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RSF strike on Kordofan kindergarten kills dozens, mostly children


A drone strike by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit a kindergarten in South Kordofan, killing 50 people, including 33 children, the Sudan Doctors Network (SDN) said late on Friday.

The group said the RSF and its ally, Abdelaziz al-Hilu’s faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N), on Thursday carried out “deliberate suicide-drone attacks" on the kindergarten and several civilian facilities in Kalogi town.

The SDN, a group that has been supporting civilians throughout the course of Sudan's war, said paramedics responding to the scene came under “a second, unexpected attack”.



Canada has legal duty to provide safe water, housing to remote First Nations, federal judge rules


A federal judge has sided with two First Nations in Manitoba and one in Ontario that sued the Canadian government over its duty to provide them with safe housing and clean drinking water, in separate rulings delivered Friday.

The federal government has had a duty to ensure Shamattawa First Nation, and other First Nations who opt into the northern Manitoba First Nation's class-action, were provided access to drinking water safe for human use over the claim period, Justice Paul Favel said in a decision.

Shamattawa launched the class-action, which was certified in 2023, on behalf of all First Nations members countrywide whose communities were subject to a drinking water advisory in effect on or after June 20, 2020.

in reply to HellsBelle

The reasoning and the article has a link to the judgement if people want the super long legal version of it.

Favel said in both decisions the Canadian government made First Nations dependent by forcing them to relocate to reserves, and that the country has historically "exerted direct control over every facet of First Nations life through legislation, regulations, policies, and practices," including control over financing for water infrastructure and housing.


Also the personal opinion part you'd think Pierre and the Conservatives would applaud this given the stance on "government tyranny".

in reply to HellsBelle

To all of it's citizens. But to our most vulnerable first, which includes all of the hinterland. Food, water and shelter should be a basic human right for all citizens under the charter.


in reply to King

Well, it's still up on GitHub at least
github.com/uazo/cromite/
in reply to rnercle

really hope you mean the old syncthing, not syncthing fork
in reply to redjard

No, the maintainer of syncthing fork deleted their account and the repos out of the blue. There's a lengthy forum post about it here.
in reply to prism

Oh, I didn't notice. fdroid just switched it over I suppose. I even noticed the weird release notes and checked the repo but just accepted I had misremembered the repo name and maintainer name.
in reply to redjard

github.com/researchxxl/syncthi…

There's a fork of the fork. Been using this one for a couple of months.

in reply to youmaynotknow

I strongly advise against using anything from researchxxl. The conditions under which the fork changed hands are unclear, continued development has been poor, and researchxxl's behaviour has been consistently uninspiring and unhelpful. See issue 16 if you don't believe me. In the meantime, I've uninstalled Syncthing-Fork and will wait until nel0x's version is in F-Droid.
in reply to vim_b

I wasn't following this too closely, but read that the other day.

What struck me was the new owner not having an account on the forum. :/

in reply to vim_b

I have to confess that I was not aware of this, thank you so much for letting me (us) know. It's interesting, and shows why taking the time to research software as well as the devs in charge is so important. I did not see any red flags other than the way the handover has been handled though.

I get it, and I am well aware you're correct about the risks, but the infrastructure I'm running doesn't really allow me to go without it at the moment. I did stop the updates in my Obtainium entirely.

The good news is that this just came up: github.com/nel0x/syncthing-and…

So, it's looking bright right now.

in reply to youmaynotknow

I uninstalled syncthing-fork when I first heard "foul voices on the air" (LotR ref) because I haven't needed it recently, & decided to reinvestigate when I next need it (& the dust might have settled itself by then). In the meantime someone commented that you can configure & use vanilla syncthing on termux instead. I use termux for so much already that it is the obvious choice (for me) if actually true. If you hadn't heard that either it might be a viable choice for you too...
in reply to Rowan Thorpe

I've heard of Termux, just haven't tried it yet. I have some time off come Dec 27th, and there are some projects I want to try, I'll try to include Termux as well. thank you for the suggestion.
in reply to youmaynotknow

researchxxl's account is 3 weeks old so I have doubts if you have been using their app for months.
in reply to RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️

Yeah, I may be wrong with the timing. It happens to me all the time. All I know is I switched the releases repo in Obtainium the moment I saw Catfriend was dropping it and this one was up. I know nothing about this researchxxl guy (or girl, or guys, or girls, whatever), but I didn't know anything about Catfriend either. Those who mentioned the warning, thank you.
in reply to redjard

As others commented Obtanium just swapped it over too. Everyone's in the same boat, or rather on the same rug - without the rug.
in reply to JetpackJackson

Ultimately that is your choice. I personally will not use researchxxl's version considering they appeared out of nowhere and there was 0 communication about the transition. For now I will continue to use Catfriend's version and perhaps switch to nel0x's in the future.
in reply to prism

I noticed nel0x started releases on their Github.

Currently, I'm undecided about waiting for a F-Droid repo or just install via apk from Github and get update notices through rss.

in reply to prism

I thought researchxxl was the catfriend version, just transferred to them
in reply to JetpackJackson

They got it from catfriend who vanished. Catfriend redirected it and transferred the app signing keys to allow updates from the catfriend version. This is also why fdroid and obtanium switched it over automatically.
Apparently researchxxl is a new identity made for this app, we don't know who they are.
in reply to rnercle

Ive switched to running syncthing inside termux. Battery life has actually improved significantly. You need to manually start syncthing after a reboot though. There's probably a way to start it automatically using scripts or an automation app.
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in reply to slowbyrne

wow this is a great idea, did you follow a guide or anything you can share?
in reply to fcuks

Might need to search around for exact commands but the main thing is you'll need the fdroid or source apk of termux for this to work from what I remember. So setup termux up on Obtainium or fdroid. Then inside termux pkg install syncthing should work. You might need to run the storage scripts found here wiki.termux.com/wiki/Internal_…
You can move over your existing syncthing exported config files (remove encryption first before exporting) to ~/.local/state/syncthing and edit the config.xml file. Remove the lines for username and password. This will allow you to create a new username and password when you run syncthing in termux. It should open a browser window to http://127.0.0.1:8384/ which is the normal syncthing web interface.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I don’t know man. This crap gives such ammunition to the “both sides are corrupt” argument.

Do we really believe things in Ukraine would be better or even the same under Putin? What are we even talking about here?

in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

I mean we can obviously see that things are far better in Crimea than anywhere in Ukraine right now. This isn't even debatable. Comparing Russia to the absurd levels of corruption in Ukraine is not a serious argument to make.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Russia has been extremely corrupt for decades. Whatever weird made up world you are living in, come on back to reality. Even if Ukraine was the most corrupt country ever, bombing the shit out of the citizens is not the way you help. That's just murder. Even if things are somehow better in Crimea, you're comparing to a country being bombed by a larger country with more weapons and fighters. Crimea should not have been stolen in the first place. Help your neighbors, don't hypocritically murder their people.

don't like this

in reply to phar

Russia is clearly nowhere near as corrupt as Ukraine given that Russia is actually able to run a functioning economy and a military. In fact, there's strong evidence to suggest that NATO is far more corrupt than Russia is given that Russia is single handedly outproducing all of the west militarily right now. Meanwhile, before yapping about Crimea, you might want to go read a history book for once in your life.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I know the history, that doesnt excuse invading them at this point. Neither is what one.corrupt country sees as corrupt in another. Your arguments hold no weight. Nothing you said justifies murdering people in a neighboring country.

don't like this

in reply to phar

in reply to davel

That is not even the end of it.

I'd like to add on that there is literal footage of Ukrainian troops firing into crowds of civilians in Mariupol and Krasnoarmeysk back in 2014, both after Maidan Coup.

There is also footage of Ukrainian Nazis carrying out a pogrom against the Romani in 2018.

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in reply to davel

Sorry can you point out the exact points in those that justify the murdering a bombing of people in a foreign nation? 2014 especially was a pretty messed up time, by I'm not sure I follow you as to what justification for murdering and bombing them is. Especially with new leadership. Please explain the murdering a bombing.

don't like this

in reply to phar

in reply to davel

So Russia being as large and Powerful as they supposedly are can't perform diplomacy and has to murder and bomb people? I'm still not hearing any reason that Russia should be murdering people.
in reply to phar

Russia has been attempting to perform diplomacy with the west since before 2014. That's what Minsk agreements, which the west now admitted were meant to buy time to arm their regime in Ukraine, were supposed to be all about. Funny how you conveniently forgot about that.
in reply to phar

Again, weird framing given that murder was started by Ukraine in Donbas. But I guess when facts don't fit with your narrative, you just ignore them. Quite telling that this is what you support.
in reply to phar

They chose to put a stop to slaughter of civilians by their own government
in reply to phar

Evidently, you're fine with a western backed regime murdering its own people though.
in reply to phar

Even if Ukraine was the most corrupt country ever, bombing the shit out of the citizens is not the way you help


I don't know, they sure tried it in the eastern part of the country for 10 years

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Can we tho?

You’re so far off reality I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic.

in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

The reality is that people in Crimea aren't being grabbed off the streets and gang pressed into fighting.
in reply to MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

I am shocked at how many liberals genuinely cannot seem to tell the difference between wanting something to be true and it actually being true.


To Catch a Predator: Leak exposes the internal operations of Intellexa’s mercenary spyware





‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire


cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1196…

Palestinians search through a garbage dump in Khan Younis on December 3, 2025, collecting plastic to use as an alternative fuel for cooking amid a severe shortage of cooking gas and soaring black-market prices after two years of war. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day.

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‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire


Palestinians search through a garbage dump in Khan Younis on December 3, 2025, collecting plastic to use as an alternative fuel for cooking amid a severe shortage of cooking gas and soaring black-market prices after two years of war. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day.


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‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire


cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6952364

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1196…
Palestinians search through a garbage dump in Khan Younis on December 3, 2025, collecting plastic to use as an alternative fuel for cooking amid a severe shortage of cooking gas and soaring black-market prices after two years of war. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day.

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‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire


cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1196…

Palestinians search through a garbage dump in Khan Younis on December 3, 2025, collecting plastic to use as an alternative fuel for cooking amid a severe shortage of cooking gas and soaring black-market prices after two years of war. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day.

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As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out




A personal tribute to the Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods




A personal tribute to the Movement for Struggle in Neighborhoods





It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition



in reply to No_Money_Just_Change

Das tun die schon lange. Was Victoria Nuland für die Ukraine (unfreiwillig) zugegeben hat, passiert auch hier. Anfangen bei "Nachwuchspolitikern" wie Baerbock, Klöckner und vielen anderen, dann die ganzen Stichwörter in der wikipedia durchsurfen... Da kommt schon etliches zu Tage.

in reply to حمید پیام عباسی

Oh look the wizards of the coast are holding the orbs for magic the gathering together. They are highlighting great deck color combinations too.
Right? Right?


DNS over TLS with LetsEncrypt


blog.hardill.me.uk/2025/12/06/…

6 months ago LetsEncrypt announced that they would start issuing certificates for IP addresses. Last week I was curious if they had actually enabled it yet for general consumption, it turned out to be not yet available for everybody, but there was a forum thread you could ask to be added to the testing list (I’ve not linked to it as they have said no more testing, it will go live RSN).

When it […]

#certificates #DNS #DoT #letsencrypt



How to set up Linux for gaming on GIGABYTE G5 MF?


in reply to 🦋 af1899 🦋

Could be signing, if removing secure boot changed behaviour. The proprietary nvidia kernal module needs you to enroll the key in MOK interface at boot after an install or some updates.

You should have gotten a blue screen at boot that said options like, continue or enroll MOK, delete MOK, cancel, etc.

in reply to BCsven

Yeah, I had to do that, I even had to sign it again for some reason even when it wasn't updated, since I randomly got the Nvidia daemon not running error when booting up, although it didn't happen often.