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The Dutch government has suspended its intervention at Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands, following talks with China.

The Hague took action in September over "serious governance shortcomings" and concerns over the European supply of semiconductors for cars and other electronic goods. In response, Beijing blocked exports of the firm's chips.

However, on Wednesday the Dutch government said it would halt its original decision following "constructive talks" with Beijing.

China said it welcomed the move, adding it was a "first step in the right direction towards a proper resolution".

 

The recent vote in the UN Security Council on Gaza – with Russia and China pointedly abstaining and the West once again attempting to choreograph the outcome – marked a moment that history may one day identify as a subtle but decisive shift. Not because the resolution itself alters the facts on the ground. It doesn’t. Gaza remains in ruins, Palestinians remain under the boot of an unrestrained occupying power, and Washington still acts as the global custodian of Israeli impunity.

Rather, this vote matters because it revealed something the West has long tried to conceal: that Palestinians no longer accept, and the world no longer believes in, the idea that Gaza is a space to be managed, administered, “stabilised,” or reconstructed by external custodians – feigning benevolence. Not by the United States. Not by Europe. Not by a Trump–Netanyahu blueprint dressed up in humanitarian language. Not even by international institutions that imagine themselves neutral while enabling the status quo.

The era when Great Powers could simply appoint themselves guardians of Palestine, deciding who governs Gaza and how, is culminating. The vote exposed the exhaustion of this imperial pretence. Gaza is not a Protectorate. It is not a failed territory awaiting trusteeship. It is not a strategic sandbox for Western experiments in “post-conflict governance.” Gaza is an occupied land belonging to a people who demand – and are entitled to complete self-rule.

 

The Digital Omnibus needs to be defeated.

 

A major defence partnership signed by the US and Saudi Arabia is expected to fast-track arms sales to the kingdom, of which the F-35 warplane is just one component, current and former US officials told Middle East Eye on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"The conversation has changed from 'we will see' to 'yes, but how and when'," one person familiar with the deal said. The White House announced on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a new Strategic Defence Agreement (SDA).

The details are being hammered out by officials in the US government. A former senior US official familiar with the ongoing process confirmed to MEE that the agreement will put Saudi Arabia far ahead of other Gulf states and US partners in terms of wait times and negotiations for sophisticated US weapons.

"The Saudis have received Trump's go-ahead to get the best in defence technology," the former official said.

 

Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crime

By Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ET

Hamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.

A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.

“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”

 

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[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 6 points 18 hours ago

Nobody knows it's true power

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Oh heh sorry this is what I get for being on Lemmy stoned AF past my bedtime 😅

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I've thought about it, but it's too unreliable, too expensive in the amount of money I'd want to spend on this on API credits and similarly for the capacity I have locally I have far more important local AI work to do atm, and even if I didn't still to unreliable lmao

All my crossposts and posts are artisan human-hands-made

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I have to be actually rather selective read all of it because I have to filter out all the propaganda/misinformation posts as well as to determine proper comm fit

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry about the reply delay, this instance has been...weird on the federation for comments and voting

It's caused by my .ml crossposting activities coupled with posting my natural content that I personally enjoy. Like pretty much anything by me in the !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org comm or the localllama comm

But I also noticed the unique affect it has, in both what I post and the content I digest lol Which honestly fits my personality than most would guess. I'll do other things to break the norms of everyday life, like sometimes when ordering food I ask the order taker to just give me whatever their fav is lmao

Unfortunately, I do also have to be careful, there's one user in particular who tends to post some concerning memes (as in depressing) from time to time and have to skip quite a few sometimes otherwise I'll start getting messages from people asking me if I'm ok lol 😅

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 3 points 2 days ago

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[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 1 points 2 days ago

From a different reply:

  • Shopping for a new home instance

  • Exploring the Threadiverse from different perspectives (the "hot" feed you see can vary quite a bit depending on the instance you're on lol)

  • Learning that the bot intended to better interconnect instance comms may not be doing as good of a job

  • Interconnecting wayward or much smaller instances, a couple of them are missing even the big comms, one I was on the other day I needed to manual have it federate with every comm I posted to

  • For the creation of comms on fitting instances or just among a regular rotation of general instances so I'm not making a whole bunch on any one instance

  • Prevention of a reoccurrence of my imposter problem

Trolling .ml (or Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

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[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 2 points 2 days ago

It's better than credit cards IMO, you have a firm set amount of payments and amounts you need to make on a fim schedule (every 2 weeks) with no interest.

Properly managed, it's a decent way to make big purchases without straining your savings to do it. E.g. you want to make a 600$ purchase and have the money saved for it, but why spend it all when you have a 0 interest way to split that up over time in line with your paychecks? Then you can keep that savings for something truly unexpected

Ofc it's still debt short term or not, so if you're horrible at managing debt it's as bad as any other debt like Credit Cards

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Lol just register for an LLC then sign up for like stripe or something so you can take card then BOOM done. Although you'd be losing a little money each time because transaction fees lol

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