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F-Droid Build Status was updated to 5.6.4 and no one will get this update. Why? Well, the app is now built reproducibly so if you have it installed you need to uninstall it and then reinstall it. (Yes, we wish this switch to be easier to perform, but the UI is not there yet)

China's latest nuclear submarine sank during its construction earlier this year, senior US defense officials said on Thursday.

Satellite images from June showed cranes at the Wuchang shipyard where the Zhou-class attack submarine would have been docked.

These images indicate that the vessel likely sank between May and June, US officials told news agencies including the Associated Press and Reuters.

China has not confirmed the current status of the submarine.

Reports of a submarine sinking during construction could be a potential setback for China as it continues to expand its naval capacity.

"We are not familiar with the situation you mentioned and currently have no information to provide," a Chinese embassy spokesperson in Washington said.

A US official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters it was "not surprising" that China's navy would hide the sinking of the submarine.

"In addition to the obvious questions about training standards and equipment quality, the incident raises deeper questions about the PLA's internal accountability and oversight of China's defense industry — which has long been plagued by corruption," they added, using the acronym for the People's Liberation Army.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20230080

Noticed this update got pushed just now.

Edit: Seems they’re doing this to prevent costs from arbitration.

Basierend auf einer wahren Begebenheit.

(Das Kollegy hat übrigens etwa 20 Jahre mehr Berufserfahrung als ich)

Self-styled free speech warrior Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) banned me after I published a copy of the Donald Trump campaign’s JD Vance research dossier. X says that I’ve been suspended for “violating our rules against posting private information,” citing a tweet linking to my story about the JD Vance dossier. First, I never published any private information on X. I linked to an article I wrote here, linking to a document of controversial provenance, one that I didn’t want to alter for that very reason.

On the one hand, this is a very funny end to my Twitter journey. On the other hand, I no longer have access to the primary channel by which I disseminate primarily news (and shitposts of course) to the general public.

This chilling effect on speech is exactly why we published the Vance Dossier in its entirety. Not a single media organization was willing to publish a document that would have been a no-brainer during or prior to the heyday of Edward Snowden’s disclosures. That illustrates the dramatic shift in attitudes about what the news media thinks the public should know, and the role the mainstream plays in steadily ceding that territory to the national security threat machine. Media’s job, I believe, is to push back against these various forms of censorship. I’ll keep doing that here on this newsletter, where you can find me going forward. If you agree with what I laid out, I hope you’ll subscribe.

He is such an opportunist omg

Der größte Vulkan unseres Sonnensystems zeigt neuen Forschungen zufolge wieder Aktivität. Sollte er wirklich ausbrechen, könnte das die Oberfläche eines Planeten nachhaltig verändern.

On September 24, ProPublica revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly ignored two different reports from within the Biden administration concluding that Israel was deliberately blocking aid into Gaza. Only days after receiving detailed memos explaining exactly how the Israeli military was blocking humanitarian aid, Blinken told Congress that US does not “currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance.”

Now, the Secretary of State is facing calls for his resignation. “[Blinken] lied. People went hungry, and some died. He needs to resign now,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) wrote this morning. Tlaib, who is the only Palestinian-American in the US House, is the first member of Congress to call for Blinken to resign.

Hello, I started donating to my favourite open-source projects a couple years ago, but stopped about 6 months ago for different reasons and wanted to get back into it.

I wanted to ask if anyone here has a set system or process they follow when donating

• How much money do you donate? A set amount, whatever you feel like, a percentage of your earnings?

• When do you donate? Whenever you remember, on the first of the month, Thursdays?

• Do you have a minimum donation amount?

• How do you decide what projects to support? Do you forego donations if you've contributed in other ways? Do you keep a list?

• Do you donate to all equally or do you have some sort of ranking? Is it by amount of use, subjective preference, something else?

• What platforms do you prefer using? Liberapay, Opencollective, Patreon, ko-fi, Paypal, Monero, actual post?

So far the system I've devised for myself would go something like:

• put 2 % of all my earnings, whatever they are, in a separate account
• every quarter (on the first of January, April, July and October) donate the full amount of money in the account (with a minimum of 5 €, so as not to lose a big amount in fees)
• keep a ranked list of projects that I've used or deemed important or promising in the last three months (projects I donated to recently go to the bottom of the list), things at the top get more money than things at the bottom
• prioritise Liberapay since it's open-source itself

Der US-Journalismus scheitert weiter daran, über Trump, seine Gefolgschaft und autoritäre Tendenzen zu berichten. Ein Aufschrei (der auch anderswo nützlich sein könnte)

Jeff Jarvis ist Journalist, Autor und Medienexperte. Er lehrt Journalismus an der City University of New York und bloggt auf buzzmachine.com. Dieser Text ist zuerst in englischer Sprache bei Medium.com erschienen.

Es ist, als ob die Redaktion der Washington Post eines Morgens aufgewacht wäre und mit Überschriften, die ich weiter unten zitieren werde, sich selbst gefragt hätte: "Was machen wir falsch?"

Diese Frage möchte ich gerne auch der New York Times, CNN und dem Rest des etablierten Journalismus als Erstes beantworten: Ihr habt euch geweigert, den Faschismus als solchen zu erkennen, der vor der Tür steht. Ihr beharrt darauf, über Autoritarismus zu berichten, als sei er lediglich eine weitere Strömung in einer immer noch symmetrischen US-amerikanischen Politik.

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Wie viel besser wäre es, der Leserschaft stattdessen eine fortlaufende Erzählung anzubieten, die Faschismus und Ritualmordlegende beim Namen nennt, sobald sie auftreten, und auf all diese Fälle als weitere Beweise zur Erklärung verweist.

So viel dazu, was der alte Journalismus falsch macht.

Und wie steht es beim Hochgeschwindigkeitszug der New York Times? So furchtbar wie immer.

J. D. Vances Faschismus ist "kämpferischer Konservatismus" und seine Blutverleumdung gegen Haitianer – und im weiteren Sinne gegen alle Einwanderer und People of Color in Amerika – ist "politisches Ultra-Online-Gepöbel".

Fuck.

https://archive.is/ukHKN

TLDR ; oui.

Autre article sur le sujet : https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2023/08/30/les-croisieristes-en-pleine-forme-attirent-un-public-plus-jeune-mais-au-mepris-de-l-environnement_6187114_3234.html