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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1452591/mozilla-has-escalated-its-fight-against-microsofts-relentless-edge-pop-ups

Crossposted from https://fedia.io/m/mbinReleases@gehirneimer.de/t/4440654

After quite some slow development, finally we can release a new version of Mbin. It contains new features for users, performance improvements and important security fixes.

Summary for Users

• Show who boosted content in the feed (Combined view + subscribed + newest)
• Add ability to block instances. Content from blocked instances will not show up in the feed and search anymore.
• Fix emoji autocomplete inserts 'null'
• Show a placeholder when an image embed could not be loaded
• Improve design of posts and comments in some areas of the site
• Fix endless loop when compressing uploaded images
• Fix layout when a comment contains a very wide table
• Bugfixes for some federation issues (handling of Mastodon posts with multiple images, embedded video formats, buggy mentions, etc.)
• Change layout of list of cross posts
• Fix the issue of browsers wanting to download a file when unsupported media files are used in an embed
• Add translation for Swedish (by Jonatan Nyberg)

Summary for Server Admins

• Minimum software requirements updated to PHP 8.5, Node 24 and Ubuntu 24.04 recommended
• Upgraded most of our dependencies. For more details see #2162
• Add ability to block instances globally.
• Instances blocked this way will be blocked for all current and new users. Users can unblock them manually afterward; thus allowing a "soft" way to moderate the content shown by default for your users. For more details see #2155
• Added the new queue async_slow for long-running tasks. If your async queue have gotten full often in the past, consider creating a separate messenger for async_slow.
• The sessions are now stored in Redis instead of Postgres. You need to enable persistence in your Redis server, if you want to keep open sessions on restarts of Redis.
• Fixed a couple of security vulnerabilities
  PostgreSQL autovacuum is tuned for high-churn tables

Summary for developers

Mbin:

• Minimum software requirements updated to PHP 8.5 and Node 24
• Upgraded most of our dependencies. For more details, including possible breaking package changes, see #2162

Fediverse:

Fix issue that to value might be an object instead of array in some edge-cases

Upgrade Instructions

There are significant changes in the DB. It is advised to create a DB backup before upgrading.

After the post-upgrade script has run, you should not clear Redis / Valkey.

For Docker

• Get the official image or checkout the code and build it locally
• Stop all containers docker compose down
• Start all containers docker compose up -d

For Bare Metal

• Ensure you have PHP 8.5 and Node 24 installed
• Login as the mbin/kbin user: su mbin
• Go to your repo cd /var/www/mbin
• Get the new release: git fetch && git checkout v1.11.0
• Run the update script: bash bin/post-upgrade
• Run exit so we are back at the root user (or put a sudo in front of every command)
• Clear your opcache by reloading php fpm systemctl restart php8.5-fpm
• Restart the messengers: supervisorctl restart messenger:*

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/us_politics@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/1018767/voters-in-midterm-elections-identify-a-culprit-for-rising-cost-of-living-trumps-ta

The breakdown produced by the National Taxpayers Union found the biggest effects in states and industries scattered throughout America.

Sectors hit hardest by tariffs in the top 10 states include automobiles and auto parts; steel, aluminum and other metals; clothes and shoes; and food and beverages.

For example, businesses in Michigan have paid an extra $23 billion on imports, largely cars and trucks. Meanwhile, the food and beverage sector was hit hardest in Florida, where importers have paid an extra $11 billion since Trump began implementing new tariffs in 2025 through Aug. 4, 2026, according to the conservative organization’s analysis that drew from Census Bureau import data.

Bryan Riley, director of the National Taxpayers Union’s free trade initiative, described Trump’s tariffs during his second term as “a very costly policy.”

“If you’re in a state like Georgia, big tariff costs are mainly because there’s a lot of auto manufacturing in Georgia, surprisingly to many people. And then that’s not going to be the case in New Mexico, which doesn’t have a lot of auto manufacturing, so (there are) less tariff costs and different categories hit in each state,” Riley said.

The analysis did not account for any court-mandated refunds the Trump administration must pay back after the Supreme Court deemed the president’s initial emergency tariffs illegal. Those refunds to businesses are not necessarily passed on to consumers.

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I'm not the artist, War and Peas is. Source

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52902946

And then it gets turned into milk https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/150579814

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1452786/target

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52894880

Yesterday ABC released an article detailing $6 billion in corrupt business dealings between trump's kids and the US government. 6 hours later this article was censored.

It has been removed from the front page, the reporter's page, and a direct link 404's. It has been completely removed from ABC's website. We are very lucky archive.is got there first.

Original article:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-sons-investments-won-billions-pentagon-contracts-election/story?id=137049598

Archive:
https://archive.is/0r8k8

Supporting articles that cite the original ABC report:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-brothers-pentagon-contracts

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-has-granted-6b-in-contracts-to-arms-makers-his-sons-have-invested-in/

The censorship of news sources is a major point of violence with this regime. Here is a recent article about ABC's ongoing problems with trump's personal censorship of their reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/06/disney-trump-abc-fcc

Che Guevara Executed (1967)

Mon Oct 09, 1967

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On this day in 1967, communist revolutionary Che Guevara was executed by CIA-assisted forces in Bolivia, where he had been attempting to foment revolution. His last words were "Shoot, you are only going to kill a man."

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

After serving in Castro's government, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia. While agitating for communist revolution in Bolivia, Guevara was captured by CIA-assisted state forces and summarily executed on this day in 1967.

On November 3rd, 1966, Guevara had secretly arrived in La Paz on a flight from Montevideo under the false name Adolfo Mena González, posing as a middle-aged Uruguayan businessman working for the Organization of American States (OAS). Once there, Guevara had difficulty getting cooperation from both local dissidents and the Bolivian Communist Party, despite besting the Bolivian military in several skirmishes.

To help crush the resistance movement, the Bolivian government and U.S. military relied on the expertise of fugitive Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, who had undermined the French Resistance and was responsible for the torture and murder of its leader, Jean Moulin.

Some of the inhabitants willingly informed the Bolivian authorities and military about the guerrillas and their movements in the area, which contributed to Guevara's capture on October 7th, 1967. He famously shouted "Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and I am worth more to you alive than dead!", however he remained defiant in captivity.

On October 9th, on orders from the Bolivian President René Barrientos, Guevara was executed. In the documentary "My Enemy's Enemy", German journalist Kai Hermann alleged that Barbie devised the strategy that led to Guevara's capture.

"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

- Che Guevara

• Date: 1967-10-09
• Learn More: nsarchive2.gwu.edu, en.wikipedia.org, www.thenation.com, www.marxists.org, www.theguardian.com.
• Tags: #Communism, #Marxism.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/us_politics@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/1018744/the-cost-of-drugs-from-canada-is-set-to-soar-for-millions-of-americans-because-of

Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access when a customs rule goes into effect later this month, a change that has sparked opposition from Democrats and some Republicans with the cost of living a top issue for voters ahead of midterm elections.

The rule applies to a swath of goods beyond drugs and is intended to collect tariffs and prevent illegal drugs from coming into the U.S. It comes as President Donald Trump has made lowering drug prices a top target in addressing soaring healthcare costs, and critics say the rule will hurt patients seeking affordable medicine.

“The issue is a matter of life and death for me,” said Susan Hooper, a 75-year-old Toledo, Ohio, resident who has been on oxygen for 14 years and takes two daily medications purchased through a Canadian pharmacy that are not available in the U.S.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection rule targets the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed shipments valued under $800 to pass through customs more easily. As of Oct. 22, that exemption will be indefinitely suspended, and medications mailed from outside the U.S. will require additional data and a bond guarantee.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11783773

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You cannot ... make deals with the Russians about some future economic projects and [at the same time] say that we’re in some kind of ... diplomatic dead end ... We’re not at a diplomatic dead end. Cut off [the Russian] economy entirely ... Stop feeding them with your sales. Just impose sanctions on their weapons.

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