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  • Cuba installs solar systems in health centers with support from China

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  • I worry for Cubans. Don't get me wrong, the way the Chinese are providing solar is downright heroic and undoubtedly saving lives, but this comes at a time when the US is expressing interest in taking over. These solar moves from China could be seen as a way of saying "Cuba is under our wing; dont go starting a boondoggle", after which you know western leaders would immediately start a boondoggle.

    Cubans are under intense pressure, and im sure their people and leadership are struggling to navigate in a way that keeps Cubans safe while also minimizing risk of conflict.

  • Qbittorrent gluetun docker stack help with port forwarding

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  • This doesn't help your specific problem, but for what it's worth: airvpn allows you to set a port # which is retained when the VPN hops to a new server, or is reset. In other words, I set the port # in airvpn a year ago, and i have kept the same port since. I haven't kept super up to date on VPN trustworthiness, so maybe airvpn is no longer recommended.

  • Ukraine: 61 percent of citizens ready for a peace referendum with "territorial compromises."

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  • Well obviously they decided to only survey Russian shills. That, or the entire Institue is a Russian bot.

    /s

  • China bad tho, right lemmy liberals?

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  • China is still the world's leading polluter

    This is a rhetorical sleight of hand that conveniently glosses over the actual history of polluting nations.

  • BYD's latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes

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  • Tenuous, unsourced statement alone - that has no bearing on automotive batteries which use different battery chemistry, design choices, and validation processes. Apples to oranges.

  • Your Phone is an Entire Computer

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  • So are SIM cards.

  • Just keep seeding, just keep seeding, just keep seeding seeding seeding 🎶 - but preferably at less power?

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  • Assuming you dont have a platinum PSU, you could upgrade to a more efficient PSU. That probably won't give you as much gains as tweaking bios settings though.

  • Cheapest 16x4tb NAS

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  • Hey, you basically defined my system.

    Truenas scale machine running 4x 16TB drives. I use a cheap rosewill 4u server rack case. It has hot swap drive bays in front. Big plus.

    The brain is an amd 5950x running on an asrock x570 steel legend w/ 128GB of the cheapest crucial DDR4 ECC I could find. Also running an rtx 2080 for jellyfin transcoding.

    My consumer mobo is the bottleneck. Given how my end goal is to have a 10gb nic and an LSI card for more sata ports, I'm going to have to get creative with m.2 ports. I might plug a 10gb nic into an m.2 port.

    PSU was a 1kW fractal platinum rated. Way overkill, but the high efficiency is key.

    You'll notice my build uses a lot of gaming parts - i simply harvested my old parts when I upgraded my gaming PC. Despite this, it still idles under 200 watts. My point is not that you should seek out gaming parts, but if you happen to have any on hand, they could be effectively leveraged given price increases on new parts.

    The biggest thing is: Use ECC. This is non negotiable for your setup. ECC saved me a couple weeks ago when my 5950x shot craps, randomly. So far no issues after increasing to a set voltage. ZFS and ECC go together like peas in a pod.

  • Do you protect your USB port?

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  • This is the best strategy.

    However, if you ever knew youd NEED to use public charging, check out USB condom adapters. They open circuit the data pins.

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • The US slaughtered 20% of the country's people. "Invasion" is putting it lightly.

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • Uh, yeah. It was. You realize that imperial Japan expanded beyond the island, right?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria

    Operation August Storm,[1] began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet Union's invasion of the Empire of Japan's puppet states of Manchukuo and Mengjiang, in Japanese-occupied Manchuria and Inner Mongolia respectively. It was the largest campaign of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War, which resumed hostilities between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace.

    Original claim:

    The US used the nuke to minimize potential Soviet influence over a post war Japan

    Your rebuttal:

    A normal human could not swim the Sea of Japan. 😏

    What are you even talking about?

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • But I'm laughing harder at your other notion that the soviet ubermenschen were right about to swim across the Sea ofJapan and the US had to cheat to beat them there

    Again, not sure what youre talking about, or how this follows. The only person bringing this idea is you.

    Perhaps you need to check your le epic notes again.

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • Not sure what youre talking about, or how any of that follows.

    The simple fact is that the notion that the US did not need to nuke Japan is a well-respected position among historians.

    Admiral William Leahy, Truman’s chief of staff, put it this way: “The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. In being the first to use it, we adopted an ethical standard common to barbarians of the Dark Ages. Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”

    https://www.wagingpeace.org/were-the-atomic-bombings-necessary/

    https://www.historyonthenet.com/reasons-against-dropping-the-atomic-bomb

    https://jacobin.com/2023/08/atomic-nuclear-bomb-world-war-ii-soviet-japan-military-industrial-complex-lies

    Alperovitz further highlights that the Japanese had initiated peace envoy missions as early as September 1944, reaching out to figures like Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek by December 1944 and engaging with the USSR in April 1945. That the Japanese were interested in negotiating a peace was well known. Moreover, the Americans knew that there was a potential for a surrender without necessitating an invasion as early as April 1945, provided there was clarity in the surrender terms.

    The argument that the bombings prevented the necessity of an invasion is undermined by the very cities that were chosen to be bombed. It is now known that as many as nine atomic bombs were proposed to be used tactically against Japanese military targets as part of a planned — though never authorized — invasion. That two of those bombs were ultimately used against cities of no particular military value is evidence that plans for an invasion had already been abandoned by August of 1945.

    The potential for a massive confrontation between the Red Army and the Kwantung Army in Manchuria introduced the prospect of the Soviets seeking equal participation in subsequent conflict-ending talks. This would have positioned them to assert a stronger claim over the region, resulting in gains that could far exceed their initial claims to territories lost in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904. Consequently, the atomic bomb, instead of being used tactically, evolved into a strategic weapon of terror intended to jolt Japan into immediate surrender.

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • Genuine question: before today, had you ever heard of the take that the US didnt need to nuke Japan - given Soviet advancements and Japan's military crumbling?

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • They could be dialed down lower, but even a "small" tactical nuke is bigger than what got dropped on Japan.

    It's not about size, it's how you use it. For example, a tactical nuke could potentially be used at sea to destroy a fleet. Depending on where the fleet is, this could potentially be done with no direct civilian casualties.

    And I have no idea what you're second rambling source is trying to say.

    Really? It's pretty clear cut: the Americans dropped the nuke to primarily rule out Soviet influence as opposed to being a decisive means to end the war. This isn't even a fringe opinion among historians these days - I'm surprised you haven't heard this take.

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-justified-us-debate-bombs-death-toll-japan-how-many-died-nuclear/

    Militarily Japan was finished (as the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that August showed). Further blockade and urban destruction would have produced a surrender in August or September at the latest, without the need for the costly anticipated invasion or the atomic bomb. As for the second bomb on Nagasaki, that was just as unnecessary as the first one. It was deemed to be needed, partly because it was a different design, and the military (and many civilian scientists) were keen to see if they both worked the same way. There was, in other words, a cynical scientific imperative at work as well.

    I should also add that there was a fine line between the atomic bomb and conventional bombing – indeed descriptions of Hamburg or Tokyo after conventional bombing echo the aftermath of Hiroshima. To regard Hiroshima as a moral violation is also to condemn the firebombing campaign, which was deliberately aimed at city centres and completely indiscriminate.

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

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  • There's no other way to use a nuke, they cover too wide an area.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon

    Like, if the nukes on Japan wouldn't have been dropped, it would have had to be more firebombing and then a ground invasion.

    The nuclear strikes on Japan represented a political decision taken by the United States, aimed squarely at the Soviet Union; it was the first strike in the Cold War.

    In August 1945, the USSR was preparing to invade Japan to overthrow its ruling fascist regime, which had been allied with Nazi Germany – which the Soviet Red Army had also just defeated in the European theater of the war.

    Washington was concerned that, if the Soviets defeated Japanese fascism and liberated Tokyo like they had in Berlin, then Japan’s post-fascist government could become an ally of the Soviet Union and could adopt a socialist government.

    The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, therefore, were not so much aimed at the Japanese fascists as they were aimed at the Soviet communists.

    https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/07/atomic-bombing-japan-not-necessary/

  • Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights

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  • But, ironically, it is expected to disenfranchise significantly more republicans

    This seems more like a hypothesis of yours rather than a well-understood expectation. Let me get this straight: you think the SAVE act is going to protect voting rights of previously-disenfranchised voters? That seems unlikely, and i dont think many share your theory.

    And... Brown People(TM) have been getting their papers in order for years.

    What do you mean by this? Are you saying people of color are unique positioned to gain from the SAVE act? Why do you think this?

    More than 3.8 million adult U.S. citizens lack any form of citizenship documents, such as a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers, according to UMD's Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement.

    This is a critical issue among people of color. Three percent said they had no document at all, compared to 1% of white citizens.

    Another 11% of people of color, or some 8.4 million people, cannot readily access citizenship documents compared to 8% of white Americans.

    The issue cuts across political affiliation, too. Independents were more likely than Democrats and Republicans to lack citizenship documents or not have ready access to them.

    Young people, aged 18 to 24, are also less likely to have access. Many young people may not know where their birth certificate is stored or it may be in another location, another state, with parents or other family members, the center's analysis suggested.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-save-america-act-would-make-major-changes-to-voting

    In short, it seems like youre shrugging off this issue to "they'll never achieve this" at a time when it is increasingly clear that the right has the power to do pretty much whatever they want - most often successfully.

  • ❗️BREAKING: Iran attacked a US navy destroyer

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  • Lol nice emote, I totally forgot about that guy.

  • US, Israel 'Going Gaza on Iran' as Death Toll Tops 500 Amid New Massacres

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  • Your apparent claim that a Democrat president would have invaded Iran.

    Do show me where I made this claim.

  • US, Israel 'Going Gaza on Iran' as Death Toll Tops 500 Amid New Massacres

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  • That is an unverifiable, unfalsifiable non sequitur that has nothing to do with the fact that American meddling and plunder in the Middle East enjoys bipartisan support. When it comes to the Middle East, yes: both sides are the same.

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    World’s largest sovereign wealth fund exits Caterpillar and five banks on Israel concerns

    www.cnbc.com /2025/08/26/norways-giant-wealth-fund-exits-six-firms-on-israel-concerns.html
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    Easiest way to automate a VPN refresh?

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Food fight

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