๐ฅ Another instance of the destruction of the new Russian reconnaissance UAV "Veshchiy Oleg" by soldiy from the Signum Battalion, along with several other drones, was reported.
"Veshchiy Oleg" has a 10x zoom camera, a flight altitude of up to 3,000 meters, provides jam-resistant communications at a range of 45 kilometers, and can fly up to 160 kilometers en route.
An attack is underway on the Starobesheve thermal power plant in occupied Donetsk region. With an installed capacity of 2,300 MW, it remains one of the most strategically important energy assets in Russian occupied territory.
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
Bellissimo vedere come Mastodon.uno riconosca e valorizzi chi promuove un uso piรน consapevole, critico e libero di @internet in unโepoca in cui tutto spinge a stare sempre connessi e a produrre contenuti usa e getta cโรจ chi invece sceglie di usare meno ma usare meglio.
Complimenti a @slowsurf che in pochissimi giorni ha raccolto un centinaio di meritatissimi seguaci: un segnale che unโaltro web piรน umano, sostenibile e resistente ai Big Tech non solo รจ possibile, ma sta crescendo.
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In 15 giorni abbiamo raggiunto oltre le 100 persone.
Questo รจ il primo (spero di molti) traguardi che raggiungiamo come comunitร @slowsurf ๐ข fatta di persone che credono ancora nella lentezza, nell'approfondimento, nel dedicarโฆ
Until last week, there was no public, systemic accounting of U.S. weapons sales. A new dataset from the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel now fills that gap, revealing a sharp increase in European purchases of American military technology since 2020. kyivindependent.com/chart-of-tโฆ
The United States is the biggest exporter of military equipment in the world. But who's buying?
Until last week, there was no public, systemic accounting of U.S. weapons sales.
As the full-scale war enters into its fourth year, novelist and poet Myroslav Laiuk has found himself drawn to front-line reporting. He has traveled everywhere, from Bakhmut to Pokrovsk and Kherson, documenting the war and those living through it. kyivindependent.com/compared-tโฆ
๐ข๏ธ๐ Russiaโs seaborne crude shipments fell for a third week, sliding to a two-month low, - Bloomberg
The country shipped 3.45 million barrels a day in the four weeks to Nov. 9, down by about 130,000 from the same timespan to Nov. 2.
The value of Moscowโs oil exports fell to the lowest since August on the four-week average basis, with the gross value of Moscowโs exports falling by about $80 million to $1.28 billion a week in the 28 days to Nov. 9.
At least 23,000 Roma and Sinti people - including 11 thousand children were deported by the Nazi German regime to Auschwitz. After the Jews and Poles they ar...
On Khersonโs 3rd liberation anniversary, President #Zelenskyy honoured heroes - soldiers, rescuers, teachers, and volunteers - who expelled russian occupiers and rebuilt the city, emphasizing Ukrainian resilience and unity.
Awards recognized bravery, service, and sacrifice.
๐โ In the Ulyanovsk region, mobile internet was disconnected until the end of "SVO".
Also in Russia, they began to fine subscribers to โundesirableโ channels. These are anti-war resources. The courts accused them of โparticipation in the activities of an undesirable organization.โ
Every day, Russian tankers carry billions of dollars' worth of oil across the Baltic Sea. Despite sweeping Western sanctions, this trade continues to fuel the Kremlin's war machine.
โช๏ธRussia plans to occupy Ukraine in three stages: first, capture Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Odessa to cut it off from the Black Sea; โช๏ธeconomic and political pressure; โช๏ธcomplete subordination of Ukraine according to the Belarusian scenario.
A Russian column trying to enter under the cover of fog on the southern outskirts of Pokrovsk was destroyed. Burned-out vehicles now mark the failed assault attempt.
Russiaโs plan to conquer Ukraine unfolds in three stages, according to Foreign Affairs. First: battlefield dominance. Second: occupy or devastate enough land to cripple Ukraineโs economy unless it complies with Moscow. Third: turn Ukraine into a satellite like Belarus. 2026 will be decisive.
Ukraine is quietly becoming a drone superpower. According to Bloomberg, Ukrainian manufacturers produce around 4โฏmillion drones annually, from longโrange strike systems to inexpensive FPV models, a total that likely exceeds the combined production of all NATO countries.
โผ๏ธ The share of Russians who would disapprove of their loved ones' decision to volunteer to fight in Ukraine has reached 55%, according to data from Levada Center.
Only 30% of respondents would approve of this now. A year ago, the share of those opposed to their loved ones volunteering to fight in Ukraine was 13% points lower.
This result indicates that the majority of Russians would like the military action to end, a Russian sociologist told the Agency.
DTEK responds to the growing number of "Where is the power?" questions with footage of relentless strikes and destruction at thermal power plants and substations.
The scale of damage is massive, and the energy system is indeed under extreme pressure at this moment.
The IDF reported that earlier today (Tuesday), soldiers were dispatched to the area of the Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf villages following a report of dozens of masked Israeli civilians who attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in the area.
๐บ๐ฆ๐ฆ Ukraine currently produces approximately 4 million drones per year. Probably more than all NATO countries combined, - Bloomberg.
By comparison, the US produces approximately 100,000 military drones annually. In 2022, there were only 10 drone manufacturers in Ukraine. Now, there are 500. They produce all types โ from FPV drones costing a few hundred dollars to long-range devices.
The main problem is a lack of funds. Therefore, Ukraine is trying to break into the NATO market.
๐ฉ๐ช #Germany plans to allocate nearly 19 billion euros to kit out soldiers with new clothes and personal equipment in the coming years, in addition to 7.5 billion for new wheeled armoured vehicles, said a finance ministry document.
๐ท๐บ A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed more jail time on Tuesday in a case rights activists say shows how stifling wartime censorship has become.
๐ฑ๐น ๐ง๐พ #Lithuania's foreign minister said he would refuse talks with #Belarus on reopening their border, after its President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday ordered his foreign minister to open the negotiations.
๐จ๐ฆ Group of Seven foreign ministers will meet in #Canada on Tuesday, with #Ukraine and the Middle East set to be high on the agenda as Trump's efforts to broker peace face headwinds.
๐บ๐ฆ Ukrainian authorities charged seven individuals on Tuesday in relation to an alleged $100 million kickback scheme involving senior energy officials that has caused public anger and focused attention on Kyiv's battle against corruption.
๐ซก The video shows the joint work of FPV drone operators of the 1st Corps of the Azov Naval Group, the Unmanned Systems Forces, and the Airborne Assault Troops in the Dobropillya direction.
โก๏ธ Ukraine war latest live: Zelensky says situation in Pokrovsk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast โdifficult.โ โThe Russians are increasing the number and scale of assaults,โ he said in a post on social media. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-waโฆ
Hello, this is Francis Farell reporting from Kyiv on day 1,356 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Today's top story so far:
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Nov.
๐ฅ Exilenova: We can assume that UAV hit either LCh-24-2000 diesel fuel hydrotreating unit, which had already been flown over on the 3rd, or there was a short flight and the drone hit one of the liquid distillation pipes at Orsk refinery.
Exilenovaโs analysis suggests the drone strike on the Orsk refinery likely hit the LChโ24โ2000 diesel hydrotreating unit, previously struck on November 3, or narrowly missed, impacting a fluid distillation pipe.
๐ฌ๐งโ๏ธ๐บ๐ธ The UK has stopped sharing intelligence with the US on suspected drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean because it believes recent US missile strikes on the vessels โ which have killed 76 people โ are illegal, - CNN
โก๏ธ EU ministers to meet in Lviv to discuss Ukraineโs integration progress, sources say. The gathering aims to demonstrate political support for Ukraineโs EU aspirations as Kyiv faces opposition from Hungary. kyivindependent.com/eu-ministeโฆ
The gathering aims to demonstrate political support for Ukraine's EU aspirations as Kyiv faces opposition from Hungary, which has the power to block any future steps in the accession process.
โ๏ธ New strikes deep into Russia, and Pokrovsk: the main points from Syrsky's report to Zelensky.
Zelensky held a meeting with Syrskyi, during which they discussed the operational situation at the front and the results of the work of Ukrainian strike systems.
Operation โMidasโ: Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies NABU and SAP have documented the transfer of $1.2 million and nearly โฌ100,000 in cash to former Deputy PM Oleksiy Chernyshov, known internally as โChe Guevara.โ The last $500,000 was handed to his wife after he was named a suspect in a major corruption probe tied to Energoatom contracts.
Zelensky visited Kherson to mark three years since its liberation. While there, he met with local children in a shelter, a reminder of the daily reality faced by residents under constant threat from Russian attacks.
โก๏ธ โExplosions and fire recordedโ โ Russiaโs Orsk oil refinery hit in Ukrainian strike, General Staff says. The attack targeted Orsknefteorgsintez, a refinery in the city of Orsk that produces over 30 types of petroleum products. kyivindependent.com/russias-orโฆ
๐ฅBAVOVNA at Saratov and Orsk Oil Refineries and โ๏ธJSC "Morskoy Neftyanoy Terminal" in Feodosia, ๐ฉ๐ชGermany plans to increase military aid to ๐บ๐ฆUkraine in 2026 to โฌ11.5 billion!
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๐ท๐บ An investigation reveals that the Kremlin has repeatedly misled the public about the location of #Putin, who uses three nearly identical offices in different parts of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has three nearly identical offices in different parts of the country and the Kremlin has been dishonest about his location many times in recent years, Systema, RFE/RLโs Russian investigative unit, has discovered.
Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
Treatment
Huntington’s disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies
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Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntingtonโs Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntingtonโs disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
Treatment
Huntingtonโs disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies between individuals, and can change from generation to generation due to genetic mutation. If the number of repeats becomes too long, the gene no longer codes for huntingtin protein, and produces mutant huntingtin protein instead. The mutated protein eventually leads to neural degeneration. This genetic basis is key to the heritability of Huntingtonโs disease. If one parent carries a faulty gene, their children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting it and eventually developing the disease themselves. Over generations, the number of repeats can increase and lead to symptoms appearing at an earlier age. Excessive repeats in a critical gene are the root cause of Huntingtonโs disease. Credit: NIST, public domain The new treatment relies on advanced genetic techniques to slow the disease in its tracks. It involves the use of a custom designed virus, which is inserted into the brain itself in specific key areas. Itโs a delicate surgical process that takes anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, using real-time scanning to ensure the viral payload is placed exactly where it needs to go. The virus carries a DNA sequence and delivers it to brain cells, which begin processing the DNA to produce small fragments of genetic material called microRNA. These fragments intercept the messenger RNA that is produced from the bodyโs own DNA instructions, which is responsible for producing the mutant huntingtin protein which causes the degenerative disease. In this way, mutant huntingtin levels are reduced, drastically slowing the progression of the disease.
The effects of the treatment are potentially game changing, with progression of the disease slowed by 75% in study patients. Results indicate that with effective treatment, the decline expected over one year would instead take a full four years. In more qualitative areas, some patients in the trial have managed to maintain the ability to walk at a point when they would typically be expected to require wheel chairs. In typical Huntingtonโs cases, the onset occurs between 30 to 50 years old, with a life expectancy of just 15 to 20 years after diagnosis. The hope is that by delaying the progression of the disease, affected patients could have a greater quality of life for much longer, without suffering the worst impacts of the condition. A microscopic image of a neuron damaged by mutated Huntingtin (mHtt) protein inclusion, visible via orange stain. Credit: Dr Steven Finkbeiner, CC BY-SA 3.0 The initial trial involved just twenty-nine patients, but results were promising. Data indicated consistent benefit to patients three years after the initial surgery. Crucially, the treatment isnโt just slowing symptoms, but there is also evidence it helped to preserve brain tissue. Markers of neuronal death in spinal fluid, which would typically increase as Huntingtonโs disease progresses, were actually lower than before treatment in study patients.
The therapy isnโt without complications. Beyond the complicated and highly invasive brain surgery required to get the virus where it needs to go, some patients developed inflammation from the virus causing some side effects like headaches and confusion. Thereโs also the expense โ advanced gene therapies donโt come cheap. However, on the positive side, itโs believed the treatment could potentially be a one-off matter, as the brain cells that produce the critical microRNA fragments are not replaced regularly like other more disposable cells in the body. While itโs a new and radical treatment, pharmaceutical company UniQure has plans to bring it to market as soon as late 2026 in the US, with the European market to follow.
Itโs not every day that scientists discover a new viable cure for a disease that has long proven fatal. However, through genetic techniques and a strong understanding of the causative factors of the disease, it appears scientists have made progress in tackling the spectre that is Huntingtonโs disease. For the many thousands of patients grappling with the disease, and the many descendents who struggle with potentially having inherited the condition, news of a potential treatment is a very good thing indeed.
Featured image: โHuntingtonโ by Frank Gaillard.
The state of Nevada released a โforensics reportโ from their recent ransomware incident. Itโll be featured on the next DefSec episode, but I thought this level of fuckery deserved extra attention. I applaud/abhor Nevadaโs ability to turn a breach report into political grandstanding.
[edit] and if that reassures you, know that the Adobe reader app also has a tough time understanding what to do with Google driveโs embeddingโฆ it shows the web page and I can zoom and scroll but I canโt import the file directly (I got it in the end but wow)
CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: “The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!”
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a “deceptive sleight of hand,” a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session.
“This is a political deception of the highest order,” warns Breyer. “Following loud public protests, several member states including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Austria said ‘No’ to indiscriminate Chat Control. Now it’s coming back through the back door – disguised, more dangerous, and more comprehensive than ever. The public is being played for fools.”
According to Breyer, the new comp
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CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR โ Breyer warns: โThe EU is playing us for fools โ now theyโre scanning our texts and banning teens!โ
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a โdeceptive sleight of hand,โ a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session.
โThis is a political deception of the highest order,โ warns Breyer. โFollowing loud public protests, several member states including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Austria said โNoโ to indiscriminate Chat Control. Now itโs coming back through the back door โ disguised, more dangerous, and more comprehensive than ever. The public is being played for fools.โ
According to Breyer, the new compromise proposal is a Trojan horse containing three poison pills for digital freedom:
1. MANDATORY CHAT CONTROL โ MASKED AS โRISK MITIGATIONโ Officially, explicit scanning obligations have been dropped. But a loophole in Article 4 of the new draft obliges providers of e-mail, chat and messenger services like WhatsApp to take โall appropriate risk mitigation measures.โ This means they can still be forced to scan all private messages โ including on end-to-end encrypted services. โThe loophole renders the much-praised removal of detection orders worthless and negates their supposed voluntary nature,โ says Breyer. โEven client-side scanning (CSS) on our smartphones could soon become mandatory โ the end of secure encryption.โ
2. TOTAL SURVEILLANCE OF TEXT CHATS: A โDIGITAL WITCH HUNTโ The supposedly voluntary โChat Control 2.0โ goes far beyond the previously discussed scanning of photos, videos, and links. Now, algorithms and AI can be used to mass-scan the private chat texts and metadata of all citizens for suspicious keywords and signals. โNo AI can reliably distinguish between a flirt, sarcasm, and criminal โgroomingโ,โ explains Breyer. โImagine your phone scanning every conversation with your partner, your daughter, your therapist and leaking it just because the word โloveโ or โmeetโ appears somewhere. This is not child protection โ this is a digital witch hunt. The result will be a flood of false positives, placing innocent citizens under general suspicion and exposing masses of private, even intimate, chats and photos to strangers.โ Under the current voluntary โChat Control 1.0โ scanning scheme, German federal police (BKA) already warn that around 50% of all reports are criminally irrelevant, equating to tens of thousands of leaked chats per year.
3. DIGITAL HOUSE ARREST FOR TEENS & THE END OF ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION In the shadow of the Chat Control debate, two other disastrous measures are being pushed through:
The End of Anonymous Communication: To reliably identify minors as required by the text, every citizen would have to present their ID or have their face scanned to open an email or messenger account. โThis is the de facto end of anonymous communication online โ a disaster for whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who rely on the protection of anonymity,โ warns Breyer.
โDigital House Arrestโ: Teens under 16 face a blanket ban from WhatsApp, Instagram, online games, and countless other apps with chat functions. โDigital isolation instead of education, protection by exclusion instead of empowerment โ this is paternalistic, out of touch with reality, and pedagogical nonsense.โ
URGENT APPEAL: GOVERNMENTS MUST NOW USE THEIR VETO! Several EU governmentsโincluding those of Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Luxembourg, Finland, Austria, and Estoniaโhave previously voiced strong opposition to indiscriminate mass scanning. โNow, these governments must show some backbone!โ demands Breyer. โBlock this sham compromise in the Council and demand immediate corrections to save the fundamental rights of all citizens. The EU Parliament has already shown, across party lines, how child protection and digital freedom can be achieved together.โ
Breyer demands the following immediate corrections before any government should agree:
No mandatory chat control through the back door: Clarify that scans cannot be enforced as โrisk mitigation.โ
No AI chat police: Restrict scanning to known child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
No mass surveillance: Only allow targeted surveillance of suspects based on a court order.
Preserve the right to anonymity: The mandatory age verification requirement must be scrapped entirely.
โThey are selling us security but delivering a total surveillance machine,โ Breyer concludes. โThey promise child protection but punish our children and criminalize privacy. This is not a compromise โ this is a fraud against the citizen. And no democratic government should make itself an accomplice.โ
About Dr. Patrick Breyer: Dr. Patrick Breyer is a jurist, digital rights expert, and a former Member of the European Parliament (Pirate Party) until 2024. As a co-negotiator of the Parliamentโs position on the Chat Control regulation (CSAR), he is a leading European critic of indiscriminate mass surveillance.
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In his traditional evening address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the situation at the front remains under control โ the occupiers ...
TIL the "orb ponderer" meme source is from a Lord of the Rings licensed RPG sourcebook, so the orb in question is unfortunately a palantir. index.rpg.net/display-entry.phโฆ
Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. That’s exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe — distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20×4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middlewa
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Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. Thatโs exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe โ distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20ร4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middleware API [filbot] wrote simplifies grabbing just the data he needs from the official BART API and pushes it to the little screen.
We love how much effort went into shrinking a full-size transit sign into a desk-friendly package that only shows the info you actually care about. If youโre looking for more of an overview, weโre quite fond of PCB metro maps as well.
La UE promuove le politiche Green. La UE vuole affrancarsi dal gas e dal petrolio russo. Ma poi guarda che casini occorre fare per affrancarsi dal gas e dal petrolio russo, per metterlo in quel posto a Putin. Va a finire che se dimentichi un passaggio o una comunicazione, รจ lo Stato che te lo mette in quel posto. Ne vale la pena?
Grazie ad EcoFlow ho finalmente provato un fotovoltaico! Superando i limiti e avendo le bollette quasi a 0! Acquista dal sito ufficiale:https://it.ecoflow.co...
Michael Burry, lโinvestitore che scoprรฌ la bolla dei mutui subprime, accusa i BIG dellโAI di lievitare artificialmente i profitti blog.quintarelli.it/2025/11/miโฆ
eh ovvio che dopo l'intelligenza artificiale ,ci saranno pure i soldi(leggasi profitti) artificiali del tipo usa e getta e nemmeno riciclabili come quelli "veri" in certe banche๐
Smettetela di sopravvalutare lโintelligenza artificiale, dicono gli studiosi a von der Leyen
Lettera aperta critica la Presidente della Commissione per le osservazioni fatte allโinizio di questโanno, quando aveva previsto che lโintelligenza artificiale si sarebbe โavvicinata al ragionamento umanoโ nel 2026
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year โย when she anticipated AI would โapproach human reasoningโ in 2026
This is the reason I don't use AI. Not because I don't like progress, not even because it replaces humans. But because it is destroying the only thing we need to survive; the Earth.
AI is devouring life on earth, and it's only getting started. And for what? A tech bro scam
"By 2030, the current rate of AI growth would annually put 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the emissions equivalent of adโฆ
This #CatsOfMastodon post inspired me to try painting the scene, with some artistic liberty for the background. I really enjoyed making it, especially the glow from the kitchen.
I need nerd help -- I thrifted this odd little ceramic box + lid in the Netherlands. No identifying marks, seems delftware-adjacent, and feels handmade. Which IBM building is this??? And what is this???
Vi segnalo che per qualche giorno i miei due libri Pianeti Mancanti e Giganti Ghiacciati saranno in offerta su Amazon. Se non li avete giร , o se li avete ma volete regalarli, รจ un buon momento per arraffarli: amzn.to/47UhS8B
Scopri Pianeti mancanti. Da Plutone a Planet 9, gli astri erranti nascosti nell'oscuritร di Nardi, Luca: spedizione gratuita per i clienti Prime e per ordini a partire da 29โฌ spediti da Amazon.
Moving From Windows to FreeBSD as the Linux Chaos Alternative
Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that started with me purchasing a boxed copy of SuSE Linux and ended with me switching to Windows 2000. After this I continued tinkering with non-Windows OSes including QNX, BeOS, various BSDs, as well as Linux distributions that promised a ‘Windows-like’ desktop experience, such as Lindows.
Now that Windows 2000’s proud legacy has seen itself reduced to a rusting wreck resting on cinderblocks on Microsoft’s dying front lawn,
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Moving From Windows to FreeBSD as the Linux Chaos Alternative
Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that started with me purchasing a boxed copy of SuSE Linux and ended with me switching to Windows 2000. After this I continued tinkering with non-Windows OSes including QNX, BeOS, various BSDs, as well as Linux distributions that promised a โWindows-likeโ desktop experience, such as Lindows.
Now that Windows 2000โs proud legacy has seen itself reduced to a rusting wreck resting on cinderblocks on Microsoftโs dying front lawn, the quiet discomfort that many Windows users have felt since Windows 7 was forcefully End-Of-Life-d has only increased. With it comes the uncomfortable notion that Windows as a viable desktop OS may be nearing its demise. Yet where to from here?
Although the recommendations from the peanut gallery seem to coalesce around Linux or Appleโs MacOS (formerly OS X), there are a few dissenting voices extolling the virtues of FreeBSD over both. There are definitely compelling reasons to pick FreeBSD over Linux, in addition to it being effectively MacOSโs cousin. Best of all is not having to deal with the Chaos Vortex that spawns whenever you dare to utter the question of โwhich Linux distro?โ. Within the world of FreeBSD there is just FreeBSD, which makes for a remarkably coherent experience.
Ghosting The Subject
The GhostBSD logo. Although FreeBSD doesnโt have distributions the way that Linux does due to it being a singular codebase rather than a duct-taped patchwork, you do get a choice as far as difficulty settings go. You can always pick plain FreeBSD with its functional but barebones installer, which dumps you into a command line shell and expects you to jump through some hoops to set up things like a desktop environment. This is generally fine if youโre an advanced user, or just want to set up a headless server system.
In case youโre more into the โjust add waterโ level of a desktop OS installation process, the GhostBSD project provides the ready to go option for a zero fuss installation like you would see with Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux and kin. Although I have done the hard mode path previously with FreeBSD virtual machines, to save myself the time and bother I opted for the GhostBSD experience here.
For this experiment I have two older-but-quite-usable systems at my disposal: one is a 2013-era Ivy Bridge Intel-based gaming laptop thatโs a rebranded Clevo W370ET, the other a late-2015 Skylake PC with a Core i7 6700K, GTX 980 Ti and 32 GB of DDR4. To give both the best chance possible I also installed a brand new SATA SSD in both systems to run the OS from.
Down To Bare Metal
GhostBSD offers two images: the official Mate desktop version and the community XFCE version. Since I have always had a soft spot for XFCE, thatโs the version I went with. After fetching the image, I used Rufus to create a bootable USB stick and made sure that the target system was set to boot from USB media. First I wanted to focus on the laptop, but this is where I ran into the first issue when the installer froze on me.
After a few hours of trying various things, including trying a known good Manjaro Linux installer which flunked out with a complaint about the USB medium, I figured I might as well give a Windows 10 installer a shot for fun. This actually got me a useful error code: 0x8007025D. While it broadly indicates โsomethingโ being wrong along the USB-RAM-HDD/SSD path, it led me to a post about USB 3.0 being a potential issue as it changed some things compared to USB 2.0. The solution? Use a USB 2.0 port instead, obviously. Creating a new ZFS system partition for the GhostBSD installation. (Credit: Maya Posch) Long story short, this sort of worked: the GhostBSD installer still froze up once it entered the graphical section, but the Manjaro installer was happy as a clam, so now that laptop runs Manjaro, I guess.
A subsequent attempt to boot the GhostBSD installer on the 6700K system went much better, even while daringly using a USB 3.0 port on the case. Before I knew it GhostBSD was purring along with the XFCE desktop sparkling along at 1080p.
Iโm not sure what GhostBSDโs issue was with the laptop. Itโs possible that it found the NVidia Optimus configuration disagreeable, but now I have two rather capable gaming systems to directly compare Linux and FreeBSD with. There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Gaming The System
Since any open source software of note that runs on Linux tends to have a native FreeBSD build, the experience here is rather same-ish. Where things can get interesting is with things related to the GPU, especially gaming. These days that of course means getting Steam and ideally the GoG Galaxy client running, which cracks open a pretty big can of proprietary worms. Playing the Windows GoG version of Firewatch on GhostBSD. (Credit: Maya Posch) Annoyingly, Valve has only released a Steam client for Windows, MacOS and Linux, with the latter even only officially supporting some versions of Ubuntu Linux. This is no real concern for Manjaro Linux, just with the disclaimer that if anything breaks, youโre SOL and better start praying that itโll magically start working again.
Unfortunately, for FreeBSD the userland Linux ABI compatibility isnโt quite enough as the Steam DRM means that it goes far beyond basic binary compatibility.
The two available options here are to either try oneโs chances with the linuxulator-steam-utils workarounds that tries to stuff the Linux client into a chroot, or to go Wine all the way with the Windows Steam client and add more Windows to your OSS.
Neither approach is ideal, but the main question is whether or not it allows you to play your games. After initially getting the Linux tools setup and ready to bootstrap Steam, I got thrown a curveball by the 32-bit Wine and dependencies not being available, leading to a corresponding issue thread on the GhostBSD forums. After Eric over at the GhostBSD project resolved the build issue for these dependencies, I thought that now I would be able to play some games, but I was initially sorely disappointed.
For some reason I was now getting a โpermission deniedโ error for the chdir command in the lsu-bootstrap script, so after some fruitless debugging I had to give up on this approach and went full Wine. I probably could have figured out what the problem here was, but considering the limitations of the LSU Steam approach and me just wanting to play games instead of debug-the-FOSS-project, it felt like time to move on.
Watery Wine
The Windows Steam client running on GhostBSD. (Credit: Maya Posch) As it turns out, the low-fuss method to get Steam and GoG Galaxy working is via the the Mizutamari Wine GUI frontend. Simply install it with pkg install mizuma or via the package center, open it from the Games folder in the start menu, then select the desired applicationโs name and then the Install button. Within minutes I had both Steam and the โclassicโ GoG Galaxy clients installed and running. The only glitch was that the current GoG Galaxy client didnโt want to work, but that might have been a temporary issue. Since I only ever use the GoG Galaxy 1.x client on Windows, this was fine for me.
After logging into both clients and escaping from Steamโs โBig Picture Modeโ, I was able to install a few games and play them, which went completely smoothly, except for the elevator scene in Firewatch where I couldnโt look around using the mouse despite it working fine in the menu, but that game is notoriously buggy, so thatโs a question mark on the exact cause. Between buggy games, Wine, and the OS, there definitely are sufficient parties to assign blame to.
Similarly, while the Steam client was a bit graphically glitchy with flickering on the Store page, and trying to access the Settings menu resulted in it restarting, I was able to install and play Windows games like Nightmare Kart, so thatโs a win in my book. That said, I canโt say that Iโm not jealous of just punching in sudo pacman -S steam on the Manjaro rig to get the Steam client up in a minute or so. Someone please convince Gabe to compile the Steam client for FreeBSD, and the CD Projekt folk to compile the Galaxy client for FreeBSD and Linux.
It should be noted here that although it is possible to use alternative frontends for GoG instead of its Galaxy client, you need it for things like cloud saves. Hence me choosing this path to get everything as close to on par with the Windows experience and feature set.
Next Steps
Aside from gaming, there are many possible qualifications for what might make a โWindows desktop replacementโ. As far as FreeBSD goes, the primary annoyance is having to constantly lean on the Linux or Windows versions of software. This is also true for things like DaVinci Resolve for video editing, where since thereโs no official FreeBSD version, you have to stuff the Linux version into a chroot once again to run it via the Linux compatibility layer.
Although following the requisite steps isnโt rocket science for advanced users, it would simply be nice if a native version existed and you could just install the package. Based on my own experiences porting a non-trivial application like the FFmpeg- and SDL-based NymphCast to FreeBSD โ among other OSes โ such porting isnโt complicated at all, assuming your code doesnโt insist on going around POSIX and doing pretty wild Linux-specific things.
Ranting on software development aside, for my next steps on my FreeBSD/GhostBSD journey Iโll likely be giving approaches like this running of Linux software on FreeBSD another shot, barring finding that native video editors work well enough for my purposes.
Feel free to sound off in the comments on how to improve my experiences so far, as well as warn me and others who are embarking on a similar BSD journey of certain pitfalls.
๐ท๐บ๐ #Russiaโs lower-house State Duma on Tuesday passed a bill requiring new medical school graduates to work in state-run hospitals and clinics for up to three years, a proposed measure aimed at easing chronic staff shortages in the countryโs public health system.
Russiaโs lower-house State Duma on Tuesday passed a bill requiring new medical school graduates to work in state-run hospitals and clinics for up to three years, a proposed measure aimed atย easing chronic staff shortages in the countryโs public healtโฆ
๐ท๐บ๐ Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central Ulyanovsk region for the duration of #Russiaโs so-called โspecial military operationโ in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in the country.
Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central Ulyanovsk region for the duration of Russiaโs so-called โspecial military operationโ in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in theโฆ
Total combat losses of Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to November 11, 2025, amount to approximately 1,153,180 personnel, including 1,020 over the past day. โ Ukrinform.
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Sabato 8 ottobre รจ stato un momento storico: il primo incontro tra 4 admin di istanze Mastodon ad un evento pubblico organizzato da VareseNews.it ๐ช Un segnale forte di quanto il Fediverso stia crescendo dal basso, anche grazie alla forza delle comunitร locali. Tutto questo รจ stato possibile grazie a @michele e alla organizzazione di #Glocal, esempio concreto di come si costruisce il futuro dei social liberi e federati! ๐ Seguiteci anche nel gruppo: @fediverso
๐ช๐บ๐บ๐ฆ Top European ministers will travel to #Ukraine next month in a show of support for the countryโs application to join the EU, a move that comes as allies work around delays caused by opposition from #Hungary
๐ท๐ด The Romanian government vowed new measures against Moscow after fragments from a Russian drone strike on #Ukraine landed on its territory overnight, the latest in a string of cross-border incidents.
"Our main focus right now is on the Pokrovsk direction and the Zaporizhzhia region, where the Russians are increasing the number and scale of assaults."
๐น๐ท National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov arrived in Istanbul on Nov. 11 to "unblock" the process of prisoner of war exchanges with #Russia
๐ท๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ Ukrainian troops have pulled back from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for #Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces, told Suspilne on Nov. 11.
Ukrainian troops have pulled back from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, fully withdrawing from the villages of Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka in the Polohy district.
๐ท๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ Under the cover of heavy fog, #Russia is intensifying its push to seize Pokrovsk โ exploiting low visibility that blunts Ukrainian drone surveillance and strikes, the 7th Corps of #Ukraine's Air Assault Forces reported on Nov. 11.
Russian forces are advancing into Pokrovsk from the southern outskirts, using light equipment, according to the 7th Corps of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces.
โก๏ธ Ukraineโs Security Council chief heads to Turkey to โunblockโ POW exchanges. โThere will be meetings in the coming days, particularly in Turkey,โ National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov said. kyivindependent.com/security-cโฆ
๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฒ The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, CNN reports.
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โก๏ธ Ukraine pulls back from positions near 5 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ukrainian troops have fully withdrawn from the villages of Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka in the Polohy district. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-โฆ
Ukrainian troops have pulled back from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, fully withdrawing from the villages of Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka in the Polohy district.
Looks like business world is finally waking up to what weโve know for a long time: many companies are astroturfing the job market with fake job openings. cnbc.com/2025/11/11/ghost-job-โฆ
in one of my side positions I was contacted by sales from a national MSP thinking we were a MUCH larger organization (by 100x). They're local so I took a look at their site and jobs listed - they're either abysmal to work for and can't hire/have huge churn, do a terrible job of hiring, or just leave all their jobs listed.
@fencepost my hypothesis is that with the advent of ATC, companies see little downside to keeping jobs posted since applicants arenโt tying up staff to process them, and there may be some benefit, from an investment perspective, from appearing to be growing. I have to believe that most companies are doing it and so itโs probably not really factored in much any more. But still no incentive to stop.
@AAKL I think itโs a good idea to try to stop, but I have no idea how a petition would have any hope of changing the behaviors of tens of thousands of independent companies.
My experience: one past Mgr posted jobs asking for criteria such as a certain degree that didn't exist or 5 years experience with some new tech. Then filling from within...that vacancy went unfilled regardless of crew workload and the Mgr rcvd a big bonus for being under budget.
The ghost jobs I've seen were spots held open for politicians to keep them above water until they got re-elected. Other places simply keep an open application process to generate a list of qualified applicants.
I gave up applying for โMillions of Cybersecurity Jobs!โ after wasting 3 years on bupkus. When I and others shared on LI that companies were posting but not hiring, we got shouted down by outraged recruiters and hiring managers, told we were expecting too much, we werenโt trying hard enough, we werenโt technical enough, we werenโt American enough, and we needed to get more certifications. Pffft. The reminder to pay up and get more CPD certs to renew my ISACA letters is sitting in my inbox and I am just going to let it slide. There are no jobs, there wonโt BE jobs, and I could spend the money I would have to spend on certs and memberships on bagpipes.
Intel sues former employee for allegedly stealing confidential data
-allegedly stole 18k files -was laid off on July 3, given until end of month -tried to steal files using an external HDD 8 days before layoff -succeeded with a NAS 3 days before end of contract
First person footage of two Russian soldiers hiding in a building in Pokrovsk while being hunted down by Ukrainian FPV drones. The first two drones hit the building entrance while the third drone hit one of the Russian infantrymen, severely wounding his leg.
โก๏ธ Ukraine pulls back from positions near 5 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ukrainian troops have fully withdrawn from the villages of Uspenivka and Mykolaivka in the Polohy district. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-โฆ
Ukrainian troops have pulled back from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, fully withdrawing from the villages of Uspenivka and Novomykolaivka in the Polohy district.
In Kherson, Zelensky held a security meeting focused on drone defense and regional support. Discussions included boosting EW and mobile fire units, expanding REBER systems, and securing roads and logistics. Energy infrastructure, municipal funding, and educational support were also key topics.
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