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  • Libreboot 26.01 "Magnanimous Max" released!

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  • 'Normie' or not, you may consider buying your next computer with Libreboot/Coreboot, for example, at https://minifree.org/ (Leah Rowe's company, the person who also wrote the linked article) or at https://novacustom.com/.

  • Forces given ‘blank check’ to kill protesters in Iran, senior official says

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  • The statements come from an Iranian senior official. He said forces were given

    "full authority and a blank check to attack, with the aim of creating maximum fear to deter the resurgence of protests."

    And the senior official speaking at the meeting was presenting

    assessments by security bodies that sharply contradict the government’s official figures on the killings.

  • Iran says if attacked militarily, its response will not be “limited” : Peoples Dispatch

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  • The People Dispatch is a radical political media outlet promoting extremist views, and it frequently conveys anti-democratic narratives promoted by China, Russia, and other dictatorships.

    It has a close relationship to the Tricontinental Information Center (TIC) founded in 1967 after a worldwide Soviet/Communist conference in Cuba whose executive director is a fellow at Renmin University of China.

  • 'Everyone in shock' – Kyiv residents left without power, heating, and water as grid disruption causes mass blackout across Ukraine

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  • Davos Never Learns: The Cluelessness of the Powerful

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  • It's not the new order. You can make some sort of 'tit-for-tat' deals with China, but any strategic partnership with the CCP won't benefit Canada nor any of China's potential partners. Beijing will break any agreement as soon as it deems it appropriate (this is, for example, if you call for the release of foreign prisoners illegally detained in China, or if you support Taiwan's independence, things like that). In the last decade, the CCP has even been increasing its games of political and economic coercion.

    Canada needs to engage more with democratic states that share the same values. China's autocratic system of repression - at home and abroad - as well as its economic policy based on mercantilism (China depends on ever expanding shares in foreign markets to sell its overcapacity) makes the country inherently unreliable.

    From that point of view, Mr. Carney's mistake was not necessarily his trip to Beijing, but rather the fact that he didn't pass by before in Tokyo and Seoul, and in Canberra and Wellington.

    [Edit typo.]

  • Digital Independence: Berlin wants to introduce European payment service Wero

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  • I Test Drove a Chinese EV. Now I Don’t Want to Buy American Cars Anymore.

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  • Now, every time I climb back into my Ford Mustang Mach-E, I can’t stop thinking about you ...

    This kind of Chinese propaganda is what Ford CEO Jim Farley himself has been doing for a long time now (you'll find ample evidence across the web). In this particular case it is even the article's tone ("I will wait for you, Xiaomi. We shall be together again one day.") that makes it clear it's an advertisement rather than a test drive report imo.

  • China’s climate policy becomes grist for its propaganda mill

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  • I am no fan of the Chinese political system

    LOL.

  • China’s climate policy becomes grist for its propaganda mill

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  • China is the only country taking the climate crisis seriously

    This is pure propaganda. China is among the worst polluters on the globe. In addition, unlike many countries mostly from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, it has refused to phase-out fossil fuels in the last COP30.

  • Why Apple Is Accusing the EU of ‘Political Delay Tactics’ Over New Fees

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  • Tim Cook has been accusing the EU for a lot of things over the years, but silently surrendered his company to China. Chinese censorship rules are no problem for him it seems.

  • European alternative to Teams and Zoom

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  • No, there are no such requirements. Some companies I have been working for use that on own servers. It works great. Just follow the link posted by @rbn@sopuli.xyz

    As an addition: You may also know BigBlueButton - not an European but a Canadian alternative (maybe misplaced a bit in this community, but as some talk about Canada's EU membership, well, maybe not that misplaced -:)) BBB is a video software aimed at education, but you can use it also as 'normal' video tool.

    And there is also Jami

    Edit for an addition: If self-hosting isn't an option for whatever reason, you may consider joining Meet Coop, a cooperative using BBB. Their servers are in Canada and several European countries (you'll find them in the website).

  • China has network of 75 covert influence outposts across Britain

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  • An agenda? No, I don't have one, but there are lots of pro -China and anti-Western propaganda narratives spread by a large number of accounts (the 'cohort'?). It's not only that this cohort engages in whataboutism and distraction from dictatorships, and not even their open verbal support for the dicatorships in Russia, China, or Iran, but in their propaganda communities they are even celebrating Russia's atrocities against Ukrainian civilians or China's genocide against people in Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), and Inner Mongolia.

    They are cheering the violence, as one study says:

    ... The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou ... reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. ...

    [Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and antisemitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism ... Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad. ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic community.

    It's a deeply repugnant mindset.

    @ViolentPacifist@lemmy.world

  • China has network of 75 covert influence outposts across Britain

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  • how many do we have in China?

    Not that I know of even one. In China, non-Chinese companies can't even found a subsidiary in China, they must found a 'joint venture' with a Chinese partner company that then own the majority of 'your' firm. Also, I don't know of any organization that is similar to the United Front. Another organization in this respect is the China Scholarship Council: Tens of thousands of Chinese students studying overseas are required to sign a document pledging loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. There are tons of reports of Chinese students and scholars stealing high-tech military technologies, and besieging protesters who supported Hong Kong pro-democracy activist's anti-extradition protests, for example. The students' family members at home in China could even become hostage of the Chinese party-state if they don't follow 'orders' by their state.

    I don't know of similar influence operations from any Western country in China.

    Interference by China a serious issue, and one is increasingly threatening democratic values in the West.

  • Dingoes that circled Canadian woman’s body on Australian beach to be culled

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  • Why?

  • EU plans phase out of high risk telecom suppliers, in proposals seen as targeting China

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  • A mercantilistic state - which is what China is - can never be a reliable partner, just to name one reason among many. China doesn't get better because the U.S. is getting more and more like China.

  • EU plans phase out of high risk telecom suppliers, in proposals seen as targeting China

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  • A mercantilistic state - which is what China is - can never be a reliable partner, just to name one reason among many. China doesn't get better because the U.S. is getting more and more like China.

  • EU plans phase out of high risk telecom suppliers, in proposals seen as targeting China

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  • A mercantilistic state - which is what China is - can never be a reliable partner, just to name one reason among many. China doesn't get better because the U.S. is getting more and more like China.

  • Iran protest death toll could top 30,000: local officials

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  • @Maeve@lemmygrad.ml

    Your remarks are absolutely disgusting, but unfortunately not surprising. In your own groups you and the other 'tankies' are literally cheering violence like this one. I don't understand why such comments are allowed here. This is outright a repugnant mindset and has nothing to do with freedom of opinion.

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    Africa’s Trade Gap With China Hits Record $102B Even as Beijing Expands Duty-Free Access [stalling Africa’s industrialisation]

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  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world

    It's insanely weird how you pick and choose a few sentences only to put them in your desired context, and then accuse others of being biased.

    It's even in the summary above:

    • African producers do not control a significant portion of Africa’s exports but by Chinese-owned firms operating within the continent
    • Hence, China’s expanding duty-free access to imports from African countries aims at securing advantages for Chinese investors to import raw materials from Africa rather than opening China’s market to Africa

    Both the article and the analysis mentioned in the text body are highly recommendable (sources are Chinese custom data and an independent African researcher).

    It must be clearly said once again: China has no interest in its partners' growth and independence. The Chinese party-state wants to create subordination and control at the cost of African people's freedom and prosperity.