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I am charging my laptop with one of the "quick charging" phone chargers right now, currently it says 5 hours until full charge. Does this wear out the battery faster or something? Or does it make no difference apart from taking a little bit longer?

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/45175978

It feels weird that Stardew Valley is 10 years old. At the same time it feels like it is "only 10 years old" and "wow already 10 years old".

Game has evolved so much even after first release. The game and the story from the developer is always so amazing and inspirational.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/48254733

Ksenia Koldin, having just turned 18, managed to recover her brother Sergii after he had been in a re-education camp and was taken in by a Russian family

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Ksenia and Sergii’s journey is similar to that of thousands of other Ukrainian children following the start of the Russian occupation. The difference is that their case had a happy ending. The Ukrainian government has identified more than 19,500 children deported or forcibly removed from their homes by Russian authorities since February 2022, although it estimates the number is much higher — Yale University puts the figure as high as 35,000. Kyiv accuses Moscow of kidnapping these children and brainwashing them as part of a systematic campaign to destroy the country’s future. It is for this practice that the International Criminal Court is seeking the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his commissioner for the rights of the child, Maria Lvova-Belova.

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According to records from the Ukrainian presidential program Bring Kids Back, only 2,003 children have managed to return. The effort is a combined one: Ukrainian authorities are working on it, but so are non-profit organizations, private individuals, lawyers, and even third countries that mediate to recover the children. In Sergii’s case, his sister’s tenacity was fundamental. By the time she left her training course in Shebekino, the boy was in foster care with a Russian family in Abinsk, in the Krasnodar region. As soon as these new parents learned that Koldin wanted to take him, they tried to sever all communication between the two siblings.

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“I was able to hug him, but he was very distant, he seemed nervous, as if he were hiding something from me,” Koldin recounts. The adoptive family was present. It was May 2023. When the social services officer asked Sergii if he wanted to return, he said no. Koldin asked to see her brother alone. The blow was devastating. “He told me he wouldn’t go back because the Nazis ruled Ukraine and there was a war, it was a dangerous country,” she relates. But she stayed with him; they talked for more than three hours. She told him she missed him, that they had to be together. Finally, she offered him a month with her as a sort of trial period, and if he decided he wanted to return to Russia, she would let him. The boy agreed.

More than two years later, the two siblings are living in Kyiv. He, at 14, lives with a Ukrainian family and is continuing his studies at high school. She is in her third year of a journalism degree. “Sergii doesn’t talk about Russia anymore,” says Koldin, “I think he’s happy because he’s always smiling.”

— And you?

— Me too.

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The boss of Rolls-Royce has said he would welcome Germany helping to build Britain’s next-generation fighter jet, arguing that it would bring in more business for the project.

The aircraft, designed to replace the Eurofighter Typhoon, is a joint effort between the UK, Italy and Japan. Rolls-Royce is building the engine for the jet, which has attracted fresh attention as plans for a rival Franco-German warplane edge towards collapse.

Tufan Erginbilgiç, who has run the engineering company since 2023, told the Guardian he would “definitely be open” to Germany joining the global combat aircraft programme (GCAP), also known as Tempest.

“We already work with Germany … we have a big position in Dahlewitz [a Rolls-Royce factory near Berlin]. In terms of civil aerospace, we do business aviation engines there,” he said. “But the GCAP benefit will be beyond that. More countries joining means more countries will certainly buy, because you cannot be a partner and not buy.

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On Tuesday night, the moon will slowly slip into Earth's shadow and emerge glowing deep red in a total lunar eclipse — the only 'blood moon' visible from Australia in 2026

The UK’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus has been hit by a drone strike, causing limited damage and no casualties, Cypriot authorities and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have said.

A security alert put out to residents in the vicinity of Akrotiri by the British base’s administration advised residents to shelter in place until further notice “following a suspected drone impact”. Non-essential personnel have been asked leave to leave the base.

An MoD spokesperson said: “Our armed forces are responding to a suspected drone strike at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus at midnight local time. Our force protection in the region is at the highest level and the base has responded to defend our people.”

The apparent attack took place hours after the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases to attack Iranian missile sites.

I recently tried to clean up my digital life. I switched to Linux and switched to GrapheneOS and made more use of my proton subscription to replace google. But I have a few questions :

I tried https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ on Librewolf on my PC and Vanadium on my phone and it say I have a nearly unique fingerprint. Is the benefit of using a privacy focused browser neglected by the low userbase and unique fingerprint ?

I did not have a great digital hygiene before so I have a google account, meta... How do I clean this up ? Are services like Incogni any good or is it just marketing ?

Finally I wanted to use tails with persistent storage to use as a live system if I ever need to use a PC that is not my own to connect to my accounts. However, I don't want the ISP to know I use Tor. I see it as a big "I have something to hide" flag for the ISP. But my understanding is if I install a VPN on tails it will be Tor over VPN (bad if I understand correctly) instead of VPN over Tor. Should I use something else than tails since I only want/need always on VPN with kill switch.

Thanks a lot for your help. I want to say the journey is much easier than what I anticipated. The hardest part is making people switch around me. The lobbying has started.

There are those who cry out about the broken campaign promises and the betrayal of the isolationist policy that they expected from the leader’s second presidency. And there are also Trump defenders, no matter the cost; among them is activist Laura Loomer, a known Islamophobe, who posted: “Trump will go down in history as a protector of humanity. I hope this is the beginning of his crackdown on Islam in the West.”

Or conservative media outlets such as Fox News, which have gone from praising the “president of peace” to adopting in recent days — while talks continued in Geneva over Iran’s nuclear program — a stance of support, if not outright encouragement, for Trump’s warlike impulses. The Wall Street Journal, another outlet owned by media magnate Rupert Murdoch, for its part published an editorial titled The Ayatollah Is Choosing War.

Kirk was not the only one to raise his voice. The national-populist ideologue Steve Bannon went to the White House in those days to try to persuade Trump, who in the first hours after the new strike was nowhere to be seen, besieged as he is by his ties to the millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In truth, both warnings proved exaggerated; the June operation was ultimately filed away by the Pentagon as a military success, though Trump overstated it by claiming it had achieved the “obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capability. That bombing also marked the end of the so-called “12-day war” with Israel and did not trigger a regional cataclysm or a civil war.

That outcome, combined with the January 3 operation to capture the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores — which also failed to unleash instability — has emboldened Trump on the international stage. It has also, in recent days — along with the fear of becoming, like MTG, the target of the leader’s wrath — softened criticism from a segment of the America First camp at the prospect of a new strike against Iran.

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