High Value Data Elements

To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4,
2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline
Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the
ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information
already collected in the ESTA application.

The high value data fields include:
a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
f. Family member dates of birth;
g. Family member places of birth;
h. Family member residencies;
i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.

Evergreen meme

I bought tuya smart thermostats and they rotate for a second now and then (it sums up when you spend time in that room). It is annoying. Is that normal? Can I stop them from doing that? They shall only rotate when they adjust the temperature.

Do other brands behave the same?

It's wild just how much they're trying to shove AI down our throats.

A new study found exposure to the chemicals increases likelihood of extremely low-weight and extremely preterm births.

Unfortunately not a great article, it's just sourced from AAP, the ABC at the moment is too busy doing live coverage of an American shooting for some reason

From Bloomberg:

Australia will ban supermarket price gouging from July 1 under a new law the government says would protect shoppers from excessive grocery prices charged by major retailers.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh said the changes would make it illegal for “very large” grocery chains to charge prices deemed “excessive” relative to their cost of supply plus a reasonable margin.

Penalties would be steep: as much as A$10 million ($6.7 million) per violation, or three times the value of any benefit gained, or 10% of annual turnover if that figure can’t be determined.

I don't know what "excessive" means and what the rate would be.

When "The Sorrow of War" was honoured by Vietnam's government as one of the 50 greatest works of literature and art since reunification, some conservative figures reacted with fury -- suggesting the novel's unvarnished depictions of the war diminished the victors' heroism.

- I have a seven year old nephew who I would like to find some computing activities that we could do together. Any ideas?

US Central Command reports an ambush on Saturday, the first attack to inflict US casualties since fall of Bashar al-Assad

Two US army soldiers and one American civilian interpreter have been killed and several other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday by the Islamic State group in central Syria, the Pentagon said.

The attack on US troops in Palmyra is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of the former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, a year ago.

The US has hundreds of troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting the Islamic State.

Don't even have TIME Magazine's Person of the Year award lmao

• The Transportation Security Administration has been providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement a list of people expected to travel through airports.

Original title: 'Catastrophe': Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town

I know you don’t gotta hand it to em but…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40295315

By Mera Aladam
12 December 2025 10:20 GMT

Overall, at least 13 buildings - already partly damaged from Israeli bombing - collapsed due to heavy rain and strong winds, according to the Gaza-based Government Media Office. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, with others wounded.

Meanwhile, over 27,000 tents of displaced families have been destroyed or swept away by floods and strong winds. More than 250,000 displaced people have been affected by rain, floods, and collapsing shelters.

Over 4,300 distress calls have been made across the Gaza Strip since the storm began earlier this week, the Ministry of Interior and National Security said.

Despite limited resources, the ministry said search-and-rescue civil defence teams, along with police, are doing their best to help people.

Bitwarden lite self-host deployment, formerly unified, is now generally available! This self-host option is a more lightweight and flexible deployment alternative, ideal for homelab enthusiasts and community members who want to get started quickly with self-hosting Bitwarden. With the release of general availability, Bitwarden lite users can benefit from enhanced performance and reliability.

Seems to be an official alternative to Vaultwarden

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40294347

By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
13 December 2025 09:44 GMT

“From the first day we came back, we heard bombardment, demolitions and gunfire,” Hamed said.

“It would start at sunset and continue until dawn.”

At first, they assumed the explosions were far away, believing the Yellow Line was still distant.

But now, Hamed can see the yellow concrete blocks placed by Israeli forces from his window – a sight that wasn’t there just weeks ago.

Across Gaza, the temporary demarcation line has been shifting, creeping ever closer to densely populated areas and fuelling fears of renewed displacement and violence by Israel.

I told my friend I was learning music. She asked what I was trying to learn, so I said music. She asked what in specific, so I gave her the current list. She thinks I'm kidding.

• Guitar
• Ukulele
• Piano
• Music theory
• Reading music
• Finger drumming
• Abelton
• Renoise
• Bitwig
• Maschine
• Pigments
• Buttersynth
• Deluge
• Minifreak
• Polyend Play
• Polyend Tracker
• Dirtywave M8
• Chompi
• Abelton Note
• Koala
• Loopy Pro

Those are the things I'm actively working on with a laundry list of other things for later. The moment I get a little bored with one thing, I jump to another.

If I cut a thing in two, are the two pieces together exactly the same size as the original?

Or to rephrase it: does a knife/scissors/etc just split something or does it remove something?

take a bike ride around the city, maybe do some errands you've been planning, get that sense of accomplishment and feel the breeze on your concealed face, that's what I call a chill vibe alright

For the better part of a century, there was one thing even the U.S. government would not do to pad the profits of defense contractors.

Now, more than 80 years of precedent may be coming to an end.

On Thursday, lawmakers in the House approved a “pilot program” in the pending Pentagon budget bill that could eventually open the door to sending billions to big contractors, while providing what critics say would be little benefit to the military.

The provision, which appeared in the budget bill after a closed-door session overseen by top lawmakers, would allow contractors to claim reimbursement for the interest they pay on debt they take on to build weapons and other gadgets for the armed services.