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I run WireGuard on my router to hit my LAN services (SAMBA, home assistant, etc) from afar.

But when I enable the VPN client on my router, I can no longer access LAN services over Wireshark. "Allow LAN access is set to 'true'" on the UI (Merlin).

Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas?

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The IDF is moving to curb sensitive military information leaking onto social media by rolling out a new monitoring system called ‘Morpheus.’ The AI-based tool, developed inside the military, will soon track photos and other content posted by IDF soldiers on civilian social media platforms, according to a report Wednesday.

The decision to develop ‘Morpheus’ followed repeated leaks of classified or sensitive material posted by soldiers in recent years, in text, images and videos.

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The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Dutch Member of European Parliament (MEP) Marit Maij told DW News about plans to “call on the European Commission to stop the trade negotiations with the UAE for as long as we see that weapons are going through the UAE to the RSF,” referring to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The call comes in the wake of the widespread atrocities committed by the RSF during its siege and eventual capture of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, which were abetted by advanced weaponry from the UAE.

But following a lobbying effort from an Emirati delegation to Strasbourg led by envoy Lana Nusseibeh, the final resolution passed on Thursday included no references to the UAE’s role in the war.

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Before talking about what I played this week, I think I forgot to mention a game I played couple of weeks ago.

After finishing Judgment, and seeing that Dark Souls (next game in my list) isn't on sale yet, I started Bioshock Infinite. I had played the first Bioshock but never got around to playing Infinite.

The visuals felt like late PS3 games, specially the camera and movement, but it didn't feel that jarring, specially after couple of mins of playing it, didn't notice that again during the whole game.

The game was beautiful, the gameplay and shooting was fun. And the story was "Bioshocky". As someone who didn't like the first Bioshock too much (I blame Rapture for that, just not my kind of place), I loved Bishock Infinite.

There are some lore elements that connects it to the first game, so you'll enjoy the background story more if you know that, but you can easily play it without that. Not a very long game too, I think took somewhere between 10-15 hours.

Highly recommended to those who like shooters and haven't played it yet.


Now to this week!

Finally started Dark Souls Remastered have been meaning to play it for the last few months but always end up starting something else.

I have said this about soulslike games before, but the game isn't that tough. You just have to be deliberate about your actions, and can't just button mash through everything. Also, the game doesn't tell you half the things, you have to experiment to figure those things out, and you die, many times, but you also die in other games, I have died many times in Ratchet & Clank and they aren't considered that difficult. Oh and just to be clear, it's by no definition an easy game, but I think the difficulty is over-hyped.

Anyways, have been playing only Dark Souls since I got it, the only place where I got stuck was the Bell Gargoyle boss, died more than a dozen times, then my friend suggested to go to another area first before coming back to boss, so doing that and leveling up, and getting a better weapon / equipment made killing the boss much easier.

Have taken care of pretty much all the surface stuff now and have entered Blightdown. Ended last session when I reached the bottom, got poisoned and died with over 12K souls! Let's hope I can reach it when I play next.


Didn't really play anything else. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity and Cozy Grove all are on temporary hiatus.


Played a bit of Mutant Mudd Collection, mainly in bite sized times, which are usually reserved for Picross. Each "world" has 4 levels, I think I was in 2-1 before, and have reached 4-4 now. I can only see 5 worlds in the current screen, but no idea how many screens this hub world has.

The disappearing platforms are the most annoying aspect yet, but I think that's only because they removed the limit of 5 mins from each level. I play slowly killing everything, so take more than that sometimes, even when I do clear it before that, it's only because I don't have to worry about any time limit, I doubt I would have cleared them if I had to try to go fast so that I can reach end before time.

Having fun with it. It's pretty good for those small-breaks.


What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

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Merz has previously said he would do all he could to ensure the 2035 deadline was softened. He has now argued it is vital that hybrid cars are allowed to still be made after 2035.

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The planned takeover of the insolvent solar glass manufacturer collapsed unexpectedly, leaving approximately 215 remaining employees facing layoffs.

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Background from noyb:

In December 2019, noyb had filed complaints against three providers of French websites, because they had implemented cookie banners that turned a clear “NO” into “fake consent”. Even if a user went through the trouble of rejecting countless cookies on the eCommerce page CDiscount, the movie guide Allocine .fr and the fashion magazine Vanity Fair, these websites sent digital signals to tracking companies claiming that users had agreed to being tracked online. CDiscount sent “fake consent” signals to 431 tracking companies per user, Allocine to 565, and Vanity Fair to 375, an analysis of the data flows had shown.

CNIL sanctions Conde Nast. Today, almost six (!) years after these complaints had originally been filed, the French data protection authority CNIL has finally reached a decision in the case against Vanity Fair: Conde Nast, the publisher behind Vanity Fair, has failed to obtain user consent before placing cookies. In addition, the company failed to sufficiently inform its users about the purpose of supposedly “necessary” cookies. Thirdly, the implemented mechanisms for refusing and withdrawing consent was ineffective. Conde Nast must therefore pay a fine of €750.000.

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Information published about the show by London Palladium included further warnings of ‘imitation blood' and 'some violence'
Fan Gerald Dixon told The Sun: “What next? A warning that the hit musical includes catchy tunes?

“This nonsense is enough to make anyone utter the Lord's name in vain.”

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While welcoming voluntary CSAM scanning, scientists warn that some aspects of the revised bill "still bring high risks to society without clear benefits for children."

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53932397

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Lyrics:

  1. I mourned the Tiananmen martyrs
  2. Whose free speech was so brutally quelled
  3. And I cheered when Mandela walked freely
  4. After so many years in a cell
  5. But mister Assange can rot in prison
  6. Those secrets were not his to tell
  7. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
  8. I attend sensitivity trainings
  9. And I leave feeling so reassured
  10. I love Oprah and Magic and Foreman
  11. It’s great seein’ blacks become entrepreneurs
  12. The economy’s become so inclusive
  13. Revolution would just be absurd
  14. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
  15. I cheered when Obama was chosen
  16. My faith in the system restored
  17. And I'll never forgive Ralph Nader
  18. For the race he stole from Al Gore
  19. And I love hard-working Latinos
  20. As long as they don't move next door
  21. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
  22. Something happened to working class voters
  23. They’ve disgraced America’s name
  24. Someone’s controlling the way that their minds work
  25. And Vladimir Putin’s the man who’s to blame
  26. But if you think you can win Single Payer
  27. You must be completely insane
  28. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
  29. I listen to All Things Considered
  30. I’d consider anyone’s views
  31. I watch Colbert and Rachel Maddow
  32. I use irony in everything I do
  33. But when Trump set his sights on Maduro
  34. There was no one more red, white and blue
  35. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
  36. I vote for the Democratic Party
  37. They’re strengthening NATO command
  38. I saw Bono at the Live Eight Concert
  39. I’d buy anything endorsed by his brand
  40. We’re gonna make poverty history
  41. I’m on Facebook, taking a stand!
  42. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
  43. Sure once I was young and impulsive
  44. I wore every conceivable pin
  45. I fought for a socialist future,
  46. Which I actually thought we could win
  47. Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
  48. And that's why I'm turning you in
  49. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
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As measles cases continue to rise around the globe, the World Health Organization warns it's a signal that other disease outbreaks could soon follow.

The surging number of measles cases around the world is a stark warning sign that outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases could be next, the World Health Organization warned Friday.

“It’s crucial to understand why measles matters,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “Its high transmissibility means that even small drops in vaccine coverage can trigger outbreaks, like a fire alarm going off when smoke is detected first.”

That is, measles is often the first disease to pop up when vaccination rates overall drop.

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The Prime Minister of Lithuania said the country will seek action through international judicial institutions in response to Belarus’ ongoing use of smuggler balloons, which continue to drift into Lithuanian territory.

According to LRT on November 27, Inga Ruginienė explained that several ministries are now collecting evidence and evaluating the possibility of filing a case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the risks and damage caused by these balloon flights. Over recent months, Vilnius Airport has been forced to shut down multiple times because of them.

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As the UK paper The Telegraph reports, the balloons, which contain GPS trackers and around £3,000 worth of cigarettes each, are released high into the air in Belarus before floating across the border into Lithuania. Moscow is using Belarus to unleash these swarms of balloons into Lithuania to create air-traffic chaos and find weak spots on Nato’s eastern flank.

These smugglers have a more sinister goal than profit: creating air traffic chaos on Nato’s eastern flank, in what Lithuania says is a new phase of Moscow’s hybrid war on the West.

Since October the Baltic region’s second-largest airport, in Vilnius, has been forced to close nine times due to the swarms of balloons, which also reached neighbouring Latvia for the first time this week.

There have even been reports of balloon launches from Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave sandwiched between Lithuania, Poland and key Russian ally Belarus.

Lithuania also warned that the balloon launches pose a “serious” threat to Nato security on its eastern flank, and were being “perpetrated in the broader context of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine.”

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