Off-and-on trying out an account over at @[email protected] due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
If you can use Termux, you can use the command-line lftp, which supports SFTP; I use this on Linux, so I’m familiar with it.
$ pkg install lftp
$ lftp sftp://foo.com
I also use rsync in Termux after being exasperated over the lack of a reasonable F-Droid graphical client for that.
I wound up using some non-open-source graphical SCP or SFTP client out of the Google Play Store using Aurora Store’s anonymous login at one point, which worked but wasn’t what I wanted to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamenei_family
Assuming that Mojtaba Khamenei meets with an untimely demise in the near future, apparently there are two other sons after this: Mostafa Khamenei and Masoud Khamenei.
The only time the US has fought really serious carrier battles was in WW2. Those carriers also had oil-powered engines and were without catapults.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_sheephead
It is carnivorous, living in rocky reef and kelp bed habitats, feeding primarily on sea urchins, molluscs, and crustaceans.
I remember, years back, talking to some French guy who went to an American store in France with his girlfriend and tried Pop-Tarts, as he’d heard that a lot of Americans like them. He said “These are terrible! I can’t understand why anyone would eat these!”
I asked him whether he’d toasted them.
Apparently — I went and looked on the packaging — at the time, they didn’t actually tell you to toast them on the package. Just assumed that you know to do that via cultural diffusion or whatever. Looking on Amazon right now, they do apparently stick directions on the thing, so I assume that at some point, enough people ran into trouble with that that they fixed the issue.
It doesn’t sound like analog clock reading is quite dead, even if it’s in decline.
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/52878-younger-americans-hard-time-reading-clocks
Younger adults are much less likely than older Americans to be able to instantly read an analog clock. 95% of Americans 65 or older say they can instantly tell the time from the hour and minute hands, while only 43% of adults under 30 can. 78% of Americans with college degrees say they can instantly tell the time on an analog clock, compared to 68% of non-college graduates.
The concern is going to be attacks by Iran. One of Iran’s points of leverage is that it sits astride important maritime trade routes, so it can threaten to generally dick up global maritime trade to try to influence countries, and it has done so in this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
During 2023–2025, 20% of the world’s liquefied natural gas and 25% of seaborne oil trade passed through the strait annually. The strait had never been closed for extended time during Middle East conflicts (unlike the Straits of Tiran/Bab-el-Mandeb)[5] though Iran occasionally had threatened to close the strait,[6][7] and preparations to mine it have been undertaken.[8]
On 28 February 2026, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards began issuing VHF transmissions stating that ship passages through the Strait of Hormuz were “not allowed”, amid the 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, including the assassination of Iran’s leader.[9]
Iran confirmed Sunday that it had attacked an oil tanker for defying orders not to cross the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu reports.
A Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker was targeted by an Iranian remote-controlled boat laden with explosives while anchored near Iraq’s Khor al Zubair port, according to initial assessments. A second tanker at anchor off Kuwait was taking on water and spilling oil after a large explosion on its port side.
Nine vessels have come under attack since the conflict broke out between the U.S., Israel and Iran on Saturday. Iran launched a wave of missiles at Israel early on Thursday and also sent drones into Azerbaijan, injuring four people.
The escalation comes after a motion to halt the U.S. attacks was blocked in Washington and as the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader emerged as a frontrunner to succeed him, suggesting Tehran was not about to buckle under the pressure.
Around 200 ships, including oil and liquefied natural gas tankers as well as cargo ships, remained at anchor in open waters off the coast of major Gulf producers, according to Reuters estimates based on ship-tracking data from the MarineTraffic platform.
Hundreds of other vessels remained outside the Strait of Hormuz unable to reach ports, shipping data showed. The waterway is a key artery for around a fifth of the world’s oil and LNG supply.
President Donald Trump offered U.S. Navy escorts and insurance in a bid to restart shipping flows and curtail energy prices. Insurance market Lloyd’s of London said on Thursday it is engaging with the U.S. government on a plan.
My own personal guess is that saying “Chinese owner” or something like that on AIS isn’t going to have much impact, since whatever assessment Iran is doing before going after a ship probably is a little deeper than a quick skim of whatever AIS says, but I suppose that if you’re on a ship and plan to do a run through, you do whatever you can.
The EU isn’t a federation, not as of 2026.
I do kind of hope that someone lends the funds to cover it, though, and that Orbán loses next month and Hungary subsequently hands it back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar
In the autumn of 2022, Hamas began planning a surprise attack on Israel. Sinwar sought to convince Iran and Hezbollah to participate in the attack or in a broader conflict with Israel,[52][53] aiming to cause its ‘collapse’.[52] During one meeting, Sinwar acknowledged that such an attack would likely require sacrifices, probably referring to the people of Gaza.
Well. With Iran and Hezbollah now engaged, looks like Sinwar will ultimately achieve his broader conflict with involvement of Hezbollah and Iran. Just that now the US is directly involved.
I think that it is unlikely that the move will have been advantageous to Gazans.
We won’t. No need for it. We massively overmatch Iran in conventional capabilities.
I don’t have a specific service to recommend, but you might look at lowendbox.com, which specializes in listing inexpensive VPS services.
When the UK last year implemented a similar age verification system for adult sites, in the first week of it launching, four of the top five downloaded apps in the Apple app store were virtual private network (VPN) apps, with Proton reporting an 1,800% increase in downloads of its VPN app.
VPNs allow users to appear to sites that they’re in another location, which could bypass age check requirements in Australia.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&geo=AU&q=vpn&hl=en-US
I don’t have data on VPN signups in Australia, but I see that Google searches for VPNs have abruptly spiked among Australians.
EDIT: Might need to reload the page a few times if the graph doesn’t show up. It’s giving me an error about half the time.
How Flightradar24 became the go-to platform for the world to watch global aviation crises unfold
I tend to use ADSBExchange, as it has a convenient way to filter to show only military flights, which is nice for stuff like Ukraine.
It wouldn’t be effective, because it’s trivial to bypass. There are many ways one can do a DNS lookup elsewhere and get access to the response, as the information isn’t considered secret. Once you’ve done that, you can reach a host. And any Computer A participating in a DDoS such that Comptuer B can see the traffic from the DDoS has already resolved the domain name anyway.
It’s sometimes been used as a low-effort way for a network administrator to try to block Web browser users on that network from getting access to content, but it’s a really ineffective mechanism even for that. The only reason that I think it ever showed up is because it’s very easy to deploy in that role. Browsers often use DNS-over-HTTP to an outside server today rather than DNS, so it won’t even affect users of browsers doing that at all.
In general, if I can go to a website like this:
https://mxtoolbox.com/DNSLookup.aspx
And plonk in a hostname to get an IP address, I can then tell my system about that mapping so that it will never go to DNS again. On Linux and most Unixy systems, an easy way to do this would be in /etc/hosts:
5.78.97.5 lemmy.today
On Windows systems, the hosts file typically lives at C:\\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
EDIT: Oh, maybe I misunderstood. You don’t mean as a mechanism to block Computer A from reaching Computer B itself, but just as just a transport mechanism to hand information to routers? Like, have some way to trigger a router to do a DNS lookup for a given IP, the way we do a PTR lookup today to resolve an IP address to a hostname, but obtain blacklist information?
That’s a thought. I haven’t spent a lot of time on DNSSec, but it must have infrastructure to securely distribute information.
DNS is public — I don’t know if that would be problematic or not, to expose to the Internet at large the list of blacklists going to a given host. It would mean that it could be easier to troubleshoot problems, since if I can’t reach host X, I can check to see whether it’s because that host has requested that my traffic be blacklisted.
While I appreciate the thought, Zelensky, and the difficulty of dealing with Trump, I think that you’ve probably already got enough on your plate for any national leader and then some.
I’m not sure I agree with this theory, but you might find it interesting. The idea is that there’s periods of something like 10 to 40 years where things swing liberal, then conservative, then back to liberal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclical_theory
United States cycles
These are cycles first identified in the United States or are specific to United States politics.
Schlesingers’ liberal-conservative cycle
Historians Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and others have proposed that the United States has an alternation of national moods and tendencies between liberalism and conservatism.[2][3] Each phase has characteristic features, and each phase is self-limiting, eventually generating the other phase. This alternation has repeated itself several times over the history of the United States.
The Schlesingers proposed that their cycles are “self-generating”, meaning that each kind of phase generates the other kind of phase. This process then repeats, causing cycles. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. speculated on possible reasons for these transitions. He speculated that since liberal phases involve bursts of reform effort, such bursts can be exhausting, and the body politic thus needs the rest of a conservative phase. He also speculated that conservative phases accumulate unsolved social problems, problems that require the efforts of a liberal phase to solve them. He additionally speculated on generational effects, since most of the liberal-conservative phase pairs are roughly 30 years long, roughly the length of a human generation. The Schlesingers’ identified phases end in a conservative period. In a foreword written in 1999, Schlesinger Jr. speculated about why it has lasted unusually long, instead of ending in the early 1990s, from how long previous conservative periods typically lasted. One of his speculations was the continuing Computer Revolution, as disruptive as the earlier Industrial Revolution had been. Another of them was wanting a long rest after major national traumas. The 1860s Civil War and Reconstruction preceded the unusually-long Gilded Age, and the strife of the 1960s likewise preceded the recent unusually-long conservative period.[3]
Based on your current cabinet composition, and the turnover in your last cabinet, I’m not convinced that you’re all that great at selecting people for positions, Trump.
Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press.
I haven’t been following the whole Turkey thing, but this is the sort of thing that I’d imagine would get the Turkish government twitchy, since they’ve traditionally been worried about an independent Kurdistan showing up, as part of that would likely overlap with part of Turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan
Kurdish areas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election
Significant differences have been noted by the Hungarian media in the numbers produced by different polling companies.[23][24][25] In January 2026, political scientist Gábor Török observed that the large differences between government- and non-government-affiliated pollsters was a new phenomenon in Hungarian politics. He suggested that the differences as they stood a few months out from the election were “unexplainable on research grounds”.[26]
Government-aligned:
Independent/opposition-aligned:
Interesting.
New York City is a port city. It has an effectively infinite supply of salt water, which you can use for evaporative cooling, albeit with some extra complications.
EDIT: Hell, you can use the waste energy from an evaporative cooler to drive a distiller to generate fresh water from some of the evaporated salt water, if you want. Microsoft is doing that combined datacenter-nuclear-power-plant thing. IIRC, if I’m not combining two different cases of an AI datacenter using full output of a power plant, they have the entire output of a nuclear power plant never touching the grid (and thus avoiding any transmission cost overhead and as a bonus, avoiding regulatory requirements attached to transmission and distribution from power generation):
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/re-opened-three-mile-island-will-power-ai-data-centers-under-new-deal/
From past reading, desalination from reverse osmosis has wound up being somewhat cheaper than via using distillation, but combined generation-distillation using waste heat is a thing. IIRC Spain has some company that does combined generation-distillation facilities.
And in a case like that, you have the waste heat from generation and the waste heat from use all in one spot, so you’ve got a lot of water vapor to condense.
EDIT2: Yeah, apparently distillation used to be ahead for desalination, but reverse osmosis processes improved, and currently hold the lead:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359431124026292