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Ukraine's Drone Strikes Spur Hasty Russian Plans For Underground Data Centers

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By: BeauHD
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [S]tate-owned telecommunications company Rostelcom has raised the possibility of moving some Russian data centers underground in talks with the nickel and palladium mining company Norilsk, according to Russian newspaper Vedomosti. The industry publication Data Center Dynamics also pointed to a recent proposal by a Russian regional governor to build data centers within open-pit coal mines while planting green public parks above as camouflage. On November 2, Putin also signed a decree ordering Russian data center operators to set aside 10 percent of available space and capacity in case the Russian government requires it, according to independent Russian news publication Meduza. That may indicate growing Kremlin concerns about the vulnerability of Russian cloud computing infrastructure during its war with Ukraine. Putin's decree also allows a special Russian government commission to authorize use of foreign data centers in consultation with Russia's Federal Security Service. That marks a notable policy change because Putin and the Russian parliament previously enacted Russia's "Sovereign Internet Law," which has blocked Russian companies from using cloud computing infrastructure outside Russia's borders. Russia's push for a sovereign and increasingly closed Internet has resulted in a highly centralized system under a few Russian tech companies like Yandex. That hyper-centralized system has now proven vulnerable during wartime, as Ukrainian drone strikes on key Russian data centers created widespread disruptions for popular payment and digital banking apps, e-commerce platforms, video streaming services, and ride-hailing and food delivery apps, among others. Yandex has also been forced to relocate all three of its main supercomputers after Ukrainian drone strikes targeted the AI data centers where they were originally housed, Meduza reported.

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Help with posts page for WordPress theme

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By: /u/AlexRed668

I'm hoping this is a simple fix and I'm only confused because I'm new to WordPress. Please help!

I installed a theme called Wedding Photographer Nook because I liked the layout, however I'm having trouble with the way it's set up for the home page and posts page.

I want new posts to go to a seperate page which operates like a blog, but doing this by going to the page I want to set it as the posts page instead removes all the formatting and reformats it to the theme's homepage, which does not display latest posts. In Settings > Reading I try switching the settings around and it doesn't do anything at all.

Basically I just want to remove whatever it is that causes the posts page to reformat into this homepage template the theme has set up so that I can set posts to go to the page I designate.

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Looking for a free WordPress booking plugin with manual appointment approval and flexible durations

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By: /u/OkStomach7765

Hi everyone!

I'm building a website for my first paying client, a home-based beauty technician who offers nail, eyelash and eyebrow services.

I'm looking for a free WordPress booking plugin that can handle a specific booking workflow.

Here's how I'd like it to work:

  1. My client sets her available days and time slots from her WordPress dashboard.
  2. When someone visits the website, they can see the available time slots and choose one.
  3. The customer selects the services they want (nails, eyelashes, eyebrows, etc.) and submits a booking request.
  4. My client receives a notification and can manually accept or reject the request before it becomes a confirmed appointment.

There's one important detail: appointment durations are not always the same.

For example, a simple nail appointment might take 30 minutes, while a more elaborate design or a combination of services could take 3–4 hours.

Ideally, I'd like a plugin that can handle different appointment durations depending on the selected services, while still allowing my client to manually approve each booking.

My main requirements are:

  • Display available time slots to customers.
  • Allow customers to select one or multiple services.
  • Support variable appointment durations.
  • Keep booking requests pending until manually approved.
  • Allow my client to manage availability and appointments easily from her phone or WordPress dashboard.

I've looked into Simply Schedule Appointments and a few other plugins, but I'm not sure which one supports all these features in its free version.

I'm currently developing the website locally using WordPress and XAMPP, and I'd prefer to avoid paid plugins if possible.

Does anyone have experience with a plugin that can handle this workflow? I'd really appreciate any recommendations or advice!

Thanks!

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Help with posts page for WordPress theme

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By: /u/AlexRed668

I'm hoping this is a simple fix and I'm only confused because I'm new to WordPress. Please help!

I installed a theme called Wedding Photographer Nook because I liked the layout, however I'm having trouble with the way it's set up for the home page and posts page.

I want new posts to go to a seperate page which operates like a blog, but doing this by going to the page I want to set it as the posts page instead removes all the formatting and reformats it to the theme's homepage, which does not display latest posts. In Settings > Reading I try switching the settings around and it doesn't do anything at all.

Basically I just want to remove whatever it is that causes the posts page to reformat into this homepage template the theme has set up so that I can set posts to go to the page I designate.

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PSA: Immich Machine Learning has Microsoft Telemetry enabled by default, here's how to disable it

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By: /u/greenpeppermelonpuck

Immich Machine Learning (ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:v3) uses a library called ONNX Runtime, from Microsoft.

This library has telemetry enabled by default, and the Docker build of Immich Machine Learning does not disable it.

I found out about this because my DNS logs were showing thousands and thousands of blocked queries to resolve mobile.events.data.microsoft.com.

I don't think this is acceptable for something that is going to process all my photos, especially since it goes to Microsoft, even if it's anonymised or whatever. The whole point of self hosting is avoiding shit like this.

Mitigations:

Add the environment variable ORT_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 to the immich-machine-learning container.

Aditionally, it is good practice to isolate all containers that do not need internet access from the internet. For example, with Docker compose, you can create an isolated network for Immich:

networks: immich-iso: internal: true driver: bridge

Then, on all immich containers:

networks: - immich-iso

Be sure to add your reverse proxy to this network so that it can access the Immich server.

This was reported to the Immich issue tracker in August and they have not addressed it yet.

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Alguien interesado en un gatito fiv+

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By: /u/GGwp9727
Alguien interesado en un gatito fiv+

Le llame Maxwell. Es el gato mas amoroso que conozco. Su hemograma salio bien, esta vacunado y esterilizado. Lo agarre de la calle porque pedia amor y caricias. Ya no le quieren dar hogar temporal y me urge reubicarlo. Si a alguien le interesa porfa escribame.

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Our churn review is built entirely from CRM notes

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By: /u/UsefulJenny458

I look after CRM reporting for a B2B SaaS team and I’m putting together our quarterly churn review. CS logs a cancellation reason for every account and there are notes from renewal calls and save attempts. That’s what we use to group the losses and explain them to leadership

For accounts marked low usage, I still want to know what changed in their day to day work and where that work went.

The notes don’t always get that far. We rarely speak to customers again after cancellation so the explanation entered at the time carries straight into the review. Some have been gone for a few months now and I’m struggling to tell how much of the story we ever got

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iOS 27.3 Adds Vertical Tabs, Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari

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By: BeauHD
Apple is adding vertical tabs and an Adaptive Dark Mode to Safari with iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3 and macOS Golden Gate 27.3. The December updates will also expand Siri's browser controls, including organizing tabs and clearing site-specific history, with a later feature allowing Siri to understand and answer questions about content across multiple open webpages. MacRumors reports: Vertical Tabs are located on the left side of the display and use icons by default to save space, but there is an option to make the tab bar wider to show website titles as well. Vertical Tabs work with both Topics and Tab Groups to keep things organized. Topics are created when automatic Apple Intelligence tab sorting is turned on in iOS 27. Pinning tabs by dragging, quickly swapping between Tab Groups, and other features also continue to work. [...] Apple is adding Adaptive Dark Mode for websites that don't have a dark mode design option by default. If you use Dark Mode and then browse to a website with a bright background color, Safari will offer an option to "Try" Adaptive Dark Mode. After tapping Try, Safari renders a Dark Mode version of the page that makes the background darker, changes text contrast, inverts logos and graphics, recolors vector artwork, lifts raised surfaces, and rebalances layered shadows. Each website will be adapted based on what's needed to make it readable, so not every tweak is applied to every site. You can opt to turn Adaptive Dark Mode on for all sites or on a site-by-site basis after using it. If a site has a native dark mode or has a dark design already, Adaptive Dark Mode won't activate. Developers can also add a tag that causes Safari to ignore Adaptive Dark Mode and show the website as the developer intended.

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Found an old desktop (i5-3340S, 4GB RAM). Usable to start self-hosting or straight to e-waste?

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By: /u/ByDan-K

Found an old Asus prebuilt in a closet and wondering if it makes sense to use as a starter box or not.

Specs:

  • CPU: Intel i5-3340S (4c/4t, 3rd gen, 65W TDP)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3
  • GPU: GT 620 2GB
  • Storage: 500GB HDD
  • PSU: 300W OEM

Is this worth tinkering with, or is 3rd gen Intel idle power so bad that I’d spend more on electricity than just buying a cheap N100 mini PC? Scrap it or keep it?

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Suelen ver desfiles? o que cosa hacen este mes

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By: /u/ConejoCapitalista2

Feliz mes de la patria panas, siguiendo el tono del mes que suelen hacer ustedes en noviembre? sobretodo los dias libres claro, En mi caso suelo a lo mucho ir al desfile del 28 en el west pero de lo contrario suelo aprovechar para descanzar y pasear un poco y ustedes?

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EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules

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By: BeauHD
An adviser to the EU's highest court says Google's Gemini may violate publishers' copyright when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or circumvents paywalls and other technical protections to generate answers. Reuters reports: The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union pitted Hungarian website operator Like Company against US-based Google's artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini. A ruling against Google, which could force the tech giant to pay fees for the use of such content, could throw a lifeline to online media such as Like Company. They have seen traffic dwindle as news summaries written by AI chatbots like Gemini increasingly replace traditional search engines' results, which include hyperlinks to the media websites. "When an LLM (large language model)-driven chatbot retrieves a publication from a press publisher's website, reuses that publication to generate an answer, and provides that answer to the user, the press publisher's right may be infringed in certain circumstances," Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said. Gemini's answers fall under the publishers' right of reproduction when chatbots access publications by unlawfully "circumventing paywalls or other technical barriers, or when they reuse "the form of expression of that publication in a recognizable manner," he said. Copyright rules do not protect the "mere facts" reported by press publications, but "only the specific form of expression," he added. On the other hand, he said, the use of material protected by copyright to train LLMs -- AI systems that use vast amounts of text to generate human-like responses and summarize information -- is "freely permitted under the text and data mining exception." Szpunar said there was no evidence that Google had used the Hungarian publisher's articles to train Gemini. The court, which follows the majority of its advisers' non-binding opinions, will rule in the coming months. "Google's powerful gatekeeping role in search makes this particularly important. Publishers depend on Google to reach readers, while Google increasingly delivers AI-generated answers directly to users," said Angela Mills Wade, the council's executive director. "Publishers should not have to choose between search visibility and protecting their rights. Nor should Google's control over access to audiences become leverage to secure publishers' content for AI services," she said.

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