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🏴 hamid the villain [he/him] 🏴 via Lefty Memes

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Es war eine kleine Hürde, aber der Aufwand hat sich gelohnt. Das Betriebssystem hat nicht automatisch den Daemon für die Energie-Profile gestartet. Zwar gab es nie Probleme beim Zusammenklappen des Notebooks und auch nicht beim Aufwachen, aber ab und zu möchte man die volle Power haben und da ist es gut, wenn man es manuell einstellen kann. Ich bin sowieso ein Typ, der gern alles selbst einstellt, anstatt das irgendetwas „intelligentes“ meine Einstellung vorhersehen will. Diese Art von KI gibt es noch nicht 🙂

Wie auch immer, in der Kontrollleiste wurde unter „Energie und Akku“ immer ein Fehler angezeigt, das der „power-profiles-daemon“ nicht installiert sei. Zum Glück standen als Hilfestellung die Information direkt dabei. Nach etwas Recherche habe ich festgestellt das der Daemon doch installiert war, aber nicht gestartet wurde. Also ein anderes Problem.

Ich bin auf die Webseite von „linrunner.de“ gestoßen und so wurde das Problem schnell zur Lösung. In meinem Fall musste ich ledigli

#Linux #kde #Energie #daemon

pathief via Linux Gaming

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Diablo IV (steam) - VRAM Leak - Help needed

I've been having a couple of troubles playing Diablo IV, though they seem to be a lot worse with the new expansion. After a while of playing for a while, the game seems to leak VRAM and makes my desktop pretty unstable. Alt+tabbing occasionally breaks the game, the image freezes but I still hear the noises of the menus opening and such. If I don't alt-tab the game doesn't break.

I have found this reddit thread about setting a dxvk file to limit the amount of VRAM available to Diablo. I set up the max VRAM to 8gib but mangohud still reports 10gb being used. I tried setting the DXVK_CONFIG_FILE flag but that also doesn't seem to work. Mangohud report 10gb VRAM very fast. DXVK file contents:

dxgi.maxDeviceMemory=8192
dxgi.maxSharedMemory=8192

Decreasing the graphic settings just slows down the problem, it doesn't prevent it.

Launch options: DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/gamedrive/dxvk.conf mangohud %command%

Specs:

Intel i7-12700K @ 4.900GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (driver version: 560.35.03)
64GB DDR4
EndeavourOS Linux
6.11.3-zen1-1-zen
Hyprland
GE-Proton9-16

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mudle

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If I don’t alt-tab the game doesn’t break.

It's likely the 560 driver on Wayland being the culprit here. Specifically resizing XWayland windows. You could try running nvidia-smi in a terminal and see what specifically is causing this VRAM spike.

Reports of excessive VRAM usage with the 560 driver on Wayland. See this for a potential fix. Hope it helps

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Peter Link via World News

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Open Letter | Israeli citizens calling for true international pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire. (Israeli Citizens For International Pressure)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21764511

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Open Letter | Israeli citizens calling for true international pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire. (Israeli Citizens For International Pressure)
[https://israelicitizensforin.live-website.com/english/]
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In eleven languages: Hebrew, Arabic, French, Russian, Italian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Turkish.
“We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world – to intervene immediately and implement e

Israeli citizens calling for true international pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire. – Israeli Citizens For International Pressure

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Alsephina via World News

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Alsephina
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China, India Start Removing Troops from Border Friction Points

China and India are pulling back troops from the two remaining friction points along the disputed Himalayan border, days after the leaders of the two countries met.
Troops deployed toe-to-toe are moving back and temporary structures built during a four-year stalemate at the border are to be dismantled, senior Indian officials said, asking not to be identified as the discussions are private.
Earlier this week, the two nuclear-armed neighbors announced they’d reached an agreement to resume normal border patrols, easing a standoff that began in 2020 when clashes left 20 Indian and at least four Chinese soldiers dead. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed up with their first formal meeting in two years on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan on Wednesday.
The latest agreement won’t involve the several no-patrol zones along the border created in the last four years to prevent further clashes between troops, the people said, adding that future talks will address the buffer zones.
Pulling back troops f

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Alsephina

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Very nice to see. Both countries benefit from not wasting resources on this so hopefully this lasts.

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alcoholicorn

in reply to Alsephina • 1 year ago • •

It's kinda crazy that 3 nuclear armed countries have periodic armed skirmishes.

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Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]

in reply to alcoholicorn • 1 year ago • •

luckily they're smart enough to start out on the "sticks and stones" stage

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pinguinu [any]

in reply to alcoholicorn • 1 year ago • •

Armed with lances and shit, they can't actually use firearms

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Belly_Beanis [he/him]

in reply to pinguinu [any] • 1 year ago • •

Can they use bows or crossbows? What about pikes? Just crazy how they respect rules like that when the eventual conclusion is guns.

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considine

in reply to Alsephina • 1 year ago • •

BRICS is taking great strides forward. The rapprochement between China and India is necessary for that.

They have a new designation, partner country, allowing countries to take part without full agreement on all BRICS policies. Turkiye is joining as a partner despite its membership in NATO.

A grain exchange is being created, with other commodities exchanges to follow. Discussions on resisting sanctions, guaranteeing food security and energy security.

We are seeing the emergence of the new global organization.

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geneva_convenience via World News

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ICC prosecutor faces ‘smear campaign’ amid Israel war crimes probe

In what is widely thought to be a smear campaign to obstruct the prosecution of Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC), reports have emerged of allegations against Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan KC regarding his conduct with a female colleague. The alleged victim has not made a formal complaint, and Khan has vehemently denied the allegations.

“I absolutely can confirm there is no truth to suggestions of misconduct,” Khan is reported as saying. “This is a moment in which myself and the International Criminal Court are subject to a wide range of attacks and threats. In recent months my family including my wife and child have also been targeted.”

Israel has a history of intimidating, threatening and seeking to blackmail ICC officials in an effort to thwart the work of the court. In May, it emerged that the former head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, personally threatened Fatou Bensouda, the former chief prosecutor of the ICC, and her family in a series of covert meetings. The threats were part of a coordinated smear c

ICC prosecutor faces ‘smear campaign’ amid Israel war crimes probe

In what is widely thought to be a smear campaign to obstruct the prosecution of Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC), reports have emerged of allegations against Chief...

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Super_gamer46861 via Open Source

1 year ago • •

Super_gamer46861
1 year ago • •

An anonymous web chat server written in Rust

github.com/umutcamliyurt/AnonC…

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electricprism

in reply to Super_gamer46861 • 1 year ago • •

Bro we fucking used to call them guestbooks

Bring them back if thats your thing.

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lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)

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¸,ø¤° Thanks for sharing!!1 xoxo º¤ø,¸

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qui

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I can call it as "Simple IRC".

Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

1 year ago • •

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Allt fler EES-medborgare avvisas. Polisen avvisar alltfler medborgare från EES-länder som misstänks ha avsikt att begå brott i Sverige. Hittills i år har dessa personer samtidigt fått totalt minst 550 års återreseförbud till Sverige. Det handlar om personer som alltså inte får lova att komma in i Sverige.

blog.zaramis.se/2024/10/25/all…

#Brottslighet #Avvisning #EES #EESMedborgare

Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

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Anders_S
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Två bärföretagare dömda för grov människoexploatering i hovrätten. Lycksele tingsrätt dömde två bärföretagare för grov människoexploatering i Åsele. Hovrätten för Övre Norrland har nu fastställt tingsrättens dom. De dömde därmed de två bärföretagarna för nio fall av grov människoexploatering till fängelse i två år och sex månader.

blog.zaramis.se/2024/10/25/tva…

#Bärföretag #Bärplockning #Människohandel #Exploatering #Utnyttjande

Atemu via Linux

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Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients

@brjsp thanks again for submitting the concern here. We have made some adjustments to how the SDK code is organized and packaged to allow you to build and run the app with only GPL/OSI licenses included. The sdk-internal package references in the clients now come from a new sdk-internal repository, which follows the licensing model we have historically used for all of our clients (see LICENSE_FAQ.md for more info). The sdk-internal reference only uses GPL licenses at this time. If the reference were to include Bitwarden License code in the future, we will provide a way to produce multiple build variants of the client, similar to what we do with web vault client builds.
The original sdk repository will be renamed to sdk-secrets, and retains its existing Bi

Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...

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𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

That's a lot of text for "we're not open source, please don't trust us and please use another system".

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Miimikko

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

Uhh what does this mean for us dummies? For reference I run a self hosted vaultwarden server and connect to it with Bitwarden clients.

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superkret

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It means all the code you run is open source.
Only the Bitwarden back-end uses proprietary code, which you aren't using when you're self-hosting vaultwarden.

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kratoz29

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Only the Bitwarden back-end uses proprietary code

So this was what it changed then?

I also self-host Vaultwarden because it is stupidly simple...

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fmstrat

in reply to kratoz29 • 1 year ago • •

No, this comment was wrong. Most of the back end is not closed source. One piece of code for secrets management is closed source, that is not used in clients and was accidentally (allegedly) added to the clients, which they removed.

Vaultwarden is open source.

Personally I think people are overreacting. If BitWarden were to do something dumb like shift away from GPL, there would very quickly be a fork.

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N0x0n

in reply to Miimikko • 1 year ago • •

I think right now it doesn't mean anything :/. It's more a 'wait&see' situation... However as many many other stories in the past, this doesn't sound good and bitwarden is slowly and carefully following the 'enshitification' path !

Keep an eye open and get ready to switch to another password manager (maybe a fork?).

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Buckshot

in reply to N0x0n • 1 year ago • •

Yeah I'll willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Could very easily believe that a dev added the reference without realising the implications and they fixed it very quickly. Will be watching for any future attempts though.

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deadcade

in reply to Buckshot • 1 year ago • •

If this was the case, the phrashing around the issue would've likely been different. Yet bitwarden remained very vague, and even locked github comments on the issue.

Especially considering that a move like this alienates their core target demographic (people who use FOSS), they would've been much more open and much quicker if it wasn't intentional.

I will personally be switching, likely to KeePassXC.

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fartsparkles

in reply to deadcade • 1 year ago • •

They highlighted it was a bug and said it would be fixed very soon after it was flagged. It was addressed in a matter of days. You can build the server with the /p:DefineConstants=“OSS” flag still and you can build the clients with the bitwarden_license folder deleted again (now they’ve fixed it).

I don’t understand why you’re throwing FUD about this. Building without the Bitwarden Licensed code has been possible for years and those components under that license have been enterprise focused (such as SSO). The client is still GPL and the server is still AGPL.

This has been the way for years.

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John

in reply to Miimikko • 1 year ago • •

With 2024.10, Bitwarden could no longer be built without their proprietary SDK.

That was deemed a bug and now the SDK is also licensed under the GPL.

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fmstrat

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To clarify, the desktop BitWarden client, only.

And this was corrected.

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fartsparkles

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

Cool. They got that sorted nice and quickly.

Edit:

I don’t get why people think they’re suddenly doing stuff under a different license to subvert the open nature of the project. They’ve been totally transparent on what isn’t part of the GPL/AGPL licensed code for years.

SSO, the password health service, organisation auth requests, member access report blah blah have been enterprise features under the Bitwarden License for ages and they architected the projects in a clear and transparent way to build without those features since they added them.

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Telorand

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I don’t get why people think they’re suddenly doing stuff under a different license to subvert the open nature of the project.

But then what will I do with my day if I don't have a good reason to be mad at them?

(And thanks for the voice of reason)

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doctortran

in reply to fartsparkles • 1 year ago • •

What they've done in the past has earned them trust, but it is irrelevant to what they intend to do in the future. Bitwarden is growing company, not the scrappy little open source app they once were.

In 2022, a private equity firm injected 100m into Bitwarden. From that point forward, users are rightfully going to scrutinize any action they take because it's 2024 and the tech space is a hellscape of enshitification and acquisitions, thanks in part to VC money. We've seen this story play out too many times to assume there's nothing to worry about.

So yes, people are going to be suspicious. That's not irrational.

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nickwitha_k (he/him)

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a private equity firm injected 100m

That's all that one needs to know. Once those leeches are involved as investors, it's over. They demand enshitification from our destroy everything that they touch for a quick buck.

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Atemu

in reply to fartsparkles • 1 year ago • •

Until the situation now, this was limited to the server, not the clients. You could replace the server with Vaultwarden and build it without enterprise features. Not ideal but fine because the server isn't the critical part. It never handles your secrets in any way.

What they tried to do now was integrate proprietary code into the clients that everyone uses. This is a lot more critical as it can access the secrets in plain text.

This also wasn't a "mistake" or "bug", they openly admitted to doing this with the intention of subverting the client code's GPL.

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fartsparkles

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Reference for the admission?

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Atemu

in reply to fartsparkles • 1 year ago • •

Two posts up from what I posted: github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Hi @brjsp,
Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
1. the SDK and the client are two separate programs
2. code for each program is in separate repositories
3. the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.

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Gutless2615

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

What does this mean for Vaultwarden?

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Eyck_of_denesle

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All open source baby

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fartsparkles

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And it’s made by a Bitwarden developer.

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fl42v

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Huh, nice to see my initial judgment was incorrect

Atemu via Open Source

1 year ago • •

Atemu
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Bitwarden update: sdk-internal now GPL, sdk/sdk-secrets to remain proprietary but not used in clients

@brjsp thanks again for submitting the concern here. We have made some adjustments to how the SDK code is organized and packaged to allow you to build and run the app with only GPL/OSI licenses included. The sdk-internal package references in the clients now come from a new sdk-internal repository, which follows the licensing model we have historically used for all of our clients (see LICENSE_FAQ.md for more info). The sdk-internal reference only uses GPL licenses at this time. If the reference were to include Bitwarden License code in the future, we will provide a way to produce multiple build variants of the client, similar to what we do with web vault client builds.
The original sdk repository will be renamed to sdk-secrets, and retains its existing Bi

Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...

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7ai

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

The way the founder replied coldly and closed the GitHub issue is pretty telling. Now they're doing damage control.

It's usually better to stay away from VC funded software. They exist for the sole purpose of turning a rich guy's million dollars into 100.

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Lojcs

in reply to 7ai • 1 year ago • •

They literally said the issue was an unintentional bug and then fixed it. How is that damage control?

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redjard

in reply to Lojcs • 1 year ago • •

They were doing the same on other repos for months.
Both their npm module and android client.
On android they tried to get people to add their own fdroid repo because the official fdroid has not had updates for 3 months due to the license changes.

Edit: Looking at it now compared to 4 days ago, they apparently got frdoid to remove bitwarden entirely from the repo. To me this looks like they are sweeping it under the rug, hiding the change pretending it has always been on their own repo they control.

Next time they try this the mobile app won't run into issues, the exact issues that this time raised awareness and caused the outcry on the desktop app, which similarly is present in repos with license requirements.

If they were giving up on their plan, wouldn't they "fix" the android license issue and resume updating fdroid, instead of burning all bridges and dropping it from the repo entirely, still pushing their own ustom repo? Where is the npm license revert?

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lemmeBe

in reply to redjard • 1 year ago • •

Thanks for the input and research.

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Atemu

in reply to Lojcs • 1 year ago • •

One does not "accidentally" build a proprietary SDK for months and make the clients depend on it, intentionally violating the GPL.

They even publicly admitted to doing precisely that, defending their GPL violation with dubious claims how the GPL supposedly works.

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Eyck_of_denesle

in reply to 7ai • 1 year ago • •

Open source community getting too reactionary ngl

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Engywook

in reply to Eyck_of_denesle • 1 year ago • •

Drama and pitchforks over nothing, as usual.

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lemming741

in reply to Eyck_of_denesle • 1 year ago • •

Gotta let companies know you're watching

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Corgana

in reply to Eyck_of_denesle • 1 year ago • •

Did you know that Mozilla is literally worse than Google and Meta? It's true! Line 4,362 of the old "Firefox Send" source code contains a unicode character that in a very specific part of papua new guinea is used as a mark of shame against trans people. Also I am not paid by Google!

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Telorand

in reply to Corgana • 1 year ago • •

Also, Mozilla never said they don't use actual fox skins to warm their devs during development, so one can only wonder why they've been so silent on that glaring issue...

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Corgana

in reply to Telorand • 1 year ago • •

Concerning 🤔

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lemmeBe

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

Too bad because there are no other Bitwarden cons for me.
Any recommendations?

Tried Proton Pass yesterday, and while it looks nice, browser extension not having a password lock is a deal breaker for me.

Also, I found out in the evening that after trying out Pass during the day and quitting on it, all my aliases in the SimpleLogin are gone. I know Proton owns it, but I wasn't expecting that by deleting data on Proton (not the account itself), aliases could get deleted...

Still, not sure if it's connected. I use SimpleLogin independently of other Proton services, but same primary email.
Waiting for support.

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kia

in reply to lemmeBe • 1 year ago • •

The browser extension has a pin lock feature.

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blackfire

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

This makes sense and is quite common for opensource businesses. They have the main product which is open then they have a business only element either a module or plugin part which is designed for businesses not gen pop and isnt open.
They screwed up the delivery on here and badly communicated it but if they did it right nobody would have noticed the secrets managment part at all because they don't use bw business.

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redjard

Unknown parent • 1 year ago • •

Keepass2Android Offline also works very well. It has a somewhat different feature set compared to DX.
I found it to be more stable at remaining permanentl unlocked, and DX dropped the 3rd domain level for password matching on either websites or apps, I don't remember.
On the other hand DX works better for adding new credentials or making changes. Since I usually do that on desktop it doesn't matter much for me.

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lemmeBe

in reply to redjard • 1 year ago • •

Thanks for the info. How does it sync?

Never mind. Now I see it's with SyncThing.

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redjard

in reply to lemmeBe • 1 year ago • •

It doesn't.
Both DX and K2A-O open a local keepass file.
They are capable of reloading the file when it is changed, and can be set to immediately write out changes to the file.
Then you take whichever file sync tool you like and sync it with all other devices using it. As long as the sync tool can sync files in your internal storage, it will work.

I use syncthing, with a dedicated keepass folder containing only the database file. Then I simply add all my devices to the share and it'll sync any changes to all other devices. I also have version history enabled for the share.

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redjard

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The offline version is on izzyondroid.
The design is worse, yes.

I don't think it matters much because most of the time you only see the autofill thing, not the app.
When you do go to the app, it is to select between multiple credentials, which is still a split second action.

On mobile I have my 2fa in a different more convenient app (aegis), though k2a does allow to copy 2fa codes

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lemmeBe

in reply to redjard • 1 year ago • •

Nice. Thanks for details! 🍻

I'll try it out over the weekend.

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Telorand

in reply to Atemu • 1 year ago • •

Who knows for how long though because, if you read carefully, they didn't promise that it will not be used in the future.

This is conspiratorial thinking, and it's a fallacy called the Argument from Silence (i.e. asserting intent based on what they didn't say). If I say I'm going to give you a handshake, but you say, "But you didn't promise you won't punch me in the face," most people would recognize that as a ridiculous line of reasoning.

Bitwarden has now landed itself in the category of software that I would rather move away from and cannot wholeheartedly recommend anymore. That's pretty sad.

You do you. This doesn't seem all that problematic to me, as I don't need Secrets Manager, and I'll still recommend it to anyone looking for a password manager.

Seems to me that it makes more sense to vilify them when they become villains, not before based on paranoid reasoning that they might.

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TheOubliette

in reply to Telorand • 1 year ago • •

Not trusting a company that has been quietly undermining open source builds of their android client and being cagey + using guarded and laconic PR speak on this is not fallacious thinking, it is just recognizing behaviors and knowing why a company would be doing that. These companies hire people to craft responses and otherwise manage their "community", and providing no assurances of permanently open clients when they tried to pull this is an intentional omission.

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Telorand

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 year ago • •

I hate to say this, but there's no real assurances of permanently open clients from anyone. Also, their client is still open, and if they do drop the OSS model, people can just fork it and still have a working client (or fork an old version that meets whatever standards they have).

But unless we can prove that they have actually done something ethically wrong, I don't see why the internet feels the need to waste energy creating villains from conjecture.

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TheOubliette

in reply to Telorand • 1 year ago • •

Of course you inherently cannot trust a private company to keep their product open, including open core models. In that situation everyone using or contributing should be making a gamble: that if they go too far the project will be forked, the company will cut its community in two, and the fotk will go on to be decently successful as a community project.

Their inability to do the right PR things is just a signal that they can't be bothered with the facade that is useful for them to maintain community support and FOSS nerd marketing for their product.

Re: ethics, they are no longer on F-Droid because they tried to get this in under the radar and include non-free code in builds. Instead of fixing that problem they made their own repo.

Bitwarden will likely eventually destroy their FOSS model for profit-seeking, it is just a matter of when. This is how these things work.

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Telorand

in reply to TheOubliette • 1 year ago • •

Their inability to do the right PR things is just a signal that they can't be bothered with the facade...

...or they're just bad at PR. It's not a skill everyone has.

Re: ethics, they are no longer on F-Droid because they tried to get this in under the radar...

...or they made an honest mistake and don't care to put it back on F-droid for reasons to which we are not privy. I bring up these counter-examples not as a way to point out where I'm right and you're wrong, but to point out that there are other candidate explanations, and it's not justified to infer that malfeasance is the only likely possibility.

I also understand why you would cynically think that Bitwarden might succumb to Capitalism—I too live in a late-stage-capitalism country—but that's not a forgone conclusion, and I say again that we don't need to be imagining villains when there's plenty of objectively real ones at which to point a finger already.

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TheOubliette

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I think it is unlikely that they are simply bad at PR and not trying to do damage control for something they would like to push anyways eventually. Why are they creating a proprietary element in the first place? Is the selling point of their product not that it is open source? They are making some changes.

...or they made an honest mistake and don't care to put it back on F-droid for reasons to which we are not privy.

An honest mistake of hosting their entire own repo and writing up documents for it? It isn't just off F-Droid, they are doing their own thing.

I bring up these counter-examples not as a way to point out where I'm right and you're wrong, but to point out that there are other candidate explanations, and it's not justified to infer that malfeasance is the only likely possibility.

Yes you are suggesting that people give them the benefit of the doubt. And I am saying that would be unreasonable given the facts.

I also understand why you would cynically think that Bitwarden might

...or they made an honest mistake and don't care to put it back on F-droid for reasons to which we are not privy.

An honest mistake of hosting their entire own repo and writing up documents for it? It isn't just off F-Droid, they are doing their own thing.

I bring up these counter-examples not as a way to point out where I'm right and you're wrong, but to point out that there are other candidate explanations, and it's not justified to infer that malfeasance is the only likely possibility.

Yes you are suggesting that people give them the benefit of the doubt. And I am saying that would be unreasonable given the facts.

I also understand why you would cynically think that Bitwarden might succumb to Capitalism—I too live in a late-stage-capitalism country—but that's not a forgone conclusion, and I say again that we don't need to be imagining villains when there's plenty of objectively real ones at which to point a finger alreadIy

Bitwarden has already succumbed to capitalism, it is a product by and for a for-profit company. It is, with few exceptions, just a question of when they will have a profitability crisis and need to find avenues by which to increase revenues or decrease costs. Sometimes that takes 15-20 years, sometimes it takes 3.

I have not followed their finances but I would be curious to know what they are doing at the moment. Could be seeking to get bought out, could be looking for new funding, could be working around the needs of a major client, could be something else.

As always, when a project is backed by a company we should approach it tentatively because while they will provide support for it for some time they will eventually be tempted to do something shady to increase profit. Or to just be profitable at all, which investors always want ASAP when interest rates are high. And then we will need to fork it and see if it is feasible without VC backing. To my knowledge the only other viable path for an open source company is to become an industry standard where the major monopolies decide to not fight about it and instead say, "it is fine as it is and won't be profitable but it is a useful thing to share costs on". Docker, Inc. is somewhere along that path, scraping together products at the periphery of the software while the industry monopolies more or less share the core project in its various compatible forms. And Docker similarly tried to ham-fistedly seek profit sources like when it tried a silly fee scheme for Dockerhub and created a small exodus that the monopolies ate up (e.g. GitHub).

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Atemu

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Also, their client is still open

*is open again. The clients they distributed were not open source until they open sourced sdk-internal. The fact that you couldn't even build it with only open code even if you wanted to was a bug but that's a rather minor issue in comparison.

I also fully believe that they would not have GPL'd sdk-intenral without public pressure. Even when they were originally called out they were pretty clear that the integration of proprietary code was intentional and done with the knowledge that it would typically violate the GPL.

If you don't see what's ethically wrong with even attempting to subvert the GPL, I don't think you've understood open source.

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Telorand

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You might not have read the other comments, but I do QA for a living. Devs fucking up commits is why I continue to have a job. Also, companies/maintainers aren't required to capitulate to every bug report. It's possible that whoever made the original comments didn't understand why it was such a big deal and/or didn't know of an alternative way to structure their software; public pressure made them look a little harder.

Like I said in my first comment: you do you. Bring out the pitchforks. The fact that there's reasonable candidate explanations other than malicious intent says to me that the internet is overreacting—again.

Though, when has the internet ever done that, amirite? /s

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Atemu

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That would be a reasonable explanation if we didn't get an admission this was done very much intentionally so, with only the inability to even build being an unintended side-effect from the founder and CTO himself.

I'd invite you to actually read the two comments they made in the thread I linked, I get the feeling that you didn't.

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Does it work well from a user experience standpoint? I am considering switching from my current provider to KeePass XC. Usability is important, I also need to share some passwords with my SO. She is good with technology and computers, but not a dev.

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Check out Proton Pass. I migrated my Bitwarden to it and its not just fast compared to Bitwarden but the UX is really nice. That said, I'm still sticking with Bitwarden, but will happily move away and give my money to Proton if they ever actually stop making their client open source.

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Sorted. Had a bit of trouble debugging issue with Librewolf and the extension, but got it working.

While I was at it, converted my notes from Anytype to Joplin, and set up sync as well. Wanted to try out Joplin for quite some time now.

Weekend started nicely. ☕

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While I don't necessarily think all of this stuff makes #bitwarden #evil, I do think it would be smart to remain #wary and #vigilant.

There have been a spate of #opensource #projects run by #commercial #companies lately that have done / tried to do nasty #license changes.

#redis #vault #terraform

#opensource #commercial #Redis #bitwarden #license #evil #companies #projects #Terraform #Vault #vigilant #wary

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Carnage Sleuth

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It absolutely rules for all kinds of info you don't want laying around loose on a device. The sync issues others have mentioned are just a result of it giving you more control over file management. I don't even sync I just use an SD card

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Postiz (v1.6.6) - open-source social media scheduling tool

Postiz is an open-source social media scheduling tool that is similar to traditional ones: Buffer, Hootsuite, SproutSocial, etc.

github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-ap…

Postiz supports:

Key features:

Schedule for nine social media platforms (Threads, Pinterest, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Dribbble, YouTube, Instagram.)
Fundamental analytics for almost all social media platforms.
AI Features: Copilots, AI Auto-complete, Canva-like editor.
Team support: Invite your team members to manage social media.
Generic Email Provider & Easier installation experience (drop the default Resend and add a nodemailer option!)
There are lots of improvements for the docker / docker-compose. It's much easier to deploy everything!
Added Bluesky, Mastodon, Slack and Discord channels!
Add multiple options for upload files (locally / R2) - working on S3.
Improve the refresh token mechanism (

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Tiritibambix

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As a small business owner that has to turn into a content creator 🤢, I need this.

I hate that proprietary software has credentials for all my social media.

It just lacks twitter.

And I don't know why this kind of software never offered posting to pixelfed, Lemmy or mastodon...

I'll have to have a look into this, it looks promising :)

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atyaz [he/him]

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As much as I love federated socials (or that they exist anyway), they're almost never going to be the tool to grow your business.

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Tiritibambix

in reply to atyaz [he/him] • 1 year ago • •

You don't even know the business I'm running and who my target audience is :D
If I can touch more people with the mentality to use fediverse, then, good for me ;)

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Corgana

in reply to Tiritibambix • 1 year ago • •

Yeah exactly, and it's it's all scheduled and automated it's trivial (on your end) to include Fedi accounts.

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lambipapp

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It is open source so you can help by adding support for your favorite social media :)

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Tiritibambix

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I wish I could start learning how to code. But I'm already stretched too thin on too many fronts :(

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lambipapp

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I understand all to well :)
If it makes you any happier. The readme shows the mastodon logo, so at least 1 of your fediverse tools seem to be covered

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BrikoX

in reply to nevodavid • 1 year ago • •

Since you deleted your post on !opensource@programming.dev, reposting my comment.

Another AI project that will probably be dead in a few months. Also open core not open source as many of the features are not available via self-hosted version.

Self-hosted version which source is available and hosted-version which is not public, are not the same. Or at the very least, planned to not be the same by your own admission as you talked publically about planning on adding paid-only features to hosted version.

Take out "AI features" and you are left with nothing, so yeah, AI project... It also relies on proprietary AI models that you don't own, so it can stop working at any point and that would be out of your control.

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Please god... after the last couple of releases I need this. WE need this...

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UltraGiGaGigantic

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Bethesda took so long making the next elder scrolls game that this thing is actually gonna make it this time?

The future is crazy

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FenrirIII

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We got Fallout London before Skyblivion. Lots of crazy

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On Wednesday evening, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon’s operations room issued a field summary of the ground confrontations between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon, at the border with occupied Palestine. It highlighted the achievements of Hezbollah’s missile force, air force, and air defense forces.

The operations room report confirmed the continued resistance to the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, inflicting heavy losses on the Zionist occupation forces in terms of personnel and equipment across the five axis of confrontation, extending from Lebanon’s border towns into occupied Palestine.

According to the Resistance’s assessment, Zionist losses include more than 70 dead and 600 injured among Zionist occupation officers and soldiers, along with the destruction of 28 Merkava tanks, 4 military bulldozers, an armored vehicle, and a troop carrier. Additionally, three Hermes 450 drones and one Hermes 900 dron

This tally does not include the losses sustained by the occupation forces at bases, military sites, and barracks in northern and deeper areas of occupied Palestine, as noted by the Islamic Resistance operations room in Lebanon.

Regarding ground confrontations, the operations room emphasized that occupation forces have been unable to fully control or occupy any village along the frontlines.

The report outlined recent ground confrontations, highlighting several failed attempts by Zionist forces to advance toward villages on the frontlines in an effort to capture and control them.

Hezbollah fighters have repelled these attempts at multiple fronts, including:

First axis: The 146th Division area of operations

This axis extends from Naqoura in the west to Marwahin in the east.

The Zionist aggressions along this axis were limited to attempts to infiltrate the southern neighborhoods of the villages of Marwahin, Dhayra, Yarin, and Alma al-Shaab, to plant explosives in homes, fearing Hezbollah fighters would use them.

Hezbollah fighters countered these attempts, targeting Zionist forces and their advancement paths at Ras Naqoura, Hanita, and the surroundings of Dhayra.

Second axis: The 36th Division area of operations

This axis stretches from Ramiyah in the west to Rmeish in the east (including Aita al-Shaab), and from Rmeish to Ayta al-Jabal in the east.

After last week’s fierce confrontations in the Aita al-Shaab-Al-Qawzah-Ramiyah triangle, where the occupation suffered heavy losses from Hezbollah’s fire, occupation forces have attempted in recent days to advance towards Abu Labban heights, east of Aita al-Shaab, to occupy and control the town.

Hezbollah fighters repelled these occupation forces, targeting Zionist gatherings and advancement routes in Khallet Wardeh and the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab. They also struck several Zionist troops that infiltrated near the municipal building, causing confirmed casualties among them. Occupation evacuation operations took hours due to Hezbollah’s repeated strikes.

Third axis: The 91st Division area of operations

This axis stretches from Blida in the south to Houla in the north.

Occupation forces advanced through concealed routes towards the eastern neighborhoods of Mays al-Jabal, Muhaybib, and Blida, planting explosives in some homes and blowing them up.

Occupation forces also attempted to advance into eastern neighborhoods of Houla but were met with fierce resistance from Hezbollah fighters.

Fourth axis: The 98th Division area of operations

This axis extends from Markaba in the south to the Lebanese-occupied village of Ghajar in the east.

Occupation forces attempted to infiltrate Tayba from the south and east but were repelled by Hezbollah fighters with machine guns and missiles, causing significant casualties among the infiltrating force.

An occupation support force attempting to evacuate Zionist casualties was also repelled, suffering further losses.

Fifth axis: The 210th Division area of operations

This axis stretches from Ghajar village to the Shebaa Farms.

Occupation forces have tried to advance in Kfar Shuba and Shebaa, attempting to seize defensive positions near the border. However, Hezbollah fighters have been targeting troops, fortifications, and military sites in this area with missile fire, inflicting significant losses.

Summary

Missile Force: Hezbollah’s operations room confirmed that the missile force continues to target Zionist troops, military sites, and barracks along the Lebanese-Palestinian border and within occupied northern Palestine. The strikes also reach deep into the occupations strategic and military bases.

These operations are steadily increasing day by day, using various types of missiles, including precision missiles that were used for the first time.

Air Force: Similarly, Hezbollah’s air force continues to monitor and strike Zionist military bases from the Lebanese-Palestinian border into occupied Palestine, deploying drones, including advanced models used for the first time.

Air Defense Unit: Additionally, Hezbollah’s air defense units have been actively engaging Zionist reconnaissance and combat drones and aircraft over Lebanon, downing four drones.

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#Palestine #lebanon #resistance #Hezbollah #WestAsia #alaqsaflood

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The Murderous Logistics of Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Northern Gaza

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21758758

Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Abubaker Abed
Oct 23, 2024

The Murderous Logistics of Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Northern Gaza

Eyewitnesses say the IDF is starving residents, targeting hospitals, bombing shelters, and murdering civilians in the streets

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Iranian-German Photographer Asked to Apologize for Saying “Free Palestine”: The German Photographic Society called Shirin Abedi’s award acceptance speech “dogmatic fanaticism” and “anti-Israeli

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Iranian-German Photographer Asked to Apologize for Saying “Free Palestine”: The German Photographic Society called Shirin Abedi’s award acceptance speech “dogmatic fanaticism” and “anti-Israeli agitation.”
(Hyperallergic, 2024-19-23)
hyperallergic.com/960502/irani…
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＊With a short video of her giving speech in kufiya＊
“At its October 12 gala, the organization presented the laureates of this year’s awards, including Iranian-German photographer Shirin Abed

Iranian-German Photographer Asked to Apologize for Saying “Free Palestine”

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wellfill

in reply to Peter Link • 1 year ago • •

Very good video explaining this german fanaticism. Also talks about their recent crackdown on migrants.

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Therealgoodjanet

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Imagine labeling wanting others to be free as fanaticism. Smh

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Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report | Financial Times

cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/14810842

Original URL: ft.com/content/151eb482-6415-4…
Israel’s military forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and is suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus close enough to injure 15 peacekeepers, according to a confidential report outlining a dozen recent incidents in which the IDF attacked international troops in Lebanon.
The report — prepared by a country that contributes troops, and seen by the Financial Times — underscores how Israeli troops have targeted Unifil, the UN-mandated force deployed along the de facto border between the countries, on multiple occasions. They have damaged several facilities and caused injuries to troops stationed at border posts in southern Lebanon.
Unifil has called these incidents a “flagrant violation of international law”.

https://archive.is/o7atF

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1 year ago • •

China's GNE develops lithium-sulfur battery with energy density of 700Wh/kg - Energy Storage

The energy density of the newly developed lithium-sulfur prototype far exceeds the one of common lithium -ion batteries.

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cmnybo

in reply to schizoidman • 1 year ago • •

That's pretty impressive, but if they can't figure out how to mass produce them cost effectively, then it's pointless. Most of these battery breakthroughs never make it out of the lab.

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B0rax

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That is not entirely true. Battery capacity has increased significantly in recent years due to these constant developments.

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rbesfe

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Battery capacity of established chemistries*

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IrritableOcelot

in reply to rbesfe • 1 year ago • •

Nope! Lithium polymer batteries are substantially different from lithium ion. Each generation of lithium batteries is a pretty unique chemistry, the only thing that stays constant is the use of lithium as the cathode. Electrolyte, anode, and interface chemistry actually progresses pretty quickly.

Also, for drastically different battery chemistries which have been commercialized, see sodium ion batteries, and to a lesser extent NaS/ZEBRA batteries.

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MajorSauce

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Could this energy density provide a good enough Wh/kg ratio for general/leisure aviation?

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Longi Green Energy sets world record for solar module efficiency at 25.4% | pv magazine International

Longi Green Energy sets world record for solar module efficiency at 25.4%

China's Longi Green Energy has set a new world record for crystalline silicon solar module efficiency with its independently developed hybrid passivated back contact (HPBC) 2.0 module, achieving a conversion efficiency of 25.

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BRICS Summit: Guterres underscores bloc’s role in boosting global cooperation | UN News

BRICS Summit: Guterres underscores bloc’s role in boosting global cooperation

The BRICS intergovernmental organization can play a greater role in strengthening multilateralism for global development and security, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday, in remarks to the group’s summit hosted by Russia in the ci…

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