cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55895056

Hey there,

When browsing awesome-selfhosted, especially via the web version, I always got somewhat annoyed that I couldn't filter and sort it appropriately. For example, I wanted to only show blogging software that supports Docker or PHP deployments, but I'd have to manually scan through everything and cross-reference the deployment tags.

So I created a custom frontend that uses the data from awesome-selfhosted and gives the ability to sort and filter for the relevant projects. There are also commit graphs that come directly from the data of the awesome-selfhosted repo so you can see at a glance which projects are actively maintained.

I also just finished the work on some mobile improvements today to allow the website to be (hopefully) usable on phones as well.

Would love to hear some feedback.

Website: https://awesome-web.theravenhub.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/Rabenherz112/awesome-selfhosted-web-gen

A new feature on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter allows users to see the location of other accounts. It has resulted in a firestorm of recriminations

When X rolled out a new feature revealing the locations of popular accounts, the company was acting to boost transparency and clamp down on disinformation. The result, however, has been a circular firing squad of recriminations, as users turn on each other enraged by the revelation that dozens of popular “America first” and pro-Trump accounts originated overseas.

An Ivanka Trump fan account that posts about illegal immigration to the US was shown to be based in Nigeria. MAGAStorm, spreading conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on Trump, was found to be in eastern Europe. AmericanVoice which posts anti-Islam content, is based in India.

Users have noted that a high proportion of these potentially misleading accounts – many of which claim to be in America – are operating from Asia, but experts are in disagreement over whether they may be state-backed influence campaigns or even opportunists trying to make a quick buck.

• Stéphane Siohan and Kristina Berdynskykh, war correspondants in Kyiv, win the Oustanding Story award for their article « Tu es en Ukraine, tout va bien se passer».

• Blandine Lavignon, former correspondent in Tbilissi, wins the best Young European journalist award for her article « La Géorgie tiraillée entre son rêve européen et son gouvernement prorusse »

Congratulations to them 👏👏👏

This is something I'm curious about that is tied to housing shortages... As in, say a hypothetical government want to encourage real-estate develpers to build more housing to solve housing shortages. But said government still wants to make most of its citizens happy, instead of just cramming everyone in the smallest accommodations possible

As extreme examples:

• A shoebox studio (<= 10 m^2) is probably too small for almost any family
• On the contrary... a massive estate (>= 10,000 m^2) is probably too big for almost any family. At that point, upkeep of the house may need several full-time housekeepers, so you literally won't have time to do it yourself

I'd imagine there might be some cultural differences regarding this as well...?

Despite facing economic headwinds from both the US and China, the European economy has held up pretty well in 2025. So in this video, we'll explore the data behind this stability, how the EU managed to achieve it and whether it's a cause for optimism.

Invidious link: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=ov8a2tzxdAA

the Ontario Court of Justice, presided over by Judge Heather Perkins-McVey, ruled that the French parent company must hand over the data to the Canadian authorities. Her reasoning is based on a broad interpretation of "virtual presence": since OVH operates globally and offers services in Canada, the company is subject to Canadian jurisdiction, regardless of where the physical servers are located.

The chemicals company has around 16,600 staff worldwide with around 10,700 in Germany. Most of the job cuts are to fall on its German operations.

The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.

Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.

Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.

The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.

“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.

Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.

After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.

After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.

Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46327782

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Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to Australia is urging the Albanese government to include the island in the AUKUS security pact, as he warned China’s coercive behaviour and military activity in the Pacific should ring alarm bells.

Douglas Hsu, Taiwan’s top representative in Australia, also warned that Chinese-made electric cars posed cybersecurity risks and said Beijing was trying to project military force across the region.

[...]

“Last year, they launched long-range missiles into the South Pacific, and earlier this year they sent naval vessels surrounding Australia,” Hsu told The Australian Financial Review, referring to a Chinese naval taskforce’s circumnavigation of Australia in February and March.

“I don’t think they have any business ties with Antarctica. So why do they send their naval ship here in this region? I think that is the way they are showcasing their defence capacities, and that is certainly alarming to all the countries in the region.”

[...]

Conceding it was a sensitive topic, Hsu said the Taiwanese government had expressed interest in joining Pillar II of AUKUS given the island’s capabilities in high-end technology, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

“With the capacity of Taiwan in manufacturing, we believe that we have the strength working with other countries, especially in AUKUS Pillar II, to advance those defence and technologies to the next level, so we believe that Taiwan can be helpful,” he said.

Pillar II of AUKUS – the technology stream of the pact – commits Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to jointly accelerate the development of advanced capabilities including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, undersea warfare and hypersonic missiles.

[...]

[Edit to include the archived link.]

Archived

Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to Australia is urging the Albanese government to include the island in the AUKUS security pact, as he warned China’s coercive behaviour and military activity in the Pacific should ring alarm bells.

Douglas Hsu, Taiwan’s top representative in Australia, also warned that Chinese-made electric cars posed cybersecurity risks and said Beijing was trying to project military force across the region.

[...]

“Last year, they launched long-range missiles into the South Pacific, and earlier this year they sent naval vessels surrounding Australia,” Hsu told The Australian Financial Review, referring to a Chinese naval taskforce’s circumnavigation of Australia in February and March.

“I don’t think they have any business ties with Antarctica. So why do they send their naval ship here in this region? I think that is the way they are showcasing their defence capacities, and that is certainly alarming to all the countries in the region.”

[...]

Conceding it was a sensitive topic, Hsu said the Taiwanese government had expressed interest in joining Pillar II of AUKUS given the island’s capabilities in high-end technology, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

“With the capacity of Taiwan in manufacturing, we believe that we have the strength working with other countries, especially in AUKUS Pillar II, to advance those defence and technologies to the next level, so we believe that Taiwan can be helpful,” he said.

Pillar II of AUKUS – the technology stream of the pact – commits Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to jointly accelerate the development of advanced capabilities including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, undersea warfare and hypersonic missiles.

[...]

[Edit to include the archived link.]

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42577654

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Sweden, to its immense credit, has acknowledged what the rest of Europe still resists saying aloud: if an adversary can strike you from thousands of kilometres away, you cannot deter them with weapons that can’t reach beyond your own borders.

...

Sweden, long admired for its cautious diplomacy and understated pragmatism, is now moving decisively onto the European security stage.

...

Stockholm’s new strategy, proposing strike systems with ranges of up to 2,000 km, is not a provocation. It is a sober, overdue recognition that Europe’s deterrent posture must modernise or collapse.

...

Predictably, some critics will accuse Sweden of “escalation”, as though investing in the ability to defend one’s territory somehow invites conflict. The argument is as old as pacifism and just as flawed.

In a world where one power routinely launches strikes 1,000 km deep into a sovereign state, the only escalatory act is to remain defenceless.

Europeans must abandon the naïve notion that Russia will be placated by weakness. If anything, it is weakness that tempts Moscow, just as it has throughout its imperial history. A Europe that cannot respond to missile attacks on its own soil — or that must beg the United States for every long-range capability — is a Europe that has ceded its sovereignty without a fight.

...

Deterrence only works if the adversary believes you have both the capability and the will to respond. Without long-range strike, Europe has neither. Sweden understands this. Its decision is not merely strategic; it is moral. A nation has a duty to defend its citizens — and defence today requires offensive reach.

...

Meanwhile, Polish members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged the European Union to respond firmly and jointly to Russian and Belarusian sabotage and repeated violations of EU airspace, during a debate in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

...

The discussion followed a recent explosion on a railway line in eastern Poland, which Warsaw has described as an act of Russian-backed sabotage, and a series of incursions by drones launched from Russia into the skies of several member states.

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European Commission Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu said that strengthening Europe’s ability to react to “hybrid threats” is now a priority for the European Commission, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

The term “hybrid threats” is used in Brussels for hostile activity that mixes cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation campaigns and military pressure. Mînzatu noted that in recent weeks drones or aircraft had violated airspace over Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania and Latvia.

“These incidents follow a pattern, they are not an accident. They are part of hybrid warfare,” she told lawmakers.

...

Former [Polish] interior minister Mariusz Kamiński of Law and Justice argued that Russia is deliberately trying to create fear and chaos and that this method has been used consistently since Soviet times.

He said Russian special services have for months been organizing “terrorist activities” on EU territory, targeting critical infrastructure such as airports, and warned that “we are one step away from the deaths of our citizens.”

Kamiński said Belarus, under the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, has become a staging ground for Russian intelligence officers and saboteurs, and called for tougher EU measures.

He also proposed that the Commission, together with the European Council, work out a procedure to compensate damage caused by sabotage using frozen Russian assets that were blocked after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

...

Krzysztof Śmiszek from the Left alliance cited an estimate by Poland’s digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski that cyberattacks in Poland, including those targeting critical infrastructure, could reach 100,000 this year.

Śmiszek accused the far right in Europe of acting in the Kremlin’s interests, saying that “the Kremlin, as always, uses the mindless and ‘useful idiots,’” using a phrase often applied to people seen as advancing Russia’s agenda inside Western politics.

...

On Thursday, on the sidelines of the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is due to meet behind closed doors.

...

...

Sweden, to its immense credit, has acknowledged what the rest of Europe still resists saying aloud: if an adversary can strike you from thousands of kilometres away, you cannot deter them with weapons that can’t reach beyond your own borders.

...

Sweden, long admired for its cautious diplomacy and understated pragmatism, is now moving decisively onto the European security stage.

...

Stockholm’s new strategy, proposing strike systems with ranges of up to 2,000 km, is not a provocation. It is a sober, overdue recognition that Europe’s deterrent posture must modernise or collapse.

...

Predictably, some critics will accuse Sweden of “escalation”, as though investing in the ability to defend one’s territory somehow invites conflict. The argument is as old as pacifism and just as flawed.

In a world where one power routinely launches strikes 1,000 km deep into a sovereign state, the only escalatory act is to remain defenceless.

Europeans must abandon the naïve notion that Russia will be placated by weakness. If anything, it is weakness that tempts Moscow, just as it has throughout its imperial history. A Europe that cannot respond to missile attacks on its own soil — or that must beg the United States for every long-range capability — is a Europe that has ceded its sovereignty without a fight.

...

Deterrence only works if the adversary believes you have both the capability and the will to respond. Without long-range strike, Europe has neither. Sweden understands this. Its decision is not merely strategic; it is moral. A nation has a duty to defend its citizens — and defence today requires offensive reach.

...

Meanwhile, Polish members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged the European Union to respond firmly and jointly to Russian and Belarusian sabotage and repeated violations of EU airspace, during a debate in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

...

The discussion followed a recent explosion on a railway line in eastern Poland, which Warsaw has described as an act of Russian-backed sabotage, and a series of incursions by drones launched from Russia into the skies of several member states.

...

European Commission Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu said that strengthening Europe’s ability to react to “hybrid threats” is now a priority for the European Commission, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

The term “hybrid threats” is used in Brussels for hostile activity that mixes cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation campaigns and military pressure. Mînzatu noted that in recent weeks drones or aircraft had violated airspace over Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania and Latvia.

“These incidents follow a pattern, they are not an accident. They are part of hybrid warfare,” she told lawmakers.

...

Former [Polish] interior minister Mariusz Kamiński of Law and Justice argued that Russia is deliberately trying to create fear and chaos and that this method has been used consistently since Soviet times.

He said Russian special services have for months been organizing “terrorist activities” on EU territory, targeting critical infrastructure such as airports, and warned that “we are one step away from the deaths of our citizens.”

Kamiński said Belarus, under the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, has become a staging ground for Russian intelligence officers and saboteurs, and called for tougher EU measures.

He also proposed that the Commission, together with the European Council, work out a procedure to compensate damage caused by sabotage using frozen Russian assets that were blocked after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

...

Krzysztof Śmiszek from the Left alliance cited an estimate by Poland’s digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski that cyberattacks in Poland, including those targeting critical infrastructure, could reach 100,000 this year.

Śmiszek accused the far right in Europe of acting in the Kremlin’s interests, saying that “the Kremlin, as always, uses the mindless and ‘useful idiots,’” using a phrase often applied to people seen as advancing Russia’s agenda inside Western politics.

...

On Thursday, on the sidelines of the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is due to meet behind closed doors.

...