I've been dabbling with selfhosting for a bit now (home assistant and nextcloud), but it's clear that I lack a fundamental understanding of networking. For example:

• I've got OpenWRT on my router, but no idea what I'm doing when it comes to firewall settings, DNS, DHCP, etc.
• I've got a domain thru Porkbun, but no idea how to properly setup my DNS settings there to route to my local machine.
• I've got NGINX running in a docker container in a VM and can get to the UI on my local network, but no idea what I'm doing wrong with my attempts at a reverse proxy.

Does anyone here have links to a good in-depth tutorial series for learning about securely selfhosting?

Russia has transferred a group of Ukrainian schoolchildren from the occupied town of Shakhtarsk in Donetsk region to Sakhalin Island under the pretext of “university exchange programs,” according to the Center for National Resistance (CNS) on November 23.

According to CNS, a Ukrainian government-affiliated body, the Russian authorities have launched a campaign to transport children from temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia’s Far East regions, particularly Sakhalin. The CNS claims that the initiative is aimed at cultural assimilation and demographic manipulation.

The CNS stated that the children were selected based on specific criteria, including high academic performance, participation in pro-Kremlin youth groups, and family ties to Russian military personnel.

“Russia brought a group of schoolchildren from Shakhtarsk to Sakhalin region under the guise of a ‘university session,’” the Center noted in a statement, adding that the initiative is “part of a structured colonial policy.”

Russian state media reportedly presented the trip as a form of educational exposure, introducing children to local universities and career prospects on the island. They also reported that the students attended “integration sessions” and were familiarized with the “Sakhalin mentality.”

The children, described by CNS as “handpicked for loyalty,” were given campus tours, cultural excursions, and career guidance sessions. Russian organizers reportedly framed the visit as a reward for the children of service members and a “chance to see their future.”

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The Center also highlighted that Sakhalin and the neighboring Kuril Islands have long struggled with population decline, economic stagnation, and youth outmigration. According to CNS, this makes them strategic targets for relocation efforts.

Earlier in November, Ukraine’s Centre for National Resistance warned that Russia had launched a so-called “Siberian Development Program” to facilitate the forced relocation of Ukrainian civilians from occupied territories.

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Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors.

As the Chinese regime becomes ever more authoritarian under the leadership of Xi Jinping, Chinese nationals critical of his policies have come under increasing threat.

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There have been two major destinations with two major journeys: one towards the US is the dangerous Darien Gap, and another into the EU through the Balkan corridor. With the closing of the Darien route, even more turn towards the EU and the Balkans.

Reasons to Leave China: Unemployment and Surveillance

Since [Xi Jinping became the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party -CCP- and thus China’s president in 2012], his increasingly hawkish leadership has expanded surveillance, which became especially extensive during the lockdowns implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The lockdowns created a sense that ordinary people who were just living their lives could somehow find themselves under heavy observation of the state or subjected to long arbitrary periods of lockdown and confinement,” says David Stroup, a lecturer of Chinese politics at the University of Manchester. He, like many other experts, argues that the repressive political climate, a worsening economy, and invasive surveillance all contribute to the new trend. Online, the term “runxue” became code for emigrating due to these issues.

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Even after leaving, many Chinese migrants are scared to detail their lives, use their names, or seek help from Chinese embassies out of fear that their families back home would suffer the consequences of their ‘betrayal’ of the party.

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As wealthier Chinese emigrants can afford legal routes ...those with less money and fewer options take the illegal routes; to Europe, the most popular is the Western Balkans, flying into non-EU states with looser rules and crossing illegally into Croatia or Hungary.

Most attempt crossing through Bosnia and Herzegovina, which offers 90-day visa-free stays and shares a long border with Croatia. Serbia is also a popular stopover, offering 30 days visa-free but since recognizing the pattern of migrants utilizing the visa discrepancy with the EU’s policy, it has taken steps to counter it.

Frontex recorded 10 493 illegal crossings between January and October 2025 on the Western Balkan Route. The top five nationalities crossing were Turkish (3184), Syrian (1374), Afghan (1213), Egyptian (954), and Chinese (555). The number of Chinese nationals crossing is already higher than it was for the same period last year, when the spike was first observed, and is expected to rise further.

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I have made a work profile using Shelter. I was copy-pasting some stuff in my personal profile while the work profile was disabled. Later, I discovered everything I had copied was showing up in Samsung Keyboard’s clipboard history (in the work profile). Personal profile’s Samsung Keyboard was uninstalled via ADB (among some other packages like Google Play Services), implying a different package is doing this. How can I find the culprit? (I’d love to just install LineageOS on it but there isn’t a built for the device yet. I just don’t use it for sensitive stuff.)

I might have a lead: whatever it is probably has the READ_CLIPBOARD_IN_BACKGROUND permission, but I wasn't able to find it. Is there an adb command to list all packages with a specific permission, perhaps?

This was YEARS AFTER he was convicted of criminal conspiracy to catch children.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39401508

While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers from Gaza without charge. As Michal Feldon discussed (originally published on Local Call), they face physical violence, medical neglect, and starvation, languishing in Israeli prisons — and their families are demanding their freedom.

from +972’s Sunday Recap #972Magazine [published in #Israel] Nov. 23, 2025

Also:

• New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7
• ‘The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks
• In Umm Al-Khair, erasure seems only a matter of time
• When Israel’s courts become ‘instruments of revenge’ against Palestinian citizens
• On Israeli campuses, the state marks another enemy within

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39223757

FBI Director Kash Patel was pictured in a pink Lego Cadillac ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, amidst growing criticism over his personal trips and spending of taxpayer dollars.

Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were pictured in the life-size Lego car, as well as on the red carpet with Formula One CEO Stefano Domenicali before the race, Reuters reported. 

Although it was not immediately clear how either of the senior Trump officials had traveled to the event in Las Vegas, where Patel has a home, critics were quick to blast his previous use of public resources. 

He reportedly used an FBI SWAT team to protect his country music star girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, and used a government jet for personal travel, including golf excursions and a trip with friends to a private resort in Scotland, the New York Times reported.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53665220

The governments of Brazil, Italy, Japan, and India are spearheading a new pledge calling for the rapid global expansion of biofuels as a commitment to decarbonizing transportation energy.

An analysis by a clean transport advocacy organization published last month found that, because of the indirect impacts to farming and land use, biofuels are responsible globally for 16 percent more CO2 emissions than the planet-polluting fossil fuels they replace

you heard it here first

The best part of half a mil in fines, that's got to sting. It sounds like they've invested in the infrastructure to manage this properly now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53663223

The Dutch government took control of Netherlands-based Nexperia in late September, citing concerns its technology could be passed on to Chinese owner Wingtech. Beijing retaliated by halting exports of finished Nexperia chips packaged at the plant in the Pearl River Delta.

"The Dutch thought they had seized Nexperia, but they only took over an office building," said Li Xing, a professor of international relations at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, a think tank.

Nexperia resumed sales to some domestic distributors in late October but required payment in yuan

Austria's Melecs and Apple supplier JABIL have managed to source chips from Nexperia. Both have used Chinese entities, allowing them to settle in yuan, the two people briefed on the matter said.

The Dutch government took control of Netherlands-based Nexperia in late September, citing concerns its technology could be passed on to Chinese owner Wingtech. Beijing retaliated by halting exports of finished Nexperia chips packaged at the plant in the Pearl River Delta.

"The Dutch thought they had seized Nexperia, but they only took over an office building," said Li Xing, a professor of international relations at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, a think tank.

Nexperia resumed sales to some domestic distributors in late October but required payment in yuan

Austria's Melecs and Apple supplier JABIL have managed to source chips from Nexperia. Both have used Chinese entities, allowing them to settle in yuan, the two people briefed on the matter said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53662714

The underlying aims of the €30 million budget are interception, detention and an instrumental concern for human life. The initiative maps onto longer-term developments predating the change of government in 2024, marked by the long-term involvement of external actors, often operating with EU funding.

The intervention is indicative of a wider regional trend of EU-funded actions enforcing detention and disregarding human rights concerns. This comes in the guise of “fighting migrant smuggling,” which is both a condition for and objective of EU financial support.

Together, these factors constitute the building blocks of a new era of carceral EU migration “management” in West Africa.

Brazilian ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody over fears he was going to abscond

Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he tried to damage his electronic ankle monitor “out of curiosity” after he was arrested at his villa owing to suspicions he was poised to abscond.

In a video released by the supreme court, Bolsonaro – who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for masterminding a military coup – can be heard admitting to a security official that he had used a soldering iron to tamper with the black tag.

The video showed the device badly damaged and burned on both sides, but still attached to his ankle.

:kelly: now we're getting into a moral brown area

The underlying aims of the €30 million budget are interception, detention and an instrumental concern for human life. The initiative maps onto longer-term developments predating the change of government in 2024, marked by the long-term involvement of external actors, often operating with EU funding.

The intervention is indicative of a wider regional trend of EU-funded actions enforcing detention and disregarding human rights concerns. This comes in the guise of “fighting migrant smuggling,” which is both a condition for and objective of EU financial support.

Together, these factors constitute the building blocks of a new era of carceral EU migration “management” in West Africa.

I'll educate myself soon. Been a bit busy but that textbook Luna Oi translated should help

US-Ukraine statement comes hours after European countries propose their own alternative peace

The US and Ukraine said they had created an “updated and refined peace framework” to end the war with Russia, hours after European countries proposed their own radical alternative that omitted some of the pro-Russia points made in an original US-backed document that was leaked last week.

US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, emerged from a meeting in Switzerland late on Sunday with a Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, saying he was “very optimistic” about the progress of the talks. A joint statement between the two countries said that any eventual deal would “fully uphold” Ukraine’s sovereignty.

The original 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53658167e

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53658112

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53658112