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The Ford government says it is banning Chinese-made drones from being used in sensitive police investigations as the first step in a broader bid to remove them from the government supply chain altogether.

The move will affect every drone owned and operated by the Ontario Provincial Police, according to the government, which said they currently only use Chinese-made drones.

Still, Stephen Crawford, the minister of public and business service delivery and procurement, said the move was a vital step toward enhanced public safety.

“Now more than ever, it is critical that we are protecting our province’s data and safeguarding our security against bad actors,” he said in a statement.

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“Banning government use and future purchases of Chinese-made drones is another important step in our plan to protect Ontario and better leverage Canada’s world-class drone manufacturing sector.”

The government said the impetus behind the change is rules that can compel companies incorporated in China to disclose their data, even if it was gathered or stored abroad.

Banning Chinese-made drones, the province said, would align it with the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP, among other Canadian organizations.

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Well done, Character.AI. You really managed to tick me off with this.

I used to visit this website every single day, but now I'm completely done with it.

So fuck Character.AI and fuck everything else! 🤬

I don't know a ton about the internals of federated systems, it's been on my todo list for a while but it keeps getting pushed down by other things. But I still like that the fediverse exists and I'd like to pitch in, even if it's only a few bucks of processor time / month.

Are there compute tasks that could be offloaded to a network of volunteers? Monitoring tools that could be run from outside the system? Something else I'm not thinking of?

So, I've been running offsite copies to OVH S3 bucket via PBS running as an VM but I ran into an issue that verification of the backups is so slow that they're practically unusable.

Copies run nightly and I've set the storage to keep last 4 copies in place. Bigger VMs, like my immich-instance with a bit over terabyte of data, take several days to verify and logs show data rates at around 5MB/s or less. So, with the current schedule I'm running it'll mean in practise that backups expire before they're verified.

I could keep the copies longer, but that'd cost more, or run copies less frequently, which risks losing data if hardware fails at unfortunate moment (which it most likely will). Tuning settings are on default and based on what I've read, adding more runners wouldn't really help that much.

PBS VM itself shows very little load on proxmox monitoring and I've got plenty of bandwidth to use, so the verification shouldn't have any bottlenecks on my end at those speeds. Cache usage is at around 60% with ~30GB of total space available.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed that up? Or should I just give up and do something totally different? I attempted to run backups to Hetzner storagebox over cifs-mount, but that's pretty much the same or worse with performance.

Guess which it is. No, seriously. Guess.

https://emojipedia.org/most-popular

Have trans people finally upgraded to software with Unicode 15 support? Android 13, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Windows 11 22H2, macOS 13.3, iOS 16.4...

!unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone users provide the best data but can we use that to generalize? Joining us are !onehundredninetysix users to debate on how representative neofetch screenshots are of the trans population.

As for "has this happened before"? Well, of all Wayback Machine snapshots:

2023-05-01 Light Blue Heart, even!
2023-05-02 Light Blue Heart, even!
2023-05-22 Light Blue Heart, even!
2023-05-23 Light Blue Heart, even!
2023-05-30 Light Blue Heart, even!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47635539

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47635535

[weekly newsletter about Cuba (with YouTube video links) from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

May 20, 2026

The Justice Department is set to indict former Cuban President Raúl Castro today over the 1996 shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes — a case that has been a politically charged flashpoint in U.S.-Cuba relations for nearly three decades.

So far, the coverage by corporate media outlets has left out critical context: repeated provocations and incursions, numerous warnings by Cuban authorities, years of violent attacks against Cuba originating from South Florida and the U.S. government’s refusal to restrain an extremist group openly seeking confrontation.

The article below, written by Nicholas Greven, examines the history behind the case, Washington’s double standard on terrorism and why this indictment is about far more than settling a decades-old score.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

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