The Dinah Project says the report is based on a review of evidence including first-hand testimony from a survivor of an attempted rape and 15 former hostages held in Gaza, as well as accounts from witnesses to sexual assaults.

It lays out what the group describes as "a legal blueprint for prosecuting these crimes, even when direct attribution to individual perpetrators is impossible".

Hamas has denied its forces committed sexual violence against women or mistreated female hostages.

However, a UN mission concluded in March 2024 that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred during the 7 October attack in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape, and that there was "convincing information" that hostages had been subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexualised torture.

Does anybody here use ownCloud?

I know it's less popular than NextCloud, and I understand the reasons, but I'm not interested in setting up nextcloud at the moment.

I had owncloud contacts working very well and syncing across my devices through tailscale. Unfortunately, after updating some contacts, the entire contact functionality seems to be frozen. I have my contacts backed up on another device, so I'm fine with wiping it and starting over, but I don't want to erase my calendar or files that are also hosted through ownCloud.

I haven't been able to get help on their dedicated forums, but if someone has an idea of a better place to ask, let me know.

Has anyone run into this? Do you know how to erase and reset the contact functionality in owncloud? At the moment, anytime I open up the contacts app, it just spins and spins, and external devices no longer connect. I don't have the time to relearn a new piece of software at the moment. I suspect that any other card dav that I set up will interfere with what I currently have. I've read that running different software of this type from the same server can cause some issues, especially since they tend to want to use the same ports. I just want to reset the contact portion of my owncloud.

I'm running the latest version through Docker. I'm using MariaDB for my database. I'm not sure what details will be useful, but please let me know what I can supply and if necessary how to locate it. TIA

Edit:

Checking the log again, I think it may be related to:

{"reqId":"7e34c78e-49b9-4a97-87db-da79ab0d33bd","level":3,"time":"2025-06-19T22:18:31+00:00","remoteAddr":"XXX.XX.X.X","user":"USERNAME","app":"PHP","method":"GET","url":"\/remote.php\/dav\/files\/USERNAME\/misc\/m-t0627-01511-00434%20(2).jpg?x=336&y=336&c=&preview=1","message":"exif_read_data(): Incorrect APP1 Exif Identifier Code at \/var\/www\/owncloud\/lib\/private\/legacy\/image.php#399"}

(I've removed my name and the IP Address listed)

Following this message, there are about 30 errors related to different contacts that look like:

{"reqId":"6fptn8sCXT16xmUGIWc6","level":2,"time":"2025-06-19T09:06:07+00:00","remoteAddr":"XXX.XX.X.X","user":"USERNAME","app":"dav","method":"DELETE","url":"\/remote.php\/dav\/addressbooks\/users\/USERNAME\/contacts\/04bc3d9c-f55a-4241-96a2-929245fe8433.vcf","message":"Could not get node for path: \"addressbooks\/users\/USERNAME\/contacts\/04bc3d9c-f55a-4241-96a2-929245fe8433.vcf\" : Card not found"}

With some searching, it looks like there is something wrong with an image, presumably a contact image, which I was updating around the time the service went down.

I still have no idea what do do with this information.

An American obsession is attracting investments in baseball fields, volleyball courts and football camps, intensifying the gap between families with means and those without.

Josh Harris, a founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, and a partner have been assembling one of the largest collections of youth sports properties in the country.

The youth sports industry, according to the Aspen Institute, generates about $40 billion in annual revenue, dwarfing other forms of entertainment. Last year, for example, the domestic movie box office grossed about $8.7 billion.

About 60 million children play sports, and the average U.S. sports family spent $1,016 on its child’s primary sport in 2024, a 46 percent increase since 2019, according to the Aspen Institute’s latest parent survey in partnership with Utah State University and Louisiana Tech University.

The private equity titans Josh Harris and David Blitzer are among those who see a big opportunity. Over the past three years, Mr. Harris and Mr. Blitzer used money from their family foundations to start Unrivaled Sports, which has been buying baseball camps, flag football fields and youth leagues to assemble one of the largest collections of youth sports properties in the country.

So, I just read Frankenstein for the first time. Very enjoyable. I have read a lot about the themes over the years, and of course one of the most common is that Frankenstein is actually the monster and that the "Monster" is innocent.

I'll come back to that.

Despite reading about the book and hearing it discussed in popular culture, there were still a few surprises:

• Dr. Frankenstein is not a doctor at all. He is a brilliant, although somewhat miseducated young man, more akin to an overzealous grad student than anything else.
• The Monster is not made of corpses. Although one of the plot elements is the concealing of the exact nature of his construction, it is alluded to. Mr. Frankenstein consults bones from the mortuary, but it is not clear that he uses them in actually making the Creature. It is just as likely that he is using them to study their anatomy and recreate them from other materials. At one point he specuates that he could use this method to reanimate decaying flesh, but dismisses it out of hand. Lastly, the proportions and properties of the monster make it impossible that it was made of human bodies. Which leads me to:
• The monster is truly terrifying. The Creature possess superhuman speed, strength, agility, is both massive at 8 feet tall, and supernaturally stealthy. It can move at tremendous speed across any type of terrain, enter any closed room virtually at will, and go undetected to suddenly appear within feet of a victim. It is relentless and able to endure conditions that would kill an average person. It is also possess incredible intelligence and strategic capability.
• It is incredibly creepy. Despite the Creature's superhuman intelligence and ability to understand and learn about human social mores, it desperately chooses to reveal itself in the most disturbing ways. Imagine a beggar coming to your home, saying he hopes to live with a family that he has been watching closely for a long time and profoundly loves but they do not know he exists. Then he suddenly reveals that it is you and your family he has been secretly watching for months. This is exactly how the monster chooses to reveal himself to the world, and is it any surprise that the family is disturbed to the point that they kick him out and move away?

Now, the young Mr. Frankenstein is not a complete innocent either. He does create a living, feeling, thinking being without considering the consequences. He does abandon the creature (or rather allows the creature to wander away and doesn't go looking for it). He engages in unethical research, but he is also not ever given any training in ethics. He is a grad student who, in essence, stumbled on the secret to give life and decided to test it. How many young students right now are developing programs that they don't fully understand in hopes of achieving AGI? Are they all monsters, too? Or are they young curious people who love science, have hopes for high achievement, and no proper ethical education?

It is relevant that Frankenstein is not a Doctor, in that he has not been thoughtfully in the field, seen the errors of others, experienced setbacks and implications of his work, or shared his work with others. He is just a little more than a kid in his parents basement hacking away on something in solitude (well, the attic of his boarding school, but you get the idea).

He should have shared what he was working on. He should have warned those he loved that they were in danger of this monster, he should have risked the disbelief that he feared in sharing the truth. Most of the people who are killed by the monster could have been saved, or at least warned of the danger if he was not so intent on keeping it a secret. Frankenstein is a complex hero.

And the Creature is a complex villain. He is abandoned in the world and mistreated by those who are afraid of his appearance. He is desperately lonely. So he decides to force his creator to make him a mate against his will. He does so through violent threats, proven by murders that the monster has already committed without hesitation.

He is what we would today call a violent incel. He thinks he is too ugly to be loved except by a monster like himself. He has no interest in whether such a creature would have any interest in him. Frankenstein almost caves, and in fact begins to make a bride for the creature, only to finally consider the moral implications of such an act. He destroys his work before the monster's eyes.

Let's talk about Justine. Following the (probably) first murder, of Frankenstein's kid brother, the monster frames her for the act. Justine is basically an orphan that the Frankenstein family took in as something of a charge or perhaps maid. But the monster, crucially, doesn't know this. He sees a random woman asleep in a barn and instantly thinks of making her his girlfriend (she had fallen asleep while looking for the missing boy). But then he decides that she would only reject him too, so he plants evidence of the murder on her because Justine is guilty of being a somewhat attractive young woman - who would surely reject him if given the chance. You see why I characterize him as a violent incel.

People sometimes point to the occasional gentle and even heroic nature of the creature as proof that Frankenstein made him into the monster he became. He helps the family he (innocently) stalks for months in numerous ways. He tries to save a little girl from drowning. He ultimately expresses remorse for his actions and claims he will go to the wilderness and kill himself. But in the meantime, he just straight up murders a lot of innocent people to "punish" Frankenstein. He is not a hero or even an antihero. He is just a complex villain.

Anyway, this is already longer than I really intended. I'm happy to hear the thoughts of others. Have you read the book? Do you agree or disagree?

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly on Project Gutenberg

In almost every scientific paper that describes proteins you’ll find Duke biochemist Jane Richardson’s handiwork. The images, commonly referred to as “ribbon diagrams,” are basic to the language of protein science. Ranging in likeness from a flapping kite tail to a tight coil of crimped gift ribbon, these carefully etched diagrams invented by Richardson have served for many years as a primary way that scientists can describe what they see in their data.

As the elegance and complexity of proteins became more evident, scientists needed something better than wire models to articulate the subtleties they were identifying, especially in print journals. Several people had published schematic drawings of individual proteins, but each used different conventions and viewpoints. For a major review article comparing folds and details of all the known structures, Jane Richardson needed to develop a good, consistent system. She picked up a pencil and began to try drawing smooth ribbons over the atoms in early, crude computer-graphics printouts. It was promising, but hard to correctly convey the proteins in three dimensions.

“I’m not an artist and I’m not very good at drawing anything else,” she said. “It took a very long time to figure this out, how you can really show the 3D relationships on a 2D page, and also keep them accurate to the experimental atom coordinates.”

So of course both of these are slight simplifications, but what is the connection between the two? If the earth is basically a circle, is an ellipse just a parabola stretched around a circle? Is a parabola just an approximation of a tiny part of an ellipse? How high do you have to be before you change your calculations of a trajectory?

The Math ain't mathing.

I'm not really sure how to ask this because my knowledge is pretty limited. Any basic answers or links will be much appreciated.

I have a number of self hosted services on my home PC. I'd like to be able to access them safely over the public Internet. There are a couple of reasons for this. There is an online calendar scheduling service I would like to have access to my caldav/carddav setup. I'd also like to set up Nextcloud, which seems more or less require https. I am using http connections secured through Tailscale at the moment.

I own a domain through an old Squarespace account that I would like to use. I currently have zero knowledge or understanding of how to route my self hosted services through the domain that I own, or even if that's the correct way to set it up. Is there a guide that explains step by step for beginners how to access my home setup through the domain that I own? Should I move the domain from Squarespace to another provider that is better equipped for this type of setup?

Is this a bad idea for someone without much experience in networking in general?

Some posts in communities I follow are quite long. I don't mind their presence, but they are not always relevant to me and result in unnecessary scrolling to pass essay-length posts.

An option to automatically collapse posts longer than, say, 10 lines would be a nice bonus feature to have.

Anyone else agree?

Authorities say more than 20 girls are still unaccounted for at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, where the Guadalupe River rose more than 20 feet in less than two hours during torrential rains that triggered flash flooding in parts of the state yesterday.

At least 27 people, including nine children, have died in the flooding, according to local officials. The families of three campers have confirmed their deaths to CNN.

Copyright holders hire services that use bots to monitor file-sharing networks and send ISPs millions of notices a year alleging infringement by someone at a particular IP address, Cox told the Supreme Court. Cox said that ISPs "have no way of verifying whether a bot-generated notice is accurate" and that even if the notices are accurate, terminating an account would punish every user in a household where only one person may have illegally downloaded copyrighted files.

Grey DeLisle also voiced

• Daphne from Scooby Doo
• Shrinking Rae and Monster Girl from Invincible
• Vicki and Principal Krentz from The Fairly OddParents
• Wonder Woman
• Catwoman
• Maz Kanata in LEGO Star Wars
• Mandy from Billy & Mandy

She is also a very accomplished singer-songwriter