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Recently my NAS took some physical damage and the HDDs are not too happy about it. Most of my video files are partially corrupted. Meaning, they report some errors when checked with ffmpeg[^1], and when you watch them they'll sometimes freeze or skip a few seconds, but they're not so corrupt they won't play. So, the vast majority of the file is fine. I'd prefer to avoid re-downloading all of my media when such a small fraction of the total file is damaged.

Is there any way to only download chunks of the file that have errors?

In the mean time, I can repack and ignore errors[^2] so that the freezing/pausing stops during playback, but it'll still skip parts or otherwise act up.

[^1]: ffmpeg -v error -i $vidfile -map 0:1 -f null - [^2]: ffmpeg -i $vidfile -c copy $newvidfile

I went down a little rabbit-hole earlier regarding Neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine, especially with the Azov Batallion. I'm not going to add much commentary, just provide some articles and quotes I found enlightening.

I was looking through some Wikipedia articles on music genres, and stumbled across National Socialist black metal, which has an interesting line:

In 2012, the NSBM Asgardsrei festival was established in Moscow, Russia, and then in 2014 relocated to Kyiv, Ukraine, where it is closely linked to the activities of the Ukrainian nationalist network Azov Battalion and functions as an international hub for neo-Nazism and other far-right politics.

Following this to the Asgardsrei festival, where we get

The festival is strongly connected to Alexey Levkin of М8Л8ТХ, and his "Militant Zone"[^1] label, who act as organizers and originally founded the festival in Moscow in 2012. Levkin and the Militant Zone are heavily involved in the Ukrainian nationalist Azov Battalion and the paramilitary Russian Volunteer Corps.

I followed some of the sources from that page and came across several things I found very interesting.

A Black Metal Festival in Ukraine This Weekend Is the Neo-Nazi Networking Event of the Year. Vice. 2019.

Hundreds of far-right extremists will converge on Ukraine’s capital this weekend for a “militant black metal” music festival that experts say has become a networking hub in the international neo-Nazi scene. [...] According to Haaretz[^2], Asgardsrei was founded by Russian neo-Nazi Alexey Levkin, a far-right dissident who came to Ukraine in 2014 to support Azov, which has since actively forged links with like-minded groups elsewhere. Levkin describes himself as an ideologist “who gives lectures in culture, history, and contemporary political thought” to National Militia — the paramilitary street wing of the sprawling Azov movement, which also has a regiment incorporated into Ukraine’s national army, as well as its own political party, National Corps. [...] Meanwhile, Azov has pursued an outreach program to cultivate links with far-right groups internationally. Olena Semenyaka, international secretary for Azov’s political party who has strong ties to Levkin, traveled to meet contacts in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Croatia, and Portugal in the past year.[^3]

Europe's NSBM scene gathers in Kiev. Endstation Rechts. 2018.

The political arm of the notorious paramilitary Ukrainian "Azov" regiment acts as the mastermind behind the festival and conference.

A National Socialist black metal festival in Kiev is much more than just music. pov.international. 2019.

The Militant Zone is housed in the Kossack House, located close to Maidan Square, where the revolution broke out in 2014. The house is the center of the Azov Social Corps, a subdivision of the far-right National Corps party [...] The National Corps is the political arm of the Azov Movement, an umbrella organization based on the Azov Battalion , established as a paramilitary army unit in 2014, fighting Russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country, where the Ukrainian army lacked strength to defeat himself. In the same year, the unit was incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard. The battalion was established by a well-known neo-Nazi, Andriy Biletsky, who is today the leader of the party. He managed to attract neo-Nazis to the army, which also had fighters from other countries in their units. [...] In 2018, the US Congress decided that Azov should not receive a share of the funds with which the Americans support the Ukrainian army, among other reasons, because Azov has expressed himself as anti-Semitic.

One thing that stood out to me is that several sources mention Nazis moving from Russia into Ukraine (an action this Neo-Nazi festival itself took as well). Another is the international networking and recruitment efforts of the Neo-Nazi scene in Ukraine. What surprised me as well was that the Neo-Nazi Azov Batallion was incorporated into the Ukrainian national army well after it was known they were Neo-Nazis. Moreover, there's seemingly no push-back or prohibition of not just the ideological recruitment, but the international involvement and gathering in Ukraine.

[^1]: ASGARDSREI V – NOKTURNAL MORTUM, PESTE NOIRE, M8L8TH, KRODA KIEV, (18.12.2016) festival home page showing Azov merch [^2]: Most neo-Nazi Music Festivals Are Closely Guarded Secrets — Not This One in Ukraine. Haaretz. 2019. [^3]: What the Hell Are Ukrainian Fascists Doing in the Hong Kong Protests?. Vice. 2019.

Apologies if this isn't the best community for this question, I wasn't sure where else to put it.

I am looking to replace my WiFi router. It will only have a few devices on the wireless side, with the majority of my network data going between wired devices. Any gaming or latency-sensitive stuff will be on a wired device as well. The range doesn't have to be all that much, the total square-footage it needs to cover is pretty small, and there is nothing wifi-blocking to deal with (no metal/brick internal walls, etc). The only part that might be somewhat picky is: I either want good customization/configuration options or the ability to install a custom router OS (last I checked, openwrt is still popular?). Also, there are a couple older devices that I want to be able to connect still that only support up to 802.11n. I am very price sensitive.

From my looking so far, I've found

• TP-Link Archer A7, which supports openwrt, but I don't think supports WiFi 6
• TP-Link Archer AX10/AX1500, which does support WiFi 6, but I can't find info about openwrt support
• TP-Link AC1200 A6 V3, which is dirt cheap but I can't find info on openwrt support, and I can't tell what WiFi version it supports

I don't think I've used a TP-Link router before so any opinions there would be welcome (apologies if I butchered the naming scheme on the routers, it seems they all have several A___ numbers associated with them); they are at the top of my list currently due to their price and having the features I need.

I accidentally posted this to [email protected] before I noticed the sidebar said to ask buying suggestion questions here:

I'm looking to replace my failing phone. I don't need fancy hardware in terms of camera, high storage, any crazy screen technology or the like. I don't need a large sized phone, in fact I'd prefer something on the smaller side. I need it to be either bloatware/spyware-free on arrival, or easily de-bloated (permanently). I am thinking that instead of running stock Android I'd probably try either LineageOS or /e/OS anyway, so that might solve the bloatware issue.

My most important factors to consider are:

• Price
• Battery life
• Headphone jack
• De-bloated or de-bloat-able

I haven't been in the phone market for years and have not payed much attention to phone developments, so I'm kind of at a loss of where to start. What I've done so far is looked at the LineageOS supported devices, and it seems some of the lower-end Motorola phones might be the best fit for me. I looked at some of the higher-end phones that aren't the newest generation as well, but there it seems like I may run the risk of not getting (security) updates for much longer, versus buying a newer lower-end phone.

Also: can carriers force push install apps if you're running something other than stock Android? For example, if I use LineageOS can I prevent a carrier from pushing an app installation (even by SIM)?

I firmly believe a lot of current mental health issues are worsened by living under capitalism, as do others. Some of the most obvious examples to me are:

• Anxiety about being able to afford food and housing, having a stable job, not having emergency medical events, etc.
• Depression from not having free time due to being overworked, or from not being able to afford entertainment and distraction, etc.

One potential remedy to mental health issues has been developing in the form of psychedelic therapy. Besides the issues related to restricting access by making the treatment prohibitively expensive (both the drug and the administering physician) that are seemingly unavoidable in profit-driven healthcare systems, I think there's a massive danger in using psychedelics to effectively pacify people.

Psychedelics can be used maliciously, in that they can be used to help people accept their life as it is--this sounds fine, until you realize that it can be used to make people accept being exploited and being effectively destitute. I think the problem here is that the medical institutions (and probably most patients) are going to have the goal of: being less depressed, less anxious, etc. If psychedelics were actually used to "wake people up to their reality", they'd probably become more depressed, more anxious, etc--counter to the stated goals. I think one of the first steps towards wanting to change the existing system is seeing the flaws in the existing system and how one is negatively affected by it.

Then, if psychedelics are (going to be) used to pacify people suffering under capitalism, is their widespread adoption not a bad thing? If people are willfully blinding themselves to their suffering, is any hint of revolutionary spirit being extinguished?

I don't think these issues are unique to psychedelics, either. If existing depression treatments numb you to all emotion, good and bad, they can make existing while being exploited more bearable.

Here is the DOJ's report, which states that the MPD and Minnesota's largest city "engage in a pattern or practice of conduct in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal law."

"Our investigation showed that MPD officers routinely use excessive force, often when no force is necessary. We found that MPD officers often use unreasonable force (including deadly force) to obtain immediate compliance with orders, often forgoing meaningful de-escalation tactics and instead using force to subdue people," the report states. "MPD's pattern or practice of using excessive force violates the law."

The DOJ probe found that MPD:

• Uses excessive force, including unjustified deadly force and unreasonable use of Tasers;
• Unlawfully discriminates against Black people and Native American people in its enforcement activities, including the use of force following stops;
• Violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech; and
• Along with the city, discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities when responding to calls for assistance.

Specific mention was made to illegal attacks on protestors and journalists.

It's nice to see confirmation of what we've known: they aren't just evil, they're preying on the weak and disadvantaged.

Cavs' performance is too good. I love this version.

What news sites do you follow? I'm looking for sites with RSS feeds in particular.

Is there a way to hide scores on posts/comments as in the web UI? I peeked the code and the user preference is loaded, it's just the code that displays the scores doesn't seem to check against the user preference.

I'm loading https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] and the username display in the top right is showing other people's usernames, not mine. It showed one, and I refreshed, and now it's showing another. Here's what is showing right now for me:

Edit to add just to show that it's changing: