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"Imagine losing internet access because someone in your household downloaded pirated music."

One of the largest derivative exchanges in the world gets taken down by a broken refrigerator.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39450256

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.”

“In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many. Of course, there aren’t too many coming in by sea anymore,” Trump told service members in the call.

“You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also,” the president continued. “The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon.

“We warn them: Stop sending poison to our country,” Trump added.

Trump comments suggest he has made up his mind on a course of action in Venezuela following multiple high-level briefings and a mounting US show of force in the region earlier this month.

Trump designated Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization earlier this week.

The designation of “Cartel de los Soles,” a phrase that experts say is more a description of allegedly corrupt government officials than an organized crime group, as a foreign terrorist organization will authorize Trump to impose fresh sanctions targeting Maduro’s assets and infrastructure. It doesn’t, however, explicitly authorize the use of lethal force, according to legal experts.

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39450154

US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains

Vladimir Putin said legal recognition of occupied regions as Russian territory is one of the key issues in negotiations over Donald Trump's peace plan Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet in Alaska in August 2025. Moscow says legal recognition of land it has conquered is a key issue in peace talks Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds

The United States is poised to recognise Russia’s control over Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian territories to secure a deal to end the war.

The Telegraph understands that Donald Trump has sent his peace envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to make the direct offer to Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

The plan to recognise territory, which breaks US diplomatic convention, is likely to go ahead despite concerns among Ukraine’s European allies.

One well-placed source said: “It’s increasingly clear the Americans don’t care about the European position. They say the Europeans can do whatever they want.”

Russia’s president on Thursday said Washington’s legal recognition of Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Russian territory would be one of the key issues in negotiations over the US president’s peace plan.

Far from a relic, Facebook remains a fixture for more than 70% of Americans.

GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks.

edit: url got cut, http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

This link is an HTML 5 demo of palette shifting, a method that was widely used in the 90s in computer graphics when you were limited to 256 colors for a scene, i.e. whatever was rendered on a screen. The images shown in the demo all come from an artist who drew and put them together in the 90s, and a developer made a demo that lets you not only pick the scene but also shift the palette on it.

The tech behind it is simple enough: you only have 256 colors max, and each color is mapped to an ID. So color #1 can be #ffffff (pure white) or #000000, or any other color you want. The trick is, two or more color IDs can have the same color on it. Switching the palette could be done on the fly back in the day, so by just loading another palette, you can entirely change the color of a scene. It's also how they get the animation, they change just a few IDs on the palette very rapidly (but BlendShift is something the artist designed more recently and works by interpolating colors if I understand correctly, giving the animation a smoother look).

Which scene and time of day is your favorite? I have a hard time picking the one I want for my wallpaper lol. I'm gonna try and 'rebuild' them and see if I can get a similar time-of-day effect for my wallpaper.

There's more scenes on this other demo, but no clock to pick the time: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

Absolutely beautiful artworks and you can imagine the amount of work that went into this not only to paint the scene, but also to code it into a computer afterwards.

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China complained to Malaysia and Cambodia about the trade deals they signed with the US last month, underscoring the delicate balance countries must strike in the rivalry between Beijing and Washington.

Both deals, signed last month during Donald Trump’s visit to Malaysia, include language that encourages the countries to align with Washington on national security issues, including export controls, investment screening and sanctions. Beijing has repeatedly warned countries against signing deals with the US that undermine its interests, but this appears to be the first instance of direct complaint.

The public criticisms demonstrate the tight space Southeast Asian nations navigate between the world’s two largest economies. China is a key economic and trade partner, but Trump’s tariff threats have forced countries to make more trade concessions and investment deals with the US.

Non-paywall link

I keep wondering why class prejudice is treated as so normal in the UK, especially when most people are working class themselves. The slur "chav" shows this clearly. It gets used so casually, almost like it's harmless, even though it's aimed at an entire social group. What I can't figure out is why so few people call it out for the classism it is. Media and politics seem to reinforce the idea that mocking the working class is acceptable, but it still feels strange that so many people go along with it without questioning it. It makes me wonder how something so openly dismissive became such an ordinary part of everyday language.

A few poignant examples I've read are things such as "anyone else cross the street when they see chavs (working class people)"? Or "I hate chavs (working class people) I wish they were all gassed". Often, such phrasings will earn a lot of upvotes or likes, as well. It's 42 million people, that is a lot of people some people want to be "gassed", that other people are upvoting/liking.

Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

Waymo might be expanding its autonomous taxi services to northern cities like Minneapolis and Detroit, but back in Santa Monica, the company’s strained relationship with local residents has reached a breaking point.

According to the Santa Monica Daily Press, the city council has issued a formal demand that Waymo end overnight operations at two charging facilities there. City counselors unanimously approved the measure, which doesn’t mention Waymo by name, but instead orders two lots the company uses to charge and dispatch vehicles to cease nighttime operations.