Special Counsel Jack Smith resigns
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The move was expected ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking the oath of office.
Special Counsel Jack Smith resigns
Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office, officials said in a court filing.Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
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US firms pay over $1 billion in taxes to Russia Amid Ongoing Ukraine war
US Companies Pay Over $1 Billion in Taxes to Russia Amid Ongoing Ukraine War
American firms paid Russia $1.2bn in profit taxes in 2023, according to figures shared exclusively with Newsweek.Kate Plummer (Newsweek)
Israeli War Chief Orders Plan for ‘Complete Defeat’ of Hamas in Gaza Before Trump's Inauguration
Israeli war chief orders plan for ‘complete defeat’ of Hamas in Gaza before Trump's inauguration
Tel Aviv has failed to achieve its war goals after 15 months of a genocidal war against the Gaza Stripthecradle.co
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Biden's new country-tier-based restrictions on Nvidia chip exports.
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Biden to Further Limit Nvidia AI Chip Exports in Final Push
President Joe Biden’s administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of artificial intelligence chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp.Mackenzie Hawkins (BNN Bloomberg)
I mean, austria has no issues skirting sanctions and the incoming right wing government around the FPÖ and Kickl is very Putin friendly.
I can see why Biden might be careful. But that may change with the new government.
In Austria’s Kickl, the EU has its next Orbán
Vienna could be about to get its first far-right leader since World War II. Europe’s mainstream sees trouble brewing.Oliver Noyan (POLITICO)
No, it's worse than that.
Putin attended a wedding (in 2018, 5 months post Crimea annexation) of the then foreign minister [link].
They dissolved their government in 2019 after the then leader of the FPÖ told a journalist pretending to be a relative of an oligarch, that she could ensure positive coverage in exchange for government contracts. This might not be a direct link to a foreign enemy, but the corruption runs deep.
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A senior quasi-secret service officer was discovered by the British to have been a spy for at least 7 years before he was apprehended. He was (cheaply) selling state secrets and providing information to the Russians... [link.]
You've got to love them 🇦🇹
Austrian spy accused of selling ministers' phone data after British tip-off
Egisto Ott is alleged to have passed information to Russia after three senior interior ministry figures capsized on a canoe tripJames Jackson (The Telegraph)
How often did you elect a socialist government you sickos?! I am disgusted.
Where do I sign up btw? Just so, you know, I can avoid becoming Portuguese.
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I really doubt any sort of US action could lead to the EU fracturing.
If anything, having to deal with the US has brought us closer together. On one side there's Trump making a fool of himself and of the US. On the other side there's Musk, thinking he can take on European unions and actually win, because he thinks he's still in the US, and in the middle there's what i like to call the sheep pen of tech companies. We shear their wool for fines on privacy violations every couple of months to fund our regulatory organs.
The world seriously needs an alternative to US technology.
Also what does Biden have against Iceland and Greenland?
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Biden plans to send $8bn arms shipment to Israel
The weapons consignment, which needs approval from House and Senate committees, includes air-to-air missiles.Ana Faguy (BBC News)
Also Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the blue tier... Don't know what OP is on about.
Edit: lol didn't realize i was on .ml
The ROK is essentially a US colony, their military is subservient to the US' military "in wartime." Guess what? They have always been in "wartime."
Taiwan is similar, the US maintains a large military presence there and in Japan to try to keep China in check as a geopolitical adversary.
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I'm not sure what tier 2 loses in terms of access.
This obviously continues the Chinese need to "delete America" and capitalize competition to Nvidia, where they are not horribly behind H100 if that is the tier 2 standard. Tier 2 is now automatically motivated to help China to help themselves. Nvidia buying Trump is an easy path to get their oligarchy prioritized over bad arguments against capturing smaller global market that reduces innovation.
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Community groups provide relief as LA staggers from wildfire emergency
Community groups provide relief as LA staggers from wildfire emergency
Volunteer organizations fill in to provide rides and supplies to a city devastated by fire, and offer ways to contributeClaire Wang (The Guardian)
This is basically just a map of who China will be exporting chips to lol
IDF announces 4 soldiers killed, 6 wounded during fighting in northern Gaza
Four IDF soldiers were killed and six were wounded during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip this morning, the military announces.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were hit by an explosive device, as well as gunfire in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun.
With promises of work, Yemeni civilians forcibly recruited to fight for Russia in war with Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine approaches its fourth year with no end in sight, Russia has turned to recruiting unwitting young men from Yemen and other Arab countries to fight alongside its troops on the front lines. The men are lured under false pretenses, they tell Drop Site News, with promises of lucrative jobs and opportunities for migration, unaware that they are being forcibly recruited as mercenaries to fight in a foreign war despite having little to no military experience.
Two men who fell victim to the scheme told Drop Site they found out they were being sent to fight with the Russian army in the Ukraine war only once they had landed in Russia. Drop Site obtained a copy of an employment contract, corroborating photos and video, and spoke with a human rights organization that has documented the practice.
Mohamad said the agreement between the Yemeni recruits and Al Jabri was a monthly salary of $2,500 with a signing bonus of $20,000. A copy of an employment contract written in both Arabic and English obtained by Drop Site lists the Al Jabri General Trading & Investment Co. SPC and Abdul Wali Al Jabri as the company representative. The contract outlines the company’s role in arranging for jobs in Russia “in the military, security, or civil field, based on…qualifications, experience, and capabilities” and says the contract ends after the signee “obtains Russian citizenship.” Mohamad said he was never told that he would be sent to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine and there is no indication in the contract.
In September, Mohamad traveled to the Russian city of Nizhny via Dubai. He shared a video of himself with Drop Site on the plane, holding his boarding passes. He and a group of around 20 Yemeni men stayed in Nizhny for 24 hours before being shipped to the city of Rostov, a command base for the Russian army near the frontlines with Ukraine. They also discovered that their salaries were just $300 a month with a meager signing bonus.
Mohamad said that in both Nizhny and Rostov the Yemeni men were met by Russian soldiers. Mohamad said that they were forced to sign another contract, written in Russian, that obliged them to serve in the Russian military. “We were forced to sign contracts in the Russian language that we didn't understand to serve in the Russian military,” Mohamad said. “We were very afraid.”
He said that in Rostov his group protested to the Russian officers that they didn’t want to fight in the war and demanded to go back to Yemen but they were prevented and ended up being forced to stay in Russia for months where they were forced into military training camps. Mohamed also shared a photo of a Yemeni recruit in full military fatigues and combat gear holding an assault rifle and another of a dog tag written in Cyrillic.
With promises of work, Yemeni civilians forcibly recruited to fight for Russia in war with Ukraine
With promises of lucrative jobs and opportunities for migration, Yemenis with no military experience are being tricked and forcibly recruited as mercenaries to fight in a foreign warAli Younes (Drop Site News)
Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities
Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities
Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/…www.phoronix.com
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I can see lots of subtle bugs coming from this.
Develop and everything working great. Deploy on server with different HWCaps and you're now running different code.
Decided I would try using Steam on PopOS.. I didn't realize how long it has been since I've apparently played a steam game
Shadow of War is even better if you haven't checked it out, at least in my opinion. They scaled up the nemesis system and made combat a lot more flowy and fun
it's so insulting from a game that was clearly standing on the shoulders of giants. most of it is extremely derivative; especially assassin's creed and batman series are all over that game. the one thing they add to all that they patent, that's bullshit.
but it's not their fault. it's the fault of the people who keep this obviously anti-culture practice legal.
My gaming PC broke the day I moved into my university dorm, and I didn't get another one until like 4 years later.
The weirdest part was I kept thinking 3-year-old games were "new."
My friend would talk about a game and I'd be like "wow yeah that's the new one right?" and they'd say "it's two years old now there's a sequel"
Just think.....in January of 2016 the idea of trump ever being president was an unfunny, but still described as laughable joke. Pretty sure in January there were like 37 different republicans running. Somehow out of all that, they went with trump of all people.
In January of 2016, it had been over a century since the chicago cubs ever won the world series.....and it should have STAYED that way.......
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming. Head to the ground you can hear your heart running!
........and now the lead singer of smash mouth is dead.
A bit of Xbox and PlayStation, but really not much. Played ARK Survivor for a bit, and I know I played through "A Way Out"
Couch co-ops mostly.
Maybe 50 hours playtime since 2016 I'm guessing haha
Edit: Nevermind, we would play Wheel of fortune when shit faced on PlayStation, so maybe another 50 hours there
Anything i should look out for? I mostly just figured avoid anything online fps for a bit. I used to like variety of genres.
Series I remember playing:
Age of Empires/mythology
Dragon Age
Elder Scrolls
Ace Combat
Grand Turismo
Assassins Creed
Jedi Outcast / Jedi Academy (Outcast gameplay shit on KOTORS)
KOTOR (Storyline shit on Academy's)
The Sims
Resistance fall of Man
GTA
(I'm sure ive forgotten everything from Dreamcast but that's to far back)
Tenchu gets honorable mention though from before the Dreamcast
last 5 years:
It takes Two
A Way Out
Minecraft
Hogwarts Legacy
ARK
Games are in no particular order and I'm sure I've skipped a bunch. Likely remembered more big games than small ones. But I've played PC / Super Nintendo/Dreamcast/ PS2 / PS3 / PS5 /GB color / a few Xbox throw ins. Tbh I'm not sure I've played a single game for PS5 that I couldn't have played on an earlier console, but I skipped all of the 4th generation? so it seemed uncostworthy to buy a PS4 vs a PS5 in late 2023.
Anything you recommend? Haha
Just that basically every game works. The majority will work with no tinkering, and then a small amount will need very basic tinkering (talking like adding three words to your steam launch commands or something).
There is a very small % of games that is "unsupported," and even those you can usually get working. For example, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition is labeled as "unsupported" on Steam, but I got it to work just fine (with DSFix too) with hardly any tinkering. I saw Racettear unplayed and "unsupported" in my library the other night, and it took me about 2 minutes to get it running (at the wrong resolution), and another 5 to get it scaled to the right resolution.
Check protondb.com for some better info on whether or not a game will work (and if any tinkering is needed, what it is). Oh yeah, if you're not aware, "Proton" is the translation layer that makes all of this possible. Steam integrates it automatically, and you just need to select which version you want your game to use from the dropdown in the "compatibility" page in the settings for each game (usually just the most recent version, though there are modified custom versions of proton like GE, that work better for some games). Many games these days will have the option to play the native Linux runtime... It is worth a shot, but I have found that, more often than not, the Windows version played through Proton, plays better. Yes, seriously.
The only games that appear to truly not work on Linux are games with anti-cheat. And even then, it's not all of them, only the ones where the devs decided for some reason not to allow Linux players.
No worries, it's very helpful. I edited my comment a little since you replied in case you missed some info I added about Proton itself.
Have fun!
i hate tom paris
he is the worst regular in all of the treks I have seen (TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT)
his whole thing is representing White american baby boomer dudes
boring as shit
doesn't belong in space
Torres can do so much better.
I don't believe this shit about being such a hot shot pilot.
I think he was sent by the CIA.
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Diamonds are plunging in value around the world. Is China to blame?
Diamonds are plunging in value around the world. Is China to blame?
China’s demand for natural diamonds has ‘fallen off a cliff’ amid plunging marriage rates, while its factories are churning out synthetic alternatives that are up to 90 per cent cheaper.Ralph Jennings (South China Morning Post)
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In 5 years:
"Sure diamond is so cheap to make that we can now use it as a building material, but at what cost?"
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Diamonds are ~~plunging in value~~ cheaper than ever around the world. Is China ~~to blame?~~ the hero?
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Fuck the diamond cartel up the ass.
I bought an engagement ring many years back for around $2600 and when we broke up I went to a pawn shop and they offered $60 for the gold, the diamonds weren't worth a thing.
LA inferno could inflict a $150 billion economic wound, with a grueling 10-year recovery ahead
LA inferno could inflict a $150 billion economic wound, with a grueling 10-year recovery ahead
Higher material and labor costs as well as increased demand for contractors could slow the process, expert says.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez (Fortune)
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France: Two trams collide in Strasbourg, injuring 20; investigation underway
France: Two trams collide in Strasbourg, injuring 20; investigation underway
World: 'Twenty people' have been injured, said a spokesman for the prefecture, citing a preliminary estimate. He added that the cause of the accident had not yet been established.AFP (WION)
Vanadium is found on every continent, making it a widely available and non-rare element. It is not a heavy metal and is non-toxic, making it a safe choice for applications like steel production and energy storage. Vanadium is more abundant than many commonly known metals. With a concentration of about 120 ppm in the Earth’s crust, it is more...
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