The state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.

Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans – who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton – have led “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”

In recent months, Trump officials have ordered US diplomats to build opposition to the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which is intended to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation, but which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on US tech companies.

Late on Tuesday night, Breton posted on social media: “Is McCarthy’s witch hunt back?”

I've seen "Lemmy V1.0" being thrown around on the Fediverse and how it's supposed to resolve a lot of problems. I tried looking for a list of confirmed features, but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know what is confirmed for that big update? Anything especially notable?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55589035

The killing of a Hindu man during recent violent protests in Bangladesh has pushed already strained ties between Dhaka and Delhi into a deeper crisis.

As the two neighbours accuse each other of destabilising relations, questions are growing over whether their once close, time-tested relationship is fraying beyond repair.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55588932

Tempus is an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.

This app works with any service that implements the Subsonic API, including:

• LMS - Lightweight Music Server - personal fave and my backend
• Navidrome
• Gonic
• Ampache
• NextCloud Music
• Airsonic Advanced

https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus/releases/tag/v4.6.0

My last release post was for v4.2.4 so I've included whats changed since that post.

Highlighting these 4 really lovely features that people have wanted for some time and were well received. Added screenshots for each below

What's Changed

• feat: added regular playlist to home view

• feat: add heart to artist/album pages, fixed artist cover art failing

• feat: playerqueue fab allowing actions on full play queue Download

• feat: add play functionality to library folder/index items

• fix: player queue soft-lock
• feat: Add Catalan language
• performance: Refactor MediaService
• chore: Update Spanish translation
• chore: Update Italian translation
• chore: Add clickable Obtainium badge to README
• fix: refactor start queue to put the db writing in the background all , save to playlist, shuffle, clean and if enabled, load queue.
• chore: Update Polish translation
• fix: updates to starred syncing to user defined directory which was saving the tracks to internal storage and not a shared location
• fix: handle empty albums and null mappings
• feat: integrate sort recent searches chronologically
• chore: Update description_empty_title in English, Italian, Polish French and Spanish
• fix: checks preference and writes files externally, updates the ui for playerqueue downloads

note app-tempo* <- The github release with all the android auto/chromecast features

app-degoogled* <- The izzyOnDroid release that goes without any of the google stuff.

As usual, any dev contributions appreciated as I am not actually a java/mobile dev, so my progress is significantly slower than those who do this on the daily.

Big thanks to all the folks who have been contributing. We have a new icon designed but I could use some help if anyone wants to do a PR to implement it.

@grok is this True Blue Interlude?

At this time

It's coming

I only see posts about "beans is" or something, it is very offtopic. Lets get back on track with some of your sickest bets and tricks

Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations

Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.

General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.

The six-hour video recording of Gen Xu’s court martial hearing the next year sheds light on the rare act of defiance. In the video, Xu said he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history”.

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DES MOINES, IA — Jessica Djukanovic, a conservative wrestling coach, mother of four, and loyal voter for the “Traditional Values and Strict Legislation Party,” is reportedly “shocked and appalled” to discover that the very laws she helped implement are currently treating her life as a secondary concern to a non-viable fetus.

The European Commission and Japan have successfully concluded negotiations on Japan's association to Horizon Europe, the EU's flagship €93.5 billion research and innovation funding programme. The agreement, expected to be signed in 2026, represents the closest form of collaboration offered by the EU to global partners in this field. It will enable Japanese researchers to lead and coordinate their own research and innovation projects under the programme, to apply and receive funding, and to seek closer collaboration with partners in the EU and other associated countries.

Flying in Europe, it is about a 50/50 chance as to whether you get on the plane from a jet bridge or you take a bus to the plane parked on the tarmac. In contrast, most US airports have jet bridges, even when the plane is small unless it is a very small airport.

Why?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40731680

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https://archive.org/details/karlmarxlife0000whee/page/152/mode/2up?q=Nick

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Seedit has vast moderation and antispam capabilities. It has a fully working mod queue. Every mod has complete control of his own sub and can ban or delete posts at will.

Due to Seedits unique design its impossible to know the ip of a specific seedit user. To combat this we had to create an intermediary platform - Mintpass. Mintpass forces users to verify their email or phone and more challengers are being added as we speak. This ensures they are not a bot and allow mods to track the users post and ban them if they break the rules.

Mods can choose whether to use mintpass or create their own way of dealing with antispam. The possibilities for dealing with antispam are endless. Seedit doesn't have instances but works on a per subreddit basis so one spammer blocked on one subreddit won't be blocked on another. However communties can stop this by sharing blocklists. Open source means everything is completely up to the communities and moderators.

The advice from the AG, Judith Collins, on the new Age Verification Bill gives it a big thumbs up and includes a scenario where it would be OK to restrict access to adult websites, even though the bill is targeted at social media, and none of the debate has mentioned adult websites.

Get ready to upload your ID to sketchy adult websites?