There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

The Wireless music festival has been cancelled after the artist formerly known as Kanye West was banned from entering the UK amid a deepening political row over his previous antisemitic statements.

West, who is legally known as Ye, made an application to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation on Monday but it has been blocked by officials.

A spokesperson for the festival confirmed it would no longer go ahead in July after the government decision was announced, and said refunds would be issued to those who had already bought tickets.

The statement read: “The Home Office has withdrawn Ye’s ETA, denying him entry into the United Kingdom. As a result, Wireless festival is cancelled and refunds will be issued to all ticket holders.

That was quite something.

The US vice-president JD Vance has just repeatedly criticised allegedly unprecedented and “disgraceful” foreign interference in the Hungarian parliamentary election, while effectively strongly endorsing Viktor Orbán to win the vote on Sunday in what critics will no doubt see as his very own interference with the country’s electoral process.

Without skipping a beat, he smoothly moved from lambasting European “bureaucrats” for “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference” he has ever seen and accusing them of trying to “destroy the economy of Hungary” to saying he is “here to help him in this election campaign” and that and he was expecting him to win the vote on Sunday.

Lavishing praise on the embattled prime minister, he argued that he sees in Orbán someone who “ferociously advocated” for his country, “stands up for the values of western civilisation”, and is generally right on all sorts of things from energy to Ukraine.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45603802

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Iranian officials on Tuesday urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

While Iran cannot match the sophistication of U.S. and Israeli weaponry or their dominance in the air, its chokehold on the strait is roiling the world economy and raising the pressure on Trump both at home and abroad to find a way out of the standoff.

Officials involved in diplomatic efforts said talks were ongoing, but Iran has rejected the latest American proposal, and it was unclear if a deal would come in time to head off Trump’s threatened attacks. World leaders and experts warned that strikes as destructive as Trump threatened could constitute a war crime.

An oil slick from a stricken Iranian ship threatens to contaminate one of the Middle East’s most important wetlands, satellite image analysis suggests, making it one of a number of spills posing a risk to the livelihoods of coastal communities in the Gulf.

The Shahid Bagheri, a drone carrier, began leaking heavy fuel oil in Iranian territorial waters near the strait of Hormuz after it was hit by a US warplane in the first few days of the US-Israel attack on Iran.

With Iran still under heavy bombardment, no one has been able to begin cleaning up the spill and the oil has travelled slowly westwards towards the Hara biosphere reserve, the largest mangrove forest on the Gulf shoreline.

The Shahid Bagheri, described as “one of the most conceptually significant vessels” in Iran’s navy, is a container ship modified to include a short runway for launching drones. Its fuel load was likely to have been significant: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had a range of 22,000 nautical miles and could go a year between refuelling.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/44604470

This is textbook institutional neglect, weaponized and then covered up.

Detainees reported he complained of trouble breathing and feeling overheated. Medical staff allegedly did not respond until he was already unresponsive.

ICE’s own release admits the medical conditions but stonewalls the actual cause of death. His family is left in limbo, gaslit by an apparatus that operates with total impunity while taxpayer dollars subsidize private prison margins.

Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians in air strikes on a school in the Gaza Strip on Monday, in the latest breach of the October ceasefire intended to end the two-year genocide.

Local media reported that Israeli-backed armed gangs raided a school east of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, attempting to find and kidnap people. Residents confronted the groups, sparking armed clashes.

During the clashes, Israeli fighter jets bombed the area, killing 10 people. Israel has routinely intervened when its allied armed groups come under attack in Gaza.

On Sunday, seven more Palestinians were killed, including a UN contractor working as a driver for a World Health Organisation (WHO) truck that was targeted.

As crappy as it sounds.

Last month, Trump said Orbán had his "complete and total support" in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.

On Sunday Orbán faces Péter Magyar, a former insider in the prime minister's Fidesz party, who broke with him two years ago to found the centre-right Tisza party.

Tisza leads Fidesz by between 10% and 20% in most polls. Only the strongly pro-government Nézőpont agency puts Fidesz narrowly ahead.

I'm going to set up a WireGuard server on my router. I want my mom to be able to use it but she lives very far away so setup will need to be done remotely. What's the best way to go about this? I need to share the WG config somehow.

She's not great at computers either, so any tips on how to easily install and set things up on her computer would be appreciated.

I've been trying to avoid Tailscale or Netbird, but maybe that would be the best solution in the end. I'm not interested in self-hosting a relay or management service though, I feel like I'm way too inexperienced to secure such an important system. Should anyone compromise the VPS, both me and my mom's devices would also be compromised (I assume).

Thanks!