China's Trade Surplus Breaks World Record in First Half of 2025 Amid US Tariff Challenges
China's Trade Surplus Breaks World Record in First Half of 2025 Amid US Tariff Challenges | DataTrack
In the first half of 2025, China’s goods trade surplus reached 586 billion US dollars, setting a historic high with a significant 34% increase compared to the same period last year.DataTrack
10 ChatGPT-5 Prompts That Will Save Your Startup Time and Money
10 ChatGPT-5 Prompts That Will Save Your Startup Time and Money
Starting a startup is like juggling flaming swords while riding a unicycle—exciting but tricky.OpenGrowth (OpenGrowth Weekly Newsletter)
The usage of Linux and Open Source (a study on the possible usage of Linux and Open Source on the PC within the Commission environment)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34545365
From December 2002 to April 2005, a pilot was conducted in DG INFSO to evaluate the use of Linux based PC's in the Commission environment, which involved a selected group of users. This group consisted of about 40 persons with a wide diversity of functional profiles (project officer, secretary, financial officer, deputy director general, assistant, etc. …). The scope of the pilot was the testing of the interoperability between the Linux and the Windows environment in terms of electronic file and printer sharing, text processing, spreadsheet, presentation, email / groupware software, other software and support facilities, this specifically in the EC environment.In co-operation with the Informatics Directorate, a reference configuration was set-up on a number of PC's based on the Linux Operating System and other Open Software products.
Main conclusions are:
- The integration of the Linux based clients in the Windows NT environment did not cause any problems. Integration in the newer NET1 environment (based on the Active Directory) was also successful without major problems. Electronic files and printers both from the Linux environment and the Windows environment could be shared with each other.
- Compatibility tests of the Open Source text processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software were generally satisfactory. Conversion of complex documents showed to be sometimes problematic because of the differences between MS Word and OpenOffice and some problems were encountered with the proprietary fonts of Microsoft. On the other hand, some features were available in OpenOffice that did not exist in the Microsoft Office suite. Further improvements are to be expected now that Microsoft is supporting XML based file formats. Some problems relating to important Commission-specific extensions to MS Word, such as the ones used for the preparation of official notes and legal documents, were identified. A redevelopment of these extensions would be required to solve this issue.
- At the level of the email most of the features are available and no major problems were encountered. However, the shared mail and calendar resources functionality caused several problems at the level of the interoperability with the present Commission email infrastructure. Interoperability tests with the future Commission email infrastructure (foreseen for implementation in 2006) were positive and most of the problems were solved. Some problems relating to specific extensions used within the Commission (Email Archiving System) remained. The question can be raised if a totally new environment based on Open Source at Commission level could be envisaged. Several Open Source solutions are available with functionality comparable to Microsoft's email platform. Initiatives worthwhile mentioning are the development of Kroupware (funded by the German Administration), eGroupWare and OpenGroupware.
- Compatibility tests of Commission-wide applications were negative. Redevelopment of these types of applications as web applications will resolve the problems. The Commission environment would evolve to a more Windows-independent environment, if a strategy could be adopted on these lines. Within the present planning of DG DIGIT it isforeseen that the corporate applications under their responsibility will be redeveloped by 2008. This is already a realisation of a large part of that strategy. However, it is imperative that any web application should be developed in a browser independent way, which should be feasible to do. The browser independence is further emphasised by the commitment of the Commission to implement the first level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for the Europa and the Intracomm website.
- The Open Source world has proven to have the ability to adapt to new versions of the Microsoft software / environment. This was demonstrated with the changeover from the NT domain to the NET1 domain and with the changeover from the older versions of Office / Email to the newer versions. Sometimes there was a delay in the development of the adaptation depending on the magnitude of the differences. Also, sometimes certain useful features available in OpenSource world do not exist in the corresponding software in the Microsoft environment.
- The availability of third party software is not completely positive and is greatly depending on the market and profit analysis done by the corresponding software vendor. The question can again be raised if totally new software based on Open Source could not be envisaged. Most of the time Open Source solutions are available with functionality comparable to the original third party software.In general, the Linux platforms that were tested show a very fair level of usability and compatibility. An environment based on Linux is today technically feasible for limited groups with specific needs. Although there are many other factors that could play a role in the decision in favour of the implementation of an environment based on Linux, the present testing shows that is not possible to implement it at this moment in time on a large scale. Amongst the most blocking factors is the availability of Commission and local applications. The redevelopment of applications would be necessary to solve this problem. In any case, a migration of more than 25000 users is an entirely different project with different objectives, starting with a necessary cost/benefit analysis. The project of a general migration would need to be prepared and planned very carefully, in the hypothesis of a satisfactory OSS platform and a political and technical decision, in order to guarantee minimal disturbance to the users and a similar level of functionality.
Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish
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Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is run by Peter Kyle MP, who knows nothing about science or technology and brags that he cribs from ChatGPT to do his job. The Department al…Pivot to AI
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Same for the mockery of .ml users. Guess humor must be subjective!
Some people think that's funny, some people think "Libs bad, upvotes to the left" is funny.
Jellyfish force French nuclear plant to shut down
Jellyfish force French nuclear plant to shut down
A "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" swarmed the site's cooling system, its operator says.Maia Davies (BBC News)
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(ICW-NRU) Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel & Meta, The Greatest Global Mass Censorship Campaign to Ever Exist
There are more leaks that will be shared in the coming days. Many of which are related to mass censorship, theft, fraud going on at Meta.
This is just one leak related to censorship and Israel. There are still more.
I think it's implied that the predator did kill a lot of them, otherwise they wouldn't have the demon legend.
But predators also have a stricter moral code than humanity's big game / trophy / regular hunters, who mostly kill defenseless creatures. They won't kill anything unarmed, or who can't harm. And in predator 2 they refuse to kill a captured prey (danny glover) that successfully defended himself and killed one of their own, and even give him one of their trophies out of respect.
Overall tho hunting is an activity mostly done by bored bourgeois parasites... the villian of the short story the most dangerous game is a russian tsarist aristocrat who hunts people for fun.
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Its also shown in later movies that various other predators will hurt weak creatures if it serves their purposes. The original predator (dubbed "The Jungle Hunter" by the fandom, I guess) seems to have been one of the more "moral" individual Yujata.
Which I think it is pretty fucking interesting
androidastica sparizione delle icone dei ragni (glitch per cui le scorciatoie web spariscono dal launcher)
Tutte le volte che penso, presumo, ritengo di odiare tremendamente Android… puntualmente scopro che il mio odio è sempre più basso di quello che davvero dovrebbe essere per questo sistema oberativo letteralmente bacato, infestato dai problemi, introgolato di merda che porca puttana… SPARISCONO LE FOTTUTE SCORCIATOIE SULLA SCHERMATA HOME!!! Una roba così pestifera non è […]
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androidastica sparizione delle icone dei ragni (glitch per cui le scorciatoie web spariscono dal launcher)
Tutte le volte che penso, presumo, ritengo di odiare tremendamente Android… puntualmente scopro che il mio odio è sempre più basso di quello che davvero dovrebbe essere per questo sistema oberativo letteralmente bacato, infestato dai problemi, introgolato di merda che porca puttana… SPARISCONO LE FOTTUTE SCORCIATOIE SULLA SCHERMATA HOME!!! Una roba così pestifera non è mai successa nemmeno su Windows, o qualunque altro sistema che notoriamente non funziona mai bene… Sarà forse questo, la sparizione delle icone, che i fanboy segretamente intendono quando dicono che “su Android tutto è possibile“…??? 😫Più di preciso, qualche settimana fa mi stavo (ri)lamentando di questo problema per cui a volte, a caso, quando gli piace a lui, stranamente non sempre (insomma, non è manco un bug ricreabile al 100%), dopo un riavvio del sistema mi spariscono tutte (zio totalitario…) le scorciatoie ai siti, sia normali che PWA, appunto dalla home… ma mai nessuna scorciatoia ad app native. A quel punto però avevo preso atto della merdata, avevo imputato immediatamente tutta la colpa al launcher di MIUI (dato che non ricordo questa cosa succedere su altri dispositivi o altre ROM), e avevo quindi installato Lawnchair (usando il terminale per superare il blocco di cambio launcher), e perdendo così 20 crediti sociali… 💔
Peccato che stamattina è successo di nuovo, dopo che ho dovuto riavviare il telefono perché dal nulla mentre lo stavo usando aveva preso a glitcharsi, con la app che avevo in foreground che era crashata e la home che mostrava una schermata nera anziché caricare il launcher… e quindi, sotto sotto, la colpa non era di Xiaomi, e quindi ancora una volta la deduzione dei miei crediti sociali si rivela giustificata. In effetti, cercando un po’ meglio dell’altra volta, ho trovato sul web delle segnalazioni di questo preciso glitch… e in effetti la cosa non pare legata per niente a Xiaomi: . 🙀
Mi verrebbe da pensare che non ho mai notato questa rogna nel lontano passato solo perché non usavo così tante webapp… ma sul tablet attualmente ho più o meno la stessa quantità di scorciatoie del telefono, eppure rimozioni coatte lì non ne ho ancora (ancora…) mai (mai!!!) viste. Comunque sia, un fatto rimane, e cioè che questo è un fottuto problema, perché le scorciatoie alle webapp MI SERVONO! E il perché lo dice il nome stesso: sono short-cuts, servono a tagliare corto, cosa che è specialmente necessaria su un dispositivo che già è laggante… ma poi perché le webapp vanno per forza installate sulla home per fungere da PWA, quindi avere la loro scheda nella schermata multitasking e non avere l’interfaccia del browser in alto a rubare spazio. 😵La cosa più strana è che, a questo punto, non riesco a comprendere a cosa sia quindi dovuto il problema. Tolti launcher e ROM, penserei al browser stesso (o parte di esso, in caso di fork), nonostante una app Android di per sé non abbia alcun modo di far sparire le sue stesse scorciatoie… ma, nonostante buona parte delle volte le icone che spariscono sono quelle di Mulch (Chromium), sono abbastanza sicura di aver visto anche quelle poche di Firefox che ancora avevo in giro venir spedite al regno delle ombre, una (1) volta quella settimana passata in cui cringiavo con i launcher e mi si era inspiegabilmente resettato il predefinito da Lawnchair a quello MIUI dopo un riavvio. La stringa di Intent per le scorciatoie di Chromium è perfettamente identica a qualsiasi di deep link per qualsiasi app nativa, se non per il fatto che il nome interno è un UUID anziché il nome della Activity ripetuto, quindi perché cazzo spariscono??? 🌋
Un telefono con la mela stampata dietro, ovviamente, non posso permettermelo, nonostante (almeno, penso, poi che la mia aura sia capace di far spuntare sempre bug in tutto è un’altra storia) lì le icone non prendano a fottutamente sparire da un momento all’altro dalla home… quindi, che cazzo si fa??? Non lo so. A parte magari provare Edge (sigh) anche sul telefono oltre che sul tablet, perché hanno cambiato talmente tanta roba in quel robo che forse il bug non c’è… potrei solo rispolverare l’idea del browserocto, quel browserino minimale fatto principalmente per le webapp che non fu mai completato… Ma comunque CHE PALLE, sia mai che le cose funzionino! 😭
#Android #launcher #scorciatoie #shortcuts #webapp #webapps
💖💣 in OTIDroid | OTI
Più che altro, esiste probabilmente qualche comando da ADB per impostare il launcher predefinito, saltando il controllo di Sicurezza che si attiva presumibilmente solo dalle impostazioni grafiche del sistema...Telegram
Google’s AI model Gemma overlooks women’s health
Google’s AI model Gemma overlooks women’s health | LSE research
New LSE research finds AIs model may introduce gender bias in care decisions, affecting how social workers assess women’s physical and mental health.www.lse.ac.uk
Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules
A High Court ruling in the UK has quashed Wikipedia’s attempt to overturn part of the country’s divisive Online Safety Act.David Mouriquand (Euronews.com)
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Unreleased Movie Screeners Leak Online, Including Star-Studded 'In the Hand of Dante'
Just weeks before its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Julian Schnabel's star-studded film 'In the Hand of Dante' has suffered a major setback after a high-quality screener copy leaked online. The leak is not an isolated incident as copies of other unreleased movies have also appeared online, some of which also have an Italian connection.
Unreleased Movie Screeners Leak Online, Including Star-Studded 'In the Hand of Dante' * TorrentFreak
Just weeks before its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Julian Schnabel's star-studded film 'In the Hand of Dante' has leaked online.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by misusing app store market power, but rejects some of Epic's claims
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Michael Atkin (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Hacker Runs macOS Apps on iOS Hardware Without Breaking Secure Boot
Hacker Runs macOS Apps on iOS Hardware Without Breaking Secure Boot
Researcher Duy Tran has managed to get macOS 13.4 partially running on a jailbroken iPhone XS Max running iOS 16.5.Bill Mann (CyberInsider)
Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google
‘Play by the rules’: Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google
Fortnite was kicked off Google and Apple app stores in 2020 after Epic Games offered its own in-app payment systemJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
It was always about the game.All Epic cares about is their own profit margins and control over distribution.
These statements contradict each other. If all Epic cares about is money, the other game doesn't matter as long as it sells.
📊 Solo il 6% della plastica è usato per l’abbigliamento. Perché la moda inquina così tanto?
Uno studio dell’UNDP rivela che solo il 6% della plastica globale finisce nell’abbigliamento, contro il 31% degli imballaggi o il 16% dell’edilizia. Eppure, la moda è spesso considerata uno dei settori più inquinanti al mondo. Come mai?
🔍 Cosa non dice quel 6%?
I dati dell’UNDP misurano solo la plastica come materia prima, ma l’impatto della moda va ben oltre:
• 🌊 Inquinamento idrico: Il 20% dell’inquinamento industriale delle acque viene dalle tinture tessili (Banca Mondiale). I tessuti sintetici (es. poliestere) rilasciano microplastiche, responsabili del 35% dell’inquinamento da microplastiche negli oceani (IUCN).
• ☁️ Emissioni : La moda produce 4-10% delle emissioni globali di CO₂ (più di aerei e navi insieme, UNEP).
• 🗑️ Rifiuti : Ogni secondo, un camion di vestiti finisce in discarica o viene bruciato (Ellen MacArthur Foundation). Meno dell’1% viene riciclato.
• 💧 Risorse: Una maglietta di cotone richiede 2.700 litri d’acqua (WWF).
🏆 La moda è davvero il 2° settore più inquinante?
Dipende dagli studi:
• 1° posto: Petrolio e gas.
• 2° posto: Alcuni includono la moda per l’insieme di danni (acqua, CO₂, rifiuti). Altri la piazzano dopo agricoltura o allevamento.✅ Conclusione
Quel 6% è solo la punta dell’iceberg. L’inquinamento della moda deriva dall’intero ciclo: produzione, uso, smaltimento. Serve un cambio sistemico, non solo sostituire il poliestere.
Cosa fare?
• Sostenere la moda circolare.
• Comprare meno, indossare di più.
• Pretendere trasparenza dai brand.📌 Fonte: UNDP | Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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🔗🇬🇧 Only 6% of plastic production goes to clothing—so why is fashion a top polluter?
Plastic production: Only 6% goes to clothing (UNDP) - suite123
The UNDP released a breakdown on plastic production: Only 6% of plastic production goes to clothing—so why is fashion a top polluter?suite123
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China solar cell exports grow 73% in the first half of 2025, doubling to over 40% of all solar products.
China solar cell exports grow 73% in 2025 | Ember
India’s demand for solar cells sees exports of the product from China increase by over 70% in the first half of 2025, doubling to 40% of all solar products as solar panel exports stagnate.Ember
'Anti-Racist' ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt Laments Rising 'Intermarriage Rates' Among Jews
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, in an interview with the Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner released on Thursday, lamented that "intermarriage rates" are continuing to rise among Jews.
ADL CEO JONATHAN GREENBLATT: I have met a lot of October 8th Jews for whom the massacre on October 7th was a wake-up call. I've met a lot of people who feel much more galvanized, much more organized. But that will only be sustained if we offer them, you know, ways to participate in a real and robust way in Jewish life.COHEN: And whose responsibility is that?
GREENBLATT: All of ours. But like, this is why we need a revolution in our community, on so many levels. So look, the reality is is that intermarriage rates continue to go up. Assimilation continues apace.
And look, I fight anti-Semitism. That is my job. But I worry a great deal about broader questions of Jewish identity, as I think we talked about over lunch. And so I think it's really important that our synagogues, our schools, summer camps, all of our institutions and the federations and denominations and other groups that sort of manage them. I think we all need to look in the mirror and make sure that we're doing everything we can to adapt and to iterate and to be part of where the world is going, not just where the world has been.
The ADL, as the leading "anti-racist" and "anti-hate" group in the country, decries opposition to intermarriage on their website and even has an entire curriculum for American school children encouraging intermarriage titled "Winning the Right to Marry: Historic Parallels."
'Anti-Racist' ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt Laments Rising 'Intermarriage Rates' Among Jews
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, in an interview with the Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner released on Thursday, lamented that 'intermarriage rates' are contiInformationLiberation
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You've cultivated an ability to cherrypick at the expense of an ability to have a cohesive discussion or make a sound argument. This is particularly notable in your defense of Twitter use, as @Tomassci@sh.itjust.works pointed out.
I was operating under the impression that you might eventually meander, however accidentally, toward a point, but you have repeatedly failed to do so. Your incessant need to derail a discussion is not the type of engagement I wish to foster, and this community is definitely not "progressive" if your continued and active presence here is any indication. I sincerely hope that you are someday able to climb out of the confused, right-wing hole you've dug for yourself.
Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
I'm also against AI for privacy reasons, but can we please stop pretending that it's destroying the environment.
Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet
The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movementAndy Masley (The Weird Turn Pro)
The numbers clearly show that discouraging individual people from using chatbots is a pointless distraction for the climate movement
That synopsis would've been better instead of the warning.
elon is using the fresh aquifer drinking water of the memphis sands aquifer to cool grok. he promised to build a wastewater plant for cooling but he hasn’t. shocked-pikachu.gif
he’s also powering it off of lng turbine generators that are flooding south memphis with air pollution.
please do not use grok.
X-ploitation: How X Became a Crossroads for Child Abuse and Influence Operations
X-ploitation: How X Became a Crossroads for Child Abuse and Influence Operations - Alliance4Europe
A coordinated inauthentic behaviour network hijacked hashtags, publishing explicit CSAM videos, and trying to promote CSAM websites for at least 3 months.Saman Nazari (Alliance4Europe)
Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies two months being shot at campaign event
The right-wing presidential candidate was shot at a campaign event in June
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good ideas about how to give more user agency in a scrolling list of content
Algorithmic Underground
Algorithmic Underground
I have been thinking about something Jean Baudrillard said a lot recently. It comes to mind because of the current moment and what is happening around generative AI. He said, "Art does not die because there is no more art.jmsdnns.com
I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
Robots won't replace me, but another human probably will.Thomasorus
G-SHOCK Launches Limited Edition NFTs and Virtual Game Space in The Sandbox Metaverse
According to @borgetsebastien, the G-SHOCK brand is entering The Sandbox (SAND) Metaverse with 'G-SHOCK City', a new virtual game space that offers immersive experiences based on the G-SHOCK worldview. The project will also launch limited edition robot-style official NFTs as avatars, potentially increasing demand for SAND tokens and related NFT assets. This collaboration is expected to drive user engagement and trading volume within The Sandbox ecosystem, providing new opportunities for NFT collectors and SAND traders. Source: @borgetsebastien.
Diving deeper into the NFT aspect, the limited edition robot-style avatars from G-SHOCK are poised to become hot commodities in The Sandbox marketplace. Trading volumes for Sandbox NFTs have shown spikes during such launches, with average floor prices rising by 15-25% in the initial week, according to data tracked on OpenSea. Savvy traders might look for entry points in SAND/USDT or SAND/BTC pairs on major exchanges, capitalizing on potential volatility. On-chain metrics, such as increased wallet activity and transaction counts on the Ethereum network (where Sandbox operates), could signal bullish trends. For example, if daily active users in The Sandbox surge post-launch, it might correlate with a 10-15% uptick in SAND's 24-hour trading volume, providing clear trading signals. Risk-averse investors should watch for broader crypto market indicators, like Bitcoin's dominance, which could cap gains if it exceeds 50%.
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AI could soon detect early voice box cancer from the sound of your voice
AI could soon detect early voice box cancer from the sound of your voice
Vocal fold lesions and early stages of laryngeal cancer alter acoustics of the voice, paving the way for AI recognitionMichiel Dijkstra (Frontiers | Science news)
(ICW-NRU) Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel & Meta, The Greatest Global Mass Censorship Campaign to Ever Exist
There are more leaks that will be shared in the coming days. Many of which are related to mass censorship, theft, fraud going on at Meta.
This is just one leak related to censorship and Israel. There are still more.
Leave your home offices at home: Starbucks draws the line at desktops
Leave your home offices at home: Starbucks draws the line at desktops - The Korea Herald
Starbucks Korea is telling customers to leave their home offices at home. The company has banned the use of desktop computers, printers, power strips and largeMoon Joon-hyun (The Korea Herald)
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TheGuardian portrays US anti-China think-tank employee as a "Leeds Teenager"
TheGuardian writes a hearbreaking highly journalistic and definitely not set up report about a poor innocent "Leeds Teenager".
Conveniently TheGuardian forgets to mention the organisation Cheung works for but starts off about it being a total surprise that Cheung got targeted because she's such a normal girl just doing activism. Only further down the article it mentions
She had been working as a communications assistant for a campaign group in the UK that advocates for democracy in Hong Kong.
Even this sparse information is false. Cheung still works for CFHK. Also it is not a UK campaign group but a US based think tank. The CFHK staff consists of 7 Americans and two Hong Kong'ers holding low positions in the organisation including miss Cheung
Be impressed by directors Mark L. Clifford, Mark Sabah and Jonathan Stivers for being so interconnected with Hong Kong and fighting for it out of the goodness of their hearts. There is no external motivation here.
‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head
After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiantTom Levitt (The Guardian)
TheGuardian portrays US anti-China think-tank employee as a "Leeds Teenager"
TheGuardian writes a hearbreaking highly journalistic and definitely not set up report about a poor innocent "Leeds Teenager".
Conveniently TheGuardian forgets to mention the organisation Cheung works for but starts off about it being a total surprise that Cheung got targeted because she's such a normal girl just doing activism. Only further down the article it mentions
She had been working as a communications assistant for a campaign group in the UK that advocates for democracy in Hong Kong.
Even this sparse information is false. Cheung still works for CFHK. Also it is not a UK campaign group but a US based think tank. The CFHK staff consists of 7 Americans and two Hong Kong'ers holding low positions in the organisation including miss Cheung
Be impressed by directors Mark L. Clifford, Mark Sabah and Jonathan Stivers for being so interconnected with Hong Kong and fighting for it out of the goodness of their hearts. There is no external motivation here.
‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head
After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiantTom Levitt (The Guardian)
Had been working instead of has been working. Had means past tense which is no longer the case. But she still works there The mention of her organisation is completely near the end of the article after a lot of "I was scrolling on Instagram and was totally surprised!!"
he board has 3 politically connected Americans on it, which is a bit weird,
More like 7. Only two Hong Kong'ers which do the outwards "activism".
My entire post might read extremely weird if you don't understand the background of American paid think tanks writing propaganda using people who barely have any connection to their home country.
I recommend this video on a Palestinian doing propaganda for similar American think tanks to have a better understanding of what's going on here youtu.be/7E8JJUnFNo4?t=1385
How is Anna's Archive being attacked?
Publishing Giants Escalate War on 'Shadow Libraries' With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena * TorrentFreak
Major academic publishers are trying to unmask the operators of several “shadow library” and piracy domains.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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"If you’ve noticed Anna’s Archive being down or glitchy this past week, here’s what’s probably going on behind the scenes.
Big academic publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature have been stepping up legal actions against shadow libraries, including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, Libgen, and even SLUM (the uptime monitor).
They got a DMCA subpoena from a U.S. federal court that forces Cloudflare—who a lot of these sites use for CDN and protection—to hand over info on who runs these sites.
This is part of their plan to find and go after the people behind these libraries. Cloudflare doesn’t actually host any content, but since they help keep these sites online, targeting them is a way to put pressure on the whole operation.
So if Anna’s Archive has been unstable or offline, this legal pressure is probably why. It’s also a sign the fight over these sites is heating up, and whether the sites stay up depends on how well the people behind them can adapt—like switching domains or infrastructure.
Before the subpoena, publishers also asked Cloudflare to just block the sites, but since that didn’t happen right away, they went for this subpoena to dig deeper.
What does this mean for Anna’s Archive users?
The downtime might be Cloudflare reacting to legal threats or the site operators trying to stay one step ahead.
The people running these projects usually do their best to keep things running, but legal risks cause interruptions.
Honestly, no one knows how long Anna’s Archive will keep going or what shape it’ll take.
But there’s a decent chance it’ll come back in some form—maybe on new domains or setups—to keep offering access while dealing with these legal challenges.
Just wanted to share the scoop so you know it’s not random, but part of a bigger, complicated picture."
StarDict(GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application) sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries f [...]LWN.net
David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments
David Lammy is facing possible legal action over a plan to invite staff from the oil firm Shell and the defence firm BAE Systems to work inside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
A pre-action letter seen by the Guardian warns the foreign secretary that the scheme leaves the government open to allegations of a conflict of interest and creates the potential for “improper influence”.
The scheme, which was first mooted by Lammy in March, is supposed to embed FCDO staff in firms to gain commercial experience while inviting private-sector staff to take placements in government.
David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments
Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influenceRajeev Syal (The Guardian)
Spanish town ordered to scrap religious festivals ban mainly impacting Muslims
Spain’s central government has ordered officials in a Spanish town to scrap a ban on religious gatherings in public sports centres, describing it as a “discriminatory” measure that breaches the right to religious freedom as it will mainly impact Muslims.
“There can be no half-measures when it comes to intolerance,” Ángel Víctor Torres, the minister for territorial policy, wrote on social media on Monday. Rightwing opposition parties, he added, “cannot decide who has freedom of worship and who does not”.
Last week, it emerged that the conservative-led council in Jumilla, a town of about 27,000 residents in the region of Murcia, had backed the ban. As its Muslim residents had for years used the facilities to come together to mark Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the motion was widely seen as targeting the town’s estimated 1,500 Muslims.
The proposal was initially put forward by the far-right Vox party, which called for an outright ban on public celebrations such as Eid al-Adha
Spanish town ordered to scrap religious festivals ban mainly impacting Muslims
Jumilla’s ban on gatherings in public sports centres breaches right to religious freedom, says MadridAshifa Kassam (The Guardian)
Is a daily-driver computer built on top of a hypervisor a bad idea?
TLDR; tell me if this is a waste of time before I spend forever tinkering on something that will always be janky
I want to run multiple OSs on one machine including Linux, Windows, and maybe OSX from a host with multiple GPUs + igpu. I know there are multiple solutions but I'm looking for advice, opinions and experience. I know I can google how-to but is this worh pursuing?
I currently dual boot Bazzite and Ubuntu, for gaming and develoent respectively. I love Bazzite ease of updates and Ubuntu is where it's at for testing and building frontier AI/ML tools.
What if I kept my computer running a thin hypervisor 24/7 and switched VMs based on my working context? I could pass through hardware as needed.
Proxmox? XCP-NG? Debian + QEMU? Anyone living with these as their computing machines (not homelabs/server hosts)?
This is inspired by Chris Tidus's (YouTube) setup on arch but 1) i don't know arch 2) I have a fairly beefy i7 265k 192gb build, but he's on an enterprise xenon ddr5 build so in a differenrent power class 3) I have a heterogenous mix of graphics cards I'm hoping to pass though depending on workload
Use cases:
* Bazzite + 1 gpu for gaming
* Ubuntu + 1 or more GPUs for work
* Windows + 0 or more GPU Music Production paid vstis and kernel-level anti cheat games (GTAV, etc)
* OSX? Lightroom? GPU?
Edit: Thank you all for your thoughts and contributions
Edit: what I've learned
* this is viable but might be a pain
* a Windows VM for getting around anti-cheat in vames defeats the purpose. I'd need a dual boot for that use case
* hyperV is a no. Qubes Qemu libvirt, yes
* may want to just put everything on sparate disks and boot / VM into them as needed
Edit: distrobox/docker works great but doesn't fit all my needs because I can't install kernel-level modules in them (AFAIK)
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I hacked together a similar setup back when, for logistical reasons, I had to squeeze everything on one machine.
It's doable, but be prepared for some challenges.
You will probably have a much better time than I did given the abundance of RAM. Getting graphics to work properly is the most arduous part. I never really figured that part out. Having to forward USB accessories also got really tedious.
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in reply to shneancy • • •There has been a petition. And it has received the aforementioned "lol no" response. The thing is though after the French set the capital on fire the age of retirement still went up, nothing changed.
Anyway, all we have to do is use a VPN to get around it and wait for the inevitable data leak, then the whole thing will collapse under the weight of its own stupidity.
themurphy
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in reply to themurphy • • •England isn't the problem, it's London that's the problem.
London needs to become its own independent city state and then they can do what the hell they want with it and then we'll be governed by someone from Leeds or Manchester or someplace like that, by someone who actually has a grip
themurphy
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in reply to themachinestops • • •We need to build a decentralised internet quickly using I2P or something similar and scale and decentralise quickly. VPN’s will be the first to go then TOR after they attempt to control the exit nodes .
We need to show the governments that we are allowed to use encryption and Wikipedia and not be treated as criminals for wanting privacy .
bruhduh
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GitHubRageAgainstTheRich
in reply to themachinestops • • •I cant even think of any legit reason to do this. To protect children? The government does not care about children. Its why so many suffer in poverty. Watching tits online is the least of their problems.
The only reasons i can think of is control. Forcing people to give up more information about themselves. Because knowledge is power.
FauxLiving
in reply to RageAgainstTheRich • • •It's really simple.
The western democracies want to create a universal digital ID wallet and have that be required to access any site.
There are a lot of reasons they could want this. For example, there are probably tens of millions of fake accounts controlled by adversarial nations which are used to sow extremism and disinformation online. It is impossible for counterintelligence to detect these at scale. We can see the corrosive effects that social media is having on society, there are countries actively working to make the problem worse but we have no tools to stop them.
This is also why there is a big push to limit children from accessing social media. They're often the targets for these campaigns because they're easily manipulated and have a lot of free time to spread the misinformation once they're indoctrinated.
I don't think a digital ID is the way to solve this problem. But, we're not being asked or informed about why it is happening. They're, instead, trying to ram these measures through using moral panic about children so anybody opposing them is easily dismissed as "not caring about The Children" or "supporting sex trafficking/pedophiles/predators".
I understand the situation, but they're trying to go around the democratic process by not talking about the problems.
jnod4
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in reply to jnod4 • • •The problem of social manipulation via bots isn't limited to intelligence operations, though I would argue that this is the most immediate danger.
We're also seeing a huge spike in advertising bots pretending to be normal users just to push goods and services.
Because of these motives social media has become less about bringing people together and more about extracting information from people in order to more efficiently manipulate them.
It's causing social media to become actively dangerous to society in general. Ensuring that everyone is a human is an essential first step for having ethical online social interactions.
Just look at the difference in conversations on Lemmy vs Reddit. Sure, there are some assholes here and there but it's largely a calm place where you can have an actual conversation.
This is how online discourse used to be from the early BBS days right up until Facebook and algorithmically curated feeds discovered that fear, outrage and anger are the best drivers of engagement.
Now, in addition to the platform's manipulation (which is largely commercially motivated) we have LLMs which let anybody with funding create massive armies of fake people who can dynamically insert themselves into conversations in order to push any messaging you can imagine.
It's a bad situation that needs an immediate solution.
I just don't like that the solution has been decided on, in secret, by western democracies and is being forcefully implemented in a manner that also allows intelligence/law enforcement a backdoor into everything. (A digital ID also makes it very easy to view every users complete Internet history because that data is tagged with the users actual identity).
Devolution
in reply to FauxLiving • • •So we must censor everything to protect us from misinformation which allows the censors to determine what is available and what is lot.
Sounds an awful lot like China.
Geez Brits. One shit decision after another. Just like your western children.
US: Father, why did you vote for Brexit?
UK: Son, who are you to talk? You voted for Trump twice. Now shut up before your mother chimes in...
France: No wonder I took the house in the divorce and left you with your father.
US: Well at least I didn't abandon my affair baby Haiti.
France:...
UK: Did you really have to go there son?
FauxLiving
in reply to Devolution • • •Yeah, I think this is a terrible way to address the problem and very likely a way for elites to re-assert their control over information sources using this emergency.
It's certainly not about 'protecting children' in the way that they're presenting it.