Woman, 38, and man, 37, had been arrested on Wednesday in relation to theft of £76m worth of jewellery in Paris

Two more suspects, a man and a woman arrested this week over the jewel heist at the Louvre, have been charged and remanded in custody, prosecutors have said.

The charges on Saturday brought to four the number of people now charged over the spectacular robbery.

The latest to be charged, a 38-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man, were arrested on Wednesday along with three other individuals, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said. The other three have been released without charge.

Hiya, folks! Over this year, I got a huge interest in VR, and I'm planning on purchasing a VR headset and a FBT setup. I'd say I've done a fair bit of research and I've landed on the following two combinations:

Meta Quest 3 128GB

Valve Lighthouse base stations(x2)

HTC Vive 3.0 trackers(x4)

Total: 1.597€;

or alternative

Meta Quest 3 128GB

Slime VR Deluxe Body set (12+4)

Total: 1.270,6€

My planned budget in total is 1.600€.

My planned use for the VR setup is hanging out with my friends in VRChat and possibly making some short form content for social media (IG Reels, YT Shorts). I am also planning on using the headset in PCVR mode only (cable price is included in the totals).

I've seen a few copmarison videos between SlimeVR trackers and Vive 3.0 trackers, and I'm wondering if the price difference is worth it. I am also aware that Slime trackers are drift-prone, but I'm willing to take it as a downside. I am also wondering if there is an alternative setup that might provide me with better performance (better tracking precision), while still being within the budget listed above.

Thanks in advance!

Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) says Israel continues to choke the flow of aid into the besieged enclave, accusing it of breaching the ceasefire agreement.

Since the truce took effect on 10 October, an average of just 145 commercial and aid trucks have entered Gaza daily, only 24 percent of the 600 trucks agreed upon in the deal. Between 10 and 31 October, a total of 3,203 trucks crossed into Gaza, including 639 commercial vehicles, 2,564 carrying aid, 84 loaded with diesel fuel, and 31 with cooking gas.

“We strongly condemn the Israeli occupation’s obstruction of aid and commercial trucks and hold it fully responsible for the worsening and deteriorating humanitarian situation faced by more than 2.4 million people in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing siege and arbitrary measures that impede the flow of essential goods,” the GMO said in a statement.

Anyone want to buy some pagers?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45014536

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The Chinese government has blanketed the country with the world’s largest network of surveillance cameras.

Some cameras swivel, ensuring sweeping views of public squares. Others scan license plates of passing cars, allowing police to track vehicles in real-time. At night, cameras light up across China’s cities, shining lights down alleys and corners.

Over the past few decades, the Chinese government has rolled out a series of high-tech surveillance projects aimed at bringing the entire country under watch, including “Sky Net” and the “Golden Shield”.

[...]

The latest such project is called the “Xueliang Project,” or Sharp Eyes, a reference to a quote from Communist China’s founder, Mao Zedong, who once said “the people have sharp eyes” when urging them to root out neighbors opposed to socialist values.

AP investigations have found that American companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. The U.S. government repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, AP found.

The cameras studding China are knitted together in policing systems that allow authorities to track and control virtually anyone in the country, often targeting perceived threats to the state like dissidents, religious believers or ethnic minorities. Following directives from Beijing to ensure “100 percent coverage” in key public areas, authorities have installed facial-recognition cameras across the country, including in unlikely locations:

Ski slopes.

Beaches.

Remote country roads.

The Great Wall of China.

A slew of cameras greets visitors to Beijing, with a screen underneath announcing: “Amazing China travel starts here!”

At times, entire neighborhoods have been demolished and rebuilt in part to make it easier for cameras to keep watch. The historic quarter of Xinjiang’s ancient silk road city of Kashgar, once a maze-like warren of twisting alleys, was demolished and rebuilt with wider avenues and thousands of camera that light up at night.

China’s cities, roads and villages are now studded with more cameras than the rest of the world combined, analysts say — roughly one for every two people. The goal is clear, according to authorities: Total surveillance in every corner of the country, with “no blind spots” to be found.

Guess we can always rely on the good old fashioned ways to make money...

Honestly, I think its pretty awful but im not surprised.

Sike never even tried that garbage

I have a complete file structure with years on years worth of photos and videos. I've learned you can add an external library to Immich and it'll scan the pics you have there, but is it possible for it to scan recursivley?

for example i give the path "/mnt/drive" and immich can find "/mnt/drive/cat/picture.jpeg". is this possible?

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5399208

Australia and Canada will jointly invest in critical minerals, including processing each other’s resources, in a landmark collaboration designed to wean themselves off China.

Resources Minister Madeleine King said global efforts to diversify supply chains for the vital minerals had concentrated in response to China’s recent restrictions on exports.

Even though China President Xi Jinping put a year-long pause on these restrictions after meeting Donald Trump this week, the volatility had made other countries conscious of their vulnerabilities.

“The arbitrary nature of that export restriction and the equally arbitrary nature of it being taken off – with little detail around the nature of that lift of those restrictions – just shows why it’s important to have an alternative, trusted supply chain,” Ms King, pictured below, told The West from Canada, where she has joined G7 energy ministers shaping the critical minerals action plan leaders agreed to in June.

That plan is about creating an alternative market for critical minerals and rare earths that reflects the price of production in “open-market countries” with high ESG standards, such as Australia and Canada.

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Hello,

just wanted to share that I have successfully hosted copyparty instance behind cloudflare on my porator laptop :D

you can use it to share memes or use it as temporary storage, I don't have any idea of how to manage a public facing service but I will figure it out.

Earlier this year, a video by an Indian travel influencer complaining about India's weak passport went viral on social media.

He said that while neighbouring countries like Bhutan and Sri Lanka were more welcoming of Indian tourists, getting visas to travel to most Western and European countries remained a challenge.

His dissatisfaction with India's poor passport strength was reflected in the latest Henley Passport Index - a ranking system of the world's passports based on visa-free travel - which placed India in the 85th spot out of 199 countries, five spots lower than last year.

The Indian government has not commented on the report yet. The BBC has reached out to the ministry of external affairs.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49005282

Next Stop the Stars
Author Robert Silverberg

First edition cover art by Ed Valigursky and Ed Emshwiller.

Video of the sailboat and interview with Neoline CEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUdaBnJ58jI

Informative comment by /u/thatjoachim:

Especially in France, the industry is very innovative. Here are some of the wind-powered cargo ship companies:

• Néoline (based in Nantes), one ship (which we see on the video), more are yet to come

• Vela (based in Bayonne), 5 ships are expected to be launched between 2026 and 2028

• TOWT (based in Le Havre), 2 ships since 2024, 6 more are being built

• Windcoop (based in Marseille), expected launch of their first ship in 2027

• Grain de Sail (based in Saint-Malo), 3 ships, their chocolate is delicious

  some other names, though I don’t know as much about >them: Hisseo, Fairtransport, Bourlingue et Pacotille, Heol Sailing

If you want to see their respective sizes, here’s a diagram showing the ships side by side with a famous sail ship (the Bélem) and the famous cargo that blocked the Suez Canal, the Evergiven

Some more info about wind powered and wind assisted cargo ships around the globe:

https://www.wind-ship.org/vessel-list/

https://velic-consulting.com/?page_id=309

In fact in Paris I can buy coffee that is specifically transported by wind power: https://www.fcco.fr/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38366797

Appeals Raise Funds for Emergency Medical Aid to Cuba in Aftermath of Hurricane Melissa

November 1, 2025

The representative of Poland, speaking on behalf of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, as well as his own government, told the assembly the group would abstain, citing Cuba’s alleged support of “Russia in its war of aggression against Ukraine.” He echoed one of Washington’s charges, accusing Havana of “turning a blind eye on the active participation of its nationals in an illegal war of aggression… we refer specifically to the large number of Cuban nationals who are participating in ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine just across our borders.”

On October 11, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MinRex) had issued a statement rejecting these very allegations as “slanderous.” It pointed out that since these accusations were first made in 2023 no evidence or substantiation has been offered.

The former Duke of York is in line to receive a large one-off payment and an annual stipend designed to prevent him overspending in his new life as a commoner, the Guardian understands.

One option for a relocation settlement, as the king strives for a “once and for all” solution to the problem of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, includes an initial six-figure sum to cover his move from Royal Lodge in Windsor to private accommodation in Sandringham, Norfolk.

This would be followed by an annuity, paid from Charles’s private funds, and thought to be several times Mountbatten Windsor’s £20k-a-year navy pension, sources close to the matter said. Talks on the relocation package are believed to be ongoing.

I'm currently using NPM and upgrading to a new VPS for my business. I have a public website and am going to host a few more for friends, plus a few other services. Everything is on docker for ease. I use Cloudflare for DNS so would prefer using a DNS challenge. I will change this at some point but not yet ready to!

Should I:

1. stick with Nginx Proxy Manager which I know well (is it really that insecure or outdated?)
2. switch to NPM Plus (assuming this is the easiest)
3. switch to Caddy (seems to be there most recommended but will be a learning curve for me)
4. Try out Nginx (seems like a massive learning curve so I'm very reluctant)

Hey friends. I finally fired nextcloud - and so should you.

edit: wow. reddit banned me for posting a link to my (completely unmonitezed, unproductized) blog in multiple r/selfhosted threads. I bet it's related to this lemmy link

Paywall? https://archive.is/CsVQQ