It beeps when it's done.

It beeps when you press the button.

It beeps when you place it on the base.

It beeps no more.

I classify this as a repair.

Denmark has summoned Russia's ambassador after accusing a Russian frigate of firing flares toward a Danish military helicopter in international waters on Monday, narrowly missing the aircraft.

The Fennec military helicopter was on a routine mission to photograph the Russian frigate, Danish military officials said in a statement late Monday. One of the flares — pyrotechnics usually used as a warning signal at sea — passed close to the helicopter.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the incident was serious but not surprising, describing it as part of a pattern in which Russia has intensified its so-called hybrid campaign against the European Union and NATO.

"Russia wants to sow fear and discord. Our answer is to stand closer together and strengthen the defense of Denmark and Europe," Frederiksen said.

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The Danish straits are the main sea route in and out of the Baltic Sea for commercial and military shipping. They are also a major artery for global oil shipments, including from Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of oil tankers used to circumvent Western sanctions.

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Denmark's Defence Intelligence Service said last year that Russian warships had repeatedly sailed on collision courses ⁠with ​Danish vessels, targeted Danish helicopters and ships with tracking radars, ​and pointed weapons at them in the straits, according to Reuters.

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The Federal Reserve is widely expected to lift its short-term interest rate Wednesday for the first time in three years to fight stubbornly high inflation, a move that would put the central bank at odds with Donald Trump’s support for a cut.

An increase in the Fed’s rate, currently about 3.6%, isn’t guaranteed because Fed Chair Kevin Warsh doesn’t provide the signals about next moves that his predecessors did. Still, most analysts and economists expect a hike after a speech two weeks ago at the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in which Warsh argued that the Fed had not yet achieved its goal of putting inflation in check.

A rate hike would throw another sharp shift into a volatile period for the economy and financial markets. As recently as March, the Fed had forecast it would cut its rate once this year. But with the Iran war flaring up again and causing sharp increases in oil and gas prices, inflation is likely to remain higher than the Fed’s 2% target for even longer.

Turkish police on Sunday swooped on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ activists, arresting at least 60 people in raids authorities said were aimed at boosting traditional family values, officials and activists…

I run a price tracker across ~25 EU hardware retailers (pricesquirrel.com). Same 153 GPU models, tracked daily for 90 days straight, no swapping products in or out.

For two months, basically nothing happened: €735 -> €750. Then over about 4 weeks, it jumped to €967, and it's been sitting there ever since, €972 today, three months later.

Everyone's talked about the shortage/price increases, I've read the same posts and articles as everyone else. But watching my own data confirm it, day by day, in real time, still doesn't make it feel any less like the market just decided this is the new price and moved on without asking anyone.

Methodology, since someone will ask: "price" here is each product's average across whichever 3+ retailers carried it that day, not the single cheapest price, not a shifting basket of whatever happened to be in stock. Same 153 SKUs tracked from day 1 to today

Today’s game is some more Halo PvP. I took some friends with me into 8v8 lobbies. We had a friend who’s never played a PvP lobby before and was confident in his skills. We weren’t sure he could but didn’t want to dampen his enthusiasm so we joined him for some matches. Kudos to him, he did pretty good. Nothing crazy but he did well for having only stuck to a private lobby before. It makes me feel a shred of pride, knowing in a way I’m partly responsible for training him to be that good.

Besides that, as always with Halo it was a blast. The round was at a stalemate the entire time and both sides barely kept up with each other to achieve a draw. We nearly got a push at the end but failed to make it in time. The entire game I got to dominate with a sniper too which was awesome.

We switched to 4v4 after that and we were dominating in that one too. We admittedly may have gotten a little too cocky though as we stopped killing the enemy team really and started chasing each other round. Like for example I stopped sniping to run from my friend with the Energy Sword who was chasing me with it. I got a few kills while running but they were less strategically planned and more so “oh shit. There’s an enemy in my way. I better kill them so I don’t get killed”. I feel like that’s what really captures the magic of Halo for me. It doesn’t just come out like a generic shooter. It has a cohesive balance of cool and moments of just fucking around with friends. It’s a blast.

Our last game that’s worth mentioning was fairly quick. I got to dominate with the sniper again in the watch tower and held that position almost all game. Our opponents were fairly skilled but they made the mistake of not watching for grenades.

I suppose our commupance though was due anytime. The next two matches after that we got absolutely destroyed by the enemy and it was as funny as it was frustrating. Still. That’s how public PvP games go I guess. I’d like to get friends together for a private PvP lobby again soon. So hopefully that’s something that will happen.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11324480

Original Bloomberg version behind paywall ...

• Berlin is crafting a sweeping economic-security plan to shield strategic industries from China, targeting cabinet sign-off on Oct. 14 before seeking EU backing.
• Among the ideas on the table are fresh levies targeting hybrid electric cars, mandatory joint ventures, more stringent checks on both inbound and outbound investment, and a tighter export-control regime.
• Beijing has also criticized the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, which would favor European-made products in public procurement and support schemes would create investment barriers and discriminate against Chinese companies.
• The European move comes amid a growing trade deficits with China.
• Some of the potential European measures discussed now mirror Chinese trade and investment policies, e.g., mandatory joint ventures (non-Chinese companies must not found a subsidiary in China as they need a Chinese partner that holds the majority of the venture), and exclusion from public procurement over security issues.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11324859

Denmark has summoned Russia's ambassador after accusing a Russian frigate of firing flares toward a Danish military helicopter in international waters on Monday, narrowly missing the aircraft.

The Fennec military helicopter was on a routine mission to photograph the Russian frigate, Danish military officials said in a statement late Monday. One of the flares — pyrotechnics usually used as a warning signal at sea — passed close to the helicopter.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the incident was serious but not surprising, describing it as part of a pattern in which Russia has intensified its so-called hybrid campaign against the European Union and NATO.

"Russia wants to sow fear and discord. Our answer is to stand closer together and strengthen the defense of Denmark and Europe," Frederiksen said.

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The Danish straits are the main sea route in and out of the Baltic Sea for commercial and military shipping. They are also a major artery for global oil shipments, including from Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of oil tankers used to circumvent Western sanctions.

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Denmark's Defence Intelligence Service said last year that Russian warships had repeatedly sailed on collision courses ⁠with ​Danish vessels, targeted Danish helicopters and ships with tracking radars, ​and pointed weapons at them in the straits, according to Reuters.

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(Not sure if this is the right community this, but I'm gonna ask anyway)

I noticed my huawei 5G router occasionally just disconnects. I went to the logs, and found this entry: WAN connection INTERNET_TR069_VOICE_R_UMTS1:IPv6 disconnected . (and then a bit later this same entry but with connected instead). This lead me to look up TR-069 things, and it seems to be the cause, apparently it lets my ISP manage my router (I guess?), which seems kinda not cool, so will disabling TR-069 cause any issues?

For more context, the router/modem combo 5G thingy I bought myself, and the internet access is from a SIM from a mobile phone 5G plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_-MFbJp_g https://www.youtube.com/@blankface_

I’ve just published my time with the Anbernic RG DS Plus, the bulk of this is the usual review things, but of some note was that I got to chat directly with Anbernic about the device and their take on it: why they revisited the original RG DS, the new NNDDSS emulator and some of the design decisions behind the Plus.

The RG DS Plus itself is Anbernic's second iteration of making a NDS-focused retro handheld. I love this one so much.

I also spoke with the devs behind Cocoon, who are working on bringing Cocoon (a super 3DS-ish front-end/launcher for dual screen handhelds) to the RG DS Plus very soon. Just a bit of a chance to look a little beyond the hardware itself and at what this could mean for dual-screen Linux handhelds going forward, Cocoon for the DS Plus isn't far off now (they're moving from being Android-only to both Android and Linux!)

If you’re interested in the RG DS Plus, DS emulation or where these weird little dual-screen handhelds are heading, you might like this one!