cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/42928083
We ain’t gonna die because we’re too pretty
It is Unification Day, time to waltz into an Alliance friendly bar and start a ruckus.
It is also time for my yearly rewatch of Firefly.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is working on a “massive deal” to purchase potash from Belarus.
“The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers,” he posted to Truth Social on Monday.
Canada is the leading exporter of potash, shipping about 22.9 million tonnes in 2024, accounting for over 39 per cent of global exports according to the Government of Canada.
The leading destination of Canadian exports of potash is the United States. The U.S. imports nearly 85 per cent of its potash from Canada.
Belarus ranks third in potash production behind Russia and Canada.
I’m currently running Proxmox on a single Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tiny. As my VMs workloads have grown, the 64GB of RAM is consistently sitting near capacity.
To spread the memory load and get proper HA, seamless VMs migration, and easier node maintenance, I’m considering adding two more matching units to build a 3-node cluster.
Planned Per-Node Specs:
. Chassis: Lenovo P330 Tiny . CPU: Intel Core i9-9900T ES . RAM: 64GB DDR4-3200 (running at 2666MHz platform limit) . Boot/Local Storage: 1TB NVMe
Networking: Upgraded to 2.5GbE
Shared Storage:
Synology NAS via iSCSI (SSD cache enabled) over 2.5GbE
Does this setup still offer good value for money, or are there better alternatives in this form factor?
I’d especially appreciate feedback on:
WARNING!!! this post is FAKE!!! i fabricated it.
yeah yeah i will make an actual post which isn’t just silly cheap stuff like this. i could have made this into a fancier thing but i don’t think it would have helped much. sadly, tweetgen was down so i had to use a really bad other one which uses the old twitter style and doesn’t support pfps. ugh. whatever whatever. at least it’s not a repost, amiright? hahaaaa-----
this one may come across a bit more theatrical than usual. i didn’t want it to, but that’s how the text turned out. hmm…
yea i will make an actual post today, you will get that, don’t worry. i have the idea already but got stuffs to to outside of posts rn… at least a bit.
i wish you a wonderful day in which someone listens to your concerns <3
EDIT: added the warning
EU sanctions against almost 3,000 individuals and entities linked to Vladimir Putin’s Russia could lapse at the end of Tuesday after Latvia blocked a proposed compromise involving two Russian oligarchs, diplomats said.
The dispute was triggered by France’s demand that the EU lift travel bans and asset freezes imposed on Alisher Usmanov, a Russian-Uzbek tycoon, on what Paris described as “national security” grounds. Diplomats said the request was linked to a potential prisoner exchange involving two French nationals, including a man accused of spying in Azerbaijan.
STRASBOURG, France, Sept 17 (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set out a sweeping plan to keep children safe from online dangers on Thursday, proposing to ban under-13s from social media and require online services to design safe children’s accounts.
The move follows similar initiatives in Australia, Britain, China, India, Turkey and several European Union countries over concerns about the impact Meta’s (META.O), opens new tab Facebook and Instagram, TikTok, Google’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab YouTube and ChatGPT have on children’s mental health and safety.
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Australia’s challenges in enforcing its world-first social media ban for children under 16 could see Europe facing an uphill battle as well.
“Today, our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created, and it was not created with children’s well-being and development in mind,” von der Leyen told a press conference.
She said the proposed EU Kids Act “will set clear boundaries in the digital world just as we do it on a daily basis in the real world”.
PARENTAL CONTROL
Under the proposal, which must be negotiated with EU countries and the European Parliament in the coming months before it can become law, accounts for children aged between 13 and 15 will be under parental control.
Social media and video-sharing services, online video games, AI companions and chatbots for children below 18 will be subject to a list of dos and don’ts.
These include a ban on addictive features, profiling-based recommender feeds, infinite scroll, reward tricks and unsolicited contact from strangers. AI companions and chatbots must be turned off by default.
Online platforms must design algorithms safe for children and provide easy-to-use parental controls and tools to block and mute users. The companies, which must verify users’ age when they open an account via age assurance tools, risk fines as much as 6% of their global annual sales for non-compliance. They will also have to pay a supervisory fee to fund regulators’ supervision.
Tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Google and Meta, warned of the privacy risks arising from the proposal and conflicting requirements under other EU laws. “Collecting age information, identity credentials, and data linking children with parents or guardians at this scale would undoubtedly create an attractive target for cybercriminals,” CCIA head Daniel Friedlaender said.
“The Kids Act creates legal overlap and duplication that ultimately weaken protections for children and consumers,” he said.
have you ever successfully broken the zfs to the point where it’s not recoverable?
(that’s me btw)
ummm yea so uh - have this post. whatever.
so ummmm how is your day? i am doing fiiine- okay. still bit sickish. i wanna eat spicy noodles. yea. still have 4 of them, might make some. hm or not.
this is a perfectly safe for work post. totally absolutely allowed.
i want hmmm spicy noddles. yea okay fine i’ll make some. 2x spicy.
i hope you have a wonderful and sparkly warm wiggly squiggly day ~
Sorry I couldn’t find a non-paywalled version. Could use some help there.
I’ve gotten very into self-hosting (on device, not on a server) my own search engine, but searxng is unbearably clunky to make run on my Gentoo OpenRC machine. Two projects stuck out, 4get and omnisearch, but which of these do you think is the best and do you know other ones?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52022727
Actually made me giggle
Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren’t available to other Android OEMs.
developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes
Non-Google Android OEMs and AOSP-based projects can ship yearly and QPR2 releases. There are also security backports to those releases. Security preview access is needed to ship patches without months of delay. We’ve had that since before our Motorola partnership via another OEM.
We already ported our code to Android 17 QPR1 since before it was released on September 15th but don’t have permission to release it yet. We’re working on backporting Pixel firmware, kernel drivers, userspace drivers and HALs from Android 17 QPR1 to Android 17 for now instead.
Pixel Update Bulletin for September 2026 has additional patches to standard Android platform components used by non-Pixel devices. These patches are relevant to non-Pixel devices but haven’t been made available via the September 2026 Android Security Bulletin or preview patches.
Google should not be gatekeeping security patches to the standard Android platform code from Android OEMs but that’s what they’ve started doing. Other OEMs will get these patches in December 2026 via Android 17 QPR2. We can ship them early by reverse engineering the code instead.
It would be interesting to know if Google’s legal team is aware they’re giving Pixels months of early access to new Android features and bug fixes including certain important security patches. Pixels being given this competitive edge over Google’s OEM partners is very dubious.
Google is also once again failing to comply with our GPL source requests for weeks. We requested CD1A.260905.001.A1 sources on September 1st and were only provided access today. The kernel build IDs are the same for 17 QPR1 Beta 9 and 17 QPR1 so we have that already at least.
We could have shipped an Android 17 QPR1 update already since our port was completed. Instead, we have to deal with ongoing pain until Android 17 QPR2 is released in December 2026. This will not be an issue for Motorola since we’ll have official firmware and driver code provided.
It will be far easier for us to support upcoming Motorola devices than Pixels. Qualcomm will hopefully expand MTE support beyond the highest end flagship SoC soon so we can expand to more than flagships. Pixel 11 didn’t remove it from hardware, only firmware, so that’s good news.
Although everyone has their own reasons for exploring a new hobby, one of the driving factors behind the popularity of Meshtastic and MeshCore has been the incredible accessibility offered by off-grid LoRa mesh networks. You don’t need any expensive hardware or a license to get on the air — armed with a $20 microcontroller dev board and open source software, you could be on the mesh in minutes. Then came the really exciting part, seeing who else was out there. The low barrier of entry and ad-hoc nature of these projects meant there was a good chance you’d soon find yourself exchanging messages with other like-minded folks in the area.
Or at least, that’s how it used to be. With the recent revelation that their default radio configurations have potentially been in violation of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) regulations governing amateur usage of the 900 MHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band, the users and developers of both Meshtastic and MeshCore have been sent scrambling. Getting in compliance isn’t necessarily a technical challenge. In fact, Meshtastic has already introduced changes aimed to address the issue and anyone running the latest alpha release can be sure that their initial radio configuration will meet FCC standards.
But unfortunately, this introduces a new problem. While it’s easy enough to get new installations of Meshtastic and MeshCore operating in a mode that keeps the FCC happy, doing so breaks compatibility with everything that’s already been deployed. The community will be fractured into distinct strata depending on when they first configured their hardware, with an added dash of confusion from the more rebellious users who will undoubtedly refuse to migrate over to the new settings.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52021558
🇪🇺 The new digital ID & biometric verification law, called EU KIDS ACT must be stopped!
It is a serious Human Rights nightmare, especially for Privacy & would negatively change the internet forever.
We need to stand together & fight this dystopian, authoritarian mass-surveillance movement!
It’s all the same push as in Australia, the US et. - wherever you are, resist it ✊
#STOPEUKIDSACT NOW!
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As always the graphic is public domain CC0 no copyright, use it however you want <3
I know this probably isn’t how the human body works, but I still find this super funny
Haven’t watched the show yet but I might want to check it out. Thought I’d share this article that hit my RSS feeds. :)
Liberta
Some cool facts about Denmark. Don’t take the title so seriously ;).
Denmark has given the highest proportion of its GDP to Ukraine since 2022.
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In How To Be Danish, Patrick Kingsley wrote about Denmark’s 70 folk high schools, which are attended by about one in ten adults, of all ages. Indeed it’s not uncommon for people to die of old age while enrolled, which Danes apparently consider a good death. Perhaps there is some sort of social democracy version of Valhalla where those who died in the middle of adult education go to.
The Folk High School was the brainchild of Danish national hero Nikolai Grundtvig, who coined the concept of folkelighed, or what historian Knud Jespersen called ‘mutually committed community’. Jespersen wrote in A History of Denmark that ‘The key concepts in this were folkelighed, tolerance, openness and liberal-mindedness: the means were enlightenment and committed dialogue.’
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Denmark also had the highest casualty rate among American allies in Afghanistan, losing 43 servicemen in the war to avenge 9/11.
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The secret to Denmark’s success is their high trust and sociability, and Booth also wrote how, ‘according to the Danish think tank Mandag Morgen, they belong to more associations, clubs, unions, societies and groups, and have larger social networks, than any other nationality – 43 per cent of over-sixteens belong to something or other… There are 83,000 local and 3,000 national societies and associations in Denmark – on average every Dane belongs to three. Over a third belong to a sporting club or association. These range from your common-or-garden leisure-orientated groups – the Bittern Spotters Club, say, or the Danish Flødeboller Association – to the still-powerful trade unions, which have a combined membership equivalent to a quarter of the population.’
Open source printer with refillable ink, no bullshit, accept rolls of papers.
Finally an open source printer ! I dealt with so much stupidity with printers. it warm my heart.
I do have too much joy to practice mandatory critical thinking about the release of a new project. Lets talk about it? i am not the only one to be happy about it, i have no info about the price though :/
What are your personal opinions about having a deficated rss reader like miniflux (or others) vs just having a notification bot linked to a matrix room? The public matrix rss bots never worked for me and were essentially useless missing months of notifications, so now that I have my own homelab server, I finally want to take matters into my own hands. But I’m still unsure if I should want to stick with my own instance of matrix-rss bot or if something more, like miniflux is better. What are your opinions/experience?
Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default.
Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke.
True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen.
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Continuing my tradition of listening to Scott Manley talk about stuff I don’t understand…
