cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38929150

Overview here

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/39

The new owner of the repo has a fresh github account and apparently has the signing keys from Catfriend1 too.

Time will tell if they are trustworthy, but for the extra paranoid it might make sense to pause updates for a while.

The new repo has two releases in it now. GitHub is silently redirecting to the new repo, even in Obtainium, meaning it's possible that if you had this previously installed via Obtainium and updated now, you may have apks installed that may or may not contain the changes in the repo.

This is a mess. I deleted the repo from Obtainium (luckily I don't auto install updates) and will wait to see what happens over the next few months. Might just save my notes in a network share instead of using syncthing from my phone. Idk, notes are all that I was using it for.

This is an op-ed by Sir Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and Moritz Schularick is president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

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Germany’s rearmament is not going nearly fast enough. While Germany and Europe urgently need more weapons, at the current pace it will take years for them to roll off the production line and to constitute an arsenal sufficient to deter Russia. In no other area will Germany invest as much money in the coming years. And in no area is the absence of economic rationality more pronounced. Without swift changes, Germany is on a path to waste billions in taxpayers’ money for the delayed delivery of partly outdated defence capabilities.

Nearly four years after Russia’s assault on Ukraine, large German defence producers still work in single shifts, five days a week, instead of three shifts, seven days a week. The current production rate for the Taurus long-range guided missile system is only a few a month. The production of the Iris-T air defence system — which could provide crucial support to defend Ukraine’s energy infrastructure this winter and which is also essential for closing gaps in Europe’s air defence — is positively artisanal.

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At its heart, this is a task of industrial scaling, something German industry is well placed to deliver. As economic historians, we know that without the coordinating hand of the government and economic expertise, this kind of crash rearmament programme will not happen fast enough. ... the obvious path would be to create a national defence industrial board to assess resources, set quantitative production goals, negotiate capacity with industry and fast-track dual-use innovation. ... "German rearmament" are two ominous words for historians, just as "state co-ordination" is a phrase we tend to eschew as believers in freemarket economics. However, in the face of an increasingly dangerous and heavily armed Russia, co-ordinated rearmament is imperative. Above all, it needs to happen at warp speed. ...

Berlin has woken up to the Russian threat, but its thinking is stuck in the past ... British readers of a certain age may find it hard to be enthusiastic about German rearmament. As historians, we understand their unease. However, this is not the 1910s or the 1930s. The 2020s are a time when the UK has been in a mutual defence alliance with Germany for close to 80 years; ... The arguments for a more rapid and technologically advanced German rearmament are more than just narrowly military. They are also economic and strategic. We have four recommendations that add up to an "Operation Warp Speed" for German rearmament. ...

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5662897

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Experts from Ukraine’s defense, anti-corruption, and civil society sectors joined Taiwanese researchers in Taipei on Tuesday to discuss how Russia and China deploy cognitive warfare to weaken democracies, highlighting parallels between the two authoritarian states’ influence operations.

The forum, organized by Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab, brought a Ukrainian delegation to Taipei as part of a wider East Asia trip to share lessons learned from nearly a decade of Russian aggression and four years of full-scale war.

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[Ukrainian researcher Viktoriia] Vyshnivska said Russian and Chinese cognitive warfare share core themes: warning that “the West will abandon you,” amplifying fears about mobilization, and portraying governments as corrupt or incompetent.

She said she rarely encounters people abroad who question Taiwan’s existence, unlike Ukraine, which for years was unfamiliar to many and often perceived as part of Russia. “Unfortunately, that made Russia’s narrative that ‘Ukraine is an artificial state’ more successful,” she said.

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One participant asked when democracies should consider imposing limits on speech or influence channels to protect national security.

Vyshnivska said no universal formula exists, and each democracy must balance freedoms with real threats. “The red line should be whether a restriction protects citizens more than it harms them,” she said, citing Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church institutions with proven ties to Russian intelligence. “Citizens themselves must decide, not the government alone.”

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“The most challenging part is countering a narrative when people feel it’s partly true,” she said. “Convincing Ukrainians that things are not as bad as Russian propaganda claims is difficult when sabotage has created real damage.”

Despite this, she emphasized that Ukraine’s resilience demonstrates that authoritarian predictions of collapse have repeatedly failed. “Russia wants you to believe everything is lost,” she said. “We are proof that it is not.”

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5662897

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Experts from Ukraine’s defense, anti-corruption, and civil society sectors joined Taiwanese researchers in Taipei on Tuesday to discuss how Russia and China deploy cognitive warfare to weaken democracies, highlighting parallels between the two authoritarian states’ influence operations.

The forum, organized by Taiwan’s Doublethink Lab, brought a Ukrainian delegation to Taipei as part of a wider East Asia trip to share lessons learned from nearly a decade of Russian aggression and four years of full-scale war.

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[Ukrainian researcher Viktoriia] Vyshnivska said Russian and Chinese cognitive warfare share core themes: warning that “the West will abandon you,” amplifying fears about mobilization, and portraying governments as corrupt or incompetent.

She said she rarely encounters people abroad who question Taiwan’s existence, unlike Ukraine, which for years was unfamiliar to many and often perceived as part of Russia. “Unfortunately, that made Russia’s narrative that ‘Ukraine is an artificial state’ more successful,” she said.

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One participant asked when democracies should consider imposing limits on speech or influence channels to protect national security.

Vyshnivska said no universal formula exists, and each democracy must balance freedoms with real threats. “The red line should be whether a restriction protects citizens more than it harms them,” she said, citing Ukraine’s ban on Russian Orthodox Church institutions with proven ties to Russian intelligence. “Citizens themselves must decide, not the government alone.”

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“The most challenging part is countering a narrative when people feel it’s partly true,” she said. “Convincing Ukrainians that things are not as bad as Russian propaganda claims is difficult when sabotage has created real damage.”

Despite this, she emphasized that Ukraine’s resilience demonstrates that authoritarian predictions of collapse have repeatedly failed. “Russia wants you to believe everything is lost,” she said. “We are proof that it is not.”

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Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket

Reselling tickets for profit is to be outlawed under plans due to be announced this week, the Guardian has learned, as the government goes ahead with a long-awaited crackdown on touts and resale platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub.

Ministers had been considering allowing touts – and ordinary consumers – to sell on a ticket for up to 30% above the original face value, as part of a consultation process that ended earlier this year.

However, the Guardian understands that reselling a ticket at anything more than the price at which it was originally bought will be banned.

Chinese travellers are estimated to have cancelled hundreds of thousands of flights to Japan amid reports of suspended visa processing and cultural exchanges as a diplomatic dispute over Japan’s stance on Taiwan continues.

Under pressure from business groups, Japan has sent a senior diplomat to Beijing in an attempt to calm tensions after Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said her country could get militarily involved if China attempted to invade Taiwan.

Her comments prompted fury from China’s government, which issued warnings against Chinese travellers and students going to Japan.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53285536

The founder of the party is Salvatore Nicotra, former head of the Belgian National Front (NF). According to him, the name TRUMP is an abbreviation for Tous Réunis pour l'Union des Mouvements Populistes ("All United for the Union of Populist Movements"). The politician explicitly associates the party’s brand with the image of Donald Trump.

The founder of the party is Salvatore Nicotra, former head of the Belgian National Front (NF). According to him, the name TRUMP is an abbreviation for Tous Réunis pour l'Union des Mouvements Populistes ("All United for the Union of Populist Movements"). The politician explicitly associates the party’s brand with the image of Donald Trump.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5662355

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As [Chinese state-owned company] CRRC’s long-distance trains were rolled out for the first time in Western Europe last week, Austria’s transport minister Peter Hanke said Vienna will launch an EU initiative by the end of this year to regulate against “cheap imports” from Chinese state-backed rolling stock manufacturers.

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However, the launch of the long-distance trains has drawn vehement criticism within Austria’s political and industrial circles — and even a new regulatory plan to shut out Chinese competitors from the EU market. That’s perhaps no surprise after CRRC’s victory in Westbahn’s 2019 tender became a symbol of the price challenge facing European manufacturers, who often cannot compete with what Brussels describes as “subsidised underbidding” by Chinese state-supported companies.

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With the trains now in operation, the tone has become even more combative, with Austria’s transport minister Peter Hanke stating earlier this month that Austria would put forward a proposal in the coming weeks to toughen EU-level procurement and digital security criteria for rolling stock purchased with public support. “We are investing over 20 billion euros in domestic rail infrastructure by 2030. These investments must create added value and jobs in the country,” said the minister. “If we allow cheap imports while Chinese state-owned companies distort the market with massive subsidies, we jeopardise our industrial base and make our critical infrastructure increasingly dependent on third countries.”

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Hanke first pledged the idea for new regulations after the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) granted approval for the trains. “Do we want to comprehensively protect critical infrastructure in Austria and Europe, or do we allow third countries to jeopardise this valuable asset?” he asked. “We must not make our mobility dependent on third countries,” he said.

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The ministry’s draft calls for five binding quality criteria to be written into EU procurement rules for future rolling stock purchases. The first is technological sovereignty: “No remote control of our trains,” as Hanke put it, with full control over software and systems required to remain within the EU. Next are social standards, mandating that only suppliers meeting European labour and environmental rules can win publicly supported contracts.

A third criterion is regional value creation, which would introduce binding quotas for EU-based manufacturing and supply chains. The fourth, lifecycle transparency, would require full life-cost calculations including maintenance and spare parts. The fifth concerns mandatory security audits, involving regular checks for digital vulnerabilities or backdoors.

Still, while the emphasis may hinge on security, it’s clear that Hanke was perhaps rightly focused on the extent that Chinese imports will hit Western Europe’s already ailing industrial sector; Austria’s rail supply chain alone supports over 30,000 domestic jobs, as he pointed out, making it a central pillar of the country’s wider industrial economy.

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Brussels has several tools already in place to beat back challenges from Chinese vehicle imports — but pressure is growing to use them more aggressively. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), introduced in 2023, allows the European Commission to investigate whether bids in large public procurement contracts rely on non-EU state support. It has already been activated in the rail sector, most notably in an ongoing case examining CRRC’s involvement in Lisbon’s tram procurements.

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Industry body UNIFE has for months been urging Brussels to harden tender criteria, arguing that European manufacturers cannot compete with what it describes as systematically subsidised underbidding. Indeed, while the rise of other non-European rail countries plays a significant role here, between 2021 and 2023 Europe’s rail giants lost an estimated 2.9 billion euros annually in global business, according to UNIFE, much of that thanks to CRRC’s expanded export activity.

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Brussels can tighten the rules, but it could also decide to back its own factories with the kind of long-term industrial support that built China’s scale in the first place. That would, however, require a different political mindset at a moment when the bloc’s budget is already under strain — and even with rail gaining ground in the next long-term EU plan, anything approaching China’s manufacturing model still feels a long way off.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5662124

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On Monday, tens of thousands of citizens in Slovakia participated in demonstrations against Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian policies, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which marked the end of decades of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia. The democratic and liberal opposition in various communities across the country organised rallies and marches.

In Freedom Square, located in the capital city of Bratislava, demonstrators raised their voices in chants such as “We have had enough of Fico,” “We want change,” and “Resign.” One prominent banner showcased a quote from the late Czechoslovak and Czech President Václav Havel, which became emblematic of the Velvet Revolution: “Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.”

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Prime Minister Fico has emerged as a controversial figure in Slovakia. He is responsible for the high polarisation that has challenged Slovak society for years, consequently leading to numerous protests against his administration’s policies.

He introduced laws against freedom of the press, the LGBT community, and NGOs, all inspired by the way the Vladimir Putin regime strangles the Russian society. In addition, the Fico government isolated Slovakia from its natural partners in the EU and seriously damaged its economy. Recently, his government decided to cancel the national holiday that commemorates the Velvet Revolution, citing this action as part of broader austerity measures.

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Michal Šimečka, leader of the major opposition Progressive Slovakia party, rejected that explanation.

“It has nothing to do with economy or savings,“ Šimečka said. “Robert Fico just wants to tell us that the holiday of freedom is useless, that freedom is useless. We value freedom and we will not let it be taken away from us.”

Robert Fico has recently faced criticism in Slovakia for suggesting to students in Poprad that those who oppose his pro-Russian stance should consider fighting for Ukraine. Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Fico has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on three occasions and has retracted all Slovak military support for Ukraine. He has also publicly disputed the European Union’s policies about the conflict in Ukraine.

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This reminds me of the Ribena debacle, where a bunch of school kids stumbled onto the fact Ribena were lying massively about the amount of vitamin C in their product.

Also, why are we importing sand from China? We have sand at home.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53284486

https://archive.is/zLUpf

The UK is drawing up countermeasures against the European Union’s proposed steel tariff increase in the event that Prime Minister Keir Starmer cannot secure a deal to blunt their impact.

The thermostats may no longer connect to Google’s app, but they still transmit your data.

https://archive.is/zLUpf

The UK is drawing up countermeasures against the European Union’s proposed steel tariff increase in the event that Prime Minister Keir Starmer cannot secure a deal to blunt their impact.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39136482

By Mark Satinoff
November 17, 2025

Standing Together is the largest progressive grassroots movement organizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel to end the occupation of Palestinian lands and for peace, equality, and social and climate justice. Its nearly 7,000 dues-paying members are organized into 12 chapters throughout Israel and 14 student chapters.

The group has mobilized tens of thousands in street actions and organized hundreds of aid trucks for Gaza. Standing Together also runs the Solidarity Guard, which tries to protect those deliveries and Palestinians in the West Bank from state-backed settler violence. It has continuously brought to the attention of the Israeli public the Israeli government atrocities in Gaza — while the mainstream Israeli media have largely ignored it.

In short:

TPG Telecom has confirmed a customer in Sydney died last week after a mobile phone could not make Triple Zero calls.

The telco says early investigations indicated the failed calls were due to a Samsung device operating on software that was not compatible with making Triple Zero calls on the network.

Samsung said on its website it had identified older mobile devices that do not "correctly connect to an alternative mobile network to make Triple Zero calls when the user's primary network is not available".

The company lists on its website dozens of devices that need to be updated or replaced to ensure users can make Triple Zero calls.

Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

In the little western media I've seen covering Sudan, the general impression I get is that the RSF is worse in terms of human rights abuses, but that initially the army and RSF initiated a coup together.

Is it just two power hungry factions falling out, or are there deeper ideological differences? For example I came across a reddit comment saying RSF are atheist ultra-nationalists, which may be true or false, but I haven't come across much info characterizing the two sides motivations at all. I'm interested to know more, I don't feel like the coverage I've seen has been in depth.

For context, Core devices is the new company by the founder of Pebble to make pebbles again. Rebble is the org that kept pebbles running when Pebble disappeared

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53280903

This won't be a post for people that already have dedicated server hardware, unless they find something theyd like to run off an android phone specifically.

But anyways, more people than ever have and old spare, but relatively powerful, android phone laying about. I'm talking 2-4+ gb of ram and 32gb+ of storage. Usually these devices end up in a drawer, but in an age of dystopian tracking and company overreach, such a device can be an extremely useful and low power draw tool that can improve your security and experience on the web. And it also has its own battery to boot lol.

If you're wanting to do something like this you should definitely consider finding a custom android rom with more care for security and you will need to root your device. But with a rooted device you then get access to a range of tools. You will want to install magisk through the bootloader as well as termux and termux boot from within fdroid (its important you get the two of them from the same source).

USES/SERVICES With all of these theres now a few options that I can confirm all work on android armv8 devices.

0: To set up most of these services to boot on launch you can either use magisk boot scripts in /data/adb/service.d/ iirc, or you can use termuxboot scripts placed in /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.termux/boot/

1: You can run an instance of Adguard Home on your network that will have enough resources to handle quite heavy lists. You will need to import ssl certificates to properly get it working but otherwise the armv8 binary works well. Adguard home can then be set as your network's dns address. Adguard home has lists for threat protection, to malware, to ads etc.

2: Adguard is good for security but you can experience even less tracking and control by pairing it with an instance of Unbound dnsrunning on the same device. Depending on storage you can store larger dns caches which will stop dns providers from tracking every dns lookup you do.

3: This one is more optional dependent on the person but i use and love it. Searxng is a privacy focused metasearch engine that can aggregate a bunch of data from tons of sources, depending on which sources you enable. It can be used to replace your current search engine such as duckduckgo and can gather anything from torrents and apks, to music, videos and pictures, and my favourite which is its equivalent to google scholar. All in one search engine. Its recommended to disabled certain sources for speed and I would recommend disabling brave search as a source for example because they're scummy. For Searxng it will be required to create a virtual environment with the correct python dependencies and I've had to run it through termux rather than the other two which can run even through an adb shell.

4: Memos is a nice note taking webapp and its my personal choice to use but other similar calender or note apps are a good option if you wanna self host something like that. Can be ran through an adb shell or magisk boot script.

5: Others things you wanna try!!! An android phone is just a Linux computer and if theres services you've wanted a pi to run or a server in general then theres a pretty good chance you can get it running on your power efficient android phone thats just already laying around!! Heres some more ideas ive planned to try but not gotten to yet/haven't finished: -Samba drive to sync and back up your boot drive -Aur build server to pre compile different large packages to be installed to my pc without building them on the computer itself -openvpn proxy to run downloads through a protonvpn account for download managers that dont support password authentication (a surprising amount of them tbh) -Invidious instance, a youtube frontend that doesn't count as actual page views. This allows you to boycott YouTube in regards to data they can show advertisers, while still allowing you to privately subscribe and watch creators you like. It also keeps you from being tracked by your YouTube account while giving you access to better/more consistent resolution tools as well as automatically removed ads. Youtube sponsorblock extensions can also be set up to work with invidious so you don't lose much at all switching.

This won't be a post for people that already have dedicated server hardware, unless they find something theyd like to run off an android phone specifically.

But anyways, more people than ever have and old spare, but relatively powerful, android phone laying about. I'm talking 2-4+ gb of ram and 32gb+ of storage. Usually these devices end up in a drawer, but in an age of dystopian tracking and company overreach, such a device can be an extremely useful and low power draw tool that can improve your security and experience on the web. And it also has its own battery to boot lol.

If you're wanting to do something like this you should definitely consider finding a custom android rom with more care for security and you will need to root your device. But with a rooted device you then get access to a range of tools. You will want to install magisk through the bootloader as well as termux and termux boot from within fdroid (its important you get the two of them from the same source).

USES/SERVICES With all of these theres now a few options that I can confirm all work on android armv8 devices.

0: To set up most of these services to boot on launch you can either use magisk boot scripts in /data/adb/service.d/ iirc, or you can use termuxboot scripts placed in /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.termux/boot/

1: You can run an instance of Adguard Home on your network that will have enough resources to handle quite heavy lists. You will need to import ssl certificates to properly get it working but otherwise the armv8 binary works well. Adguard home can then be set as your network's dns address. Adguard home has lists for threat protection, to malware, to ads etc.

2: Adguard is good for security but you can experience even less tracking and control by pairing it with an instance of Unbound dnsrunning on the same device. Depending on storage you can store larger dns caches which will stop dns providers from tracking every dns lookup you do.

3: This one is more optional dependent on the person but i use and love it. Searxng is a privacy focused metasearch engine that can aggregate a bunch of data from tons of sources, depending on which sources you enable. It can be used to replace your current search engine such as duckduckgo and can gather anything from torrents and apks, to music, videos and pictures, and my favourite which is its equivalent to google scholar. All in one search engine. Its recommended to disabled certain sources for speed and I would recommend disabling brave search as a source for example because they're scummy. For Searxng it will be required to create a virtual environment with the correct python dependencies and I've had to run it through termux rather than the other two which can run even through an adb shell.

4: Memos is a nice note taking webapp and its my personal choice to use but other similar calender or note apps are a good option if you wanna self host something like that. Can be ran through an adb shell or magisk boot script.

5: Others things you wanna try!!! An android phone is just a Linux computer and if theres services you've wanted a pi to run or a server in general then theres a pretty good chance you can get it running on your power efficient android phone thats just already laying around!! Heres some more ideas ive planned to try but not gotten to yet/haven't finished: -Samba drive to sync and back up your boot drive -Aur build server to pre compile different large packages to be installed to my pc without building them on the computer itself -openvpn proxy to run downloads through a protonvpn account for download managers that dont support password authentication (a surprising amount of them tbh) -Invidious instance, a youtube frontend that doesn't count as actual page views. This allows you to boycott YouTube in regards to data they can show advertisers, while still allowing you to privately subscribe and watch creators you like. It also keeps you from being tracked by your YouTube account while giving you access to better/more consistent resolution tools as well as automatically removed ads. Youtube sponsorblock extensions can also be set up to work with invidious so you don't lose much at all switching.

In honour of Balatro lets all post photos of the front and back of our credit cards, just like the credit card joker in the game.

We all love Balatro don't we? Get in on the fun and show your support for the game by posting photos of your credit card in this thread