So I’m self hosting Immich in docker with Immich frame. I’m running Immich frame on a raspberry pi 4 in chromium (full screen on an 7” touch screen frame) and it works great, until it seems to randomly close chromium. If I reopen chromium it says do I want to restore tab, when I do it just pulls up my Immich frame IP and works like normal again. I am going to look through my docker logs today after work but has anyone else run into this issue before? It is pretty random and it’s been working for a week straight and then randomly the pi will just be on the home screen instead of full screen chromium.

https://xcancel.com/caitoz/status/1982598726591140234 (https://x.com/caitoz/status/1982598726591140234)

Etc.

The obvious solution is to forbid medias to be bought by the wealthy, giving them to their journalists. And to also increase the pluralism instead of aiming for a uniformity/pseudo-objectivity/'chase of the militant medias'.
The problem isn't the existence of far-right medias, but that they're disproportionately supported by the anti-communists/wealthy, and that there's almost no anti-imperialist/communist media in comparison.
At least in my opinion.

As an example to continue C.Johnstone's enumeration, many people oppose communism because they love freedom, how stupid is that.
And atrocity propaganda is unfortunately here to stay.

They see a tyranny to bring down, while i see a population opressed(, from the start,) for their political/economic ideals : https://t.me/MFARussia/27001

My point would be that no western media will ever defend the DPRK, and that lack of pluralism is considered normal. How easy it is to win a debate if only one side can speak.

The coming months will test the limits of the New York governor’s ability to work alongside a fickle president who is detested by fellow Democrats, with her 2026 reelection potentially at stake. Mamdani’s base will press Hochul to give him left-leaning victories, like a tax increase on rich New Yorkers that the governor opposes. If that’s not enough pressure, Trump has made clear he’ll exert his power over the city if Mamdani wins.

Hochul is walking a very delicate line. She needs Trump’s ear to ensure that funding for crucial infrastructure projects and anti-terrorism efforts will continue to flow. Yet the governor, who is being challenged in a primary by her lieutenant governor Antonio Delgado, can’t be seen as too chummy with a president who is loathed by her own party. Waiting in the wings is Trump ally Rep. Elise Stefanik, who is weighing a bid against the governor.

The situation creates an uncomfortable bind for Hochul, who has cobbled together a surprising rapport with the mercurial president, as evidenced by several White House meetings with him this year. She speaks to Trump frequently on the phone, often calling him directly. In public, Hochul has been eager to castigate the president when she believes his policies will harm New York. But a Mamdani win stands to upend this carefully constructed dynamic.

“I’m not going to send a lot of money to New York. I don’t have to. You know, the money comes all through the White House,” Trump said recently. “And if they’re going to be sending us stupid policies, I mean, communist policies… we’re not going to ruin one of our great cities.”

Hochul has pledged to “fight like hell” to oppose any cuts to the deep blue city, whose voters she will need to win reelection next year and where the president is deeply unpopular. The governor, too, believes Trump doesn’t want to do anything that would hurt his hometown, where he still retains significant business interests.

I have had around a dozen smart bulbs/switches/plugs from three companies for 5-10 years now. Globe Suite, Meross, and 'C by GE' (General Electric). All three are dependent on their respective cloud services, and are integrated with Google Home. (I know, I know.... It's time to dump this crap, it's why I'm here) Globe Suite has been great tbh, but 'C by GE' is absolute trash, and one of the two Meross devices have now died, prompting a long awaited change.

My big sticking point is knowing where to start with hardware. I don't know much about the different communication protocols/methods or what to choose (zigbee? Z-wave? Do I need some sort of Hub? Can/should I just use a wifi connection like the current setup? 🤷), and I don't really know where to look to purchase smart devices that aren't cloud dependent. (buying from Canada)

Funds are tight so this'll be an over time project. For now I'm looking to replace three switches. One single pole. One 3-way. Ane one dimmer. Neutral wires are available at all three locations.

Later I'll be looking to replace 3 smart plugs. Adding current/power monitoring would be neat, but definitely not a priority as I have an Iotawatt at the pannel. After that 4 dimmable white light smart bulbs. Finally there's an RGBW LED controller that'll need replacing. The plugs, bulbs, and leds are all Globe Suite; I'm not in a major hurry to replace them as they've given me next to no trouble compared to the other two companies garbage.

Where do I start? Where do you guys buy hardware, and what manufacturers?

What should I be looking for in hardware I can integrate with HA and essentially firewall off from the internet?

Finally, how about things like sensors? (weather, motion, moisture, sound)

The next week or so I'll fire up an HA container just to poke around a bit more. That part I'm pretty confident in, it's just figuring out some hardware to go with it. Thanks for any advice :)

The New South Wales supreme court has struck down a law that had given police expanded powers to prevent protests near places of worship.

Josh Lees, on behalf of the Palestine Action Group, had challenged the law on the basis that it was unconstitutional.

Justice Anna Mitchelmore ruled on Thursday that the police powers impermissibly burdened the freedom of political communication implied in Australia’s constitution.

The challenge came after the NSW government in February made changes aimed at curbing antisemitism. This included a law which gave police the power to move on protesters who were “in or near” a place of worship.

[...]

The court heard the catalyst for the places of worship bill was a protest outside the Great Synagogue where a member of the Israel Defense Forces was speaking.

“[It] was not a religious event,” PAG’s barrister, Felicity Graham, had told the court.

Lees told reporters after the judgment was delivered: “The Palestinian group has not organised a single protest targeting a place of worship.

“These laws were about targeting anyone who protested near a place of worship, even if it had nothing to do with that place of worship.”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51827512

with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describing both sides as "friends".

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51827178

https://archive.is/OvER4

In 2025 alone, Germany purchased 315 million euros' worth of Israeli weaponry – more than in the previous four years combined

https://archive.is/OvER4

In 2025 alone, Germany purchased 315 million euros' worth of Israeli weaponry – more than in the previous four years combined

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47667510

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47667510

Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company's own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51825816

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51825816

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/44734680

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Experts have expressed fears that the Chinese government plans to increase the forced “harvesting” of human organs from people in Xinjiang, home to a large Turkic Muslim population.

The concerns follow the announcement by the Xinjiang Health Commission late last year that it was going to develop six new organ transplant institutions in the region in the period to 2030, among other measures aimed at expanding transplant services.

Xinjiang is a large area in northwest China where the Beijing government has been operating a campaign of oppression against the indigenous population of Uyghur and other Turkic people since 2014.

The United Nations has said the campaign, which includes a vast network of camps, involves serious human rights violations that may amount to crimes against humanity. “The announcement raises concerns about the ongoing procurement of organs through human rights abuses in Xinjiang, because there is no obvious reason why the new facilities are needed,” said Wendy Rogers, professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

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Enver Tohti [a former surgeon in Xinjiang who now lives in London] said he believes the Chinese authorities are expanding their organ transplant facilities throughout China, and not just in Xinjiang. “Xinjiang is just part of a wider picture,” he said.

He believes the Chinese authorities began to collect biological data from people in Xinjiang in 2016 with a view to building a database that could be searched for matches when organs were needed for transplant operations. “People in inner China just disappear,” he said.

“Maybe they are accused of a crime and sent to prison. In Xinjiang, they simply take the person – say they are a terrorist.” In China, “if you are declared an enemy of the state, then an enemy is not a human being.”

[...]

Recently, at a military parade in Beijing, the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, was caught on mic discussing organ transplants with his counterpart from Russia, Vladimir Putin.

“Biotechnology is continuously developing,” Putin’s interpreter was recorded saying in Chinese to Xi. “Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality.”

Xi could be heard responding in Chinese: “Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old.”

Tohti said: “They are talking about organ harvesting. Organ transplanting in China is organ harvesting. They are not taking organs from volunteers. Every organ transplant is part of harvesting.”

In December 2014, Chinese State media reported that China was to stop using organs from executed prisoners in transplant operations. However, Tohti said such statements are just optics. “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never keeps its promises. They make laws to show to outsiders. They make a constitution to show to outsiders. Inside the country, it is completely different.”

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The video shows the demolition of the two cooling towers of the Grundremmingen nuclear power plant in Bavaria / Germany on October 25.

The plant had been switched off four years before. Like the other German plants, it would have required a mayor overhaul to accomplish for modern safety requirements, and it was not deemed economical to do so.

There was a final decision to phase out nuclear power in 2011, after the tsunami catastrophe in Japan, which caused three of the four plants in Fukushim to melt down and explode, and severe further problems with a larger cooling storage for hot spent fuel rods.

That final decision for phase-out was taken by Chancellor Angela Merkel after big losses in elections. Her conservative party CDU was about to lose power. Merkel had reversed an earlier decision for a nuclear phase--out and could not sustain it politically.

And that earlier decision had been made by the former Green-Social Democrat coalition which had been following a renewable energy strategy. Experts had been working on that transition for years and the majority expert consensus was that continuing nuclear energy would not only be expensive, but that it also in the long run would hamper this renewable transition.

The direct, or first goal of that transition was to phase out and abandon nuclear power. But the anti-nuclear movement and the Green party were also very clear that for reaching that goal, something better than fossil fuels was needed - clean energy. This is why the anti-nuclear movement had a laughing sun in its logo, since a long time.

Returning to the topic of Fukushima and Merkel's political emergency stop - Why had this event such a big impact on the public opinion in Germany?

Well, there had been a fierce discussion around nuclear power since the mid-eighties. That discussion had a broadness, technical depth and persaviveness that is hard to imagine in today's world of tweets and video shorts. One literally could not open a newspaper or even a boy scout's magazine without it having a drawing of a nuclear power plant, how it was supposed to work, and what were possible weak points.

One constant argument of the pro-nuclear side was THAT NUCLEAR PLANTS CANNOT BLOW UP AND A MELT-DOWN CAN NEVER HAPPEN, BECAUSE OF THEIR TIGHT TECHNICAL PRECAUTIONS. And that major nuclear accidents WILL NOT HAPPEN MORE OFTEN THAN ONCE IN TEN THOUSAND YEARS.

It turned out that this was not true.

Germany also had experienced the consequences of nuclear fallout in 1986 after the Chernobyl plant had exploded. Kids were not allowed to play outside for weeks. Agricultural produce was disposed of and some stuff disapeared and showed up as far away as South America. Newspapers printed Becquerel numbers of food for months, and foraging mushrooms was discouraged for many years in parts of Southern Germany. And all that because as little as a few hundred grams of Caesium isotope from Chernobyl.

There were also very heated discussions about the effects of the radiation around Chernobyl. Many reported effects in children, like thyroid cancer, also increase in cardiovascular illnesses. On youtube, there are some videos on how this looks - it is stuff for very bad dreams. Most of these reports were disputed on the ground that the radiation doses were too low to cause harm, based on the current scientific models on low-dose radiation effects. Problems were attributed to unfounded anxiety. And then, some people went and illustrated the effects of radiation on insects. Today, on scholar.google.com you can find papers on epigenetic effects of ionizing radiation, which is, one has to stress, still not mainstream science.

Interestingly, at the end of the eighties a technical report came out which made a bit of waves. It was titled, I think, "Risikostudie Biblis B Phase II" or so, and was concerned with what would happen in a loss-of-cooling accident in a pressurized reactor. The conclusion was that the steel vessel would be able to contain the radiactive material only for a very short time, and then would burst, with much of the radioactive inventory shattered outside. By the way, that loss-of-cooling scenario was almost what happened in the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, which, as we know today, also led to a partial melt-down. America was probably lucky that its president at this time happened to be a real expert on nuclear safety.

Another part of the discussion originated from the fact that early proponents of nuclear power, like the Bavarian politican Franz-Josef Strauß were also fans of nuclear arms. But the majority of Germans were opposed to nuclear arms, and these decades of discussion made it really clear that Germany - unlike perhaps the US - could never survive a nuclear war, because its small size and dense population. After the end of the cold war it became clear that more than 160 missiles had been targeting Berlin alone, and each with a destructive force far larger than the single bomb that marked humanity's darkest day in Hiroshima.

There were also concerns about the effect of low-dose radiation on kids. In the Merkel years, it had emerged that there was an unusual cluster of child leukemia cases around a plant in Krümmel in Northern Germany. But its operators denied that anything dangerous radiation escape had happened, which led to serious conflicts between politics and scientists doing the investigation. Statistics were done about risk of leukemia for children living near any plant in Germany, and a clearly elevated risk was found - which cannot be explained by the dominant scientific theory on the effects of radiation. Later, such clusters were also found near the plants in Hamm-Uentrop and AVR Jülich - two experimental pebble bed / Thorium plants. Such studies have been repeated, with similar results, in many places around the world.

Another thread of the nuclear discussion was safe storage of spent nuclear fuel rods and waste after use. Nobody wanted to have that stuff in his neighborhood - especially not the home country of Franz-Josef Strauss, Bavaria. There was the idea to store the waste in old salt mines. There were fierce protests of the Green movement as well as local farmers in Gorleben which flared up with every new transport. Receiving the nuclear waste was so unpopular that the federated state did not want to shoulder more bills for the huge police activities.

Public trust was not exactly fostered by what happened in another salt mine, Asse II. It was an experimental store for weakly radioactive stuff. The thinking was that the salt stone which had been there for millions of years would keep the content isolated from groundwater. Long story short, the mine was under water very soon, and the whole experiment turned out to be a highly irresponsible mess.

The coalition of Green Party and Social Democrats had been funding wind power and solar power in the years before, and had engineered a precise plan how to make that reality. One key component of their policy was to guarantee fixed prices for each generated kWh to solar and wind energy operators - the so-called EEG, or "Erneuerbare Energien-Einspeisegesetz". That was a resounding success - it led to exponential growth, and the scheme was copied world-wide. The following conservative government certainly put brakes on it, but it was not able to undo what had happened. Green energy had become viable.

The difficulty with the hot fuel rod store in Fukushima, which was short of melting down as well, was perhaps the final nail in the coffin. It had no concrete containment and nobody had apparently realized how dangerous it was. German plants had the same problem.

• RBI, SEBI ease rules to spur lending, listings, and foreign access
• More regulatory relaxations likely over the next year – sources
• India's economy projected to grow at 6.8% in FY2026
• Foreign investors welcome easing but say deeper reforms needed to unleash market forces

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