Former Australian politician jailed for more than five years for sex crimes
Ex-Australian politician sentenced to more than five years for rape
Gareth Ward, a former independent member for Kiama in NSW, sexually assaulted two men between 2013 and 2015.Lana Lam (BBC News)
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Video Analysis Shows Staged Recovery of Israeli Hostage Remains
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/world/europe/gaza-hamas-israel-remains.html
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
Europe’s obedience test: one Chinese company, one US order - Asia Times
A Chinese CEO was recently ousted by a Dutch court for alleged governance and financial misconduct. The company? Nexperia, which designs semiconductors.Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa (Asia Times)
Germany's consumer watchdog warns of dangerous products on Chinese platforms Temu and Shein: pollutants in baby towels, toxic metals in jewelry, too hot chargers
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44937324
The original link is in German, this is a paraphrased translation.Germany's consumer watchdog Stiftung Warentest warns against toxic and dangerous products offered on the Temu and Shein sales platforms. It examined 162 third-party products that use Temu and Shein as a sales platform – 110 did not meet EU security requirements, the foundation said on Thursday. The testers found pollutants in baby play towels, toxic heavy metals in jewelry and too hot chargers.
- The German testers found too high a dose of formaldehyde in colorful cloths for babies; the substance may cause contact allergies. Many products lacked warnings. Two necklaces contained dangerous amounts of cadmium, exceeding the permitted limit by 8,500 times. Cadmium is classified as carcinogenic - the products must be brought to a pollutant collection point
- If you have purchased one of the pieces of cadmium-contaminated jewelry, dispose of it. The German testers warn that Toxic harmful substances do not belong in the household waste, bring the jewelry to a harmful material collection point, such as a recycling yard. Keep the chains away from children. Young children could swallow the follower.
- Almost all tested USB chargers did not meet the EU security requirements. Numerous products have become too hot during loading, up to around 88 degrees Celsius. A maximum limit of 77 degrees is allowed in the EU. Heavy heat can deform the charger’s plastic housing, damage the electronic insulation inside and, in the worst case, lead to fire.
The platforms Temu and Shein, founded in China, specialise in the direct sale of goods from abroad in the EU. They lure with extremely cheap offers. In Brussels, both companies are under investigation for possible breaches of EU consumer protection laws and online platform rules. In the case of Temu, the EU Commission has already come to the preliminary conclusion that consumers there are very likely to encounter non-consumer protection-compliant products.
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Temu und Shein: Gefährliche Schnäppchen
Die Stiftung Warentest hat bei Spielzeug, Schmuck und Elektrogeräte von Temu und Shein viele Sicherheitsmängel gefunden.Sandra Schwarz (Stiftung Warentest)
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In Taiwan, these people are called 民主二代 (second generation of democracy), oftentimes in a derogatory way, referring to a generation that came of age after Taiwan's democratization, sometimes seen as taking democracy for granted.
I kinda half don't blame them, they suffer from the same issues that most liberal democracies face now:
- horribly low pay and worker protections, in your first year working, expect to barely have 3 holiday days offered to you
- never being able to buy property in Taiwan (Taiwanese property market is insane and I could talk at lengths about it)
In this context, Taiwanese politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama. A lot of people become apathetic and just go "you can't eat democracy" (a dig at parties that keep pushing this as their campaign slogan rather than talking about kitchen-table political issues (housing, affordability, high cost of raising kids).
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... politics is a hugely partisan-tribal affair with a lot of drama
This is a problem everywhere. In fact it may well be the definition of politics.
I know this isn't particularly helpful in terms of this specific discussion (China, Taiwan, etc.), but that phrase leapt out at me and I had to call attention to it.
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EU imports of Russian LNG up seven percent in first half of 2025, study finds
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EU imports of Russian LNG up seven percent in first half of 2025, study finds
EU imports of Russian LNG up seven percent in first half of 2025, study finds
Liquid natural gas future demand in Europe is uncertain, but the continent continues to import LNG from both the US and Russia in high volumes.EUobserver
Nexperia Chip Crisis Forces Honda to Suspend Production at Mexico Plant
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Nexperia Chip Crisis Forces Honda to Suspend Production at Mexico Plant
Honda Motor Co. has suspended production at an automobile plant in Mexico due to disruptions in semiconductor supplies from Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in the Netherlands, Honda officials said Wednesday.佐藤 (The Japan News)
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I'm really confused by this one. Usually China seems to take the smart calculated move, but this knee jerk reaction seems to just prove the Dutch made the right move.
If China feels like it can just cut off these chips whenever they want, then there was a real risk to continuing business as usual.
While I think the US was overstepping in how it pressured the Dutch, the overall outcome highlights the continued risk of relying on China for these supply chains.
Additionally Toyota seems the least impacted as they've apparently been shifting away from reliance on China for these chips, furthering proving that's a smart move.
Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy?
Breadboards are great, but as the world moves more and more to having SMD as a standard, prototyping straight PCBs is becoming more common. If you’re mailing off to China for your PCBs, it’s shockingly quick for what it is, but a one-week turnaround is not “rapid prototyping”. [Stephen Hawes] has been on a quest on his YouTube channel for the ideal rapid-prototyping PCB solution, and he thinks he’s finally got it.Now, if you’re only doing single-layer PCBs, this is a solved problem. You can mechanically mill, or laser cut, or chemically etch your way to PCB perfection, far faster than the Chinese fabs can get you a part. If you want a double-sided board, however, vias are both a pain in the keister to do yourself, and a rate-limiting step.
Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy?
Breadboards are great, but as the world moves more and more to having SMD as a standard, prototyping straight PCBs is becoming more common. If you’re mailing off to China for your PCBs, it…Hackaday
JD Vance’s Half-Brother Suffers Humiliating Loss in Mayoral Race
JD Vance’s Half-Brother Suffers Humiliating Loss in Mayoral Race
The voters of Cincinnati roundly rejected Cory Bowman in favor of his Democratic opponent.The New Republic
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Support for community-wide banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5
Implement magazine banners by BentiGorlich · Pull Request #1759 · MbinOrg/mbin
add endpoints for deleting icon and banner like in the user profile add API endpoints for updating the banner. It is separate from the other theme settings, as it is in the user API because we are ...GitHub
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Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain
Richmond Council U-turn on £150 fine for coffee poured in drain
Burcu Yesilyurt, who poured coffee down a drain in Richmond, welcomed the cancellation of the "disproportionate" fine.Frankie McCamley (BBC News)
Ah, pardon your offense -- 'twas a joke, signified through the use of "^^".
Bottom line: I think it is ridiculously hilarious that such a small non-offense is being fined over there, by .. 'you people'. 😛
Can we not all agree to say this entire debacle is ... stupid? xD
Lighthearted; no offense meant nor intended. Enjoy your day!
Matrix.org - Post-mortem of the September 2 outage
“Unfortunately, in attempting to do so, we erroneously deleted the data directory of the primary on db-01.”
Wow, mistake on top of mistake on top of mistake it's impressive they could recover without data loss.
Post-mortem of the September 2 outage
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
One cool thing is that I had no idea that this happened until I just read it on their blog even though me, my friends and family use Matrix extensively.
But all my friends who are on Matrix host their own servers because it's quite easy, and my family uses my own server, only my brother uses a matrix.org account, but he doesn't write much.
This is decentralization working as it's supposed too, when enough participants are federated and not centralized.
On Lemmy the lemmy.world and the piefed.social instances are similar to matrix.org and I think all of them, including mastodon.social should close new registrations. I mean the flagship instances have their place in the beginning, but once they become so big they should be locked. The teams behind them can open another instance if they want to keep growing, but they should be run on a separate infrastructure to prevent bringing them down at the same time.
I always heard that rolling out an initial Matrix instance isn't terrible, especially with ansible and/or docker, but I also have heard that a lot of updates have breaking changes and that updating your server is less simple.
As someone who runs your own Matrix server, would you agree with this sentiment or disagree and why? I have considered rolling out my own many times but get discouraged by those who say keeping it updated is kind of a nightmare. For example, a private tracker I am a member of used to have a Matrix server and an IRC server, but they eventually dumped the Matrix server entirely to reduce complexity as well as the fact that fewer people used it.
When a bridge works like the discord and the Signal and WhatsApp ones it's amazing not to need to log in to those services anymore just to see if someone wrote something to you.
Sadly most of the bridges are either broken like the Facebook one or straight out don't work like she KakaoTalk and WeeChat ones because the services remove capabilities which before made it possible in a hacky way.
I use the synapse container, I followed the docs on matrix.org.
As far as a revere proxy I use the SWAG container from linuxserver. My matrix instance isnt exposed to the internet or federated but it used to be. When it was exposed I was using fail2ban to ban exploit attempts but if I were to set it up again I'd probably use crowdsec instead. They are both built into SWAG.
Affinity Studio is now free
Yes, Affinity really is free. You can use every tool in the Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios, plus all of the customization and export features, as much as you want, with no restrictions or payment needed. If you’re on a Canva premium plan, you’ll also be able to unlock Canva’s powerful AI tools within Affinity.
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At first glance, this all sounds positive, especially for users without an affinity for AI.
However, time will tell whether the program will become less appealing if it turns out that the majority of Affinity users are not persuaded to sign up for a Canvas subscription for AI editing.
Either certain tools and functions will disappear behind a paywall, or compatibility will be restricted by no longer allowing free import and export to certain file formats.
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.
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I can't imagine how stressful it must have been to have a small hobby project you're devekoping for fun and then suddenly get the insane amount of traffic from the Reddit exodus over night without having been able to prepare for it at all. I was low key worried we killed him with stress.
Happy that's not the case.
Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.
Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi on Tuesday became the first Muslim American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.
Her historic victory comes the same night former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, whom NBC News projects as the winner in the governor's race, became the first woman elected governor in the state.
Virginia's Ghazala Hashmi becomes first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S.
Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim-American woman elected to statewide office in the U.S. with her victory in the lieutenant governor's race, NBC News projects.Alexandra Marquez (NBC News)
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Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times faster than the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.
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Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR
v2 that should keep your installation up-to-date on the stable branch.
Release v2.2.0 · immich-app/immich
v2.2.0 The month following our stable release 🎉 has flown by! We are blown away by the support from everyone around this milestone, especially for the Retro DVD 📀! If you want to get one for yourse...GitHub
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It's been available.... "Kind of"
It creates a copy of your photo and rotates that. Leaving the original. Which I guess I can see being useful sometimes but it's very annoying in practice last I checked it.
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Gitea 1.25.0 | 3D file previews, improved archive downloads, enhanced authentication, and more security, API and workflow upgrades like automatic repo forking and email notifications for actions
Gitea 1.25.0 is released | Gitea Blog
We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Gitea v1.25.0.blog.gitea.com
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I use Forgejo with LFS for my Blender projects, so this would probably be useful to me if a similar feature were added there.
As an aside, it seems Blender uses Gitea and not sure they have plans to migrate to Forgejo anytime soon since it looks like they’ve poured a lot of resources into Gitea and even formed a partnership with the maintainers:
code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea…
code.blender.org/2022/08/gitea…
code.blender.org/2023/01/gitea…
Gitea Diaries: Part 3
Final chapter of the Phabricator to Gitea migration project.Francesco Siddi (Blender Developers Blog)
What I'm up to: October 2025 edition 🎃
What are 'put options'?
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You're buying the ability to sell a stock at a given price at some date in the future. If the price drops, you make money; if the price doesn't drop, you lose everything.
Basically the two use cases are: (1) To hedge against big market collapses in the value of stock you own, like buying insurance (2) to lose all your money on Robinhood by retail investing ("betting" that the stock will go down in an unregulated and rigged casino). I would somewhat bet that this is scenario number 1, but who knows.
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Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and forced to leave Windsor home
King’s brother will become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says, in latest fallout from Epstein scandalCaroline Davies (The Guardian)
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Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and forced to leave Windsor home
King’s brother will become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says, in latest fallout from Epstein scandalCaroline Davies (The Guardian)
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What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?
I have a Samba mount at home (behind NAT, accessible via wireguard VPN), which works very well when accessing my home files when traveling (I travel a lot for work).
The only detail missing from this solution is sharing individual files with friends. I could give them access to my VPN, but that gives them access to everything, not just one thing I want to share. Also not all my friends are that tech savvy to manage connecting to a VPN.
What would be really great is to have a link-generator that punches a hole in the NAT to give them access to specific files. Are there any self-hosted solutions for that?
K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down
October 30, 2025: Announcement of shutdown.
November 30, 2025: First reminder notice.
December 15, 2025: Second reminder notice. Future invoicing stops.
December 30, 2025: Third reminder notice.
January 15, 2026: Services disabled and final notice. Backups are still available.
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Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean
Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitatHelena Horton (The Guardian)
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Health Secretary RFK Jr. says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism
Health Secretary RFK Jr. says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism
President Trump's health secretary said Tylenol should be used with caution during pregnancy, but solid data linking it to autism is lacking., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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Protecting OpenWrt using CrowdSec (via Syslog)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/36928579
Here's how to set up CrowdSec to protect your OpenWrt router.Running the Security Engine in Docker (server), forwarding logs via Syslog, and using the lightweight firewall bouncer on the router.
Result: community-powered IPS on tiny hardware 🚀
Protecting OpenWrt using CrowdSec (via Syslog)
OpenWrt is an open source Linux project aimed at embedded devices to route network traffic (e.g. routers).Guido Kroon
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
: Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'Simon Sharwood (The Register)
Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
In a post from July, Trump proclaimed: "I am pleased to announce that, after the involvement of President Donald J. Trump, both Countries have reached a CEASEFIRE and PEACE. Congratulations to all! By ending this War, we have saved thousands of lives."
However, the reality was starkly different. Two weeks after Trump's initial celebration, artillery exchanges resulted in a significant death toll, with widespread injuries and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a diplomatic rebuke to President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting in South Korea, dismantling Trump's claims about resolving the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.Adam Nichols (Raw Story)
Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid
Lebanese state media identified the slain man as Ibrahim Salameh, an employee of the Blida municipality, a village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military confirmed the raid and said it was attacking Hezbollah infrastructure when it fired at a “suspect”. It said the incident was under review.
The killing led to widespread anger in Lebanon over repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty. In the hours after the raid, Israel carried out airstrikes in Labouneh, in south-west Lebanon, and Israeli drones could be heard flying low over Beirut.
The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, condemned the raid and ordered the Lebanese army to confront Israeli soldiers in any future incursions on Lebanese territory. In a statement, Aoun instructed the army to “confront any Israeli incursion into liberated southern territory, in defence of Lebanese territory and the safety of citizens”.
Lebanese president orders army to confront Israeli incursions after deadly raid
IDF says it was attacking Hezbollah infrastructure when it fired at a ‘suspect’ and the incident is under reviewWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
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That's like requesting 1 happiness or 11 lovely.
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Fuck making children grow up just to die
Yeah Ukraine deserves independence, but human beings deserve a shot at life instead of being ammunition.
Hurricane Melissa leaves humanitarian disaster and recovery challenge for Caribbean after more than 30 killed
Hurricane Melissa leaves recovery challenge for Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba after more than 30 killed
The storm was making its way to the Bahamas and Bermuda Thursday morning after killing at least seven in Jamaica and 27 more across the Caribbean this week.Patrick Smith (NBC News)
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Then don't fucking parrot their nonsense.
"jokes" are fun until it is indistinguishable from the same bullshit the people raping humanity are saying. At every step of the way, call them out on their shit.
Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island - ABC News
Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island
An 80-year-old cruise passenger has been found dead on a Great Barrier Reef island after being accidentally left behind by the ship's crewROD MCGUIRK Associated Press (ABC News)
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She appeared to have fallen from a cliff or slope
This sounds a bit weird but I hope she died from the fall rather than from having been left there ...
That seems the most likely:
"Mum felt ill on the hill climb. She was asked to head down, unescorted. Then the ship left"
She fell on the trail headed back. Sending an 80 year old, who felt ill, back unescorted was a failure in duty and comprehension.
In fact, take the age out of it, sending anyone who feels ill back unescorted is a failure in duty and comprehension.
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Extremism. Somehow people like that think they're better when they spread such callous indifference.
Like I get it, cruises aren't good for the environment at all but acting like someone deserved to die for it? They want to save humanity without bothering to preserve humanity.
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