Spanish investigators have confirmed that the Russian cargo vessel Ursa Major, which sank off the coast of Cartagena in December 2024, was carrying undeclared nuclear reactor components likely bound for North Korea.

According to La Verdad, the ship was part of Russia’s shadow fleet and took an unusual route from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok through the Mediterranean.

Though the ship’s manifest listed only empty containers and port equipment, aerial images revealed two large, undeclared containers at the stern. Authorities later identified them as housings for VM-4SG nuclear reactors.

What does a housing for a nuclear reactor look like?

it’s just a factory shutting down

They linked it because of the reason Volkswagen was selling the factory.

You either didn’t read the article (I get it, it’s paywalled) or you’re intentionally misrepresenting the link.

Either one makes your argument look bad.

I don’t think Stoat will ever have a realistic chance of usurping Discord

Agreed. My comment is for the many users who would leave but can’t because “all my friends are here”.

We wouldn’t have this problem if Discord and Stoat were federated (I know it’s not on their roadmap).

So the next best thing is bridge bots.

We need bots that connect your Stoat (hate that name) to your Discord account, so you can still message the people who refuse to leave.

That’s how Facebook stole users from MySpace back in the day™.

screenshot of a thumbs up

Is this a screenshot post, @ipostscreenshots@lemmy.zip?

And if you have seen any, you can block them and they actually go away.

Instead of a placebo “stop seeing this ad” button.

*Football ball-fondling prize

Do I feel bloated when I take on all this water weight?

Okay but change European to the whole continent.

Restrictions apply*.

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus…

Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)

I was excited at first, because I thought I could still chat with friends who won’t leave Discord.

Thanks for the archive link.

Ah, homework.

The #1 method for persuading the kiddos.

100% they should. Live your dream, Science Team.

Tl;dr:

• PhotoPrism: Local AI with strong privacy but heavier setup.
• LibrePhotos: Same, but less polished, more community-built.
• Immich: Best self-hosted Google Photos alternative.
• Ente Photos: E2E encrypted, low-maintenance, most “plug and play”

There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning “ripping off” software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it’s easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won’t be “stolen”.

—Jim Warren, July 1976

I set up Plex on my mum’s TV and she can just push play. The UI is intuitive (read: familiar) to her.

Jellyfin has a reputation for giving users more control and customizability, but the other side of that coin is that it’s more “fiddly”.

My users don’t want to fiddle.

I read that. (I literally mentioned features not being paywalled in the original comment.)

If the key doesn’t unlock features, what does it unlock?

Do you get a little thank you message from the devs when you enter it in? Does it add a “Supporter” tag next to your name on the app settings?

The practice exists in both software and games of adding paid cosmetics (e.g. Discord or Deep Rock Galactic) that don’t change the core featureset but allow users to pay more to support the developers, so I think it’s a valid question.

What does the $100 server key unlock (besides “supporter status”), since features aren’t paywalled?