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The ‘Chinese owner’ of Nexperia: How Zhang Xuezheng’s tech empire fell to geopolitics






in reply to fire86743

JVP is pretty active at protests. There aren't many real organizations that explicitly support Hamas in the west - I don't think even PSL do. It's basically illegal here, and means having issues with employment etc.


The first honest American president - Trump’s shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.


By the time Trump arrived, corruption had been normalised as realism. Trump merely stripped it of its polite fictions – not only in domestic politics but in foreign policy, where the US has long cloaked its violence in the language of democracy and human rights. Trump’s extrajudicial killings of unidentified individuals via unilateral military strikes in Latin American waters, for example, are not a break with American precedent but its most naked expression, the open performance of practices that past administrations enacted beneath the cloak of deniability and euphemism. Likewise, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brutality and cruelty under Trump are not new. It is instead largely a dramatised, made-for-TV version of what Barack Obama – who earned the title of “deporter in chief” – pioneered over the years in which he built the career of Tom Homan, now Trump’s so-called border czar. Like Trump, Obama was a great admirer of Homan, awarding him a 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service to honour his passion for rounding up immigrants, separating children from their parents and caging people in detention camps.

The brazenness of Trump’s corruption and cruelty – the nepotism, the grift, the self-dealing, the open auctioning of government contracts and justice – does not shock us because it feels like an honest expression of what we already knew: that American government and institutions serve the wealthy individuals who own them, whether directly or indirectly through their donations and lobbyists or via networks of influence, bribery and extortion. The outrage that might once have followed is replaced by a weary recognition that things have always worked this way.




in reply to silence7

It is CBS news though so not like anyone should actually watch them anyways
in reply to silence7

Hopefully Lemmyists will stop citing them as a news source which still seems way too frequent.

in reply to silence7

As far as I know, mandatory use of biofuels is primarily a subsidy for farmers rather than a means of reducing emissions. I'm surprised to see an urban area focus on it.

In his decision, Engstrom said the feedstock restrictions are “core to the original policy intent” and must be preserved because they ensure the policy delivers on promised carbon reductions. Feedstocks made from virgin agricultural products and food crops – such as soybean, canola and palm oils – have been linked to much higher carbon emissions, displacing food production and causing deforestation and are not allowed under Portland’s policy.


It sounds like Portland is making an effort to avoid the farm-subsidy sort of biofuels, but then what is it actually demanding that biofuels be made from?

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in reply to ArbitraryValue

I think it’s a mistake to assume that this is an honest effort. That there’s any expectation of compliant biodiesel being made and sold. Realistically, what’s going to happen is that the Jubitz and Pacific Pride locations in Portland are going to be run out of business. That’s very likely the actual goal of the policy, which is equivalent to an enormous fuel tax increase, with some greenwashing as cover.


‘Fancy tool’: how China cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography


In a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography – a critical step in chipmaking – by up to 99 per cent.

The researchers achieved unprecedented clarity by using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to pinpoint, for the first time, the minute sources of common manufacturing flaws.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications on September 30, by Professor Peng Hailin from Peking University in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of Hong Kong, were hailed by reviewers as a “fancy tool” that “would benefit peer researchers and industrial users quite a lot”.

“The team has proposed a solution compatible with existing semiconductor production lines,” Peng said in an interview with Beijing-based Science and Technology Daily published on Monday. “It can reduce lithography defects on 12-inch (30cm) wafers by 99 per cent,” he added, indicating substantial cost benefits to the market.

Lithography is one of the most critical steps in chip manufacturing. “It can be understood as ‘printing circuits’ onto semiconductor wafers such as silicon,” Peng said. “Essentially, an ultra-precise ‘projector’ shrinks and transfers pre-designed circuit patterns onto a special film coating the wafer, which is then developed and fixed.”








WhatsApp on Apple Watch Is Real — Here’s the First Look




Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated




Ernest is alive


Ernest is alive

Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.

Just noticed he has a blog where he occasionally posts, latest post being from September, and in the "about me" section, he also mentions about having to drop Kbin.

Going by his posts and his repositories, he doesn't seem involved with ActivityPub anymore, at least in a public manner. But sharing in case someone worried about the person.

in reply to Auster

Ernest is alive

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Wrist-Cut Transformation Subculture ✡ Menhera-chan - Capitolo 3


La sera tardi dopo l'ultimo scontro, e persino il giorno dopo, Momoka è ancora arrabbiata per quello che è successo con Sabukaru-chan, e...

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Openpilot 0.10.1 Released: Improved World Model and Overhauled User Interface


Openpilot 0.10.1 introduces the North Nevada Model, featuring major improvements to the World Model architecture. The system now infers 6 degree of freedom ego localization directly from images, removing the need for external localization inputs. This reduces over-constrained data and opens the door for future self-generated imagery.

To support this change, the autoencoder Compressor was upgraded with masked image modeling, switched from CNN to Vision Transformer architecture, and the World Model itself was scaled from 500 million to 1 billion parameters. All models now train on a much larger dataset of 2.5 million segments, up from 437,000, covering more vehicles, countries, and driving scenarios.

The UI has been completely rewritten, moving from Qt/Weston to Python with raylib. This reduces code complexity by about 10,000 lines, cuts boot time by 4 seconds, lowers GPU usage, and simplifies development.

Finally, the Driver Monitoring Model's training infrastructure has been streamlined with dynamic data streaming, though the model’s functionality remains unchanged.

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Funky Cafè Noir


14 novembre 2025 22:00:00 CET - GMT+1 - Cafè Noir, 01100, Viterbo, Italy
Nov 14
Funky Cafè Noir
Ven 22:00 - 23:59
📅 Elisabetta Fratoni Jazz Quartet

Dalle note Funky al Jazz riarrangiato al nostro stile.

Piano, basso, tromba, batteria e voce.

Sul progetto musicale


"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.

Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.

I componenti del quartetto:


Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.

Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.

Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.

Fabio Ruggieri (🥁 batteria) – Batterista preciso e creativo, Fabio dà ritmo e dinamismo a ogni performance, valorizzando ogni brano con il giusto groove

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DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’


cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/48899185

The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”

A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.

Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.

“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.



DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’


The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”

A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.

Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.

“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.




DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’


The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”

A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.

Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.

“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.



in reply to ray

Really cool!

How difficult is it to create acistom map theme for mapcomplete?


in reply to silence7

It's not people caused, it's capitalism caused.
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The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38287000

Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, hopes to defeat Jacob Frey by focusing on affordability, wages and public safety

Rachel Leingang
Thu 30 Oct 2025 07.00 EDT



The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor


Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, hopes to defeat Jacob Frey by focusing on affordability, wages and public safety

Rachel Leingang
Thu 30 Oct 2025 07.00 EDT







Mushroom clouds over Vegas? What Trump’s nuclear weapons tests could mean for America and the world


But 10 months into his second administration, the president is commanding officials to resume nuclear weapons testing, which would end the U.S’s 33-year moratorium and invite a global arms race in a volatile political moment.

Claiming that the United States must reach parity with weapons development in China and Russia, Trump ordered the Pentagon on October 30 to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” a process that will begin “immediately,” he said.

The last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992 under then-President George H.W. Bush, who established a moratorium on all nuclear testing. China has reportedly not tested a nuclear weapon since 1996, and Russia’s most recent tests involved delivery systems, not actual detonation of a nuclear device.



Increased Spam on Lemmy Recently


I don't know if it's just me, but it feeks like there's been more spam posts than usual on Lemmy this October. Especially in instances like lemmy.world, lemdro.id, and others.

For example, this week, there has been a 3-day-old account on lemmy.world with over 480 posts. I also refreshed my feed today to find a <1 day old account from lemy.lol just posting Perplexity affiliate links to various places. I've blocked like 10 accounts in the past week alone for this reason.

With affiliate links I kind of understand the motivation. However, for non-promotional spam, upvotes on Lemmy aren't valuable in the same way that it is on Reddit, and there's no real value to an account with a lot of karma.

Is it just me that's noticed this increase? Does anyone know why this might be happening just now?

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in reply to Special Wall

I don't even get messages from the fediverse chick anymore 🙁


Sony WF-C510 connected on Linux, but never recognized as a headset


I've been fighting with my Sony WF-C510 for days.

I've tried it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint. Same result every time: It connects successfully, but never shows up as an audio output device.

I even bought a USB Bluetooth dongle, thinking my laptop’s chipset was the problem... but nope. It still connects as a device, not a headset.

I’ve restarted Bluetooth services, switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire, and tried every "set-card-profile" trick from AI and forums, but nothing works.

Has anyone actually managed to get a Sony WF-C510 working properly on Linux?

It's clear this is purely Sony's fault for not caring about or supporting Linux drivers. Are they just ignoring the entire platform at this point?

Any workaround or success story would save my sanity.

Distros Tested: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12-13, Mint 22
Issue: Connects, but no A2DP/HSP profile visible

in reply to akousa

When was that epic photo taken?

EDIT: did my own research

Jun 18, 2012 3:29 PM

Linus Torvalds Gives Nvidia the Finger. Literally.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't happy with Nvidia. And he wants you to know it.

Late last week, at a hacker meetup in Finland, Torvalds laid into Nvidia, calling it "the single worst company" the Linux developer community has ever dealt with, complaining that the chipmaker doesn't do as much as it could to ensure that its hardware plays nicely with his open source operating system. He even turned to the camera filming the event, flipped the company the proverbial bird, and dropped the proverbial F bomb.


Absolute fucking legend!

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in reply to return2ozma

Might? It was pretty clear that the goal of buying it was to turn it in a rightwing propaganda machine
in reply to HeadfullofSoup

And the catalyst was clearly the nonstop exposure of Israel slaughtering innocents.
in reply to return2ozma

If China is okay with the sale that means it's not good for the US. Danger, Will Robinson, danger!