News gedaliyah • 9 hours ago • 98%

newrepublic.com

One month after The Washington Post revealed that the **Egyptian government may have illegally given Donald Trump $10 million** in 2017, Democrats have announced they will be investigating the allegations. Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, led by ranking member Representative Jamie Raskin, announced in a press release Tuesday that they will be “demanding answers” from the Republican presidential nominee not only over the possible bribe from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, but also over evidence that the Justice Department, led at the time by Attorney General William Barr, covered it up.

News gedaliyah • 10 hours ago • 68%

Early this summer, Amin Abed, a Palestinian activist who has spoken out publicly about Hamas, twice found bullets on his doorstep in northern Gaza. Then in July, he said he was attacked by Hamas security operatives, who covered his head and dragged him away before repeatedly striking him with hammers and metal bars. “At any moment, I can be killed by the Israeli occupation, but I can face the same fate at the hands of those who’ve been ruling us for 17 years,” he said in a phone interview from his hospital bed, referring to Hamas. “They almost killed me, those killers and criminals.”

News gedaliyah • 10 hours ago • 88%

www.haaretz.com

Tuesday's report details firsthand accounts of several Gazans who say they are doing everything they can to protect themselves and their families from becoming human shields for Hamas militants. Nasser al-Zaanin, for example, was forced to flee his home in northern Gaza in October, and relocated to a school that had been turned into a shelter in the town of Deir al-Balah, along with his adult sons and grandchildren. When al-Zaanin arrived at the shelter, he helped set up a system of committees to improve life for families who had taken refuge by overseeing the distribution of food, water and medical needs. They also established one hard and fast rule: no armed men allowed in the compound. "All the families agreed," said al-Zaanin, who once worked as a civil servant for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. "We simply want to save all families, women and children and not let there be any potential threat against us because of the existence of police and members of the Hamas government."

News gedaliyah • 1 day ago • 98%

Pagers carried by thousands of Hezbollah operatives exploded within a short period Tuesday, injuring nearly 2,800 people and killing nine. The explosions spread across Lebanon in areas where Hezbollah had a heavy presence. A Hezbollah official said many fighters had such devices, speculating that malware might have caused the devices to explode.

Selfhosted gedaliyah • 1 day ago • 92%

I would like to use a cloud backup service on my home server. I am a complete beginner. I purchased a subscription for Proton Drive, but it looks like that just won't work. Is there a secure cloud backup that works well on Linux? Bonus points if there's a way to use proton drive. Extra bonus points, if I can set it up for automatic backups through a GUI.

News gedaliyah • 2 days ago • 99%

theconversation.com

Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records. For example, the best place to reach 105 in England is Tower Hamlets. It has more 105-year-olds than all of the rich places in England put together. It’s closely followed by downtown Manchester, Liverpool and Hull. Yet these places have the lowest frequency of 90-year-olds and are rated by the UK as the worst places to be an old person.

News gedaliyah • 2 days ago • 100%

theconversation.com

Solar technologies offer opportunities to distribute electricity generation and storage by integrating power into buildings and cities. Bringing electricity generation close to where it is used helps to increase resilience during extreme weather events and other disruptions to power lines, including earthquakes.

News gedaliyah • 2 days ago • 97%

cleantechnica.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19865815 > The intensive loadshedding experienced by South Africans led to a rush by homes and business to install rooftop solar, backed by battery storage in most cases. South African homes and businesses have added 3,526 MW of rooftop solar in just two years!

Uplifting News gedaliyah • 2 days ago • 97%

cleantechnica.com

The intensive loadshedding experienced by South Africans led to a rush by homes and business to install rooftop solar, backed by battery storage in most cases. South African homes and businesses have added 3,526 MW of rooftop solar in just two years!

https://thingy.social/@malcircuit/113138977130936817

News gedaliyah • 1 week ago • 100%

Officers at a juvenile detention center in Dallas kept kids isolated for days and falsified logs of observation checks and school attendance, an investigation from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department found. “They spent the vast majority of their days inside their cells, sometimes up to 24 hours a day, without regular access to education, large muscle exercise, outdoor recreation, or showers,” state investigators wrote in a report released Monday. This week’s report comes after the U.S. Department of Justice found unconstitutional conditions at all of Texas’ five juvenile detention facilities last month. They noted abusive and poor conditions and listed many remedial measures including limiting periods of isolation. Investigators found other wrongdoings such as pepper spray use on children and failure to apply sexual abuse reduction measures.

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System gedaliyah • 1 week ago • 100%

Using the android client app and I tried to connect to my new server (first time setup). When I tap "Choose server" I can see the server name and local IP (192.168.0.5). When I tap on it, it won't connect. What am I probably doing wrong? Edit: the app uses a default address, although it identifies the name of the server I set up. I checked the WiFi settings on the machine and the server is 192.168.1.60. I used this and it worked immediately. Thanks for the help! I was able to eliminate some things, and learned some important things.

Open Source gedaliyah • 1 week ago • 92%

github.com

>Fucks Given lets you keep track of the things that made you care. Whenever something happens that you needlessly concern yourself with, jot it down with a tap. The app creates a chart of how many fucks you’ve given, so you can work to give none.

Selfhosted gedaliyah • 1 week ago • 97%

These seem to be purpose built for home servers. Is there a benefit to using one of them?

Jewish gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 87%

forward.com

Owens referenced the fact that some Chabad adherents believe Schneerson was the Messiah and suggested they should be accepting Jesus instead. “For those of you who are not familiar with Rabbi Schneerson, there are some Jews who believe he was and is the messiah, so rejecting Christ but believing that that rabbi was his messiah,” she said. It was far from the first time that Owens, who has millions of online followers, has gone after Jews and Jewish groups. She was fired from the media company of Ben Shapiro, who is an Orthodox Jew, earlier this year after criticizing Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, and since then has supported white nationalist Nick Fuentes and used her YouTube channel to defend Hitler and question historical facts about the Holocaust.

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 100%

foreignpolicy.com

Abu Dhabi is prolonging the war by arming the brutal rebels of the Rapid Support Forces. The international community must stop giving it a pass. The ongoing crisis in Sudan has reached catastrophic proportions, yet the international community’s response remains woefully inadequate. A series of missteps and political maneuvers have undermined efforts to provide meaningful assistance to those in desperate need, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group responsible for much of the violence, has yet to be held accountable for actively destroying the country’s food reserves. The situation demands immediate attention and a drastic shift in approach from global leaders and institutions. Since the RSF took control of the state of Jazirah, the country’s farming center, in December, the nation has been grappling with humanmade famine. Farmers in the state have reported a near-complete loss of cotton and wheat crops due to RSF control. In contrast, areas that remain under SAF control saw normal crops. According to local reports in Jazirah, the RSF pushed local farmers to harvest crops only to confiscate them and transport the yields out of the state for their own benefit.

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 100%

www.bbc.com

In May, Human Rights Watch said ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been committed against ethnic Massalit and non-Arab communities in part of Darfur by the RSF and its Arab allies. The RSF rejects this and says it is not involved in what it calls a "tribal conflict" in the region. Asked about what future she envisages for her and her children, she says: “What future? Our future is over - there is nothing left. My children are traumatised. Every day, my 10-year-old son cries wanting to go home. We went from living in a house, going to school and now we live in a tent.” An employee for Unicef - the UN children’s agency - showing us around the camp says those who have arrived here are the “lucky ones”. “They managed to escape the fighting and come here... they have shelter and aid,” he says.

Technology gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 74%

www.newscientist.com

The model, called GameNGen, was made by Dani Valevski at Google Research and his colleagues, who declined to speak to New Scientist. According to their paper on the research, the AI can be played for up to 20 seconds while retaining all the features of the original, such as scores, ammunition levels and map layouts. Players can attack enemies, open doors and interact with the environment as usual. After this period, the model begins to run out of memory and the illusion falls apart.

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 100%

www.cnn.com

The 14-year-old suspect in the fatal mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school will be booked Wednesday night, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at an evening news conference. The deceased victims were 14-year-old Mason Schermerhorn, 14-year-old Christian Angulo, and Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, according to Hosey. The school’s website shows the two adults were both math teachers and Aspinwall was also an assistant football coach. Gray is a student at Apalachee High School and will be handled as an adult as he moves through the court system, Hosey said at an earlier news conference.

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 73%

www.motherjones.com

Last year, in one of her first interviews with the international press, Rachel Goldberg-Polin told the New York Times that she hadn’t been able to go “one hour” without thinking that her son was dead. On Saturday, the Israeli military said it had retrieved the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza, including that of Hersh Goldberg-Polin. According to the military, Hamas killed the six hostages shortly before their bodies were found. The others reportedly include Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Eden Yerushalmi. President Joe Biden said he was “devastated and outraged” by the news of Goldberg-Polin’s death. “It is as tragic as it is reprehensible,” he said in a statement released by the White House. “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. And we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.”

Selfhosted gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 97%

So I have a retired but still very serviceable PC that I intend to use as my first home server. I gave two basic goals in self-hosting: 1. Host family media through Jellyfin, etc. This would include tv, music, and possibly books as well. Many of these will be managed through the Arr apps. 2. Degoogle my phone - I'm beginning by replacing Photos with Immich, but hope to also use Home Assistant, backup other phone data such as messages media, shopping lists, etc. I hope to replace Google storage/backup with Proton Drive. So the question is what OS should I set up to run that? My proof of concept was an immich container running in xubuntu on an old laptop. I chose Xubuntu because I like the availability of documentation and community support for Ubuntu like distros, but wanted a lower powered alternative for the older device. It seems to be working well, but I've had a few hiccups trying to update it, and I've heard that once you get into it, Linux distros like Ubuntu are not very user friendly for self-hosting as a beginner. So is it better on the whole for a beginner to have a popular distro with lots if documentation and step by step guides, or to have a purpose-built OS like TrueNAS that might be more straightforward, but with less support?

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 88%

www.nytimes.com

Yahya Sinwar, the group’s political chief, was charged with carrying out the attacks that resulted in the killing of at least 43 Americans. Five other Hamas senior leaders were also charged.

Proton gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 100%

I'd like to move my music library off of my phone, and upload it to Proton Drive. It is thousands of nested folders and files, but all in one Music directory. Is there a way to add the entire directory?

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 97%

www.theguardian.com

Upon arrival at the scene, officials pronounced Prudhomme dead at 4.55pm, local outlets report, citing Tempe police. 12News reports that Prudhomme’s cubicle was located on the third floor and away from the main aisle. The employee who spoke to 12News added that multiple people complained of a foul odor but assumed it was due to plumbing problems. Another employee told the outlet: “It’s really heartbreaking and I’m thinking, ‘What if I were just sitting there? No one would check on me?’” The employee went on to add: “To hear she’s been sitting at the desk like that would make me feel sick … and nobody did anything. That’s how she spent her last moments.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19346837 >

Music gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 93%

It is based on a drunken night out experienced by lead singer Matthew Murphy at Le Bateau, a nightclub in the band's home city of Liverpool, during which he and his then-girlfriend danced on a table to "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. The lyrics examine the irony of dancing happily to a famously sad song.

News gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 71%

www.theguardian.com

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23. Originally from California, Goldberg-Polin immigrated to Israel with his family as a young child. He was taken at gunpoint by Hamas militants while at the Nova music festival. In August his parents spoke at the Democratic party convention, where they were greeted by a crowd that chanted: “Bring them home.” Eden Yerushalmi was in contact with the police and with her sisters after the attack. ‘They’ve caught me,’ were her last words to them. Carmel Gat had been staying with her parents in kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October, one of the communities hardest hit by the attack. Hamas fighters broke into their home and kidnapped her; her mother was killed in the attack. Alexander Lobanov’s five-month-old son was born while he was in captivity. Almog Sarusi was taken hostage as his girlfriend, who was shot, succumbed to her injuries. Ori Danino had been helping others try to escape when he was abducted.

Android gedaliyah • 2 weeks ago • 98%

The phone app (by Google) has 700 mb of data on the phone. What is that? Call history? Contacts? Then what is in the contacts app? Is it safe to delete? *Stock Pixel 6a*

Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community gedaliyah • 3 weeks ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19251251 > Discussing the song's subject matter in 1996, Eels frontman E said, "Part of my problem is with intimacy. 'Novocaine for the Soul' sounds detached because it's about detachment. That's what I think is so great about that song, and on that level I think it's almost genius. It's detachment personified. I'm singing about numbness and I'm numb. It's about having too much feeling."

Music gedaliyah • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Discussing the song's subject matter in 1996, Eels frontman E said, "Part of my problem is with intimacy. 'Novocaine for the Soul' sounds detached because it's about detachment. That's what I think is so great about that song, and on that level I think it's almost genius. It's detachment personified. I'm singing about numbness and I'm numb. It's about having too much feeling."