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  • Explosion at explosives plant in TN

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  • While this is an explosives manufacturing plant in the US that just exploded --- I saw the story on !news@lemmy.world --- I’m cross-posting it here as apparently they produced filler for 155 mm shells. If it turns out that this is sabotage from Russian intelligence, as with the explosions in Czechia some time back, this will obviously have some substantial implications for the Ukraine situation.

    EDIT: https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges

    Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.

  • Explosion at explosives plant in TN

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  • While this is an explosives manufacturing plant in the US that just exploded --- I saw it on !news@lemmy.world --- I'm cross-posting it here as apparently they produced filler for 155 mm shells. If it turns out that this is sabotage from Russian intelligence, as with the explosions in Czechia some time back, this will obviously have some substantial implications for the Ukraine situation.

    EDIT: https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges

    Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.

  • Explosion at explosives plant in TN

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  • Be interesting to see whether they manufactured stuff going to Ukraine. If it turns out that this is Russian intelligence, this has considerable shitstorm potential.

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

    The Black Tom explosion was an act of arson by field agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were about to be shipped to the Allies during World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding hundreds more.[1] It also caused damage of military goods worth some $20,000,000 ($580 million in 2024 dollars).[2][3] This incident, which happened prior to U.S. entry into World War I, also damaged the Statue of Liberty.[4] It is one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history.

    This attack was one of many during the German sabotage campaign against the neutral United States, and it is notable for its contribution to the shift of public opinion against Germany, which eventually resulted in American approval for participating with World War I.[4]

    They appear to make military explosives.

    TRINITROTOLUENE (TNT): A VERSATILE ENERGETIC COMPOUND

    At Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), we specialize in the manufacture and supply of Trinitrotoluene, commonly known as TNT. Renowned for its stability and reliability, TNT is one of the most widely used explosives in both military and commercial sectors. Our high-quality TNT formulations meet stringent safety and performance standards, making them ideal for a variety of applications, from demolition to munitions.

    TNT'S ROLE IN AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE

    TNT has been a staple in the aerospace and defense industries due to its excellent balance of explosive power and safety. It is frequently used in munitions such as artillery shells, bombs, and grenades. At AES, we provide pure TNT as well as advanced compositions, including Tritonal and Torpex, which combine TNT with other materials to enhance blast effects and performance characteristics.

    looks further

    Yup. They made 155 mm artillery shell filler.

    https://www.aesys.biz/supplementary-charges

    Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC (AES), a prime contractor to the US Government, specializes in the production of high-grade supplementary charges for military applications. Our extensive experience and advanced manufacturing capabilities allow us to supply top-quality explosive products, including TNT and PBXN-9 Supplementary Charges, primarily used in 155 mm artillery systems.

    EDIT2: I'm going to cross-post this to a few other potentially-relevant communities.

    EDIT3: Cross-posted to !ukraine@sopuli.xyz and !europe@feddit.org. Note that Russian intelligence did blow up munitions storage depots back in 2014 in Czechia that were being used to ship munitions to Ukraine, but if this is them hitting a production facility in the US, it'd be a pretty serious expansion.

  • MIT is 1st school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits

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  • "With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WithDueRespect

    With Due Respect

    "Why is it that whenever someone says 'with all due respect', they really mean 'kiss my ass'?"

    — Ashley Williams, Mass Effect 1

  • Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

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  • Currently near the top of !nottheonion@lemmy.world:

    Alabama senator wants anyone practicing sharia law immediately deported.

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

    Sharia is a main source of Qatari legislation, according to Qatar's constitution.[7][8] Sharia is applied to statutes pertaining to family law, inheritance, and several criminal acts (including adultery, robbery and murder). In some cases in Sharia-based family courts, a woman's testimony is worth half a man's and in some cases a female and male testimony is not accepted at all if the witness is not deemed reliable.

    https://patch.com/idaho/boise/idaho-most-hateful-state-us-analysis-hate-map-shows

    Idaho Most Hateful State In US, Analysis Of Hate Map Shows

    The Southern Poverty Law Center's 2018 Hate Map shows growth in alt-right white supremacy and anti-Muslim groups.

    I can but imagine the delightful interactions to come.

    EDIT: Well, maybe the people in question will stay on-base. Germany had some facility at another USAF base that they used for training that IIRC they shut down due to military spending cuts a few years back. I dunno if the people there stayed on-base or what. If you figure that Qatar will probably do something similar, maybe give some idea of the model.

    kagis

    A facility at Holloman AFB, in New Mexico. Germany closed their facility in 2019, and another at Fort Bliss, from said military funding cuts.

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

    In March 2013, it was announced that German Air Force units at Fort Bliss will transfer to Holloman later that same year; this was to end the German Air Force presence at Fort Bliss dating back to 1956.[19] In 2015, due to funding constraints on the planned new facilities in Europe, the German Air Force Air Defense school was to stay open at Fort Bliss until 2020.[20] On March 13, 2019, after 27 years in southern New Mexico, the German Luftwaffe ceased flight training at Holloman AFB.[3]

  • Afghanistan restricts access to social media on smartphones

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  • The apps don't do anything useful if the government blocks connectivity to the servers that the software needs to talk to at the national network infrastructure level.

  • Are European & US car makers staring death in the face? 18 of the Top 20 EVs sold worldwide in August 2025 were Chinese.

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  • The concern is probably going to be that if Chinese manufacturers ramp up in scale, whereas manufacturers in the US and in the EU do not, Chinese manufacturers will enjoy economies of scale that will make it hard for other auto manufacturers to compete with them. What matters there is going to be in significant part global sales.

    kagis

    https://www.accio.com/business/top-selling-ev-companies

    Global electric vehicle (EV) sales surged by 28% year-over-year (YoY) in the first half of 2025, reaching 9.1 million units. China dominated with 5.5 million sales (+32% YoY), while Europe followed with 2 million (+26% YoY). The U.S., however, lagged with only 0.9 million sales (+3% YoY) due to tariff challenges and expiring incentives

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    Which Lemmy instance is better to move to?

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  • If you want a more-politically-censored environment, I guess you could try beehaw.org. They tend to enforce positivity and restrict some political stuff and are into creating a "safe space".

    We want to explicitly make a nice little corner of the internet where we can hide from racist, sexist, ableist, colonialist, homophobic, transphobic, and other forms of hateful speech. We want a space where people encourage each other, are nice to each other, are supportive and exploratory and playful.

    It's not really what I'm looking for in a home instance, and there's a limited amount of activity there, but I'll give that they seem to have a userbase that seems less suicidally-depressed than some other home instances on the Threadiverse. Note that they have defederated from lemmy.world, as they don't feel that it fits with their policies, so you'll have more-limited access to content than on most home instances. Also, I remember seeing that they were considering moving to some non-Lemmy platform (Pleroma? Can't remember), so if you specifically want Lemmy, that might not work for you if they do such a move.

    EDIT: If you take your requirements literally, I think that you're going to have a hard time finding an existing instance that will fulfill all of them. Beehaw.org might be closer, but it's just not going to get you that far. Like, you said that you want an instance with no libertarians. I lean right-libertarian, so any instance that I could use would already be violating your requirements. I think that such an instance would probably need to require users to up-front state their political views at registration time so that that information would be available, disallow users with banned political views from access, and only federate with a small, whitelisted set of instances. The closest thing to that, where I think you have admin-level policing of political views, is probably on the tankie-oriented instances, and you've also said that you object to tankies.

    You could set up an instance yourself and only federate with a carefully-curated set of instances that have similar instance and federation rules. But that's also going to obviously seriously limit the content available. Maybe hit !newcommunities@lemmy.world and try to promote it to any like-minded users.

  • What Anime have good Openings/Endings?

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  • Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

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  • If you're confident that a given company is overvalued by existing investors, you can sell it short, make money off that assessment.

    That being said, if you're wrong, you can lose money doing the same.

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • That depends on how you define the web

    Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

    The Gopher protocol (/ˈɡoʊfər/ ⓘ) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.[1]

    gopher.floodgap.com is one of the last running Gopher servers, was the one that I usually used as a starting point when firing up a gopher client. It has a Web gateway up:

    https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/

    Gopher is a well-known information access protocol that predates the World Wide Web, developed at the University of Minnesota during the early 1990s. What is Gopher? (Gopher-hosted, via the Public Proxy)

    This proxy is for Gopher resources only -- using it to access websites won't work and is logged!

  • NSFW

    Black Man found hanging in New Mexico

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  • In the US, gun is the most-common route.

    kagis

    https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html

    This says 55.33% of suicides in the US are with a firearm.

    I once went digging through death statistics on suicides. In Japan, firearms are hard to get, but there are tall buildings all over. Firearms deaths are down, but deaths by falling are way up.

    It's very much a locational thing.

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • I questioned Reddit doing so, and now we've got it on the Threadiverse. There are privacy issues unless your home instance is proxying images for you.

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • How many of you out there are browsing the web using Gofer?

    Gopher predated the Web.

    I do agree that there have been pretty major changes in the way websites worked, though. I'm not hand-coding pages using a very light, Markdown-like syntax with <em></em>, <a href=""></a>, and <h1></h1> anymore, for example.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • It doesn’t work with private DNS servers or forward DNS over VPN.

    Like, you want to have it query some particular DNS server?

    From man 5 resolved.conf:

     
               DNS=
           A space-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to
           use as system DNS servers. 

           For compatibility reasons, if
           this setting is not specified, the DNS servers listed
           in /etc/resolv.conf are used instead, if that file
           exists and any servers are configured in it.

    If you specify your private server there, it should work. For VPN, I mean, whatever VPN software you're using will need to plonk it in there. Maybe yours is not aware of systemd-resolved, is modifying /etc/resolv.conf after systemd-resolved has already started, and it doesn't watch it for updates?

    In my /etc/nsswitch.conf, I have:

     
            hosts:          files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns

    I'm assuming that the "resolve" entry is for systemd-resolved.

    kagis

    https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2022/03/wireguard-dns-config-for-systemd/

    With systemd-resolved, however, instead of using that DNS setting, add the following PostUp command to the [Interface] section of your WireGuard config file:

     
            PostUp = resolvectl dns %i 9.9.9.9#dns.quad9.net 149.112.112.112#dns.quad9.net; resolvectl domain %i ~.

    When you start your WireGuard interface up, this command will direct systemd-resolved to use the DNS server at 9.9.9.9 (or at 149.112.112.112, if 9.9.9.9 is not available) to resolve queries for any domain name.

  • Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban

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  • Sounds like there's potential for even more political gains from even more political theater, then?

  • "there is nothing less than PERPETUAL PERSISTENT SPY-WARE BUILT INTO MY LINUX OS. I am referring to the HIDDEN FILES recently-used.xbel and thumbnails"

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  • It's been a long time, but IIRC Windows's file dialog also remembers your recently-used files for quick access in the file dialog, and I assume that Explorer has a thumbnail cache.

    It looks like GTK 3 has a toggle for recently-used files:

    https://linux.debian.user.narkive.com/m7SeBwTP/recently-used-xbel

    While the guy sounds kinda unhinged, I do think that he has a point --- he doesn't want activity dumping breadcrumbs everywhere, unbeknownst to him. That's a legit ask. Firefox and Chrome added Incognito and Private Browsing mode because they recorded a bunch of state about what you were doing for History, and that's awkward if it suddenly gets exposed. There should really be a straightforward way to globally disable this sort of thing, even if logged history can provide for convenient functionality.

    Emacs has a lot of functionality, but I don't think anything I use actually retains state. If emacs can manage that so can oyher stuff. Hmm. Oh, etags will store a cached TAGS file for a source tree.

    thinks

    Historically, bash defaulted to saving ~/.bash_history on disk. Don't recall if that changed at any point.

    There's ccache, which caches binary objects from gcc compilations persistently.

    Firefox can persistently cache data in the disk cache or for LocalStorage or cookies.

    System logfiles might record some data baout the system though they generally get rotated out.

    Most of the time though, I don't have a lot of recorded persistent state floating around.

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    What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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  • More Than Half of Russian Equipment Stockpile Gone. We're In The Endgame Now.

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  • I don't read much Russian media, but from what I've seen of Russian political cartoons and translated TV over the war, the "NATO is attacking us" thing is a theme.

    Some of it related to where Russia had made a blunder and had a poor military outcome. My guess is that it's maybe politically acceptable in Russia to lose a battle against NATO or something, but not against Ukraine, that the latter is a humilliation or something like that. After Ukraine did its Kursk offensive into Russia, I saw a bunch of material like that. Material all about how it must have been the US or UK who planned it. shrugs I was thinking "I'd be more worried about the actual offensive", but TV was more worried about establishing that Ukraine couldn't manage something like this.

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    What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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