Think of This As: What Would You Suggest To People Who Want to Grow And Be Part of Open Source Community?

What should I/other people know about for events to go to, and what groups to join to be part of online to help make the most positive impacts? What organizations should I get in contact with to assist their missions to grow what is possible?

(Whatever you suggest can help other people too who are just now and onward joining the community. Think of any way that can really grow it)

I am learning a lot by doing for various things for my own projects and contributions to open source but what would I have to do to fully be part of the community In-Person and Online to grow it in various good ways?

Near-term I want to help in spare time with growing Mobile, UI/UX, Marketing, Ways to Show Which Projects Need Funding, Bring New Devs To Open Source, Ways to Help Encourage Collaboration on Projects That Need Devs/Other Fields, Animation, and Social Media parts of open source community.

Also want to grow long-term the worldwide movement to make open source transportation of anything and everything a reality: HSR, trains, trams, cars, bike-cars, bikes, walking bikes, submarines, motorcycles, VTOLs, airships. etc

Help me/other people help you all! Please and thanks!

Paywall? http://archive.today/zPFmH

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45227830

Chinese police harass filmmakers in the U.S. and their families in China to shut down film festival in New York City, rights group says

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Chinese authorities harassed several dozen Chinese film directors and producers, as well as their families in China, causing them to pull films from the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York City, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 6, 2025, the festival’s organizer, Zhu Riku, announced that the film festival, scheduled for November 8-15, had been “suspended.”

“The Chinese government reached around the globe to shut down a film festival in New York City,” said Yalkun Uluyol, China researcher at Human Rights Watch. “This latest act of transnational repression demonstrates the Chinese government’s aim to control what the world sees and learns about China.”

Chiang Seeta, a Chinese artist and activist, reported that nearly all participating directors in China faced intimidation. Even directors abroad, including those who are not Chinese nationals, reported that their relatives and friends in China were receiving threatening calls from police, said Chiang.

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Germany’s parliament recently held a special session to discuss whether members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) may have been deliberately acting in Russia’s interests. The debate was initiated by lawmakers from the Social Democrats (SPD) and the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, who demanded explanations from AfD’s leadership after the populist party made a series of unusually detailed parliamentary inquiries into the state of the country’s defense and cybersecurity systems, according to a report by Der Spiegel.

Thomas Röwekamp, chair of the Bundestag’s Defense Committee and a CDU member, said AfD lawmakers had submitted “systematically connected and extremely detailed” questions about the Bundeswehr’s capabilities and “combat readiness gaps.” The scope and level of detail, he said, “cannot be explained by a legitimate interest in parliamentary oversight of the government.” Röwekamp suggested that the effort appeared to be “a targeted and systematic collection of military information from the Defense Ministry and the Bundeswehr, information of significant value to foreign powers — in particular Russia, which has for years continuously intensified its espionage and hybrid attacks against Germany.”

Georg Maier, interior minister of the German state of Thuringia, earlier said his ministry had observed similar AfD inquiries in the state parliament, focusing on transport, energy, and digital infrastructure. He suggested the party might be “acting on the Kremlin’s orders” in its inquiries.

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bravo!

• Austria's Ministry of Economy has migrated to a Nextcloud platform
• It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech
• Other agencies that have taken the same path away from Microsoft include the Austrian military, Danish government organizations, and the French city of Lyon

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Even before Azure had a global failure this week, Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty. The Ministry achieved this status by migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure.

This shift away from proprietary, foreign-owned cloud services, such as Microsoft 365, to an open-source, European-based cloud service aligns with a growing trend among European governments and agencies. They want control over sensitive data and to declare their independence from US-based tech providers.

Also: Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

European companies are encouraging this trend. Many of them have joined forces in the newly created non-profit foundation, the EuroStack Initiative. This foundation's goal is " to organize action, not just talk, around the pillars of the initiative: Buy European, Sell European, Fund European."

What's the motive behind these moves away from proprietary tech? Well, in Austria's case, Florian Zinnagl, CISO of the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism (BMWET), explained, "We carry responsibility for a large amount of sensitive data -- from employees, companies, and citizens. As a public institution, we take this responsibility very seriously. That's why we view it critically to rely on cloud solutions from non-European corporations for processing this information."

Austria's move and motivation echo similar efforts in Germany, Denmark, and other EU states and agencies. The organizations include the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which abandoned Exchange and Outlook for open-source programs. Other agencies that have taken the same path away from Microsoft include the Austrian military, Danish government organizations, and the French city of Lyon.

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What kind of beanis are you? wow this line will still be remembered after many revolutionary suns Bravo!

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Czech President Petr Pavel said on Wednesday, November 5, that security in the Indo-Pacific region is closely linked to Europe’s security. Speaking at the European Values Summit in Prague, he commended the European Values Center for Security Policy (EVC) for establishing an office in Taiwan, underlining the importance of understanding the Indo-Pacific situation for Europe’s trade stability and security.

The summit, organized by the EVC, aimed to promote dialogue and cooperation on security policy. This year’s meeting focused on Taiwan’s security, resilience, technology, and the relationship between NATO allies and the Indo-Pacific Four: Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. Experts from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Germany, and the United Kingdom also attended.

In his address, Pavel highlighted the EVC’s role since its founding in 2005 in defending freedom, democracy, and the rule of law through public awareness and expert analysis. He noted that after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the center was among the first to warn about Russian disinformation and hybrid warfare.

Pavel warned that democracy now faces both external and internal threats. He urged democratic nations to restore public trust through persuasive and reasoned communication, stressing that no country can truly isolate itself in today’s interconnected world, where security challenges in one region quickly affect others.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5502362

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The EU in October floated plans to double tariffs on foreign steel -- taking a leaf from US President Donald Trump's book to shield the bloc's struggling industry from cheap Chinese exports.

The bloc's executive proposed hiking levies on steel imports to 50 percent and slashing the volume allowed in before tariffs apply by 47 percent.

"I will support these proposals to the best of my ability and hope that appropriate regulations will be put in place," [German chancellor Friedrich] Merz said.

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As an addition:

• The steel industry is one of the most subsidized industrial sectors across all countries, mainly to preferential loan terms as debt is the sole source of funding in the industry.

• Across all countries, larger steel firms are subsidized than smaller ones, and state-owned enterprises receive more subsidies than other firms.

• China is by far the largest steel maker, producing more than half of all crude steel in the world. China's subsidization rate is ten times that of OECD countries. In addition to government grants and below market borrowings, measures include subsidized energy prices and preferential tax treatment for steel firms.

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The EU in October floated plans to double tariffs on foreign steel -- taking a leaf from US President Donald Trump's book to shield the bloc's struggling industry from cheap Chinese exports.

The bloc's executive proposed hiking levies on steel imports to 50 percent and slashing the volume allowed in before tariffs apply by 47 percent.

"I will support these proposals to the best of my ability and hope that appropriate regulations will be put in place," [German chancellor Friedrich] Merz said.

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As an addition:

• The steel industry is one of the most subsidized industrial sectors across all countries, mainly to preferential loan terms as debt is the sole source of funding in the industry.

• Across all countries, larger steel firms are subsidized than smaller ones, and state-owned enterprises receive more subsidies than other firms.

• China is by far the largest steel maker, producing more than half of all crude steel in the world. China's subsidization rate is ten times that of OECD countries. In addition to government grants and below market borrowings, measures include subsidized energy prices and preferential tax treatment for steel firms.

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I'm just disappointed

I haven't been following the ins and out of all this but John Tamahere has a history of manipulative horrible bullshit so I'm inclined to believe Kapa-Kingi on this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tamihere#Other_political_controversies_while_in_office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tamihere#Radio_career_and_the_%22Roast_Busters%22_controversy

I'd bet money on Tamahere having a lot of dark triad stuff going on.

If you are on this platform you will be familiar already with everything in this video, but the reason i'm posting it is because this is a masterclass in how to communicate to "normies" about socialism, communism, China, imperialism, the global south, etc. Textbook example of how it's done.

This is exactly how we should talk about these topics with people who know virtually nothing about them. Clear, simple, concise, using language anyone can understand, and in a very disciplined way staying on message and talking about what really matters, not getting lost in tangents, details, jargon, etc.

Western media has failed to accurately describe events at the heart of an Israeli military scandal, after the country’s top military lawyer was arrested for leaking footage of IDF soldiers allegedly gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner in a detention centre.

The attack was so brutal that the man was hospitalised with a ruptured bowel and intestines, severe anal and lung injuries and broken ribs. He needed multiple surgical operations for his injuries. The soldiers “inserted a sharp object into [his] anus and ripped his rectum apart”, according to Mondoweiss.

However, Western mainstream media outlets including Sky News, the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent have failed to use the word ‘rape’ in their headlines when reporting on the story. The incident has been largely referred to as ‘abuse’.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/48388771

Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

Several performance issues addressed and bug fixes applied.

Updates:

• fix: equalizer missing referenced value
• Fix: Album track list bug
• fix: Add listener to enable equalizer when audioSessionId changes
• chore(i18n): Update Spanish (es-ES) translation
• shuffle for artists without using getTopSongs
• Update USAGE.md with instant mix details
• feat: sort artists by album count
• Fix downloaded tab performance
• fix: remove NestedScrollViews for fragment_album_page
• fix: playlist page should not snap
• chore: update media3 dependencies
• fix: update MediaItems after network change
• fix: skip mapping downloaded item

https://github.com/eddyizm/tempus/releases/tag/v4.1.3

Brussels Airport on Thursday temporarily halted its operations due to a drone sighting, a spokesperson for air traffic control Skeyes said, without specifying how many drones had been seen.

It was unclear how long operations at Brussels airport would be halted.

On Tuesday, Brussels Airport and Liege Airport closed for several hours after drone sightings.