In Ukraine, Zelensky buried Nazi war criminal Andriy Melnyk, a Ukrainian agent of Hitler's Abwehr and leader of an OUN faction that participated in the murder of over 20,000 people in Lutsk during the Holocaust, with full state honors.

In 1941, in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, his name appeared alongside Hitler's on propaganda posters; one read: "Heil Hitler, Glory to Hitler, Glory to Melnyk." While refusing to help Gaza, the European Union will allocate €90 billion to finance this Nazi infamy.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2059136140364443648/vid/avc1/1920x1080/qmIDmfLVVRxkyDjB.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2059136206969991514#m

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64949868

Per my last post, (which can be found here: https://lemmy.zip/post/53113975), I continued to mess around with a mobile broadband modem, and got it working! With a caveat... it only works when plugged into wall power. The battery I have does not supply enough power to fully enable the modem through USB power, due the raspberry pi being very power hungry. Unfortunately, this seemingly simple problem is actually a larger problem that seems to only be solved by an overly complicated solution: designing a custom battery controller PCB that responds to the pi5's (or ideally, a different processor entirely) needs more appropriately.

Take a look at the state of the device here:

Last time I posted here, many interested folks responded with great ideas and feedback. Fortunately, one of the comments lead me to the project that would ultimately end this project in its current state. Link to that comment here: https://lemmy.zip/post/53113975/22779544

Its flaws are visible. While the device has personality, it lacks ease of use. These days I use it as a "cyberdeck"/field debugging computer, and I use it with a small controller-sized Riitek keyboard, because the screen's touch capability is on the fritz, likely because of the poor design choice to leave the screen's ribbon cable partially exposed.

This leads me to the conclusion: this project is falling into "hobby" or more accurately, unsupported status. I like the device for my personal use, and I may update the design in the future for my own purposes, and release it for free for public use, though I don't imagine there will be a huge amount of interest in building this device considering the skyrocketing cost of Pi devices nowadays. There is a more reasonable path forward, and I alluded to it earlier: custom PCBs. That's where the SPIRIT project comes in: https://github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT

You can see in one of the pictures above, the SPIRIT project is designing a phone that can be completely replicated at home. Well, once they get there it will be. I've exchanged brief communications with the individual running the project, Jan, and while he hasn't stated that these projects are linked in any way, I'd like to think that the SPIRIT project carries forward the values and goals of the project I started. If you were at all interested in my project, give the SPIRIT project github a like or favorite.

Take a look at the v3lectronics youtube channel where Jan livestreams work on the SPIRIT project: https://www.youtube.com/@V_Electronics

The spirit github link again: https://github.com/SPIRIT-org/SPIRIT

Please contribute if you have any level of knowledge to contribute! These projects thrive on the careful contributions of other humans across the world!

People were just dumping their cars anywhere they could. They actually said, 'I'll take the risk of getting a parking ticket. What is it, £35'?

Original title (LT): Skyrybos karo metu (Divorce During War)

Vilnius 2022. High-flying executive Marija (Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė) chooses the worst possible moment for an honest conversation with her husband Vytas (Marius Repšys) about divorcing - just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine goes into full scale. Now they must navigate the process of separation as it collides with a refugee and mid-life crisis.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1529024-skyrybos-karo-metu

I've been thinking about this more and more. According to the sidebar, this community is "A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control." Based on that I don't think Plex qualifies.

Privacy: Plex clearly records the metadata of what you watch. When I used it, it would send me a report by email of what my "friends" were watching. Even with that turned off, their services still track telemetry.

Control: Plex has all of it. They can (and do) make unilateral changes to the service, how authentication works, where you can run it, etc.

So I ask, when you are hosting something that is entirely dependent on a commercial entity to function, is Plex really selfhosting in the spirit of this community?

Inspired by Osamu Tezuka's classic "Princess Knight," THE RIBBON HERO follows Sapphire as she overcomes loss and trauma to protect those she holds dear.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1679730-the-ribbon-hero

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47888119

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[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Belly of the Beast recently held a screening of two documentaries on Cuban medical missions. One is focused on Cuban doctors deployed to Calabria, Italy, and another follows a brigade of African students from ELAM (Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine), who traveled to Guinea-Bissau to provide medical care based on the training they received on the island. Some of the ELAM students attended the screening and were given a standing ovation.

One audience member said: "Thank you for being heroes, not just of Cuba, but of the entire world."

𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 ❤️ Make a tax-deductible donation or join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/BellyoftheBeastCuba

00:00 – Why We Made From Cuba to Calabria 00:31 – Southern Italy’s Healthcare Crisis and Cuban Doctors 01:05 – Discovering Cuba’s Medical Brigades 01:24 – “Cuban Doctors Bring Hope” 01:43 – Filming ELAM Students in Guinea-Bissau 02:31 – Medical Students React to the Documentary 02:54 – Audience Member: “Thank You for Being Heroes” 03:38 – Criticism of the U.S. Healthcare System 04:13 – Can Documentaries Help End the Blockade? 04:34 – Liz Oliva Fernández on Sanctions and Infant Mortality 05:20 – “1,800 Babies Could Have Been Saved” 06:03 – Belly of the Beast’s Mission to Humanize Cuba

#cuba #cubanews #blockade #sanctions #solidarity #embargo #havana

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9157975

Op-ed by Laura Harth, China in the World director at Safeguard Defenders.

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We already know, however, what an agreement of this kind looks like in practice, because one of Canada’s Five Eyes partners signed one and bore the consequences.

Under a similarly undisclosed MOU, Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) allowed MPS officers to interview targets on Australian soil.

Between 2015 and 2019, at least six Australian residents were interviewed by Chinese police there. Five of them returned to China “voluntarily.” Only one refused.

AFP oversight was found to be negligent or even absent. The AFP ended the agreement in 2024 after the abuses were exposed in Senate hearings.

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The lesson is straightforward. As a Chinese official lamented in response to our reports on illegal Chinese Police Service Centers abroad: “Extradition proceedings are cumbersome.”

Pressure is easy.

Per official figures, Beijing’s preferred method – persuasion – accounts for more than 70 per cent of the more than 14,000 forced returns globally since Operation Fox Hunt started in 2014 [Operation Fox Hunt is China's Xi Jinping’s rapidly expanding web of relentless – and often illegal - long-arm policing operations around the globe].

The method isn’t subtle. Family members at home are punished. Targets abroad are harassed. The aim, as former justice minister Fu Zhenghua put it, is to “squeeze the living space out of them” until they agree to return.

It has happened in Canada, repeatedly.

Court documents at the trial of former RCMP officer William Majcher revealed at least 25 Canadian residents were targeted under the Fox Hunt campaign.

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Like Australia, Canada has declined extradition co-operation with China, reflecting a consensus across democratic nations: China’s legal system – with its systematic torture and politicized prosecution – cannot meet Canadian standards.

The new MOU does not formally cross that line. But it appears to walk right up to it.

In its response to CTV News, the RCMP cites Canada’s 2007 Protocol on Foreign Criminal Investigators in Canada – the same kind of framework Australia used – as governing co-operation with the MPS. That protocol allows foreign officers to operate here when a target is voluntarily co-operating with an investigation.

But what counts as “voluntary” when a target’s family is at the mercy of Chinese authorities?

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That is precisely the climate of fear the Chinese Communist Party seeks to instill, globally and at home.

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In 2021, then-CSIS director David Vigneault described Operation Fox Hunt as a “covert global operation” used to “target and quiet dissidents to the regime.” In 2023, he singled out the People’s Republic of China’s use of “family and friends living in China as leverage” as the campaign’s most effective tactic.

The CSIS Public Report 2024 went further still. It named the MPS among the agencies whose foreign interference “can include coercing a victim to return to the PRC or threatening their family members in China.”

In June, 2025, Canada led G7 leaders in a joint statement condemning the “misuse of co-operation with other foreign states ... in order to detain, forcibly return, or repress targets.”

Seven months later, an MOU was signed with the world’s most prolific perpetrator of such conduct.

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Parliament should see the MOU. And when China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Ottawa this week, Anita Anand should tell him that Canada intends to release the police agreement to the public.

It is hard to believe the agreement would survive such scrutiny.

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Today's game is some more Twilight Princess. I've been sinking time into the Water Temple. What really draws it out for me though is that I keep forgetting about the bomb arrows. Or I have to go back and get new ones.

This has made me though a bit nostalgic. For all my complaints it does make me feel nostalgic for the old style of dungeons. Something about BoTW and ToTK's feels short. Bigger dungeons like these feel grander to me, like these are multi day endeavors. I'm sure it's probably just a me thing, but still I can't help but feel that wave of nostalgia.

The frog boss fight in the dungeon (forgive the lack of a better picture) really gave me some trouble though. I guess I went in low on health as it knocked me down to 1 hit point before I got knocked out by its spawn. It doesn't seem like too hard of a fight besides that though. I have a few ideas on how to beat it but I'll put those to test later.

Finally, I want to say something positive about this game. So I'll say that I love this dungeon aesthetically. It's got a lot of water, and that's something I actually really like for this game. I have a personal fondness for this game's water.

Hopefully after this frog there's not too much dungeon left. I have to assume this is the halfway point so it shouldn't take too long. I just keep dragging my feet on it.

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Artist: Li Chen, on Mastodon

So, I lived in India as a foreigner over 12 years ago now and, back in both 4th and 5th grade, our class teachers would record our weights and heights(I don't remember if this one a year or for every term) and would later be written in our report card for our parents

As fat kid, having to step on the scale in front of the whole class was humiliating and its not like they did anything with those numbers. They didn't mention them to parents, didn't make life style changes recommendations. The least they could have done was take those measurements in private and not in front of the whole class

Is this still a practice Today in India school? Was it popular during the 2010(I lived there from 2012-2014)? For people who had their measurements taken, especially other fat kids, how did it feel?

What about other parts of the world?