The investigation reveals a systemic problem: even the constant tightening of EU sanctions has not been able to significantly limit Russia’s ability to produce strike drones using foreign components that enter the country through intermediary schemes.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/made-in-the-eu-dropped-on-kyiv-how-european-parts-are-enabling-russias-winter-drone-war

The content and functionality of France and Russia’s foreign policy doctrines on Africa have determined the nature of their confrontation. At the same time, a radical revision of the French approach, although not a starting point, created favorable conditions for Russia’s transition from a latent, particularly informational, presence in the region to an open military-political repositioning.

The French vision of a new policy towards Africa was articulated by President Emmanuel Macron at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 2017. In his speech, he stated that “there is no longer a French policy on Africa,” which was dubbed an “equal-to-equal partnership.” At that time, France’s military presence on the continent consisted of about 10,000 troops, stationed mainly in French-speaking West Africa and the Sahel. By 2026, most of the contingent had been withdrawn from their locations, often under pressure from large-scale protests, as was the case in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and a number of other countries.

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Russia’s hybrid war in Africa shows signs of escalation, albeit with fixed changes in format. Despite the established frameworks of disinformation campaigns, stronger democratic institutions, and the adaptation of government policies and regulatory practices of media platforms determine the limited reproductive potential of Russia’s strategy outside the Sahel. At the same time, the Russian side is facing difficulties with recruitment, financing, and institutionalization of its security presence, which became evident during the replacement of the Wagner PMC with the Africa Corps, which raised questions among African leaders.

Gods of death love beanis?

Hi, c/selfhosted! This is my first post on Fediverse and I am glad to be making it here.

I recently got fed up with having to use Tailscale to access my server at home and decided to expose it publicly. A friend recommended segregating the server into a dedicated VLAN. My router's stock firmware does not allow that, so I flashed OpenWrt on it (I am amazed how simple and easy the process was).

Getting the router to actually assign an IP address to the server was quite a headache (with no prior experience using OpenWrt), but I managed to do it at the end with a help from a tutorial video on YouTube.

Now, everything is working perfectly fine and as I'd expect, except that all requests' IP addresses are set to the router's IP address (192.168.3.1), so I am unable to use proper rate limiting and especially fail2ban.

I was hoping someone here would have an experience with this situation and help me.

Edit: Solved thanks to @PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de.

I messed around with the port-forward settings with no luck in the past. Instead, disabling the “Masquerade” option in the firewall settings for the server’s VLAN worked.

The EU will cover €90 billion of Ukraine's financial and military needs over the coming two years, and is working on a 20th package of sanctions to further cripple Russia's ability to finance its war through exports of fossil fuel. Europe's response to Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been a mixed bag,

Latvia's Defence Minister told Euronews, calling on the bloc to make speedier decisions on sanctions and collective defence as the fourth anniversary of the invasion draws near.

I have a Hugo blog I'm setting up to work on my own forgejo server flow instead of through Github Pages.

I hate how pictures work on Hugo so I was going to just host them on a separate thing and embed the images that way.

Now I'm over thinking it and considering to just run a Lemmy instance, post the markdown for the blog posts there along with the images. Then I have an image host and a place to let people complain about my shotty writing in one go.

Plus there's federation visibility as well.

So short questions

1. This a good idea?

2. Are there better options?

3. is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?

4. Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host

This should be excellent for selfhosters that have all their services in one VM. I haven't tried this myself, but I think this means you can:

• you can create memorable links instead of memorizing port numbers: jellyfin.foo-bar.ts.net
• share one service from a machine instead of all of them in a more intuitive way

If you’re new to Tailscale Services, it lets you publish internal resources like databases, APIs, and web servers as named services in your tailnet, using stable MagicDNS names. Rather than connecting to individual machines, teams connect to logical services that automatically route traffic to healthy, available backends across your infrastructure. This decoupling makes migrations, scaling, and high availability far easier, without reconfiguring clients, rewriting access policies, or standing up load balancers. Our documentation has details on use cases, requirements, and implementation.

This is a very crucial website it allowed me to archive some tweets but right now I can't access