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Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.

The snipers were perhaps the most feared element of life under siege in Sarajevo because they would pick off people on the streets, including children, at random, as if it was a video game or a safari.

Groups of Italians and other nationalities, so-called “sniper tourists”, are alleged to have participated in the massacre after paying large sums of money to soldiers belonging to the army of Radovan Karadžić, the former Bosnian Serb leader who in 2016 was found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity, to be transported to the hills surrounding Sarajevo so that they could shoot at the population for pleasure.

look what tariffs did to my precious boy!

The model, which takes a conservative view of global climate action, was dropped in 2020 after the IEA was repeatedly criticised for underestimating the growth of renewable energy in its annual report.

The IEA returned the scenario to its outlook this year after calls from the White House to present a more optimistic view for the future of oil. The IEA has denied it reintroduced its new scenario in response to pressure from the US.

Critics of the forecast believe it underestimates the pace of electric vehicle take-up, particularly in developing countries in Asia, a trend that is already helping to reduce the world’s demand for oil.

jThe IEA’s report, which comes as leaders gather in Belém, in Brazil, for the Cop30 climate talks, also included two main scenarios in which oil consumption reached a peak by 2030 because of the strong take-up onof electric vehicles and renewable energy.*

In all scenarios, renewable energy is expected to at least double over the next five years. The outlook suggested the world was likely to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than had been rolled out over the past 40.

The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said there was now “irreversible momentum towards the age of electricity”, which in every IEA scenario showed that renewable energy was “growing faster than any other major energy source”.

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Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

Found out through this article that some random source distro I've never heard of has successfully gotten firefox 145 up and running on a 32bit cpu.

Seeing that some distro maintainers actually are fighting to keep providing 32bit packages made my little nerd self very happy. Fingers crossed they can keep it working for a while. (And ofc, all hardware has to stop being supported eventually, doesn't make it any less sad when they day comes.)

The distro is T2 linux, and the package can be found here

One is a 500 GB NVME drive; the other is a 1 TB SSD. It wasn't my intention, I just wanted both drives wiped.

Ob ich tatsächlich spenden kann hängt jedoch noch von einer Spendenvoruntersuchung ab. Ich wäre aber überrascht, wenn da irgendwas gefunden wird, das mich ausschließt.

ABER: Sollte die Spende stattfinden, brauche ich etwas Hilfe. Denn die Entnahme dauert 3-5 Stunden in denen ich meine Arme kaum bewegen kann - und mein Tablet, mit dem ich Filme ansehen will hat leider nur ~40 GB an freiem Speicher. Den Herr der Ringen Filmen wird es mMn nicht gerecht, sie so zu schauen. Was würdet ihr also zum Anschauen empfehlen? Serien sind übrigens auch in Ordnung!

PS: Die Beschaffung wird voraussichtlich gar keine Probleme bereiten. Das habe ich schließlich vollautomatisiert.

Honestly, I'm baffled by the tablet market. Everyone puts out underpowered devices. Even Google! How can you, in good faith, justify a tablet having a slower processor and less memory than a phone while trying to advertise it as the superior device, perfect for editing and whatnot?

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/41777220

• 10 regimes account for nearly 80 % of all transnational repression cases, including China, Türkiye, Tajikistan, Russia, Egypt, Cambodia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Belarus
• The text highlights that more than 1,200 direct physical incidents have been recorded, in 103 countries, over the past decade.
• EU sanctions and a ban on exports of spyware and dual-use goods to countries engaging in transnational repression are necessary responses

New technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, malicious data communication and spyware, are increasingly important vectors of current transnational repression, say MEPs. They call on member states and the EU to recognise, prevent and tackle digital forms of transnational repression, including disinformation campaigns targeting human rights defenders, and to ensure that private actors in the technology sector are held accountable, by publishing transparency reports, and setting up effective grievance mechanisms.

Legitimately I have been looking for years to complete this set

@science_memes

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/users/johncarlosbaez/statuses/115536284674899702

Hi, I wanted to start selfhosting and I'd like to have your opinion on something that I'm struggling to decide.

I don't plan to tinker too much with my system, I've been a Linux tinkerer myself some time ago but now I'd like to setup something that's really bulletproof and then leave it running (ofc I know I'll have to do a bit of bugfixing now and then), not replacing hardware ideally for >= 10 years.

This is why I'm planning to use TrueNAS, and that's why I'm planning to buy a UGREEN DXP2800: has two 3,5" HDD bays (4TB should be enough for me for the next 8-10 years, so I'll have two 4TB disks in RAID1 or mirror or whatever is recommended). Only problem I have with this machine is that it only has 1 RAM slot, and I guess 8 GB isn't enough if I use zfs. So I'll have to upgrade to either 16 or 32 GB. Now I did my research and from my understanding 16GB seems to be enough, but it would be such a waste having to replace the whole RAM if it turns out it isn't enough.

For reference, I don't plan on having more than 7-8 services running: Immich, Nextcloud+office, firefly, audiobookshelf, paperless and a maybe few more if they're useful. I value responsiveness but it's ok if some things take longer to process (thinking immich ML, or stuff like transcoding)

I'm very interested to know your opinion:

• is the dxp2800 a good choice?
• should I go with 16 or 32 GB RAM?

And a little extra

• how much ssd space do you recommend for high speed data? is 500gb enough?

Thank you so much!

“Without rapid, deep emissions cuts—over 50% by 2030—overshooting 1.5°C becomes ever more likely, with severe consequences for people and ecosystems,” one expert said.