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British authorities detained a man in his 40s over a series of cyberattacks that grounded flights at major European airports. Such attacks against transport hubs are on the rise.

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a suspect had been detained in connection with recent cyberattacks that disrupted air travel at several major European airports.

The suspect, said to be in his 40s, was arrested in southern England late on Tuesday.

"Although this arrest is a positive step, the investigation into this incident is in its early stages and remains ongoing," read a statement by NCA Deputy Director Paul Foster.

"Cybercrime is a persistent global threat that continues to cause significant disruption to the UK," he added.

The Netherlands is close to signing a deal with Uganda to set up a hub where rejected asylum seekers from the region can be sent before being deported to their home countries, a government source said on Wednesday.

In March, the European Commission proposed that member countries would be allowed to set up centres in non-EU countries where migrants whose asylum claims were rejected could await deportation.

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My friend and I vividly remember a scene with Gomez/Gomez and Morticia waiting for Fester to wake up and staring over him while he sleeps. Gomez monologues to himself. Does this happen in the movie, Addams Family fans? Or did our brains make this up?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13588273

This is something I've been thinking about for a while, and it's a huge problem, but I don't really see a lot of discussion about it. We have the technological means now for every single person on the planet to communicate directly with every single other person, in near-real time. The only real barrier to it is logistical (and is mostly impeded by resource hoarding). That's amazing. And the recent election in Nepal via Discord has me thinking again about how the internet could form the basis for a real, democratic, world government. There are a ton of problems that would need to be addressed, off the top of my head:

• not everyone has internet access
• not everyone that has access has unfettered access
• It's hard to preserve anonymity and have fair elections
• it's hard to verify elections haven't been tampered with
• what happens when violent crimes are committed?
• how do taxes work in this system?
• how do armed forces work in this system?

I don't think any of these problems are necessarily unsolvable, but I don't know how. So, how would we get from where we are to where we want to be? How do we even define what the end state should look like?

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Bart M. J. Szewczyk, Author, nonresident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and adjunct professor at Sciences Po, joins Genie Godula to break down Donald Trump’s latest rhetorical pivot on Russia. The US president’s recent remarks, suggesting Ukraine could “win back all of its territory”, mark a significant departure from his administration’s previously ambivalent and sympathetic stance toward Moscow. While Mr. Szewczyk cautions against taking Trump’s pronouncements at face value, he acknowledges “it is a big diplomatic shift and time will tell whether it translates into additional economic pressure against Russia and greater military support to Ukraine.”

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Hey!

There's some things I am planning on ordering, and I'd like to get them delivered without my parents knowing.

The things in question are some 23w CFL bulbs, e27 sockets, PC fans and a power strip.
I was originally planning on just buying them in person, but literally no shops near me have them.

I can't actually find them anywhere but the american version of amazon -- my country's (Ireland) version of amazon doesn't have them.

I asked a few friends if I could send the things to their house, and get it through them, but all of them said no.

Spain will send a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced in New York on Wednesday, the El Pais newspaper reported, Anadolu reports.

“A maritime action vessel equipped with all the necessary resources will set sail from Cartagena tomorrow in case it is necessary to assist the flotilla and carry out any rescues,” Sanchez said.

Officials stressed that the mission of the European ships would not be to confront possible Israeli aggression but rather to provide humanitarian assistance if needed. The Spanish Navy vessel will operate in international waters.

I wrote this short "guide" in response to a new user earlier and decided to turn it into a post. So here is a short and easy guide to how to use lemmy:

The home page / feed

When you are on the home page of your instance, above the feed you will see this:

posts/comments: chose if you want the feed to show you posts or comments of posts.

eye/barred eye: chose if you want the feed to include hidden posts or not.

subscribed/local/all: choses from where the feed should pull what it shows you, subscribed to have it show you only content from communities you are subscribed to, local if you want it to show you content from only your home instance including comunities you aren't subscribed to, all if you want it to show you content from every instances your home instance hasn't defederated from.

And finally the sorting menu: It allow you to chose the order in which the feed should display content and include the following options

• hot - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment and time of the post
• active - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment
• scaled - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment but boost posts from smaller communities
• controversial - sort by how close are the number of downvotes and the number of upvotes
• new - sort from newest post to oldest
• old -sort from oldest post to newest
• most comments - sort by number of comments
• new comments - sort by how recently a post has been created or received a new comment
• top [period of time] - sort by highest number of upvotes among posts made during the last specified period of time

You can change what these are set as by default in the settings menu.

Posting

When you click the button "post" you will see this:

From top to bottom we have:

• Title - self explanatory, the title of your post
• URL - if you want a link to some other site on the internet in your post, put the link here
• image - if you want an image to appear next to your title in the feed
• image URL - same as image but with an image URL link instead of uploading a file
• Body - the content of your post, typically text but can also contain GIFs and images
• language - if you want lemmy to precise in which language the post is written in, rarely ever used in practice
• community - the community that will receive your post
• NSFW - click this if you want the associated image of your post to be blured on the feed, use it for anything the require a content warning

Each posts has these icons:

From left to right:

• the number of comments the post has
• link to the post
• link to view the post from it's home instance
• de-format the markdown syntax to see the raw text (I talk about markdown after)
• favorite the post
• crosspost, post a copy of the post to another community with automatic links to the original
• additional options like block a user, flag a post, etc

Comments have these icons:

• deformat markdown
• respond to the comment
• favorite the comment

Markdown

Markdown is a syntax system built in lemmy that allows you to modify your text in various ways:

You can make very big text for titles

of different sizes

italic bold ~small~ ~~barred~~

• make lists

Site quotes

write code

links

Footnotes[^1]

[^1]: Don't mind me, I'm the footnote from the Markdown section!

and post images

Additional pro tip: you can turn any image into an emoji

Remember the button to de-format the markdown syntax from the previous section? If you click on it you will see that all this funny stuff I just did correspond to this text:

# You can make very big text for titles
#### of different sizes

*italic* **bold** ~small~ ~~barred~~

- make lists

> Site quotes

 `` `
write code
 `` `
[links](https://lemmygrad.ml/)

Footnotes[^1]

[^1]: Don't mind me, I'm the footnote from the Markdown section!

and post images ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0e5791b4-88a5-4278-b2ca-a94e0e2b9869.jpeg?format=webp)

Additional pro tip: you can turn any image into an emoji ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0e5791b4-88a5-4278-b2ca-a94e0e2b9869.jpeg?format=webp "emoji example")

Federation

Federation is a part of the fediverse that tend to confuse peoples, because it is confusing.

Federation is made possible by a communication protocol called activitypub, and is basically a way for different sites to "talk" to each other kind of like e-mail or RSS. I absolutely wouldn't be able to explain how it works from a technical standpoint, all I know is that it allow sites to exchange information like "such post has been made on instance such-and-such" "such user from instance whatever has liked random post from instance what-s-it-called" in a decentralized spider web kind of way.

It allows not only every lemmy instance but every instance of every fediverse software, from mastodon to peertube to exchange content and data (unless they don't want to). This means that in theory a mastodon user can like and comment a lemmy post and watch a peertube video (in practice it's a little bit finicky and you have to try multiple times to understand how to do it).

Now let's talk about de-federation. De-federation has this strange and confusing one-way of functioning. It doesn't prevent the instance you de-federated from from requesting information from your instance, but it does forbid your instance from requesting information from theirs, in other words, when you de-federate from another instance your users won't be able to see the other instance's posts, comments and likes but the other instance's users will still be able to see your posts, comments and likes unless they de-federate from you as well. For example, from lemmygrad, we can still see lemmy.world comments on lemmy.ml posts and we can upvote/downvote and comment on them, but the lemmy.world user won't see any of it.

The wider fediverse

Since you're already on it, I suggest also taking a look at other fediverse apps. You can easily find them by googling fediverse. There is mastodon/miskey/akkoma/etc which are twitter-like micro-blogging softwares, peertube a video sharing platform like youtube, and many more.

The Marxist-leninist community on the fediverse is most well established on lemmy but we also have instances of other fediverse software. We have a mastodon instance established by an Hexbear user and a peertube instance established by hexbear user tankietanuki, I recommend both.

That being said, Good posting folks!!