The Hungarian leader said it doesn't matter if a few Hungarian drones flew over Ukraine, since he doesn't consider Ukraine an independent, sovereign country.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán played down the possibility of Hungarian drones violating Ukraine's airspace in an interview released on Monday. Even if a drone enters Ukraine from Hungary, Orbán said, Kyiv should deal with drones coming from the east, from Russia.

Tired of using thumb drives to install Linux on new computers and I wanna install stuff via pxe. Do we have options in the open source world?

Work uses KACE so I'm used to that interface, but its expensive and ass.

I demand more none of those picture books just keep them coming

...In Geekbench 6.5 single-core, the X2 Elite Extreme posts a score of 4,080, edging out Apple’s M4 (3,872) and leaving AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (2,881) and Intel’s Core Ultra 9 288V (2,919) far behind...

...The multi-core story is even more dramatic. With a Geekbench 6.5 multi-core score of 23,491, the X2 Elite Extreme nearly doubles the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H (11,386) and comfortably outpaces Apple’s M4 (15,146) and AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 370 (15,443)...

...This isn’t just a speed play — Qualcomm is betting that its ARM-based design can deliver desktop-class performance at mobile-class power draw, enabling thin, fanless designs or ultra-light laptops with battery life measured in days, not hours.

One of the more intriguing aspects of the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is its memory‑in‑package design, a departure from the off‑package RAM used in other X2 Elite variants. Qualcomm is using a System‑in‑Package (SiP) approach here, integrating the RAM directly alongside the CPU, GPU, and NPU on the same substrate.

This proximity slashes latency and boosts bandwidth — up to 228 GB/s compared to 152 GB/s on the off‑package models — while also enabling a unified memory architecture similar in concept to Apple’s M‑series chips, where CPU and GPU share the same pool for faster, more efficient data access...

... the company notes the "first half" of 2026 for the new Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme...

Just check his recent posting pattern on Bluesky.

To be America's enemy is dangerous; to be its friend, fatal.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4811034

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U.S. President Donald Trump initially floated his desire to purchase Greenland during his first term in office. Since the beginning of his second, he has repeatedly raised the need to “get” Greenland.

“We need Greenland very importantly for international security. We have to have Greenland,” Trump said as Vice-President JD Vance visited Pituffik Space Base on the island in March.

The self-governing territory, which remains part of the Kingdom of Denmark, is already home to one permanent U.S. military base and continues to attract geopolitical interest due to its mineral resources and its location in the North Atlantic.

As melting sea ice opens up more shipping routes in the Arctic, countries like Russia and China are growing more and more interested in sending vessels into northern waters — something that the Danish forces’ Joint Arctic Command is also watching closely.

“Climate change drives a lot of activities in the Arctic area, and that will provide even larger tasks for the military force,” said Deputy Commander Lars Nielsen, who also pointed out the unique needs involved with securing such a large area.

Nielsen said the landmass stretches 2,700 kilometres, with between 80 and 90 per cent of it covered in ice. “Which makes it on one hand quite difficult to protect,” he said, “but access is also equally difficult.”

As challenges mount, Nielsen said the interest in working together with Greenland’s closest neighbour remains high.

“I think that the Danish-Canadian co-operation is important for this area. Joint Arctic Command is the military authority in Greenland, and [we] are very eager to strengthen the co-operation between Denmark, Greenland and Canada.”

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Czech authorities have identified and launched an investigation into a network of nearly 300 TikTok bot accounts spreading pro-Russian narratives on a massive scale in advance of the country’s Oct. 3-4 parliamentary elections, Czech outlet Deník N reports, citing government sources. The accounts are also actively campaigning for both far-right and far-left parties, primarily SPD, Stačilo!, and PRO.

According to the Center for the Study of Online Risks, the core of the network consists of several “content creators” whose videos have garnered up to 250,000 views. Surrounding them were hundreds of accounts that automatically liked and reposted the videos so that TikTok would register them as “popular” and push them to real users. The overall reach of this coordinated campaign is estimated at between 800,000 and 1.3 million views.

The accounts posted videos criticizing the EU and NATO, along with clips featuring politicians from Stačilo! (“Enough!” — a left-wing coalition led by the Communists), SPD (“Freedom and Direct Democracy” — a far-right party), and PRO (“Law, Respect, Expertise” — a right-wing populist movement). Among those highlighted in the videos were Stačilo! leader Kateřina Konečná, former foreign minister Lubomír Zaorálek, SPD representatives Radim Fiala and Tomio Okamura, economist Miroslav Ševčík, and PRO leader Jindřich Rajchl. The report also highlights the rapid rise in popularity of videos by former politician Miroslav Sládek, who is running with the Česká republika na 1. místě! (“Czech Republic First!”) alliance.

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Political scientist Ivan Preobrazhenskiy, a columnist for The Insider, notes that the main goal of the rally is to put pressure on the current president of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, who holds the key to forming the future government:

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PeakMetrics grabbed a sample of 52,000 posts made on X within the first 24 hours of Cracker Barrel’s announcement that it would be modernizing its logo to an admittedly very plain and generic design. In that timeframe, it found that 44.5% of all mentions of Cracker Barrel were flagged as likely or higher bot activity. Those numbers climb even higher when a boycott is mentioned. About 1,000 posts in that first 24-hour period called on people to stop eating at Cracker Barrel, and 49% of those posts got flagged as likely coming from bots. In its report, PeakMetrics states that the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a “bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49871915

Hey everyone!

I’ve been rocking Proxmox for a little over a year on an old Mac Mini with a failing NIC (I probably damaged it when I installed the SSD). So I decided it was time to get some new used cheap hardware and I have just received a HP Elitedesk 800 G3 SFF, going to throw 32GB of RAM, a 1TB M2 NVMe boot drive and a 4TB SATA drive for media in it (this will replace my external 4TB drive).

Right now in Proxmox I’m running a Docker VM with Debian (Transmission-VPN container, ByteStash, FreshRSS, KaraKeep), another Debian VM for Visual Studio Code so I can remote into VS Code on my Mac and iPad and couple of LXC containers (Plex, Open WebUI and Pi Hole).

Honestly Proxmox feels like overkill for what I’m doing, half of what I’m doing is either individual LXC containers or I find myself SSH’ing into the Docker VM. The Proxmox helper scripts are great, but I feel like I’m not learning much and I don’t know how much I can trust random GitHub URLs.

I’d like to start learning and becoming more self-sufficient with Linux. I was pretty excited by the idea of learning NixOS, get comfortable learning the code and then creating distinct configurations for different systems, including my Mac devices with Darwin… then I was reminded of all the recent bullshit happening in the community… I don’t want to get deep into the discussion in this thread, but I don’t really want to use/support a distro that Palmer Luckey and Anduril are trying to influence and control.

So I’m trying to decide if I should stick with Proxmox, try something like Arch or keep an eye on what’s going down with Nix and have a good backup strategy if the situation worsens.

I’d probably switch from Docker to Podman, use Wayland with Niri and learn NeoVIM and use SSH instead of VS Code remote tunnels.

Based on my current setup and my goals, what would you suggest I do?

"We're all looking for the guy that did this!"

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Khalil, who was detained by immigration authorities for three months earlier this year over his advocacy for Palestinian rights, was ordered deported to Algeria or Syria on Wednesday afternoon. The Palestinian green card holder, who was born in Syria, became a flashpoint after his detention was explicitly tied to his activism against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The news that he may now be expelled from the country should have been met with equal or greater condemnation from liberals and the left than Kimmel’s was. (Khalil appears safe so long as his federal case against the original detention proceeds, but the new immigration ruling was under new pretenses, meaning he could be deported when the federal trial ends.)

It’s a far more dangerous and brutal consequence of speech the White House doesn’t like than a suspension from late night hosting duties. Never mind the imbalance — the two cases didn’t even merit equal treatment in the eyes of the corporate media.

Kimmel is certainly more prominent and famous — a household name to much of the country — than Khalil is. That isn’t the only reason for the differing levels of outrage. Indeed, the recognition gap was in large part thanks to the corporate media’s failings to properly cover Khalil’s detention in the first place, due to the uniqueness of the main issue animating his ordeal: his advocacy for Palestine.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has signed a decree for the 2025 autumn military draft, running from October 1 to December 31, according to a decree posted on the official Russian government legal portal on September 29.

The call-up will target 135,000 Russian citizens aged 18 to 30.

Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy head of Russia’s Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate, said draftees will serve only within Russia and will not participate in Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Previously, it was reported Russia is considering a major overhaul of its conscription system that would allow for continuous draft procedures year-round, as the country grapples with unprecedented military losses in Ukraine, according to the proposed legislative changes, introduced by the head of the Russian Parliament’s Defense Committee.

Specifically at grocery stores.

This weekend I was grocery shopping, and it occurred to me whilst attempting to find the one or two whole bean offerings amid the sea of pre-ground coffee and k-cups that I haven't seen coffee grinders in a grocery store in years. It feels like, growing up through the 90s and early aughts, most stores would have at least a few options to grind fresh, or at least the Bakers near my home did. However, at some point, they were seemingly removed everywhere.

Of course, my intuition tells me that it benefits stores to not have such specialized machinery in place so as to allow maximum flexibility with store layout, but I'm curious if anyone has an inside scoop.

A classified US military intelligence report seen by the ABC says China is rapidly building up the country's commercial ferry fleet to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan.

The report dates from earlier this year and was prepared by members of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for the Pentagon.

The US intelligence says the large ocean-going vessels have been modified to carry tanks and partake in amphibious operations.

China is building more than 70 of the large vessels by the end of 2026.

State department said it would revoke Petro’s visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian rally in New York, where he called for US soldiers to ‘disobey’ Trump

The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, has dismissed the US decision to revoke his visa and accused Washington of violating international law over his criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza.

“I no longer have a visa to travel to the United States. I don’t care. I don’t need a visa … because I’m not only a Colombian citizen but a European citizen, and I truly consider myself a free person in the world,” Petro said on social media on Saturday.

“Revoking it for denouncing genocide shows the US no longer respects international law,” he added in a post on X.

Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.

U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.

Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world's biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.