cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/49906744

Russia’s Digital Development Ministry has asked the country’s largest online platforms to block access for users with active VPNs by April 15, sources told the Russian business outlet RBC.

Ministry head Maksut Shadaev delivered the demand at a private meeting with representatives from more than 20 companies on March 30, according to sources close to those companies. One source said April 15 is “not a D-Day, but more of a target date.”

Under the plan, companies would receive a specific list of VPN IP addresses previously identified by Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censorship agency, to use for blocking. Participants in the meeting were also given a manual describing how to independently detect and block VPNs, including those Roskomnadzor has not yet identified or restricted.

Platforms would be required to share information about newly detected VPNs with the regulator so it can add them to a master blocking list covering all services. “Essentially, this is a fight against VPNs using the platforms’ own resources and their advanced technical tools,” one of RBC’s sources said.

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Do you take your coffee seriously? Me, I'm a fanatic.

I started off with a Mr. DRIPSALOTTADRIP pre-college days. We'll skip the wild college years. And the first marriage. Then, having learned about cooking beans, humidity levels at harvest time, how much sweat/tears went into the early stages of the product (Fair Trade and such), I arrived at an Italian Lamborgenie, Contouth model where your rear window (water reservoir) is... shit, where's the window?

I had proper coffee now. This was the cobblestone kinderkuppa I stood on.

Track forward the next 12 years, black pearls of wisdom, more Genies and Pressure Cookers from Italy and The Netherlands, and you will have arrived at my most aromatic, captivating cuppa feeh I've ever created. The acidity- mwah! Tasting notes- I'd say Earthy and with a hint of calcium.

Look away, faint-of-hearts, and you lot of scumsipping teabaggers, THIS - IS - COFFEE and you bet your bottom pocket lint you can't duplicate or mass produce it for consumerism.

Needs a name for my coffee manifesto. Rage Against the Grinding? Spill it, my fellow coffee deviants and aficionados. Name it.

Russia’s Digital Development Ministry has asked the country’s largest online platforms to block access for users with active VPNs by April 15, sources told the Russian business outlet RBC.

Ministry head Maksut Shadaev delivered the demand at a private meeting with representatives from more than 20 companies on March 30, according to sources close to those companies. One source said April 15 is “not a D-Day, but more of a target date.”

Under the plan, companies would receive a specific list of VPN IP addresses previously identified by Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censorship agency, to use for blocking. Participants in the meeting were also given a manual describing how to independently detect and block VPNs, including those Roskomnadzor has not yet identified or restricted.

Platforms would be required to share information about newly detected VPNs with the regulator so it can add them to a master blocking list covering all services. “Essentially, this is a fight against VPNs using the platforms’ own resources and their advanced technical tools,” one of RBC’s sources said.

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888930

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888662

MEPs have sharply criticized the plan. “Our fear is that the implementation of our laws and standards will be called into question by American companies,” criticizes Green MEP Sergey Lagodinsky, for example. “If this is confirmed, it would be nothing less than a capitulation to the pressure and intimidation tactics of the Trump administration.” The EU Commission repeatedly emphasizes that it does not want to change its regulations due to US pressure. However, some of the recently proposed changes in digital legislation, particularly to the AI Act and the General Data Protection Regulation, primarily benefit US companies that are already dominant in the market.

MEPs have sharply criticized the plan. “Our fear is that the implementation of our laws and standards will be called into question by American companies,” criticizes Green MEP Sergey Lagodinsky, for example. “If this is confirmed, it would be nothing less than a capitulation to the pressure and intimidation tactics of the Trump administration.” The EU Commission repeatedly emphasizes that it does not want to change its regulations due to US pressure. However, some of the recently proposed changes in digital legislation, particularly to the AI Act and the General Data Protection Regulation, primarily benefit US companies that are already dominant in the market.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888435

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888126

Context for the q: was browsing tiktok and saw a video while scrolling. it was about a 35 year old woman with a 25 year old boyfriend. Everyone in the comments said it's wrong and predatory, how 25 is basically a kid and 35 is middle aged, etc

A total of 26 cooperation projects worth 495 million yuan (about US$72 million; RM289.99 million) were signed during the Sixth Belt and Road China-Malaysia Business Dialogue,

Please Don't Move to Melbourne, Ball Park Music - yt

Please Don't Move to Melbourne, Ball Park Music - spty

Released: 6th February 2025

Dracula, Tame Impala - yt

Dracula, Tame Impala - Spty

Released 26th September, 2025

Please put the release date of a song your nominating in the post, it was fairly time consuming searching and checking song release dates last year. Thanks! :)

Please note, LOTE Australian songs as pertains Aboriginal language songs look like they can be entered in addition to the most popular choice of song.

For the second edition, lemmy.ca was allowed to send three songs, each one in a different language (French Canadian, English, and Inuktitut, in their case). This means your community can send multiple songs if you want to showcase its different languages!

Asking for a friend.

The US and EU remain heavily reliant on petrol and other liquid fuels, which account for roughly 40% and 44%, respectively, of their primary energy consumption. But China has managed to reduce this figure to just 28%.

Goldman Sachs pointed to three specific "shields" protecting China from the global oil shock.

First is renewable energy dominance. Alternative and renewable energy sources, including nuclear, wind, solar, and hydro, now account for 40% of China's electricity generation, up from 26% a decade ago.

Second is massive strategic reserves. China has spent years quietly building a "Great Wall of Oil,"

And lastly, China sports diversified supply chains.

While the world frets over the Strait of Hormuz — the shipping route accounts for 20% of global oil flows — China has maintained robust supply lines with non-Middle Eastern nations like Russia, Australia, and Malaysia.

Due to the oil price shock, Goldman's economists have trimmed their US real GDP growth forecast by 0.4%. In contrast, China's forecast was trimmed by only 0.2% — the lowest revision in the Asia-Pacific region.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57872518

backstory is that i try to fill up my tank more when gas prices are at a low and less as prices go up to make my long term average cost per gallon lower.

now given current events, and empirical reality, gas has only been going up and will continue to go up. we could assume different curves(only constraint being that price per gallon goes up as time goes forward), but if you buy your gas now you will spend less money then you have if you bought it tomorrow, day after, or week down the road. my estimate is that it will be month minimum before it gets cheaper.

now that I have put this out there into the world you should fill up asap, I already filled up before making this post and other people will come up with this idea independently of me.

The reason why I'm cross posting here is because my advice will trigger acceleration in increasing gas prices and I view that as a means to spite trump and put pressure on him by effectively by people not in politics. Lemmy users are getting mad at me for telling others to buy gas as soon and as much as possible to save money

Seems boring dystopia to me and I'm helping to remove the crust off a shit sandwich

A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.

The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.

I created a new community in lemmy.world but it doesn't show up in Voyager app. I can post to it and see it using the browser. When I search for the community on Voyager however there are no results. How do I update or refresh the server so that the community becomes visible in Voyager?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45395885

Apr 02, 2026

Police in Paris apprehended and briefly detained European Parliament Member Rima Hassan Thursday on suspicion of “apology for terrorism”—an allegation critics slammed as “judicial harassment” aimed at silencing her outspoken criticism of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the French government’s support for it.

The Sorbonne-educated jurist was one of the leaders of the June 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla Madleen mission, along with climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and others. Hassan and others aboard the Madleen were intercepted by Israeli forces and arrested in international waters as they attempted to deliver food, children’s prosthetics, and other desperately needed supplies to Gaza’s besieged and starving people. Hassan said that she was beaten in Israeli custody.

While far-right and pro-Israel French lawmakers celebrated Hassan’s detention and called for her to be stripped of parliamentary immunity, Palestine defenders condemned the arrest.