The Competition and Markets Authority says the tech giant dominate the smartphone market.

Why do we keep two people from Poland imprisoned forever, one way up north, the other way down south? I'm assuming they're imprisoned, because nobody would stay there this long otherwise.

What was their crime? When will it be enough?

I've heard that people sometimes go visit them, i assume to throw things at them, because they never bring any of them back!

An investigation by Haaretz has revealed that Israel’s President Isaac Herzog engaged in conversations with families of captives, encouraging them to consider publicly supporting a potential pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These discussions took place weeks before the fragile ceasefire in Gaza was implemented.

Sources cited by the Israeli media outlet stated that while some families declined the president’s request, others believed that such support could help facilitate a hostage exchange deal. However, Herzog reportedly did not present the pardon as a precondition for any agreement.

Herzog’s office confirmed that the topic was discussed but emphasised that “the initiative came from the families themselves”, according to Haaretz.

Netanyahu, who has been on trial since 2020 facing three separate criminal cases, has denied all the corruption charges against him and pleaded not guilty.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/climate/p/1398372/climate-warming-methane-emissions-from-the-worlds-biggest-livestock-companies-are-bigge

Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock. > > The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for emitting more climate-warming methane than all of the countries in the European Union and United Kingdom combined, according to a new assessment published Monday. > > They looked at 45 major livestock and dairy companies, finding that they generated about 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023—roughly the same amount as reported for Saudi Arabia, the world’s second largest oil producer. > >

A month before an audacious jewelry heist struck the Louvre Museum, Paris' Natural History Museum saw nearly six kilograms of gold stolen. On Tuesday, a Chinese woman was arrested and charged with the theft.

A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over a theft of gold worth more than $1 million from Paris' Natural History Museum, in one of several recent high-profile break-ins targeting French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, October 21.

The theft took place on September 16, a little over a month before an audacious jewelry heist at the world-famous Louvre Museum on Sunday. At the time, the Natural History Museum's director said it had been performed by an "extremely professional team."

A 24-year-old Chinese woman was arrested in Barcelona on September 30 over the Natural History Museum break-in and theft of gold, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said. The suspect was handed over to French authorities on October 13, and was charged with theft and criminal conspiracy and put in provisional detention the same day.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37692915

!!!TRIGGER WARNING!!!

We look at what's happened since Virginia Roberts Guiffre first alleged abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, more than a decade ago.

— SS: Highlights the insane level of law enforcement protection these pedophiles have been getting for decades on both sides of the pond. The blocking of the release of the Epstein files seems very welcome to the British Crown too, while the victims and their families are barely getting any closure.

RIP Virginia

Strikes, involving over 400 drones and 28 missiles, launched hours after Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest cancelled

Russian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, hours after the cancellation of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, killing six people including a six-month-old baby, a 12-year-old girl and a woman, and damaging key energy facilities and several high-rise residential buildings.

The attacks, involving over 400 drones and 28 missiles, lasted most of Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as Kyiv was hit by at least four ballistic missiles. A drone strike on Kharkiv hit a kindergarten, killing one man and injuring seven others.

A series of loud explosions were audible across Kyiv on Wednesday and towards dawn and beginning of the morning rush-hour, air defences targeting Russian drones could be heard above the sound of traffic.

A nice little write up on some Aussie political history

Malcolm Fraser’s vision for a new political party was crafted a decade ago, right before his death — with some unlikely help from a Labor figure who disdained his role in the Dismissal.

Even before Fraser’s apparent post-political transition leftwards, the antipathy from the left would turn out to be partly misplaced. An impeccable cold warrior who held the army and defence portfolios while Australia was in Vietnam, a political hardman who brought the nation to the brink of constitutional crisis in 1975 and who won three elections in a row for the Coalition, Fraser was also ardently anti-apartheid — he developed that at Oxford, where he arrived in 1949 — pro-multiculturalism and pro-refugee while prime minister.

Fraser’s project was also driven by a sense that the current Labor and Liberal parties were no longer “fit for purpose”, dominated, Richards says, by “careerists who are compromised in being able to take forward key issues … Labor is locked into the union model, and the Liberals have become more like Labor in their attitude to crossing the floor. The structures of the major parties really are outdated.”

to be enforced by way of biometric scanning and ID tokens

Do we really want to do a biometric scan to access websites in New Zealand?

A couple of weeks ago I spat the dummy with windows and shifted to Linux. I think I am now ready to drink the coolaid.

What I have available currently is an ISP router and a decade-old gaming PC with a failing hdd that used to host games. I also have some budget to spare so that I can set things up nicely or in a way that I can add on it in the future.

Here are my goals are in order:

1. Proper onsite and maybe offsite backups - my migration to Linux illustrated gaps and I expect in the future I will run VMs that should be backed up
2. Home security cameras (Which I don't own yet)
3. Replacing something like onedrive. I expect this will be NextCloud
4. Yarr. Sonarr/radarr/jellyfin
5. Hosting game servers
6. Block adverts and maintaining privacy
7. Improve the latency of my steam link to my TV via chromecast
8. Hosting webscraping and analysis of data off some local websites
9. Maybe set up some some smart home automation things
10. I'd like to get solar power and monitor how the whole setup is doing.
11. Self host my bit warden
12. I dunno, backup Wikipedia or something. Give me ideas

So where would you recommend I start off with hardware? Simply replace the old pc hdd or look to having a NAS? A better router to handle VLAN? Go all in with Ubiquiti products which I have heard mixed things about? About the only thing I know is that a UPS would be a waste for an aspiring enthusiast like myself.

Any advice or pointing me at wikis or other resources would be greatly appreciated.

The collapse of the American empire would benefit almost every other country. I am starting to feel that since I live in America I should want to accelerate the collapse (or make sure one happens if things start to go back to business as usual). Can someone tell me why this is a bad idea so that I don't make a mistake here.

There is a growing body of First Nations titles being published every year. The massive success of authors such as Wright and Lucashenko – Wright alone has won two Miles Franklin awards and two Stella prizes – signals a long-overdue recognition of First Nations literary excellence.

Given this, here are ten First Nations books from the past 25 years (in no particular order) I would nominate for the books of the century.

Anyone read any of these? I've shamefully not read any.