People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor Tao Ling told reporters at a briefing Friday the central bank would provide 300 billion yuan ($42.25 billion) to financial institutions to lend to local state-owned enterprises (SOEs) so they can buy unsold apartments that have already been built.
The bankers are bailing out the real estate companies. I’m not clear on why anyone is praising this as some socialist paradise behavior, it’s not like the SOEs are going to turn around and give the housing to the people for free. This is exactly the same kind of behavior as happens in Western/capitalist nations, where the government pushes the banks to extend loans to major companies that are struggling financially.
The government’s purchase of housing inventory can inject more liquidity to developers, who could then have more resources for housing delivery,” Larry Hu, chief economist at Macquarie, told CNBC.
“inject more liquidity to developers” e.g. transfer of government (social) wealth to property owners. Privatize the gains and socialize the losses.
“Finally the government stepped in as the buyer of the last resort.”
Because the property prices are too high for average people to afford, and more than the properties are actually worth.
What I love most about this scene is that it represented anarchists fairly decently. Yes they’re a bit silly but so is the whole film. However they didn’t equate them with random chaos or Anomie....
Well, yes, but the skit is also making fun of the anarchists. When Denis tries to explain their overcomplicated beureacracy, the point is that their commune is functionally broken and incapable of accomplishing anything as a community, which is why they live their lives digging in the mud.
A colonial-era statue honouring a former Australian premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man has been toppled by vandals ahead of its planned removal....
“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town, and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.”
Start with self-love friends, and then extend that love to the people closest to you.
I don’t think it’s difficult, but I do think it’s tedious because you have to go back and forth through the same area multiple times. Progressing through it feels more like a chore than an adventure.
The CEO also claims that users’ Signal messages have popped up in court cases or in the media, and implies that this has happened because the app’s encryption isn’t completely secure. However, Durov cites “important people I’ve spoken to” and doesn’t mention any specific instance of this happening.
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The Register could not find public reports of Signal messages leaking due to faulty encryption.
Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Durov’s entire criticism seems to be based on implications and have no actual evidence of any technical problems with Signal. He’s basically just throwing shade at a competing business, which amounts to whining.
Started my first job, it’s a helpdesk. It looks that I get tickets and try to help people on the other side, have build some PCs and am at first week....
Like it or not, commercial computing is primarily Microsoft environments. Businesses are moving to Azure/O365, but there’s still a lot of on-prem AD out there, and a lot of businesses that are stuck in between with some form of hybrid hodge-podge. It’s definitely more difficult to do admin tasks for individual Windows endpoints vs. Linux, but on the other hand there is no FOSS equivalent for AD forest management. In a corporate environment, the ability to manage large numbers of endpoints at scale is more important.
If you have to manage Windows systems you should learn about Windows-native tools, rather than trying to drag the Linux-native tools you’re used to onto Windows just for the sake of familiarity.
That said, installing (and updating) software on Windows is absolutely a pain compared to the relative simplicity of a Linux package manager and I’m 100% with you on that. I highly recommend chocolatey, which attempts to work as a package manager for Windows. All of the software that you install with chocolatey can be updated with a single command, similar to running updates in a package manager on Linux. If you can implement this on the Windows systems that you have to manage, it will make things easier.
Regulators said Tolstedt and the bank’s former CEO, John Stumpf, bragged to investors about the scale of the community bank’s open accounts, despite the fact that millions of accounts were fabricated by employees trying to meet unrealistic sales goals set by management.
If it were up to me there would be a government office specifically to audit businesses in such cases. When a court deems it necessary, a team of auditors would be attached to a company and have access to all of their financial records, for the express purpose of determining how much of their revenue was gained through the illegal activity. The company would be responsible for paying all of the expenses of the audit team for as long as the audit takes (if the company drags their feet in giving access to records, it costs them).
For the same time period, a government representative would be given a seat on the company executive board and be privy to all board meetings. As long as the company is under audit they are also under operational observation.
At the conclusion of the audit, all revenue determined to proceed from the illegal activity is forfeit, and a fine is issued for each violation.
Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off...
But whether a few hours or a few days, eventually I start having issues with the displays. Monitors will black out. Not boot. Eventually the whole system just stops working in a way that I can figure out.
This sounds more like a hardware issue than software. Can you provide more detail? Have you done basic troubleshooting steps like trying different power cords and surge protector/power strip? What is the full list of hardware for your system? Have you reseated the RAM? Replaced the CMOS battery? (a dead CMOS battery will prevent system boot)
Huh… and that’s repeatable? How long could you go on Linux before the blackouts, and did you run on Windows for a similar amount of time with no issues? also, when the blackout happens does it recover after a little time, or do you have to reboot to get video back? (is it just a screen blackout, or has the system crashed?) When the screen is black, can you reboot with busier backwards?
One issue that I’ve had on Linux installs is that the system doesn’t recover properly from hibernate. I’ve seen this on laptops and desktops over more than a decade. When this happens the screen goes black and the system doesn’t respond to any keyboard or mouse input, the only way to recover is to force a reboot. Maybe check your power management profile and disable hibernation.
Otherwise there are a lot of reasons that the screen might black out:
power issues - what is your PSU model? Linux installs are frequently not as power efficient as Windows on the same hardware, generally because Windows does a lot more throttling by default.
overheating - Windows (and the Windows hardware drivers) might be configured to throttle the CPU and/or GPU to manage the temperature automatically without telling you, while Linux might be giving you the full unthrottled system power and overheating.
video drivers & multimonitor - as others have said already, this could be an issue with the Linux video drivers. You should verify which driver you’re using as EccTM@lemmy.ml said. Are all your monitors the same resolution? I’ve definitely had trouble with mulitple monitors if they were mismatched.
bad CPU core - this one’s a long shot, but Windows tends to be a lot more single-threaded while Linux is more likely to try to balance operations across all CPU cores. Maybe one of your cores has an issue, and when Linux tries to use it it triggers a system crash, while Windows just never gets around to using that particular core for anything critical (and so never triggers the crash).
SSD/swap file issue - most Linux distros will configure a swap partition on the root hard drive by default, which is used as an extension of the RAM. Windows doesn’t use a swap file. You have plenty of RAM so there’s not really a need for it, so you should try just disabling swap.
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
It’s “the enemy” on Fox News, but I don’t think it’s fair to characterize the entire US this way. There are so many safety warning labels on all kinds of products, and a lot of quality enforcement. With government organizations like the FDA, EPA, FCC, OSHA and NIST, and even non-government groups like UL, the US is actually a world leader in safety standards. Many of those organizations are the model that other countries emulate.
This comment doesn’t make any sense. The organizations I’m talking about are US institutions - they set policy in the US. They don’t have power to make other nations emulate the way they work. That emulation happens because they are good models to follow.
US Army Stryker with a 50-kilowatt laser air defense prototype (lemmy.world)
China pledges $42 billion in a slew of measures to support the struggling property sector (www.cnbc.com)
These and other measures announced Friday marked Beijing’s latest efforts to address issues in the massive real estate sector....
Handy baseball guide (lemmy.world)
Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event (youtu.be)
I guess you already knew since your phone is working.
Star Trek Technobabble - YouTube (youtube.com)
Really enjoyed this one.
RealVNC is dropping its “Home” plan and barely noting its free “Lite” option (arstechnica.com)
Some pretty dark patterns make free version of remote desktop tool hard to find.
Best Monty Python skit (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What I love most about this scene is that it represented anarchists fairly decently. Yes they’re a bit silly but so is the whole film. However they didn’t equate them with random chaos or Anomie....
William Crowther: Vandals topple Australian colonial-era statue (www.bbc.com)
A colonial-era statue honouring a former Australian premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man has been toppled by vandals ahead of its planned removal....
How I Defeated Fascism With the Power of Love (media.hachyderm.io)
source: unknown
Moldova defies Russia with EU security pact (www.ft.com)
In case of paywall: archive.ph/C3um4
Sometimes life is like... The Water Temple (lemmy.world)
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)
How being FOSS fan/advocate annoy you at work/school?
Started my first job, it’s a helpdesk. It looks that I get tickets and try to help people on the other side, have build some PCs and am at first week....
you give what you give (lemmy.sdf.org)
Break all the rules (substackcdn.com)
Source
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be privileged and safe (lemmy.world)
Little help here linux guys? Trying to figure out what distro to use
Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off...
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
China's sweeping new e-bike battery rules could have a major impact in US (electrek.co)