Hey folks of the open source world 👋

I built a self-hosted TinyPNG-style image tool in Docker: compress, convert & resize images (incl. HEIC ➜ JPG/PNG) via a simple web UI. Runs 100% locally for privacy.

Repo: https://github.com/karimz1/imgcompress

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54067289

I spun up nextcloud to replace onedrive about a year ago. Everything was going well so I chose not to renew my onedrive subscription, this was exactly 6 months ago, I'd assume.

I got an email a few days ago reminding me that they would delete my data. I ignored it because obviously I had moved my data to nextcloud. not gonna trick me Mi¢ro$oft.

But yesterday I decided to have a quick look though and it turns out I didn't copy over everything, and certanly not my 5 years of camera roll backups.

I started a sync of everything last night and woke up in the morning to find that it had stopped at about 10gb out of 80gb. And now onedrive won't connect and if I try to log in to onedrive with that account via the web it just kicks me back to the microsoft portal.

I'm 99.5% sure there is nothing to be done and I'm not an overly sentimental person so if they are lost it won't break me. I have many important photos backed up in immich but just not everything.

But I just needed to ask in case someone knows where to find the M spot I can touch for magic file recovery.

Edit: turns out you can just pay them more money and they still had my stuff. thank you for joining me on the shortest support ticket of all time

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Thousands of people on Sunday joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54065072

With the renewable energy transition underway in Australia, the higher than expected uptake of solar panels has human rights groups concerned about links to Uyghur forced labour in the supply chain. As Australia looks into developing its own solar panel industry, rights groups say government and industry should work to ensure the clean energy transition isn't at the cost of freedom.

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Without a domestic supply chain, though, Australia is importing around 90 per cent of its solar panels from China.

Ramila Chanisheff, President of the Australian Uyghur Tangritagh Women's Association, says her people are being forced to make them.

“We know that the biggest industry that is complicit in Uyghur forced labour is the solar industry or the wind turbine industry or the EV vehicles.”

Since 2016, the Chinese government has reportedly kidnapped and detained millions of Uyghur people in the Xinjiang province, known to its indigenous Uyghur population as East Turkistan.

In what was officially described as an effort to combat extremism, around one million members of the majority Muslim Uyghur minority were sent to so-called re-education centres between 2017 and 2019.

Evidence and testimony from ex-detainees reveals torture and political indoctrination, forced sterilisation and drugging, as well as food deprivation to punish those who showed resistance.

An official Chinese government report published in November 2020 documents the “placement” of 2.6 million minority citizens in farms and factories within the Uyghur Region and across the country through state-sponsored initiatives.

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“We do have credible evidence and Uyghur who have spoken about their family members who've been taken into the concentration camps, which have with research, and that's come out that they are turned into labour camps. All those Uyghur reserve being put into forced labour within East Turkistan or Xinjiang and or being trafficked to mainland China to do the work.”

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Australia has poured billions into solar power and green manufacturing and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is currently funding feasibility studies for new domestic polysilicon production facilities.

But for now, with a few small exceptions, Australia still imports most of its solar panels from China.

Fuzz Kitto is the co-founder of Be Slavery Free, which works to raise awareness and end modern slavery.

“The conflict between climate and human rights commitment has led investors to feel that they've got no choice but to invest in companies sourcing, or connected to, the Xinjiang region despite the human rights abuses that are there. And even though the experts say that there's enough outside of that region to supply the United States, Europe and leading countries in their needs for solar produced electricity, it is certainly not being transparent about where these are coming from. In fact, quite opaque sometimes and a lot of greenwashing.”

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To make solar panels you need solar-grade polysilicon, which is made from silica sand produced from quartz.

China manufactures around 95 per cent of the global supply of polysilicon, much of it made in factories with links to forced Uyghur labour.

According to the Australian Mining Review, Australia is the largest silica sand exporter in the Asia-Pacific region, with most of our exports going to Chinese markets.

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Fuzz Kitto says we should be making it here.

“I think one of the great difficulties is that people think that there are no alternatives and now there are a growing amount of that. The thing is that in Xinjiang there are the sands that produce the polysilicon. So to produce poly silicons, basically you need cheap electricity and you need sands of that quality. We do have sands of that quality in Australia, not quite of the standard of Xinjiang. In fact, we export sand to China for the making of polysilicons, which is just incredible. Why we are not producing an industry in Australia of making them is beyond us.”

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Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as all men must do already.

Official results. with counting still ongoing in some areas after a referendum, showed that more than half of Switzerland’s cantons, or states, had rejected the “citizen service initiative” by wide margins. That meant it was defeated, because proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.

Voters also heavily rejected a separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or inheritances of more than 50 million francs ($62 million), with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away

For a moment, Jacob Hannah saw an unprecedented opportunity to make Appalachia great again.

In 2022, the Biden administration earmarked billions of dollars to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities. The objective was to lay down building blocks for the region to transition from extractive industries like coal and timber to a hub for solar and other advanced energy technologies, with a view to long-term economic, climate and social resilience.

But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden’s clean energy and environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal hoaxes.

Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US. But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans, with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.

Earlier this year, Utah became the first state in the country to pass legislation allowing people to purchase and install small, portable solar panels that plug into a standard wall socket.

When attached outside to the balcony or patio of a dwelling, such panels can provide enough power for residents to run free of charge, home appliances such as fridges, dishwashers, washing machines and wi-fi without spending money on electricity from the grid.

Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany – where more than 1m homes have them – but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations. This is set to change, with lawmakers in New York and Pennsylvania filing bills to join Utah in adopting permission for the panels, with Vermont, Maryland and New Hampshire set to follow suit soon.

Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs

ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.

Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people.

A psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist interacted with ChatGPT-5 as if they had a number of mental health conditions. The chatbot affirmed, enabled and failed to challenge delusional beliefs such as being “the next Einstein”, being able to walk through cars or “purifying my wife through flame”.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39455169

After agreeing to Design a 120-140kn jet engine together, now Safran and India's Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) have joined hands to produce HAMMER precision guided Air to Surface weapon system indigenously in India.

Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range (HAMMER) is known throughout the world for it's precision in modular design. It has been inducted in Indian Airforce and now is going to become the cornerstone of Indigenous Platform for the IAF for its own class.

The IAF used this same weapon during Operation Sindoor and was deemed as highly effective by the IAF in destroying fortified targets. The battlefield validation makes it a safe and tactically enhancing choice.

The manufacturing of it will be done under Joint Venture Cooperation Agreement (JVCA) in which both BEL and Safran establish a Join Venture Company (JVC) with equal shareholding (50:50). We can call it the BrahMos Model for Air to Ground Munitions.

The agreement was signed by BEL chairman Manoj Jain and SED Executive and Vice President Alexandre Ziegler in the presence of other officials.

This Partnership will severely strengthen indigenous production as technology transfer to BEL will greatly benefit the country and Local Producttion.

I think it is a great initiative by the Goverenment of India and a smart approach as after this, we can also develop our own, fully indigenous, better version of HAMMER through the technology acquired from France not only that, we will also get our own specific Company to research and manufacture similar better versions of this weapon in future that too locally.

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Jai Hind

Jai Bharat

Wonder if there's a spin cycle. Ha.

Seriously though. This should really help the elderly or those with a physical limitation.

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to “abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.

Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures – at the same time as the government pushes aggressive immigration enforcement operations.

A group of fired watchdogs has filed a whistleblower complaint to Congress through the Government Accountability Project (GAP), and a coalition of human rights organizations sued the administration, demanding the employees be reinstated. There is deepening concern that a system of oversight that was already weak is now hanging by a thread, even as criticism surges over treatment of detainees in the ballooning immigration jail network.

AI is the going to make me a ton of money and is next evolution I'm technology. Just like NFTs and the Metaverse.

While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that process economically viable.

Some residents of the flood-hit island of Sumatra resorted to looting, seeking food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday.

The floods, which hit nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — with the number expected to rise as more bodies are recovered — and displaced thousands. The deluges triggered landslides, damaged roads, cut off parts of the island, and downed communication lines.

The challenging weather conditons and the lack of heavy equipment also hampered rescue efforts. Aid has been slow to reach the hardest-hit city of Sibolga and the district of Central Tapanuli district in North Sumatra.

Have you ever felt the urge to knock a judge out, to see if they still think that doesn't deserve prison?

Absolutely disgusting.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/37419690

https://www.reddit.com/r/trump/s/CLIh3NlXBc