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Newsman or businessman? Murdoch walks tightrope in battle with Trump

Rupert Murdoch had made up his mind. “We want to make Trump a nonperson,” he assured one of his former executives in a 2021 email, two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

Over seven decades, Murdoch has sought to charm, challenge and change prime ministers and presidents as he built one of the world’s most powerful media empires. In this particular endeavor, however, he failed.

Donald Trump, far from being made a nonperson, became the first defeated US president in 132 years to win back the White House. And from the Club World Cup final to the Oval Office, Murdoch has been seen by his side.

As the Wall Street Journal prepared to report that Trump provided a bawdy birthday letter to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last week, the president appealed to Murdoch – chair emeritus of News Corporation, the newspaper’s owner – to kill the story, claiming it was false. The story ran.

But the story did not receive the same treatment across Murdoch’s empire. The Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham went on air 15 minutes after the Journal published its story, and talked about Epstein. “We have new news coming on about this, as well, from the Wall Street Journal. A new report tonight – next,” she said, throwing to a commercial break. When The Ingraham Angle returned, the new news did not feature.

Newsman or businessman? Murdoch walks tightrope in battle with Trump

Longstanding relationship between media mogul and US president is being tested amid Trump’s lawsuit against the WSJ for a story about his ties to Epstein

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geneva_convenience via Manufacturing Consent

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Never correct Netanyahu.

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Franscesca Albanese calls out EU leaders for their complicity in genocide

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Law is ready for AI, but is AI ready for law?

Legal AI is full of talk about 'explainability', but most of it is smoke and mirrors. If these systems are to be useful in law, they need more than plausible stories; they need legally sound reasoning and real-world rigour.

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“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-ai-action-plan-speech/

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He sure is 'getting rid of woke'. I've never seen a more ignorant man.

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The US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work.

To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived in Washington to fast-track new life-saving drugs to market, streamline work at the vast, multibillion-dollar health agencies, and be a key assistant in the quest to slash wasteful government spending without jeopardizing their work.
“The AI revolution has arrived,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared at congressional hearings in the past few months.
“We are using this technology already at HHS to manage health care data, perfectly securely, and to increase the speed of drug approvals,” he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in June. The enthusiasm — among some, at least — was palpable.
Weeks earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration, the division of HHS that oversees vast portions of the American pharmaceutical and food system, had unveiled Elsa, an artificial intelligence tool intended to dramatically speed up drug and medical device approvals.
Yet behind the scenes, the agency’s slick AI project has been greeted with a shrug — or outright alarm.
Six current and former FDA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal work told CNN that Elsa can be useful for generating meeting notes and summaries, or email and communique templates.
But it has also made up nonexistent studies, known as AI “hallucinating,” or misrepresented research, according to three current FDA employees and documents seen by CNN. This makes it unreliable for their most critical work, the employees said.
“Anything that you don’t have time to double-check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently,” said one employee — a far cry from what has been publicly promised.
“AI is supposed to save our time, but I guarantee you that I waste a lot of extra time just due to the heightened vigilance that I have to have” to check for fake or misrepresented studies, a second FDA employee said.
Currently, Elsa cannot help with review work , the lengthy assessment agency scientists undertake to determine whether drugs and devices are safe and effective, two FDA staffers said. That’s because it cannot access many relevant documents, like industry submissions, to answer basic questions such as how many times a company may have filed for FDA approval, their related products on the market or other company-specific information.
All this raises serious questions about the integrity of a tool that FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary has boasted will transform the system for approving drugs and medical devices in the US, at a time when there is almost no federal oversight for assessing the use of AI in medicine.
“The agency is already using Elsa to accelerate clinical protocol reviews, shorten the time needed for scientific evaluations, and identify high-priority inspection targets,” the FDA said in a statement on its launch in June.
But speaking to CNN at the FDA’s White Oak headquarters this week, Makary says that right now, most of the agency’s scientists are using Elsa for its “organization abilities” like finding studies and summarizing meetings.
The FDA’s head of AI, Jeremy Walsh, admitted that Elsa can hallucinate nonexistent studies.
“Elsa is no different from lots of [large language models] and generative AI,” he told CNN. “They could potentially hallucinate.”
Walsh also said Elsa’s shortcomings with responding to questions about industry information should change soon, as the FDA updates the program in the coming weeks to let users upload documents to their own libraries.
Asked about mistakes Elsa is making , Makary noted that staff are not required to use the AI.
“I have not heard those specific concerns, but it’s optional,” he said. “They don’t have to use Elsa if they don’t find it to have value.”
Challenged on how this makes the efficiency gains he has publicly touted when staff inside FDA have told CNN they must double-check its work, he said: “You have to determine what is reliable information that [you] can make major decisions based on, and I think we do a great job of that.”

FDA Launches Agency-Wide AI Tool to Optimize Performance for the American People

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today launched Elsa, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool designed to help employees—from scientific reviewers to investigators—work more efficiently.

^{Office of the Commissioner (FDA)}

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Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions

Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians

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This has actually been done for quite a long time. Roman historians could look up common words in databases from partial words and get a pretty good guess at the overall inscription from context.

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The most Microsoft support document of all time – OSnews

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chronicledmonocle

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This kind of random shit with Microsoft just blows my mind.

Google is just as bad. Look at their messaging apps. Is it Duo? No that name died and was merged into Google Meet. However, old Google Meet is....uh....Google Meet Classic? I think? And then there is/was Google Voice, Allo, Google Talk.......

And people wonder why I just use and donate to apps like Signal.

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Alphane Moon

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Google and messaging app is whole story on its own.

Although MS isn't that great with messaging either. There was MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, various Skype services and finally MS Teams.

And feels like all of them were bloated and badly made.

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Not to forget Teams (new)

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chronicledmonocle

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You can just remove the "feels like" part. They were bloated and badly made.

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Tesla (TSLA) releases Q2 2025 financing results: revenue down %12, operating income down %42

Tesla (TSLA) releases Q2 2025 financing results: earnings down 23%

Tesla (TSLA) released its financial results and shareholders’ letter for the second quarter (Q2) 2025 after market close today. We...

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I gave up trying to buy Tesla puts. Their valuation perpetually defies all logic. Even after this news their stock is still higher than it was a month ago.

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You can't short a cult.

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is there any way to put my extra memory to use to play av1 files if my cpu overloads? Debian 12.11

debian 12.11

system memory size: 31GiB, 2 15.5 GiB cards

cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz, version: 6.142.9, size: 3268MHz, capacity: 3500MHz, width: 64 bits

no graphics card whatsoever

computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.

Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.

Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?

#linux

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cmnybo

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The video playback should get choppy if the CPU is overloaded, the PC shouldn't shut down from that. It sounds like your CPU may be overheating. I would suggest monitoring the CPU temperature while playing the video.

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entropicdrift

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Based on the "U" at the end of the CPU model name, I'm guessing this is a laptop. OP, your CPU probably needs a re-paste because it's got a decade old CPU and the laptop fan is inadequate. That's why it's shutting down.

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vithigar

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As the other person said, something is wrong if your machine is shutting down instead of just giving choppy playback.

Do you do much heavy CPU with with that machine at all? It's possible that AV1 decoding is the only thing you're trying to do that pushes the CPU to that degree. 7th Gen Intel CPUs have hardware decoders for h.265, so the CPU is barely used to play these back, but lacking a decoder for AV1 means it has to be decoded in software, which hits the CPU hard.

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Max-P

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Aside from the other answers, no you can't offload computations to memory. Memory stores data, it doesn't compute.

The only way having more memory can possibly improve performance, is by having a cached copy of files so they don't have to be fetched from disk, and applications potentially caching the results of heavy but reusable computations. (Unless you run out of memory and starts spilling over to disk, then more memory will make it fast again by avoiding swapping).

I mean I guess technically yes you could transcode into H264 into a tmpfs mount, and then play the H264, but you're still not doing it faster and certainly not fast enough to watch in real time, you're just decoding the AV1 well in advance before actually watching it.

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For HEVC and AVC playback, your built-in GPU is used. Kaby lake doesn't support AV1 hardware decoding so it's hitting your CPU directly.

The shutdown could be a number of problems

Do you have high memory usage while playing AV1 videos?
Does the video start playing and then crash your system or is it an immediate crash?
Do you have swap space assigned and how much? Check with free -h
Are you having thermal issues? Do the fans kick in like crazy before shutdown or can you see very high temperatures with sensors?

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Modern CPUs (from like the last 20 years) will throttle down a lot before they actually shut down. Unless your cooling is completely inadequate or somehow broken, shutdowns because high load just dont happen. I suspect there is something fundamentally wrong with your hardware.

A problem with cooling could also go some way to explaining your performance problems – but it could also just be that your system just doesn't have the computing power to do what you want it to. The computing demands from video decoding go up dramatically when you go beyond 1080p. If I recall correctly, the Intel Core CPUs with the "U" at the end were the low-energy models (for longer battery life); of course that comes with compromises on the performance side.

The CPU model suggests that this is a laptop, and a fairly old one at that. I would look for things like blocked air ducts or broken fans if I were you. It's also possible that the thermal compound between your CPU and the CPU cooler has dried out and needs replacing (although laptops of that power class should be using thermal contact solutions that do not dry out), or that contact has lessened for other reasons. Again, if your computer seriously powers down because of load, it's borderline broken and in need of maintenance.

As for your other question, no RAM cannot help with that. It can hurt if you have too little of it, but once you have enough, the best it can do is not be a bottleneck.

* Edit: Also, make sure you are not setting down the laptop on anything soft, like a blanket, when using it. It will sink in and have its air intakes blocked if you do that.

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no graphics card whatsoever
computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.
Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.
Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?

Most of the answers seem to focus on the main problem, but your question got me thinking.
Since you are not getting shutdowns with lower qualities, maybe you could use RAM to play those videos.
Set up tmpfs. Before you start all the other things, use ffmpeg to recode the video to something without any compression, maybe tell it to not work too fast (like work on one frame at a time), and put the thing on that tmpfs. Maybe then playing this new file would be less demanding. The key would be to not force it to provide 30fps of encoded video

Although... Are you sure all this RAM is fine? Maybe it shuts down on more demanding videos because with those the RAM usage raises to the faulty part?

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waigl

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Saying RAM can help because you can reencode the video to h.264 or h.265 to make use of hardware decoding is more than a bit of a stretch. You can just reencode it to the normal disk instead. Unless it's the speed of the local block device that's the bottleneck here (and there's no indication that it is, and it would be extremely unlikely), using a ramdisk/tmpfs for any part of that is just pointless.

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INeedMana

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Yes, but that was in the OP. Maybe normal disk is not feasible for some reason

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It sounds like you are also possibly overheating. You don’t have hardware decoding for av1 on that computer so it’s all cpu work. But from my extensive use and testing with AV1 there is nothing about your hardware that should fail to play back 1080p 30fps av1 video.

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data1701d (He/Him)

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As others have said, you should probably replace your CPU fan ASAP.

A computer in usable condition does not shut down without user input.

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I had an i5-7200u equipped laptop and I could do AV1 playback, not well but it didn't do what you described.

Also is it maxing out memory or cpu? I would check btop during playback. Look at CPU usage, memory usage and temps while doing so and report here.

Edit: Something is definitely wrong with your machine, that is abnormal behavior. Maybe it's overheating, maybe it's trying to do some sort of gpu decode and has no idea what to do with it as it doesn't support it. Can you check what encoder mpv is using? I would assume it would failback to CPU.

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China's private sector gained ground again among country's top corporations in first half of 2025

https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2025/chinas-private-sector-gained-ground-again-among-countrys-top-corporations

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Microsoft silently installs Power Automate Chrome extension during Windows update—no prompt, no permission

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1m7lpnz/microsoft_silently_installs_power_automate_chrome/

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FUCK THIS IS THE WORST

MY DEVICE IS SET TO SPANISH. THERE IS NO WORLD WHERE I WANT TO LISTEN TO A SPANISH LANGUAGE VIDEO IN ENGLISH WITH A SHITTY AI VOICE

Like I'm cool with the option. I'm even cool with it turning on by default according to your account settings.

BUT WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK CAN IT NOT BE TURNED OFF????

The first time it happened I assumed I could just go to the audio track settings because some creators put in multiple tracks with different languages. BUT IT'S NOT THERE.

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Constant Pain

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I could disabled it easily.

My beef is with the caption always turned on videos when I watch on my phone (Android). Every time I have to disable it manually.

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Cosa succede tra Thailandia e Cambogia?

Storie, radici e attualità del conflitto tra Thailandia e Cambogia: cause profonde, impatti reali e il delicato equilibrio che regge la frontiera.

Cosa succede tra Thailandia e Cambogia? Le cause del conflitto

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Cosa cambia con il DDL Conti Correnti?

Nuove regole sui conti correnti: più trasparenza, portabilità facilitata, costi chiari e sicurezza rafforzata per tutti i clienti delle banche italiane.

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Femi Kuti - No Place For My Dream (2013)

Figlio del famoso musicista nigeriano Fela Kuti, in venticinque anni di produzione discografica Femi non ha mai tradito la rivoluzione afrobeat, un'identità culturale che resta viva nonostante la realtà sottostante abbia perso quei connotati di urgenza e rabbia che infiammò la stagione d’oro della musica africana... Leggi e ascolta...

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Figlio del famoso musicista nigeriano Fela Kuti, in venticinque anni di produzione discografica Femi non ha mai tradito la rivoluzione afrobeat, un'identità culturale che resta viva nonostante la realtà sottostante abbia perso quei connotati di urgenza e rabbia che infiammò la stagione d’oro della musica africana. Polistrumentista abile sia con i fiati che con le tastiere, Femi si è dimostrato acuto nel contaminare gli elementi base dell’orchestra Egypt 80 con tracce di Motown sound e elementi dance, mentre il fingerpicking ossessivo delle chitarre, i fiati in coppia e gli incessanti fluidi ritmici di basso e percussioni si sono incontrati con suoni latini e world che hanno ampliato la capacità comunicativa della sua proposta... ondarock.it/recensioni/2013_fe…
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Storia e disinformazione. I miti fondativi

Quella che oggi definiamo disinformazione è stata presente fin dai tempi antichi, talvolta celata dietro il velo della mitologia e della leggenda.

Gli albori delle civiltà, spesso, affondano le proprie radici in racconti di fantasia, dichiaratamente falsi o privi di solide basi storiche. E se consideriamo che le società attuali conservano caratteristiche di quelle civiltà che sono sopravvissute ai millenni (si pensi a cosa rappresenta il diritto romano per il diritto moderno, ad esempio) si può dire che a livello culturale la narrazione sull’origine delle nostre stesse società e di molti loro tratti essenziali potrebbe derivare da millenarie e mirabili menzogne.

Roma ha segnato a fondo il diritto europeo

Quando si pensa all’eredità romana in Svizzera e nel resto dell’Europa occidentale, la mente va spesso ai grandi monumenti, agli anfiteatri o agli acquedotti. Nei paesi di lingua neolatina, la stessa lingua ricorda l’influsso romano.

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A ticketing board

Could this join the fediverse?

GitHub - mattermost-community/focalboard: Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. - mattermost-community/focalboard

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How would you see it work? IMO such boards are mostly for personal/organisation use, not a social space

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suoko

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And why not join it with your fediverse account just like you can access Trello with your GAMMA* account?

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INeedMana

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Ah, you mean for fediverse to work as an LDAP?

My point is
Let's imagine we have a board on some instance. You use your account on another instance to ask the owner of the board to give you access to the board.
The contents of the board are, IMO in most cases of such boards, "members only". So any changes happening inside should not be sent out to federating instances. Otherwise, privacy of such boards would be at the mercy of privacy of other instances. If restricted changes were sent out, technically speaking, any server it federates to can choose to show that content to everyone.
Which means you won't be able to access the contents via any other instance. Apart from the logging in part, you will still need to go to the instance hosting the board.
Unless it would be for publicly accessible boards only, like codeberg issues. That use-case could work

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it's probably gone

It seems like my Monotype free trial probably expired when I tried to create a new account. Now, I can't find the "Start Free Trial" button.

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What are you wanting? Is this software? How does an open source program not work for you?

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No, it's enterprise.monotype.com

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Are you trying to get a specific font? Usually, there's alternatives available.

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tbh the only font you ever need ever is comic shanns mono

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This site is very good: fontesk.com/

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I mean, the post I just sent earlier.

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I mean, the post I just sent earlier.

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Free online tool hub – from text utilities to SEO tools, no sign-up, no ads, works instantly ⚡

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You stumbled across this site? Wow, what an odd coincidence! It seems exactly like this other site that you said you made here:

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I've been working on a small project called Shatoolshub –
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Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US

The proposed update to Switzerland’s Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF: Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs) represents a significant expansion of state surveillance powers, worse than the surveillance powers of the USA. If enacted, it would have serious consequences for encrypted services such as Threema, an encrypted WhatsApp alternative and Proton Mail as well as VPN providers based in Switzerland.

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Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.

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rottingleaf

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No fucking way, but mah direct democracy ...

So. Switzerland doesn't really have fully direct democracy in the necessary sense. It's still an old nation-state with laws made in the olden day when you had to compromise. There are many cases where the "direct" part is optional and requires interested people to assemble signatures yadda-yadda. Not good enough to counter a campaign for legal change with a goal. That aside, its system encourages it to have politicians as a thing. Which means that for some issues it will always drift shitward.

It also has separation of 3 kinds of government by degree of locality, but not separation of the "an entity ensuring food safety can't regulate telecommunications" or "an entity regulating police labor safety can't regulate riot police acceptable action" kinds.

(Which is why I usually refer to my preference for a kind of "direct democracy" as a revised one-level Soviet system with mandatory rotation, plenty of places and sortition to state worker roles, despite that not having very good connotations.)

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ruuster13

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Democracy is an infant still learning to walk. You plug the holes and add new institutions for oversight. You don't shoot the damn baby and start over because you know how you'd force everyone to do it.

Kowloon wasn't built in a day.

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rottingleaf

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Democracy is an infant still learning to walk.

Bullshit. It's older than gunpowder.

And this argument has been used for every political system in history. Even in USSR in materials approved by censors it was normal to joke about it.

You plug the holes and add new institutions for oversight.

Why don't you do that with real-life mechanisms? A moving part of a machine has corroded enough to have a hole unintended by design. Go on, plug it. Oh, it's better to replace the part.

That aside, I think you've missed my specific arguments, not providing any of your own. Those things about participation as wide as possible and rotation. This means that there should be as many political roles as possible (of a delegate or of a secretary or of anyone), often rotated, with the same person not being able to hold the same or similar post for longer than N months, and with sortition based on some pseudo-random mechanism (pseudo-random to be able to check the results for fraud). To reduce the power of any single delegate or bureaucrat and to make lobbying, bribing and blackmailing them harder. To simultaneously make the population more politically literate - by almost every citizen, ideally, participating in some kind of daily decision-making work. Not voting once a year (at best) from among choices given to them by someone else.

That's what con artists do - provide the victim with an illusion of choice.

You don’t shoot the damn baby and start over because you know how you’d force everyone to do it.

That's exactly what you do. One consistent system does one thing by design. Another consistent system does another thing by design. Something in-between organically evolved does neither. Evolution is the survival of the fittest - fittest for survival. So an organically evolved system is approximating the optimum of power. The status quo.

What it does not approximate over time is any idea of public good. That would be nuts - so, metaphorically, you've built a wooden bridge, do you think it'll become more or less reliable over time under snow and rain and sun? Is a 100 years old bridge better than a bridge just built and tested?

And the optimum of power is formed by the existing system among other things.

Which means that it becomes more and more static and degenerate.

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RubberElectrons

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Con artists are also known for seeding bits of truth in with their turgid morass.

There are parts of your monologue I'd agree with, but I suspect what your ultimate intent is.

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MonkderVierte

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Bullshit. It's older than gunpowder.

Compared to how long humanity lived in absolutistic systems (dawn of civilization).

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AliSaket

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This is not law yet. The Federal Council (the executive) has started a consultation process at the beginning of the year which ended in May. They are now looking at all the feedback that came in, that was - unsurprisingly - exclusively negative from all sides. If the responsible minister wants to go ahead with it, it goes to the Federal Council for a vote. If they approve it, this would be a decree to change an existing decree and that would come into effect next year or the year after.

And this is where direct democracy comes in: If this is the case anyone can start getting signatures for a public initiative which would change the constitution to prohibit such practices. In fact anyone can start doing that now. If it succeeds, then it'll come to a popular vote. Threema (a secure chat provider) has already announced that they would do that and I'm sure that they wouldn't be the only ones to band together in this.

The process might take long, but this is in no way "not good enough to counter a campaign for legal change with a goal" and in fact has happened multiple times in the past. Hence why Switzerland has a direct vote on issues every few months because of something called "Referendum", whereby a popular vote can be forced on an issue passing through parliament. I might have my criticisms of the political system, but this ain't it.

its system encourages it to have politicians as a thing

Well yes, there is some level of representation, so over 8 million people don't have to decide every little detail on 1000s of changes of law. The system is built upon a "milita" system. I.e. politicians usually have a job. So people have the possibility to vote in experts or their vicinity and know that they won't solely be career politicians. Unfortunately the laws around financing and propaganda are rather lax, giving an advantage to the rich, which leads to an over-representation of the capitalist class with occupations such as lawyers and business-owners and a clear under-representation of classical working-class jobs such as craftspeople or office workers. This is amendable though to correct the mismatch, if people realize their class interest and don't fall for the same right-wing propaganda of a party whose playbook has been inspired by the US GOP for decades and who is inspiring Germany's AfD now.

The main downside of the system imo has to do with people with no knowledge on an issue having to weigh in on them and therefore how powerful propaganda campaigns can be, which means that money buys power, as in every other existing so-called democracy - direct or not. Especially with how money shifts power away from the populace, this is inherent to capitalistic systems and it would be on the populace to protect itself from it. With enough propaganda though, people keep voting for more power of capital unbeknownst to them or not, just as they might vote against their interests on other things. The fact that you have to convince so many people, who hopefully do have some degree of education, makes it a lot harder though, for big capitalists to reach their goals, compared to less direct systems. And I know of several examples, how such a vote did not go in favor of big capital. What usually makes the difference is whether they succeed in portraying their advantage as the advantage of all.

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rottingleaf

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Yeah, so the difference in what I'd like from what you describe as existing is:

The representation should be spread thinner over the population, and with separate organs voting on separate kinds of matters. Ideally so that most of the population would have some short experience in participating in at least one of those organs by reaching the age of 30. Experience is needed to make your last paragraph less problematic, and wide participation - to gain that experience first-hand and also to make it very expensive to blackmail\bribe\threaten enough people. This might also make a referendum an event a bit more rare, because it won't come to that.

In general it's very cool that such a system even exists as a proof that nothing is impractical about it.

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AliSaket

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There do exist things resembling that a bit. Usually done on the local level and mostly concerning some street/development design, where people are invited to actively participate in a workshop style event with experts and vote on the results. But yes, these are not mandates. And as soon as you go onto the state or federal level, such structures become virtually non-existent.

The others are parliamentary commissions which can be instated by parliament and are formed of mainly external experts around a certain issue. These are often used on state and federal levels of government.

I would love if representation was spread wider over the population and that involvement was higher. I also am baffled at how bad general civics education is here in school, especially at the obligatory level. I would welcome a far more detailed and engaging civics education where they could already get some experience right at the school. Or go and participate at some local event. This way they also see the importance of a truly democratic process. Alas, as long as they can't vote, nobody seems to want their opinions.

Another part that needs addressing is finances. There's a lot of intransparency yes, but the way it works now, it is also very hard to get your message across without being big in a main political party or having some big private sponsor. Which limits your actual freedom before and after you're elected. If we're thinking radical we might severely limit campaign budgets or think about public funds allowing the same restrictive scope for everyone, no matter their background and finances. This would also limit the imbalance in outreach between capital-backed candidates and others.

A third huge problem lies within the judiciary, where judges on many levels effectively also have to be party-associated to get elected. If that sounds completely compromising their necessary impartiality, yeah, it's because it does. (Although I don't have data on how that influences their work)

And lastly: The structures of accountability for politicians. I know that some steadiness or stability is necessary, but without the fear of accountability, far too many misuse their positions without repercussions. As we see from around the world, this invites more and more brazen figures to do more and more brazen violations. Just a brain-fart: 100k signatures to force a vote on relieving someone of their immunity so they can be tried in court. And to not just wait it out. Right now, it's parliament that has this exclusive possibility.

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MonkderVierte

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So. Switzerland doesn't really have fully direct democracy in the necessary sense.

Yes, it's half-direct, who said otherwise? Fully direct on a Nation state level would maybe be possible now with the Internet.
But we can still overrule them, while germans get tired of their politicians lying on elections and doing what they want. Doesn't mean they don't try here.

But yeah, this system has it's weaknesses with complicated or emotional topics. But then again, we are all humans.

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rottingleaf

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Fully direct on a Nation state level would maybe be possible now with the Internet.

That's my point. It might seem dangerous to rely on the Internet for such basic matters, but it's already being used to great effect to undermine all democracies. So there's no choice, it's like an arms race. (Still, probably for elections it'd make sense to have a countrywide parallel intranet, so that someone's error in setting up a BGP router wouldn't disrupt it.).

But yeah, this system has it’s weaknesses with complicated or emotional topics. But then again, we are all humans.

That's the other side of the problem - modern easiness of propaganda.

OK, I live in Russia, just rather sad to see how many other countries are slowly drifting in the same regrettable unsavory direction.

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CHKMRK

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It's still an old nation-state with laws made in the olden day when you had to compromise.

What democracy does not rely on compromise?

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antbricks

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Compromises on principles, not compromises with people.

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rottingleaf

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None. I'm using "compromise" here in the sense of compromising between democracy and elites, with the world order normal 200 years ago. Today those compromises don't work because of technological progress and different makeup of societies.

Just like those in the USA.

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percent

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This is the first thing I've ever disliked about Switzerland (not that I know a lot about the country).

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themurphy

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There's a reason every billionair has a bank account in Switzerland.

And it's not to pay more taxes. Or to launder less money.

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jobbies

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What this says is billionaires are entitled to privacy to hoard their $$$ but nobody else is for everyday life.

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TheGrandNagus

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You've not heard of shady banking, Nazi gold, reluctance to stop dealing with Russia, women not being able to vote until the 70s, and Nestle?

Switzerland gets aggressively simped for online, and there's certainly some nice things about them, but there's also some pretty awful things.

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rottingleaf

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Strong means attractive. Not getting pummeled in WWII and making some profits, being complicit in some crimes (turning back Jews), and in general being on top for many decades make you look strong.

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percent

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I meant current times, not in the past. Sorry, I assumed that would be obvious. There are also some things I like about Germany, though they have a pretty terrible past.

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HereIAm

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The Nazi gold is still very much a thing. And the descendants of Jewish people who died in concentration camps are often unsuccessful in reclaiming any wealth that was stored in Swiss banks, because they don't have death certificates and what not. Switzerland is incredibly stubborn and selfish when it comes to anything that would tarnish their neutral stance in banking and politics.

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TheGrandNagus

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Nazi gold didn't disappear after the Nazis fell. They still pocketed it all, despite knowing where all that wealth came from, and did fuck all to help rebuild Europe.

Other things like their appeasing attitude towards Russia, reluctance to allow weapons exports to Ukraine, and willingness to export weapons to awful regimes are all unambiguously current.

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percent

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Huh. On the surface, they don't sound very neutral on the weapons stuff 😕. TIL. I wonder what their underlying reasoning for this is

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Crashumbc

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Money, it's always money...

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Akasazh

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I think someone like you, Grand Nagus, would admire the Swiss over most of that ;)

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Klear

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Those are all very bad, but on the other hand their flag is a big plus.

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Cethin

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It's also a big red flag.

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lagoon8622

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But on the minus side, it's a cross

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c1a5s1c

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on the minus side we have austria

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Jason2357

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Yeah, the whole "private banking" history thing the EFF seems to lionize in the article was 100% just for serving lucrative international robber barrons and other criminals. It was never about protecting regular citizens privacy.

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eleitl

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Reluctance to stop dealing with Russia is a single positive in the list.

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TheGrandNagus

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Oh look, one of Lemmy's many resident tankies.

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eleitl

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Oh look, another one who's brain has been melted by propaganda.

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socialsecurity

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Imagine simping for a foreign threat actor

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SonOfAntenora

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My theory is that if you're cute you're socially protected and the same applies to states and countries. Switzerland is quite the nice place and there are cultural hubs of historical importance, so it has the cute look now doesn't it.

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Birch

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Hold up now! I'll have you know in some parts of the country women couldn't vote until the 90s! Also unmarried cohabitation was illegal in some cantons until the 80s and paternity leave as a concept only exists in Switzerland since the 00s.

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Crashumbc

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US is still lacking that last item....

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MangoCats

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For a more extreme example, look to the Principality of Monaco. Being so much smaller, it can be much more extreme.

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Kazel

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Wenn die Schweiz dann ein Überwachungsstaat ist kann sie ja auch gleich in die EU eintreten

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This would be catastrophic to Proton AG

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wewbull

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In their AI announcement yesterday they mentioned that they are moving to the EU because of legal protections.

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Link?

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Read the Building EuroStack for the Future section

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Evotech

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Looked cool, Too bad it’s brainwashed like all the others.

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lemmyknow

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"brainwashed" 💀

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artyom

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The region that repeatedly insists on backdoors in any encrypted communications?

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yistdaj

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As much as it's dumb, many other places (such as Australia, where I live) are similar at this point.

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ohshit604

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Not really many second bests out there, Sweden bent over and wants to join the EU and the Netherlands has had a rocky history of seizing data-centres.

Switzerland is the last stand for true neutrality.

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artyom

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I mean to my knowledge the US hasn't tried to force encryption backdoors recently?

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ohshit604

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No but they’re still apart of the Five Eyes Alliance which regulates companies on how data is processed and handled.

If I’m not mistaken user data must be retained for 7 years under the five eyes alliance, I’ll try to find a source to this.

Edit - I think this describes the different alliances pretty well: comparitech.com/blog/vpn-priva…

Who’s watching you? A guide to the 5, 9, and 14 Eyes Alliances

Want to know who's watching you online? Find out all about the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and how you can limit it collecting your data.

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artyom

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Which has nothing to do with encryption?

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ohshit604

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Which has nothing to do with encryption?

You’re right it doesn’t dive into encryption however, given that the data is still accessible a government agency can surely decrypt it if they truly wanted to, even if it take them years.

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artyom

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a government agency can surely decrypt it if they truly wanted to

They can't. Not using any known technology. Even basic encryption like AES256 would take 10^50 years on a supercomputer. That's not even getting into quantum-resistant encryption.

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PrimeMinisterKeyes

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Sweden bent over and wants to join the EU

Ah, to live in 1994 again.

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Bwaz

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Ah, yes. The country that formerly let you have anonymous secret bank accounts.

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DeathByBigSad

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You account is anonymous only if you have over a billion.

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c1a5s1c

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or are american

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underline960

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Why would non-billionaire Americans get special treatment?

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c1a5s1c

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america is the only country that is except from Swiss banking privacy laws. they strong armed us with something (still dunno until today what exactly) to have it removed for american citizens.

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callouscomic

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Everything goes to shit.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Its always the next thing, and the next thing and the next thing. What's the new proton everyone will annoy the fuck out of us with?

This is why I stopped giving a shit. Actually. I do give a shit. I will let them surveil all of my shits, and garbage, and vomit.

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A Wild Mimic appears!

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proton is currently moving their infrastructure out of switzerland because of this bullshit, so no reason to lose your cool

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SonOfAntenora

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I know this and i know that political systems in Switzerland are really unique. I think this kind of thing can pass despite the robust involvement of the civil society, mostly because it's an update on a preexisting law. But this is something I can't tell as of now.

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SabinStargem

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Considering that we might have a World War III or 2nd American Civil War in a decade or two, it would be foolish of Switzerland to not permit encrypted VPN. A stable neutrality is very profitable in a world of uncertainty.

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Squizzy

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Isnt Switzerland the country that struggled with their covid response because of the direct democracy requirements lacking provisions for such changes...amazing they can figure everything out to hurt the public.

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grumpusbumpus

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I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone's phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

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Squizzy

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Thanks for the informative comment, a response that outshines the US is literally anything to be fair.

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c1a5s1c

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what covid response? our government simply played on "eigenverantwortung" (personal responsibility). in a country with one of the highest education levels it wasn't difficult to keep a distance of 2 meters during the peak of the pandemic unless you're surrounding yourself with naive people. I was able to go swimming in the lake in the summer, and skiing in the winter while Italy, France and Austria had this banned. weird to think about it but I honestly had a pretty fun time during covid and made some of the best friends to date during it. hell, we even had music festivals and our numbers were not horrible. I think you're thinking of Sweden. happens a lot.

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ZeroOne

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Switzerland ‽ really ?

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Tattorack

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Holy shit. An actual interrobang.

This is like finding a shiny.

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fartographer

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Tattorack uses octothorpe. It's not very effective!

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theherk

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First I’m finding out a ligature exists. Awesome.

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SunshineJogger

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Why is this world and timeline so hell bent on recreating dystopian sci fi novels from the 80s?

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DragonTypeWyvern

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Because they were about late state capitalism.

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kingthrillgore

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Torment nexus go

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The Quuuuuill

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two factors:

those novels were warnings about the path we were on
dorkasses like musk and altman missed the allegorical point

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SunshineJogger

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Yea, true. And sad. We're fucked

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_cryptagion [he/him]

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Where’s that dude who was saying Proton was enabling terrorism for threatening to leave the country?

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Doomsider

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Powers that would make the US blush!? Give me a fucking break. The US spies on all communication in the entire world.

Proton is a joke and their CEO is an obvious fascist. It was stupid to think a corporation is the answer to privacy anyways. They obey all countries rules and turn over your information the moment they are asked by governments.

The future of privacy in Switzerland is in the hands of the citizens. Let's hope they make the right decisions and encourage them to do so.

If these corporations really cared about privacy they would be promoting laws to make it enshrined in our constitutions. The reality is privacy is just another way to market to the masses who don't know better.

My cynical side says these "privacy" focused corporations not wanting privacy to be enshrined in law is because then every business would be privacy minded and their marketing advantage would quickly disappear.

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lambalicious

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It was inevitable. What did you all expect from the country that hoarded all that nazi gold?

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3dcadmin

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when legislation removes a whole well know phrase in one fell swoop. Bye bye "swiss bank account"

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IhaveCrabs111

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There’ll be a clause that banks are exempt

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3dcadmin

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There might be but you ruined my quip!

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Bubbey

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If I have to fucking switch mail hosts again... what the hell is the point in using proton for privacy and now I'm sure that's going to get ruined.

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frosch

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Wasn’t there an announcement from proton a few days back to possibly move their data Centers out of Switzerland because of this?

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poutinewharf

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Bubbey

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One would hope so, or their fundamental ethics as a company are nonexistent.

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c1a5s1c

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they've been threatening this for year to keep suckling at the tit of governmental subsidies to make Switzerland look more attractive for investors with them being here. I doubt they'll follow through.

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Crashumbc

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It depends, privacy has been their entire marketing pitch forever.

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rozodru

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I self host mine. Honestly I just self host as much as I can to avoid stuff like this because while many European companies are great you just never know. I was with Tuta but decided to self host, same for when I was using Filen for backups. Hell I'm even self hosting my git repos and search engine now.

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Owl

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Note that this is written by Tuta, Protonmails main concurrent

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underline960

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@poutinewharf commented a screenshot of Proton's post, but the headline was about their AI chatbot, and the news about the Swiss move is buried at the end.

Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals(new window) to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton

Lumo gives you the power to solve problems big and small, while keeping your personal data confidential. Try it now.

^Proton

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bigFab

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“In a democracy, the right way is to argue, not threaten to leave.” Socialist member of parliament said.

Does this man understand the very first day this law would approve Proton is dead? Do politicians understand privacy at all?

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katy ✨

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switzerland was never a utopia for anybody except corporations, billionaires, and nazis. their "neutrality" was nothing more than an excuse for unregulated capitalism.

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philpo

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Switzerland never had solid privacy laws - and is known for intelligence service overreach for decades.

They had a Stasi like system of "who to imprison" when "the time comes".

They listen to all IP traffic in and out the country - which is concerning in times of traffic pattern analysis.
And they are known for their close cooperation with US intelligence services.

Protons (and Threemas) claim of "soo good swiss privacy laws" is nothing more than swiss-washing. And they know it.

Proton has already given away data of its customers (climate activists) to the swiss authorities. And only talked about it when the press got onto it.

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Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀

Jonah Aragon

2025-07-23 14:21:04

Buried in Proton's AI announcement today is a pretty shocking detail about their service 👀
Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

#Proton #Switzerland #Privacy #EuroStack #ProtonMail

Surveillance: le géant des mails cryptés Proton prêt à quitter Genève
Andy Yen, patron du service de courriel et Cloud aux 100 millions d’utilisateurs, refuse l’espionnage que veut imposer la Confédération.
^{Pierre-Alexandre Sallier (Tamedia Publications romandes S.A.)}

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The Promised LAN

Saw this posted over on HackerNews, and loved it. I'm big on self-hosting, and this is an incredibly exciting idea to me.

The Promised LAN is a closed, membership only network of friends that operate a 24/7 always-on LAN party, running since 2021. The vast majority of documentation is maintained on the LAN, but this website serves to give interested folks, prospective members or friends an idea of what the Promised LAN is, and how it works.

Their manifesto is also worth reading. My personal favorite part:

We do not wish to, nor will we, rebuild the internet. We do not wish to, nor will we, scale this. We will never be friends with enough people, as hard as we may try. Participation hinges on us all having fun. As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug.
This is a call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Remember what is missing from your life, and fill it in. Use software you know how to operate and get it running. Build slowly. Build your community. Do it with joy. Remember how we got here. Rebuild a community space that doesn’t need to be mediated by faceless corporations and ad revenue. Build something sustainable that brings you joy. Rebuild something you use daily.
Bring back what we’re missing.

The Promised LAN

The Internet sucks, build a LAN

^tpl.house

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adhocfungus

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Forget pondering your orb. It's time to contemplate the absurd.

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Should i install a discontinued custom recovery ? And how to keep root after update on LineageOS!

Am using my redmi note 8 with lineageos built in custom recovery. And my device was rooted. Recently i installed a OTA update and i loose my root access. As i don't own a laptop (i used my friend laptop to flash custom rom and magisk) it's cery inconvenient to lose root on every OTA update.

I researched about it and find magisk don't root android in a deeper level but in a surface level, thats why an OTA update wipes root access.

So recently i was looking at custom recovery like orangefox and twrp fir fixing this issue. For my device orangefox dropped development and rwrp have updates only one a year and last one was yeras ago...

What should i do ? How can i really keep root on an OTA update without a PC or Second device with OTG cable ?

Is there any other root manager that don't allow to lose root after OTA updates ? And is this issue caused by updating the recovery along with the OTA update ? Just so confusing!

Or should i avoid rooting at all ?

#privacy

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exu

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Try Lygisk, it's a fork of Magisk that's meant to survive OTAs for devices that only have one system partition. I've used it on a previous phone and it worked great.

GitHub - programminghoch10/Lygisk: Your Lie in Android

Your Lie in Android. Contribute to programminghoch10/Lygisk development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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Rose

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What's your fear in relation to using older recovery?

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Zelenskyy pledges new bill on anti-corruption agencies’ independence as protests continue

Pressure builds on Zelenskyy over corruption agency changes as protests continue

European leaders urge Ukraine to uphold EU standards after president backs legislation weakening anti-graft watchdogs

^{Luke Harding (The Guardian)}

#Worldnews

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OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch

OpenAI was the customer that signed the huge deal that Oracle disclosed last month.

^{Julie Bort (TechCrunch)}

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bigmamoth

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Wtf, it doesn't make a lot of sens since open ai doesn't have the monopole of ia anymore.
Also the only service they found to sell is literally a chatbot wich no company will find interesting if it cost too much

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vane

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We all will pay for it to Larry's pocket and then he will pay the 3 letter agency for a favor. That's how Larry is doing business for years.

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( Very Related to Libre Software ) How AI, ICE and Elon Musk Manipulate People Into Supporting Evil?

I did a very deep dive into the history of Libre Software and stuff, and how "Open Source" became a term. And speculated out of it a whole theory about AI, ICE and US Politics in general.

Probably the best article I've ever written.

blenderdumbass . org is down

^{blenderdumbass.org}

#opensource

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This Retro PC Case Gives Your Gaming Rig Big Windows 95 Energy

Maingear's new case even comes with an optional optical DVD drive.

This Retro PC Case Gives Your Gaming Rig Big Windows 95 Energy

^{Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)}

#hardware

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Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children

It will now “avoid” doing that on more accounts.

Instagram changes its algorithm after being accused of steering predators to children

Instagram accounts that primarily feature images of children, but are run by adult users, will no longer be recommended to “potentially suspicious adults.”

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

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GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon

GeForce RTX 3050 A jumps from Ampere to Ada Lovelace

GeForce RTX 3050 refuses to die as Nvidia plans fifth iteration of its 2022 budget GPU — new Ada Lovelace-powered part suggests the name could even outlive Ampere silicon

^{Zhiye Liu (Tom's Hardware)}

#nvidia

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AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today

Google is making video AI models harder to ignore.

AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

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Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in years

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in years

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

#TeslaMotors

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Missing something on scheduled posts?

I recently scheduled several posts, but they didn't post at the scheduled time, unless I'm missing something. Any suggestions?

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JohnnyEnzyme

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Hey good folks, i.e. Rimu & PugJesus@piefed.social / piefed.social/u/PugJesus (pardon, not yet sure how to correctly tag here),

I happened to have this same issue last week, and am pleased to see today that the bugfix seems to have worked! Ah, and one other useful thing I discovered was that one can go back and correct a post if one happened to have botched the scheduled time, previously:

I couldn't find a way to go back to that post directly, but sure enough, I pulled up browser history, went back to the post link, made the edits, and it successfully posted at the corrected, specified time! 😃

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Blaze (he/him)

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Thank you for reporting!

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I've read from some separate comradely sources that China has now effectively kneecapped Amerikkka's nuclear weapons. China prevented nuclear war without firing a shot.

China-Backed Hackers Breach Key American Nuclear Agency

Chinese state-sponsored hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to breach sensitive systems around the world, including those of the

^{Daily Caller News Foundation (IJR)}

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Wikipedia may have to impose quota on number of UK users to comply with Online Safety Act

Wikipedia threatens to limit UK access to website

Digital encyclopaedia may impose quota on number of users to comply with Online Safety Act

^{Matthew Field (The Telegraph)}

#technology

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PushButton

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If Wikipedia can't fully comply and has to resort to blocking, how a small one-man platform is supposed to do it?

Yeah, exactly, block all the UK and move on.

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TurboLag

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I think the law would only apply above a certain number of monthly users, so small platforms are safe from it for now.

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Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/42675636

Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking “advanced AI” technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.
A CBP presentation for an “Industry Day” summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for surveillance towers along the border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.

Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities

A Customs and Border Protection “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.

^{Sam Biddle (The Intercept)}

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DeathByBigSad

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"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak."

-Donald Trump

Shows you what type of person he is

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keen

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Is this real? This can't be real. Then, on the other hand, it's the American president. The guy who said that ancient Rome and the US have always been allied.

Edit:

He did not say that, I was bamboozled again

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Judge rules Epstein grand jury records will remain sealed

Judge rules Epstein grand jury records will remain sealed
ABC News
3–4 minutes

The records were related to grand juries convened in West Palm Beach.

A federal judge in Florida denied a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury records tied to federal investigations into Epstein, according to a public order released Wednesday.

The request is one of three made by the Justice Department to judges in New York and Florida seeking to unseal records from federal investigations into Epstein.

This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.

New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP

According to the order by District Judge Robin Rosenberg, the records the department sought to unseal related to grand juries convened in West Palm Beach in 2005 and 2007 that had investigated Epstein.

Judge Rosenberg faulted the Justice Department for failing to outline sufficient arguments to justify the unsealing of the records, which are normally protected under strict secrecy rules.

Rosenberg's opinion states her "hands are tied" given existing precedent in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which only permits the disclosure of such grand jury materials under narrow exceptions.

She further denied a request to transfer the issue into the jurisdiction of the Southern District of New York, where two judges are separately mulling over similar motions from the department seeking to unseal grand jury records tied to Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the order.

Judge rules Epstein grand jury records will remain sealed

^{Alexander Mallin (ABC News)}

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Greyghoster

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Can’t Trump just issue an executive order like he has done for everything else? What’s so special about this? It can’t be because he doesn’t have authority because he didn’t have authority for most of the other EOs. It’s probably just smokescreen and there is no intention of releasing anything about his pedo mate Epstein.

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the order of redirections is significant

In bash, if you put:

ls /Users/*/.ssh/id_rsa 2>&1 > rsa-keys.log

...you're redirecting stderr to the stdout's destination while stdout is still sending output to the screen. So any permission errors encountered will go to the screen, not to rsa-keys.log.

From the bash manpage:

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Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, the command

   ls > dirlist 2>&1

directs both standard output and standard error to the file dirlist, while the command

   ls 2>&1 > dirlist

directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because the standard error was duplicated from the standard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.

==================

Commands given to the shell are evaluated and processed in a specific order and fashion, and this is one quirk of that that many people are unaware of.

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