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Tools for selecting the best pictures
Maybe do some deduplication first? https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
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Tools for selecting the best pictures
Maybe do some deduplication first? https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
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Should I?
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This ramps straight into a cemetery, though, so kinda a one stop shop, no?
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TIL that RestlessOS, fork of GrapheneOS, can run GOS on non-pixel phone - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
Looks like they put in a ton of effort to make this compatible with generic devices, but I have to ask, with all the features removed, why choose this over any other ROM?
Features removed
hardened_malloc — causes boot loops on devices with 39-bit virtual address space. replaced with AOSP Scudo.
Auditor — requires hardware attestation which > doesn't work on GSI
mtectrl / misctrl — Pixel-specific memory tagging control; breaks vendor TEE drivers
USB protection — the low-level USB port controls rely on Pixel-specific hardware and are non-functional on other devices
native debugging protection — not ported; breaks compatibility with root solutions and vendor debugging tools
Features disabled by default
These can be re-enabled in TrebleApp → Hardening or Settings → Exploit protection.
MTE/TBI for vendor processes — memory tagging breaks some vendor drivers
hardened thread stacks — non-standard memory layout breaks some vendor drivers
secure (exec-based) app spawning — breaks root solutions (Magisk / KernelSU)
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higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs
Also by making it a service fee instead of a tip, management and the owners are able to tale part of it. Tips legally have to go to the employees, service fees can go into the owner's pockets.
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Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
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No, it looks like someone modified one of those shitty little plastic flags you get on the 4th of July with some paper and a marker
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An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted
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Best we can do is paid leave
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Inform them of their rights: https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas#item-4476
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Goodbye SASS, welcome back native CSS
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He did
[...] Why does the radius need to be reactive? What do you stand to gain over just setting to like 3 or 4px and moving on with your life?
Junior webdev points
AKA you gain nothing.
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Self hosting email, what's the latest and greatest what FOSS can offer?
I've been playing with Stalwart-Email as a combined SMTP/IMAP server. Its open source and written in rust, still pretty early in development and I haven't played with it enough to give any real opinion on the pluses or minuses compared to other software, but its worth taking a look at.
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Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say
So like the 21st century version of smallpox blankets
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What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
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Was I just whooshed myself? Damn 😂
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ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and encrypted apps
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Well I'm assuming if it can bypass the lock screen somehow it can pull encryption keys, or just let the user gain full access to the phone and open the signal app directly.
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Question: Can anyone recommend open source map-making / site design software?
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors#Choice_of_editors
Something like these?
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What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
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whoosh
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CalDAV Server Without Exposing Server?
I think the general consensus for homelabbers is a mesh network -- Tailscale and Netbird are the two most popular options
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Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future
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PRECISION-GUIDED weapons first appeared in their modern form on the battlefield in Vietnam a little over 50 years ago. As armed forces have strived ever since for accuracy and destructiveness, the cost of such weapons has soared. America’s gps-guided artillery shells cost $100,000 a time. Because smart weapons are expensive, they are scarce. That is why European countries ran out of them in Libya in 2011. Israel, more eager to conserve its stockpiles than avoid collateral damage, has rained dumb bombs on Gaza. What, though, if you could combine precision and abundance?
For the first time in the history of warfare that question is being answered on the battlefields of Ukraine. Our report this week shows how first-person view (FPV) drones are mushrooming along the front lines. They are small, cheap, explosives-laden aircraft adapted from consumer models, and they are making a soldier’s life even more dangerous. These drones slip into tank turrets or dugouts. They loiter and pursue their quarry before going for the kill. They are inflicting a heavy toll on infantry and armour.
The war is also making FPV drones and their maritime cousins ubiquitous. January saw 3,000 verified FPV drone strikes. This week Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, created the Unmanned Systems Force, dedicated to drone warfare. In 2024 Ukraine is on track to build 1m-2m drones. Astonishingly, that will match Ukraine’s reduced consumption of shells (which is down because Republicans in Congress are shamefully denying Ukraine the supplies it needs).
The drone is not a wonder weapon—no such thing exists. It matters because it embodies big trends in war: a shift towards small, cheap and disposable weapons; the increasing use of consumer technology; and the drift towards autonomy in battle. Because of these trends, drone technology will spread rapidly from armies to militias, terrorists and criminals. And it will improve not at the budget-cycle pace of the military-industrial complex, but with the break-things urgency of consumer electronics.
Basic FPV drones are revolutionarily simple. The descendants of racing quadcopters, built from off-the-shelf components, they can cost as little as several hundred dollars. FPV drones tend to have short ranges, carry small payloads and struggle in bad weather. For those reasons they will not (yet) replace artillery. But they can still do a lot of damage. In one week last autumn Ukrainian drones helped destroy 75 Russian tanks and 101 big guns, among much else. Russia has its own fpv drones, though they tend to target dugouts, trenches and soldiers. Drones help explain why both sides find it so hard to mount offensives.
The exponential growth in the number of Russian and Ukrainian drones points to a second trend. They are inspired by and adapted from widely available consumer technology. Not only in Ukraine but also in Myanmar, where rebels have routed government forces in recent days, volunteers can use 3D printers to make key components and assemble airframes in small workshops. Unfortunately, criminal groups and terrorists are unlikely to be far behind the militias.
This reflects a broad democratisation of precision weapons. In Yemen the Houthi rebel group has used cheap Iranian guidance kits to build anti-ship missiles that are posing a deadly threat to commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Iran itself has shown how an assortment of long-range strike drones and ballistic missiles can have a geopolitical effect that far outweighs their cost. Even if the kit needed to overcome anti-drone jamming greatly raises the cost of the weapons, as some predict, they will still count as transformationally cheap.
The reason goes back to consumer electronics, which propel innovation at a blistering pace as capabilities accumulate in every product cycle. That poses problems of ethics as well as obsolescence. There will not always be time to subject novel weapons to the testing that Western countries aim for in peacetime and that is required by the Geneva Conventions.
Innovation also leads to the last trend, autonomy. Today, fpv drone use is limited by the supply of skilled pilots and by the effects of jamming, which can sever the connection between a drone and its operator. To overcome these problems, Russia and Ukraine are experimenting with autonomous navigation and target recognition. Artificial intelligence has been available in consumer drones for years and is improving rapidly.
A degree of autonomy has existed on high-end munitions for years and on cruise missiles for decades. The novelty is that cheap microchips and software will let intelligence sit inside millions of low-end munitions that are saturating the battlefield. The side that masters autonomy at scale in Ukraine first could enjoy a temporary but decisive advantage in firepower—a necessary condition for any breakthrough.
Western countries have been slow to absorb these lessons. Simple and cheap weapons will not replace big, high-end platforms, but they will complement them. The Pentagon is belatedly embarking on Replicator, an initiative to build thousands of low-cost drones and munitions able to take on China’s enormous forces. Europe is even further behind. Its ministers and generals increasingly believe that they could face another major European war by the end of the decade. If so, investment in low-end drones needs to grow urgently. Moreover, ubiquitous drones will require ubiquitous defences—not just on battlefields but also in cities at peace. Kalashnikovs in the skies
Intelligent drones will also raise questions about how armies wage war and whether humans can control the battlefield. As drones multiply, self-co-ordinating swarms will become possible. Humans will struggle to monitor and understand their engagements, let alone authorise them.
America and its allies must prepare for a world in which rapidly improving military capabilities spread more quickly and more widely. As the skies over Ukraine fill with expendable weapons that marry precision and firepower, they serve as a warning. Mass-produced hunter-killer aircraft are already reshaping the balance between humans and technology in war. ■
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Should I?
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Yeah I don't think the stop sign applies to airborne vehicles
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What else should I selfhost?
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I think you need a Windows server for that.
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Pick wisely
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I laughed, then had to explain the joke to my parents, which meant I had to explain what Linux was, what daemons were, and why I was giggling
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Finland’s successful approach to ending homelessness catches eye of Quebec City
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The big issue I see is states that don't want to implement social housing programs just shipping their unhousedpeoples to states that do and overwhelming the systems created.