[news] Please take us to mum’: Families torn apart by Israel's occupation of Rafah crossing (www.middleeasteye.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/20334952...
US satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish are in talks to merge again, source says (www.reuters.com)
elecom operator AT&T (T.N), opens new tab and its joint-venture partner TPG (TPG.O), opens new tab are in early-stage talks to merge their DirecTV satellite TV service with EchoStar (SATS.O), opens new tab owned Dish, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday....
Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15)
Several Star Trek licensed games are on Steam, now at a significantly discounted price for the annual Star Trek Day celebration....
Advice on hardware/software setup
I am looking to get into self hosting, for setting up a simple plex + nextcloud server. However I also would like to buy a nice desktop pc soon which I would like to access at at least two locations, I think I should be able to combine this with a home server but I unsure what the best way to do this/what are the right software...
a bigger F-104 was supposed to compete with the YF-16 and YF-17 apparently. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Florida department of health posts updated COVID-19 booster guidance that is just a list of anti-vax conspiracies (www.floridahealth.gov)
Their surgeon general is something else
DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM (www.theregister.com)
The DeCENC attack, developed by security researcher David Buchanan, can bypass the Common Encryption Scheme (CENC) used by streaming platforms like Amazon and Netflix, allowing decrypted but compressed video to be captured and saved, posing a theoretical risk to DRM protection....
Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, a Gallup analysis finds (apnews.com)
Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data....
Analysis: Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions (www.ucl.ac.uk)
Choice (lemmy.world)
Dinner guest cat in Mugello, Italy
I gave her a little bit of our duck carpaccio.
Russia’s Medvedev threatens nuke strike would turn Kyiv into ‘gray spot’ on the map (www.rferl.org)
Russian officials have threatened that a possible decision by the West to allow Kyiv to use donated weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory would result in a major escalation of its war against Ukraine that could include the use of nuclear weapons....
Russia’s Medvedev threatens to turn Kyiv into ‘giant melted spot’ (www.politico.eu)
It’s almost as if the threat of long range missiles is scaring the shit out of Russia....
UN employee shot dead by Israeli sniper in occupied West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade.
Crisis at Jewish Chronicle as stories based on ‘wild fabrications’ are withdrawn (www.theguardian.com)
The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, has removed a series of sensational articles relating to the Gaza war after claims that the material was fabricated by a “freelance journalist” who had also misrepresented his résumé....
One big happy family. (lemmy.world)
VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of Minecraft -- Corridor Crew (14:27) (www.youtube.com)
What's the easiest way to host a music colletion (FLAC)?
I’ve tried a few options over the years, including SMB and NFS, XBMC as well as HTML with javascript I found online....
Man Self-Immolates Outside Boston Israeli Consulate in Protest of Gaza Genocide (truthout.org)
“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.
Extremist settlers rapidly seizing West Bank land (www.bbc.co.uk)
[…] BBC World Service has seen documents showing that organisations with close ties to the Israeli government have provided money and land used to establish new illegal outposts.
Naga elders and youth unite in dialogue on decolonisation and repatriation (www.eastmojo.com)
The ongoing discourse surrounding the repatriation of Naga ancestral human remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, has sparked critical reflections among the Naga community.
Netflix’s Squid Game is rip-off of 2009 Hindi film, lawsuit says | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
EU's Borrell calls Maduro's regime 'dictatorial'. (www.euractiv.com)
Options
Saudi Arabia calls for more pressure on Iran as Houthi threat grows (www.theguardian.com)
The claimed acquisition by Yemen’s Houthi rebels of hypersonic missiles capable of penetrating Israeli air defences threatens to further heighten Middle East tensions, as Saudi Arabia calls for more than “pinprick bombings” to constrain the supply of weapons to the group....
