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Swapping QR codes in group invites and artillery targeting are latest ploys.

Got a servarr setup and just using public trackers. But I've got some specific things I'm after.

There is a sport documentary that came out last year that's still going around film festivals. Nowhere to be found, I didn't get to see it in my city as I was ill. I'd happily pay to see it, but again, nowhere to be found.

Another independent documentary about marine science in my local sea. Again, no chance of getting it anywhere. I've gone as far as emailing director asking to buy a copy, but no reply.

There is a small scale LGBT show about relationships I want to watch. Once again, nowhere to be found.

People big up private trackers and so sometimes I feel like I'm missing out staying on public ones. But I wonder if this kind of stuff is really to be found on private trackers. Or is some stuff just truly too obscure to be dug up? Does everyone else also have those few things that just remain unavailable despite everything you do?

I picked up Call of Duty WWII today a gave the campaign a go. Generally, i'm not a big COD fan (to this day this is the only mainline COD game i've played), but i picked this game up back when it launched to play with a friend, and i really enjoyed the game.

I think part of the reason is that WWII is an interesting war for me to learn about (to this same reason i want to pick up Wolfenstein, I've heard good things about it but don't know much). Granted, i don't want anyone to take that as me saying that Call of Duty is historically accurate. It does a good job painting the Nazis as the bad guys in my opinion (honestly though, if you needed it pointed out to you that the Nazis are the bad guys we've got bigger problems) and (at least for me) showed how horrific the war was, but i cannot vouch for it's historical accuracy.

I also ordered my friend a copy so we could play Zombies together. The Zombies had David Tennant in it, so instant love from me. Honestly it was fun though, i've never really touched COD Zombies mode, but it was a fun experience, that honestly even scared the shit out of me a few times with the jumpscares.

It ended up being on sale for $19, which is a price i'm far more willing to pay then the $60 base price on steam. Also, for the game being released in 2017 on the PS4 and Xbox One, it looks fucking gorgeous.

There's this section which comes after you help the French resistance liberate Paris, where there's fireworks firing off. I tried (and failed) to capture it, but the fireworks would light up the ground, it looked so good.

Preceding this part was also a section where you were playing as this one lady sneaking around undercover. You had to memorize fake papers and lie your way through the building, and then after that you had too sneak around a courtyard too plant explosives and let the troops in. It was fun, honestly i wish they had done more of a dual story system instead of having you play as the main U.S. soldier guy for the most part.

During the middle of the invasion there was this guy just carrying a open box of wine in the middle of gunfire. I'm not really sure why. I guess he was just preparing to celebrate ahead of time.

There's another section where you're trying to stop a Nazi train, it's another stealth segment, and after that it's a driving and on rails segment. I enjoyed it more than i expected, and there's a segment afterwards where you have to climb out of the wreckage. It proved a challenge for me, because First aid Kits were rare so i had to be careful not to get hit.

There's also this screenshot from the very beginning of the game too that looks really good. The way the light reflects off the helmets almost made it look realistic too me (at least when looking at it before, i had headphones on and cranked up so i was a bit caught up feeling like i was actually in a battlefield and trying to find cover.

Overall, i really like this game though. It's call of duty, so it is about as basic of a shooter as it gets in my opinion, but if you think if you can find it for a price you think it's worth i'd say it's worth picking up.

But, if you have a weak stomach or just can't stand blood, I'd say maybe avoid it. None of my screenshots showed it but the game can be really gory at times, and dark too (though that comes with the subject matter)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25819883

I've been using YouTube since forever, and it's the only corporate social media platform (beside Discord) that I still use. However, I would like to explore PeerTube, does anyone have some recommendations for good PeerTube channels and other tips and tricks for PeerTube itself?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25822773

TL;DR: I want to learn about disinformation. Where do recommend I start?

Background:

I've been a bit apprehensive about disinformation for a while now more than ever with the rising tide of post truth content on the internet and the active toppling of governments from within using info warfare. I'm also seeing a whole lot of users in suspicious activities online who, for example, leave spicy live bait in political comment sections. So I've gotten suspicious and also curious about this secret world behind the veil.

I'm not exactly sure of what I'm looking for because of this unknown unknown, so bear with me. I'm imagining learning about an underlying theory with illustrative examples that relate to modern groups and their tactics.

I'm thinking of something more robust than articles or blog posts and yet less dense than academic material, so maybe some books or long-form videos would be great, although any format is welcome. I wonder if there are reliable & trustworthy authors, science communicators, intelligentsias, or researchers themselves who put out this accessible content.

I'm familiar with the book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination that exposes the play-by-play of foreign disinformation farms in American politics during the 2018 election. I thought it was great but limited in scope to Facebook along with the few countries it touches on. But learning about the rest of the nations along a broader timeline would be more ideal.

Do you have any suggestions? What would be a right approach to get myself soaking wet in the topic?

President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated a claim that the United States has spent $350 billion on Ukraine’s war — a figure that far eclipses the amount recorded by the Department of Defense and the interagency oversight group that tracks U.S. appropriations to Ukraine.

Since Russia’s illegal invasion in February 2022, the U.S. Congress has appropriated about $183 billion for Ukraine, according to the interagency oversight group that is charged with presenting reports to Congress.

Of that, the Pentagon confirmed to VOA that the U.S. has sent $65.9 billion in military aid to Ukraine, and an additional $3.9 billion that Congress has authorized in military aid to Kyiv remains unspent.

About $58 billion of the $183 billion in total aid for Ukraine was spent in the U.S., going directly toward boosting the U.S. defense industry, either by replacing old U.S. weapons given to Kyiv with new American-made weapons, by procuring new U.S.-made weapons for Kyiv or by making direct industrial investments.

Ive had people on lemmy and other communities tell me the r/fuckluigimangione sub is satire but after checking its posts out since it was made and circling back to it now i am 100% convinced it is not.

The auto mod responses alone as well as the concerted effort to manipulate the narrative tell you all you need to know. For instance anytime you say his name there is a ridiculous anti L-M response, or if you say brian thompson (yuck) the automated response is just pure corpo ball gargling. If you ask if the sub is satire there is a specific automod response that explains in definitive English that the sub is 100% not satirical.

Also they are trying to spread the narrative that mangione is an alt right trump supporting racist anti trans (because supposedly brian Thompson left a legacy of promoting trans health care (you cant make this shit up)) incel? Satire should at least be so absurd its funny however this sub is just so obviously a smear campaign and pro corporate boot licking effort unlike anything I've ever seen before. Go check it out for yourself. It would be a shame if a bunch of people who have brains and understand whats going on in the world just bombed the shit out of their gross billionaire ball gargling bukkake fest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckLuigiMangione/s/CEEjtVA5Up

I have a cheap bedslinger at the moment, it prints well enough and with decent speed, but it's a little finicky whenever I need to start a new print and I sometimes have to stop and restart 2-3 times in the beginning to get the first layer good. I'm also having some issues with ASA warping (especially on overhangs) it's enclosed and heated to ~45°C.

I was thinking of building a voron, but I don't really have the time to have a printer project, so I wanted something that's close to what Bambu labs deliver, but ideally with the accessibility of klipper+mainsail.

I thought of getting the Prusa core one, but seeing reviews of it has really put me off it.

The printing speed is slow AF...a 37min benchy on a coreXY in 2025, WTF!? My bedslinger does it in less than 30min. The ecosystem Prusa delivers seems half baked at best, with no LAN access to the full printer interface? I'm used to klipper+mainsail which is amazing and offers full local control of every aspect of the printer settings/config, print jobs/queue printing progress and actual live video feed (Prusa is 0.1fps!?). At a 1350€ price tag, plus another 100€ for camera and accelerometer, it just seems like I'm not getting much for my money.

Is there anything out there either already running klipper, or can be flashed with it, that's close to Bambu labs?

I was just reminded of this site and figured with how dark everything is, some of you would get a chuckle or two out of it. It's basically line graphs of wildly unrelated topics that happen to align surprisingly well.

• GameStop is hoping somebody will buy its Canadian and French operations.
• This amounts to over 500 physical stores across both nations.
• The company’s CEO decried “Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI” within his firm while shopping for a buyer.

To better understand the potential impact, LendingTree analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data to see which states have the highest percentage of imports from these three countries. Given the potential for these countries to implement blanket tariffs on their goods in response, we also looked into which states send the highest percentage of exports to these countries. We found massive differences across states, with some enormously dependent on these countries and others only slightly so.

• GameStop is hoping somebody will buy its Canadian and French operations.
• This amounts to over 500 physical stores across both nations.
• The company’s CEO decried “Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI” within his firm while shopping for a buyer.

He's clearly in full-on "fuck it, I guess this falls to me" mode.

I'm staying in an apartment temporarily and I have absolutely no idea how it is heated. It's a two-bedroom apartment. There is no thermostat. There are no vents. There is one radiator in the apartment's living room, at the front and down the hall from the bedrooms, and one radiator in the bathroom.

I have felt every wall in my bedroom. All of them are cool. The floor is also a normal temperature.

And yet, despite it being at or below freezing most nights in the past month, I can be in my bedroom without a shirt on and be comfortable. It might be nice to be a little warmer, but I don't feel cold or anything.

I am mystified. How is it being heated?