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The future

Iran understands it is dealing with an erratic U.S. president, but its negotiators still believe they can thread the needle with Trump.

Crosspost from https://lemmy.ml/post/43614333

in a long history of US military failures, Iran is more prepared than any previous adversary.

Ever since Readarr was officially discontinued, many forks and replacements have popped up. I'm currently running pennydreadful/bookshelf, which seems to be chugging along. Faustvii/Readarr is also around but seems to not be actively meaintained??

There's also Chaptarr, which looks promising, but I've heard concerns about it being vibe-coded and such (see rreading-glasses: "I do not endorse the vibe-coded Chaptarr project."). Does anybody know to what extent this is true, and what the code quality is like?

Archived:https://archive.ph/20260223235809/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/23/with-expected-us-retreat-germany-seeks-to-strengthen-its-role-within-nato_6750802_4.html

Berlin has invested hundreds of billions of euros to rearm since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and aims to play a major role within the North Atlantic Alliance, particularly as the US moves toward isolation.

China has a considerable competitive edge over Korea in robotics, electric vehicles (EVs), battery and also semiconductor industries, excluding the memory chip sector, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) said in its latest report on the countries' competitiveness in advanced industries. The report is based on a survey conducted on industrial experts in September.

The title says basically everything but let me elaborate.

Given the recent news about the sold out of harddrives for the current year and possibly also the next years (tomshardware article) I try to buy the HDDs I want to use for the next few years earlier than expected.

I am on a really tight budget so I really don't want to overspend. I have an old tower PC laying around which I would like to turn into a DIY NAS probably with TrueNAS Scale.

I don't expect high loads, it will only be 1-2 users with medium writing and reading.

In this article from howtogeek the author talks about the differences and I get it, but a lot of the people commenting seem to be in a similar position as I am. Not really a lot of read-write load, only a few users, and many argue computing HDDs are fine for this use case.

Possibilites I came up with until now:

1. Buy two pricey Seagate Ironwolf or WD Red HDDs and put them in RAID1
2. Buy three cheaper Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue and put two in RAID1 and keep one as a backup if (or should I say when?) one of the used drives fails.

I am thankful for every comment or experience you might have with this topic!

If the overall EU budget is reduced, the EU’s Horizon research and innovation fund is the most likely casualty, according to the analyst. The Commission has proposed €175 billion for the fund, compared to €95 billion in the current budget.

Cuts to Horizon would undermine Europe’s attempt to attract researchers from across the globe, mainly the US.