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The US Mission to the UN denounced a new report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, accusing her of waging “economic warfare” against American and global firms by naming them as complicit in Israel's occupation and military actions in the Palestinian territories.
"Many and sharp the num'rous ills Inwoven with our frame! More pointed still we make ourselves Regret, remorse, and shame! And man, whose heav'n-erected face The smiles of love adorn,— Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"
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.
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if you want to copy paste : short video of a small bird of prey (peregrine falcon ?) laying on her nest. First the wind ruffles her feathers, then ruffles some more, and as she tries to settle herself she exposes her backside to the wind, and is completely flipped over, exposing her three eggs. For a brief moment, she lays on her back, feet in the air, head on the ground, looking bummed, then settles back and carefully tucks the eggs under her.
I was just thinking about that today. When the weather is stormy, wet and freezing cold and we worry our homes might be washed or blown away, there are birds trying to keep their eggs or young warm and safe in those same conditions, but considerably more difficult.
I think that you are not allowed to speak freely on most platforms. And when i say speak freely i dont mean to have right to offend people, just to have right to normaly tell your opinion.
It's mostly the people, not the services themselves. I guess the services don't want to look anti-democracy and toxic lol. They have the "it's fine unless I disagree" philosophy while promoting various "freedoms" (often including freedom of speech) which is definitely not meant for establishing literal minority supremacy.
I don't even see a reason for proving this tbh. It's something you have to see yourself to be sure and from my experience people who don't see it are just highly delusional and deranged or something from that category. People that I know personally and that don't struggle with severe mental illnesses (as those can cause comprehension issues obviously) do see this problem btw.
Yes you are, they are advertising their platforms like you are free to comment anything and most people beleave that. Ask anyone if they think youtube will delete their commen even if they didnt offend anyone and they will tell you no way! So people definitly think that you are free to say anything freely, while you are actualy not. Meaby the sites have it vriten in small letters somwhere deep beried in papers but thats obviusly not clear to people. And its beried on purpose. If they are more clear with that people would searc for another platform that wont do that.
Yes you are, they are advertising their platforms like you are free to comment anything and most people beleave that.
I hate to break it to you, that's your fault for making an assumption (and a bold one at that) or you're just quite naive. Most places that you sign up for will either have you agree to a Terms of Service, or they'll make you agree to the rules. I have even more bad news for you: Advertisements usually try their best to show only the "good" of what is being advertised (such as how an advertisement for a toy doesn't usually make it very clear that batteries are required to use it).
Ask anyone if they think youtube will delete their commen even if they didnt offend anyone and they will tell you no way!
No, they might be angry that their comment was removed, but it's a pretty common understanding that moderators will remove content at their discretion, even if people don't necessarily agree with the decision.
I'm not sure why I'm even engaging in this, usually it's pretty clear when someone gets upset that their "free speech" (that they were never entitled to) is being violated that their intent is to spread hateful content.
Perhaps that isn't you, but nonetheless that is the group you're putting yourself in (even if unintentionally) whenever you ride under that banner.
It would also be worthwhile double checking what actual "Freedom of Speech" is and what it covers. Assuming you are referring to the US' first amendment, it has absolutely nothing to do with anyone other than you and the government (and even then it has its bounds).
As an example, let's say you're a writer for a newspaper. The government cannot take down an article that you write in which you criticize them (because that would fall under protected speech, unless you are making direct threats towards someone), but your boss could absolutely say "No way, we're not publishing that" as they are not a government official.
This doesn't even just include "Freedom of Speech", as another example, with the right to assembly you can publicly assemble and protest the government - but it wouldn't allow you to start a protest on someone's private property.
Found the libertarian that doesn’t understand the concept of free speech. 😂
As BlueBerryDreams aptly put it:
Freedom of speech is a protection from persecution from the government, not an obligation for all other parties to be exposed to your speech. Websites are private spaces, and like most private spaces, have their own rules to abide by. It's their right to make those rules whatever they want, and people can choose the rules that make a more pleasant space to occupy.
Nobody is obliged to broadcast your opinion if they don’t like what you say.
True and that's why closed communities (women only, trans only etc) exist. But if a community presents itself as open, not broadcasting something does say something about its morality imo.
No actyaly noone have to read my comment if they dont find it interesting. Or noone have to read my post if they dont see it interesting. Removing of comments and posts are directly wiolating freedom of speach.
Websites are private spaces, and like most private spaces, have their own rules to abide by. It's their right to make those rules whatever they want
That includes removing whatever post they like or dislike. If you post something against the terms of service and your post gets removed, that’s on you.
Noone is amplifing my opinion, they are just letting us all have our opinions. And they are not removing comment that are violating their terms of service they are removing coments that they dont like, even if they dont violate any terms. Also they are making terms of service very shady and unclear and brod so it gives them right to remove anything they dont like. Also they are not up front about it. If they honestly say yes we will remove any comment that we dont like than people would search for another platform that wont do that. This way they are directly deceiving people in thinking that they have freedom to tell their opinion when in reality they dont.
What do you think the terms and conditions when you make accounts are? That’s why they make you agree to them up front. You chose not to read them and ignore them.
On YouTube the channel operator and the company have a say in how they want their space to be. You have no right to insist on being heard in every damn room you enter. That includes “just leaving a comment for those that want to read it”
If the person or company doesn’t want your opinion in their room it is their right to remove it. Like it or not.
No you are wrong, is it realy fair to put one small “i agree” button and have milion pages of text behand it? Is it ok to let people agree to all that text vithout realy reading it? No ofcourse not its built that way on purpose. Its by design made to lure you to just click ok without reading it, because thats what they want. They dont want you to read it, they want you to just clikc ok so they can continey to do what they want without you even knowing anything. It should be forbiden by law that you make text longer than 10 sentenses. Because realisticly noone can read it. Imagine that you need to read a 100 pages of text for every single app that you want just to try out. Imagine that you need to read 100 pages whenever new small update comes out for your system on your smartphone. And imagine doing the same for your pc, and also for every single app that you have. Every time new update comes out you need to read a 100 pages. Thats not posible and that should be ilegal!
Ok. So here the fun bit. I’m one of those people that does read them. I look into the privacy policy of the technology and websites that I use.
Most terms of service are very similar and are broken down into categories usually. Finding the content and privacy sections doesn’t take long and once you read a few they all become easier to understand.
You might not like it but “I agree” is enough to be legally binding. Just because you didn’t want to read doesn’t mean others don’t. There are a lot of laws and 10 sentences won’t cover that.
As of youtube, first of all thats not their space thats public space and they souldnt have pover to controll it. And im not hierd automaticly because i left a comment. There are many comments on video and i dont read them all so they are not hierd as you sad. But if someone wants to read my comment they should be free to do so. You dont have right to delete my comments. No its not their right to remove it, becayse i dont leave comment for them i leave comment for all the people that are watching a video.
Freedom of speech is a protection from persecution from the government, not an obligation for all other parties to be exposed to your speech.
Websites are private spaces, and like most private spaces, have their own rules to abide by. It's their right to make those rules whatever they want, and people can choose the rules that make a more pleasant space to occupy.
If you want the freedom to be hateful and hostile to people, feel free to hang out on 4chan. Forums are typically more tightly controlled, especially specific topic forums, with discussion tightly controlled to keep things on the subject so the site stays useful and not buried in irrelevant content.
Dude if you dont want to read my comment on youtube video than dont, just skip it. But deleting my comment is direct violation of freedom of speach. Noone is forcfuly listening to me. Let me speak freeli and noone is exposed forcfuly to my speach. If you dont want to read my post on forum than don read it. Deleting my post is violation of freedom of speach.
Deleting my post is violation of freedom of speach.
Repeating it doesn't make it true. Sorry, but that's simply not what the first amendment is about. 'Freedom of speech' means you can't be arrested for a YouTube comment criticizing our glorious Cheeto (yet). It does not grant you control over the content other people choose to publish to private websites.
These spaces are not free, public spaces, and they have never been. Stop living in this fantasy world. Twitter is not a town square, it's Elon's private club and he can do whatever the hell he wants. The only thing I can do is choose not to use it, and focus on sites run by people I'd rather support.
Second sites are not honest about freedom on them. If you say that everyone are free to comment whatever they want, as long as its not directly offencive and than delete all comments that are just reviling the truth without offending anyone, than you are straight up lying people. If you honestly sad that you will do that kind of things, people would search for another platform. So you are directly scaming people.
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.
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.
In 2024, Mexican artist Chavis Mármol made headlines by crushing a Tesla with a massive nine-ton replica of an Olmec head. The bold act was more than just spectacle—it was a symbolic statement. Mármol explained that he wanted to destroy an object he saw as representing a dark, powerful figure like Elon Musk.
So... Pornhub. Censors the 'u' in 'fucks'. On their year in review. I'm clearly too stupid to understand the obsession with censorship and control of expression
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…
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 ...
the possibility of long-term, irreversible heart damage.
The revised warnings apply to both Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax vaccines and follow months of mounting pressure over transparency and accountability regarding the true risks of these experimental injections.
Iger's Disney has thoroughly and completely obliterated the moderately expensive but wholesome and worthwhile Disney that used to be and replaced it with an overwhelmingly expensive and definitely NOT wholesome corporation... And it shows.
been there 3 times in my life. Once as a child when they still used tickets to ride rides, then taking my 9 yr old there, and taking my adult children there for one last time. And it was THE LAST TIME. Days before “covid” hit.
Universal's Epic Universe opened in May. Meanwhile, Disney World's Magic Kingdom is shutting down Rivers of America to do a long period of construction.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement described the Israeli regime as a strategic threat to regional and global peace.
June brought a fresh wave of updates across openSUSE’s rolling release. There were major feature enhancements, performance improvements, and several critical...
Recently switched a system from arch to tumbleweed. After another required manual update intervention. So far I quite like it. And if as claimed is stable enough to not have me having to troubleshoot updates. I will likely be switching several more. It's not quite as on the bleeding edge as arch. But it still has plasma 6.4 and blender 4.4 etc which are the big things for me.
In this clip from TCR Live #137, Derrick Broze breaks down the importance of Bilderberg 2025 and asks why so many in the “mainstream alternative media” have stopped reporting on the Bilderberg Group. Show Notes: https://x.
Assuming the BBB passes as-is, what can Trump do to Block Federal Funding of Transgender SurgeriesTrump’s Executive and Regulatory Actions:Reverse Biden’s Obamacare “Gender Identity Mandate”:Biden reinterpreted Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act…
What can Trump do if the BBB passes as-is to Cut Off Planned Parenthood FundingTrump’s Executive Options:Reinstate the "Protect Life Rule" via HHS:This rule barred Title X funds from going to any provider who refers or performs abortions.
@verita84 he misrepresented the campaign because he's a corporate shill and a lot of people take him seriously and he was one of the first hits for anyone looking into SKG
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.
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.
We brought the price of Eggs back to what they were supposed to be. When I took over on January 20th, the Fake News was screaming that, “Egg prices have gone through the roof, quadrupled,” they said. Now they’re plentiful, and inexpensive. “Thank you President Trump!”
Today I visited the Meffan Museum and Gallery in Forfar. It houses a pretty good collection of Pictish stones from around the area, including some from the old churchyard at Kirriemuir. Some of the middling to later day Pictish stones incorporate crosses and biblical figures and saints.
They also have a carved stone ball in their collection. These take a variety of forms and nobody knows what they're for either. I've seen a bunch on my travels including a good number from way up in the Orkneys.
Would have liked to get up to Meigle to see their collection of stones as it is supposed to be a good one, but I'd have to backtrack to Perth to get a bus I think. There is another good collection at Aberlemno, so I'll probably go and see those instead.
We were at this place in Dungannon today. Ranfurly House is very Scottish baronial style. The views from the remnants of the O’Neill castle mean the inhabitants then could see most of the nine counties of Ulster.
@HarriettMB I should watch more Time Team. I just wish there were more episodes to watch. They've turned up some interesting things over the years and so many very obviously interested sites are virtually untouched.
@HarriettMB Sounds like it would have been a good location. A lot of castles were very smartly positioned, like they carefully surveyed the landscape all around and figured out the best spot for observation, defensive advantage, water supply, etc. Really neat to go to someplace like Mull and travel around the waterways and realize how all the castles were in site of each other for signalling purposes.
That one of the O’Neills has a really interesting and complex history. There’s very little of the original castle left now, but loads of information. we had friends here a couple of days ago, and Anne used to be the Conservation Officer, so told us loads of the story. We went to see it today, and to visit Pomeroy Woods not too far away. In Co Meath there’s the hill of Tara which has similar huge views of much our the country, and almost in a straight line south again, there is the Rock of Cashel similarly situated. Back in the days of Kings in Ireland these three locations controlled a vast amount of the country.
I didn't get to Tara, unfortunately. Did get to the Rock of Cashel and yes, it is quite a view. Imagine it was even more from up top of the round tower and the cathedral/bishop's tower.
The history of the O'neills and O'Donnells in the Nine Years' War and the subsequent Flight of the Earls is a really interesting part of Irish history and I really enjoyed reading about it. I probably just need to get a book on that specifically at some point.
@HarriettMB Curious what the site is like today. When Time Team was doing their digs there was some sort of Troubles era observation post up there and they poured meter thick concrete all over the place. Has that been stripped away so that there is bare soil? Is there some sort of site plan now?
After finishing up in Forfar, I headed to Glamis Castle. It is pronounced something like Glamz. In its earliest days, it was just a royal hunting lodge, which over time became a walled enclosure with some building inside and possibly a moat. It sits at the confluence of two burns, so water offers some possible protection here.
The Lyons family got possession of the land in I think 1372 and in ~1404 began construction of a substantial L-plan tower house. Early 1400's towers tend to be MUCH THICKER and the walls are as much as 3 meters thick. I wish I could show you, but they don't allow photography inside.
Additional wings were added over time and the L plan part of the tower built up several additional stories with much addition of Scots Baronial features as the centuries progressed. Today it looks like this:
It's one of the grander structures where the castle's much humbler beginnings are still recognizable in the stonework. Today, it's quite palatial inside. The Lyons married the heiress to the Bowes family coal mining fortune in the late 18th century and money became somewhat of an irrelevancy for a while. The fortune was something like a million pounds in the late 18th century, which is probably more like billions today.
The money did come with a catch, though. The Bowes patriarch didn't want the family name to die out with him, so the Lyons changed their name to Bowes or Bowes-Lyons. The present Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne is the 19th to hold the title. His personal arms look something like the following.
The present Earl appears to be a real nasty fellow, having a number of driving offenses, Covid violations and a sexual assault of a woman at the castle bad enough to land him in prison for a spell. Had I known this in advance, I would have gone elsewhere, as the castle is still in private ownership and the admission fees presumably line his coffers. He appears to still live on site in a wing that isn't part of the tour.
The guide makes no mention of any of this other than to note that the present aarl is related to King Charles III as his second cousin once removed, so I guess the royal family has another sex pest, I guess.
The reason they're related is that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who grew up at Glamis Castle, married Prince Albert of York. He would go on to rule as George VI after his elder brother abdicated the throne and she would become known as the Queen Mother or Queen Mum and love to the ripe old age of 102. She would give birth to Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's only sibling, at Glamis.
Besides the castle itself, which features very palatial interiors, the estate is quite nice, with large expansive lawns, long walls, plenty of interesting statuary and something like three formal gardens.
I stayed pretty close to the castle, so didn't get to explore the grounds much, as there was no bus schedule posted and didn't want to get caught out, with only one little minibus on route 125 servicing the area (It had picked me up at least 20 minutes late).
I did stop to see the 17th century Doocot on the property, which has nesting boxes for around 800 birds. It was on the long walk in from the small village of Glamis, which existed historically mostly to service the needs of the estate.
The castle did feature defensive elements back in its L-plan days and there are a number of gun ports in evidence both from the outside and in. There are heavily barred windows and the main door has a Yett behind it (which I couldn't take pictures of because the earl wants to sell photo books at the gift shop).
That's all I have time for tonight. I hope you enjoyed visiting Glamis Castle in pictures enough to forswear a visit in person during the life of the present earl.
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!
And consider donating to individual instances instead
Unfortunately, the "block" isn't really a block on Lemmy, it's barely a mute and that goes for user and instance blocks. Because dessalines refuses to implement a proper system (unsurprisingly). It's been 4 years since "blocks" rolled out
In any case it still allows their toxicity and misinformation to spread, trolling new users who come here unaware of the need to block and such
Really, the best answer is to call for wide defederation like the rest of the Tankie Triad is treated
Is piefed a Lemmy alternative? There are so many new things (very cool!) out there, and Lemmy starts to lose it's luster IMO, not very much interesting news or discussions, lots and lots of "gEnOcIdE" troll bullshit (I mean you can't even ask questions to these people).
Yea, for the most part, but it's still fully federated so you'll still be part of the Threadiverse and will be able to fully see and interact with all of Lemmy's content and users without issues
But, on PieFed, at least block means block, blocking lemmy.ml or any other instance on PieFed blocks comms and users alike and blocking an individual user on PieFed means they won't be seeing any of your comments or posts. So none of this mute BS on Lemmy where problematic users can still brigade your content and comment "behind your back" on your posts/comments without your knowledge
The young but feared sorcerer Zagan is a candidate to become a member of the 13 Archdemons—a group of the strongest sorcerers in the world—following the death of their eldest member, Marchosias.
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.
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
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.
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.
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».
New SpaceX report on Starlink conjunctions and deorbits (a.k.a. dumping tons of metal/plastic/solar panels/computers into the upper atmosphere) scribd.com/document/883045105/…
Scariest part: 472 Starlinks were burned up in the atmosphere in Dec-May. Assuming each satellite is 800kg, and 50% aluminum by mass, that's 1 ton of aluminum PER DAY.
The natural infall rate of aluminum from meteoroids is 0.3 tons per day. Starlink has been ~3x that, for the last 6 months.
Kessler Syndrome update: They report 144,000 collision avoidance maneuvers across the whole constellation in Dec-May. That's about one maneuver every 2 minutes.
Every 2 minutes there's a chance for a mistake that would lead to a very bad day in orbit. And as this paper shows (with Dr. Kessler himself as a co-author!), a very bad day at that altitude would lead to a runaway collisional cascade. No more satellites at that altitude! conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/pr…
SpaceX spends a lot of time saying how safe they are with their threshhold for collision avoidance maneuvers, which is great. But they HAVE to be! With those densities, high collision probability conjunctions happen many times per day. It is impressive that they have been operating perfectly, but how long do they think they can keep this up with zero mistakes?
And what if all the Starlinks are not all fully burning up as they claim? That's a lot of stuff hitting the ground...
did you write the thread on what Kessler-Syndrome would look like with a timeline description of the fireworks? I saw it a year ago here on mastodon, but didn't bookmark and don't remember the author :/
Do you have a reading tip for laypersons about the effects aluminum has in the atmosphere? I'm often asked by people who have no idea about satellites and believe that "everything vanishes in the air".
Welp, in case we needed even more things to worry about, apparently in 3 days we're going to stress-test Starlink's current orbital configuration with a severe geomagnetic storm.
dang, I really thought these things were smaller and lighter. 800kg really? Who would've thought that burning up space debris in the atmosphere wouldn't always be a low-impact solution 🙄 yikes
Just found out that the 3 NASA WB-57 aircraft often carry a cosmic dust collector on their high-altitude missions. Think satellite debris would be detectable in it soon?
a) how does this compare with baseline other satellites without Star Link and previous generations like iridium?
B) so starlink could theoretically offload the expense of running its own collision avoidance unit to some world government entity because the risk is shared even though the gain is not. Like doing now what would happen if they were to go bankrupt and cease operations
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.
Lag? And discontinuous of stuff like X11 and PulseAudio. They even tried to pass removal of 32 bit packages recently. It may not sound important for 64 bit systems but actually a lot of apps (especially proprietary ones) are in themselves 32 bit.
You only have to replace it if the disadvantages affect you. Usually they affect old hardware, specialist hardware and NVidia GPUs. If you have none of those, you should probably be fine.
Four pro-Palestine activists appeared before a London court on Thursday after counter-terrorism police charged them with breaking into Britain’s largest military airbase.
Hier ein groessere Version des Bildes, hilft der Analyse des Bildes sehr. Gefunden mit #TinEye und dann hinten die Groessenangabe veraendert: reshape.sport1.de/c/t/4266e3d9…
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:
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):
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.
wise_pancake
in reply to Reannlegge • • •I’ve got family who got caught up in this, hopefully they catch whoever is out there wasting everyone’s time like this.
Glad there was no serious threats