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The original was posted on /r/steamdeals by /u/RyosukeTakahashi44 on 2025-11-20 17:32:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Anxious-Button7099 on 2025-11-20 21:52:58+00:00.

What deals and devices do you guys have your eyes on for Black Friday?

I’m looking to do some Aqara smart switches throughout the house!

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/WavesAndSaves on 2025-11-21 03:03:23+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Abraham Lincoln rejected a proposed marriage arrangement because the girl was too fat. "Her present bulk" was so great, according to Lincoln, that he believed her to be far older than her stated age, as her skin was "too full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/OverallBaker3572 on 2025-11-21 00:59:27+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that “Ten Pound Poms” refers to over a million Britons who moved to Australia after WWII under a government-assisted passage scheme costing £10 in fees to migrate, aimed at boosting Australia’s population, expanding the Australian workforce, and supporting their growing postwar industries

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The original was posted on /r/imthemaincharacter by /u/Hypnoidz on 2025-11-20 21:13:03+00:00.

Bronx Anti-War wrote the following statement, edited by Arm the Dollz and Crown Heights Bites Back. An anti-imperialist political education event held this week at Another World in Crown Heights brought together local organizers for a detailed discussion on Iran, U.S. imperialism and the weaponization of feminist and LGBTQIA2S+ narratives . . .

Continue reading On Iran and pinkwashing: Anti-imperialist organizations host political forum at Workers.org

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The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

Has anyone made a zombie game where you actually clear/retake an infested city? Lots of games have you raid a city to build a base somewhere else, (7D2D, unturned, now Vein, etc.) or just do things in an infested city (Dying Light, RE, etc.) sometimes culminating in some sort of big climax that results in or implies the end of the zombie times, or maybe you just leave, but are there any that have that element of progression where you slowly take more of the map and the zombies aren't just randomly spawned in a radius around the player regardless of how many you knock down? The closest I have ever found was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.

Buying one way tickets to hell for Russian soldiers by selling off Russia's gold and treasure... What will be left when all the humans and gold have been carelessly traded away by Putin to power the mindless Russian war machine?

TLDR: I learned the hard way that, at some point, my nightly backups were switched to being encrypted. As far as I can tell, it seems like it was part of an update and not a lot of users noticed it. Thankfully (and concerningly?), the key is stored in plain text if you can recover data from your SD card.

A storm came through my area yesterday and caused the power to drop multiple times. The first time, my HA Pi rebooted fine as it always does, but the second time it failed to boot because it couldn't mount the HassOS boot partition.

After work, I pulled the SD card and connected it to a linux VM on my laptop to see if I could recover the backups from it and just restore from a clean install because I didn't want to spend my night chasing down boot issues. The first thing I did was dd to dump the card to an image before I tried to mess with anything. I found the nightly backups, copied them over to my system, briefly tried to fix the boot issues, gave up, and then wiped and reinstalled Home Assistant OS with Raspberry Pi Imager.

Imagine my surprise when I go through the setup process, get to the "Restore from Backup" screen, and I am then prompted to enter the encryption key for my backup. My backup through Nabu Casa also conveniently had an error when I tried to load it, I assume that one is encrypted as well, but I didn't even get that far.

I have always been pretty good about copying encryption keys into my password manager when I get them, so I was really confused when that prompt came up. I tried my account password and a few others that I might have used if it was a key that I set manually, no luck. After some research, the keys are in the form of XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, which I definitely did not have, and the SD card had already been wiped, so any hope of finding it died.

At that point, it was getting late and I was getting frustrated, so I threw in the towel and gave into doing a fresh Home Assistant, not looking forward to rebuilding my automations and all that fun stuff.

When I woke up this morning, I had the epiphany that I had dumped the SD card as my very first step, so I grabbed the dump, mounted it, did a few find and greps, and found my encryption key in a json file called <mount path>/supervisor/homeassistant/.storage/backup. I copied the key, pulled up the restore page on my blank Home Assistant, put everything in, and it immediately began the restore process and has been happy all day.

Lessons Learned:

1. Save your encryption key and emergency kit at <server>/config/backup/settings
2. Look into remote backups because next time the SD card might be totally dead and I had bad luck with my Nabu Casa backup, I am going to install this Google Drive add on as a simple start
3. You can always trust that someone, somewhere will leave an encryption key in plain text

Medication abortions account for more than 60 percent of all abortions in the United States, up from just a quarter a decade ago. But in the aftermath of Roe’s reversal, abortion pills are now banned in at least 14 states. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports on the resulting rise of underground networks operating outside the legal system to help people access abortion medication.

Max 16 Plus laptop with a Qualcomm discrete NPU is now shipping... That is if you are running Ubuntu Linux while the Windows 11 pre-load option is expected in early 2026. An exciting twist with the Linux version of the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus shipping before Microsoft Windows.

The new Dell Pro Max 16 Plus features a Qualcomm AI 100 PC inference accelerator. The Dell Pro Max 16 Plus makes it the first mobile workstation with such an "enterprise grade" discrete NPu.

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