Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind

Nobody could have predicted.

I don't think ii would ever hurt anyone. But in nursing if have seen severe cases. I just want to make sure their are safeguards for me in place. It scares the shit out of me.

Last year, Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States:

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/juan-orlando-hernandez-former-president-honduras-sentenced-45-years-prison-conspiring

Please help us, don’t forget us. You are our lifeline. We are living in very difficult conditions in Gaza, and everything is extremely expensive. We have lost everything. Any small donation can help us, and we will not lose hope in your support. 💔 https://gofund.me/f6e9cc9d

So who is in charge?

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.

The US Congressional Progressive Caucus on Friday accused President Donald Trump of “flagrantly interfering” in Honduras’ upcoming presidential election after Trump announced his endorsement of right-wing candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and repeated threats he’s made previously ahead of other electoral contests in which he sought to secure a conservative win.

On the social media platform X, Trump warned that only a victory for former Tegucigalpa Mayor Asfura and the National Party in Sunday’s election will allow Honduras and the US to “fight the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the people” of the Central American country.

Hi everyone!

I've recently set up a NAS running TrueNAS Scale and learning about ZFS and associated machinery. ZFS has a pretty cool feature called snapshots, which allow for a kind of version control, but for the whole file system. I set up Tiered Snapshots, which seem to be working great!

To my surprise, there didn't seem to be an easy way to actually browse these snapshots. Yes, you can use "Previous Versions" on Windows, but I'm running Fedora at the moment, so that doesn't help. You can also access .zfs/snapshot/ at the root of the dataset, which is fine if you know exactly which snapshot you want, otherwise it seems a bit clunky. There is also httm, which is a "CLI Time Machine" I've yet to learn more about, but I was looking for something a bit more graphical / browser-based.

Thus, with much hacking and vibing, the proof-of-concept Timeship was born! It has a thousand limitations and compromises for now, so I'm mostly reaching out to see if there is any interest from others on this.

If you use tiered snapshots which happen to be named similar to mine, you can try it out like this:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -v /mnt/tank/your/dataset:/mnt/:ro ghcr.io/smilyorg/timeship

For now, it has a very simple file browser, it detects and shows snapshots via the aforementioned .zfs/snapshot/ directories, allows you to preview the file system and text files at different points in time, and allows you to download a file at any snapshot.

Of course, extending it to support different ways to see the history would be nice, image preview, diffs, downloading archives of multiple files or directories, supporting histories beyond ZFS (e.g. git or borg backups), the list could go on and on. I can't claim I'll have the time to implement any or all of those, but you gotta start somewhere :)

What do you think? Any ideas & comments very welcome!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/669776

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42719582

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At least 128 people have died in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest-ever blazes that broke out Wednesday and devastated a multi-block housing estate.

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But Hong Kong has been the site of many significant fires in the past, which, like the Wang Fuk Court incident, have had various specific causes, but have also often shared some factors that contributed to their deadliness. ...

Density

Hong Kong ... is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with 6,900 residents per sq km. Many buildings are built close to each other, especially in Hong Kong Island and neighboring Kowloon, making it easy for fires to spread.

However, the city also owes much of its high population density to the prevalence of subdivided flats—small cut rooms, sometimes resembling animal cages—where residents can cram and reside in for a fraction of the cost of a standard Hong Kong flat.

In April 2024, a fire involving a 60-year-old tenement block in Yau Ma Tei in the Kowloon area left five people dead and dozens injured. In an op-ed at the time about the risks associated with these homes, the South China Morning Post explained that, while a cigarette may have caused the fire, firefighters said subdivided units and “structural alterations” in the building complicated rescue efforts.

Thirteen years earlier, a fire in Mong Kok, also in the Kowloon area, left nine dead, 34 injured, and more than a hundred people homeless. Authorities then pointed out that the danger was exacerbated by the subdivided flats cutting off points of access for the building.

**Economic struggle **

Hong Kong is also among the most expensive places to live globally, and both individuals and businesses in the Chinese enclave often seek cost-cutting shortcuts that, in the case of fires, have proven immensely costly in the end.

Subdivided flats are a response to an expensive housing market, and many residents have foregone safety requirements for the sake of having a place to live.

Fireproofing is also expensive. In the 2024 Yau Ma Tei fire, the building’s owners reportedly encountered difficulties in raising funds to comply with fire safety guidelines, with a district councillor noting that “the increasingly high cost of upgrading fire prevention facilities and equipment, especially in the bidding process, had not helped,” according to SCMP.

Bamboo scaffolding, which has been linked to the latest conflagration’s devastation, is also known as a cheap alternative for construction businesses despite the city’s Development Bureau pushing to “drive a wider adoption of metal scaffolds in public building works progressively,” with a bureau official citing bamboo’s “intrinsic weaknesses such as variation in mechanical properties, deterioration over time and high combustibility, etc, giving rise to safety concerns.”

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Lax enforcement

Politicians in the city have flagged that many of the city’s buildings are rapidly aging and in need of better fireproofing.

But previous fires have shown that compliance with government orders has been poor. In the 2024 Yau Ma Tei fire, the city’s Buildings Department already issued fire safety orders to the owners of the block in question in 2008—including calling for them to replace fire doors and outfit the building with more fire-resistant material. But SCMP reported that despite the department’s follow-up, the order had not been followed ...

Latest government data show that more than 8,600 fire hazard abatement notices have been issued in Hong Kong as of January, following inspections of old, high-risk buildings. More than 300 of these notices involved prosecutions or convictions.

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Here we go.... It took them some time but ads is going to be inside chat gpt as well. And impossible to block.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/31326102

Since it is not designed for individual selfhosters, I'm wondering if any groups are actively attempting to run it together? Idea sounds cool, but I'm wondering about practical execution.

Since it is not designed for individual selfhosters, I'm wondering if any groups are actively attempting to run it together? Idea sounds cool, but I'm wondering about practical execution.

As I understand it for the public web we all use, public DNS servers serve to guide browsers to IP addresses associated with domain names. But of course IPs change for anonymity’s sake on the dark web yet “domain names” stay the same.

How does my Tor browser know the correct route to get to the site that I am trying to visit each time and know that it is always accurate and won’t take me to a different site (assuming that the owner hasn’t changed on that site)? How does this work to keep site owners anonymous without exposing their information to anyone?

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The Emile Foundation, an independent The Hague-based non-governmental organisation dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and reunification of Ukrainian children forcibly deported by Russia, condemned the lack of focus by peace negotiators concerning Ukrainian children held captive by Russia.

“Ukrainian children stolen by Russia must be returned,” said Mariam Lambert, Co-Founder of the Emile Foundation. “The return of these innocent children is a matter of moral urgency and legal justification.”

The Foundation does acknowledge that certain reported elements under consideration refer to the return of all abducted Ukrainian children and civilian detainees. However, without enforceable mechanisms, including an independent international monitoring body, real-time family-tracing protocols, and mandatory trauma-informed reintegration compliant with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this provision remains ineffective and risks becoming another unfulfilled promise.

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“There is not a word about the fate of people under occupation in this plan. The paragraph on the humanitarian committee contains a mention of […] the return of civilian hostages, including children, which is not formulated as an imperative requirement," warns Oleksandra Matviichuk, Emile Foundation Goodwill Ambassador and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

"The plan does not provide for any negative consequences for aggression, but instead provides amnesty for war crimes committed by Russia.”

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday in the central German city of Giessen for the launch of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s new youth organisation. The meeting was delayed as some AfD supporters clashed with police.

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