Israeli officials inserted into the Nimbus deal a requirement for the companies to a send coded message – a “wink” – to its government, revealing the identity of the country they had been compelled to hand over Israeli data to, but were gagged from saying so.

Leaked documents from Israel’s finance ministry, which include a finalised version of the Nimbus agreement, suggest the secret code would take the form of payments – referred to as “special compensation” – made by the companies to the Israeli government.

According to the documents, the payments must be made “within 24 hours of the information being transferred” and correspond to the telephone dialing code of the foreign country, amounting to sums between 1,000 and 9,999 shekels.

Giorgia Meloni's allies are exploring changes to Italy's election laws to boost her reelection odds, as internal polls show she may struggle to retain a majority in the upper house of parliament.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/44938574

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Two Siberian regions have become the 26th and 27th Russian regions to adopt legislation this week banning the “coercion” of pregnant women into terminating a pregnancy amid efforts by conservative figures to expand state pressure to boost birth rates.

The neighboring Kemerovo region and Altai republic adopted laws Monday and Tuesday banning “persuasion, requests, offers, deception, bribery or other actions” aimed at encouraging a woman to have an abortion.

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Officials say the measure is designed to “protect pregnant women in a situation of reproductive choice” and improve demographic trends.

Both laws take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.

The initiatives are backed by the pro-life Orthodox-aligned foundation Women for Life, which launched a chatbot encouraging women to report relatives, partners or medical workers who “advised” them to terminate a pregnancy.

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Canada's not beating the fake country allegations

Edit: It is a joint open source initiative between Germany, France, Italy, & Netherlands to make Cybersecurity, AI, Cloud, & Social Media Network alternatives

Maybe we can finally get a Facebook open source alternative with mobile apps /s

Spotted this on Mastodon so I decided to inform you all. What you think?

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 have been found more than a century later on the country's south-western coast.

The cheerful notes were penned just a few days into their voyage to join the battlefields of France during World War One.

One of the soldiers, Pte Malcolm Neville, told his mother that the food on board was "real good" and that they were "as happy as Larry". Months later, he was killed in action at the age of 28. The other soldier, 37-year-old Pte William Harley, survived the war and returned home.

The letters have been passed on to their descendants, who have been stunned by the discovery.

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Hey everyone! It's been a couple of months since my last update on Reitti (back on August 28, 2025), and I'm excited to share the biggest release yet: Reitti v2.0.0, which introduces the Memories feature. This is a game-changer that takes Reitti beyond just tracking and visualizing your location data, it's about creating meaningful, shareable narratives from your journeys.

The Vision for Reitti: From Raw Data to Rich Stories

Reitti started as a tool to collect and display GPS tracks, visits, and significant places. But raw data alone doesn't tell the full story. My vision has always been to help users transform scattered location points into something personal and memorable. Like a
digital travel diary that captures not just where you went, but how it felt. Memories is the first major step toward that, turning your geospatial logs into narrative-driven travel logs that you can edit, share, and relive.

What's New in v2.0.0: Memories

Memories is a beta feature designed to bridge the gap between data and storytelling. Here's how it works:

• Automatic Generation: Select a date range, and Reitti pulls in your tracked data, integrates photos from connected services (like Immich), and adds introductory text to get you started. Reitti builds a foundation for your story.
• Building-Block Editor: Customize your Memory with modular blocks. Add text for reflections, highlight specific visits or trips on maps, and create image galleries. It's flexible and intuitive, letting you craft personalized narratives.
• Sharing and Collaboration: Generate secure "magic links" for view-only access or full edit rights. Share with friends, family, or travel partners without needing accounts. It's perfect for group storytelling or archiving trips.
• Data Integrity: Blocks are copied and unlinked from your underlying data, so edits and shares don't affect your original logs. This ensures privacy and stability.

To enable Memories, you'll need to add a persistent volume to your docker-compose.yml for storing uploaded images (check the release notes for details).

Enhanced Sharing: Share your Data with Friends and Family

Building on the collaborative spirit of Memories, Reitti's sharing functionality has seen major upgrades to make your location data and stories more accessible. Whether it's sharing a Memory with loved ones or granting access to your live location, these features empower you to connect without compromising privacy:

• Magic Links for Memories and Data: Create secure, expirable links for view-only or edit access to Memories. For broader sharing, use magic links to share your full timeline, live data, or even live data with photos, all without requiring recipients to have a Reitti
• account.
• User-to-User Sharing: Easily grant access to other users on your instance, with color-coded timelines for easy distinction and controls to revoke permissions anytime.
• Cross-Instance Federation: Connect with users on other Reitti servers for shared live updates, turning Reitti into a federated network for families or groups.
• Privacy-First Design: All sharing respects your data, links expire, access is granular, and nothing leaves your server unless you choose integrations like Immich.

These tools make Reitti not just a personal tracker, but a platform for shared experiences, perfectly complementing the narrative power of Memories.

Other Highlights in Recent Updates

While Memories is the star, v2.0.0 and recent releases (like v1.9.x, v1.8.0, and earlier) bring plenty more to enhance your Reitti experience:

• Daterange-Support: Reitti is now able to show multiple days on the map. Simply lock your date on the datepicker and select a different one to span a date range.
• Editable Transportation Modes: Fine-tune detection for walking, cycling, driving, and new modes like motorcycle/train. Override detections manually for better accuracy.
• UI Improvements: Mobile-friendly toggles to collapse timelines and maximize map space; improved date picker with visual cues for available dates; consistent map themes across views.
• Performance Boosts: Smarter map loading (only visible data within bounds), authenticated OwnTracks-Recorder connections, multi-day views for reviewing longer periods, and low-memory optimizations for systems with 1GB RAM or less.
• Sharing Enhancements: Improved magic links with privacy options (e.g., "Live Data Only + Photos"); simplified user-to-user sharing with color-coded timelines; custom theming via CSS uploads for personalized UI.
• Integrations and Data Handling: Better Immich photo matching (including non-GPS-tagged images via timestamps); GPX import/export with date filtering; new API endpoints for automation (e.g., latest location data); support for RabbitMQ vhosts and OIDC with PKCE security.
• Localization and Accessibility: Added Brazilian Portuguese, German, Finnish, and French translations; favicons for better tab identification; user avatars on live maps for multi-user distinction.
• Advanced Data Tools: Configurable visit detection with presets and advanced mode; data quality dashboard for ingestion verification; geodesic map rendering for long-distance routes (e.g., flights); GPX export for backups.
• Authentication and Federation: OpenID Connect (OIDC) support with automatic sign-ups and local login disabling; shared instances for cross-server user connections with API token auditing.
• Miscellaneous Polish: Home location fallback when no recent data; jump-to-latest-data on app open; fullscreen mode for immersive views

All these updates build on Reitti's foundation of self-hosted, privacy-focused location tracking. Your data stays on your server, with no external dependencies unless you choose them.

Try It Out and Contribute

Reitti is open-source and self-hosted.

Grab the latest Docker image from GitHub and get started. If you're upgrading, review the breaking change for the data volume in v2.0.0.

For full details, check the GitHub release notes or the updated docs. Feedback on Memories is crucial since it's in betareport bugs, suggest improvements, or
share your stories!

Future Plans

After the memories update, I am currently gathering ideas how to improve on it and align Reitti further with my vision. Some things I have on my list:

Enhanced Data - at the moment, we only log geopoints. This is enough to tell a story about where and when. But it lacks the emotional part, the why and how a Trip or Visit has started. How you felt during that Visit, has it been a Meeting or a gathering with your family.

If we could, at the end of the day answer this, it would elevate the Memories feature and therefore the emotional side of Reitti a lot. We could color code stays, we could enhance the generation of Memories, ...

Better Geocoding - we should focus on the quality of the reverse geocoding. Mainly to classify Visits. I would like to enhance the out of the box experience if possible or at least have a guide which geocoding service gives the best results. This is also tied to the Memories feature. Better data means a better narrative of your story.

Local-AI for Memories - I am playing around with a local AI to enhance the text generation and storytelling of memories. There are some of us, which could benefit of a better, more aligned base to further personalize the Memory. At the moment, it is rather static. The main goals here would be:

• local only
• small footprint on Memory and CPU
• multi language support

I know this is a lot to ask, but one can still dream and there is no timeline on this.

Enhanced Statistics - This is still on my list. Right now, it works but we should be able to do so much more with it. But this also depends on the data quality.

Development Transparency

I use AI as a development tool to accelerate certain aspects of the coding process, but all code is carefully reviewed, tested, and intentionally designed. AI helps with boilerplate generation and problem-solving, but the architecture, logic, and quality standards remain
entirely human-driven.

Support & Community

Get Help:

• IRC: irc.dedicatedcode.com
• Reddit: u/danielgraf
• Lemmy: @danielgraf
• GitHub Issues: Open a new ticket for bugs or feature requests

Support the Project: https://ko-fi.com/danielgraf

Project Repository: https://github.com/dedicatedcode/reitti

Documentation: https://www.dedicatedcode.com/projects/reitti/

Thank You to our Contributors

A huge shoutout to all the contributors who have helped make Reitti better, including those who provided feedback, reported bugs, and contributed code. Your support keeps the project thriving!

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5375539

The EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) entered into force, establishing an enhanced trade framework between the EU and Ukraine.

The original DCFTA was part of the Association Agreement signed in 2014, which removed most tariffs on industrial goods. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU implemented autonomous trade measures (ATMs) to support Ukraine. These expired in June 2025. The new DCFTA framework integrates these arrangements, providing economic certainty and stable trade relations.

The upgraded DCFTA focuses on three main pillars: enhanced trade flows, aligned production standards, and a robust safeguard clause. It balances market access for sensitive EU agricultural products while promoting alignment of Ukrainian production standards with those of the EU. Additionally, a safeguard mechanism allows for measures to be adopted if imports cause difficulties for either party.

The agreement brings Ukraine closer to EU's single market.

The EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) entered into force, establishing an enhanced trade framework between the EU and Ukraine.

The original DCFTA was part of the Association Agreement signed in 2014, which removed most tariffs on industrial goods. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU implemented autonomous trade measures (ATMs) to support Ukraine. These expired in June 2025. The new DCFTA framework integrates these arrangements, providing economic certainty and stable trade relations.

The upgraded DCFTA focuses on three main pillars: enhanced trade flows, aligned production standards, and a robust safeguard clause. It balances market access for sensitive EU agricultural products while promoting alignment of Ukrainian production standards with those of the EU. Additionally, a safeguard mechanism allows for measures to be adopted if imports cause difficulties for either party.

The agreement brings Ukraine closer to EU's single market.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52104455

On Tuesday, Israel’s military released a nearly 15-minute drone video that it said showed Hamas members staging the discovery of a deceased captive amid the ruins as observers from the Red Cross watched.

Never had a Gamecube so i'm looking forward playing this but does it make sense playing it in 2025? I only played through the third part and liked it quite a bit.

A German of Russian ethnic background was convicted of spying and planning arson attacks on military installations and railways in Germany on behalf of Russia and sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison.

Two accomplices were given suspended sentences of 12 and six months by a court in the Bavarian state capital Munich.

Prosecutors said the main defendant, named only as Dieter S. under German law, had scoped out military infrastructure in Germany over six months from the end of 2023, receiving help from his accomplices in the final weeks before his arrest.

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Security services across Europe have warned of a growing threat from Russian intelligence agencies they say are trying to deter Western powers from backing Ukraine against Russia's full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.

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Meanwhile on Thursday, a court in Frankfurt began the trial of three men - Ukrainian, Armenian and Russian citizens - charged with spying on and possibly planning the killing of a Ukrainian soldier in Germany.

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