Human trafficking, particularly of women and girls lured or forced into marriages in China, remains a widespread problem in Myanmar, a country still reeling from civil war after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

One of the largest protests in Australian history. Entire Harbour Bridge covered in people.

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German prosecutors and customs investigators have raided the premises of a machine tool manufacturer near Munich. The company is suspected of supplying more than 20 high-precision machines worth approximately €5.5 million to Russia in violation of European Union sanctions. Three company employees have been formally charged. Raids were also carried out in Baden-Württemberg and Bulgaria.

According to an investigation by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the company in question is Spinner, based in Sauerlach, a town just outside Munich. Spinner manufactures machine tools at various sites, including near Stuttgart, as well as in Bulgaria and Turkey.

In connection with the investigation, a Spinner machine subject to export restrictions was confiscated in mid-February 2025. Export documents indicated that the machine was supposed to leave Germany in August 2023, traveling through Poland and Belarus on its way to Uzbekistan. Investigators suspect the machine was in fact delivered to a Russian company affiliated with the manufacturer. There is also evidence of additional deliveries through Turkey and China.

The Munich prosecutor’s office cited a detailed report that aired in late April on the TV channel Arte, which traced the export of a Spinner machine to Russia via third countries — allegedly with the use of falsified documents. In the Arte report, one of the company’s three managing directors, Nikolaus Spinner, denied the allegations, claiming the machine had been sold to an Uzbek agricultural equipment manufacturer. However, a manager at the Uzbek company told reporters by phone that no such purchase had taken place.

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Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas just days after she met with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.

This comes as pressure grows on President Trump to release files about Maxwell’s longtime associate, the serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse and traffick young girls. Trump has not ruled out pardoning Maxwell.

ask a local LLM ("dumber" the better) to explain your jokes, as a way of gauging whether they'll land

I'm not doing this often but sometimes it's validating when I'm like is this too deep a cut? Idk this thing that fits on a flash drive knows what I'm talking about. Wait that was in the dataset and survived quantization? Huh.

They suck at writing them though so I can't even have them rephrase my jokes for me. Which sucks because I don't know how to do anything other than lean into being awkward.

They are great at doing corpo speak for you tho. Or it was before people caught on. I sometimes use it as White Voice from Sorry To Bother You because I just can't do it myself. I don't feel bad about using a machine to perform the role of a machine. I'd feel worse about expending the effort as a human to use business language.

I tried to find a more applicable community to post this to but didn't find anything.

I recently set up a NAS/server on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS (see my last post) and since then I've got everything installed into a 3D printed enclosure and I've got RAID set up (ZFS RAIDz1). Prior to setting up RAID, I could transfer files to/from the NAS at around 200MB/s, but now that RAID is seemingly working things are transferring at around 28-30 MB/s. I did a couple searches and found someone suggesting to disable sync ($ sudo zfs set sync=disabled zfspool). I tried that and it doesn't seem to have had any effect. Any suggestions are welcome but keep in mind that I barely know what I'm doing.

Edit: When I look at the SATA hat, the LEDs indicate that the drives are being written to for less than half a second and then there's a break of about 4 seconds where there's no writing going on.

Organisers of today’s pro-Palestine protest in Sydney have successfully addressed Premier Minns’ ‘concerns’ about the impact it would have on traffic, by seemingly getting the whole city off the roads and marching along side them.

“Turns out roughly a hundred thousand people wanted to cross the bridge at the time of the march,” said one organiser, “which would have been the worst traffic Sydney has ever seen, but luckily they were all protesters walking around so it was fine.” [...]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33905430

The naming scheme we followed, is based on the first letter of the car's brand—so for example, a Volvo gets a name starting with 'V', like Vincent.

Anyone else done/do this? If so, what was your car + name + naming scheme?

I'm an early riser, but not all people are. Some people are more awake in the afternoons, some people don't really wake up until the evenings. So, how come all full-time education seems to start around 9am-10am?

I know that night school is a thing, but that's really targeted at people who want to study over many years around their other commitments (e.g. a day job). I'm talking about full-time three- or four-year bachelor's degrees and above (though exactly the same logic applies to all education really). Surely there's enough demand for at least a couple of top-class full-time education establishments that don't even open their doors until lunchtime?

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A special counsel sent investigators to retrieve South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol from a detention centre near Seoul after he twice defied requests to attend questioning.

Yoon resorted to a new method to resist, by taking off his prison uniform and lying down on the floor of his detention room.

Counsel team members refrained from using physical means out of safety concerns, but notified Yoon that they would execute the warrant next time.

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I remember just a few months ago bars and clubs being super packed and now there's hardly anybody at them. What's going on?

Edit: I'm in the Los Angeles area

I suspect most people aren't subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that's you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.

👏Let's 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.