Emory University protest descends into chaos as Georgia cops 'spray tear gas', fire rubber bullets and arrest dozens of students (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100 (www.columbiaspectator.com)
Safety in typing, no cloud needed (f-droid.org)
Anyone running Zoraxy v3, the reverse proxy for networking noobs? (zoraxy.arozos.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8966140Zoraxy describes itself as:...
“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias (theintercept.com)
… In the previously unreported civil rights complaint, 18 students said that they have “been the target of extreme anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab harassment and discrimination by fellow UMass students, including receiving racial slurs, death threats and in one instance, actually being assaulted.” The result, the students...
‘We must say no’: Seoul defense chief on Korean, USFK involvement in hypothetical Taiwan crisis (english.hani.co.kr)
EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story (www.edps.europa.eu)
Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve”.
Hong Kong protests: thwarted plotters planned to use 2 bombs with 10kg in explosives to target police, court hears (www.scmp.com)
Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat (canonical.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS delivers the latest Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem. In addition to upstream improvements, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays....
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas (timesofsandiego.com)
Offline llama3 says it sends corrections back to Meta's server; I was not aware of it (jeena.net)
Weinstein victims’ fury as rape conviction overturned as Bragg commits to retry case (www.independent.co.uk)
The women who came forward against Harvey Weinstein reacted with fury after the disgraced media mogul’s rape and sexual assault convictions were overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday....
Passkeys: A Shattered Dream (fy.blackhats.net.au)
I’m Excited To Play Hades 2 The Way God(s) Intended: Early Access - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex (en.m.wikipedia.org)
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....
Mattermost: Casual Selfhosters (mm.cronyakatsuki.xyz)
Hello, today I would like to announce the creation of a mattermost group “Casual Selfhosters”....
Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements (www.tomshardware.com)
Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) (snikket.org)
For self-hosting though, the project I work on - Snikket - uses XMPP but has all the nice modern things you’d expect ready to go right out of the box, more like a Matrix (Synapse/Element) setup. Probably the biggest thing missing for Snikket right now is an official web app (we currently have Android and iOS apps)....
Gaza mass grave: Almost 400 bodies have been found, says Palestinian Civil Defense | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14905603...
Song of the Day: Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta (youtu.be)
China: Minorities accounting for 1% of total population make up 34% of prison inmates (uhrp.org)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11464137...
CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences (futurism.com)
