FOSS It happens all the time. You have a file on one of your devices and you need to have it on another one. You could put the file on a USB flash drive and walk it over (the so-called sneakernet), you could email it to yourself, or you could try to set up some kind of network resource. LocalSend, a free open source tool, makes the process of sharing files on a LAN easier than anything else and it works on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and more. The Reg FOSS desk is not routinely a fan of Apple fondleslabs. (We’ve tried, but they’re a bit too locked down for us.) Saying that, from what we’ve heard, LocalSend is a bit like Apple’s AirDrop but for grown-up computers and non-Apple kit. For Linux Mint users, it’s a bit like the included Warpinator – and as that page says, don’t search for it and go to warpinator.com, as it’s a fake site. It’s a free download from its GitHub page and is also available in Canonical’s Snap store and on Flathub. You run it, and it gives that computer a cute nickname in the form of (adjective)+(fruit). Run it on two computers on the same local network, and they should see each other. You click “send” on one, and “receive” on the other, and that’s about it: pick the file or folder, and off it goes. LocalSend isn’t very big – the installation packages are mostly around the 15 MB mark – so it’s pretty fast to download or install. This vulture found and tried it when we downloaded a just-over-4 GB file and then worked out we’d downloaded it onto the wrong OS on the wrong machine. It takes a good few minutes to download several gigabytes – we live on a small, remote island, where our 100 Mbps broadband costs about four times what 1 Gbps broadband used to cost in Czechia – and it seemed worth trying to transfer it rather than grab another copy. The gist of the idea is that LocalSend is quicker than using a USB key. You know the sort of process: find a big enough USB key, check it has space, copy the file onto it, eject it, go to the other machine, insert it, and copy the file off again. Even if it goes perfectly, LocalSend is still less hassle. It’s also easier than configuring some kind of temporary folder-sharing setup between different OSes on different computers with different login names. (The Irish Sea wing of Vulture Towers recently moved house and has yet to finalize his office layout and reconnect his NAS servers. It’s climbing to the top of the to-do list, though.) LocalSend is also available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, so it can help for devices that you can’t readily plug a USB key into. The transfer happens across your local network, so it won’t use up bandwidth on metered internet connections, and will even work if your internet connection is down. Warpinator is Mint’s solution – but in our case, we initially needed to move the file from Windows to macOS. Both have ports of Warpinator, but both seem unofficial, and while the machines could see one another, file transfers failed. We’ve also tried SyncThing, but it’s not good at keeping machines in sync when they’re rarely on at the same time – and we’ve had problems with it recursively duplicating directory trees into themselves so deeply that no GUI tool could delete them. Ideally, you should have an always-on home server that also runs SyncThing – and if you have one of those, then for one-off file transfers, you don’t really need SyncThing: just copy it to the server, and off again. LocalSend just worked, and for us, it worked identically whether either end was running Windows, Linux, or macOS. We couldn’t ask for more. ®

lynddion has added a photo to the pool:

Evening meanderings around the area east of Shinjuku station.

The idea that one day Mourinho might return to the Bernabéu had hung in the air, if not really as a serious possibility. Now the impossible is probable

The last time José Mourinho was at the Santiago Bernabéu, he parked up in the bus. That night in late February the Benfica manager was suspended, a red card from the first leg of the Champions League playoff meaning he wasn’t allowed on the touchline he had prowled 13 years and a lifetime ago, so Real Madrid prepared a media booth for him to watch from. Situated on the eighth floor, Spanish radio to the left of him, Portuguese to the right, Cabin No 6 had been supplied with nuts, fruit, salad and jamón sandwiches. As kick-off approached, a crowd gathered by the door. But if the camera phones were out, he wasn’t.

Mourinho never showed. Instead, he stayed in the basement 10 floors below, watching from an iPad on board the bus and leaving the post-match press conference to his assistant, João Tralhão. The next time he comes, which could be as soon as this season ends, it is likely to be different, poised to be welcomed back as a saviour and their manager now, not hidden away. For a while his has been the only candidate’s name that has remained constant and never dismissed from within, seeming more real with every day.

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A defiant performance against Manchester City could deliver silverware in a year in which the club has already sacked two head coaches

Chelsea fared well as underdogs in their most recent outing in a final. They surprised Paris Saint-Germain in last summer’s Club World Cup, racing into an unassailable 3-0 lead by half-time and disrupting the European champions thanks to a clever tactical approach from Enzo Maresca.

Perhaps there will be more of the same at Wembley. Chelsea have form when it comes to upsetting the odds in a big game, although the one problem with bringing up the PSG win before Saturday afternoon’s FA Cup final against Manchester City is that the challenge of coming up with a plan smart enough to beat Pep Guardiola is no longer Maresca’s responsibility.

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Not The Onion:

Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser:

Before he joined the Trump administration last year, Dr. Brian Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience and a history of far-right commentary and promoting conspiracy theories. He's said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.

He once hosted a YouTube show called "Erection Connection," a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.

A CNN review of archived podcast episodes, social media posts and radio appearances found that Christine repeatedly framed public health institutions, the federal government and pandemic-era policies as tools used to target conservatives and religious Americans.

Previously, previously, previously.

HOUSTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Door de sterk gestegen olieprijzen vanwege de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten zijn er meer boorplatforms in de Verenigde Staten actief aan het boren naar olie. Volgens de grote Amerikaanse oliedienstverlener Baker Hughes zijn er deze week 415 boorplatforms daarmee bezig. Dat is het hoogste aantal sinds november vorig jaar.

De grootste toename van het aantal actieve boorplatforms was te zien in het olierijke gebied Permian Basin, dat grotendeels in het westen van de staat Texas ligt. Daar vindt schaliewinning plaats waarbij olie uit gesteente wordt gehaald door met hoge druk water, zand en chemicaliën in de grond te spuiten. Het Permian Basin is de grootste olieproductielocatie van de VS.

De topman van Baker Hughes had eerder al gezegd meer investeringen in olieproductie te verwachten van maatschappijen in onder meer Noord-Amerika door de oorlog en de sterk gestegen olieprijzen.

NEW YORK (ANP) - Een rechtbankjury heeft opnieuw geen overeenstemming weten te bereiken in een zaak tegen de gevallen filmmagnaat Harvey Weinstein. Het proces eindigde daarmee in een zogenoemde 'mistrial', ofwel een mislukt proces.

Het huidige proces draaide om de beschuldiging dat de 74-jarige Weinstein in 2013 actrice Jessica Mann had verkracht. Weinstein werd eerder schuldig bevonden aan de verkrachting van Mann en het aanranden van een andere vrouw, Miriam Haley. Maar later werd die veroordeling echter teruggedraaid en zijn zaak werd in 2025 opnieuw behandeld. Destijds werd de jury het ook niet eens over de verkrachting van Mann en eindigde dat ook in een 'mistrial'.

Het is nog niet duidelijk of aanklagers de zaak voor een vierde keer voor de rechter willen brengen.

Door de jaren heen hebben tientallen vrouwen Weinstein beschuldigd van seksueel wangedrag. Momenteel zit hij nog in de gevangenis, na een veroordeling in een andere zaak. Weinstein heeft de beschuldigingen altijd ontkend.

Het begon 20 jaar geleden als een groepje jonge vrienden dat samen ging voetballen. Maar inmiddels is BVCB 6 uit Bergschenhoek een vriendenteam waarbij de kinderen van de spelers elke zaterdag langs de lijn staan. Toch zijn er na zo’n lange tijd nog altijd nieuwe hoogtepunten voor het team: na het winnen van een prijsvraag reizen de vrienden het Nederlands elftal achterna bij het WK van komende zomer.

Geef uw moeder, vader, broer, zus, zoon, dochter, huisdier (HOORT BIJ HET GEZIN) en wie er ook maar onderdeel van uw gezin is een zoen op de mond want vandaag is het hún dag. Een gezin houdt u warm, zorgt voor vrede, zet het eten op tafel als u hard heeft gewerkt, stopt de stekker in het stopcontact, opent de deur als er wordt aangebeld, stinkt op het toilet, eet dat lekkerste snoepje in de snoepkast op voordat u het kan opeten en brengt u liefde. Neem ze daarom vandaag een keer mee naar de kroeg, naar de speeltuin, naar het park, naar Sardinië, naar de film, naar een restaurant, naar de Wallen, naar de boekhandel, naar de Veluwe, naar de speelgoedwinkel of naar Moerdijk, gewoon om het nog één keer te zien - gezin weer blij. Krijgt u vandaag zelf geen zoentje, dan bent u mogelijk een gezinsloos mens, waar er in Nederland treurig genoeg veel te veel van zijn. Maar misschien bent u simpelweg een buitengewoon minderwaardig mens of juist iemand die anderen zo noemt, en dan, nu ja, dan verdient u niet eens een gezin.

The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II.

An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal their presence. German soldiers likened the sound to broomsticks and hence named the pilots “Night Witches”.

Some of the aviators were Jewish, like Polina Gelman:

She would be among a half-million Jews who are believed to have served in the Red Army, according to Yad Vashem. They fought not only for the survival of the Soviet Union, but also against the annihilation of their people in Nazi death camps in Poland.

“I have decided to go to the front,” Gelman wrote to her mother, adding, “I am a daughter of the Jewish people” with “a particular account” to settle with Hitler.

The women were barely given proper aircraft — crop dusters! — but they were quiet & maneuverable, ideal for night attacks:

The regiment flew in steel-and-canvas Polikarpov U-2 biplanes, a 1928 design intended for use as training aircraft (hence its original uchebnyy designation prefix of “U-“) and for crop dusting, which also had a special U-2LNB version for the sort of night harassment attack missions flown by the 588th. The plane could carry only 350 kilograms (770 lb) of bombs, so eight or more missions per night were often necessary. Although the aircraft was obsolete and slow, the pilots took advantage of its exceptional maneuverability; it also had a maximum speed that was lower than the stalling speed of both the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, which made it very difficult for German pilots to shoot down…

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