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China has taken steps to restrict local companies from investing in the US, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that could give Beijing more leverage for potential trade negotiations with the Trump administration.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250402135836/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/china-restricts-companies-from-investing-in-us-as-tensions-rise

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This used to work but this weekend I noticed it was no longer working.

I subscribe to a streaming service outside my country, it's in south america. I used to turn on the VPN on my desktop (EndeavourOS), connect to a country in south america, do the same on the TV and I'd Chromecast the video. No problems, excelent quality, worked great.

This no longer works. When the TV is connected to ProtonVPN, it doesn't show in chromecast devices list. As soon as I disconnect it, it shows up.

Things I tried:

• Updating the ProtonVPN app on both TV and desktop
• Updating the TV firmware
• Changed from Wireguard to OpenVPN
• Enabled split tunneling on the TV and whitelisted chromecast
• Connecting to the exact same server
• Several countries
• My android phone can find the TV but nothing happens when I select it
• Toggled settings such as Moderate NAT, IPV6 and Port forwarding, nothing works.

Chromecasting works fine if I disconnect the VPN on the TV but I can't watch the streaming service. Any ideas? Thanks.

NASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) was carried aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, whose mission ended on March 16.

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I discovered GoboLinux not long ago and was disappointed to see it was no longer being maintained. It's exciting to see some folks are picking it back up again.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25573398

Congratulations, Wisconsin!

Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was too early to think about doing so.

Trump, who took office on January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has made vague allusions to seeking a third one but addressed it directly on Sunday in a telephone interview with NBC News.

"No, I'm not joking. I’m not joking," Trump said, but "it is far too early to think about it."

"There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know," he said. He declined to elaborate on any specific methods.

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Dr. Brad Hafford shares his thoughts about modern and pencil-and-paper methods of recording archaeological data.

"Red" - Jesse Welles

[Verse 1]

I got me a red house and a red car

Runs on big red batteries

It used to be blue 15 minutes ago

But it turned red just for me

I got me a red horse, and I ride it

I got some blue friends, they're the best

We used to fly around the world on a big jet plane

They called the Lolita Express

[Verse 2]

I got me a red tie, and it's 10 feet long

And it matches my red hat

I got me a red bird, and a red fish

A red dog and a red cat

And I got me a red pen, and I use it

I got a big red chainsaw too

My red friend likes that white powder

It makes his arms do weird salutes

[Chorus 1]

When the war gets here, we're all gonna hold hands

All the Baptists and the Catholics

All the Marxists and the Fascists

When the war gets here, we're going get on the level

Everyone looks a little bit nicer

When you finally meet the devil

Nairobi – At one of the police stations in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, families are seated on an old wooden bench, awaiting their turn with the officer on duty. Some of them are holding fading photographs of their lost sisters and daughters. They look tired and sad, with some holding back their tears. This is a familiar scene in Kenya, where a woman is killed every two days by a husband, a relative, or a stranger, and justice is but a distant dream.

According to Femicide Count Kenya, 160 women were murdered in 2024.In the month of January 2024 alone,39 cases were reported, which meant an average of one woman was killed every day. However, human rights groups believe that the number could be much higher, as many death cases go unreported or misclassified.

For Irene Wanja, these figures are not just statistics. They are a painful reality. Her 25-year-old daughter Jane was killed under mysterious circumstances, and her body dumped in a river. Jane was full of life, her chocolate complexion, funny smile, goofy at times, and dreamt of becoming a nurse. Now, her future has been reduced to a police file collecting dust.

“She was murdered in cold blood. I have never been able to recover,” Wanja says, gripping a worn out picture of her daughter. “No arrests have been made. How many more mothers have to mourn their daughters before something changes?”

Kenya has existing laws meant to protect women. The sexual offenses and the Protection Against Domestic Violence Act, but the implementation is weak. The lack of forensics resources, underfunded gender-based violence units and corruption play a huge role.

Beatrice Njeri, a lawyer who represents victims’ families, has seen it all. “Sometimes suspects walk free because of ‘insufficient evidence,’” she says. “The police don’t prioritise these cases. They tell grieving families to be patient, but justice delayed is justice denied.”

In most cases victims’ families face another hurdle, notably the cost of legal representation. They cannot afford lawyers, and public prosecutors often juggle too many cases to focus on individual victims.

Survivors of gender-based violence are frequently pressured into silence, either by family members who fear societal backlash by abusers who threaten them to keep silent.

With the legal system failing them, Kenyan women are turning to grassroots organizations for protection. One such refuge is run by Wangu Kanja, a survivor of sexual and physical violence. Her foundation offers emergency shelter, and counseling to survivors.

The shelter is hidden in a quiet Nairobi neighborhood, its location, a secret for the safety of the women it protects. Inside, bunk beds line the walls, offering temporary refuge to those who have nowhere else to go. Volunteers work tirelessly, providing food, medical aid, and emotional support.

“We receive distress calls every day,” Kanja says. “But we don’t have enough resources to help everyone. Women at risk should have a government funded safe haven, but that doesn’t exist in Kenya.” Some women, she adds, have no choice but to return to their abusers.

Compared to it neighbors, Kenya has the highest rate of femicide cases in the region at 160 deaths in 2024. In 2023, Uganda reported 127 femicide cases, while Tanzania recorded 102.

Human rights groups caution that the lower numbers in these countries do not necessarily indicate better safety for women.

In Uganda, many cases go unreported, especially in rural areas where community-based resolution often discourages legal action. In Tanzania, cultural norms sometimes lead to murders being labeled as "domestic disputes" rather than crimes, further skewing the statistics.

“In Uganda and Tanzania, community-based dispute resolution still plays a role,” says Njeri. “In Kenya, victims often rely solely on the police, who don’t always act.”. In Nairobi’s informal settlements, domestic violence rates are particularly high, with limited access to resources for survivors.

For Wanja, justice is an arrest. “I want to see my daughter’s killer behind bars,” she says.

For Njeri, it’s about reform. “We need forensic labs, specialized gender-based violence courts, and police training.”

For Kanja, it’s about safety. “Justice means no woman has to live in fear.”

Yet, for many Kenyan women, justice remains a distant hope.

For those unfamiliar, DockGE is "A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager."

Similar to portainer

Warning

Breaking change: Due to the security reason, the "Console" feature is now disabled by default. If you need this feature and understand the risk, you can enable it via the environment variable DOCKGE_ENABLE_CONSOLE=true.

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The Department of Education announced Monday it's investigating 60 colleges and universities over allegations of antisemitic harassment and discrimination.

MBFC

Download: 20h

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It starts with a drink. It ends with a robot army, a galactic war, and Fry making out with an alien dolphin.

This isn’t just an episode—it’s an escalation. The kind of chaos you don’t notice until the rewatch hits harder.

Futurama doesn’t do filler. Even its absurd arcs reflect something about us: • War culture. • Escapism. • Romantic confusion. • Power spirals. • And of course, Bender leading a revolution in a crown made of scrap.

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