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As somebody already mentioned, Tibet.

They've also destroyed multiple vessels including civilian ships near the Philippines.

The provided armaments to Iran which ended up in the hands of Hamas leading up to the October 7th music festival attack, which sparked the flames for the ongoing genocide. Iran also used those weapons on their own civillians earlier this year resulting in between 6k and 40k civillian casualties depending on your source which is actually higher than the casualties for the ongoing war with the USA (which can also somewhat be attributed to China due to the afforementioned hostilities with Israel (and China literally aided in Trump's reelection)). They're also the source of weapons for the Houthis and Lebanon.

In Asia they are the military backers of North Korea, who actively threatens to destroy Japan. In the past they've armed factions who committed coups in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Myanmar AGAIN. They also supplied weapons to Indonesia which likely ended up getting used somewhere in Papau, but that one isn't as fair because at this point who hasn't sold to Indonesia.

In Central and South America they are the military backers for Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, all militant dictatorships.

In Africa, they rebuilt the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School which is established as a collaboration between the CCP and the Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa. This is the most benign entry on this list so far, but looking at China's track record you can probably see where it's going to end up.

The also did all of this to Hong Kong:

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And if they weren't too busy executing their own military leaders, chances are they'd be invading Hong Kong already. Chinese Military spending is growing massively, growing about 5x in 20 years. Currently, China contests lands in Taiwan, Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea, and India (which China claims is actually Western Tibet) and they're getting less "diplomatic" about it every day.

Also, China has promoted conservative leaders including the GOP and even Donald Trump by name as well as the AfD.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    NGL I haven't had much experience with the package managers because I've been installing everything with the konsole via pacman -S and flatpak install flathub commands or manually if needed. I'm surprised to hear about the USB devices issue, even my analogue audio interface worked plug and play and I've never had to reseat them.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago* (4 children)

    Have you tried CachyOS? It's built on Arch but it's a lot easier to get into, let's you pick a desktop environment such as KDE Plasma or GNOME in the installation, the install media itself is a portable OS.

    Definitely good to keep an open mind while you shop around for your next distro.

    Recently there was a hacker issue with the AUR repos, but most of the packages you need are likely already on the official CachyOS package search without requiring an AUR package.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

    I might be exaggerating based on the little I've seen, particularly this post LINK which has a very misleading title, but the number of packages for AI integration to NixOS and forks for Agentic OS and workflows, the amount of support (real or otherwise) for AI in the NixOS communities, and articles like this one: LINK, would be a hard sell to tell me were all coincidence.

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    EDIT: We have at least one user claiming that EAC and BattlEye can NOT see what programs are running on your computer via proton on Linux.

    EDIT 2: According to brucethemoose@lemmy.world with comment https://lemmy.world/comment/24738141

    "Yes and no.

    If you run task manager or something in Proton? It just shows Proton processes:
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    But all linux process, and tons of information about them, are readable in the /proc directory. They’re just files, accessible to the program.

    Try ls /proc yourself.

    There’s nothing stopping anti cheat from checking that, if it’s configured to do it.

    Which is pretty dang convincing to me.


    If I have a good understanding, the Symlinks that Proton uses allow the games to view nearly your entire drive and see what software is running? Because Proton is explicitly NOT a virtual machine and merely a translation layer for Windows applications to run on Linux?

    The reason I like to ask is because this is the general consensus, that Proton applications are not secure, but when searching online it doesn't explicitly state anywhere if the games with EAC or BattlEye are capable of spying on Linux users. So I'm looking for confirmation on this.

     

    Sometimes this segment is longer than the post and comments itself and when I'm not near an LTE or 5G cell tower it can cause pages to take longer to load on web. I have never used this feature even once.

    When I tried using element picker with Ublock Origin it doesn't only apply the filter to this element.

     

    A few months ago, in my free time, I started a small fantasy card game project in 3D and implemented raytracing to drag the cards around a plane above the "table" as a figure of speech, but I never did figure out the nodes which would have cards in play snap to and become undraggable. Whenever I set the boolean to disable dragging and enable snapping the card's variables passed to the node stayed null.

    If somebody can help me figure it out, experience with git is a plus but not required (I can set up the repo and the gitignore myself), I'd be able to spend more time on the artwork and maybe we could start a kickstarter in a week or two.

    Sample of my older artwork (from a different project outside of game development that is perpetually delayed for both team and financial difficulties):

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    For more private conversation please reach out to me at: finitebanjo@yahoo.com

    If you lack any prior credit for such work then I won't immediately disqualify you but be prepared to demonstrate capability such as with a script that moves an instantiated 3D objects between 5 nodes in randomized order, interruptible by clicking on it (this demonstrates an active and inactive state and more complex movement than just static A to B)

     

    I saw a clip of a guy saying that Ukraine is going through a command reform:

    1. Military officials will be forced to adapt or leave.

    2. Military command will be highly "streamlined" and "automated" with "new technology."

    The video was claiming this as a huge win and that Russia would be outdated by comparison and that military personnel, infrantry and such, would be treated more humanely.

    However, what it sounds like to me, what I'm hearing instead of those claims, is that all military power and authority is being centralized and that ChatGPT or Grok or some shit is being given reigns of a fucking drone swarm. Is that what is happening? Two things I can say quite confidently is that: consolidating such power such that less total people have any say in matters has never lead to more humane treatment, historically, and that AI chatbots have never shown any capacity for morality nor hesitation in regards to the sanctity of human life and nature.

    Is the Trump admin pushing this bullshit on Ukraine? Am I reading too much into this? I'm naturally very skeptical of things like this.

    EDIT: I'm pretty sure the video I saw was just some AI Techbro bullshitting and in reference to changes from Brigades (smaller departments) to Corps (big offices managing their own small departments) structure. Nobody can really find info on what he was talking about, AFAIK.

     

    A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, and has resigned from her city position, officials said Monday.

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    P.S. these fucking Tankies getting desparate enough to show up a lot on Lemmy World now that Piefed has helped people avoid the plague that ML is.

     

    AI-Training Data Scrapers are constantly attacking the feddit.online instance, in the last 24 hours about 70% of all traffic here was a bot of nefarious intent.

    This is a continuation of the problems experienced last weekend which were temporarily snubbed by CloudFlare filtering them out, but they always return eventually.

    This is the reason many users have been complaining about poor uptime/stability.

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