When dolphins began washing up dead by the dozens on Lake Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state, hydrologist Ayan Fleischmann was sent to find out why.

What he and his colleagues discovered was startling: a brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 had transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41 degrees Celsius, or 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit

hotter than most spa baths.

Their findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, spotlight the impacts of planetary warming on tropical regions and aquatic ecosystems, and come as the United Nations' COP30 climate talks kick off in Brazil.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/48495641

Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can't trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world.

A world where manual labor is no longer needed, where people can just exist as large mammals are meant to exist. Robots will handle it all and we can just do as we please... and the robots are going to be plentiful because once enough of the process of making a robot becomes automated, the cost of it will go to zero. But to get there it is going to require a ton of money... these robots are going to be way too expensive for people to actually buy them, so investors and governments will help out. The investors will eventually lose everything, but that will put us on the way to having everything we need to be created through completely automated systems.

Of course, there will still be jobs for those who really want them - or more likely, who want them and are good at them - or even more likely, who knows the right people... but if we can get our basic needs taken care of it night not fully end poverty but it would be a step in the right direction.

But, alas... It's Musk saying it so it's only to further enrich himself and won't actually happen.

tldr: is this possible?

I'm trying to move from docker compose to podman quadlets and while I've got some basic differences down I'm having an issue with using quadlets in proxmox lxc. it works fine in a vm, so my question is, has anyone gotten quadlets to work in a lxc? And if so, how do I fix the below error?

when I try to take a working quadlet file from a vm to lxc I get the following error:

Failed to connect to user scope bus via local transport: No such file or directory  

I've tried researching the error and did all the troubleshooting in this url: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-fix-failed-to-connect-to-system-scope-bus-error-in-linux

which suggests it's because systemd isn't running, but it is.

podman@podman-test:~$ ps aux | grep systemd~  
podman       349  0.0  0.2   3508  1480 pts/1    S+   19:55   0:00 grep systemd~ 

again, I'm very new to quadlets so it's very possible I'm missing something.

Thanks in advance!

ETA: I prefer lxc for the resource overhead savings.

Edit2: running rootless podman on proxmox 9 Debian lxc. I've also tried Alma Linux lxc

edit3: not sure where to go from here. as shown systemd doesn't appear to be running, but dbus is and a reinstall of dbus doesn't fix the issue. for now I think I'm going to stick to vm until I can figure this out.

Cross-posted from fediverse user @peachy@goto.micromail.me

Is there such a thing as a configurable full-body input controller for computers? Is anyone working on that? I know there is work on controlling computers directly with the brain, which will be ace for people with full paralysis, but what I’m interested in is something that goes in the other direction - using more of the body. Think Tom Cruise’s interface in Minority Report but better. Sitting, or even standing, to work at a computer takes its toll on the body, especially the back. Our bodies didn’t evolve to be so static while we’re awake. Emerging from a flare-up of a slipped disc, it has got me thinking of better ways to interface with machines.

Imagine the following:

You come to see me in my studio to see how I and my colleagues do image editing and graphic design in GIMP 4.0. Some of us are stood in front of large displays but no one seems to be using a keyboard, mouse or graphics tablet. I appear to be doing a dance routine from a music video... As I bounce my knee up and across my body you see that the Move tool has been selected. As I raise my left fist above my head it is as though I am holding shift to toggle “Pick a layer or guide”. I draw my right hand across my body with my thumb and forefinger pinched and the selected layer moves with me. Finally, I quickly raise both hands, like I'm flipping over a table and my project is saved and closed. Now that I’ve stopped moving around so energetically you notice that my stylish and comfortable cotton loungewear and gloves have small sensors dotted around them. I explain that the position of these sensors relative to each other and to the space have been mapped to traditional keyboard and mouse inputs via my operating system.

Moving to the next workspace you see my colleague Babs. Her white hair pokes out above a VR headset and she has a number of small cameras tracking her movement to the soundtrack of Chinese classical music. She is an elder and a veteran and even contributed some of the code that makes this stuff work, back in the day. She says it was no big deal; she mostly just connected up different programs, some of which Hollywood has been using since the 1990s. Her movements are slow and smooth. It looks like she’s doing Qi Gong or Tai Chi or something. Raising a hand in front of her heart you see the Filters menu open and lowering it slowly the menu scrolls down to Enhance. Gracefully stepping sideways and lowering her hand further, Heal Selection is highlighted in the submenu. Turning her hand palm-up launches the plugin. She tells you that one of her first contributions to the interface was to make the body position tolerances configurable by the user in their desktop settings.

Lastly you watch my cousin Tommy at work. When we met I told you about how a head injury had left him partially paralysed and unable to speak. He too is using a VR headset, but instead of having cameras pointed at him he has a HD sonar array. His disability was caused by an error in the police’s facial-recognition software and understandably he’s had a thing about cameras ever since. The bad guy got away and he never caught the bus he was running to catch. Every couple of days he asks whether Nancy’s cameras are still disconnected from the network, which they always are. Tapping his ring-finger once on the armrest of his wheelchair selects the Text tool. Turning his head to the side, he purses his lips and sweeps his face back around to make his text box. You see his mouth moving but there is no sound. “Hi, nice to meet you” appears in his projects new text layer. “You too” you reply. Twitching his right shoulder you see his text layer is duplicated, blinking twice and nodding his head replaces the text with what you just said. He must have used speech-to-text to record your words to his desktop clipboard and then pasted them into the text field. Pressing his index finger against the arm rest and looking toward the ceiling brings the new text layer to the top of the stack. Running the same sequence of movements again, a third text layer becomes visible onscreen. “I’d never edited a picture in my life until I got into this tech as part of my physiotherapy treatment. My cousin ended up offering me this job and now I can work faster than anyone else here, especially Babs. I’m pretty sure she’s just here for fun but none of us mind.”

#tech #health #disability #GIMP #solarpunk

A feature I miss from Google Maps is the ability to create a map w/ pins on all the places I've been to, sorting them into lists, etc. Is there an open source app on Windows or Android that I could use instead of google? It doesn't have to be a navigation app, although that would be a plus.

A single infusion of an experimental gene-editing drug appears safe and effective for cutting cholesterol, possibly for life, according to a small early study released Saturday.

The study, which involved 15 volunteers, found one infusion of a drug that uses the CRISPR gene-editing technique could safely reduce cholesterol, as well as levels of harmful triglycerides, by about half.

"Rather than a lifetime worth of medicine, we have the potential to give people a cure," said Dr. Luke Laffin, a preventative cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who helped conduct the study. "It's very exciting."

The results of the study were presented Saturday at the American Heart Association's annual meeting and published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research

Iran’s police say Omid Sarlak, 22, shot himself, but fellow activists suspect he may have been killed for his views

The death of a young Iranian man who had filmed himself burning a photograph of the country’s supreme leader has sparked a war of words between state media and activists over how he died.

Government-sanctioned news websites reported that Omid Sarlak, who was in his 20s, had been found in his car on Saturday in western Iran with a gunshot wound to his head and traces of gunpowder on his hands. Iranian police said Sarlak had “died by suicide”.

But anti-government media and activists say the timing of the death, so soon after he made a public outcry against the government, raises suspicions about whether he was killed for his views.

The Tesla CEO once hinted he was done with politics – but he’s been leaning further into the international far right

In the period immediately after Musk’s messy departure from the White House, the Tesla CEO repeatedly suggested that he was done with politics. Investors who had pushed him to refocus on his businesses were delighted. Tesla’s stock rose. The months since, however, have proved that Musk has failed to abandon his political preoccupations. He has done the opposite, veering further into election conspiracies and extreme anti-immigration views.

Musk’s political endeavors since leaving the Trump administration have included leveraging his social media platform as a pulpit to influence New York City’s mayoral race and creating an AI-generated, rightwing knockoff of Wikipedia. In interviews, he has said there is a “homeless industrial complex” of nonprofits ruining California and complained that “it should be okay to have white pride”. On X, he proclaimed that the UK would fall into civil war and western civilization would collapse.

😔 I’m feeling sad because of the lack of support, please my friends help me and my family, you are our only hope after God 💔

Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

Rakefet prison was opened in the early 1980s to house a handful of the most dangerous organised crime figures in Israel but closed a few years later on the grounds that it was inhumane. The far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, ordered it back into service after the 7 October attacks in 2023.

The cells, a tiny exercise “yard” and a lawyers’ meeting room are all underground, so inmates live without any natural light. The jail was initially designed for a small number of high-security inmates occupying individual cells, holding 15 men when it shut in 1985. In recent months, about 100 detainees have been incarcerated there, official data obtained by PCATI shows.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6680440

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6680334

Hey comrades :) <3!!!, It’s me again. I wasn’t even sure how to start this but I just wanted to give a small update from us here in Juba. The caretaker still hasn’t come back but he left us with a heavy burden…we have to clear the remaining 244 usd before he reconnects our water.

Right now, we still can’t access the toilet, bathroom or water for cooking and washing. Every time we run out, we have to walk a long way to fetch it in small jerrycans and that’s where we were attacked last time. I’m honestly scared to go back there. We survived with my girls but the fear still sits in our chest. Pretty’s still in pain from that day and sometimes it’s hard to believe this is real life.

For anyone reading this for the first time … my sisters and I are trans refugees from Uganda. We fled after violence and persecution made it impossible to live safely and ended up here in Juba, South Sudan. Life hasn’t been easy…our shelter was attacked and burned and we’ve had to rebuild from nothing more than once. Through it all, the kindness and solidarity of comrades here has kept us alive.

I hate asking for help again but I don’t know where else to turn. Life was already hard before I found this community and I can’t go back… especially in a place where being trans is dangerous. You’ve been the only light that’s made this bearable.

We have WiFi and electricity again and that helps us stay connected but without water, even small things feel impossible. I wish I could say things are better but they’re not yet. Still, I’m grateful for how far we’ve come because of all of you. Your kindness helped us eat , kept our lights on and gave us reasons to keep fighting.

If we can clear the balance, the caretaker promised to reconnect the water. That would mean safety again and a little peace. Any extra support will also help us with food since what we have left won’t last long.

Thank you to everyone who’s been bumping my posts, donating or just checking in. You’ve carried us more than you know.

Support link in my profile. With love and hope always ❤️❤️❤️

They're telling me I'm not allowed to live within 500m of any adult video stores, strip clubs, or lonely single moms. And I also gotta' notify all my neighbours that I've had sex when I finally do move.

I am moving my personal web site from netlify to a VPS. It runs via Caddy as just a plain, static web site generated from Hugo. Netlify offered a free contact form, but now I need to provide my own solution, somehow.

I'd like to self-host that too, if possible, on the VPS but then I need to handle spam blocking, form validation, possibly capcha, and sending the outbound email myself - and I don't have experience doing any of that. An AI chatbot suggested a python script using flask but I would still need to do a bunch to make that work, I think.

There are a number of form handling cloud services online (such as staticforms dot xyz) but then the form submissions are going through their servers. My visitors probably wouldn't care, but I would still prefer to self-host something, if it's not too hard to setup.

What do you all recommend? Anyone find a clever solution to this already?

I already have a "comments" feature wired into the site - I could just stick with that but some people seem to still prefer to contact me directly, instead of using that.

EDIT: This is all done - thanks for all the great ideas, you all rock!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49393596

I've been running Jellyfin on a Synology DS923+ for a couple years with 'linuxserver/jellyfin:latest' with no issue until that big update recently. Suddenly it's borked...extremely slow speeds, failing to play files half the time, stuttering even when it does play. It was time for a hardware update regardless; it was a miracle that the NAS was able to run as many services on it as it was anyway.

So I built a Proxmox machine with the intent of adding hardware acceleration and transcoding (ideally I'd like to stream to a couple old CRTs): -ASRock B760M PRO RS -Intel i5-13500 -2x32GB Crucial DDR5-4800 -1TB WD SN850X NVMe

Using the Proxmox community Jellyfin script (https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=jellyfin&category=Media+%26+Streaming) I set up an LXC and the iGPU is supposedly being utilized properly. I added an NFS mount from the NAS's media folder to the Proxmox host, then bound the mount point to the LXC. So at this point, it is accessible to clients via web browser, but I'm having a few issues:

1. (Probably a Prox issue but...) Jellyfin isn't seeing all the media. I added all the libraries and did a full scan, but *maybe *10% of the media is actually available. Hopefully this is a moot point because--

2. My old docker config isn't available. I made an NFS mount from the NAS's docker folder to the Proxmox host and tried to route it to the LXC as well, but the Proxmox-NAS refuses to work so I'd need a workaround.

3. I have no idea if my transcoding settings are right. Intel's specs for my CPU and Jellyfin's recommendations seems to conflict slightly, but between both sets of info there's still some settings that lack guidance. Basically, can someone with a computer engineering degree double check my settings? I tried a screenshot, but Lemmy didn't appreciate it

Hardware acceleration: Intel Quicksync (QSV) QSV Device: /dev/dri/renderD128

X H264

X HEVC

MPEG2

VC1

VP8

X VP9

X AV1

HEVC 10bit

VP9 10bit

HEVC RExt 8/10bit

HEVC RExt 12bit

X Prefer OS native DXVA or VA-API hardware decoders

X Enable hardware encoding

Enable Intel Low-Power H.264 hardware encoder

Enable Intel Low-Power HEVC hardware encoder

X Allow encoding in HEVC format

Allow encoding in AV1 format

Edit: forgot to include logs: "ffmpeg version 7.1.2-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-static --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto=auto --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-shared --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-chromaprint --enable-opencl --enable-libdrm --enable-libxml2 --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libdav1d --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --arch=amd64 --enable-libshaderc --enable-libplacebo --enable-vulkan --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libvpl --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc libavutil 59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100 libavcodec 61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101 libavformat 61. 7.100 / 61. 7.100 libavdevice 61. 3.100 / 61. 3.100 libavfilter 10. 4.100 / 10. 4.100 libswscale 8. 3.100 / 8. 3.100 libswresample 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100 libpostproc 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7ab87d07ffc0] No VA display found for device /dev/dri/renderD128. Device creation failed: -22. Failed to set value 'vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD128,driver=iHD' for option 'init_hw_device': Invalid argument Error parsing global options: Invalid argument"

"[WRN] The WebRootPath was not found: "/var/lib/jellyfin/wwwroot". Static files may be unavailable. [ERR] FFmpeg exited with code 234"

Edit: appreciate all the help!