- As a yunohost user I find the yunohost discourse forum really useful - but I also find that tracking posts and discussions in the forum - the many other forums for other software I use - and then related conversations on ActivityPub time consuming.

I know that the discourse forum software has a plugin that allows content in the forum to be followed via ActivityPub without impacting the ability for the forum losing control of content moderation in the forum (or having to deal with ActivityPub replies and conversation) meta.discourse.org/t/activityp…

I while ago I posted in the forum about the idea forum.yunohost.org/t/discourse… - but perhaps because it mightnt have been seen by ActivityPub users - there wasnt much interest.

I think that making it easier to follow and share forum content would also promote yunohost to activtypub users.

What do people here thing? - What are your thoughts ?
@yunohost

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5783864

[Op-ed by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, two Russian investigative journalists and co-founders of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of Russian secret service activities.]

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Whatever the outcome of the current negotiations, Putin’s obsession with Europe is so great that leading European nations and hardline anti-Kremlin states like Germany, France, Poland, the Baltic states, and the UK will continue to experience attacks.

Ukraine has been the fulcrum of the Russian president’s campaign to change the post-Cold War settlement of 1989-91, but it is only one part of a much more ambitious campaign to build a more Russia-friendly Europe.

It’s worth remembering that Putin’s ultimatum to the West in December 2021, on the eve of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, was primarily targeted at NATO’s presence on the European continent. In particular, it made extraordinary demands for the withdrawal of troops and weapons from NATO’s Eastern flank, including the return of NATO forces to their bases of 1997. That would have meant withdrawing garrisons in the Baltic states, Poland, and Romania.

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Moscow firmly believes that Europe must be put “in its place” regardless of any deal over Ukraine.

This explains the Kremlin’s accelerating shadow war operations against Europe — including arson, sabotage, drone attacks, targeted assassinations of Russian emigres, and cyberattacks against infrastructure — that aim to unnerve the population and pressure governments to shift policy in Russia’s favor. An end to fighting in Ukraine does not change this logic.

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Internal Russian factors also make a sustained peace improbable. Three and a half years of war in Ukraine have eroded the role of many key Russian institutions in anything involving relations with the outside world.

For instance, nobody cares what role Lavrov and his foreign ministry play in the current negotiations; the real talks with the Americans are taking place elsewhere and are handled by other actors — starting with Putin himself, his personal appointees such as Kirill Dmitriev, and the intelligence agencies, which have boosted their influence through several rounds of hostage exchanges.

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The security agencies, meanwhile — omnipresent and all-powerful after two decades of growing power — have made full use of the Kremlin’s paranoia about Ukrainian spies and saboteurs, and now have their fingers in everything of any importance in the country — from federal ministries and regional governments, which are kept in line through selective repression carried out by the FSB, to corporations harassed by innumerable criminal investigations, which involve the FSB, or military counterintelligence, in one way or another.

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Territorial gains in Ukraine, the fate of Zelenskyy, or a downsized Ukrainian army are too trivial to matter. By Russian spy standards, such outcomes would simply be inconsequential. It would merely enable a greater focus on the next round, with the new and bigger target of democratic Europe.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5783864

[Op-ed by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, two Russian investigative journalists and co-founders of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of Russian secret service activities.]

...

Whatever the outcome of the current negotiations, Putin’s obsession with Europe is so great that leading European nations and hardline anti-Kremlin states like Germany, France, Poland, the Baltic states, and the UK will continue to experience attacks.

Ukraine has been the fulcrum of the Russian president’s campaign to change the post-Cold War settlement of 1989-91, but it is only one part of a much more ambitious campaign to build a more Russia-friendly Europe.

It’s worth remembering that Putin’s ultimatum to the West in December 2021, on the eve of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, was primarily targeted at NATO’s presence on the European continent. In particular, it made extraordinary demands for the withdrawal of troops and weapons from NATO’s Eastern flank, including the return of NATO forces to their bases of 1997. That would have meant withdrawing garrisons in the Baltic states, Poland, and Romania.

...

Moscow firmly believes that Europe must be put “in its place” regardless of any deal over Ukraine.

This explains the Kremlin’s accelerating shadow war operations against Europe — including arson, sabotage, drone attacks, targeted assassinations of Russian emigres, and cyberattacks against infrastructure — that aim to unnerve the population and pressure governments to shift policy in Russia’s favor. An end to fighting in Ukraine does not change this logic.

...

Internal Russian factors also make a sustained peace improbable. Three and a half years of war in Ukraine have eroded the role of many key Russian institutions in anything involving relations with the outside world.

For instance, nobody cares what role Lavrov and his foreign ministry play in the current negotiations; the real talks with the Americans are taking place elsewhere and are handled by other actors — starting with Putin himself, his personal appointees such as Kirill Dmitriev, and the intelligence agencies, which have boosted their influence through several rounds of hostage exchanges.

...

The security agencies, meanwhile — omnipresent and all-powerful after two decades of growing power — have made full use of the Kremlin’s paranoia about Ukrainian spies and saboteurs, and now have their fingers in everything of any importance in the country — from federal ministries and regional governments, which are kept in line through selective repression carried out by the FSB, to corporations harassed by innumerable criminal investigations, which involve the FSB, or military counterintelligence, in one way or another.

...

Territorial gains in Ukraine, the fate of Zelenskyy, or a downsized Ukrainian army are too trivial to matter. By Russian spy standards, such outcomes would simply be inconsequential. It would merely enable a greater focus on the next round, with the new and bigger target of democratic Europe.

Regressive illusions cultivate a worldview marked by avoidance of contradiction.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46206015

India has issued a strong diplomatic protest to China after an Indian woman from Arunachal Pradesh was detained and allegedly harassed for more than 18 hours while transiting through Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The incident has triggered a fresh diplomatic confrontation between the two countries.

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According to official sources, Chinese immigration officials refused to accept the woman’s Indian passport, claiming her birthplace — Arunachal Pradesh — was “Chinese territory.” India described the conduct as “ludicrous” and “unacceptable.”

The passenger, Pem Wang Thongdok, was travelling from London to Japan on November 21, with a scheduled three-hour layover in Shanghai. Her routine transit turned into a prolonged ordeal after officials reportedly invalidated her documents solely due to her Arunachal Pradesh origin.

[...]

Acting immediately, New Delhi lodged a strong demarche with the Chinese government in both Beijing and New Delhi. The Indian Consulate in Shanghai also intervened, providing “fullest assistance” to the stranded traveller.

Government sources emphasized that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India, and all its residents are fully entitled to hold and travel on Indian passports. Refusing to recognize this, they said, is baseless, provocative, and completely unacceptable.

[...]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46205007

Norilsk Nickel has been a money machine for investors, and especially Vladimir Potanin, since the early 1990s when the giant metal producer was privatised. Today the oligarch is Russia's fifth richest person with a net worth of more than €25 billion according to Forbes.

With the war all is now changing. Norilsk Nickel’s revenue has been declining for several years in a row. In late October, the company announced consolidated production results for the nine first months of 2025. Output of all key metals decreased compared to the same period last year.

“We have to work in difficult conditions,” Potanin said in a recent meeting with Putin. From time to time, the leader in the Kremlin orders Russia’s oligarchs to come to his office to talk about the state of affairs concerning their businesses.

Norilsk Nickel's CEO talked about falling global prices and troubles caused by sanctions.

The difficulties are caused by "disruption of supply chains, payment chains, the need to reorient ourselves to new, unfamiliar markets," Vladimir Potanin said.

The withdrawal of suppliers of key Western mining equipment due to sanctions has forced Norilsk Nickel to transition to alternative sources for its factories in Norilsk. This is a major reason for the dip in production, the company's CEO explained.

[...]

Although Norilsk Nickel itself is not directly sanctioned, more than ten companies associated with the mining and metallurgy giant are included in the U.S. list of sanctions, the Barents Observer has previously reported. Rosatomflot, the icebreaker operator securing year-around transport of metals from the Arctic, has also been hit by sanctions.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46204683

Archived

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The mother and child were later taken to the hospital, and the two are now together under medical supervision. The baby’s life is not in danger, according to the news outlet People of Baikal.

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I'm not interested in debate. DISENGAGE!

Ha! Now I have the last word because I said disengage and since I expressed both viewpoints at the same time I am both correct and incorrect preemptively! I win! Everyone bow to my genius! I am the best leftist now.

I am drunk.

The new European Parliament, elected in June 2024, has shifted further to the right, with conservative and nationalist parties gaining ground and forming two new groups — Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN).

Since taking office, the new parliament has voted on at least 14 resolutions concerning Russia and Ukraine — an early test of how its fresh line-up approaches foreign policy.

Drawing on these voting records, EUobserver and Novaya Gazeta Europe are releasing an updated ranking of the most pro-Kremlin parties and MEPs.

Note# The wiki for euobserver, states they were founded as an euro skeptical organisation but have developed into reliable in-depth journalism it seems

What GNU is Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service/Linus Benedict Torvalds Uniplexed Information and Computing Service distribution are you running on your personal micro computation device?

Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company’s former head of safety and well-being, Vaishnavi Jayakumar. The testimony — along with several other claims that Meta ignored problems if they increased engagement — surfaced in an unredacted court filing related to a social media child safety lawsuit filed by school districts across the country.

Feeling it's a dumb question because my brain isn't parsing exactly how this is supposed to work.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/srcrplc-unblock-censored-image/

Anyone in the UK want to give it a spin?

Meme stolen from 1990

He's a liar and a leaker folks, that snake in his pants? It leaks ALL over the place, drip drip drip, VERY disrespectful, nobody wants to see that. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! - DJT

After all, open-source applications can immediately and noticeably reduce dependencies on tech giants. Among others, Schleswig-Holstein or the International Criminal Court are currently demonstrating this. But in reality, open-source providers were treated shabbily by politicians at the summit, even scolded in places.

This is most clearly seen in the “Charter for Digital Sovereignty and Resilience,” initiated by Austria, which was signed by all EU states at the summit. The text states: “Open-source solutions can play an important role in strengthening digital sovereignty, provided they meet high cybersecurity standards and, where appropriate, are complemented by reliable proprietary technologies.” Open source is thus branded as technology that is typically insecure and unreliable. A slap in the face.

Overall, the impression from the summit was: In terms of digital sovereignty, politics primarily relies on “Buy European” clauses, AI and cloud projects, and on heavyweights like SAP, Schwartz Digits, or Telekom.

The former president was jailed over the weekend after tampering with his ankle monitor while on house arrest. The Supreme Court judges who upheld his incarceration fear he might try to escape.

A panel of four Supreme Court judges unanimously upheld on Monday a decision to incarcerate Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, after he was arrested over the weekend when he tampered with his ankle monitor.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro's detention on Saturday, citing fears he might try to escape custody if allowed to stay on house arrest, where he has been awaiting an appeal against his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a failed coup.

On Monday, Justices Flavio Dino, Cristiano Zanin and Carmen Lucia upheld de Moraes' order.