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submitted 20 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago) by TriflingToad@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
 

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tumblr post where first post reads, alternate universe where when darth vader declares that he's Luke's father Luke comes to the (entirely reasonable) conclusion that darth vader and anakin skywalker were married

reply reads, How could you kill your HUSBAND?!" and Luke gets away with his hand because Anakin's too confused trying to figure out when he and Obi Wan got married and why he's only learning about it now

edit: also I'm @QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works, I think my home instance is updating or sthm right now 🤷‍♀️

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The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records.

The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was able to ultimately access, and which devices it could not, after raiding the home of the reporter, Hannah Natanson, in January as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information. It also provides rare insight into the apparent effectiveness of Lockdown Mode, or at least how effective it might be before the FBI may try other techniques to access the device.

“Because the iPhone was in Lockdown mode, CART could not extract that device,” the court record reads, referring to the FBI’s Computer Analysis Response Team, a unit focused on performing forensic analyses of seized devices. The document is written by the government, and is opposing the return of Natanson’s devices.

Archive: http://archive.today/gfTg9

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I’ve been getting more into self hosting lately, grabbed an optiplex 3050 for everything and I’m running Mint currently. Looking more into things though, I saw Debian come up as a more barebones distro and now I’m wondering if there is a lot of benefit to going more barebones. I’m not having any issues with my current setup but now I can’t stop thinking about it. I am newer to Linux but having to learn new things doesn’t wig me out much if there is a lot more involvement with Debian

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/41560109

As President Trump suggests the federal government should "nationalize" and take over the elections process from the states, we speak with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. He is the former county recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, and oversaw elections there in 2020. The Justice Department has sued Arizona and over 20 other states for their full voter registration lists. "No means no," Fontes says in response to the Trump administration's encroachment on state authority. "We should not be handing over any of our personal identifying information to the president. Not only should we not be doing it, but it's against the law for me to fulfill the request from the Department of Justice."

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Over the last few days hackers and trolls have targeted a slew of ICE spotting apps and their users in an apparent attempt to intimidate and stop them from reporting sightings of ICE. These hackers sent threatening text messages to users of StopICE, claiming their personal data has been sent to the authorities; attempted to wipe uploads on Eyes Up, which aims to document ICE abuses; and even sent push notifications to DEICER app users claiming their data has also been sent to various government agencies.

There is little evidence that hackers have actually provided data to the government. But it shows that apps like these, many of which Apple and Google have already kicked from their respective app stores, in some cases after direct government pressure, can be targeted by hackers or those looking to harass their users.

“Yes there is a targeted spike in attacks targeting similar [sites],” Sherman Austin, the developer of StopICE, told 404 Media in an email.

Archive: http://archive.today/iOfNf

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they just showed up in a #memes channel on discord and posted this abysmal dogshit cringe

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submitted 2 hours ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago) by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 
 

Edit: i am well aware that Iron lung was a financial success lol. This is not meant to be taken seriously

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While watching an animated YouTube video essay a few weeks ago, I suddenly realized that both the narrator's voice and the visuals were AI-generated. This was not disclosed anywhere in the video description or credits.

So, I decided to write a little Browser Extensions where users can register the extent to which a channel's content is AI-generated. Feel free to check it out

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ice-canada-offices-9.7073273

Alberta MP calls on Canada to shut down U.S. immigration and customs operations north of border

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to draw widespread criticism for its deportation crackdown in the States, there’s concern brewing about the agency's presence north of the border.

The U.S. government’s website lists ICE offices in five Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Ottawa.

In an emailed statement to CBC News, an ICE spokesperson confirmed its criminal investigative law enforcement component — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — conducts work at the U.S. embassy in the country’s capital, and at consulates in the other four cities.

HSI personnel are separate from the ICE arm at the forefront of the immigration crackdowns making headlines in cities like Minneapolis, known as Enforcement and Removal Operations.

According to the government website, HSI has over 93 offices in more than 50 countries, with a mandate to identify and stop crime “before it reaches the United States.”

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I was hoping you guys could help me with a bit of a more out-of-the-ordinary situation. My older father, who has very little technical knowledge, is the owner of a local news outlet and is in the process of modernizing the whole website and its infrastructure. He is in talks with a local developer (just one guy) who has been maintaining everything for the past 5 years to transfer everything to a new dedicated server and make some much-needed software and design changes. He is currently running everything on an older Hetzner dedicated server, which we decided to upgrade very soon to the Hetzner AX102 (Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 128 GB DDR5 ECC, 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition, and a 1 Gbit/s port with unlimited bandwidth). He has asked me to try to help him achieve a favorable outcome because he is aware that, due to his lack of technical knowledge, he might be taken advantage of or, at the very least, the developer will only do the bare minimum because no one will check his work, even though this process is not exactly cheap, at least by our country’s standards.

I only possess a basic understanding of most of what hosting such a site optimally on a dedicated server entails, as this is not my area of expertise, but I am willing to learn in order to help my father, at least to the point where we don’t get scammed and we are able to take full advantage of the new hardware to make the site load instantly.

More context:

  • The site is based on WordPress, and we plan to keep it that way when we make the transfer. The developer told me he would strongly prefer running AlmaLinux 10 with NGINX for our particular context and will likely use Bricks as a page builder. I would prefer not to change these, since it would likely create unneeded friction with him.
  • There are about 150k–250k average monthly users according to Google Analytics, depending on the time of year and different events, most of them from our area.
  • About 80% of readers are using smartphones.
  • There are a few writers who publish multiple articles daily (20–25 in a 24-hour window). The articles always contain at least text and some images. There’s a strong dependency on Facebook, as most of the readers access those articles from our Facebook page. This might be relevant for caching strategies and other settings.

For now, as a caching strategy for optimal speed, Gemini analyzed my requirements and recommended a tiered “in-memory” caching strategy to handle high traffic without a CDN. Could you validate whether these specific recommendations are optimal, since I am highly skeptical of AIs?

Page Cache: it suggests mapping Nginx FastCGI Cache directly to RAM (tmpfs). It recommends using ngx_cache_purge with the Nginx Helper plugin to instantly invalidate only the Homepage and Categories upon publishing. It also advises stripping tracking parameters (e.g., fbclid) to prevent cache fragmentation.

  1. Object Cache: It proposes using Valkey (Server-side) paired with the Redis Object Cache plugin. The specific advice is to connect them via Unix Socket (instead of TCP) for the lowest possible latency.
  2. PHP Layer: It recommends PHP 8.5 with OPcache and JIT (Tracing mode) enabled, optimized to keep the runtime entirely in memory.

**I’d appreciate any thoughts or advice you might have on the overall situation, not just the caching side of things. The caching is just what I managed to study so far since the AI insisted it was particular important for this setup. **😊

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The latest selloff was triggered by a new legal tool from Anthropic’s Claude large language model (LLM).

The tool – a plug-in for Claude’s agent for tasks across legal, sales, marketing and data analysis – underscored the push by LLMs into the so-called “application layer,” where these firms ‌are increasingly muscling into lucrative enterprise businesses for revenue they need to fund massive investments. If ‌successful, investors worry, it could wreak havoc across a range of industries, from finance to law and coding.

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About 2,000 personnel will be left in Minnesota, where President Trump’s immigration crackdown has generated outrage.

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said on Wednesday that the federal government would immediately withdraw 700 law enforcement officers from Minneapolis, scaling down the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the area.

The change came after the Trump administration sent thousands of federal officers and agents to Minnesota, a deployment that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said was the agency’s “largest operation to date.” About 2,000 officers and agents would be left in the state, Mr. Homan said.

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State and local officials said the drawdown was welcome but did not go far enough. Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, a Democrat, said in a statement that the reduction in officers was “a step in the right direction” but that 2,000 federal officers in the region was still “not de-escalation.”

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submitted 28 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) by lukkon@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 
 

Hi I got home assistant, immich, jellyfin and recently tried to set up next cloud with helm. Not everything is as smooth as I expected.

Do you guys have any other ideas for similiar setup on local kubernetes cluster?

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I currently have Nextcloud running, and it's stable, performant...no issues whatsoever. But it's also a LOT more than what I need, and stores files in an "unusable" state if I want to look at them outside of Nextcloud. The real kicker is that the linux client wants to download the entire cloud drive, which simply doesn't work for me.

For most cases, I think a samba share is all I need, but I do have times when I don't have internet access, so the ability to save specific files locally to sync back when I'm home would be great. Nextcloud and OneDrive have a "always keep on this device" option which has been perfect in the past.

I use Syncthing for some specific cases, but it adds extra steps I don't want to deal with all the time.

Specifically, I'm looking for something with these requirements:

  • provide a virtual drive for Linux and Windows
  • can keep specific files/folders from that drive offline
  • point the server to a folder (or folders), and that's what it shares

And "would be nice, but not required"

  • web interface to view/download files
  • user-level access
  • web and virtual drive can be accessed via reverse proxy

I've tried poking around, and can't find anything that seems to fit. I'm surprised there isn't a webdav client or samba config option that would do what I want, but I may also be in a mental rut and missing a key term.

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