 million ÷ \$10 million = 50 water systems**

---

### ⚡ **Power Plants**

There are various types of power plants. Here are a few types with rough average costs:

#### 🟢 **Small Solar Power Plant (\~10 MW):**

* **\~\$15 million**
➤ **\$500 million ÷ \$15 million = \~33 solar plants**
(Can power \~2,000 homes each)

#### 🔵 **Small Natural Gas Plant (\~100 MW):**

* **\~\$100 million**
➤ **\$500 million ÷ \$100 million = 5 plants**
(Can power \~75,000–100,000 homes each)

#### 🟠 **Small Modular Nuclear Reactor (SMR):**

* **\~\$300 million to \$500 million**
➤ **Could build 1 to 2 SMRs**

---

### Combined Estimate

| Type | Average Cost | How Many for \$500M |
| ----------------------------- | ------------ | ------------------- |
| Small municipal water system | \$10M | 50 |
| Solar power plant (10 MW) | \$15M | 33 |
| Natural gas plant (100 MW) | \$100M | 5 |
| Small modular nuclear reactor | \$400M | 1–2 |

---

### 🧾 Summary

For the **same \$500 million**, instead of being spent elsewhere (e.g., military aid, overseas projects), **the U.S. could build:**

* **50 municipal water systems**, or
* **33 small solar power plants**, or
* **5 small natural gas plants**, or
* **1–2 small modular nuclear reactors**

This kind of investment could power hundreds of thousands of homes or deliver clean water to entire regions in need.

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30,000-pound bunker busters used for first time in Iran nuclear facility strikes

"Operation Midnight Hammer," the U.S. strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities, used more than a dozen 30,000-pound "bunker busters."
Cybele Mayes-Osterman (USA TODAY)

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Experts reveal how the PREP Act granting liability protection to vaccine makers is a “License to Kill” – NaturalNews.com

Sasha Latypova criticizes the PREP Act, which grants pharmaceutical companies complete legal immunity for mRNA vaccines, allowing them to avoid liability for injuries or deaths, effectively giving them a “license to kill.
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EvolLove

Sadly this is how government is designed. It is impossible to get any work done without stepping anyone on the toes.

Thus U will either do as little as possible and stay for a total of 8 or 10 years in power, depending on nation.

Or U will upset people and be replaced at the next election and all the work U started will be cancelled.

This is how Democracy was always supposed to function.

That a population of morons would be able to elect by voting a genius leader is a joke.

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Arthur_500

@EvolLove

However, the answer is clear.

We live in a republic, not a democracy.

We have a federal constitution that is limited. All not listed in the constitution is the purview of the States.

Since 90% of the federal budget is unconstitutional, it should be scrapped. There would be no ability to 'promise' anything since it is unconstitutional.

Real leadership means the ability to follow the constitution

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EvolLove

I wasn't addressing USA specifically but the state of the western world.

I don't think that real leadership can be reduced to following the constitution.

Since That has yet to manifest. That might be a nice idea but it ain't happening.

Instead U have constant elections and propaganda. Perhaps U are a republic in name only and in every other aspect it's just Jewry?

That said, the electoral voting system, at least U have that instead of the popular vote. Rejoice :pepe_dream:

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We Fled Kakuma to Escape Violence , Now We’re Being Forced Out Again with Nowhere to Go

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Hi friends,
My name is Cyara, and I’m a transgender refugee living in Gorom camp, South Sudan, along with other queer community members. We came here after fleeing severe persecution and violence in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya where many of us were harassed, attacked, and denied safety.

We thought we would be safer in South Sudan, but here too we face discrimination, abuse, and daily threats. Then, on June 20th, the government gave us an eviction deadline: leave the camp or face prison. They gave us no plan, no support, just a deadline. That day came and passed. We are still stuck, scared, and exposed.

I know posts like this can feel overwhelming but please believe me when I say: this isn’t easy to write. I’m not trying to guilt anyone. I’m just desperate to get help for me and my sisters.

We are trying to raise $1500 USD to rent a shelter in Juba for 3 months, to house 8 of us while we try to find longer-term safety. We’ve raised $121 so far I’m grateful beyond words for that, but we’re still far from safety.

Please — if you can’t donate, just boost this post. Share it. Let people know we exist. That alone could save a life. Also please mods, my cause was really verified by Qaz. Please don’t take it down. I can still verify my situation

https://gofund.me/bd40a4f9

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highball

That was the big problem on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. They advertise themselves as a public square. Then they would censor speech in various ways unknown to the speaker. A lot of people in this thread don't understand that. In case you are not familiar, sounds like you are, Martin v. City of Struthers (1943). I know these sites aren't just U.S. citizens, so a lot of the comments come from foreigners who only familiar with their limited freedoms their government allows them.

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Another Iskander missile "visited" the Odessa port today, drones are also attacking Kyiv en.topwar.ru/267423-ocherednaj…

Another Iskander missile "visited" the Odessa port today, drones are also attacking Kyiv

New arrivals are being recorded in the area of ​​the Odessa seaport. Local residents are writing on social networks that another arrival is in the area of ​​warehouses.
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A lot of polishing in the new Vivaldi 7.5.

Our goal is to make a browser that is powerful, personal and private. We continue our efforts there. I hope you enjoy it!

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Computer #Technology #Eu #Europa #Norway #Iceland

vivaldi.com/press/releases/viv…


Vivaldi 7.5: color, clarity, and control | Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi 7.5 is now available for all desktop platforms. Delivering a vibrant update shaped by user feedback and designed to make online browsing more intuitive…
Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)

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FDA Announces New Safety Warning on All mRNA COVID Vaccines — Cites “Extremely High” Risk of Myocarditis and Long-Term Heart Damage in Young Men

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Trump administration has formally updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to reflect what many Americans have been warning about for years: a disturbingly high risk of myocarditis—particularly in young men—and ...


FDA Announces New Safety Warning on All mRNA COVID Vaccines — Cites “Extremely High” Risk of Myocarditis and Long-Term Heart Damage in Young Men | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

          The U.S.
Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Its utterly amazing to me that some people are soooo retarded that they haven't figured out that modern education credentials are utterly usless in identifying expertise or intelligence.

Anybody identified as an expert, is likely just a degreed pinhead, is likely wrong, and likely too stupid to know just how ignorant they are. After all they have a piece of paper that says otherwise.

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Impressed the lighting could pick her up 😬

Girl, 19, struck by lightning inside her home after making terrifyingly common mistake mol.im/a/14868305 via dailym.ai/android


Girl, 19, struck by lightning inside her home after making terrifyingly common mistake

Lisa Henderson thought she was safe inside her home during a storm, until one small, everyday habit left her struck by lightning for the second time in her life.
Alexa Cimino (Daily Mail)

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#Debian 13 "Trixie" Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed via the Calamares Installer, #Apple MTP/SPI Keyboards 9to5linux.com/debian-13-instal…

@debian #Linux #OpenSource

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Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed via Calamares - 9to5Linux

Debian 13 "Trixie" installer gets a second Release Candidate with support for rescuing Btrfs systems installed via the Calamares installer.
Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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.ml world "news" continuing to be an excellent source of journalism and definitely NOT contributing to the spread of Putin talking points!/s

This is the kind of content the .ml admins cultivate through their bans and censorship. They'll frequently remove articles from credible good sources that directly go against their narratives, while allowing misinformation and conspiracy websites to include RT, Sputnik and (as shown) random substack blogs as long as they tow the narratives that align with them.

E.g. Ukraine is a Nazi regime and Russia is just "liberating" the Ukrainian people

Join the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance!

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Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #ecology, #entamology, #romantic, and #space
I love the Earth and all life on it. I love meeting people . who like these thins too and learning what its like were they live and what plants animals and bugs live there .I'm from South Australia were there's lots of wild life including in the city. many colourful parrots and many other birds.

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Victory to Maja T’s Hunger Strike


by Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Z.

This text was written in the context of the anti-fascist three-day conference of June 20-22, but its typing and publication was delayed.

Responding to the call of the anti-fascist days of actions (20-22 June), of antifa Maja T. who has been on hunger strike since 5/6 in Hungarian prisons, we send our own signal of solidarity to their struggle. Two years ago, during the day of honor (anniversary of the mass extermination of Hungarian and German Nazis in 1945), where a fascist rally-march takes place in Budapest, where hundreds of neo-Nazis and fascists gather. In response to this call, anti-fascists from Europe have decided to return to them some of the violence they produce.

The far-right Hungarian government began a series of arrests, openly supporting the fascists, with inflated indictments of criminal organizations and inhumane conditions of confinement. Other European states cooperated with each other, engaging in a series of deportations and persecutions. Germany played a leading role in characterizing the German anti-fascists persecuted by the Hungarian state as dangerous criminals, culminating in the overnight extradition of Maja T. Many of the people involved chose to go underground, refusing to surrender their freedom in the hands of either the German or the Hungarian state. One of these people was Maja T. until their arrest and extradition.

We are going through a period of vertical rise of the far right and nationalism in the West. More and more people are turning to fascist and nationalist formations. The incompetence of the left and the retreat of the revolutionary movements left room for all kinds of fascist formations to develop and expand their audience. A disappointed audience that found in its face the anti-systemism it was looking for.

Fascism and nationalism have always been the other side of systemism. Especially in times of crisis, when neoliberalism is rotting, fascism emerges as a solution to the problem. The narrative of the national core, racial superiority and the necessity of militarization is used. Militant anti-fascism is the only solution to this problem. We have no illusions about the education of the descendants of the blackshirts, nor do we obviously seek their imprisonment. After all, fascism is crushed in the streets.

Defending anti-fascism, Maja T found themself imprisoned in Hungarian prisons in conditions of extreme isolation. Conditions that led them to embank their own body, starting a hunger strike from 5/6. From our own cell, the least we can do is stand by it, sending strength and solidarity.

Victory in Maja T’s hunger strike.
Solidarity with those who are persecuted for their anti-fascist activity
Solidarity with the two persecuted comrades, accused of attacks on the offices of Golden Dawn
Kyriakos Ximitiris present

Dimitra Z.
Marianna Manoura

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#AnarchistPrisoners #antifa #DimitraZ_ #europe #greece #hungary #hungerStrike #Maja #MariannaM_ #PoliticalPrisoners

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Proletarian Rage

The world would rather show #solidarity with our corpses than honor our #resistance.
#Gaza #Gaza_Genocide #gaza_under_attack #FightBack #Israel #IsraelPalestineconflict #BDS #FreedomStruggle #IsraelTerroristState #Genocide
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The world would rather show solidarity with our corpses than honor our resistance

It’s easy to show solidarity with powerless victims who endure their suffering with stoicism. But Palestinians chose to break free of their cage, even if it shattered the image of perfect victimhood.
Fathi Nimer (Mondoweiss)
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Proletarian Rage

Ο Αλκίνοος με το υψωμένο δάχτυλο…
Είναι πολύ σκληρή η προσωπική κριτική και είμαι μακριά αλλά το γενικό πλαίσιο που δίνει για την δυτική αλληλεγγύη στην παλαιστινιακή Αντίσταση είναι αυτό που πρέπει να έχουμε κατά νου.

eksegersi.gr/politismos/o-alki…


Ο Αλκίνοος με το υψωμένο δάχτυλο…

6 Ιούλ 2024, 11:59 - Ο Αλκίνοος Ιωαννίδης δεν είναι από τους καλλιτέχνες που θα πετάξουν την παπάρα και θα σε αναγκάσουν να τους πεις «καλύτερα να τραγουδάς παρά να μιλάς».
Eksegersi.gr (Εφημερίδα Κόντρα | Eksegersi.gr)

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Bazzite 42 listed in June 2025 Steam Hardware Survey

cross-posted from: pawb.social/post/27451562

Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven't looked back.

store.steampowered.com/hwsurve…

Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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L'impérialisme américain écrase ses vassaux.


#géopolitique #impérialisme

emmanuelflorac.substack.com/p/…


L'impérialisme américain écrase ses vassaux.

En plusieurs étapes, la stratégie cohérente de Trump se dessine. Tour rapide des leçons à tirer du dernier G7 et de la réunion de l'OTAN.
Emmanuel Florac (Emmanuel’s Substack)

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How to remote-Sway

Author: @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org

The state of remote working with Wayland is, well, lackluster to put it kindly. And with Sway, it's quite abysmal.

Here is my solution to remote my Sway desktop at work and make it persistent so it survives network outages. This is not the perfect solution, probably, but it works for me.

A few prerequisites


  • You need a dedicated remote account. It's generally a good idea regardless of whether you use Wayland or X11 to have a main account and a secondary remote account if you don't want to work with the same desktop locally and remotely.
    The reason is, your local desktop settings can differ significantly from the remote desktop settings (for instance, if you work with 2 high-res monitors locally but on a small laptop screen remotely) so a unique set of settings may not work well in both cases.

    Also, unless you log out of the local and remote sessions religiously after you're done, you're likely to run both sessions at the same time at some point. If you do, you may run more than one instance of the same utilities, which tend to overwrite one another's temporary files, caches and such, and generally creating a mess.

    So it's much cleaner to have a separate main account and remote account, with adequate permissions to access files in one from the other, and run two separate desktops.

  • To remote a Sway desktop, you'll use VNC. It's not great but that's the only option at the moment.
  • My solution below is reasonably secure if you're the only user on your machine, or if the other local users aren't adversarial.
    If they are, you'll use a Unix socket or enable authentication in Wayvnc for extra security (see Final note below), which works fine, but is incompatible with Remmina. And I happen to like Remmina 🙂 So I didn't. I'm a low-risk target but do what works best for you.
  • If there are more than one user doing remote work on the machine, each one will need to be assigned their own VNC port. Again, it's not great, but Wayland makes doing anything else with the existing tools exceedingly painful.


Setup


The idea is to:
- SSH into the remote machine and create a tunnel from the remote machine's VNC port corresponding to the particular remote user (if you're the only one, 5900 most likely) to a local port on your local machine.
- Upon connection through SSH, start Sway headless in a persistent manner (meaning the Sway session doesn't get killed if the ssh connection dies).
- Make Sway start Wayvnc to expose the headless display through VNC.
- On the local machine, connect to the local end of the SSH tunnel to connect to the remote Wayvnc server.

Required software packages

On the remote machine


  • tmux: this is a screen-like terminal multiplexer that allows sessions to remain open even if the terminal underneath disappears.
  • sway obviously...
  • wayvnc: that's the Wayland VNC server


On the local machine, install:


  • ssh: the SSH client
  • Any VNC viewer


Configuration of the remote machine


  • Add a user called <your_main_username>-remote for example.


In the remote user's account, configure:


  • sway: Put the following lines in .config/sway/config: 
    # Start the VNC server: set the resolution you want (fixed)                                         
output HEADLESS-1 mode 1920x1080

# Start the VNC server
exec cd $HOME/.config/wayvnc && /usr/bin/wayvnc -C $HOME/.config/wayvnc/config
  • wayvnc: Put the following lines in .config/wayvnc/config 
    address=localhost
port=5900

    If you have more than one user, allocate a unique port per remote user
  • Create a ~/scripts directory in your home directory (that's where I put my scripts. If you want to do something else, it's up to you, but the following assumes the relevant scripts are located in ~/scripts)
  • Create ~/scripts/sway_headless.sh with the following content, to start Sway headless: 
    #!/bin/sh

export WLR_BACKENDS=headless
export WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES=1

/usr/bin/sway
  • Create a start_persistent_sway_headless.sh script to start Sway and Wayvnc in a background tmux session if it doesn't exist already, and only exit when the Wayvnc server is ready to accept connections: 
    #!/bin/sh
# Pass the -w argument to this script to wait until the VNC server stops before exiting (for interactive SSH sessions, to keep the tunnel open)

# If not already running, start Sway headless in a tmux session and immediately detach from it
tmux has-session -t sway 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s sway $HOME/scripts/sway_headless.sh

# Source the wayvnc config file to get the address and port it's listening on
. $HOME/.config/wayvnc/config

# Wait until the VNC server is up
retry=5
while [ ${retry} -gt 0 ] && ! nc -z ${address} ${port} 2> /dev/null; do
sleep 1
retry=$((retry-1))
done

# Wait until the VNC server goes back down if requested
if [ "$1" = "-w" ]; then
while nc -z ${address} ${port} 2> /dev/null; do
  sleep 1
done
fi
  • Optionally, create a stop_persistent_sway_headless.sh script to stop the background tmux session running Sway and Wayvnc. It's not strictly needed but you might find it useful if you want to stop Sway manually: 
    #!/bin/sh

tmux kill-session -t sway 2> /dev/null


Connecting from the local machine

Manually:


  • To start Sway and Wayvnc on the remote machine, and create the VNC tunnel manually with SSH, do this in one terminal (the local end of the tunnel is port 35900 here): 
    $ ssh -L35900:localhost:5900 <your_main_username>-remote@<remote_machine> "~/scripts/start_persistent_sway_headless.sh -w"
  • Then to connect to the remote machine through the SSH tunnel manually, do this in another terminal: 
    $ vncviewer localhost:35900


With Remmina:



Final note


This setup is acceptable if you're the only user on the machine, or the other users are friendly folks, and your machine is secured!

The reason for this is, when Wayvnc is running without authentication, malevolent local users can freely connect to your session and take over your remote desktop.

There are two ways around that, but neither is compatible with Remmina.

  • Use a Unix socket instead of a TCP port to serve up VNC on the remote machine. To do this:
    • Remove ~/.config/wayvnc and replace the Wayvnc startup line in the remote user's Sway config file with:


    exec /usr/bin/wayvnc -u $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayvnc

    • Replace the content of ~/scripts/start_persistent_sway_headless.sh with:


    #!/bin/sh
# Pass the -w argument to this script to wait until the VNC server stops before exiting (for interactive SSH sessions, to keep the tunnel open)

# If not already running, start Sway headless in a tmux session and immediately detach from it
tmux has-session -t sway 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s sway $HOME/scripts/sway_headless.sh

# Wait until the VNC server is up
retry=5
while [ ${retry} -gt 0 ] && ! [ -S ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/wayvnc ] 2> /dev/null; do
  sleep 1
  retry=$((retry-1))
done

# Wait until the VNC server goes back down if requested
if [ "$1" = "-w" ]; then
  while [ -S ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/wayvnc ] 2> /dev/null; do
    sleep 1
  done
fi

    • Then to start the SSH tunnel manually to tunnel the remote Unix socket to the local TCP port, do this:


    $ ssh -L35900:/run/user/<remote user ID>/wayvnc <your_main_username>-remote@reform "~/scripts/start_persistent_sway_headless.sh -w"

    This is more secure because the socket file is only visible to your remote user on the remote machine, and not to other local users on the remote machine. Unfortunately Remmina doesn't know how to forward Unix sockets.
  • Enable TLS or AES authentication in .config/wayvnc/config as described here.
    Unfortunately, when authentication is enabled in Wayvnc, it's not possible to use just a username and password (which would be secure enough in a local context) and Remmina can't work with either forms of authentication offered by Wayvnc. Other VNC viewers like Tigervnc have no problem however.

    Also, it means you have to enter your password again to log into VNC, so it's not great for automation.

GitHub - any1/wayvnc: A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors - any1/wayvnc
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