Futurology Today

In my mind, this isn't the right community for lemmy-specific support, nor is any instance-specific support community.

Could someone point me towards an appropriate community to ask about Lemmy web questions?

Thanks!

The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, put a variety of peoples under a single rubric. I talked recently about how the Phoenicians, long thought to be what we would now call Lebanese, were actually a multi-ethnic trading diaspora in which Greeks and Italians took a leading role in North Africa and Spain — even if they worshiped the god Baal and adopted a Semitic lingua franca.

This point is worth underlining at a time when the United States is seized with a paroxysm of white nationalism. “Whiteness” is meaningless as an ethnicity. Some 5% of self-professed whites in the South have recent African heritage. Courts recognized Arab-Americans as white in the early twentieth century when the category was essential for basic legal and property rights. Apartheid South Africa recognized the Japanese as “white” when they became for a while the world’s second largest economy. Most “national” “ethnicities” can be deconstructed. So it is important to recognize that “nations” are constructs. Certainly, the diverse Scythians were.

The secret of the greatness of the Scythian Empire was, like the secret of the greatness of the United States, its very ethnic diversity and ability to bring in new populations under a broadly similar culture.

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10k added users since last post. Here are upstream Fedora numbers only

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/40938039

Another misadventure of our forever alone guy, Joseph Erkhoff.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/163166

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34824534

• Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium will halt parcel shipments to the US starting August 23.
• The operators lack mechanisms to manage the payment of duties without the de minimis exemption.
• Etsy suspended US-bound shipping labels with operators that cannot support prepaid duties.

If you have been eyeing something from overseas, you may want to click "buy now" today.

Postal services operated by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium — Posten Bring, PostNord, and bpost — said they will suspend parcel shipments to the US ahead of the end of a customs exemption that allows low-value packages to enter the country duty-free.

The conundrum facing postal operators comes as the Trump administration prepares to suspend the "de minimis" exemption starting on August 29. The exemption used to allow international shipments under $800 to cross the border with minimal paperwork and no duties.

Now, these shipments will face tariffs, and not every operator can handle the customs declaration paperwork, have a payment mechanism in place, or be responsible for returns should a receiver refuse to pay tariffs. It's unclear when the temporary freeze on shipments will resume.

"Due to the short timeframe to adapt to the new specific requirements, PostNord will temporarily halt shipments to the United States and Puerto Rico until a compliant solution has been developed and implemented," wrote the operator owned by the Swedish and Danish governments in a statement on Wednesday.

Separately, Posten Bring, Norway's primary postal provider operated by the government, said in a statement that postal services have not been given clear instructions and solutions on how the duties will be paid or who would be responsible for returns. Therefore, Posten Bring sees suspension as the "only option."

All three European postal services will suspend shipments starting August 23, which applies to all packages other than letters. This means that if you have a pending purchase that is not shipped by the deadline, your seller may need to cancel your order or arrange alternatives.

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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/quentech on 2025-08-24 22:22:08+00:00.

I used to be a member on a private tracker, RevoTT, for many, many years. Occasionally I'd grab some stuff off public trackers - RARBG, YIFY, etc.

I have 1Gbps dedicated fiber. Hundreds of TB of drive space, mostly full. Multiple 10's of thousands of torrents seeding.

RevoTT went through some concerning changes in leadership at the beginning of the year, so I started looking for alternative places to acquire content, and I got signed up on TorrentLeech and have been using that. Got a few TB downloaded already.

So here's the problem:

Whenever I'm early to a torrent on TorrentLeech - especially FreeLeech ones (which are often large 4k or 1080 remux) - the speed on all of my torrents completely tanks.

Instead of mostly or completely maxing out my 1Gbps WAN, like normal, I only seem to get data in short little bursts.

I'll get 10-20 Mbps for a second or two - and then close to nothing - maybe 10 or 20 kBps - for 10, 20, 30 seconds. Then another little burst of data. Then crawl. Then burst. Then crawl.

It does this until the offending torrent completes. Like, I can shut down qBitTorrent and completely reboot the Windows VM and even the hypervisor host it's running on. I can remove the torrent, delete all the files, and re-add it. Same problem.

When it boots back up and starts back up - I sometimes will see it going full speed for like 30 seconds or less - and then it's right back to the start & stop crap. It also makes the "Checking" of all the torrents while qBit starts up go extremely slowly while the bandwidth issue is happening.

While this is happening, I can max out my 1 Gbps WAN on a speed test. I can max out the 10Gbps internal network between the VM and the storage array. I can write to and read from the storage array at hundreds of MBps. Nothing else seems affected.

Again, when this happens, it happens to all torrents from any tracker. I've tried 4 other trackers while it's happening. Also my upload experiences the same problem - little harder to see because it depends if anyone's trying to DL - but with ~30,000 torrents there's almost always seeding activity on my box.

Hours and hours later, the offending torrent will finally complete, and then everything goes back to normal.

I'm totally lost as to WTF is possibly going on here. The other thing I notice is that the qBitTorrent app itself often gets quite laggy in response to any interaction with the GUI on the VM while this is happening.

Plenty of RAM on the machine, I've got 12GB assigned to the VM and qBit uses ~3GB. Drive activity is low on the VM, hypervisor, and storage array. It's assigned 6 CPU cores on a i7-11700 - plenty.

And here's another hitch - if I uninstall the standard qBit install and instead use the libtorrent 2.0 QT6 build - then this issue doesn't seem to happen. However, I get far, far fewer peers connecting to me than I'm used to with the libtorrent 1.2 build of qBit. This is noticeable on TorrentLeech, but it really stands out on RTT where I more often than not can't even complete download of a torrent when using libtorrent 2.0 because pretty much no other peers connect to me.

What in the everloving fuck is happening to me? It's making it really hard to build ratio when I can't ever DL a fresh torrent when it's early to the site.

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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Expert-Vacation-1033 on 2025-08-24 18:44:46+00:00.

Seems like it would be a good way to funnel content into more niche communities by tying their posts to whatever is posted on a subreddit until they can take off on their own.

Does such a thing exist? If not, making it shouldn't be too difficult. I could probably whip something up real quick and toss it up on a software sharing platform.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? It could actually work really well with Lemmy's option to show/hide bot posts because people could choose if they want to see it at all.

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/dark_blaster on 2025-08-25 05:30:49+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/PcRat16 on 2025-08-24 14:24:16+00:00.

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Today the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck the Novatek company Terminal in the port of Ust-Luga, located in the Leningrad Oblast of Russia. It is an important facility for processing and shipping stable gas condensate.

On January 21, 2024, it was reported that the plant temporarily suspended operations after an attack by Ukrainian drones.

Among other things, the terminal processes fuel that can be used for the needs of the Russian army.

As a result of the attack, one of the key infrastructure facilities of the Russian energy sector, the Gazprom Ust-Luga gas processing complex, which is part of the large-scale Baltic Gas Chemical Cluster, was severely damaged.

The cryogenic deep hydrocarbon processing unit, where gas condensate and natural gas are fractionated, was hit the hardest. Here, the rectification process takes place - the separation of raw materials into components for further use in the chemical industry or for export.

➤ The cryogenic fractionation unit performs a critically important function: it separates gas streams into ethane, propane, butane, methane, and other components.

➤ Damage to this facility may have long-term consequences, as stopping processes at this stage effectively paralyzes the work of the entire complex.

➤ The complex in Ust-Luga is considered one of the most powerful gas processing plants in Europe. According to its design characteristics, it is capable of:

Processing up to 45 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually Producing up to 13 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) Supplying 3.6 million tons of ethane — a key component in the production of ethylene And up to 1.8 million tons of propane-butane mixture.

Thus, the destruction of this complex is a significant blow not only to Russia's energy infrastructure, but also to its export potential and ambitions in the petrochemical sector.

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Information taken from open sources*

https://t.me/exilenova_plus/11779

A more detailed analysis of the location “Gazprom Ust-Luga”, which was struck. Thanks to comrade.

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https://t.me/exilenova_plus/11781

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Choobeen on 2025-08-25 03:00:01+00:00.