Essentially, a Meta-affiliated data centre company, Goat Systems LLC, flooded local wastewater pipes in Wyoming with fill-and-flush waste (a process in which data centres flood their cooling systems before powering up for the first time) containing a rare (and deadly) bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii.

A lot of distro recommendation threads focus on the questions that novices think are important, but leave out the questions people would have after experiencing the differences (things that distro-hoppers might ask). As such, answers vary between "use _____, I found it very user friendly" and "use whatever, you can turn any distro into any other, and tweak it to your needs."

What are some questions that newbies should ask when deciding on which distro to use as the basis for their system. Things like "what package manager suits my needs and how do I try out different ones without changing distros?" Or "what is a desktop environment/window manager, and how do I figure out which suits me?" Or "how does an init system affect my user experience as a newbie?" Or "how what are the choices made by such-and-such distro during install?"

Bonus points for also answering the questions you propose (I don't have answers, picked a distro and stuck with it)

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49306586

The Houston shooting is just the latest instance of a disturbing trend that continues to play out across the country. And it shows why, when federal agencies deploy lethal force on city streets, city and local governments must not cooperate. 

The chilling blueprint for federal immigration enforcement operations was demonstrated earlier this year with “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis, where an unprecedented deployment of 3,000 federal agents — dwarfing the city’s 600-officer police department and essentially occupying the city. 

Following the killing of Renée Good, federal authorities simultaneously refused to investigate and completely stonewalled local oversight. The FBI seized Good’s vehicle, blocking local forensic teams from examining it, while the Department of Justice refused to provide investigative files to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. 

Seventeen days later, a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 

These incidents closely resembled prior encounters across the country where DHS accounts were later determined to be false. In October, federal agents shot Carlitos Parias in Los Angeles, accusing him of ramming vehicles; a U.S. District Judge later dismissed the indictment with prejudice due to blatant prosecutorial misconduct. In October, Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago under similar claims; a federal judge dismissed those charges after bodycam footage proved the agent had steered his own vehicle into Martinez’s truck. In an earlier incident in Harrisburg, Pa., federal agents relied heavily on the designation of a “weaponized vehicle” — a controversial term that has itself been weaponized by DHS to justify immigration agents’ rampant use of excessive force. 

Let’s start with federal immigration agents’ high-risk traffic stops, a common theme of these shootings. This maneuver falls well outside their core purview, and agents are dangerously ill-equipped for it, as evidenced by their frequency of firing upon moving vehicles — a tactic local police heavily restrict. 

Constraining these stops would save lives, but that would require either a major DHS policy shift or congressional action. Neither is realistic. The Trump administration won’t curb the practice, and a Republican-controlled Congress continues to acquiesce to the president, locking in, through budget reconciliation, nearly a quarter-trillion dollars in immigration-enforcement funding through the end of Fiscal Year 2029. Federal intervention isn’t likely.

That’s precisely why Houston Mayor John Whitmire should be ordering a city-led investigation.  

Local authorities aren’t powerless bystanders. Though state and local governments cannot dictate how federal agents operate within their boundaries, they can limit federal involvement. Like federal officials, state and local officials take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Taking this oath seriously creates a clear tension, as cooperating with federal immigration enforcement has become fundamentally incompatible with the solemn oaths state and local officials take to uphold the Constitution. 

When local authorities assist or stand aside for an unaccountable federal apparatus that operates beyond standard police protocols, violates constitutional rights with impunity, and actively evades oversight, they betray their sworn duty to defend their constituents’ constitutional rights.

Local authorities that resist are on strong legal footing. Though the Trump Administration may try to subpoena recalcitrant officials, threaten to withhold federal funds or even remove Customs agents from “sanctuary city airports,” the anti-commandeering doctrine is a cornerstone of American federalism rooted in the Tenth Amendment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that the federal government cannot conscript, coerce or commandeer state and local officials or resources to enforce federal prerogatives like immigration enforcement. The doctrine ensures that state and local governments remain responsive to their own communities rather than serving as an involuntary, uncompensated extension of federal power.

Despite Texas’ history of challenging federal authority, Gov. Greg Abbott has taken a page out of the Trump administration’s playbook in an attempt to restrict the autonomy of Texas municipalities as they attempt to protect their residents from federal overreach. 

Local authorities retain the sovereign option to safeguard their communities by immediately withholding local law enforcement personnel, intelligence, facilities and logistical support from federal operations that run afoul of constitutional parameters. Withholding that cooperation is the only way for local officials to stay true to their constitutional oaths.

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cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/12317935

He's so sweet tho. It's good there's still daylight 😊

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July 10, 2026

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Also:

• MEDICC Brings Solar Power to Cuban Maternity Homes
• Despite U.S. Pressure, Most Nations Oppose Embargo
• How Cubans Are Surviving Endless Blackouts
• We Found the “Russian Spy Base” in Cuba
• Second Sanctioned Mining Company Seeks U.S. Buyer

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/64128

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The speaker of Maine's state House of Representatives said the FBI was expected to investigate Monday morning after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were reportedly "involved" in a fatal shooting in Biddeford—the second shooting involving ICE on the streets of an American city in less than a week.

"This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford," said Speaker Ryan Doughty Fecteau, a Democrat. "A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well."

Few details were known about the shooting initially. Some streets in the town, located about 18 miles south of Portland, were closed due to an "active crime scene," according to News Center Maine.

Former state Senate President Troy Jackson, a progressive who is running to be the state's Democratic candidate for US Senate, expressed solidarity with the town "and with all Mainers"—who include about 56,000 immigrants, many of whom have lived in fear of President Donald Trump's mass deportation and detention operation in recent months.

Trump's deployment of ICE in Maine briefly received national attention in January. Federal agents have continued to arrest members of immigrant communities in the state after Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) claimed she had received assurances from the Department of Homeland Security that the "surge" in ICE agents had ended.

Jordan Wood, an organizer who is also running for US Senate following former Democratic candidate Graham Platner's withdrawal from the race to unseat Collins, said Monday that "ICE is dangerously out of control and an embarrassment to our country."

"We are waiting for more details, and Mainers deserve the full truth," said Wood, adding a call to abolish ICE "and replace it with an agency that answers to the people."

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[2026-07-12] Axios via TASS

The US military is delivering strikes on Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz area, Axios journalist Barak Ravid wrote on the X social network, citing a US administration official.

"US military is conducting strikes against Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz area," he wrote on the X social network.

In his words, the strikes are being carried out in response to shots earlier fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) at a commercial ship in the area.

Let's see where it was specifically.

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President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose,” a judge said Monday in a scathing decision that referred one of his lawyers for discipline and characterized the $10 billion complaint as an exercise in self-dealing.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams accused Trump of having manipulated the court system when he sued a federal agency under his control, bypassing a requirement that parties in a lawsuit must have adverse interests and laying the groundwork for a settlement last spring that granted him immunity from tax audits and created a fund to compensate allies of the president who say they were unjustly persecuted.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49257765

I won't tolerate this disrespect to my goat big chungus! He'll always be my big chunky boy.

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42334724

Is it the fear of AI and automation, or fascist laws that severely restrict freedom, or is it about future wars, hunger or a worsening climate?

This is not a real post, but several examples of a self-promotion post that would need to meet the requirements of rules 7 & 8. The links will all go to the wiki I've started on Codeberg. While none of it was created with an LLM, its being used as a sample link.

These are the categories for a disclosure. Only those with AI assistance (at any level) get listed.

• Design - architecture, system design
• Implementation - production code
• Testing - writing tests, test plans, and QA.
• Documentation - Docs, comments, README, change logs
• Review - Code review and pull request feedback
• Deployment - CI/CD configuration.

Each category that uses AI is then shown, along with the level of AI involvement. There are four levels of AI support to then use:

• Hint - AI suggested solution, human does the task.
• Assisted - AI acts on part of a task, but a human handled the bulk.
• Pair - About a 50/50 split of human made and generated.
• Generated - Human prompted, AI generated.

A few different examples are shown below

Example 1 - A human prompted, and AI generated everything

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, and since my account is more than 30 days old I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure:

• Design - Generated
• Implementation - Generated
• Testing - Generated
• Documentation - Generated
• Review - Generated
• Deployment - Generated

Since AI generated everything from a prompt, and each category is involved in my fake project, all categories are displayed

Example 2 - Mixed levels of AI use for the entire project, except for the Design (architecture/system design)

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, but there is a paid subscription component. My account is more than 30 days old and I regularly post and comment without promoting my project for at least 90% of my posts/comments, so I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure:

• Implementation - Generated
• Testing - Hint
• Documentation - Pair
• Review - Assisted
• Deployment - Generated

As the design came entirely from a human, it does not need to be listed. Everything after that though involved AI, so they do need to be listed.

This tells the community that the implementation (code) and deployment (CI/CD pipeline) were entirely handled by AI from a prompt.

For testing, I asked AI for the best way to handle it, but implemented the test plans, tests, and performed the QA myself.

The documentation was about a 50/50 split on effort, because I used AI to generate the readme, changelogs, and some of the general documentation, while the rest of the documentation and all of the comments were handled by a person.

Review (code review / pull request feedback) was mostly handled by a person, but still involves AI in some of the effort.

Example 3 - I used AI to help me work with a piece of hardware over a serial connection, and nothing else

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, and since my account is more than 30 days old I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure:

• Implementation - Hint

Note: I only used AI to figure out how to communicate with this weird device I bought from a garage sale and couldn't find any documentation on the protocol.

Since I only used AI to figure out how to talk to the device, and through that series of AI prompts I came up with the code for the communication protocol which I then wrote entirely myself, only Implementation is listed.

Since it was such a small part, I decided to note how I used it, both to show that this came mostly from me, but also by mentioning it this is where folks may want to pay attention if they want to contribute. Someone may be familiar with the device I found at a garage sale, and has a printed copy of the 40yr old manual that includes the protocol.

Example 4 - I used AI in some way, but I've already made that clear in the git repository with an AI declaration file.

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, and since my account is more than 30 days old I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure can be found in the git repository here.

Since I've already created an AI disclosure document in my repository, I don't need to declare it again here. Instead, I can link to that disclosure for everyone to easily find and get the full details.

Hopefully this helps clear up any confusion around how to make an AI disclosure. If you have any questions please feel free to message before posting.

Hey y'all, I have a small network with opnsense firewall, a unify ap, some client in different subnets, vpn, DNS and some servers.

As I am completely self thought, I got everything to run reading the docs and forums, but I have no idea how to test if what I build is safe and stable.

Are there good up to date tools, or checklists one could follow to audit the different parts of the network (most important the opnsense config)?

What do you check if looking for security issues?

The network mostly relies on client separation through different subnets on different vlans, but I fear I dont understand how for example the vpn and the nas work together in detail to be sure there is no security implication I oversee.

Also: how do you handle client authentication for devices on the same subnet? I know IP/mac-adress ARP entries are easily spoofed and therefore not secure, but I haven't seen how to do it correctly

James Talarico: "Ken Paxton just denied our public information request for the Hoffman Files. Adam Hoffman — an admitted child molester — should be in prison, but Ken Paxton let him off the hook. Texans deserve to know why. We don’t need any more pedophile protectors in our government."

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/talarico-shares-update-on-hoffman-files-calls-on-paxton-to

Infineon Technologies has opened its Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Germany, months ahead of schedule, bringing the world’s largest manufacturing facility for intelligent power semiconductors and analog/mixed-signal technologies into operation.

The facility represents a €5 billion (about $5.7 billion) investment, the largest in the company’s history. It creates 1,000 direct jobs and doubles Infineon’s manufacturing capacity in Dresden.

The factory will produce chips that improve how electricity is converted and managed. Those devices will support AI data centers. They will also help power electricity grids and software-defined vehicles.

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