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For today's interview I got to chat to the developer of 1retro. His program and service is made to back your retro emulated games' saves up, automatically, so you know you're safe and secure.

https://1retro.com/

Quick dot points straight from the website of 1retro:

  • Saves upload automatically in the background. Smart syncing means only changed files transfer -- fast, efficient, seamless.

  • macOS, Windows, Linux. Our lightweight desktop app runs natively on all three without slowing you down.

  • Your saves are backed up and stored safely in the cloud. Your data is yours. Always.

  • Every save is versioned. Overwrite something by accident? Roll back to any previous version instantly.

  • Power users can automate their workflows, write scripts, and integrate custom emulators with our command-line tools.

I spoke with developer Hans to learn more about building 1Retro, retro gaming fragmentation, accessibility, and why he believes some of the hobby’s biggest improvements still happen behind the scenes.

If you're curious about saves in retro gaming, development, or the service he's looking to offer, have a read with my link. 1retro is new to the scene, but I'm curious about what you think:

https://gardinerbryant.com/fixing-retro-gamings-save-problem/

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

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

Archived link

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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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Meta has sold 7M+ Ray-Ban glasses that look identical to normal glasses but can record you silently.

NoPeek detects them using immutable BLE manufacturer company IDs signals that cannot be randomized or hidden unlike MAC addresses.

Detects: Meta Ray-Ban, Snap Spectacles, Oakley Meta, TCL RayNeo, Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Pico VR and more.

No ads. No tracking. No internet permission. Fully open source. MIT license.

github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android

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@asklemmy is a laptop whose display is working no more still of any use ?

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Blame tourist for all your countries problems

Refuse tourist into many Izakayas for decades

Fail to capture the tourist market for decades

Prices rise and force out much of the native population

Try to pivot to the same tourist you told to GTFO and never marketed to

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FORECLOSURE!

Literal pottery.

Not a smart marketing decision to gatekeep Izakayas from people with money. Many tourist out earn even the most skilled of salarymen by a wide margin. Not marketing to this group has been a massive mistake, foolish.

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47036866

[The unnamed Mexican immigrant] said nights have haunted him since Jan. 20, 2025. That was when a group of assailants entered a house he shared with other immigrants in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a hooded man shouting “ICE! ICE!” kicked down his bedroom door.

“I raised my hands, and he asked, ‘Where’s the money?’ That’s when I realized it was a robbery. It wasn’t ICE. It wasn’t the police,” the Mexican immigrant said.

The assault, which local police have not yet solved and for which no arrests have been made, happened the same day Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term, vowing to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in the nation’s history. Since then, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swelled by thousands of agents and has carried out waves of arrests and deportations in cities across the country.

Although neither the federal government nor local authorities publish specific records of people impersonating immigration agents, an analysis by Noticias Telemundo, based on court records, police reports and news articles, suggests that the number of such crimes has increased over the past year.

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According to a report from German media group RND, federal Health Minister Nina Warken has prepared a draft bill that would have adults without children pay a higher percentage of taxes towards publicly-funded elder care.

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Hi!

While I really enjoy seeing many of my fellow man being accommodating to people with disabilities. I find manually transcribing every image I post to be very tiring.

I thought that I could at least use some sort of AI to help with image transcripts, tho, that could probably be better used by the actual person with the disability.

So thats the question, should I skip the transcribing of an image or let an AI do it?

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FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS, May 25 (Reuters) - The European Union is planning to ​fine Alphabet's Google a high triple-digit million euro amount ‌as part of an antitrust investigation, Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Monday, citing commission sources.

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