A Reddit user says their new memory kit vanished somewhere between dispatch and delivery.

The Department of Telecommunications has told these apps that within the next 90 days, they must make sure their services work only when the correct SIM card is in the phone. If you remove that SIM, the app should stop working. This is known as SIM binding.

• Continuous SIM presence: Apps must check regularly whether the original SIM card is still inserted in your phone. If not, the app must automatically stop working until you insert the correct SIM again.

• Web access restrictions: If you use WhatsApp Web or similar web versions, the government wants you to get logged out automatically every six hours. To log in again, you will have to scan a QR code with the app. This is to ensure the device and user are genuine.

People who use these apps on secondary devices without a SIM, or those who keep their SIM in one phone but use the app on another, may face interruptions

I don't even see the point of this:

• Surveillance?
• Some Incoming telecom plan change which will require you to have a special plan for using Messengers because no one uses SMS and don't bother to have an SMS plan? so telecom networks can make some more money?

OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.

Title says it all.

"snort owl"

The cost of living here is skyrocketing. They flood the markets with chocolate and instant noodles, while blocking the entry of basic necessities like food and medicine.

We are still in urgent need of your support. Even the smallest donation can save our lives. You are truly our lifeline https://gofund.me/00439328

TL;DR: Unsure if I should just run Syncthing, or do a Nextcloud. Tailscale seems at risk of enshittification, so do I find alternatives or just use it for ease? Is Immich easy enough to set up without Tailscale? Stick with docker or podman for ease? Are externsl drives easy to work with? Should my RAID1 be NTFS or Ext4?

Starting My Selfhosting Journey I recently got my drive bay and Optiplex and have already flashed Proxmox onto it so I could eagerly spin up some local services to see what I wanna stick with. Or at least I tried anyway 😅

Jellyfin in a debian container was quick, painless and seems to work fine. But I was trying to set up Nextcloud and I felt lost, with the many different ways people go about it. When I tried to set up Nextcloud AIO in a Debian VM with docker it forces you to set a domain for your instance, but I only want to do local for now (ease and security until I get the hang of things). Which then runs into the hosting a domain via Tailscale problem. 90% of guides, videos, scripts, etc. seem to only focus/support Tailscale, but they force you to use third-party accounts for logins, and I started this whole thing to distance myself from Big Tech. Is Headscale or NetBird a better idea (when I do decide to remotely access)? Who's more beginner friendly? Similarly, docker or podman?

I do know the difference between Syncthing and Nextcloud, but I wonder which I should stick with. I want to start being better about backing up my phone and laptop, and I know I could use syncthing to share these backups with each other, but I thought it'd be nice to try to replace my minimal Google Drive and Onedrive usage with Nextcloud and just put everything there. I'd still have to backup that data to an external location though if I want to follow the 3-2-1. So should I just do encrypted backups and put them in a cheap provider's cloud, and drop the idea of a selfhosted cloud?

Similarly related to the Nextcloud issue, is Immich another heavily Tailscale dependant service?

Side note: How easy is it to use external drives with these services I've mentioned? I plan to use my drive bay that currently has 2TB (4 drives running in RAID1), so I can only connect to it via cable. Can I have most of my media stored on the drives, or will that not work? Also, I swear I had to keep verifying my login every few mins when accessing my drives on ext4 format? I switched it to NTFS recently but Windows can't read/see the drives at all (does it not like Linux formatting it?)

Future Ideas: Once I get these first few down, any suggestions? I'm feeling the power rush and craze from being free and able to run my own stuff, and I want to prove to my mom how useful it'll be. I want to move away from YT Music, and I've heard Jellyfin + Jellyamp works good, but is there another I should run (Navidrome)? Should I get into the arr services and torrenting (I do have ProtonVPN)?

I tried looking at previous posts but I just wanted a little more personalized advice. I'm extremely greatful for any help and I will make sure to post my beautiful setup later once I get it going after y'alls input. It's really exciting thinking about the possibilities!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39661142

Sat 29 Nov 2025 14.47 EST

The Venezuelan government has responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s recent statements on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.

In a statement, the Venezuelan government said Trump’s comments are a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violate international law. The government also said it demanded respect for its airspace and would not accept foreign orders or threats.

Trump on Saturday, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39660377

Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.

https://archive.is/FDm1Y

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.

At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.

Bardella was at an event in Moissac, southwest France, to promote his latest book when a man broke the egg on his head.

The suspected attacker, a 74-year-old man, was arrested and taken into custody for violence against a public official, prosecutor Montauban Bruno Sauvage told AFP.

For Context: I'm Chinese American, and I do not feel "ashamed" for my heritage, neither do I feel "ashamed" for being a US Citizen.

The CCP is not my fault. I do not feel any shame of saying I'm from China.

Similarly, the trump admin is not my fault, I voted Harris. I do not feel any shame for being American.

So what is the thought process of people feeling shame/guilt?

love/hate that commercial

There they will be FORCED to pick up a PENCIL and DRAW and WRITE POETRY, BY HAND!

"Nooooooo, I just wanted to write prompts to make shitty catgirl pictures!"

"You will draw a pretty flower or be shot."

COMING THIS SUMMER!

A grizzled CIA agent that plays by his own rules is recruited to save a billionaires white daughter from an evil Mexican cartel. He tracks down the cartel finds out the cartel is actually a front for an evil terrorist group that is going to kill a bunch of people to start a new world order because they hate billionaires. The terrorist leader then kills one of his goons just to prove how bad and evil he is. He also yells a lot so you can tell he's a meanie bo beanie.

Our CIA agent hero infiltrates the terrorist hideout and shoots a bunch of terrorists (it's OK to shoot them because they're evil extremists that want to change the world.) And finds the boss with the kidnapped girl and after monologuing about how evil and bloodthirsty he is he ends up being shot in the leg by one of his goons, a Latina woman who is like "I always hated that guy. I want to be a CIA agent now." Allowing the grizzled CIA hero to make the kill shot and save the day. The movie ends with the kidnapped white girl tearfully hugging her billionaire dad while the grizzled hero thinks about freedom and nods approvingly at his new Latina colleague.

Comment here if you prefer, but the conversation can be over at the original post as well.

Caracas has denounced United States President Donald Trump’s announcement that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be considered closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the countries escalate.

In a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Trump’s statement earlier in the day amounts to a “colonialist threat”.

“Venezuela denounces and condemns the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of its airspace, constituting yet another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people,” the ministry said.

Trump had written on his Truth Social platform on Saturday morning: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY”.