cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47036465

Senator Andy Kim was filmed having his eyes washed out with a bottle of water in a video shared by a reporter on X [replaced X link with nitter.net]. The senator has subsequently said that his eyes and throat were “burning” and that his hand hurts following the incident.

The incident unfolded outside of Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, an immigrant detention facility where inmates launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility.

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First off, huge thanks again to the mods for approving another post about this. The response to my first one honestly blew me away — a bunch of people reached out, joined up, or just said they’d been looking for something exactly like this. Figured it was worth sharing again for anyone who missed it.

If you’re a gamer over 30 and tired of random matchmaking, toxic comms, or feeling like everyone online is half your age, check out Over 30 Clan.

They’ve been around since 2010 and have grown into a massive multi-platform community with 1,500+ members across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. It’s not tied to one game either — people are constantly grouping up for Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, Overwatch 2, Call of Duty, Destiny, Apex, PUBG, sim racing, and whatever else the community gets hooked on next.

What really makes it different is the vibe. It’s adults with jobs, families, responsibilities, etc. who still love gaming and just want solid teammates, good comms, and a drama-free place to hang out.

There are weekly events, organized game nights, podcasts, giveaways, and a really active sim racing crew that’s wrapping up another iRacing season right now. You’ll pretty much always find people online doing something.

I’ve been there over 6 years now, and it genuinely became my online home. Finding an active gaming community that’s this welcoming and low-stress is way harder than it should be.

If it sounds like your kind of thing, applications are on the website:

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Hope some more of you find a good gaming crew like I did. 🍻

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8607436

China is home to some of the most brutal deserts on earth, stretching across 2.6 million square kilometers of land so dry, so scorching, and so hostile that billions of tons of sand swallow entire farms and villages every single year. For decades, the desert kept winning, advancing into productive land, burying roads within hours, and sending massive dust storms across East Asia every spring. For a country with 1.4 billion people to feed, losing farmland to sand wasn't just an environmental problem. It was a threat to the entire nation.

But what China did next is one of the most extraordinary stories of the 21st century. Starting with nothing more than dry straw pushed into shifting sand, China launched the largest land reclamation project in human history, planting 66 billion trees, investing over 50 billion dollars, and engineering an entirely new kind of farming system in the middle of the world's most unforgiving terrain. Today those same dead deserts produce 30 million tons of food every year, power hundreds of thousands of homes with solar energy, and even raise fish in a place with almost no water. This is the full story of how they did it.

Spoiler: no

I kinda just assumed all mammals have belly buttons. But then I realized, I've given many dogs many belly rubs, and I've never noticed a navel. So whats the deal with that? We're not the only one's that got em, right?

Original title (LT): Skyrybos karo metu (Divorce During War)

Vilnius 2022. High-flying executive Marija (Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė) chooses the worst possible moment for an honest conversation with her husband Vytas (Marius Repšys) about divorcing - just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine goes into full scale. Now they must navigate the process of separation as it collides with a refugee and mid-life crisis.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1529024-skyrybos-karo-metu

The main reason I started implementing NearLink was simple: I was tired of constantly syncing data between my own devices through traditional server-based flows.

For a messenger focused on privacy, routing Favorites through a cloud backend felt wrong.

How NearLink works

NearLink allows you to sync your Favorites (notes and saved chats) directly between devices.

My personal use cases:

• Fast transfer of images, videos, and files between devices over LAN
• Synchronization of Favorites (saved chats and notes)
• QR-based local authorization between devices
• Faster testing workflow without creating separate accounts for every device

I intentionally limited this system to local networks only in order to reduce unnecessary external attack surface.

Other updates in v1.6-beta

• NearLink Authentication
  QR-based login designed for local network environments

• Per-chat locking
  Chats with individual passwords

Release

Full release notes and binaries are available on GitHub:

https://github.com/wardcore-dev/onyx/releases/tag/v1.6-beta

Community

If you're already using ONYX, you can join the official news channel inside the app using this token:

12e01467-c154-447b-84f8-133ae76684a1

Feedback is welcome.