Six charities have dropped the Duchess of York as a patron or ambassador after an email from 2011 emerged in which she called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein her "supreme friend" and seemed to apologise for her public criticism of him.

Julia's House, a children's hospice charity, was the first to remove Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, saying it was "inappropriate" for her to continue in the role.

Later on Monday, the Teenage Cancer Trust, Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, the Children's Literacy Charity and Prevent Breast Cancer also announced they had dropped the duchess as patron.

The British Heart Foundation also said she would no longer be the charity's ambassador.

Article about the email: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj11l3wd35o

I'm working on self hosting a e-cloud server ( for e/os phones). The mail server component of it wants to have a rDNS PTR record from my public IP back to mail.<myDomain.com>. I can't do that since I'm using dDNS and my ISP won't give me that ability unless I have business service (very expensive). The ISP I have is my only choice and I hate them. I have DNS Zones hoisted elsewhere to handle my dDNS scripts for everything but rDNS. So on tyo my question, Anyone know of a way to get a public IP service that will allow me to make a rDNS PTR entry and forward all traffic to my real public IP? Would that even work?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I have considered VPS but I'm trying to save the extra cost of the VPS and also like the idea of having all my data where I can actually touch it. I was hoping for something like a reverse proxy service I could get with DNS and a static IP (so I could have rDNS) for cheaper than a VPS since I would not need the storage, CPU, etc.

Yeah, same here in SEA since May. It just rained heavily even though it should be the dry season.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36298939

New research reveals that the DNA switches controlling human finger development originated from genes that regulated fish cloacas 380 million years ago[^1].

"Rather than building a new regulatory system for the digits, nature has repurposed an existing mechanism, initially active in the cloaca," explains developmental geneticist Denis Duboule from the University of Geneva[^1].

The research team discovered this by comparing fish and mouse genomes, focusing on Hoxd genes. When they tagged DNA switches with fluorescent markers, these lit up in mouse digits but in fish cloacas. Deleting these genetic elements using CRISPR-Cas9 disrupted finger development in mice and cloaca formation in fish[^1].

"The common feature between the cloaca and the digits is that they represent terminal parts," notes geneticist Aurélie Hintermann. "Sometimes they are the end of tubes in the digestive system, sometimes the end of feet and hands"[^1].

[^1]: ScienceAlert - Fish Buttholes May Be The Reason We Now Have Fingers, Study Finds

I can benchpress a bus, I'll do it, don't fucking try me.

The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.

The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.

Hello selfhosters!

I have what is hopefully a simple ask. I am looking for some outdoor cameras for my sister, who is not at all tech savvy. I am, to an extent, and I'd like to get her set up with a small, remotely-manageable system to view and record the outside of her home. I'd wager there's a plethora of selfhost software that can be run on a number of systems (I'm thinking something cheap like a Raspberry Pi), to connect to an external HDD for camera storage.

I'm also looking for camera suggestions for this purpose. Wi-Fi cameras are ideal, since we don't have the means to run ethernet for PoE.

Thank you for your time, and I hope you all have a wonderful week :)

I ate an entire cast iron pan after the cast iron pan struggle session and now I don’t feel so good

A drone missile targeted a car carrying a family of six in the town of Bint Jbeil

i'm trying to setup nginx to run as a proxy to aggregate multiple services. running on different ports on the server, using nginx to let me connect to all the services by going to a specific subdirectory. so i can keep only one port open in the router between my lab and the main house network.

i'm using the following config file from an example i found to do this, with a landing page to let me get to the other services:

# Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;

ssl_certificate /certs/cert.pem;  # Path to your SSL certificate
ssl_certificate_key /certs/key.pem;  # Path to your SSL certificate key

location / {
    root /var/www/html;  # Path to the directory containing your HTML file
    index index.html;  # Default file to serve
}


location /transbt {
#configuration for transmission
    proxy_pass http://10.89.0.3:9091/;  
proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

but the problem i'm having is that, while nginx does redirect to transmission's login prompt just fine, after logging in it tries to redirect me to 10.0.0.114:1403/transmission/web instead of remaining in 10.0.0.114:1403/transbt and breaks the page. i've found a configuration file that should work, but it manually redirects each subdirectory transmission tries to use, and adds proxy_pass_header X-Transmission-Session-Id; which i'm not sure what's accomplishing: github gist

is there a way to do it without needing to declare it explicitly for each subdirectory? especially since i need to setup other services, and i doubt i'll find config files for those as well it's my first time setting up nginx, and i haven't been able to find anything to make it work.

Edit: I forgot to mention. The server is still inside of a nat. It's not reachable by the outside. The SSL certificate is self signed and it's just a piece of mind because a lot of things connect to the home net. And none of the services I plan to use only support http.

The last two years have witnessed the hottest one in history, some of the worst wildfire seasons across Canada, Europe and South America and deadly flooding and heat waves throughout the globe. Over that same period, the world’s largest fossil fuel producers have expanded their planned output for the future, setting humanity on an even more dangerous path into a warmer climate.

Governments now expect to produce more than twice as much coal, oil and gas in 2030 as would be consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement, according to a report released Monday. That level is slightly higher than what it was in 2023, the last time the biennial Production Gap report was published.

The increase is driven by a slower projected phaseout of coal and higher outlook for gas production by some of the top producers, including China and the United States.

I Dort_Owl have a large collection of funkopops and the first 24 karat gold labubu

Why save a bunch of kids and HIV positive people when you can save FX traders?

I've tested the game on PC and mobile. I could not get a controller working on PC, so you'll have to rely on keyboard inputs. However, there are touch controls if you play in a mobile browser, which means you can play on your phone any time you want, since the game is free.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/10438

I recently upgraded my network from a basic router to a Netgear GS108E Gigabit switch. Backups are now way faster, which is great… but now I’ve run into a new problem.

I run Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) in a VM on one of my servers (let’s call it Proxmox 2). PBS has 100 GB of cache storage since I’m using S3 as a datastore - it stores chunks locally before uploading to S3.

Here’s the issue: I try to backup a VM from another server (Proxmox 1). The VM’s storage is 300 GB, but actual usage is under 30 GB. Everything works fine until it hits 34% (104 GB of data). At that point, the PBS VM and the host server itself become completely unreachable. I have to force power off and restart.

I understand why PBS might crash – my VM has 4 GB RAM, 2 CPU cores, and my internet is only around 60–70 Mbps—but why would the host server hang as well?

Has anyone experienced something like this? Could it be networking, storage, or something else in Proxmox causing the host to become unresponsive when PBS gets busy? Any ideas or advice would be appreciated!

For further context: https://lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/5455