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US says China is boosting Russia's war machine as President Biden pressures Republicans to approve funding for providing weapons to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

China is backing Russia’s war effort in Ukraine by helping Moscow in its biggest military buildup since the Soviet era, providing drone and missile technology, satellite imagery and machine tools, senior U.S. officials said on Friday....

Linux Statistics 2024 - TrueList (truelist.co)

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Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off (www.aalto.fi)

'Privacy. That’s Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....

He's A Man - Bob Vylan (bobvylan.bandcamp.com)

Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests (www.lgbtqnation.com)

European diplomats in DC scramble to gain access to Trump allies for insights (edition.cnn.com)

China orders telcos to rip out American chips by 2027 (www.theregister.com)

"Programming Sucks" (www.stilldrinking.org)

Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.

China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/11047589...

Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)

Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.

Ho-Ho-Hit it! (hallmarkstartrekornaments.com)

For sale later this year from Hallmark!...

Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed. (www.pewresearch.org)

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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Putin 'may launch all-out bid to seize second city' - as Western officials fear major Russian advance (news.sky.com)

The Online Speech Given by Yanis Varoufakis After German Police Raid Palestine Congress [Brett Wilkins | Apr 12, 2024 | Common Dreams] (www.commondreams.org)

“Friends, we are here because vengeance is a lazy form of grief. We are here to promote not vengeance but peace and coexistence across Israel-Palestine.”

Meloni Seeks China Reset After Italy Ditches Belt and Road Pact (www.bloomberg.com)

How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you (piped.video)

Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Is Now Available for Download with GNOME 46, Linux 6.8 - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)

ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree (git.kernel.org)

Iran’s IRGC Seizes Israel-Linked Container Ship Near Hormuz (www.bloomberg.com)

The vessel’s beneficial owner is Zodiac Maritime Ltd., part of Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. No one responded to a call to Zodiac’s office in London, outside of normal business hours....

Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)

Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with West (apnews.com)

Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries....