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There are 'clear signs' of ethnic cleansing by Israel in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders says


cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20419750

In a separate report, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of intentionally depriving Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation.




There are 'clear signs' of ethnic cleansing by Israel in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders says


In a separate report, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of intentionally depriving Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation.



Carnivorous Squirrels Documented in California


A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains, is a common sight. But a new study provides the first evidence that California ground squirrels also hunt, kill and eat voles. The study, led by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California, Davis, is the first to chronicle widespread carnivorous behavior among squirrels.
in reply to Mossy Feathers (She/They)

Right! But, if you zoom out, it's not exactly too wild. Ground squirrels have voles beat in size and they have habitat overlap with both living underground. Additionally, dietary shifts give animals the flexibly to respond to changes in the environment plus foraging risks and opportunities. It's been known since the early 2000's that squirrels can supplement some of their diet with insects or bird eggs/baby birds. Knowing this, it starts to make a lot more sense ground squirrels would hunt voles, as the environment is rapidly changing, they're known to already hunt a bit, and voles could be their annoying neighbor.



BlueSky and NodeBB testing


Here is a new topic for testing

@wake.st@bsky.brid.gy @mailtodevnull.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @jdp23.thenexus.today@bsky.brid.gy

Perhaps it's because the old topic was already existing? Fingers crossed it makes it over the bridge.

A like from bsky made it over here.

in reply to julian

when I try to open this post "in its original url" it goes to the Login page of community.nodebb.org, is that what it suppose to happen?



Organic Maps Turns 4 Years: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps


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in reply to selokichtli

I still prefer OsmAnd, far more feature, and at least you can ask it to avoid a specific road. Organic Map cannot.
in reply to Dremor

I use both. Osmand+ allows me to contribute way more efficiently with PDIs and GPS traces as well as editing existing features, but when I want to navigate, I prefer Organic Maps. I also like more their rendering since it's faster across all my devices. They are both useful apps. My main gripe is with the data in my area, as everyone uses Google or Apple's data we struggle with contributors.




[Help] with mounting a FAT32 formatted drive in Ubuntu


I've been having trouble with getting a 2TB Fat32 formatted USB drive to work nicely in Ubuntu 24.04.1

I'm very new to Linux and have only gotten this far by reading old message boards and tutorials, but here's where I'm at with it.

I created a .rules file named 90-usb-disks.rules

It lives in /etc/udev/rules.d

Inside it says:

/# UDEV Rules to change the permission of USB disks
#

KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]", ATTR{removable}=="1", ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb", MODE="0022"


Now this works... for my user. I have ownership of any USB storage device as soon as I plug it in. I can rwx, but my group can only read.

Trying to change access from the Nautilus permissions pane just starts an endless progress bar that never passes "preparing."

There must be a way to edit this to allow the group with the same name as my user to hall rwx access as well. Please help; thanks in advance :)

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

While the USA can't sustain the "good guy" image that they used to have in past decades for some reason, the CCP doesn't automatically become the Good Guy.

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in reply to Schorsch

There are no "good guys" in geopolitics, but there are guys who builds roads and there are guys who bomb them.

And the US only had a "Good Guy Image" if you didn't have something they wanted and thought the could take.

in reply to Schorsch

The CPC are the good guys because China has been demonstrably a force for good around the wold. And no amount of seething from western racists is going to change this fact.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Ask the Uighurs how China has demonstrated their Good to them, just to begin with...
in reply to Schorsch

Sure, let’s just begin with that, because it’s a textbook case of the US 1) being the bad guy and 2) pushing propaganda that China is the bad guy. And you bought into the propaganda, as nearly all Westerners have, including me for years.
- lemmy.ml/post/22296023/1484060…
- lemmy.ml/post/22296023/1483934…
- lemmy.ml/post/14828330/1054181…
- lemmy.ml/post/22871140/1521085…
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in reply to Schorsch

I agree with both of you.

China's human rights abuses should never go unmentioned.

That said, they've also been investing in developing countries more than Western nations have. While Westerners focus on cannibalizing their own populations, China sees the value in spreading out and building up where there's more room for growth.

Americans have nobody but themselves to blame for their increasing irrelevance on the world stage.

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in reply to Schorsch

The US only sustained the "Good Guy" image to westerners. Bombing and pillaging is all the US has done in it's entire existence. China's Belt and Road Initiative lifted over 40 million people out of poverty, with over a trillion dollars invested into the well-being of their fellow humans. Would the US ever do something like that?

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

What does the authoritarian China have to do with socialism? They are a lot closer to state capitalism than anything imo. This just reads as propaganda. I think the world respects China about as much as people repect the States, that is to say not at all, only fear and or distrust at best.

Dessalines doesn't like this.

in reply to Rogers

You’ve had a lemmy.ml account for a year and a half and now you’re walking into c/socialism with this drivel?

Donny, you’re out of your element.

in reply to davel

I generally sort by top day and this sub rarely comes up with anything i disagree with, I've probably been subbed here since I joined.

for the record I'm not anti China or anti US I disagree with authoritarianism that all super powers have. And this poped up in my feed and looks like basic authoritarian boot licking. That's all, I'm not trying to attack socialism or even China

in reply to Rogers

Every government holds authority by its very nature because it has monopoly on legal violence. The only question is whose interest this authority is exercised in. The term authoritarian is utterly devoid of all meaning, and it's used to keep ignorant westerners scared of real world alternatives to the dictatorship of capital.


CPC reaffirms friendly relations with India’s left-wing political parties





What Linux software is good for managing a household budget?


Up to now I enter receipts by hand into a spreadsheet and cross-reference everything to my bank statements. Is there a Linux program that'll let me download a bank statement and then intelligently categorize different entries on my bank statement? Or allow me to manually categorize entries? No spyware or intrusive software.
in reply to 52fighters

MoneyManager EX. It is the closest FOSS application I've seen to Quicken. Imports bank statements, catagorize different expenses, monthly budgets . .

moneymanagerex.org/

Linux, Windows, Android, iOS versions all available.

in reply to 52fighters

I use Buckets . It's a small 1 person freeware, dev asks for a 30 dollar one time donation but it isn't mandatory. It's based on the software and idealogy of ynab which enshittified several years ago. The learning resources of ynab should be mostly compatible but I haven't looked at it in a while.

It interopts with simplefin, an open source tool that reads your bank transactions and gives read only access to buckets. It costs 10dollars per year to use their servers. It creates some annoying quirks that is mostly the fault of my bank but its passable. The app can also take csv files if you would prefer (which most banks allow you to export).

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The number of U.S. troops in Syria has doubled, Pentagon discloses




Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say


Summary

In the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, researchers found that small leaks collectively account for 72% of methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas fields, challenging the focus on “super emitters.”

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, traps 80 times more heat than CO2 and contributes significantly to climate change.

Efforts to curb emissions include advanced satellite monitoring like MethaneSAT, new EPA rules requiring leak detection, and phasing out flaring.

With over 130,000 well sites, addressing both small and large emitters is essential for meaningful climate impact.

in reply to MicroWave

Here is JerryRigEverything who explains a lot of it and how he and others closed one. Hopefully more people can get involved.

in reply to MicroWave

Phasing out flaring? I thought flaring was the best thing you can do short of not harvesting in the first place.


Grml 2024.12 released


Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. Grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators. Users don't have to install anything on fixed storage. Grml is especially well suited for administrative tasks like installation, deployment and system rescue.

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