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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/48072927

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Internal documents from a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company indicated that China has been using the technology to intervene in foreign elections, including propaganda targeting Taiwan’s local elections next year and presidential elections in 2028, a Japanese newspaper reported yesterday.

The Institute of National Security of Vanderbilt University obtained nearly 400 pages of documents from GoLaxy, a company with ties to the Chinese government, and found evidence that it had apparently deployed sophisticated, AI-driven propaganda campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan to shape public opinion, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

GoLaxy provides insights, situation analysis and public opinion-shaping technology by conducting network surveillance and identifying key public opinion influencers. It analyzes those people’s psychological tendencies, values and linguistic characteristics, including specific dialect expressions, and creates a fictional character with similar traits, the paper reported.

[...]

The fictional characters not only unilaterally spread disinformation, but could also engage in online discussions with their target audience to influence them, it said.

A person working in Taiwan’s AI industry told the newspaper that given the advancement in AI, it is nearly impossible to identify AI-generated characters on social media.

[...]

The Yomiuri Shimbun report said that as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) administration aims to block President William Lai (賴清德) from getting re-elected in 2028, public opinion warfare in the nine-in-one local elections next year — often seen as the prelude to the presidential election — is expected to be intensified.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/48071860

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A new report by Genocide Watch, a rights group, concludes that the Chinese Communist Party’s policies against Uyghur Muslims meet multiple advanced stages of genocide under international law.

The report finds that the Chinese government’s actions in Chinese-occupied East Turkistan aka the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region span Stages 3, 8, 9, and 10 of genocide. These include systematic discrimination, mass persecution through detention and torture, exterminatory acts such as mass rape and the removal of Uyghur children, and ongoing denial by Chinese authorities and their international defenders.

Genocide Watch documents the use of mass detention camps, forced political indoctrination, bans on the Uyghur language, widespread destruction of mosques, forced labor programs, coercive population control policies, and the separation of Uyghur children from their families into Mandarin-only institutions. The report warns that these acts constitute both genocide and crimes against humanity under the Genocide Convention.

“This report removes any remaining ambiguity,” said Arslan Hidayat, Team Lead of the Save Uyghur Campaign. “Genocide Watch is clear that what is happening to Uyghurs is not cultural policy or counterterrorism. It is a coordinated campaign that has reached the extermination and denial stages of genocide. Governments that continue business as usual with Beijing are choosing complicity over accountability.”

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“These recommendations are not radical. They are the minimum legal and moral obligations of states that claim to uphold human rights,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, President of Justice For All. “The stages of genocide identified in this report are a warning to the world. History will judge whether governments acted when the evidence was undeniable or looked away while an entire people were erased.”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40913756

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40885270

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And you Dengists will still defend this

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Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

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Air traffic was disrupted in Hanover in the northern German state of Lower Saxony after unidentified drones were detected in the area, a Hanover airport spokesperson said on Saturday.

The closure of Hanover airport lasted from 9:47 p.m. local time (2047 UTC) on Friday until 12:16 a.m. on Saturday.

The origin of the drones was not immediately clear.

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In the post about European semiconductor decline my comment about average citizens having to invest more, was massively downvoted. Since nobody will read my reply there, here is the quote from the Draghi report that shows why more private investment is necessary.

Unless you plan a revolution, please take a moment to read the quote.

Part B, page 281

The failure of high EU savings to flow into productive investments in Europe comes down to less efficient financial intermediation. The persistent shortfall of investment vis-à-vis the US has occurred even though EU households save more than their peers in the US. In 2022, EU household savings were EUR 1,390 billion compared with EUR 840 billion in the US, reflecting the lower savings rate of US households, which is around a quarter of the EU level04. However, despite their higher savings, EU households have considerably lower wealth than their US counterparts, largely because of the lower returns they receive from financial markets on their asset holdings.

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I'm trying to set up Nextcloud using the AIO Docker install onto my Synology.

I got through the first stage of setup, and navigated to the /containers page. It shows all containers as "Starting", with a yellow dot. Except for the Fulltextsearch, which is Stopped red (due to me stopping it, after I realised I had installed it despite my platform not supporting Seccomp, but the "Optional containers" checkbox being greyed out even when it’s stopped).

Many of these containers show as green/healthy in the DSM Container Manager even though the /containers page doesn't show them as such.

Logs for the different containers:

Mastercontainer logs:

Trying to fix docker.sock permissions internally...
Adding internal www-data to group root
DOCKER_API_VERSION was found to be set to '1.43'.
Please note that only v1.44 is officially supported and tested by the maintainers of Nextcloud AIO.
So you run on your own risk and things might break without warning.
WARNING: No kernel memory TCP limit support
WARNING: No cpu cfs quota support
WARNING: No cpu cfs period support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_iops_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_iops_device support
WARNING: No kernel memory TCP limit support
WARNING: No cpu cfs quota support
WARNING: No cpu cfs period support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_iops_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_iops_device support
Initial startup of Nextcloud All-in-One complete!
You should be able to open the Nextcloud AIO Interface now on port 8080 of this server!
E.g. https://internal.ip.of.this.server:8080/
⚠️ Important: do always use an ip-address if you access this port and not a domain as HSTS might block access to it later!

If your server has port 80 and 8443 open and you point a domain to your server, you can get a valid certificate automatically by opening the Nextcloud AIO Interface via:
https://your-domain-that-points-to-this-server.tld:8443/
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/supervisor/options.py:13: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.
  import pkg_resources
{"level":"warn","ts":1766322552.6626272,"msg":"failed to set GOMAXPROCS","error":"open /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/cpu.cfs_quota_us: no such file or directory"}
{"level":"info","ts":1766322552.6628811,"msg":"GOMEMLIMIT is updated","package":"github.com/KimMachineGun/automemlimit/memlimit","GOMEMLIMIT":3671407411,"previous":9223372036854775807}
{"level":"info","ts":1766322552.6629462,"msg":"using config from file","file":"/Caddyfile"}
{"level":"info","ts":1766322552.6645825,"msg":"adapted config to JSON","adapter":"caddyfile"}
{"level":"info","ts":1766322552.6664238,"msg":"serving initial configuration"}
[mpm_event:notice] [pid 152:tid 152] AH00489: Apache/2.4.66 (Unix) OpenSSL/3.5.4 configured -- resuming normal operations
[core:notice] [pid 152:tid 152] AH00094: Command line: 'httpd -D FOREGROUND'
NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 157
NOTICE: ready to handle connections
NOTICE: PHP message: 404 Not Found
Type: Slim\Exception\HttpNotFoundException
Code: 404
Message: Not found.
File: /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php
Line: 76
Trace: #0 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Routing/RouteRunner.php(62): Slim\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware->performRouting(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#1 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/csrf/src/Guard.php(482): Slim\Routing\RouteRunner->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#2 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareDispatcher.php(178): Slim\Csrf\Guard->process(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest), Object(Slim\Routing\RouteRunner))
#3 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/twig-view/src/TwigMiddleware.php(117): Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#4 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareDispatcher.php(129): Slim\Views\TwigMiddleware->process(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest), Object(Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous))
#5 /var/www/docker-aio/php/src/Middleware/AuthMiddleware.php(53): Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#6 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareDispatcher.php(283): AIO\Middleware\AuthMiddleware->__invoke(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest), Object(Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous))
#7 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Middleware/ErrorMiddleware.php(77): Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#8 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareDispatcher.php(129): Slim\Middleware\ErrorMiddleware->process(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest), Object(Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous))
#9 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareDispatcher.php(73): Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface@anonymous->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#10 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(209): Slim\MiddlewareDispatcher->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#11 /var/www/docker-aio/php/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(193): Slim\App->handle(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest))
#12 /var/www/docker-aio/php/public/index.php(200): Slim\App->run()
#13 {main}
Tips: To display error details in HTTP response set "displayErrorDetails" to true in the ErrorHandler constructor.
NOTICE: Terminating ...
NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!
[mpm_event:notice] [pid 152:tid 152] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

Database logs:

+ rm -rf '/var/lib/postgresql/data/*'
+ touch /mnt/data/initial-cleanup-done
+ set +ex
chmod: /var/run/postgresql: Operation not permitted
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

Data page checksums are disabled.

fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
selecting default "max_connections" ... 100
selecting default "shared_buffers" ... 128MB
selecting default time zone ... Australia/Brisbane
creating configuration files ... ok
running bootstrap script ... ok
sh: locale: not found
[30] WARNING:  no usable system locales were found
performing post-bootstrap initialization ... ok
initdb: warning: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
initdb: hint: You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or --auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb.
syncing data to disk ... ok


Success. You can now start the database server using:

    pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -l logfile start

waiting for server to start....
[36] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 17.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 15.2.0) 15.2.0, 64-bit
[36] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
[39] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2025-12-21 23:21:07 AEST
[36] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
 done
server started
CREATE DATABASE


/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: running /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-user-db.sh
CREATE ROLE
ALTER DATABASE
+ touch /mnt/data/initialization.failed
+ psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --username nextcloud --dbname nextcloud_database
GRANT
GRANT
+ rm /mnt/data/initialization.failed

waiting for server to shut down....2025-12-21 23:21:12.597 AEST [36] LOG:  received fast shutdown request
+ set +ex
[36] LOG:  aborting any active transactions
[36] LOG:  background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 42) exited with exit code 1
[37] LOG:  shutting down
[37] LOG:  checkpoint starting: shutdown immediate
[37] LOG:  checkpoint complete: wrote 934 buffers (5.7%); 0 WAL file(s) added, 0 removed, 0 recycled; write=0.805 s, sync=0.674 s, total=2.456 s; sync files=308, longest=0.322 s, average=0.003 s; distance=4260 kB, estimate=4260 kB; lsn=0/19163B0, redo lsn=0/19163B0
[36] LOG:  database system is shut down
 done
server stopped

PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.

[14] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 17.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 15.2.0) 15.2.0, 64-bit
[14] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
[14] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
[14] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
[57] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2025-12-21 23:21:15 AEST
[14] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
[55] LOG:  checkpoint starting: time
[55] LOG:  checkpoint complete: wrote 48 buffers (0.3%); 0 WAL file(s) added, 0 removed, 0 recycled; write=4.592 s, sync=0.911 s, total=6.666 s; sync files=13, longest=0.172 s, average=0.071 s; distance=270 kB, estimate=270 kB; lsn=0/1959CE8, redo lsn=0/1959C58
++ rm -f /mnt/data/database-dump.sql.temp
++ touch /mnt/data/export.failed
++ pg_dump --username nextcloud nextcloud_database
++ rm -f /mnt/data/database-dump.sql
++ mv /mnt/data/database-dump.sql.temp /mnt/data/database-dump.sql
++ pg_ctl stop -m fast
[14] LOG:  received fast shutdown request
[14] LOG:  aborting any active transactions
[14] LOG:  background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 60) exited with exit code 1
[55] LOG:  shutting down
[55] LOG:  checkpoint starting: shutdown immediate
[55] LOG:  checkpoint complete: wrote 0 buffers (0.0%); 0 WAL file(s) added, 0 removed, 0 recycled; write=0.001 s, sync=0.001 s, total=0.502 s; sync files=0, longest=0.000 s, average=0.000 s; distance=0 kB, estimate=243 kB; lsn=0/1959D98, redo lsn=0/1959D98
[14] LOG:  database system is shut down
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped
++ rm /mnt/data/export.failed
++ echo 'Database dump successful!'
++ set +x
Database dump successful!
Setting postgres values...
chmod: /var/run/postgresql: Operation not permitted

PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization

[14] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 17.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 15.2.0) 15.2.0, 64-bit
[14] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
[14] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
[14] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
[24] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2025-12-21 23:49:29 AEST
[14] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections

Nextcloud logs:

Waiting for database to start...
Waiting for database to start...
Waiting for database to start...

Redis logs:

Memory overcommit is disabled but necessary for safe operation
See https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/discussions/1731 how to enable overcommit
Redis has started
# WARNING Memory overcommit must be enabled! Without it, a background save or replication may fail under low memory condition. Being disabled, it can also cause failures without low memory condition, see https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/1328. To fix this issue add 'vm.overcommit_memory = 1' to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or run the command 'sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1' for this to take effect.
# WARNING: The TCP backlog setting of 511 cannot be enforced because /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn is set to the lower value of 128.

I don’t think Redis is related to my current problem, but I suspect they may be an issue later...

Configuration

AIO compass.yaml file:

name: nextcloud-aio
services:
  nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer:
    image: ghcr.io/nextcloud-releases/all-in-one:latest
    init: true
    restart: always
    container_name: nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer
    volumes:
      - nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config
      - /run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    network_mode: bridge
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    environment:
      APACHE_PORT: 11000
      APACHE_IP_BINDING: 127.0.0.1
      DOCKER_API_VERSION: 1.43 # As far as I can tell, this is the version supported on Synology when running "docker version | grep API"
      NEXTCLOUD_DATADIR: /volume1/nextcloud
      WATCHTOWER_DOCKER_SOCKET_PATH: /run/docker.sock
      COLLABORA_SECCOMP_DISABLED: true

volumes:
  nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:
    name: nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer

Does anyone have any idea of how to get this working? Or of good troubleshooting steps to try?

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“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

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I'll start as an example: in the song Mr. Brightside by the Killers, the word "swimming" in "swimming through sick lullabies" is pronounced with a 't' at the start like in "tsunami". It's "tswimming through sick lullabies".

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40805695

I have two machines:

  • 2014 Mac Mini
  • HP Pavilion g7

Mac Mini 2014:

Very slow, probably can no longer be updated, nor can it run worthwhile programs.

HP Pavilion g7

Extremely bulky, chunky, and doesn't even turn on unless it's plugged in. It's basically a desktop since the battery doesn't hold a charge.

I put Linux on it (Mint I think) a few months ago as a weekend experiment.

Question:

What should I do with them? Are they worth salvaging? Should I simply donate or recycle them?

I was thinking I could use at least one of them as a home media server or something so that I can disconnect my Smart TV from the internet, but I'm not sure if they will hold or how I would even control them from my phone (Android) if I'm sitting on the couch.

Open to all ideas. I'm somewhat technical (perhaps far less than the Lemmy community), but I don't know much about Linux or the command line unless I'm given step by step instructions on how to do something.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40805695

I have two machines:

  • 2014 Mac Mini
  • HP Pavilion g7

Mac Mini 2014:

Very slow, probably can no longer be updated, nor can it run worthwhile programs.

HP Pavilion g7

Extremely bulky, chunky, and doesn't even turn on unless it's plugged in. It's basically a desktop since the battery doesn't hold a charge.

I put Linux on it (Mint I think) a few months ago as a weekend experiment.

Question:

What should I do with them? Are they worth salvaging? Should I simply donate or recycle them?

I was thinking I could use at least one of them as a home media server or something so that I can disconnect my Smart TV from the internet, but I'm not sure if they will hold or how I would even control them from my phone (Android) if I'm sitting on the couch.

Open to all ideas. I'm somewhat technical (perhaps far less than the Lemmy community), but I don't know much about Linux or the command line unless I'm given step by step instructions on how to do something.

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I have two machines:

  • 2014 Mac Mini
  • HP Pavilion g7

Mac Mini 2014:

Very slow, probably can no longer be updated, nor can it run worthwhile programs.

HP Pavilion g7

Extremely bulky, chunky, and doesn't even turn on unless it's plugged in. It's basically a desktop since the battery doesn't hold a charge.

I put Linux on it (Mint I think) a few months ago as a weekend experiment.

Question:

What should I do with them? Are they worth salvaging? Should I simply donate or recycle them?

I was thinking I could use at least one of them as a home media server or something so that I can disconnect my Smart TV from the internet, but I'm not sure if they will hold or how I would even control them from my phone (Android) if I'm sitting on the couch.

Open to all ideas. I'm somewhat technical (perhaps far less than the Lemmy community), but I don't know much about Linux or the command line unless I'm given step by step instructions on how to do something.

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