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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38336335

Four different factions live together in fantasy world that is awfully similar to other today's web ...





Ex-candidato a vice-prefeito de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário


cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18000443

É um esforço danado pra omitir quando é de direita.
Ex-candidato (do NOVO) a vice-prefeito (na chapa do PSL) de Niterói é preso acusado de furto milionário






Jessie Gender: Liberalism Can't Save You [2h23m]


her summary from Bluesky:

To celebrate election day, I made a video about the part of liberalism that keeps going “we can fix fascism with a well-crafted podcast episode.”


As esquerdas e a segurança pública - parte 1


cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/17998550


What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47]





Como SILVIO SANTOS reprogramou o BRASILEIRO? - America Latina ep.2


cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/17997865


CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement


Archive: archive.is/XzIwr


DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants


Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned.

The news follows Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of another internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) app called Mobile Fortify that uses facial recognition to nearly instantly bring up someone’s name, date of birth, alien number, and whether they’ve been given an order of deportation. The new local law enforcement-focused app, called Mobile Identify, crystallizes one of the exact criticisms of DHS’s facial recognition app from privacy and surveillance experts: that this sort of powerful technology would trickle down to local enforcement, some of which have a history of making anti-immigrant comments or supporting inhumane treatment of detainees.

Handing “this powerful tech to police is like asking a 16-year old who just failed their drivers exams to pick a dozen classmates to hand car keys to,” Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Security and Surveillance Project, told 404 Media. “These careless and cavalier uses of facial recognition are going to lead to U.S. citizens and lawful residents being grabbed off the street and placed in ICE detention.”

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Jeffrey Epstein had accounts with Goldman Sachs and HSBC, documents show


Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced late financier and sex offender, had accounts at Goldman Sachs (GS.N, HSBC (HSBA.L), and other banks, new court filings show.

The revelations came in previously sealed documents made public by JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), once Epstein's main bank, in a now-settled lawsuit brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a private island residence.

Released to the public on Friday, the report did not provide dollar amounts or details about Epstein's relationships with other banks, but alerted authorities to money transfers he made.

A U.S. judge ordered the documents unsealed in response to requests from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Bloomberg earlier reported the banks' names.

In an emailed statement, Goldman said: "We terminated our client relationship with Mr. Epstein, and his assets were transferred out of the firm in 2010."

HSBC declined to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jeffrey-epstein-had-accounts-with-goldman-sachs-hsbc-documents-show-2025-11-04/



SeaGL, Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, this weekend from 11/07 - 11/08. No cost.


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38329467

Main site at seagl.org/ and they are on fediverse @SeaGL@mastodon.social

A number of talks and expo hall. All are welcome; please help re-share so people can know about it and attend. Lots of the talks will be on streaming as well for remote participation. They also have Matrix chats seagl.org/meet



Shutdown may force US to close some air space next week, official sees 'mass chaos'


U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Tuesday that if the federal government shutdown continues another week it could lead to "mass chaos" and could force him to close some of the national airspace to air traffic, a drastic move that could upend American aviation.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-warns-mass-chaos-may-need-close-some-airspace-if-government-shutdown-2025-11-04/



New Mexico becomes first state to offer free child care for all families


“New Mexico is creating the conditions for better outcomes in health, learning, and well-being,” said Neal Halfon, professor of pediatrics, public health and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In addition to offering free child care, the state has launched initiatives to expand access, including a campaign to recruit more licensed and registered home providers. It also established a $12.7 million low-interest loan fund to help construct, expand and renovate child care facilities.



Anticipazioni Belve 4 novembre 2025: Iva Zanicchi, Irene Pivetti e Adriano Pappalardo ospiti da Francesca Fagnani


Torna stasera, martedì 4 novembre 2025, alle 21:20 su Rai 2, un nuovo appuntamento con Belve, il programma ideato e condotto da Francesca Fagnani.
Il talk-show più irriverente della televisione italiana conferma anche questa settimana la sua formula vincente: interviste dirette, ironiche e profondamente umane, capaci di svelare lati inediti dei protagonisti dello spettacolo e della politica.

LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Anticipazioni Belve 4 novembre 2025: Iva Zanicchi, Irene Pivetti e Adriano Pappalardo ospiti da Francesca Fagnani



Pentagon confirms ‘decapitation strikes’ for Venezuela as armada builds




Jacobin Has Charted Zohran Mamdani’s Rise From the Beginning



in reply to silence7

SAI is not a viable solution in general. I've studied this specifically, and it should be like a break-glass solution, if it all. It should be a "5 billion people will absolutely die unless we don't do it" type of thing.

Once started, it will have to be continued due to threat of termination shock, which could essentially compress all of the climate effects in the next 5 decades into 1 year or so, which will cause many millions of deaths. Also it will negatively affect some areas, and positively affect some areas, but it's very hard to precisely determine those areas, which can lead to geopolitical tensions and even war.



Tommy Robinson is a wasteman, but he shouldn’t have been arrested using terror laws


A court has found Tommy Robinson to be [url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/04/tommy-robinson-cleared-terror-related-offence-phone-code-refusal]innocent[/url] of a terror-related offence. It follows a border stop in which Robinson refused to

A court has found Tommy Robinson to be innocent of a terror-related offence. It follows a border stop in which Robinson refused to hand his phone over to the police. Unfortunately, it’s far from the first time authorities have used terror legislation as a blanket excuse to do whatever they like.

Robinson detained under Terrorism Act


As reported by the BBC, Tommy Robinson was stopped by the police at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. It was there that he was asked to give his phone pin over, and it was there that he refused because he claimed to have “journalist material” on his device. As he was detained under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, police had the right to demand that he unlock his phone, but Robinson refused.

This is what we wrote during the trial:

Now, we here at the Canary don’t consider Robinson to be a journalist because he isn’t one; he’s a political activist who uses the veneer or journalism to push a far-right agenda. At the same time, we are very much opposed to the Terrorism Act and the inevitable overreach which results from it.

Anyone can be arrested at any time for refusing the police access to their electronic devices when ordered to do so under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. No suspicion is required.

No one should support the prosecution of Tommy Robinson under this legislation.

— Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy (@GyllKing) October 13, 2025


Highlighting how terror legislation is frequently used to abuse civil liberties, Emily Apple wrote the following for the Canary back in 2016:

The police have shown repeatedly that they regard fracking protesters as an extremist threat. Fracking protesters have been included in Prevent training about extremism, and campaigners questioned under anti-terrorism legislation at airports.


The government’s proscription of Palestine Action is the most significant misuse of terror legislation to happen recently:

The Met Police in effect confirms that the govt’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “drawing resources away” from defending the public from actual terrorism. Who would have thought? pic.twitter.com/K1gvb1MCRJ

— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) October 4, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish counter-terrorism board found that Palestine Action’s activities fell below the threshold to be considered terrorism before the group were banned by Labour, The National can reveal pic.twitter.com/FJ85pTlqpQ

— The National (@ScotNational) October 14, 2025


If people have broken the law, that needs to be resolved in some fashion. The problem is successive governments and police services have decided that opposing them is an offence in itself – even when said opposition does not cross the threshold of illegality.

This state overreach needs to stop.



When SNAP benefits will arrive is still in flux. Here's what communities are doing to fill the gap


The Trump administration says it will restart the national food aid program known as SNAP using money from a Department of Agriculture contingency fund but will only pay out half the amount participants would normally receive.

In a court filing, officials said depleting that fund means "no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in November, disaster assistance, or as a cushion against the potential catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely."

Starting Nov. 1, SNAP benefits did not hit accounts as expected after the USDA, which administers SNAP, froze funding, citing the federal government shutdown. The shutdown is now in its 35th day.

It is unclear when low-income families who depend on SNAP will receive these partial funds. The Trump administration said it anticipates long delays — "anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months" — before benefits arrive in the hands of registered SNAP recipients.



Deranged Zionist senator Lindsey Graham says the quiet part out loud again


Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham is, once again, saying the quiet part out loud. In a speech to the ‘Republican Jewish Coalition’ – a lobby group that claims to represent Jewish people but makes its real agenda clear by [url=https://web.archiv

Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham is, once again, saying the quiet part out loud.

In a speech to the ‘Republican Jewish Coalition’ – a lobby group that claims to represent Jewish people but makes its real agenda clear by attacking those they consider to “possess strong anti-Israel biases” – Graham wasn’t shy about telling his audience, to frequent cheers, that the US is “killing all the right people” and that if anyone wants to object to US support for Israel they’d better argue with God, exulting that “we’ve run out of bombs” and adding that he feels “good about where we’re going as a nation”:

thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…

This is far from a one-off for the rancid Graham, who has previously threatened to invade the International Criminal Court for daring to issue an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s called for Gaza to be nuked, called for Israel to sink humanitarian boats trying to deliver aid to Gaza, demanded the US bomb Iran just in case it ever posed a danger to Israel and accused the United Nations relief agency, UNRWA, of teaching Palestinians in Gaza to “kill all the Jews”.

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Judge says allegations of conditions at Chicago-area immigration site are 'disgusting'


The government is accused of denying detainees proper access to food, water and medical care and coercing them to sign documents they don’t understand. Without that knowledge, and without private communication with lawyers, they have unknowingly relinquished their rights and faced deportation, the lawsuit alleges.

“This is not an issue of not getting a toilet or a Fiji water bottle,” attorney Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthur Justice Center told the judge. “These are a set of dire conditions that when taken together paint a harrowing picture.”

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman presided at the hearing just days after Van Brunt’s group and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed the lawsuit and sought a temporary restraining order. The judge said the allegations are “disgusting.”

https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-broadview-c1cce6344d39da317179f3619daa026a





in reply to return2ozma

10 Richest Americans Have ~~Gained~~ Stolen $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection




November 2025 ForumWG Meeting


[strong]November 2025 ForumWG Meeting[/strong] Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently [strong]18h00 to 19h00 UTC[/strong]). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meet

November 2025 ForumWG Meeting

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 18h00 to 19h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 2 October 2025.

Please note the time difference if applicable, ForumWG meeting times follow Eastern (± Daylight) Time Zone.

Meeting link: meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg

Discussions will continue re:

  • Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)
in reply to julian

Re: November 2025 ForumWG Meeting


Apologies, I had the date wrong, the next meeting will be held on 6 November 2025





~~Probably an odd bug in WG Tunnel - either upload or download slow based on MTU~~ Edit: And it was an IPv6 leak (for the most part)


Edit: Yay, with MTU < 1280 the client seems to just disable IPv6, including the ::/0 in AllowedIPs.
Disabling IPv6 also fixed the low upload speed (probably getting a better route over Wireguard).
That also explains why the differences didn't present themselves with iperf3, as that absolutely had to use Wireguard.
What remains now is why TCP download takes such a huge hit, while it doesn't on laptop.

Not asking for support (anymore). I tried the official Wireguard client, and the issue doesn't present itself there.
So likely a bug, but a bit interesting.
Welp, few hours of playing around and searching wasted.
~~At least you might not waste time with it too, like I did, and I already wrote this...~~

App used: github.com/wgtunnel/wgtunnel

So, this seems like a bit of a magic.
"Server" has MTU of 1420, its connection is 1500. The now-limited ifconfig in Termux shows 1500 for data interface.
I've seen a few people mention the 80 bytes is overhead of WG.

I've had issues with far slower download speed (half expected), so I switched MTU to 1280 (minimum for IPv6) which worked for me in the past for Mullvad. No luck.
I've got an idea, that perhaps if my data interface is 1280, then I should try 1200. That worked... for download. Now upload got significantly slower. I also tried matching MTU on "server" but that made no difference. I also tried some fairly low values like 500, which worked for download, but further killed upload. So far that testing was done using speedtest.net and fast.com.

Through trial and error I've found:
if MTU >= 1280 then upload speed is normal, but download slower
if MTU <= 1279 then download speed is normal, but upload slower

Tailscale is using 1280, and is fine in both directions. Moving to iperf3 (seemingly unaffected by MTU changes):

Plain wireguard


Download (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 33.2 MBytes 13.9 Mbits/sec 117 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 32.2 MBytes 13.5 Mbits/sec receiver

Upload (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   101 MBytes  42.4 Mbits/sec  401            sender
[  5]   0.00-20.17  sec   100 MBytes  41.6 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Download (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.13 sec 480 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/410100 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 267 MBytes 112 Mbits/sec 0.047 ms 174331/402352 (43%) receiver
Upload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   477 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/407504 (0%)  sender
[  5]   0.00-20.54  sec   119 MBytes  48.5 Mbits/sec  0.201 ms  305999/407495 (75%)  receiver

Conclusion: TCP download significantly slower.

Tailscale


Download (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 236 MBytes 98.6 Mbits/sec 2 sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 233 MBytes 97.7 Mbits/sec receiver

Upload (TCP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   120 MBytes  50.2 Mbits/sec  625            sender
[  5]   0.00-20.15  sec   119 MBytes  49.6 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Download (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Jitter Lost/Total Datagrams
[ 5] 0.00-20.12 sec 480 MBytes 200 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms 0/409543 (0%) sender
[ 5] 0.00-20.00 sec 254 MBytes 107 Mbits/sec 0.039 ms 176388/393285 (45%) receiver
Upload (UDP)
```<>
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  5]   0.00-20.00  sec   477 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/407167 (0%)  sender
[  5]   0.00-20.29  sec   138 MBytes  57.2 Mbits/sec  0.196 ms  289036/407167 (71%)  receiver

Conclusion: No significant difference between UDP vs TCP.

Note: 200 Mbits/sec in UDP tests refers to my pre-set limit, as higher speeds wouldn't be achieved anyway. Otherwise it keeps spraying out at full speed if no limit is set.

And now for the biggest oddity: My laptop speeds are fine even with default 1420 MTU, even though it runs over hostpot.

What magic is going on in here?

Also, the VPS doesn't have IPv6, so it's probably not that being routed slower in one direction (as IPv6 requires 1280).

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in reply to u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

I don't have an answer for your woes, but MTU issues are notoriously difficult to investigate and mitigate, as Cloudflare found out: blog.cloudflare.com/increasing…
in reply to litchralee

Welp, turns out I am just an idiot. 1279 and below disabled IPv6, and thus the ::/0 route didn't get applied either, causing a leak. What's still odd is the lower download speed that doesn't happen in another client.
As for the upload, it probably gets a better route through the VPS, giving me a faster speed, and giving me some confusion.

So my first idea with IPv6 was close, but on the other side of the connection.

Anyway, your reply helped me find this issue, as my outtake was to try fully disabling IPv6 (not the first time I tried such "solution").






in reply to sabreW4K3

Who tf uses google anymore anyway?
(I know, I know, a sea of normies)


Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]


cross-posted from: lemmings.world/post/36014604
in reply to parody

If you are lazy put your kindle into airplane mode until you find time to jailbreak your kindle. I actually jailbroke it using the previous winterbreak method last week, since I had kept my kindle in airplane mode using calibre.
in reply to Lfrith

This is what I did. Haven't felt the need to take it off of airplane mode yet.
in reply to ilinamorato

Yeah, I put it into airplane mode when I heard Amazon was going to push an update removing some feature. Then just kept using it as I did before using calibre to send books.

Finally decided to jailbreak it and I am glad I did since the custom lockscreens and koreader has been cool.

in reply to Lfrith

I'm honestly surprised how many people I see doing this. No judgement , it's just now how I use the device.

I couldn't give up my syncing of progress! I love being able to pick up on the Kindle app on my phone if I'm in a waiting room then back to my kindle proper at home.

I'm jazzed to finally have been able to jailbreak my device so I can use KoReader on both the phone and Kindle and keep the same experience.

in reply to TheFerventLion

Is KOReader android only? I don’t see it in the App Store.
The main feature of the Amazon reader apps for me is the position sync so I can read on the go. I’d hate to lose that feature.
in reply to CatSuperVillain

Unfortunately I believe it isn't available on iOS. On Android you can install it from a few sources. Directly from GitHub, or via F-Droid(or something similar). I'm with you though, that feature is key to me not scrolling forever.
in reply to TheFerventLion

After digging a little further, there is an iOS alternative called Readest (github.com/readest/readest) available in the App Store. Along with this video to walk you through the sync process m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfP-qLMh… Overall, it took about an hour for me to get everything set up after I found these resources and I’m super stoked.
in reply to parody

If you jailbreak, can you revert to an older version of kindle os?


New far-right prime minister installed in Japan


On Tuesday, Japan’s parliament installed Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as prime minister. The elevation to power of this ultra-nationalist, pro-war figure comes with a new ruling coalition that is rapidly pushing establishment politics even further to the right.
in reply to technocrit

I'll bet the Chinese are thrilled.

I'm concerned about the rise of the far right on Europe and the Americas, but not so much with Japan. If Japan starts getting froggy, China will remember what they did to them in WWII, and crush them decisively, with help from every other Asian country, who also remembers Japan's behavior. Asia HATES Japan.



Reducing Homelab Laptop energy consumption


I've been using my old Laptop from my university days as a home server for some time now. It runs the latest Ubuntu LTS with Jellyfin and Home Assistant both in docker containers.

When it's idle it pulls about 10 Watts, which is Not great, but not terrible either.

So I was wondering what I could do to reduce that number. I'm looking for low hanging fruit rather than complex hacks like CPU undervolting or what have you.

Thanks in advance!

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in reply to TypFaffke

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it's powered off.
in reply to TypFaffke

One of the best ways to reduce power consumption on older laptops is to change the HDD to an SDD.

But don't expect to get below 10W on an old laptop.




Satellite Snooping Reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data


in reply to Special Wall

It reads like "definitely should not happen" was indeed happening!

I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.

in reply to mjr

More likely "encryption in satellites is expensive, so let's not do that. Pennies saved on my quarterly report, yay!".


‘China is watching’: Finland warns defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine key to stability in Indo-Pacific, says Australia has 'tremendous' role in supporting Kyiv


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44795915

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Defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is critical to restraining China in the Indo-Pacific, Finland’s defence minister has said, warning Europe and democratic partners, including Australia, face a fight of global consequences.
Antti Häkkänen praised Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on two Russian oil companies last week, calling the move a major sign of resolve by the US president against Vladimir Putin’s three-year long war.

In an interview with Guardian Australia at the ministry of defence in Helsinki, Häkkänen said the West’s willingness to stay the course in opposing Russia’s aggression would be closely scrutinised.

“China is watching. Does the West have a muscle and resilience, when the autocrats and dictators think they can wage war for another year, and the democratic countries will become fed up?

“No. We have to show that we are even more putting stronger support against violence. It’s not only on Ukraine. It’s against violence, against war, and that’s a signal also for China and the Indo-Pacific area.”

Ending the Ukraine conflict required a three-pillar approach, he said:
- tougher sanctions on the Russian economy and energy exports;
- stronger military assistance to Ukraine;
- and the use of long-range weapons to destroy factories for drones and missiles.

[...]

Häkkänen said any weakness in resolve would embolden China.
“If there will be some kind of military conflict in the Indo-Pacific area, caused by China, Russia will be somehow involved, through supporting China or something like that,” he said.

“We see now that Russia, by their own resources, cannot continue this kind of warfare, but China is helping them a great deal. They are giving a lot of money to support their economy, from energy exports, and giving them a lot of military components and industrial cooperation.”

[...]

China considers Taiwan part of its territory and foreign policy experts believe Beijing is aiming to be capable of making a military move against its independence as early as 2027, amid increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.

While criticising countries not pulling their weight with Ukraine, Häkkänen said he was optimistic about possible peace.

“European countries have in the last month or so chosen really good steps in supporting Ukraine, investing heavily in our own defence.”

[...]

Häkkänen, who has met the [Australian] defence minister, Richard Marles, said Australia had played a “tremendous” role as one of the biggest non-Nato contributors supporting Ukraine.

“It’s a big political message here in Europe, that Australia has been a part of the support,” he said. “That will send the signal that if Australia has some challenges in security or defence, Europe knows that we have to be in the same family.”



Russia’s shortage of workers is so severe that it is luring foreigners into sweatshops


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Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient, despite years of sanctions and economic statecraft. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t deep cracks in Russia’s unstable economic foundation, with only a thin veneer masking increasingly severe shortages — especially of workers.

Russia is in a desperate labor bind. The country has a shrinking, aging population — a fact it ignores as it sends its young men into the meatgrinder of the war in Ukraine. To generate military manpower, Russia has gotten creative, recruiting criminals out of prisons, North Koreans, and mental health patients. Regardless, the endless need for fresh troops on the front line has taken bodies away from industry just as Russia’s military-industrial needs are expanding rapidly.

Russia now desperately needs to fill jobs on assembly lines that make war materiel, but it has a plan: exploiting the Global South, including its so-called friends.

BRICS members India, Brazil, and South Africa have all been recruitment targets for what appears to be forced labor. Russia issues to their citizens a siren song against which many young women are unable to steel themselves, with devastating results.

For at least two years, Russian company Alabuga Special Economic Zone has been luring young women from developing countries with the promise of good jobs and educational opportunities. When they arrive, they are pressed into drone production. They are made to work with corrosive chemicals for long hours, with restricted communications and few or no rights. The women have faced sexual harassment and seen “deductions” taken from their already meager pay for things like rent.

[...]

Educational institutions in Uganda and Burkina Faso have hosted Alabuga recruitment drives; economy-focused civil society organizations in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Madagascar have met with Alabuga officials; and diplomats from African and Latin American states have visited and some have promoted Alabuga sites.

Alabuga SEZ has targeted 84 countries, prioritizing recruitment in Africa and Latin America. Although some countries have called out Russian labor fraud, it has been too little, too late. South Africa’s warning and investigation, which began in August, does little to help women already taken to these sweatshops.

[...]

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5558495-russias-shortage-of-workers-is-so-severe-that-it-is-luring-foreigners-into-sweatshops

in reply to Hotznplotzn

Relevant:
themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/27/…
lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791056


Ukraine War: Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry


cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791055

Archived

Kenyans have been "lured" by recruiters into fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the Kenyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.

Many have ended up detained in military camps across Russia, said the statement signed by Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi.

It did not give any numbers for the recruits, nor how many had been detained or hurt.

The Foreign Ministry said it held a "crucial meeting" last month with Russian officials to help secure their release and repatriation.

Kenyans are being "lured by... corrupt and ruthless agents to travel to Russia and unknowingly find themselves in the Russian military operation," Kenya's Foreign Ministry said.

[...]