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.

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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.

The home of Andriy Yermak was searched Friday by investigators probing an alleged $100 million kickback scheme.

A top Ukrainian official at the heart of peace talks resigned on Friday after being thrust into the center of a massive corruption scandal, threatening to further weaken President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a crucial moment in negotiations to end Russia's war.

Andriy Yermak's, Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff, decision to quit came hours after his home was searched early Friday by investigators with Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau, the NABU, which is leading the $100 million kickback probe involving the country’s energy sector.

Zelenskyy said in a later video statement that Yermak had handed in his resignation and he was looking for his replacement. "Russia really wants Ukraine to make mistakes," he said. "There will be no mistakes on our part."

The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are cashing in on the genocide.

So I decided to use the Ryzen 5 3600 and RX580 I upgraded from a year ago in a homelab build.

I bought this motherboard for the build: MSI PRO B550M-VC WiFi

When I built my main PC I just got advice on what to buy and didn't do a deep dive into motherboard design, hence why I thought the above motherboard would suit my needs. Since getting the motherboard I've learned about VRMs and how they dictate the amount of power that can be supplied to the processor and decided this motherboard isn't sufficient for the Ryzen 5 3600 and what I want to use this homelab for. I want it to run cool and not have anything fail for years to come and may swap in my Ryzen 7 5800X3D, if and when I upgrade that in my main PC.

My plan now is to use this motherboard in an old case as a media PC and buy a processor with integrated graphics for the job.

In the page linked above it has the following:

The MSI PRO B550M-VC WiFi has a basic VRM configuration, delivering 50 A across 5 phases. Best for low-power CPUs (≤65 W TDP). Using high-wattage chips or overclocking could cause severe thermal issues and instability. Recommended for budget builds, office workstations, and media PCs.

I'm having trouble determining a good AM4 processor for this budget motherboard given it's VRM limitations. I'd like it to be able to output 4k video, run a handful of browser tabs, a VPN client, and maybe a torrent client.

Is there an AM4 processor with integrated graphics that fits the bill?

Should I consider getting a processor without integrated graphics and a cheap GPU instead?

Am I overthinking things?

Any advice welcome, cheers.

For those of you that use docker, how do you make sure your docker-compose.yml (and possibly .env) files stay current with the project's ongoing updates? I'm sure there's an easier way than what I'm doing which is manually getting the latest ones and checking the diffs in vscodium. And I'm sure some git magic already takes care of this but I've been slow in learning git beyond the VERY basics. Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://freefree.ps/users/faab64/statuses/115627174071013665

The fact this not on the front page of every newspaper in the world shows that
- Racism is stronger than war crime
- Israel can't be portrayed as guilty in any major crimes
- They are not allowed to post such stories
- All of the above
#israel #WarCrime #Occupation #Media #WestBank #Palestine #Hypocrisy

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israeli-forces-execute-two-palestinians-point-blank-range

@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com

Its like if the US south government would have fled to Cuba after the civil war 😁

Additional footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgIBg94FRE

I run WireGuard on my router to hit my LAN services (SAMBA, home assistant, etc) from afar.

But when I enable the VPN client on my router, I can no longer access LAN services over Wireshark. "Allow LAN access is set to 'true'" on the UI (Merlin).

Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas?

The IDF is moving to curb sensitive military information leaking onto social media by rolling out a new monitoring system called ‘Morpheus.’ The AI-based tool, developed inside the military, will soon track photos and other content posted by IDF soldiers on civilian social media platforms, according to a report Wednesday.

The decision to develop ‘Morpheus’ followed repeated leaks of classified or sensitive material posted by soldiers in recent years, in text, images and videos.

The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Dutch Member of European Parliament (MEP) Marit Maij told DW News about plans to “call on the European Commission to stop the trade negotiations with the UAE for as long as we see that weapons are going through the UAE to the RSF,” referring to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The call comes in the wake of the widespread atrocities committed by the RSF during its siege and eventual capture of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, which were abetted by advanced weaponry from the UAE.

But following a lobbying effort from an Emirati delegation to Strasbourg led by envoy Lana Nusseibeh, the final resolution passed on Thursday included no references to the UAE’s role in the war.

Before talking about what I played this week, I think I forgot to mention a game I played couple of weeks ago.

After finishing Judgment, and seeing that Dark Souls (next game in my list) isn't on sale yet, I started Bioshock Infinite. I had played the first Bioshock but never got around to playing Infinite.

The visuals felt like late PS3 games, specially the camera and movement, but it didn't feel that jarring, specially after couple of mins of playing it, didn't notice that again during the whole game.

The game was beautiful, the gameplay and shooting was fun. And the story was "Bioshocky". As someone who didn't like the first Bioshock too much (I blame Rapture for that, just not my kind of place), I loved Bishock Infinite.

There are some lore elements that connects it to the first game, so you'll enjoy the background story more if you know that, but you can easily play it without that. Not a very long game too, I think took somewhere between 10-15 hours.

Highly recommended to those who like shooters and haven't played it yet.

Now to this week!

Finally started Dark Souls Remastered have been meaning to play it for the last few months but always end up starting something else.

I have said this about soulslike games before, but the game isn't that tough. You just have to be deliberate about your actions, and can't just button mash through everything. Also, the game doesn't tell you half the things, you have to experiment to figure those things out, and you die, many times, but you also die in other games, I have died many times in Ratchet & Clank and they aren't considered that difficult. Oh and just to be clear, it's by no definition an easy game, but I think the difficulty is over-hyped.

Anyways, have been playing only Dark Souls since I got it, the only place where I got stuck was the Bell Gargoyle boss, died more than a dozen times, then my friend suggested to go to another area first before coming back to boss, so doing that and leveling up, and getting a better weapon / equipment made killing the boss much easier.

Have taken care of pretty much all the surface stuff now and have entered Blightdown. Ended last session when I reached the bottom, got poisoned and died with over 12K souls! Let's hope I can reach it when I play next.

Didn't really play anything else. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity and Cozy Grove all are on temporary hiatus.

Played a bit of Mutant Mudd Collection, mainly in bite sized times, which are usually reserved for Picross. Each "world" has 4 levels, I think I was in 2-1 before, and have reached 4-4 now. I can only see 5 worlds in the current screen, but no idea how many screens this hub world has.

The disappearing platforms are the most annoying aspect yet, but I think that's only because they removed the limit of 5 mins from each level. I play slowly killing everything, so take more than that sometimes, even when I do clear it before that, it's only because I don't have to worry about any time limit, I doubt I would have cleared them if I had to try to go fast so that I can reach end before time.

Having fun with it. It's pretty good for those small-breaks.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

Merz has previously said he would do all he could to ensure the 2035 deadline was softened. He has now argued it is vital that hybrid cars are allowed to still be made after 2035.

The planned takeover of the insolvent solar glass manufacturer collapsed unexpectedly, leaving approximately 215 remaining employees facing layoffs.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9892085/7366041

Background from noyb:

In December 2019, noyb had filed complaints against three providers of French websites, because they had implemented cookie banners that turned a clear “NO” into “fake consent”. Even if a user went through the trouble of rejecting countless cookies on the eCommerce page CDiscount, the movie guide Allocine .fr and the fashion magazine Vanity Fair, these websites sent digital signals to tracking companies claiming that users had agreed to being tracked online. CDiscount sent “fake consent” signals to 431 tracking companies per user, Allocine to 565, and Vanity Fair to 375, an analysis of the data flows had shown.

CNIL sanctions Conde Nast. Today, almost six (!) years after these complaints had originally been filed, the French data protection authority CNIL has finally reached a decision in the case against Vanity Fair: Conde Nast, the publisher behind Vanity Fair, has failed to obtain user consent before placing cookies. In addition, the company failed to sufficiently inform its users about the purpose of supposedly “necessary” cookies. Thirdly, the implemented mechanisms for refusing and withdrawing consent was ineffective. Conde Nast must therefore pay a fine of €750.000.

Information published about the show by London Palladium included further warnings of ‘imitation blood' and 'some violence'
Fan Gerald Dixon told The Sun: “What next? A warning that the hit musical includes catchy tunes?

“This nonsense is enough to make anyone utter the Lord's name in vain.”