Crossposted from a community manager's post: https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hwd6u7/join_mozilla_to_test_the_new_firefox_address_bar/

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Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York’s hush money case, scheduled for Friday.

Trump’s legal team argues presidential immunity, citing a recent Supreme Court ruling shielding certain official acts from prosecution, though it excludes personal actions.

Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony counts for falsifying records tied to hush money payments during the 2016 election.

A New York judge ruled that immunity does not apply until Trump is sworn in.

Prosecutors must respond by Thursday morning.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24028684

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I'm here to address some FUD and questions from people who think Plebbit won’t succeed. Let’s talk about why peer-to-peer is better than all those other social media platforms

list of reason why P2P is better than:

1. mastodon / lemmy / activitypub

• Instance admins can delete user accounts and communities. Instance admins can block other instances. It's too difficult to run your own instance, you need to buy a domain name, server, DDOS protection, set up SSL, etc.
• No mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

2. bluesky

• Bluesky instances cannot delete user accounts and communities (as long as they are backed up somewhere else), but they can block user accounts and communities. Since running your own instance is difficult, your user account and community will be blocked most of the time and you won't be able to reach your users.
• No mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

3. nostr

• Bluesky instances cannot delete user accounts and communities (as long as they are backed up somewhere else), but they can block user accounts and communities. Since running your own instance is difficult, your user account and community will be blocked most of the time and you won't be able to reach your users.
• No mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

4. farcaster

• Hubs cannot delete user accounts and communities (as long as they are backed up somewhere else), but they can block user accounts and communities. Since running your own hub is difficult (long sync time, lots of bandwidth/storage/ram), your user account and community will be blocked most of the time and you won't be able to reach your users.
• Hubs in general cannot scale infinitely as they keep growing forever, like a blockchain.
• Must pay $5 on optimism to be able to post, most users don't want to pay. Also can be censored by the optimism RPC or USDC.
• No mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

5. steemit

• Blockchain RPCs cannot delete user accounts and communities (as long as they are backed up somewhere else), but they can block user accounts and communities. Since running your own blockchain node is difficult (long sync time, lots of bandwidth/storage/ram), your user account and community will be blocked most of the time and you won't be able to reach your users.
• Blockchains in general cannot scale infinitely as they keep growing forever.
• Must pay blockchain transaction fees to post, most users don't want to pay.
• No mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

plebbit solves each problem:

• instances/hubs/rpcs cannot block a user account or community, because there are no instances, it's directly peer to peer. a community node can be run from home on consumer internet, no server, domain name, SSL, sync time, etc. it's as easy as running a bittorrent client.
• it can scale infinitely because there are no historical ledger like a blockchain or hub, it's like bittorrent, if a community no longer has any seeds, it stops existing. (this is also a downside of plebbit, but scaling is more important, not scaling makes the system useless)
• it has no cost to publish, like bittorrent, because is has no historical ledger that each node must sync. users seed their communities for free while they use it, like bittorrent.
• a community node can communicate a challenge to a user to post to his community (like a minimum user account age, or karma, or a captcha, whitelist, etc), because it's directly peer to peer, the community node is the instance, so it can gatekeep it however it wants. (this is also a downside of plebbit, a community node must be online 24/7, but it's also possible to delegate running a node to an RPC/instance/hub, you just lose some censorship resistance, so it's not inferior in this regards, it's strictly superior because of the optionality).

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https://t.me/supernova_plus/35079

https://t.me/Thelifeofthefree/9679

Palestinian officials said two children were among three people killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank on Wednesday which the military said targeted militants.

Ahmad Asaad, governor of the northern West Bank city of Tubas, told AFP that the strike hit nearby Tammun village, killing a 23-year-old man and two children, aged eight and 10, all from the same family.

The Palestinian foreign ministry in Ramallah condemned the deadly strike, accusing Israel of harming civilians "under the pretext" of fighting militants.

The Israeli military said the air force "struck a terrorist cell" in the Tammun area.

The Tubas governor said Israeli forces, which have operated in Tammun in recent days, took the bodies of the three Palestinians killed.

They later handed them back, the Red Crescent said.

The governor identified the dead as Adam Bsharat, 23, Hamza Bsharat, 10, and Reda Bsharat, eight.

He said they were killed in front of their house, which an AFP journalist said was damaged by shrapnel.

Relative Jalal Bsharat said they had been at home when "the Israeli occupation army targeted them".

He said the strike showed Palestinians are not safe, even in their own homes.

Tens of thousands of people fled their homes near Los Angeles on Wednesday as three out-of-control wildfires fuelled by hurricane-force winds tore through the city's suburbs, destroying dozens of houses.

At least one firefighter was injured battling a blaze near the upmarket Pacific Palisades neighborhood, US media said, with reports of several other people having suffered burns.

Vicious gusts fanned the flames, whipping red-hot embers hundreds of meters (yards), sparking new spot fires faster than helpless firefighters could quell them.

As dawn broke, a vast pall of smoke was visible over Los Angeles, with the acrid tang of burning in the air.

City mayor Karen Bass warned that the "windstorm is expected to worsen through the morning" in a post on X early Wednesday.

Some firefighters were facing water shortages at hydrants in the Palisades, the Los Angeles Times reported, in a fire that has so far consumed almost 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares).

At the 2,200-acre Eaton fire around Altadena, north of Los Angeles, an AFP journalist saw emergency workers rushing elderly patients in wheelchairs out of their care facility.

A third fire was burning around Santa Clarita.

The blaze at Pacific Palisades has already claimed dozens of homes in one of California's most desirable spots, where Hollywood celebrities are among those who live in mutli-million dollar houses.

The fire came as the area was being hit by seasonal Santa Ana winds that forecasters said could develop into the worst windstorm in a decade, with gusts of up to 100 miles (160 kilometers) an hour.

"This looks pretty concerning," said meteorologist Daniel Swain.

Wildfires are part of life in the US West and play a vital role in nature. But scientists say human-caused climate change is altering weather patterns.

Southern California had two decades of drought that were followed by two exceptionally wet years, which sparked furious vegetative growth -- leaving the region packed with fuel and primed to burn.

• A Freelance Vigilante: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. The Future of Militias: He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and government attorneys. Experts say that militias could have a renaissance under Donald Trump. A Secret Trove: He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The conversations that he secretly recorded give a unique, startling window into the militia movement

• The Future of Militias: He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and government attorneys. Experts say that militias could have a renaissance under Donald Trump.

• A Secret Trove: He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The conversations that he secretly recorded give a unique, startling window into the militia movement.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250108121022/https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

I domini dimenticati stanno diventando l'arma segreta dei criminali informatici per aggirare la sicurezza della posta elettronica!

Alcuni cybercriminali stanno rilanciando domini vecchi di decenni che non dispongono di misure di sicurezza di base per inviare e-mail di phishing. Queste tattiche ingannano anche sistemi avanzati come SPF e DMARC.

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@informatica

The United Nations voiced alarm Wednesday at a recent surge in alleged Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, saying it had verified 68 cases since the start of the war.

"I call on the Russian authorities to halt the summary executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war," Nada Al-Nashif, the deputy UN rights chief told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

"Summary executions constitute a war crime," she said, urging Russia to "condemn such acts, and to prosecute those responsible".

Presenting a report on developments in the war-torn country between September and November last year, Al-Nashif said she was "deeply concerned by a significant increase in credible allegations of executions of Ukrainian military personnel captured by Russian armed forces".

The UN rights office, she said, had recorded 62 alleged executions of Ukrainian PoWs in 19 separate incidents during the period, including five so far that it had managed to verify.

Overall, since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, the office had "verified the execution of 68 Ukrainian service personnel captured by Russian armed forces".

Over that period, the office had also verified the summary execution of 170 civilians in Russia-controlled areas, including in places of detention, she added.

"Accountability for these killings is essential," Al-Nashif said. "Instead, there is almost total impunity".

She told the council that her office had also continued documenting "the torture of prisoners of war at the hands of both Russian and Ukrainian armed forces – a violation of international law".

Ukrainians held by Russian forces "described widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment, including severe beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, and prolonged solitary confinement", she said.

"Most reported being subjected to sexual violence, including rape and forced nudity."

Russian prisoners of war held by Ukraine had also complained of being subjected to "torture and ill-treatment", she said.

The Ukrainian abuse was not described as systematic, but she cited complaints of severe beatings, sexual violence and dog attacks, "mostly in places of transit before reaching official places of internment.

Travis Kelce scoffed at the notion that the Chiefs rested their starters in order to keep the Bengals out of the playoffs.