Both of these possibilities could be true, of course.

The latter theory also is how I believe Trump was persuaded to start military action against Iran. But I think it is also highly likely that the Israelis have dirt on Trump via Epstein, who had ties with Mossad and frequently fraternized with top-ranking Israeli officials.

However, to leak this information publicly could cause some major blowback, given how unpredictable a cornered Trump would be. It's easy to imagine him going on a live newsfeed and start throwing all kinds of people under the bus if he thought he had nothing left to lose.

This is only true for those who have been mainlining Western liberal news media for the past decade. Just sayin'.

(And before anyone says anything -- We can go back and forth about exactly how much blame lies at the hands of Russia, but someone around here needs to acknowledge that 1) cheerleading on behalf of the military-industrial complex is gross in any form, and 2) you're being fooled if you think that no other country contributed to Russia's decision to invade Ukraine, to even a slight degree).

The format actually has a lot of benefits - it supports transparency, animation, and compresses very efficiently. So it could theoretically replace GIF, JPG, and PNG in one fell swoop.

The downsides are that many apps don't currently support it and that it's owned by Google.

Personally I use webp for images that are not intended to share (e.g. banners and images on my blog), but stick to JPG/PNG for sending to other people.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

from Cory Doctorow's article on 'enshittification', which has become mandatory reading.

The Dev's stubbornness about captchas is a little baffling. Yes, they're not 100% foolproof but they help.

It's like arguing that we shouldn't have locks on or our doors because a skilled lock picker can get past them.

English teacher here. Articles in English can be really confusing but essentially we use the definite article in this situation because:

• Uniqueness: In most situations, there's only one mirror in a room or a home that's readily available for someone to look into.
• Generality: Similar to "going to the bathroom," "look in the mirror" refers to the general act of using a mirror to see oneself, not interacting with any specific mirror.

Say thanks to the lemmy.world admin team for fixing issues with the Lemmy code and sorting out the load balancing for their instance.

https://lemmy.world/post/1061471

I also wonder whether or not grapheneos, or open source Linux OSs in general, will face any repercussions for failing to comply to these regulations due to the relatively low user count.

You should report any unsavory comments to the moderators of the community they appear in.

If you're being targeted or harassed through DMs, contact the instance admin directly.

Tbh I thought the admins of Lemmy.World were being overzealous when they preemptively defederated from HexBear before we even had a chance to see what federating with them would be like, but from where it stands now I think they made the right call. It doesn't seem like anything of value was lost.

Despite apparent assurances from the HB admin team that their users are to be on their best behavior outside of their echo chamber, it seems they just can't help themselves.

The Thai government never asked for Elon's help - he volunteered following a tweet by a twitter user who suggested that he help.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44779998

Also, his solution was never viable to begin with - the rescue organizers said straight away that the submersible would be useless in the cave environment.

Sadly, this headline seems to be misleading. Checking for additional sources, I can find none that confirm that he actually called for a ceasefire.

According to the Associated Press, he did decry the loss of life in Gaza and announce that the US are about to commence airdrops of humanitarian aid, but at no point did he seem to do what this headline implies.

A Reuters article covering the same conference mentions the possibility of a ceasefire, but this apparently referred to a previous conversation a few days ago.

Unless anyone can find evidence to the contrary, I have to assume that this Newshub article is clickbait.

Same here.

After the infamous AMA, I made a post in my subreddit basically saying "peace out, I'm off to Lemmy. Good luck, everyone." Lucky for them, I'd set up a pretty robust automoderator over the years so that's still taking care of the majority of the moderating tasks I'd imagine.

I visited that post today and saw over 500 comments, each one by a mod and each one of them angry. Why they're still there, I have no idea.

They didn't.

https://lemmy.ml/c/Ukraine is still up.

What seems to have happened is that the admin from lemmy.world removed that community from lemmy.world due to rule violations. You can see this in the public modlog.

People shouldn't be jumping to conclusions since we don't know the specifics.

Edit: clarification

Thanks, I couldn't find that part anywhere.

I'm personally not sure that saying "We're trying to work out ... an immediate ceasefire" has nearly the same urgency as as calling for one, but hey at least it's something.

Gnome + Dash to Dock + Arc Menu. Nothing too crazy.

Meanwhile, the US market keeps pumping out oversized, overpriced EVs all while the manufacturers complain about lukewarm consumer demand.

I'm no great fan of Hillary Clinton, but she gave a hell of an opening statement:

Transcript here

And to this bit

Mr. Chairman, your investigation is supposed to be assessing the federal government’s handling of the investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes. You subpoenaed eight law enforcement officials, all of whom ran the Department of Justice or directed the FBI when Epstein’s crimes were investigated and prosecuted. Of those eight, only one appeared before the Committee. Five of the six former attorneys general were allowed to submit brief statements stating they had no information to provide.

You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.

You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files. And when you did, not a single Republican Member showed up for Les Wexner’s deposition.

This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors, as well as the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter. My heart breaks for the survivors. And I am furious on their behalf.

I have to say fookin' aye.

Bold talk from the nation that eats cheese from a spray can.

"We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing."