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China’s research vessels spend disproportionately more time near critical undersea communications cables across the Pacific than vessels from nearly 50 other nations, a new analysis found.

The findings demonstrate a “persistent pattern of activity in locations where undersea data could have significant military value,” according to the October 2026 analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

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The analysis, covering five years ending in December 2025, helps quantify rising alarm among Indo-Pacific nations over Chinese research vessels operating without permission in their waters.

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The CSIS analysis covers more than 200 civilian research ships from 47 nations. It found that — other than those from China — the vessels did not spend much time near subsea cables on the high seas. China’s activity stood out during 2024, in particular, when seven of its vessels ranked above the 80th percentile for time spent near subsea infrastructure.

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I got the first prototype version of the code for the project I'm currently working on. It is an Arduino Sketch, that contains 1k lines, stores every single Value needed as a global Variable and every function reads and writes to these global variables, instead of taking them in as parameters. This code is so bad, that I refuse to even look at it. The effort to take the existing codebase and transform it into something useable is as high as rewriting it from scratch.

When telling my colleague that his code is absolute garbage, he just told me "its not my code, Claude did it". I am constantly pushing towards implementing the project in a proper way, but it has been nothing but fights against people who don't know how to code and who refuse to acknowledge that ignoring any standards of maintainable code does not turn out in the end and it makes sense to rewrite the project sooner than later.

https://web.archive.org/web/20261026211316/https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/

You can also read The problem with the anti systemd attitude.

This is not just hatred towards systemd, it can do things very well, the direction it is going isn't great.

-I'm tired of Zoom's obnoxious yelling about its AI features and general bloatedness.

-I'm trying to reduce how much I use Google/Microsoft stuff, which includes Google Meet and Teams.

-I don't think I've heard about anyone using Skype since approximately 2010, and it's owned by Microsoft now anyway.

-Fuck Meta and all its products.

-I like Facetime the best of everything I've used, but that only works if an Apple user starts the call, and I don't love Apple as a company anymore either.

I'm guessing there are some nice non-bloated apps out there that aren't run by giant tech corporations. So what's your favorite app for video calls?

sorry, flavio...bolsonaros clan won't escape their crimes this time, or...as the cariocas would say: "A mentira tem perna curta" (Lies have short legs)

xkcd #3316: Siege Engine

Title text:

They initially thought the containment structure alone would be sufficient, but for good measure they decided to include the Elephant's Foot inside.

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3316/

explainxkcd for #3316

Die linke Opposition wirft Frankreichs Polizei vor, rechtsextreme Gruppen bei den jüngsten Protesten geschützt zu haben. Innenminister Laurent Nuñez bestreitet das.