I don’t know if this would be regime change or just destroying the nuclear stuff.

My guess would be the nuclear stuff. Hard to do regime change from the air.

Maybe this would be a good year for people in Japan to try out some exotic foreign cuisines based on other staple foods. Millet, wheat, corn, cassava, barley, etc.

Probably because it provides a battle damage assessment.

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

Bomb damage assessment (BDA), also known as battle damage assessment, is the practice of assessing damage inflicted on a target from a stand-off weapon, most typically a bomb or air launched missile. It is part of the larger discipline of combat assessment. Assessment is performed using many techniques including footage from in-weapon cameras, gun cameras, forces on the ground near the target, satellite imagery and follow-up visits to the target. Preventing information on battle damage reaching the enemy is a key objective of military censorship.

If you had the wedding photos in question professionally taken, it might be that the photographer, if they’re still around, might have copies. I don’t know whether they retain copies, but I suppose asking can’t hurt.

This place says up to a year:

https://www.wanderlustportraits.com/how-long-photographers-keep-photos/

Photographers typically keep photos of their clients for a minimum of 90 days and up to a full year as part of standard practice; however, if this is important to you, review the contract and ask your professional.

This guy says forever:

https://old.reddit.com/r/WeddingPhotography/comments/96ckow/how_long_do_you_hold_on_past_wedding_photos/

I keep ALL files on two 16tb drives drives. Those drives never get wiped and I will always keep two copies even when they fill up. One internal on sata for reference and one off site. When I first started shouting, I was cheap and deleted RAWs and just kept high res jpegs. I have clients coming back for albums and I am stuck re-editing the jpegs to match in the albums. Lesson learned. If you do want to consolidate, then keep the RAWs of the editor we jpegs and delete the unused. But that’s more hassle than the cost to store unused raws. You can also rely on cloud source but you never know if you’ll ever switch cloud servers or move onto another business on want to stop paying cloud fees. For the high volume photographers it becomes wise to invest in tape drives. HDD have lives of 10 years. So eventually all those old drives will need to be transferred to newer drives. Budget this into your bottom line

I was consolidating data from multiple old drives before a major move—drives I had to discard due to space and relocation constraints. The plan was simple: upload to OneDrive, then transfer to a new drive later.

I’m assuming that the reason that he didn’t just do the transfer to a new drive instead of to OneDrive (which seems like it’d be more-straightforward) is because the new drive was going to also be a system disk, not just hold his data.

I think that it would have been a good idea to get a second new drive and have done that transfer just so that there’s a backup. I mean, it doesn’t really sound like the user was planning to wind up with a backup of his data, or for that matter, that he had a backup to start with.

Maybe OneDrive locking the account was unexpected, but drives can fail or be inadvertently erased or whatever. If you’ve got thirty years of irreplaceable data that you really badly want to keep, I’d want to have more than one copy of it. The cost of a drive to store it is not large compared to the cost involved in producing said data.

Through his online pseudonym, “White Tiger,” the suspect preyed on desperate children in online forums, including those discussing suicide, dpa reported. Investigators believe he exploited their vulnerabilities, forcing them to create pornographic and violent recordings where they injured themselves to the point of bleeding during live chats.

The man made recordings of the acts to keep as trophies, investigators said, and used them as leverage against the victims by threatening to publish them unless the children committed even more self-harm on camera.

The man is suspected of committing 120 crimes against eight victims, ages 11 to 15, who were from Germany, England, Canada and the U.S. Another of the victims, a 14-year-old Canadian girl, attempted to take her own life.

I don’t want to make any definitive statements until all the facts are in, but White Tiger seems like a bit of a dick.

Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn’t do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn’t see anti-immigrant sentiment.

Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, “Looking Backward”:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

Caption:

They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

Hmm.

Maybe they’re trying to do LLM-generated articles and are screwing up?

Problem is, some of the text doesn’t seem like something that an AI would come up with. I mean, I can get minor errors, but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?

checks

It’s dated June 17, so it’s not an April Fool’s Day article.

EDIT: I was gonna say that Linux Journal has been around for a while, and I’ve seen material from them over the years, so they should be reputable. It does look like they were purchased a couple years ago…but by Slashdot, of all places.

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

Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.[1] In December 2006 the publisher changed to Belltown Media, Inc. in Houston, Texas. Since 2017, the publisher was Linux Journal, LLC. located in Denver, Colorado. The magazine focused specifically on Linux, allowing the content to be a highly specialized source of information for open source enthusiasts.[2] The magazine was published from March 1994 to August 2019, over 25 years,[3][4] before being bought by Slashdot Media in 2020.[5]

I wouldn’t expect Slashdot to be putting out incorrect material either.

shrugs

Maybe the site was compromised and someone decided to put up a joke article?

The article says that it’s most-likely just rhetoric from Iran.

Strait Of Hormuz: High Stakes, Low Odds

Hard-line media and several officials have again raised the possibility of closing the Strait of Hormuz – a move that would threaten nearly a fifth of the world’s oil supply. But Gregory Brew, a senior Iran and oil analyst at the New York-based Eurasia Group, says it’s a threat Tehran is unlikely to carry out.

“Closing the strait is Iran’s last big card to play,” Brew told RFE/RL. “It has the means of essentially blockading the waterway…by deploying short-range ballistic missiles, naval vessels, and mines.”

But attempting to blockade the strategic strait would have major ramifications, such as “immediately” triggering a response from the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

“If war with Israel is proving very damaging, war with the US (and the GCC) would be much worse,” Brew said.

I have ad blockers on, so I wouldn’t know if it was. The same user also submitted a similar article on the same domain that looks like it’s been mangled by an LLM that’s a copy of a real article, like this submission. My guess that I put in a comment there was that maybe the aim is to get a bunch of links on link aggregators to the domain to boost its ranking, that the aim is maybe not spamming us but trying to exploit our reputability to spam search engine users down the line. Otherwise, why not have a “news-sounding” domain? Like, this is a domain name you’d choose if you were trying to spam people trying to buy something.

I think that this is some kind of badly AI-processed article, same as another article on the same site that the same user just also submitted:

https://lemmy.world/post/31432127

This appears to be the original article being copied here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lk55l9wpgo

The submitting user account is a day old.

I’m wondering if the aim might be some kind of SEO spam targeting search engines, getting link aggregators linking to the site a lot of times to boost the domain’s ranking.

It’s used through the whole article, not a one-off typo.

This appears to be the original BBC article that is being copied:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7808xvv737o

I can only imagine that it’s some kind of AI summarizer gone badly wrong. Or maybe the thing got passed through an automatic translator to another language and then back.

The text reads like a kind of mangled version of the original.

“Findmystore.one”?

I mean, if they fine the kid, realistically the parent is probably paying it anyway.

it’s insane that a unit can be a measurement of mass in one case and a measurement of purity in another

The pound is a unit of mass, of force, and of currency.

Iran’s supplied Russia with weapons to use against Ukraine, was caught trying to assassinate Trump, supplied weapons to the Houthis to use against merchant shipping and our warships, and that’s before you get to the nuclear weapons issue. Not only do I not expect us to discourage Israel from bombing Iran, but I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if we wind up bombing Iran ourselves.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/30/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-bombing

“If they don’t make a deal there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker during a phone interview.

Trump gave Iran a two-month deadline to sign a new nuclear deal or face potential military action in his letter, sent three weeks ago, Axios previously reported.

In recent days, the U.S. military sent several B-2 stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean in a deployment a U.S. official said was “not disconnected” from Trump’s two-month deadline.

The B-2 bombers can carry huge bunker buster bombs that would be a key element in any possible military action against Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.

If you only care about folding Markdown, as in your animation, I’m sure that there are Markdown-specific editors that do that.

If you want folding across a wide variety of languages, then I think that your choices are going to be more-limited, since those editors need to be able to parse those languages. Vim and Emacs are kinda the Big Two general-purpose editors, and they’re gonna have the widest support.

EDIT: For specifically programming languages, a number of IDEs can probably do it.

Here’s Eclipse, for example.

EDIT2:

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

This has a “text folding” and “code folding” column.

The State Department is preparing to order the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad due to the potential for regional unrest, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The Baghdad embassy has already been on limited staffing, and the order will not affect a large number of personnel, but the department also is authorizing the departure of nonessential personnel and family members from Bahrain and Kuwait.

Note that we don’t have diplomatic relations with Iran, so in the event of a military conflict with Iran, there wouldn’t be anyone to evacuate there, just in nearby countries.

The last time I used a commercial VPS, I’m pretty sure it used VNC to provide console access.

The VNC software I linked to above appears to support TLS. If TLS isn’t sufficient transport security, then most Internet-using software is going to be in trouble.

I’m not sure what you mean by subjective.

I haven’t looked at the VNC protocol for a while, but I don’t think that it imposes any terrible inefficiencies. A couple of decades back, I needed to implement something quick-and-dirty similar to VNC, and went with rendering window contents and handling dragging of windows locally, which I don’t believe that VNC can do (or didn’t then) but IIRC VNC has a tile cache, which, if intelligently used, should avoid most traffic. Dunno if it can deal well with efficiently rendering visual effects.