“Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening,” U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin, a Clinton appointee, wrote in a Feb. 19 opinion. “Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government — masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind — are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process.”

“The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order,” he continued.

Original Reddit post, which the article almost exclusively pulls from: https://old.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1reqtvi/82000_in_48_hours_from_stolen_gemini_api_key_my/

Please forgive any typos, my brian is still very much recovering. I'm not promoting anything cause nothing I've made yet is really worth much to anyone but my self,and everything is far from polished. I'm just sharing what I'm doing. In November '24, I had a mid level stroke. I've had issues with motor skills, headaches, and short term memory, but for the most part I'm doing quite well. For the last 6-8 months, I build a home server, (AMD 3700x, 64GB of RAM, 6TBNvME, and 2x 12TB HDD, old NVIDIA 2060. I setup up Jellyfin, ripped our 400ish Blu Rays, DVDs, and TV Shows. Setup Navidrone, and ripped our CDs, Home Assistant, AudoBookshelf, ConvertX, MeTube, and several other apps mostly discovered here. I also wrote my own app to track our large physical Media Collection that has a few api calls for pulling info about the items., a dashboard app in the style of the old iGoogle, and I've started working on 2 other apps, one to track medical information like blood pressure, glucose, doc appts, care team, medications, etc. The other app is for TTRPG GMs to run games that will basically be a digital GM Screen with a dozen or so tools.

I was a web developer for 20 years before the stroke so I had some previous entry level experience with this type of stuff, but not on this level. Mine was more for like corporate websites. My doctor believes this process has indeed sped up my recovery significantly. So this is just a post to say thanks for this community that has given me tons of ideas for things to try.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43807909

We need more of these lawsuits. Put an end to the excessive 30% fees for captive marketplaces.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games, dating services, and fitness trackers, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media.

The document shows in stark terms the power, and potential risk, of online advertising data and how it can be leveraged by government agencies for surveillance purposes. The news comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purchased similar tools that can monitor the movements of phones in entire neighbourhoods. ICE also recently said in public procurement documents it was interested in sourcing more “Ad Tech” data for its investigations. Following 404 Media’s revelation of that ICE purchase, on Tuesday a group of around 70 lawmakers urged the DHS oversight body to conduct a new investigation into ICE’s location data buying.

This sort of information is a “goldmine for tracking where every person is and what they read, watch, and listen to,” Johnny Ryan, director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) Enforce, which has closely followed the sale of advertising data, told 404 Media in an email.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260303141140/https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

U.S. Marines opened fire on demonstrators during the storming of the Karachi consulate over the weekend, two U.S. officials said on Monday—a rare use ​of force at a diplomatic post that could sharply escalate tensions in the country ‌amid widespread protests over the killing of Iran's leader.

Ten people were killed on Sunday when protesters breached the compound’s outer wall after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in strikes on Iran.

We must rediscover our revolutionary solidarity.

I went through all the Epstein Files and compiled 47 hits on socialism/communism and related individuals.

I went through all the Epstein Files and compiled 47 hits on socialism/communism and related individuals.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43970263

President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.

March 2, 2026

https://archive.ph/azCI5

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43969890

With the war against Iran underway, and the U.S. military as a powerful ally, the Israeli government is seizing its chance to move against other adversaries

March 3, 2026

https://archive.ph/lC8DN

Hello there, good people of lemmy world! It was my mistake to never post Dawarich updates here before and I'm here to fix it! I hope you'll find it interesting and useful.

In case you don't know what Dawarich is, it's your favorite free open-source self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline and your memory's best friend.

Github: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: https://dawarich.app/

Oh well, what a journey. It all started as a simple CRUD app with an endpoint to accept data from the Owntracks app for iOS. The first versions didn't even have authentication! Why bother, thought I, if I'm the only user. And look at us now.

What do we have now

So, let's have a look at our current set of features, shall we?

As of today, we have:

• Location tracking
  • Via Dawarich for iOS and Android (yeah we have the Android app now!)
  • Via GPSLogger, Overland, OwnTracks, Homeassistant, PhoneTrack, Colota and whatnot
• Location visualization
  • On a flat surface or on a globe
  • As points, routes, heatmap, fog of war
  • As extra layers, such as scratch map
• Visits, areas and places
  • Can be created manually or detected and suggested automatically
  • Tags for places, including privacy settings (hide my location history in X meters around a place that have a tag with privacy settings assigned)
• Family
  • With full privacy and location sharing only on consent
• Map tools
  • Places, visits and areas creation
  • Area selection tool (to show visits and manage points in selected area)
  • Transportation modes
  • Replay tool (oh I love it, gonna tell a bit more about it below)
  • Map search: enter place name or address to see when you visited it
• Trips
  • Utilizing photos integration to show photos along the trip route
• Stats
  • Total distance, points, countries and cities
  • Per-year and per-month distance traveled charts
• Insights
  • Per-year distance traveled
  • Traveling heatmap
  • Countries and cities visited
  • Days traveled
  • Year-to-year comparison
  • Monthly insights
  • Activity breakdown (stationary vs driving vs walking etc.)
  • Top visited locations
  • "When do you travel" patterns
• Imports and exports
  • Almost a dozen of supported file formats to import
  • Export to GPX, GeoJSON and full user account export

Huh, that's pretty much it, right? I mean, what a progress. All thanks to you and your support guys.

The Android app release

At the beginning of this year we've finally released our own Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeitflow.dawarich

It's, of course, still rough around the edges, but I see it as a huge win and an opportunity to do more exciting stuff on the mobiles. The main focus, of course, is the tracking quality, and I think with the most recent release we got there and it works pretty stable now, but what do I know, I only yesterday ordered an android phone for internal tests! :D But seriously, please do share your feedback, it's crucial for the quality of our apps. Once again — thank you.

By the way, we also have an unofficial android app built by sunstep, a member of Dawarich community: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sunstep.dawarich. Check it out as well, he put tremendous amount of work into it. The mobile shift

We're working on moving the iOS app to the same codebase, as the Android one, so they would effectively share the same UI layer, while keeping native location tracking mechanisms for both platform under the hood. This means that the iOS app will rather soon be updated and both apps will have a green light to receive new features.

This is important, because we want our apps to able to do more. Dawarich started with the idea to bring convenience of the big screen back when Google killed the web-based Timeline, but hey, it's 2026 and people are running around with phones in their pockets for what, 15 years now? Or more, I didn't check that, but the idea is that web is awesome, but it's also very convenient to be able to quickly check your data on your smaller screen while commuting or otherwise not having access to the bigger screen. That's why we want to bring more viewing functionality to our apps. Trips, stats, insights (they are already there in the Android app by the way) and more.

And, just to make it clear: all 3rd party mobile clients currently supported will be also supported in the future. We have no plans enforcing our users to switch to our official apps. The choice belongs to you. The Replay

Remember I mentioned a replay tool in the feature list? Well, check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XiG5Kcevr4

sounds of excitement

I initially called it "Timeline" but the actual Timeline was introduced a few days later, so I renamed it to what it is — the Replay button. Love it.

Supporters Badge

More than a hundred people (I think the number is now closer to two hundreds) supported and keep supporting us financially during these two years, and as a small token of appreciation, we'd like to offer a nice shiny Supported Badge that will be shown in your Dawarich UI, see the screenshot.

It's an optional thing, that can be enabled in Settings -> General -> Supporter Status form. Just enter the email you used to sign in on a platform you supported us through (GitHub Sponsors / Ko-Fi / Patreon), and if it's in our supporters list, you'll receive this nice shiny badge. It can be disabled though, in case you don't like it. No pressure.

The webhooks from GitHub are currently a bit broken, so if you donated via Github Sponsors and verification didn't work for you, feel free to reach me directly and I'll add you to the supporters list manually.

What's next

We already have some new features in progress, so more good stuff is coming. One particular thing I'm super excited about, but I'll keep it a secret for now. Just wanted to heat up the excitement a bit :D

Aside from the plans for mobile, I'm working on improvements for trips, visits & places (which are begging for an UI/UX rework) and some stuff will be introduced in order to reduce the database sizes of your self-hosted instances. Keep an eye on the releases, it's all there.

You, the people

Once again, I want to say thank you to all of you: for reading my posts, for installing Dawarich and trying it out, for providing feedback, for creating issues with thorough bug reports on GitHub, for testing our Android app during the beta period, for being part of our Discord community. Thank you to all of our contributors: we have a few PRs with meaningful contributions opened and some already merged, one of them reduced time of our docker images build from ~70 mins to roughly 25 mins. We have a lot of low-hanging fruits waiting to be fixed in our code, simply because I don't always have time to address all the known issues. Don't hesitate to dive in and open a PR if you feel like you can improve something in Dawarich.

To save you a scroll, as always, the links one more time:

Github: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: https://dawarich.app/

The work continues, and there will be more, better and faster.

~ Evgenii from Dawarich---

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/52713

❗️US troops report commanders framing Iran war as ‘God’s plan’

As first reported by independent journalist Jonathan Larsen, a US combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers that the war on Iran is part of “God’s divine plan,” allegedly claiming President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus” to ignite Armageddon. The complaint, filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, is one of more than 110 logged within 48 hours from over 40 units across at least 30 installations. Complainants, including Christians, a Muslim, and a Jew, have requested anonymity to avoid retaliation. The Pentagon has yet to respond.

According to MRFF President Mikey Weinstein, service members report “unrestricted euphoria” among segments of the chain of command portraying the assault on Iran as biblically sanctioned and tied to end-times prophecy in the Book of Revelation. One NCO wrote that such rhetoric is eroding morale and violating constitutional oaths, particularly for troops in Ready-Support status who could be deployed at any moment.

The controversy unfolds as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth expands overt evangelical programming within the Pentagon, including prayer sessions and Bible studies aligned with staunch pro-Israel theology. Weinstein reports that many US commanders appear particularly enthused by the prospect of an intensely violent confrontation, emphasizing how much bloodshed they believe is necessary to align events with a fundamentalist Christian end-times narrative.

...On March 2, QatarEnergy — the state-owned energy giant responsible for all of the country’s liquefied natural gas exports — announced a complete halt to LNG production...their shutdown effectively removes roughly 20% of the world’s LNG export capacity from the market in one hit...This goes beyond sentiment and sits squarely in the let’s-affect-fundamentals territory...This episode will embed a geopolitical risk premium far deeper into LNG pricing than existed even at the height of the Russia-Ukraine crisis...The long-term impact could be structural and include reconfigured trade flows, geopolitical risk premiums baked into contracts, changes in investment strategies, and a renewed urgency for diversification of supplies.

Physical and sexual violence affects roughly a third of women in the European Union during their lifetime, but most incidents ​go unreported, a survey revealed on Tuesday.

Prevalence rates varied significantly, ranging from 57.1% in Finland to 11.9% in Bulgaria.

Finland's Nordic neighbours, known for high gender equality, also showed high levels ​of violence, with ​52.5% of women ⁠in Sweden and 47.5% in Denmark experiencing violence, while lower-equality countries to the south show more complex reporting ​dynamics.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently selfhosting a website that has quite an audience (~2 000 unique visitors/day) and I’m trying to measure that audience more precisely.

I just want to have a simple report of the most viewed pages, the most popular browser, etc… very very basic stuff.

I want to avoid client-side solution as they can and will very easily be blocked and render my effort completely useless. I had a Matomo until 2023 that registered less than half the visits when compared to my access logs.

I tried to look into GoAccess but it gathers a lot (and I mean A LOOOOOT) of chinese/indian/russian bots which are pretty difficult to filter out (if you have a method, please share it, I’m very curious!).

Is there any way you’re aware of to have decent stats without invading the privacy of my visitors or counting bots?

Fuck Cars.

archive: https://archive.is/c4JHd

A permanent ban on fracking is back on the agenda in Tasmania with the Tasmanian Greens planning to introduce a bill to ban the harmful practice in the opening days of parliament.

The state has maintained a temporary ban on hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) for oil and gas since 2015, extending five-year moratoriums in 2020 and again in 2025.

However, the Greens want to follow Victoria’s lead and rule it out permanently.