Sources:

👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64428041

👉 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/

👉 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-once-called-patriot-180221252.html

Do I think Charlie Kirk should have been murdered? NO.

But it SICKENS me to see so many americans paying tribute to him.

He laughed about violence

China’s relentless siege of traditionally US-backed Taiwan has moved beyond crude military pressure (although that’s increasing). Its efforts to enforce the island’s economic and diplomatic isolation – and overthrow its pro-western, elected government – are augmented by spying, cyber-sabotage, mass surveillance and idiotic lies, conspiracies and disinformation.

Announcing a $40bn increase in defence spending last week, Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, warned the annexation threat was “intensifying”. In an echo of Ukraine, which faces similar pressures from Russia and is likewise unsure of US support, Lai said the most worrying scenario was that browbeaten Taiwanese would simply give up.

“Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first preference is to win without a devastating, unpredictable war,” wrote analyst Hal Brands. “His method is encompassing, steadily escalating coercion … This is a classic ‘anaconda strategy’, meant to get progressively tighter until Taiwan yields. Isolation and demoralisation will ultimately produce capitulation, the thinking goes.”

Earlier this month, after years of litigation, a federal judge in Alabama ordered a new state senate map. In a surprising decision, the map she chose wasn’t one drafted by a court-appointed special master and his expert cartographer, but rather one that had been submitted by an anonymous member of the public, known only by their initials, “DD”.

The decision stunned “DD” – an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Alabama named Daniel DiDonato – who learned his map had been selected as he was preparing to leave for his 9.30am introduction to political science class.

“I was absolutely surprised,” he said in an interview. “N​​ow, nearly 300,000 Alabamians will be voting under new district lines that I drew up at two in the morning in a dorm, a cramped dorm study room.”

"The next new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease may be an already-existing drug, according to a team of researchers in Japan.

In a series of experiments, administering an oral dose of an amino acid called arginine, which is already prescribed to treat high blood pressure, was able to suppress the buildup of a protein associated with Alzheimer’s in mice, the scientists report in a new study published in the journal Neurochemistry International."

So what food has significant amounts of arginine?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/387129

Hi, I've had issues for the last days where my services were unreachable via their domains sporadically. They are scattered across 2-3 VMs which are working fine and can be reached by their domain (usually x.my.domain subdomains) via my nginx reverse proxy (running in it's own Debian vm). The services themself were running fine. My monitoring (Node Exporter/Prometheus) notified me that the conntrack limit on the nginx vm was reached in the timeframes where my services weren't reachable, so that seems to be the obvious issue.

As for the why, it seems that my domains are known to more spammers/scripters now. The nginx error.log grew by factor 100 from one day to the next. Most of my services are restriced to local IPs, but some like this lemmy instance are open entirely (nginx vm has port 80 and 443 forwarded).

I never heard of conntrack before but tried to read up on it a bit. It keeps track of the vm's connections. The limit seems to be rather low, apparently it depends on the memory of the vm which is also low. I can increase the memory and the limit, but some posts suggest to generally disable it if not stricly needed. The vm is doing nothing but reverse proxying so I'm not sure if I really need it. I usually stick to Debians defauls though. Would appreciate input on this as I don't really see what the conseqences of this would be. Can it really just be disabled?

But that's just making symptons go away and I'd like to stop the attackers even before reaching the vm/nginx. I basically have 2 options.

• The vm has ufw enabled and I can set up fail2ban (should've done that earlier). However, I'm not sure if this helps with the conntrack thing since they need to make a connection before getting f2b'd and that will stay in the list for a bit.
• There's an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm. I have to figure out how, but I bet there's a possibility to subscribe to known-attacker-IP-lists and auto-block or the like. I'd like some transparency here though and also would want to see which of the blocked IPs actually try to get in.

Would appreciate thoughts or ideas on this!

Hi, I've had issues for the last days where my services were unreachable via their domains sporadically. They are scattered across 2-3 VMs which are working fine and can be reached by their domain (usually x.my.domain subdomains) via my nginx reverse proxy (running in it's own Debian vm). The services themself were running fine. My monitoring (Node Exporter/Prometheus) notified me that the conntrack limit on the nginx vm was reached in the timeframes where my services weren't reachable, so that seems to be the obvious issue.

As for the why, it seems that my domains are known to more spammers/scripters now. The nginx error.log grew by factor 100 from one day to the next. Most of my services are restriced to local IPs, but some like this lemmy instance are open entirely (nginx vm has port 80 and 443 forwarded).

I never heard of conntrack before but tried to read up on it a bit. It keeps track of the vm's connections. The limit seems to be rather low, apparently it depends on the memory of the vm which is also low. I can increase the memory and the limit, but some posts suggest to generally disable it if not stricly needed. The vm is doing nothing but reverse proxying so I'm not sure if I really need it. I usually stick to Debians defauls though. Would appreciate input on this as I don't really see what the conseqences of this would be. Can it really just be disabled?

But that's just making symptons go away and I'd like to stop the attackers even before reaching the vm/nginx. I basically have 2 options.

• The vm has ufw enabled and I can set up fail2ban (should've done that earlier). However, I'm not sure if this helps with the conntrack thing since they need to make a connection before getting f2b'd and that will stay in the list for a bit.
• There's an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm. I have to figure out how, but I bet there's a possibility to subscribe to known-attacker-IP-lists and auto-block or the like. I'd like some transparency here though and also would want to see which of the blocked IPs actually try to get in.

Would appreciate thoughts or ideas on this!

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked its president on Sunday to pardon him in his long-running corruption trial, a request that the president called “extraordinary” and that critics said would run counter to the rule of law.

Mr. Netanyahu’s unusual pre-emptive appeal to President Isaac Herzog, while his trial is still underway, came about two weeks after President Trump sent a letter to Mr. Herzog urging him to pardon the Israeli prime minister.

A statement by the Israeli president’s office said the request would have “significant implications,” and that he would “responsibly and sincerely consider” it after seeking expert opinions.

Mr. Netanyahu said he believed that canceling his trial would help heal the divisions in Israeli society. But the immediate effect of the request appeared to amplify the rifts that have intensified over two years of war and his long battle with the judiciary.

Mr. Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate, but interlocking cases, and he has been on trial for five years. He has denied any wrongdoing in the cases, which center on accusations that he arranged favors for tycoons in exchange for gifts and sympathetic media coverage for himself and his family.

https://archive.ph/CZb7N

Yeah, what the title says.

When I try to explain to friends or family how difficult it makes things in a relationship when one person (me) has ADHD they never get it and I often get the impression they think my wife is overreacting.

I understand that they want to support me but they aren't helping, it just makes me angry. I know that it's not all my fault but I want them to understand what a mental and emotional burden it can be to be the partner of an ADHD-person. Even when I tell them that our problems are typical for ADHD-partnerships, that everything I've read about it tell exactly the same story that we have been going through, it doesn't really make an impression and I want to scream at them "please for fuck's sake believe what I'm telling you!!"

Ugh.

Edit: Looking at the comments and reading my post again I feel like I should have phrased it differently:

What bothers me is not that people don't get how much I struggle with ADHD. What bothers me is that they can't seem to comprehend how mentally and emotionally draining it can be to be the partner of someone with ADHD and seem to have very little understanding or sympathy for my partner. And that makes me so mad because everyone seems to think I'm this great person and my wife must be overreacting.

Hello --

I know this is not a 100% fit for this community and I apologise - but I don't really know where to ask best. There's some selfhosting involved, so maybe the smart crowd here has some recommendations.

Here goes:

I want to mount a camera at a quite remote location. I have Wifi there that I can use (I pay for it, but its usage is shared, I don't monopolize it). I do not have power there. It's outside, mild in winter, quite warm in summer. I will not get there for months at a time. I want the camera to be private, not open to the world. Ideally I'd like a solar powered wifi camera that can connect to my home via Wireguard (I have that bit going, multiple roaming notebooks and phones connect to home, terminated in an Opnsense router).

I do not need any specific smart features on the camera - PTZ would be nice, but not even fully required.

I can come up with a configuration that involves a Raspberry Pi routing an off the shelf camera via a Wireguard tunnel, or similar, but that doubles the power issues I need to solve. I am not opposed to DIY a solution, but there's the challenge of getting it well packaged in a waterproof way.

Considering I can't really touch the wifi setup (cheap commercial router), I don't really see a way to have a private connection without having some sort of a VPN (I could do others than wireguard in a pinch).

If you'd like to help me chip away at one or the other bit of this problem, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks all for your help on picking a game and prepping for it! I've got questions at the end if you want to skip me wittering on about the match.

I watched them play and I LOVED it. I barely blinked during play, I was gripped and I'm officially a hockey girl now. I was lucky enough to sit near a huge fan who told me loads through the game, although neither of us took our eyes off the game while talking.

Neither team was playing that great, they were a little all over the place, people around me didn't know why. It went to overtime and we won, probably because they heard me repeatedly screaming "COME ON BOYS GET IT TOGETHER!!!"

Alas, no fights although there was nearly one. I did see quite a few deliberate barges into the barrier and boy, Merlott is a forceful player! Him and Kempe were my favourites.

I really, really enjoyed it and I found it a really welcoming place. Nobody cared that I'm english, and knew little about the game. Everyone I spoke to was genuinely supportive about me making them my team and happy to have me on board.

I'm gonna start following hockey now, obviously particularly the kings but are there any other teams that are good to watch? Who is playing best atm?

An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted in the Palestinian enclave despite a fragile ceasefire.

The children's uncle said an Israeli drone fired on Fadi and Goma Abu Assi, brothers aged 10 and 12, while they were gathering firewood to help their wheelchair-bound father east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. "They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire," Mohamed Abu Assi told Reuters as their funeral took place.

At the funeral, the children's father wept over the body of one of the boys whose white shroud had been peeled back to show his face.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

https://www.dw.com/en/gaza-israeli-fire-kills-2-palestinian-boys/a-74952358

Since the October 10 ceasefire, over 354 Palestinians have been killed in the largely devastated enclave, according to Gazan health authorities. Many of the deaths occur when Israeli forces shoot at Palestinians it accuses of crossing the yellow line set up during the ceasefire to mark territories still under Israel's control in the strip.

On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said their troops "identified two suspects who crossed the yellow line, carried out suspicious activities and approached the troops in southern Gaza, posing an immediate threat," adding that the troops "eliminated the suspects to remove the threat."

The family of a Wisconsin man and local chapters of the NAACP are seeking answers after Tory Medley was found hanging to death from a tree on a golf course in Brookfield.

His death was immediately labeled a 'possible suicide' by the Brookfield Police Department, before critical questions about how he got there and what truly happened were fully examined," she added.

Web archive link

Secretary General Mark Rutte bluntly warned against Serbia’s growing defence cooperation with China while acknowledging Belgrade’s sovereign right to pursue it. Unlike most other countries from Eaestern Europe, Serbia is not a candidate for NATO membership.

“Let’s not be naive about China,” Rutte said on 24 November, in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). “We know that China cooperates with the Russians, North Korea, Iran… What is happening in the Indo-Pacific and what is happening in the Euro-Atlantic area is increasingly connected and intertwined.”

The partnership reached a new level in July, when Serbia and China conducted their first-ever joint military exercise, named Peace Defender 2025, in China’s Hebei Province. Over ten days, special forces from both countries trained together in drone tactics, firearms handling, tactical manoeuvres, and mountaineering, despite clear objections from Brussels and Washington.

Vučić has also overseen major acquisitions from China, including CH-92A drones in 2020, the FK-3 air defense system in 2022, and additional CH-95 drones. Rutte noted that NATO monitors these developments carefully, emphasizing that Serbia’s moves cannot be separated from China’s growing military influence.

The NATO chief revealed he maintains direct contact with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and values the dialogue through the Partnership for Peace program. Yet he explicitly distanced the Alliance from Belgrade’s approach: “In the end, I would really distance myself from what President Vučić is doing with China… There is a more pressing issue, and that is China itself.”

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