Just wanted to post a message that the instance this community is hosted at (lemm.ee) will be shutting down at the end of this month. Being such a tiny community with very little traffic this community will end along with that closure.

I will be deleting my account within the next week. If anyone would like to stay in touch please follow my Mastodon account which is RagingWolfBob@opencoaster.net

Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said Thursday that it killed 12 members of the Israeli-backed Abu Shabab militia in Gaza, which said its fighters had killed five Hamas operatives but made no mention of its own casualties.

According to Hamas, the Abu Shabab gunmen were killed early Wednesday by the Gaza police’s Sahm unit, which Hamas says was established to combat looting. The unit released video footage showing several dead men lying in the street, saying they were Abu Shabab fighters who had been detained and killed for collaborating with Israel. It was not possible to verify the images or the claims around them.

Abu Shabab has been operating in an Israeli-controlled area of southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel confirmed last week that it was arming the militia to bolster opposition to Hamas.

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Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Gaza Strip has plunged into a complete internet and communication blackout after Israeli attacks severed the last remaining fiber-optic line, the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced on Thursday.

The authority confirmed that fixed-line internet and telecommunication services are now entirely cut off across Gaza, including the central and southern regions, which have now joined the digital silence already imposed on Gaza City and the north for the past two days.

“This is the result of systematic attacks on Gaza’s already fragile telecom infrastructure,” the authority said in a statement. Technicians have tried multiple times to repair and reroute damaged lines, but Israeli restrictions have blocked all efforts.

Total Internet Blackout in Gaza as Israel Targets Last Fiber Line

^{Editing Team (Quds News Network)}

Setting up a personal site on local hardware has been on my bucket list for along time. I finally bit he bullet and got a basic website running with apache on a Ubuntu based linux distro. I bought a domain name, linked it up to my l ip got SSL via lets encrypt for https and added some header rules until security headers and Mozilla observatory gave it a perfect score.

Am I basically in the clear? What more do I need to do to protect my site and local network? I'm so scared of hackers and shit I do not want to be an easy target.

I would like to make a page about the hardware its running on since I intend to have it be entirely ran off solar power like solar.lowtechmagazine and wanted to share technical specifics. But I heard somewhere that revealing the internal state of your server is a bad idea since it can make exploits easier to find. Am I being stupid for wanting to share details like computer model and software running it?

I've been downloading files from usenet for a couple years now; but I've never really known how to upload content.

Ultimately I'd like to find a Linux tool I can use from the command line that accepts a file (or folder), performs the necessary steps to break it into parts and upload each to a configured usenet provider, then spit out an nzb file for retrieval to be uploaded to an indexer.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Dass das Bürgergeld reformiert werden soll, ist beschlossene Sache. Doch die Umsetzung birgt Konfliktpotenzial zwischen Union und SPD. CDU-Generalsekretär Linnemann fordert eine umfassende Reform und sogar den Stopp von Zahlungen.

CDU-Generalsekretär Linnemann will tiefgreifende Bürgergeld-Reform

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YouTube pulled a popular tutorial video from tech creator Jeff Geerling this week, claiming his guide to installing LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 violated policies against "harmful content." The video, which showed viewers how to set up their own home media servers, had been live for over a year and racked up more than 500,000 views. YouTube's automated systems flagged the content for allegedly teaching people "how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content."

Geerling says his tutorial covered only legal self-hosting of media people already own -- no piracy tools or copyright workarounds. He said he goes out of his way to avoid mentioning popular piracy software in his videos. It's the second time YouTube has pulled a self-hosting content video from Geerling. Last October, YouTube removed his Jellyfin tutorial, though that decision was quickly reversed after appeal. This time, his appeal was denied.

Whats a good resource? Any guides or such you found particularly helpful? I'm only familiar with some basic x86 assembly, no SSE, AVX, etc. would it be "too much" to try and learn any Risc-V assembly?

Also, are there Risc-V devboards, and if so which ones are good, and what do you use yours for? Are they at an 8-bit microcontroller level, or ARM-running-Linux type beat? Asking the latter because it's always fun to have a real target when learning a new architecture.

Goods brought into the US plunged by 20% in April, recording their largest ever monthly drop in the face of a wave of tariffs unleashed by Donald Trump.

The retreat reflects the abrupt hit to trade, after firms had rushed products into the country earlier this year to try to get ahead of new taxes on imports Trump had promised.

US purchases from major trade partners such as Canada and China fell to their lowest levels since 2021 and 2020 respectively, the Commerce Department said.

Tariffs prompt record plunge in US imports, cutting trade deficit

American purchases of Canadian goods in April fell to the lowest level since 2021.

^{Natalie Sherman (BBC News)}