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Operational control from a vessel that was anchored near the port of Tuapse at the time of the attack on the night of November 1-2. In the background, negotiations between the tankers Chai, Pollux, and Tuapse Port Control via VHF can be heard.

The video recorded, in particular, the unsuccessful operation of AD, the moments of impact, and the fire. Another successful operation. 🦅

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https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/oil-tanker-catches-fire-after-ukrainian-drone-strike-on-russias-black-sea-oil-terminal/

The past couple of years, the amount of kids out on Halloween has dwindled down in my neighborhood. This year, my wife and I were at her cousin's house and we saw maybe a couple of kids walking around. My wife blames people going to Trunk or Treat things. We both work in retail, so we see more of the public, and nobody was in costume. What was everybody's experience with Halloween this year?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/21095531

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Open-source developer Joel Severin today announced his work on porting the Linux kernel to WebAssembly and has successffully gotten the kernel up and running within WASM-capable web browsers.

This WebAssembly port of the Linux kernel is up and running basic programs from a shell within a web browser. But there are stability issues and it didn't take me long either to trigger crashes for this Linux kernel WASM port when running within Google Chrome.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20251103130940/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mid-decade-redistricting-midterms-redrawn-maps-impacts-battle/story?id=126909158

Voters set to accept new maps to help Democrats counter Republican gerrymandering – and check president’s power

California’s Proposition 50 began as a warning from the nation’s largest blue state to its largest red one: don’t poke the bear. But when Texas moved ahead with a rare, mid-decade gerrymander, pushed by Donald Trump as Republicans seek to shore up their fragile House majority in the midterm elections, California made good on its threat.

Now, California voters appear poised to approve a redistricting measure placed on the ballot in August by Democrats and the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who have cast it as a chance to check Trump’s power.

“California will not sit idle as Trump and his Republican lapdogs shred our country’s democracy before our very eyes,” Newsom said at a rally, formally announcing the initiative, known as the Election Rigging Response Act.

Abuja (AFP) – Nigerians across the religious spectrum pushed back Monday on US President Donald Trump's threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians in the country.

Africa's most populous country, which is roughly evenly split between a mostly Christian south and Muslim-majority north, is home to myriad conflicts, which experts say kill both Christians and Muslims, often without distinction.

But claims of Christian "persecution" in Nigeria have found traction online among the US and European right in recent months.

"Christians are being killed, we can't deny the fact that Muslims are (also) being killed," Danjuma Dickson Auta, a Christian and community leader, told AFP.

Trump said on social media over the weekend that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack.

Asked by an AFP reporter aboard Air Force One if he was considering putting US troops on the ground or using air strikes, Trump replied: "Could be, I mean, a lot of things -- I envisage a lot of things."

"They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers," he said Sunday. "We're not going to allow that to happen."

Pushing back on the accusations, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said religious tolerance was "a core tenet of our collective identity".

Auta, 56, hails from Plateau state, where Christians and Muslims have long lived side by side.

The state has also seen explosions of violence -- including deadly sectarian riots in the capital Jos in 2001 and 2008.

In recent years, Plateau and other states in Nigeria's "Middle Belt" have suffered deadly clashes between mostly Christian farmers and Fulani Muslim herders over dwindling land and resources.

The conflict has often resulted in massive death tolls on the side of the farmers, with entire villages razed.

Smaller-scale attacks on herders -- including retaliatory killings of random ethnic Fulanis or their cattle -- often generate fewer headlines in both the local and international press.

Though the violence appears on the surface to fall across ethnic and religious lines, experts say the root causes lie in poor land management and policing in rural areas.

Words like "genocide" have been thrown around by those in Plateau frustrated by the escalating violence, though typically in ethnic, not religious terms.

Claims of a "Christian genocide" meanwhile have been pushed in recent years by separatist groups in the southeast.

US-based firm Moran Global Strategies has been lobbying on behalf of separatists this year, advising congressional staff on what it said was Christian "persecution", according to lobbying disclosures.

Nigeria also faces a long-running jihadist conflict in its northeast and "bandit" gangs in the northwest who conduct kidnappings and village raids.

The north's population is mostly Muslim -- meaning most of the victims are, too.

"Even those who sold this narrative of Christian genocide know it is not true," said Abubakar Gamandi, a Muslim who heads a fishermen's union in Borno state, the epicentre of the Boko Haram conflict.

Oxford Economics political analyst Jervin Naidoo said that "while the terrorism threat is real", Washington's amped-up rhetoric could be related to Abuja rejecting demands to accept non-Nigerian deportees expelled from the United States as part of Trump's immigration crackdown.

"This move differs from countries like Eswatini, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana, which have complied. In response, the US tightened visa rules for Nigerians," he noted.

Trump previously attacked South Africa over what he called a "genocide" against its Dutch-descended Afrikaner community and has offered them refugee status.

Critics of the president said the rhetoric was part of Trump's hardline diplomatic strategy, yet it has also resonated with some in Nigeria.

Reverend Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria for the country's north, said he rejected the framing of "farmer-herder violence" and called Trump's comments a "wake-up call".

"People are twisting the story as if Trump said he is coming to fight Nigeria. No, he is coming to deal with terrorists," he told AFP.

Tinubu spokesman Daniel Bwala noted that "Donald Trump has his own style of communication", suggesting to AFP Sunday that Trump's post was a way to "force a sit-down between the two leaders so they can iron out a common front to fight their insecurity".

I don't fucking know why I can't eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don't know who's lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.

hey all,

i was looking at either joining mastodon or bluesky, if im thinking about this in the right way, bluesky is just a mastondon instance, correct? that means that i could choose another instance if i wanted to more suited to what im looking for, but how does it work like lemmy, where i can see posts from all instances on the fediverse?

Hello! I'm an admin on ttrpg.network. Recently, our hosting provider let us know that they are going out of business. I'm trying to find a new provider to migrate to.

A little bit of information, i would like:

1. Not to self host - I travel a lot for work, and i can't guarantee that my home internet/server is always available.

2. Prefer a managed service if possible - Again, due to the above, if something goes wrong while i'm out of town, I might not have time to troubleshoot issues for a week or more.

My current service is a managed service, so I can open tickets if something goes wrong and have their support team look in to it. Googling, the only other service i can find that has managed services is elest.io, which mostly just looks like a wrapper for services like AWS and others, and the server configurations look like they might get pretty pricey to get anything near comparable.

Currently, our instance uses around ~1 TB of data after backup and everything is included, and we have a 4TB quota at our current host, 8 GB of ram, and I'm not entirely sure of the CPU or anything. All for around ~$25 USD/month.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Much ink has been spilled exploring the rise of the far right across liberal democracies. Britain, like much of the rest of Western Europe, now plays host to an electorally successful far-right party in the form of Reform UK.

A robust cross-national body of evidence has identified a significant gender gap in support for far-right parties. Evidence also points towards the expansion of this gap, with young men in particular identified as an important and increasing constituency of far-right parties. Has Britain too fallen victim to the emergence of a gender-youth gap in support for the far right?

Media commentary would suggest that it has, with diverse sources on the political left and right jumping at the opportunity to comment that “Britain’s white working-class young men are flocking to Reform” or explain “why young British men are drawn to Reform”. But these claims are fundamentally flawed, and represent a systematic mischaracterisation of the typical voting preferences of young people, in particular young men.

Popular commentary around young men’s support for the far-right should be tempered in two ways. First, evidence of differential support between men and women is commonly interpreted as indicative of absolute support or the far right among men. This is incorrect: a large majority of British men do not support the far right. Second, there is no evidence, at least in the specific case of Britain, that the gender differential is conditionally different among individuals of different age groups. In other words, across all ages, men are more likely than women to support Reform UK.