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Hi all, I'm about to visit Mexico for 3 weeks. Currently in my country, I can download torrents and other stuff without VPN. Is it the same over there as well? I'd be using Wi-Fi over there.

A lot of the article is through the eyes of a flight attendant named nicknamed Lala. Attendants must be on flights due to FAA regulations but they don't have much to do. On ICE Air - they're not supposed to interact with the passengers.

Lala was accustomed to the hard realities of working charter flights for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She’d learned to obey instructions not to look the passengers in the eyes, not to greet them or ask about their well-being.

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Flight attendants received training in how to evacuate passengers but said they weren’t told how to usher out detainees whose hands and legs were bound by shackles.

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Neither the ICE Air handbook, nor FAA regulations, nor flight attendant training in Miami explained how to empty a plane full of people whose movements were, by design, so severely hampered. Shackled detainees didn’t even qualify as “able-bodied” enough to sit in exit rows.

To flight attendants, the restraints seemed at odds with the FAA’s “90-second rule,” a decades-old manufacturing standard that says an aircraft must be built for full evacuation in 90 seconds even with half the exits blocked.

Lala and others said no one told them how to evacuate passengers in chains. “Honestly, I don’t know what we would do,” she said.

There was a flight where a little girl had a medical emergency. She was on the plane with her parents.

The day the girl collapsed on Lala’s flight, the pilot turned the plane around and they crossed back into the United States. The flight landed in Arizona. Paramedics rushed on board and connected the girl to their own oxygen bottle. They began shuttling her off the plane. Her parents tried to join. But the guards stopped the father.

Shocked, Lala approached the ICE officer in charge. “This is not OK!” she yelled. The mom had seizures. The family needed to stay together. But the officer said it was impossible. Only one parent could go to the hospital. The other, as Lala understood it, “was going to get deported.”

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Lala eventually left because of the little girl and her family, because she couldn’t do the deportation flights anymore. Her GlobalX uniform hung in her closet for a time, a reminder of her career as a flight attendant. Recently, she said, she threw it away. She never learned whether the little girl lived or died. Lala just watched her mom follow her off the plane, then watched the dad return to his seat.

“I cried after that,” she said. She bought her own ticket home.

I took this the other day at my friend's house in Phoenix. I didn't think these would grow here because the humidity is so low, but I guess I am mistaken.

I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It's exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.

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Nairobi – At one of the police stations in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, families are seated on an old wooden bench, awaiting their turn with the officer on duty. Some of them are holding fading photographs of their lost sisters and daughters. They look tired and sad, with some holding back their tears. This is a familiar scene in Kenya, where a woman is killed every two days by a husband, a relative, or a stranger, and justice is but a distant dream.

According to Femicide Count Kenya, 160 women were murdered in 2024.In the month of January 2024 alone,39 cases were reported, which meant an average of one woman was killed every day. However, human rights groups believe that the number could be much higher, as many death cases go unreported or misclassified.

For Irene Wanja, these figures are not just statistics. They are a painful reality. Her 25-year-old daughter Jane was killed under mysterious circumstances, and her body dumped in a river. Jane was full of life, her chocolate complexion, funny smile, goofy at times, and dreamt of becoming a nurse. Now, her future has been reduced to a police file collecting dust.

“She was murdered in cold blood. I have never been able to recover,” Wanja says, gripping a worn out picture of her daughter. “No arrests have been made. How many more mothers have to mourn their daughters before something changes?”

Kenya has existing laws meant to protect women. The sexual offenses and the Protection Against Domestic Violence Act, but the implementation is weak. The lack of forensics resources, underfunded gender-based violence units and corruption play a huge role.

Beatrice Njeri, a lawyer who represents victims’ families, has seen it all. “Sometimes suspects walk free because of ‘insufficient evidence,’” she says. “The police don’t prioritise these cases. They tell grieving families to be patient, but justice delayed is justice denied.”

In most cases victims’ families face another hurdle, notably the cost of legal representation. They cannot afford lawyers, and public prosecutors often juggle too many cases to focus on individual victims.

Survivors of gender-based violence are frequently pressured into silence, either by family members who fear societal backlash by abusers who threaten them to keep silent.

With the legal system failing them, Kenyan women are turning to grassroots organizations for protection. One such refuge is run by Wangu Kanja, a survivor of sexual and physical violence. Her foundation offers emergency shelter, and counseling to survivors.

The shelter is hidden in a quiet Nairobi neighborhood, its location, a secret for the safety of the women it protects. Inside, bunk beds line the walls, offering temporary refuge to those who have nowhere else to go. Volunteers work tirelessly, providing food, medical aid, and emotional support.

“We receive distress calls every day,” Kanja says. “But we don’t have enough resources to help everyone. Women at risk should have a government funded safe haven, but that doesn’t exist in Kenya.” Some women, she adds, have no choice but to return to their abusers.

Compared to it neighbors, Kenya has the highest rate of femicide cases in the region at 160 deaths in 2024. In 2023, Uganda reported 127 femicide cases, while Tanzania recorded 102.

Human rights groups caution that the lower numbers in these countries do not necessarily indicate better safety for women.

In Uganda, many cases go unreported, especially in rural areas where community-based resolution often discourages legal action. In Tanzania, cultural norms sometimes lead to murders being labeled as "domestic disputes" rather than crimes, further skewing the statistics.

“In Uganda and Tanzania, community-based dispute resolution still plays a role,” says Njeri. “In Kenya, victims often rely solely on the police, who don’t always act.”. In Nairobi’s informal settlements, domestic violence rates are particularly high, with limited access to resources for survivors.

For Wanja, justice is an arrest. “I want to see my daughter’s killer behind bars,” she says.

For Njeri, it’s about reform. “We need forensic labs, specialized gender-based violence courts, and police training.”

For Kanja, it’s about safety. “Justice means no woman has to live in fear.”

Yet, for many Kenyan women, justice remains a distant hope.

Iconic scene in a great end to a plethora of movies and a great character arc. I read these comics as a kid and always wanted to see them on the big screen. Up through End Game they did not disappoint.

Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, recently got the all-clear for a massive increase in investment after parliament voted to exempt defence spending from strict rules on debt.

The country's top general has told the BBC the cash boost is urgently needed because he believes Russian aggression won't stop at Ukraine.

"We are threatened by Russia. We are threatened by Putin. We have to do whatever is needed to deter that," Gen Carsten Breuer says. He warns that Nato should be braced for a possible attack in as little as four years.

"It's not about how much time I need, it's much more about how much time Putin gives us to be prepared," the defence chief says bluntly. "And the sooner we are prepared the better."

I am using an RoG Ally and was using Bazzite. I'm currently back on Windows (for warranty purpose. I literally can't stand the Windows experience on handhelds). Once I get my device back, I have to decide between SteamOS and Bazzite.

I saw the latest SteamOS release works quite well, except for voltage control (I know you can control it using SimpleTDPcontrol).

If I want to tinker, I can always go back to Bazzite. But Bazzite has some very minor issues (screenshot does not work OOTB/gyro support is slightly cumbersome as you need to switch controller type/no fingerprint support). I have used it for 6 months and the experience for gaming has been fantastic. The Bazzite devs have all my support.

So my question is will we ever get a proper signal from Valve saying "Yup, it's now fully compatible with the RoG Ally". Right now, i'm getting the message "We are slowly adding support for the Ally. Only features x,y and z are not working".

Are any of you Bazzite users thinking of jumping ship?

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"So, in purpose to cut this trend, in purpose to stop this scenario, we have to show and introduce the hard measures sooner than later," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://kyivindependent.com/allies-must-impose-hard-measures-on-russia-to-prevent-stalled-peace-talks-lithuanian-fm-says/

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A leak allegedly involving 2.87 billion Twitter (X) user profiles has surfaced on Breach Forums, with claims it was stolen by a disgruntled employee during recent layoffs.

The leak, shared by known forum user "ThinkingOne," includes detailed metadata like bios, follower counts, tweet history, and account activity—but not email addresses.

Despite its scale, X has issued no response. The incident raises major privacy concerns amid silence from the company and speculation over the data's true origin.

The Republican administration on March 21 terminated a contract with the Acacia Center for Justice, which provides legal services for unaccompanied migrant children under 18 through a network of legal aid groups that subcontract with the center. Eleven subcontractor groups sued, saying that 26,000 children were at risk of losing their attorneys; Acacia is not a plaintiff.

Those groups argued that the government has an obligation under a 2008 anti-trafficking law to provide vulnerable children with legal counsel.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of San Francisco granted a temporary restraining order late Tuesday. She wrote that advocates raised legitimate questions about whether the administration violated the 2008 law, warranting a return to the status quo while the case continues. The order will take effect Wednesday and runs through April 16.