Israel approves settlement plan to 'erase' idea of Palestinian state
JERUSALEM, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state received final approval on Wednesday, according to a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
The approval of the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, was announced last week by Smotrich and received final go-ahead from a defence ministry planning commission on Wednesday, he said.
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This is very funny to me.
To prove you are Human..... Say something nice about Europe.
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Unless they're like right wing or nationalist, people are in general not in denial about our past. More or less the same as in other countries
Most countries have done horrible shit, and it sucks a whenever it gets denied
Europe has so many treasures—it’s hard to choose just one! For example, I really admire Switzerland: not only is it stunning with its snow-capped Alps and crystal-clear lakes, but it also has a long tradition of neutrality and diplomacy, helping foster peace in a region with such a rich and complex history. It’s a place where natural beauty and human cooperation come together beautifully.
... that's obviously AI!
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a long tradition of neutrality
Lol. Nobody ever talks about the Swiss concentration camps. Or the jewish refugees the gave back to the Nazis.
Still a pretty big hurdle for most bots that just aimlessly flow through the webs trying to sign up for things. I don't think anyone will bother tailoring their bot for europe.pub.
Putting the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy between the question and the answer field might further confuse LLM outputs. 😀
This could unironically be an okay prompt, depending on what kind of users you want to gatekeep.
The bots will hallucinate statistics and travel brochure copy.
The real ones will say nothing beats a jet2 holiday.
Got something little bit worse.
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Viktor Mihály Orbán (Hungarian: [ˈviktor ˈorbaːn] ; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who has been the 56th prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has also led the Fidesz political party since 2003, and previously from 1993 to 2000. He was re-elected as prime minister in 2014, 2018, and 2022. On 29 November 2020, he became the country's longest-serving prime minister.
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Norwegian man on 'great Canadian journey' still missing in Manitoba as search teams face challenges | CBC News
(Fort Severn First Nation Chief Matthew) Kakekaspan said searchers from his community were forced to pull out Tuesday morning. In the roughly two days they searched, the group incurred $70,000 in helicopter rental costs, something Kakekaspan says they could no longer sustain.(RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre) said on Tuesday the police force has one Mountie in the area presently.
RCMP initially said the Canada Rangers were requested to attend, but they decided against it because "it was just too dangerous."
***If you are able to donate money to help with the search there are 2 choices -- the first is to donate directly to the people searching ... waynemathews72@gmail.com ... option 2 is to Steffen's family's gofundme ... gofundme.com/f/help-fund-the-s…
Both dogs made it. One is at York Factory and one is in Fort Severn.
All the info is posted on Steffen Skjottelvik's fb page.
Trump administration shields Israeli official charged with child sex crime
“The most concerning question is when and how did America become so subservient to Israel that we immediately release a CHILD SEX PREDATOR after arrest, with a 100 percent locked up case with evidence, and let him off to fly back home to Israel?” Taylor Greene wrote, asserting that no other country’s national would receive similarly favorable treatment.
Trump administration shields Israeli official charged with child sex crime
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was arrested in Las Vegas and is accused of attempting to lure a child but was released and left the country.The Electronic Intifada
Yep. Just look at how many people in power knew about Epstein's raping of minors and kept quiet.
We had to find out for ourselves, which should put into perspective who our representatives truly represent.
Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?
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If you mean the "how is your day going so far" type of posts, I don't think those are meant to be deceptive so much as to generate engagement by placing the post into people's subscribed feeds.
But if you mean the same identical post, that's not great - perhaps you want to unsubscribe from communities that do or even allow such practices.
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People always complain about this but Lemmy does actually combine crossposts in your feed. What frontend are you using? Or maybe it's just bugged? If someone can figure out the bug and how to reproduce it, it needs to be submitted to GitHub.
Here's a reference to the feature, a fixed bug, disabling the deduplication for a single community view github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/i…
Crossposts to same community with some time difference need to be not hidden
Requirements This is a feature request and not a bug report. Otherwise, please create a new bug report instead. Please check to see if this request (or a similar one) already exists. It's a single ...poVoq (GitHub)
Usually whenever I want to make a post, I think back to the comments I typically receive and think better of doing so, then don't.
I'm sure this is happening elsewhere too, e.g. on Reddit, though balanced by a much larger user base (and ofc bots doing a lot of the actual posting, and sometimes the commenting as well).
I probably should comment less often too:-). Really, touching grass and talking with people irl is much more fulfilling.
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Total posts by month appears fairly linear.
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Thank you, I had been looking for actual data and couldn't find it. You're right, does not seem to be declining.
I wonder if there an increasing percentage of bot posts, since I have prolific bot accounts blocked.
I wonder what's up with that number of servers decline.
I wonder what’s up with that number of servers decline.
Consolidation? Which is fine to that extent.
I'd wager many experimented with hosting a younger Lemmy, and hosts who couldn't sustain it got shaken out over time.
I wouldn't assume the rise in posts/comments is all bots, either. I don't have anyone blocked, and it doesn't feel overrun to me.
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Some of it had to do with there not being enough admins to go around afaik. Lemm.ee for instance couldn’t find enough admins so they shut down. Moderating an instance seems like one of the hurdles that go along with running an instance. I could imagine some people dipped out of Lemmy for a little while if their server was deleted since they’re starting from scratch again. It took me a good month or so to make this account and ramp back up my own activity here for instance.
The admins across the servers do a good job of keeping bots out imo. If it ever becomes a problem the admins could look to adopt BlueSky’s moderation tools down the line, I feel. As BlueSky makes it easy to filter bots, misinformation spreaders, and have user level content controls.
Also keep an eye on: piefed.fediverse.observer/stat… A couple thousand people (and several communities) moved there after lemm.ee died, but we interact with lemmy.
As for why it subjectively seems to be declining... maybe you know what you're gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts? Maybe it's time to be more of a poster!
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I noticed on the redditalternatives subreddit whenever someone mentions Lemmy and someone else is like "I didnt like it because of XYZ" someone else will often say "you should look into Piefed its much better"
Which is funny to me but at least it's working!
As for why it subjectively seems to be declining… maybe you know what you’re gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts?
I don't think so. For ages (maybe two years) I'll sometimes sit in bed in the morning and browse New until I hit the stuff I saw previously. That used to take me well over an hour - maybe two - but now it takes less than thirty minutes.
Total Lemmy Active Users by Month
There's a big spike during summer time. On reddit it was known as summer reddit. Basically all of the kids are out of school and have nothing better to do but shitpost online. Now they're going back to school. It could be the lack of different users you're noticing. Not sure why it dipped in July though, should have dipped in August.
Ah, good point. Forgot about that. That's probably it.
The slight dip so far this month could be the beginning of the end of the summer Lemmy. Schools just started this week near me, and green is 30 day users so it should take 30 days for that to fully drop.
I specifically said linear and not flat because it is a non-exponential increase.
You could say the rate of posts is flat, but the data series is posts, not rate of posts.
If i'm not mistaken, the very last graph showing posts by month shows a significant decreasing over the summer, or at least specifically july (since august is not over yet). It says June is around 12M posts and July around 9M. August seems already over 9M and we're only 2/3 in, so maybe there was some drop around July for some reason, which could explain OP's feeling.
As for the reason, i'm not sure, maybe a combination of factors like some server blocking access from UK with the latest privacy bullshit, some server having signficant downtime (i think slrpnk.net had a problem with servers locking themselves up while tech admin was abroad), and maybe non-Lemmy factors like holidays (though they don't seem to impact previous years stats).
Looking at the more detailed breakdowns, it looks like there are a couple of servers (Lemmit.online, alien.top among others) with huge numbers of posts/comments that appear to be entirely bots. Are those counted in the stats? Could those be messing with the overall graphs? If Lemmit's quarter of a million posts a month are counted, its going to make the monthly posts stat useless when even .world only has about 15k posts a month.
Edit: Comparing the graphs to the server list, it looks like Lemmit is counted, so the main graph is likely misleading. I did look through some of the bigger servers, and their rate of posting seemed fairly linear, but there isn't a good way to check overall.
It's not 10 millions created during a month, it's 10 millions existing posts at a certain month, whatever their creation date.
The actual number of posts per month would be the different between the total number of posts between two months.
I don't know how to check for the whole lemmy but seems it's growing a bit but the MAU dropped a bit probably because of august: fedidb.com/servers/lemmy.world
But the fediverse in general doesn't grow too much except when a scandal happens.
Watch out, the statistics might not say what you think they do.
"Total users" is a meaningless metric. All it showes is how many users aren't using lemmy anymore.
"Monthly active users" is the only meaningful metric, and it's fluctuating and currently going down.
"Activity growth" doesn't actually show the number of new activities per month, but the total count of activities. So with constant activity you'd expect linear "activity growth" and with growing activity you'd see the line curling upward. It is currently mostly linear but slightly declining.
So these statistics show a slow decline, not an increase.
But in a way you can be happy that it doesn't grow a lot. With the base architecture of ActivityPub (every instance contains a copy of everything, all content needs to be propagated to all instances, all content needs to be duplicate-moderated by all instances' admins) it is absolutely not designed to handle large amount of users.
If only a tenth of a percent of Reddit users were to switch over to Lemmy, everything would grind to a halt and most instances would have to close down because running them would become to expensive for a non-profit project.
This here is a better source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily…
That's all of lemmy over the last 1000 days.
Most important takeaways:
- Active users tend to only grow during special events (usually "Reddit pulls some new shit") and then declines slowly as people fade back out.
- When instances close, users tend to just disappear (as when Lemmy.ee closed down). The Lemmy.ee users seem to have just disappeared instead of migrated to another instance.
- Number of active servers is in a strict decline. Apart from the initial rush, smaller instances seem to go down and don't get replaced. Most users seem to prefer to use big instances.
- Comments again shows the total number of comments available, not new comments coming in. As you can see, the angle of the curve gets slightly flatter over time, meaning that activity drops. It also shows well that when instances get closed down lots of content just disappears.
- Posts also shows a similar decline, though even stronger than comments.
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When instances close, users tend to just disappear (as when Lemmy.ee closed down). The Lemmy.ee users seem to have just disappeared instead of migrated to another instance.
I suggest you look at the piefed activity indicator for more context here.
A big chunk of the lemm.ee base went here, and its gaining servers where Lemmy is losing them.
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Kbin exists as well, unless something changed since the last time I looked.
But one thing is for certain: The whole field isn't growing right now.
Yeah, that's true.
What is a bit of a fact though is that Lemmy and the other Lemmy-likes are basically a set of forums and not a Reddit killer.
In fact, all of Lemmy's and Lemmy-likes' usage statistics combined are about comparable with the Crackberry forum or the LTT forum.
Yeah one has to be careful with statistics and I couldn't find the whole Lemmy in one place so it's also not representative of the whole Lemmy.
I thought ActivityPub did scale well and was ATProto (Bluesky) which had a lot more issues. I mean I can comment on Peertube using my Mastodon account meaning the whole Fediverse is properly connected and we are 1M MAU so I would say it already scaled good.
Here's all of fediverse: lemmy.fediverse.observer/daily…
Also remember, though it says 'daily' in the title, that only refers to that the stats are grouped by day. They are still total numbers (e.g. total number of posts that are available on that day, not number of new posts created that day).
Lemmy has the big issue that each instance needs to cache the whole content of each community any user of that instance ever subscribed to. Since Reddit-style platforms only make sense if there are huge communities that means that the biggest communities have most of the traffic while being subscribed to by most instances. That means that most instances have copies of most content.
Same goes with moderation. Since every instance holds a copy of the content, each instance's operator is liable for illegal content stored on their server, and most instance operators also want their moderation guidelines enforced across the whole instance, even for content coming from other instances, so each instance needs to moderate all content. Content moderation on one instance is not propagated to other instances (unless the moderation happens on the host instance of the community), so you end up with moderators of dozens of instances each having to individually e.g. delete the same post.
This is already such a strain that e.g. Lemmy.ee got shut down because it was just so much work and money doing all of that, and that's with a miniscule amount of ~40k monthly active users across all of Lemmy. Compare that to the 1.2 billion monthly active users on Reddit. If we only got a tenth of a percent of all Reddit users over to Lemmy, the whole system would come crashing down.
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Aah I didn't knew this issue from Lemmy, really interesting. Creating a decentralized platform raises many new challenges that are hard to solve!
Now I get why piefed approaches moderation in a different manner and tries to be more resource friendly.
Thanks for the info! Really interesting stuff 😀
I've definately noticed it too. I've tried to look for stats, and most seem to indicate that there is plenty of activity, but I dont really see it. At this point, I can scroll through the day's all feed in like 20 minutes, nonetheless my subscribed feed. I kind-of wonder if theres one or two instances with a lot of bot activity effectively inflating the numbers.
Edit: Is there a way to see monthly posts by instance, or compare percentage of posts? That would be an easy way to prove or disprove my bots theory.
Edit 2: fediverse.observer shows monthly (Or rather, total by month) local posts by instance but not federated, and their overall stats are warped by a few bot instances that you can't filter out. That said, for local posts on a few of the big instances, the rate seems stable. That said, smaller instances are shutting down so I don't know if that has an impact on the overall posting rate.
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I don't think it is, maybe we are due for another growth spurt but from here on out I genuinely think a critical mass has been achieved where it will simply make more and more sense for people to come here.
I do think we face a real inertia right now where the general public has become convinced corporate social media sucks because people suck not because corporations suck and we need to refute that misconception if we want the fediverse to have a vibrant future.
It is really frustating how evidently unhappy most users of corporate social media are about their social media use, yet they show no signs of stopping and when you start to provide an alternate vision of social media they immediately shortcircuit to "social media is bad, I don't want more".
I do think if we don't start pushing back with an affirmative positive vision of why social media can be good we may see a period of depressed growth but I don't see that happening yet personally.
I don't think it is, maybe we are due for another growth spurt but from here on out I genuinely think a critical mass has been achieved where it will simply make more and more sense for people to come here.
Maybe for English and a handful of major European languages, but there's no way I could recommend the Fediverse (at least the Threadverse; I don't hang out on Mastodon) to an Arabic or Japanese speaker. In that area it's still severely lacking.
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Defederated instances
[Join us on chat.piefed.social!](https://piefed.social/post/970751)piefed.social
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Same. I feel like Lemmy is really a lot like early Reddit (pre 2012) and the sizes of the communities are perfect. You can actually contribute to a discussion instead of drowning in 20k inane joke posts.
Some niches remain underpopulated but I feel like this will eventually rectify itself as the more critical and thoughtful people move away from vapid platforms like Reddit, FB or IG. We'll continue to welcome them with open arms.
Could be your instance not federatinv with everything.
I blocked half of fedi as such as DNC whores over at lemmy wrld and shepooh cock riders on ml
Still get a decent trickle.
It's summer, a few active posters are busy with either kids or time off
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip has a weekly thread for active posters, it used to be more active in June
It's fine, people will probably come back in September
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It's funny though, because someone else said activity spikes in the summer because kids are out of school.
I saw it, but I'm not sure it's correct as the graph in that comment shows a dip rather than a spike
Also, most of the kids today are mostly on Tiktok or Twitch rather than text-based forum, be it Reddit or Lemmy/Piefed
When I run out of stuff to see on Lemmy, I touch grass. Simple as.
I feel way more in control of my online experience when endless scrolling isn't possible.
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This might seem like a clever way to say "sour grapes" to me. Saying that "little content is good because it avoids endless scrolling" is as weird as saying "living in the desert is good because it helps me control my diet".
To address the point: activity seems very much slowed down, and we have two years since the Reddit "exodus" and very little progress to show. We are yet to convert any significant significant community, most people just accepted the status quo and you can bet that the few active people around here still rely on Reddit to find content and repost here.
Aside from this meta-discussion about Lemmy and the Fediverse, there is basically no native group or community emerging.
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Welcome! While you are still looking around, you may want to check out PieFed as well & e.g. piefed.zip/ . It offers tons of features that Lemmy lacks, like categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, flairs (both user and post), polls, combining together all cross-posts across all communities, etc. Check it out and prepare to just fall in love with it!😀
Even better, while Lemmy is written in the Rust language and adds features at the timescale of multiple years (not joking here) whereas PieFed is written in Python and adds new stuff literally weekly. So the gap in feature sets, instead of ever closing, will only continue to widen over time.
Although if you are going to stay with Lemmy, you would be hard pressed to find a better one than what you are on now. Fortunately, you may not have to choose, if it opens up a PieFed instance by the same people (discussion).
So let me see if I understand you correctly. The "one I'm on now" you refer to in the third paragraph, meaning dbzer0, is an instance of Lemmy (along with others) that are federated (loosely united) together in the same feed.
You're on piefed.social, so you're federated with dbzer0 and the other Lemmy feeds. So it's not like you're on a whole other federated social network like Bluesky (which is more like Twitter whereas Lemmy is more like Reddit). But it has different programming, so you can access more/different features from your end than I can on mine, but we still have access to the same communities?
Still kinda struggling to understand how fediverse stuff works.
Thanks! I went and followed the discussion link the other guy posted. I saw one concern — the handling of voting. But someone/some people are going behind a lot of those comments and saying they fixed it based on user feedback. So that's good. I also feel I understand the two (Lemmy and Piefed) and their relationship a bit more.
If it sounds like I'm a bit eager to learn, it's because I like to help others, but to do that I have to understand things first.
Yup, as said already, exactly like that.
Most social media these days is a single system / platform, like Facebook or Reddit. Federated media is rather like email where whichever service you send it from (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.), the recipient receives it and you don't need to care about exactly how.
I feel that analogy is overly simplistic, and leaves people baffled as to what defederation means. So instead I like the idea that federation is akin to ships (pirate or free trade) passing messages around - some captains have beef with other captains and refuse to talk with them, but otherwise you have access to the entire network of all messages.
It does get slightly more complicated when you rise up above the forum-based "Threadiverse" (Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, and arguably flarum and nodeBB) to discuss the wider ActivityPub-based "Fediverse" - those entirely different platforms can pass messages between them, but it is not always so easy or straightforward, e.g. Mastodon is based on people whereas the Threadiverse is centered around "communities" (on Reddit these were called subreddits), so for someone on Mastodon to talk to someone on Lemmy (or PieFed) they would have to jump through several hoops to make it happen (although Mbin eases that process). That's basically the end of my knowledge there bc I don't use Mastodon but I hope that helps to have gone that far at least.
Getting back to the ship analogy, you personally could, in theory, have your own ship, which you could use either privately, or share with a few friends, or even open it up to the public. That "machine" that you use, that "server", in Fediverse terminology is called an "instance". And it will have "admins" who run it, as well as "moderators" who run the communities on it. Also, it will need to pick which variety of software to run, so like there are Lemmy instances, and PieFed instances, and Mbin instances, etc. Sometimes the same admins run multiple of them, e.g. lemmy.world is by far the largest Lemmy instance, and now they have branched out to try out a PieFed instance as well called PieFed.world. It's the same people, possibly running on the same machine or at least you could imagine that, but a different software platform.
lemmy.dbzer0.com is a Lemmy instance, and one day that awesome admin dbzer0 (a real person, though surely that's not their irl name😂) may likewise make a PieFed instance, perhaps it will be called PieFed.dbzer0.com, or something, who knows.😀
Regardless, the messages will get passed between them. Your choice of instance gives you a different experience bc you are picking a different captain of your boat - maybe you'll even decide to become one yourself - and then yes the software that is run on the instance greatly changes your method of access. e.g. PieFed has flairs (both user and post varieties) and polls, but since Lemmy lacks those, the only way to participate in such is to use that same software, i.e. to sign up on an instance that runs it (or maybe one day Lemmy will catch up and offer all 3 of those? I am sure that it will, but I sincerely doubt it will happen anytime "soon"). Here is an example of a post that uses a poll (and a couple of post flairs, and also hashtags too). Btw the sidebar of that community has some good resources to learn more about the Fediverse if you are interested. But that post itself is not able to be viewed on a Lemmy instance, since it uses a poll which Lemmy does not know how to handle.
And then defederation is a whole other thing. When one captain (admin) gets mad at another captain (admin) for just absolutely REFUSING to respect the rules that collectively were agreed upon - sending spam, harassment of users, trolling behaviors etc. - defederation can be a method of last resort to cut off all communication with them. It stops any messages from that point forward - for good or bad - which can cause confusion but I want to point out that the captain ("admin") is literally the owner of their personal ship (machine/"instance") and so has the right to do as they please with it. And all the more so if the instance is open to the public, in which case they arguably have the responsibility to protect their users from the trolling and harassment campaigns. "Free speech" is never free, someone must always bear the cost, of maintenance, of platforming it, and so on.
I would suspect that people either started going back to Reddit, or decided to get a mental health break from the internet as a whole (which wouldn't surprise me, the internet is pretty depressing lately).
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I also agree on the political ragebait part. I narrow my feed down to the communities I follow only, because the moment I use "All", I get a lot of these.
Sorry to hear your experience was so bad, but welcome back.
The situation with bots and trolls on Reddit is horrific. Do you remember that time a few years back when Russia disconnected their whole country from the Internet? That day there was a dramatic decrease in assholes and trolls. Like, night and day, it was unmistakeable and widely commented on.
So hopefully Lemmy doesn't catch on so will that those folks come here in force, too. For now at least, it's much better.
So hopefully Lemmy doesn’t catch on so will that those folks come here in force, too. For now at least, it’s much better.
At the very least, I suspect Lemmy, as a federated network, has more power to filter them. We saw years ago what happened when the Wolfballs bigots tried to join, they were eventually isolated by most other instances who continued to run without them. So as long as we can retain a situation where the largest instances actually take a solid stance against assholes and trolls and bigots, then it becomes much easier to make them all optional, shunned to register on the more liberalist permissive instances.
The last major push to leave traditional social media was in January, following Zuckerberg and Musk's appearances at Trump's inauguration. Many people leaving X and Meta platforms joined up on Bluesky and Fediverse platforms to replace their activity. It's been 7 months, meaning those who didn't find Lemmy a viable replacement have definitely left by now.
If there was a graph of overall activity, you'd probably see a huge increase around December-January, following a slow decline to a slightly higher baseline than November.
Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance
Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children under age 2 get vaccinated.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Vienna announced as host city for Eurovision song contest 2026
Vienna announced as host city for Eurovision song contest 2026
Final of 70th edition of competition to be held on 16 May at the Wiener Stadthalle, Austria’s largest indoor arenaGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Yes, but none that even comes close to Vienna in terms of size. Vienna has over 2 million inhabitants, the next city (Graz) has only 300 thousand.
Innsbruck (132000 citizens, 5th biggest city in Austria) actually also made a bid to host the contest but lost to the capital
At least 78 people killed as bus collides with fuel truck in western Afghanistan
At least 78 people killed as bus collides with fuel truck in western Afghanistan
Children among dead after bus carrying Afghans deported from Iran crashed and caught fire in Herat provinceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Reading the article, sounds like they have a fuel tanker crash problem. There's been several in the last 3-4 years all involving busses and fuel tankers. I get there's awful road conditions and few regulations but it's suspiciously common for a bus to hit a fuel tanker at least once a year.
Especially, judging by the photos, in such an open space. I've never driven in the desert so correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like there's enough visibility to prepare for crossing paths with another vehicle? I'm sure rolling off-road into the sand is better than ramming into a fuel truck.
French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse
French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse
Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was well-known on the streaming platform Kick. The 46-year-old former soldier was regularly beaten and abused by two other influencers during livestreams.Jérôme Lefilliâtre (Le Monde)
In videos posted by this group, Graven – a wiry former soldier – and "Coudoux," a person with a disability and under guardianship, were frequently mistreated, suffering blows, insults and humiliation at the hands of the other two. Cenazandotti and Hamadi in particular regularly slapped their two partners hard on the head, grabbed their throats to strangle them, and spat or poured various substances on them.Despite the hard-to-watch violence, the creators claimed these videos were meant to be humorous. The group raised money from complacent viewers, either through recurring subscriptions or one-off donations. Some viewers encouraged even more degrading abuse in the comments. By the end of the long livestream that ended with Graven's death, the fundraising counter shown on the video suggested they had collected more than €36,000.
French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse
French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse
Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was well-known on the streaming platform Kick. The 46-year-old former soldier was regularly beaten and abused by two other influencers during livestreams.Jérôme Lefilliâtre (Le Monde)
The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services
The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services
Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and you are overwhelmed by a smörgåsbord of devices, covering any audio-visual and similar entertainment and hobby nee…Hackaday
Yeah, as I said, it is a wacky gimmick, and it does work. My teen kid got a big kick out of it and at the insane price some of the new artists have been charging to get their music in cassette form, it pays for itself in less than three albums if I already had them digitally.
I will say again that it is a $60-ish portable music player, don't expect $1000 Sony gear build quality or interface. I specifically didn't want some sort of Franken-Android DAP, which most newer dedicated music players are, so it worked out.
Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?
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My comment: It seems google is trying to pull another Manifest v3 and JPEGXL - propose then ignore everyone and do it anyway.
Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...mfreed7 (GitHub)
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Inside Canada's 'Starlight Tours' And The Saskatoon Freezing Deaths
The Saskatoon police perpetrated a series of "starlight tours" in which they drove Indigenous people to the outskirts of the city and left them to freeze to death.Genevieve Carlton (All That's Interesting)
Powerful Libyan official in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza
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Speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the issue, Libyan, Arab and European officials told MEE that National Security Adviser Ibrahim Dbeibah, a relative of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, was spearheading the talks despite Palestinians in Gaza flatly rejecting US President Donald Trump's postwar plan for the enclave.The source said that in an attempt to placate some Libyan leaders, the US was prepared to confer economic support or other benefits in exchange for the country taking in Palestinians.
The idea of Libya serving as a possible new home for expelled Palestinians comes amid reports that Khalifa Haftar, a powerful military leader who also oversees a rival rubber-stamp parliament in the country's east, was offered greater control over the country's oil resources if he agreed to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
"The Palestinians will not be getting any care from those governments, which will push them to the following catastrophe, [which] will lead to a new wave of migration towards the shores of Europe. And this is also a scary thought, firstly because the past decades have proven to us that many of them will only make it halfway through the Mediterranean, like many of those boats that capsized. And those that would eventually get to Europe, I do not think that Europe would be welcoming of another one million Arabs arriving at its shores, as the Syrians who just made similar journeys just few years ago."
Exclusive: Powerful Libyan official in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza
A senior official in Libya's internationally recognised government has held talks with Israeli officials over a proposal to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians expelled from Gaza, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye.Faisal Edroos (Middle East Eye)
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In this case it is even more insidious in my eyes. After Gaddafi has been ousted, Libya has been effectively split and maintained dysfunctional. Now they try to exploit this split and dysfunctionality to promise recognition to whichever side is willing to play their evil game.
The same is don in talks with South Sudan and Somaliland, exploiting weakened countries that have split off and struggle for international recognition. Of course all of the "candidates" are wholly unprepared to provide any sort of safety to the ethnically cleansed people. In my eyes this has strong resemblance to the Madagascar plan of the Nazis, where the inability of the receiving land to adequately care for the people and subsequent large numbers of people killed by starvation and/or conflict with the local population is by design.
In a way it is offshoring further genocide through ethnic cleansing.
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The regime change in Libya was primarily motivated by France, not the US. It is tied to France continuous presence in its former colonies in North and West Africa.
There is currently a scandal ongoing in France as the Sarkozy Government was probably bankrolled by Gaddafi .
The US is far from the only "player" meddling in Africa and West Asia and they don't need Israel to "order" them in many cases. What is special about the US Israel relationship is that the US is still doing what Israel wants most of the time, even if it is contrary to US interests. Many times their interests unfortunately did align in the past.
How former French president Sarkozy allegedly received millions from Libya's Gaddafi
The trial of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy came to a close this week, ending three months of exhaustive examination of allegations that the right-wing politician had struck a bargain with Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 …Paul MILLAR (FRANCE 24)
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It may have been motivated by France but Libya was one of the "7 countries in 5 years" which the neocons planned on regime changing after 9/11 as part of the Project for the New American Century.
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The Memo that Outlined U.S. Plans to Overthrow 7 Countries in 5 Years
Exposing the Plan The Memo that Outlined U.S. Plans to Overthrow 7 Countries in 5 Years A shocking revelation of a secret memo detailing plans for regime changes in the Middle East, driven by a small …HASE Fiero (Information-Warfare Magazine)
There simply is no "good option" in ethnic cleansing and genocide.
What should be done is forcing Israel to end the genocide and provide full access for humanitarian help. Then Israel needs to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza and all the war criminals need to be brought to justice in The Hague. European countries could easily enforce that by ending all weapons shipments and economic and diplomatic support for the illegal occupation as well as blocking all land, sea and air routes for any shipment to Israel that is beyond food, medicine and other basic necessities for life. Bonus points for threatening sanctions against the Arab states complicit in helping Israel such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Even more bonus points for breaking the naval blockade and allowing unhindered humanitarian access by Sea.
We have seen with the US that Trump actually doesn't fight, once someone stands up to him. China stood up to him and he stepped down quickly in the tariff bullshit. Russia isn't even bothering to pretend anymore and Trump is instead bullying Ukraine on behalf of Russia. If the US would be the only one left supporting Israel in the West, the Arab traitor regimes would also reconsider, if they want to go with the US down this path or quickly switch sides, which is in line with what their populations want.
The continued treachery of the Arab regimes will blow into their face and has the possibility to bring on a new Arab spring in Egypt and Jordan, which could spiral out of control for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states quickly. Ethnically cleansing millions of Palestinians into Egypt or Jordan would certainly be the tipping point for these regimes.
If the EU countries get their shit together, they will realize that they are in the process of setting a region with hundreds of millions of people ablaze by continuing their lackluster response to Israels crimes and could face down a "refugee crisis" compared to which everything before was a walk in the park on a sunny day in May.
I’m just thinking of saving lives here. Justice is too much to ask in this sick world.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias
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Syria’s top diplomat and an Israeli delegation meet in Paris as US pushes for normalizing ties
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That’ll show ‘em.
A Debilitating Virus [Chikungunya] Surges Globally as Mosquitoes Move With Warming Climate
Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China and other places that have not seen it before.
We could have wiped them off the face of the Earth if we had pressed the attack with DDT for one more decade. Look how we did in America; Wiped malaria out in 1951. (Some of that was infrastructure improvements!)
Rest of the world was happily on their way and in 1972 the US said, "Fuck you, got my problem solved, banned." Of course they couldn't ban it in other countries but the US said, "No ban, no trade.", which is a de facto ban.
One more decade and a concerted push could have eradicated mosquitoes. Then we could have banned it forever. That stupid bitch Rachel Carlson and her book Silent Spring raked up a malarial death count to rival Hitler.
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Orders Google to Respect ‘Right to Be Forgotten’—Google Says No
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Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Orders Google to Respect ‘Right to Be Forgotten’—Google Says No
- Backgrounder: Timeline of events related to the investigation of Google and de-listing of online information;
- Report of Findings: Investigation and recommendations concerning Google search engine service’s compliance with its obligations under PIPEDA.
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Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.
Speaking to the Guardian, Pickering admitted it was designed to be an easy mistake to make, appearing to look like the logo of Palestine Action, the protest group banned under terrorism legislation last month, but text underneath the logo reads: “We oppose AI-generated animation.”
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detainedRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”
The reall heroes indeed. Still this Chad got to draw some needed attention to the outright stupidity of it all...
I mean, embarrassing actions tend to do that.
Interesting that this guy was able joke about it, that's not really the personality I was expecting.
Precisely why I thought that quote validated highlighting. He's in the purgatory between following orders and thinking for himself.
The way he brings it does endear me.
Someone should start selling t shirts that look similar to reach other but of different subjects so then cops there have a hard time telling the difference. My proposals are:
Palepstein Action: Release the Epstein Files
Palworld Action: Screw Nintendo
Plasticine AcTiON₂: Stop Petroleum Pollution
Palladian Action: Preserve Classical Architecture
Paladin Act20n: The Best DnD Class
Pallial ACTON: Wear Helmets, Ride Safely
Ballantine Attraction: Visit Yellowstone
Palestine Paction: 1947 British Mandate Period
Pastime Abstraction: Netflix and Chill
Someone should start selling t shirts that look similar to reach other but of different subjects so then cops there have a hard time telling the difference.
After the bill banning their organization was signed, Palestine Action changed its name to "Yvette Cooper", the Homeland Secretary who authored the bill.
It's kind of grating that it's so bad in the United States that people start applauding the EU doing stupid shit too.
We should be united against this stupid shit, not laughing at each other over our particular forms of suffering.
It's really not the 'where', it's the general thought ((less)(ness)) we should not be slightly relieve at other people doing stupid shit, we should -as people- make a stand against stupid shit.
I think we should unite against stupid shit being laid upon us by greedy people rather than laugh at each others' misery.
Woman arrested in Bali over cocaine allegedly smuggled in sex toy, could face death penalty if convicted
The officers allegedly found 3.1 pounds of cocaine inside a sex toy hidden in her genitals and in her underwear. Police also accused her of smuggling dozens of ecstasy pills
Woman arrested in Bali over cocaine allegedly smuggled in sex toy, could face death penalty if convicted
There are dozens of traffickers on death row in the country, including a cocaine-smuggling British grandmother.CBS News
Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle
Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle
The arrival of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, CodeRabbit and others has accelerated the decline for entry-level programming roles.Ariel Zilber (New York Post)
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How was the interview? Did they pull questions from HackerRank?
Asking for me, because I’m an old CS grad in a bad job market.
Ahh reminds me of when I was a fresh CS grad working at Dominos
Now they get to spend the next 5-10 years realizing they are slaves and everything adults have told them about the economy, work, and fairness was cope from those adult slaves.
Yeah i was willing to do it if it was livable because it was fun for me.
But it's like getting a CS degree to be a starving artist.
Well, now they know what it's like to have a bachelor's degree in any other field. Welcome to the club.
If you want a guaranteed job right away, go into medicine, or plumbing, those are safe bets. I expect people will always get sick and need to shit.
The peasants will still shit, count on it.
Besides, let's not pretend this "AI replacing us all" narrative has any real lasting power. We see the same story constantly, company replaces workers with AI, company regrets it later. This AI sucks, it's not there yet. You don't really have to worry about it long term.
Don't mistake the weather for the climate.
There's another side to this.
This means there's a lot of programmers who are available to work on other things. It's an opportunity for businesses to start and new programs to be made.
Exactly, nobody is investing in their to-be seniors and dev culture.
Expecting ai-slop to make the difference is a fairy tale told to investors and board members.
I am not against any of our new devs (or myself, a longtime dev) using ai generated code but I expect them to understand it so they can fix it and build their skillsets. I tell them that renting their dev skills from a machine will do them no favors.
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UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole
The call comes as governments go to war with the anonymous web.Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)
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One thing is the Political self-proclaimed Liberals mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world, a very different thing is the Political Ideology of Liberalism.
"Liberals are Fascists" definitely applies to the mainstream politicians in at least the UK, US and Canada who say they are "Liberals" and have "Liberal policies".
All of a sudden?
This is the country where 1984 was written, where they have more cameras than anywhere else, this sort of social surveillance and quiet, polite fascism is normal for the UK.
And almost all those cameras are privately owned and operated, and not integrated into any kind of centralised surveillance apparatus. More typically, they're in place to deter graffiti or to keep drunks from pissing on the walls outside pubs. Police can and do request footage when investigating crimes, but if a camera owner's retention policy means the footage has been deleted, that's the end of the discussion. And such footage is useful if some arsehole has just jammed a broken beer glass into someone else's face.
The worse forms of authoritarian overreach are the increasingly pervasive number-plate recognition cameras that track the movements of every vehicle, and the inane attempts to regulate the internet and to ban peivate use of encryption.
As for "quiet, polite fascism," I've lived for extended periods in the US and the UK, and so far, despite the seemingly draconian laws, I've always found there to be more personal freedom in the UK. The police don't kill people very often, people tend to ignore the laws and the government can't be bothered to enforce the most intrusive of them, and there's far less social pressure towards brainless conformity and mindless obedience than there is in the States.
When the Snowden Revelations came out, it turned out the UK did as much or maybe even more civil society surveillance as the US, and unlike the US it doesn't even have constitutional limitations on surveillance of people on their own soil (in fact the UK doesn't even have a written Constitution).
In the US they actually walked back on some of the surveillance (because of said constitutional protections), in the UK they just passed a law that retroactively made the whole thing legal, got the editor of the newspaper who brought out the Snowden Revelations kicked, fired a bunch of D-Notices around (the UK's Press Censorship mechanism) out and nobody ever talked about it again.
As soon as the technology was good enough for that the UK created a Digital Stasi and it's only gotten worse since.
and unlike the US it doesn’t even have constitutional limitations on surveillance of people on their own soil
- I'd argue the US doesn't anymore either, or if it does, it's only on paper. Shit, rights in general in the US are to the degree where they only exist on paper anymore, and I can think of some fascists that would get rid of the Constitution altogether and implement absolute, unbreakable rule if they could... ~~Trump.......~~
I don't know if it's the root reason, but one gets scoffed at harshly by the average Tom, Dick, and Harry when suggesting that a Monarchy is an archaic and, frankly, insulting form of governance in spite of protestations that the role of the sovereign is purely ceremonial.
Simply put, they (mostly) seem to prefer political masochism, and are ruled by sadists. Sadly, in 2025, aren't we all?
Tony Blair thought that the Labour Party would win if it were more like the US Democratic Party. That began an electorally successful period of unprincipled triangulation and petty authoritarianism. Eventually that momentum fizzled out due to the gloomy paranoid leadership of Gordon Brown, corruption of people like Peter Mandelson, and the loathsome hypocrisy of Blair's lies in support of GW Bush's second Gulf War.
Then the Conservatives got in for 14 years and fucked everything up even worse. Now the Blairite authoritarian-centrist faction is again running Labour, and so far has shown none of the political cunning that kept Blair on top. And the media fawns over the smarmy mini-Trump Nigel Farage despite his party having no policies.
sometimes the french are right. the brits are indeed cunts.
so seriously, this i brilliantly evil. this is the way that will allow some police state level of oversight for both social media, chats, and even vpn data will be tied to your personal file. this is so dark in every possible way.
any site can be labelled porn or harmful at this point. even wikipedia. how dare the young browse the open truth of the internet? and this is already the second phase, mind police.
Only commercial VPNs? So HTTP proxying, Tor, SSH tunneling, SOCKS tunneling, running your own VPN node, etc are all allowed? There's plenty of VPS hosting companies that don't need ID or proof of age to sign up. Even if the UK requires this, you can just sign up for a server outside the UK.
There's also weird approaches that work but not many systems catch, like tunneling stateless data (like HTTP responses) over DNS TXT lookups.
When I was in high school in the 2000s, kids figured out how to bypass the internet filtering at school. Kids these days have way more resources available to them, making it even easier to do.
I literally have lightsail (not the equivalent) as well because it doesn't have issues connecting to SK, but China throttles those addresses nevertheless
Why, does AWS use a different IP address pool than lightsail?
Seeing this from the US scares me. I already have an elaborate system for tunneling my traffic out of the country without it appearing I’m doing so from my end devices.
But seeing this happening in the UK and knowing there’s a chance of it happening here, I really feel the need to get into China-style circumvention with shadowsocks and what have you, and I need to figure this out sooner rather than later.
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Until the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.
Also, this doesn't affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.
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a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.
That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon -- it's easy to support the network, everyone should)
Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.
any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.
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In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency -- which makes you safer
For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go
How do traffic correlation attacks against Tor users work?
I was reading about how Tor works. There is says that if the attacker is able to see both ends of the communication channel then Tor fails (and other anonymous networks too). How and why does thisInformation Security Stack Exchange
Hiding in plain sight: Introducing WebTunnel | Tor Project
We're celebrating the World Day Against Cyber Censorship by officially announcing WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge designed to assist users in heavily censored regions to connect to the Tor network.blog.torproject.org
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They'll just block that too. Can't have a full blown dictatorship without taking away any freedom people have. Better not have a negative opinion about it either.
Holy Fuck 1984 was a warning, not a fucking manual on how to do things.
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Gee I totally didn't see this coming and made a comment about it earlier. Oh wait I totally did.
The peoples republic of United Kingdom.
A true People's Republic would have less surveillance noncence than this.
The UK is a literal 1984 in the works.
Doubling down on the batshit. Everyone knew VPNs were going to be the low effort workaround to this authoritarian batshittery.
I get what the (well meaning, I think) people lobbying for this are trying to achieve, but everything from the lobbying to legislation to enforcement seems to be happening in the worst way imaginable. Almost like it's an intentional "You want to see how badly can we do this? Hold my drink! YOLO!!"
For me, the tell was UK PLC leaving it up to the sites themselves to decide who/how the verification would be done. Classic bad management "I don't understand the slightest thing about any of this, but HOW HARD COULD IT BE?!" response. It's like the "series of tubes" stupidity all over again.
I feel you, protests in my country are not as effective as french or spanish protests, and usually devolve into large picnics instead.
Because you can't protest in an empty stomach. On the other hand, now we're too full to protest. Let's go home, Benfica is playing today.
Hooliganism is members of the Working Class fighting other members of the Working Class or Foreigners due to nothing more than tribalism and enjoying violence.
It has zero to do with pushing back on those with power over them or standing up for one's principles.
Hooliganism is actually a perfect example of the one of the ways the elites in the UK control the "lower" classes by having them discharge their anger at each other instead of going against the powerful.
Like Idiocracy has been a manual for the US, V for Vendetta is a manual for the UK.
For fuck sake people, these are movies of worlds we DON'T want to live in.
How about I get us started? To get the groove going;
AHHH! Look at my Bank Account! I have money left after paying rent! OHHH THE HUMANITY! 😨
Drugs are cheaper than groceries, also delivered within 15 minutes while groceries take 1 to 2 days. Guess what I'll be consuming tonight instead of dinner!
1 grocery bag with food for 2 day: 75 euros.
Or:
5 grams of ketamine: 25 euros.
5 xtc pills: 10 euros.
3 grams amphetamine: 15 euros.
I just saved 25 euros expenses, with enough for 5 days! Yay!
Just get a Fent-a.
The only soft drink with the extra kick of terrible addiction!
You mean Star Trek? But where are the suffering people?
On the planets in the Cardassian/Federation neutral zone....
Well both books were written to describe what british authoritarianism would look like.
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How long before we have a leak of the PM masturbating to state violence? Ugh V for Vandetta was so sexual in such an intentionally uncomfortable way
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I didn't watch the movie, but I can't imagine an American movie getting away with what the comic did. Yeah, one of the major themes of the comic is the fucked up sexuality displayed by the fascists and the leader gets off on the concentration camps.
Really good comic, but it's definitely a lot. Moore did a really good job of depicting the fascists as pathetic but dangerous. Though fair warning, if Moore could think of a slur a brit might possibly use it's in that comic.
UK has a massive federal budget problem...
The UK isn't a Federal Country. It's a Unitary state with Devolution. I know it is basically a Federal state in Practice (Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and Stormont all have varying amounts of autonomy) but the distinction is significant.
and they still keep increasing expenditure on surveillance.
This is the fucked up bit though: The OSA doesn't put the burden of Age gates on the State. They put it on The Service Provider (Websites and services). This is why so many non-porn forums, lemmy instances, and mastodon instances have either had to shut down or geoblock the UK, all the responsibility is on them to institute this lest they get sued out the arse. They can't afford to get YOTI or whatever, or don't have the manpower or money to institute their own system, so they shut down.
It's also why overblocking is a thing: because the OSA's official defination of what should be blocked is so vague so the two people who decide what get's blocked are the Service Provider and the Government effectively in that order. This is why Reddit is blocking things that should not be agegated (like support groups), because the law is so fucking vague, and why sites like Twitter are blocking tweets that don't need to be blocked under the "news" exception (yes, there is an exception for the news).
All of this, by the way, is because an investment trust and thinktank (yes, a lovely little conflict of interest) called Carnegie United Kingdom Trust pretty much wrote the OSA for the government. As an investment trust, they invest money in things, but being private, they don't need to tell Joe Public what they invest in, nor to the Investees need to tell us. So basically, they invested in YOTI or some others like it, and are making money from it because so many sites are forced to have it to work in the UK.
And all the other major tech players (Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft) are developing "Digital ID" systems as a "solution" which will not only make it easier to track people for them and the government, but also for advertisers, so they aren't complaining either.
TL;DR, The UK basically put all the pressure on the Websites so their friends can make loads of money.
All of this, by the way, is because an investment trust and thinktank (yes, a lovely little conflict of interest) called Carnegie United Kingdom Trust pretty much wrote the OSA for the government. As an investment trust, they invest money in things, but being private, they don’t need to tell Joe Public what they invest in, nor to the Investees need to tell us. So basically, they invested in YOTI or some others like it, and are making money from it because so many sites are forced to have it to work in the UK.
Can you link more information about this conflict of interest? I can't find anything about it.
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I got around to watching this video... without having seen this guy before (and therefore having no reason to take what he says at face value), and with the "source" in his description being almost unrelated to the video content, all that's left is that "Yoti is funded by trusts, Carnegie is a trust mentioned on Yoti's website."
That is conspiracy-theory level. The author doesn't even go so far as to draw actual conclusions; he's saying "we need to follow the money" which is reasonable, but you are saying "Carnegie invested in an age verifier and that's why they wrote the law." That's going well beyond the facts. You wouldn't stand for it when some moron tries to cast doubt on climate science and you shouldn't stand for it now just because it tickles your biases.
Some of that money probably went to companies doing ID verification
Quite possibly. But almost certainly a lot of Carnegie's money is going to companies who provide online services who now have much higher costs from doing age verification, content blocking and users fleeing, simply because there are a lot of companies in that position.
Just a fun fact about “think tanks”, “institutes”, “foundations” and most of those little groups is that when they appear in the news there’s a solid chance that they’re being propped up by corpo money. Every time they appear you need to go double check their bias and you’ll often find that it will be they themselves saying they’re “a conservative think tank” and, if not that, there will likely be a Wikipedia article and a bunch of other sources confirming it. I’m sure there are good ones, but it’s largely just oil companies and banks and big tech funding some corrupt as hell “academics” in order to buy some credibility.
I loved when I got into with one person over climate change and all they could do was send me articles that use oil-backed think tanks and which quoted a climate scientist who’s such a huge liar that whole webpages exist to organize and debunk all his paid-for bullshit.
It very much is.
Doesn't matter who or how its recovered. Its still a state mandated cost, aka indirect tax.
Every single piece of legislation costs the population. They all add a million cuts to the costs of living. In times of economic crisis these costs need to come down not up.
Edit: addressing the ad revenue stream. Again irrelevant. The ad revenue stream is reduced, some platforms are talking about charging UK users the outcome is the same. Maybe some pull out of the UK or force more ads into the freemium services costing time.
The requirement to file accounts is not a tax. Call things what they are, not whatever you've decided they're similar to in your mind. To do is either confusing or dishonest, depending on whether people ultimately see through what you're doing or not.
Opposition to this on the basis of finances requires you to actually have some idea of the fiscal outcome. If the number of British children who end up bypassing the rules and viewing genuinely harmful material is small then it will result in lower costs from children traumatised, mentally ill or killing themselves.
I oppose the act because of incalculable costs to privacy, not because it might mean Facebook has to display 10 more ads to someone to maintain their profit margins.
Call things what they are, not a tax.
You should practice it.
Levy is a Tax.
opposition requires
Absolute bollocks. Doesn't require anything. It only requires personal opinion. Parliament runs on it.
Of course the privacy impact is huge. privacy just does not matter to the average working voting person trying to put groceries on the table.
MPs wont change the stance here because people want to be protected by anonymity. Frankly they won't change stance at all. Its a certainty at this point.
But it will increase the cost of business which will be passed on and definitely exploited.
"Wont somebody think of the children"
Plenty of children starving in the UK because Government services cant raise revenue to maintain existing levels of public services.
I look to the UK and see the future of western economies. Boned badly, society highly controlled with a large overall tax burden, years of immigration to keep the budget balaced on paper increasing the impact all to delay the fallout. And yes while this will most likely not register a blip to the CPI, its still yet another cut in the wrong direction.
Absolute bollocks. Doesn’t require anything. It only requires personal opinion. Parliament runs on it.
If your opposition is just based on vibes than it can be ignored based on nothing more than that.
You should practice it.Levy is a Tax.
Oh, you are talking about an actual fee in the legislation, not the cost of contracting with a company that verifies ages.
The cost though is £70 million. Since you raise the prospect of child poverty, the one policy the government needs to reverse to improve child poverty is the two-child benefit cap, which would cost £2.1bn, so this policy costs 3% of a substantive policy on child poverty.
A high estimate for how many deaths could be prevented by lifting the cap is about 300 per year, that I have seen (it's not really about the cap itself but is about modelling what would happen if Labour were able to reduce child poverty at the same rate it was in 1997-2010, which would presumably include eliminating the cap). 3% of 300 is 9 deaths. While I don't support the OSA, I think it is completely plausible that a policy which reduces the amount children are looking at extreme violence and advocation of eating disorders and suicide would prevent in the region of 9 deaths per year. About 150 children die each year by suicide (according to statistics, which will undercount the problem because parents as a rule don't want their child's death to be recorded as suicide). And saving 9 lives is to bring this policy in line, cost-wise, with an estimate that relates to a whole programme of government, which will in reality cost far more than £2.1bn.
Cost is not the right lens through which to examine the OSA, no matter what your personal opinion tells you.
your opposition is just based on vibes
Welcome to politics. Have you never seen parliament debate?
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‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity
Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerlessPatrick Butler (The Guardian)
Welcome to politics. Have you never seen parliament debate?
Yes. The convincing speeches are those with facts behind them.
You are wrong. The vibes tell me... but so do the facts.
The Online Safety Act doesn't apply any new taxes on anyone. It forces service providers (IE: Private Companies) to institute age checks through either AI Face checks or ID either through an in house solution or buying services from a third party (YOTI or similar). It imposes a cost on a business where they have to either spend money setting up an age verification solution or acquire one from a private company. The government doesn't impose any new taxes on people on businesses with this bill, but instead makes companies who run services give money to other companies to comply with the law.
In short, the censorship isn't being done directly by the state, it's being done by private companies under pain of massive fines by the state. Other than suing websites or dealing with court challenges (which is done in house), all the actual legwork is being done by private companies, some of whom, like YOTI, are making handsome amounts of cash.
Read my post, you really didn't read it.
I'll spell it out.
State created the law. That creates a cost to be recovered. How that cost is recovered is irrelevant, it's s state mandated cost aka tax.
State created the law. That creates a cost to be recovered. How that cost is recovered is irrelevant, it’s s state mandated cost aka tax.
Just because it's a state mandated cost doesn't mean it's a tax. Tax implies the money goes to the government to pay for goods and services. It's actually worse than that: it's a levy.
A levy doesn't go to the government. A levy goes to whatever person provides the good or service. For example: if I tax alcohol based on alcohol content, the amount of money added to the tax goes to the government. If I place a levy based on alcohol content, the amount of money that is added goes to the person/company selling the booze. An example of a levy is the plastic bag levy, which was put in place to reduce plastic pollution. That money you spend on a bag doesn't go to the government, it goes to the people you got the bag from, and they can do whatever they want with it, keep it, give it to charity, use it to buy Heroin on the deep web, you name it!
What this law has effectively done has made service providers (not just companies, but whoever runs the site) a choice: They can either develop their own age verification system or pay a company (like YOTI) to do it for them. Most service providers do the latter because they do not have the resources to do the latter.
Does the money go to the government? No (except maybe under the table nudge nudge wink wink), it goes straight to the company. What the government has done is force entities to give a private company money.
It's a tax in the way, let's say, a hypothetical Right-Libertarian government might tax you, or even an American Homeowners Association might "tax" you: making you give a private company money.
Levy, lol.
Call it what it is: a tax.
A burden on the population. No amount of dirty politics changes the fact. Taxes do not all get directly paid to gavernment. Like sales taxes, service tips ect.
Edit wrote another post, more depth.
A burden on the population.
The population being the people who run self hosted forums with a certain amount of British users. If you are one of those people, yeah, I'm sorry, I hate it too, but the vast majority of the UK don't run forums with a large amount of British users. Fun fact, the End users (the people giving away their IDs) aren't actually paying shit to anyone bar their IDs.
Taxes do not all get directly paid to gavernment. Like sales taxes, service tips ect.
VAT (what you call "sales tax") does go to the Treasury. Like when you buy something, that 20% extra you paid goes off to the government via the Taxes the shop pays. That's how VAT works.
Services tips aren't really a thing in the UK, especially not mandatory ones because food service workers in the UK aren't exempt from the minimum wage.
Are you even from the UK? Are you even in the UK? Because if you were from here, or even if you spent any amount of time here, you would've known the following things:
- The United Kingdom doesn't have Federal Taxes because we're not a Federal country. Again, we're a Unitary Country with Devolution.
- We don't use the term "Sales Tax", we use the term VAT (Value Added Tax). That's not some special technical term, VAT is common parlance.
- Service tips are not compulsory nor expected in any way, shape or form because food service workers in the UK are paid minimum wage with no exceptions. Most places here don't even have the option to give a tip.
Considering these things, I think you're American. In that case, please, do us a favour, don't act like you're a fucking expert on this. I live in the UK, Scotland to be precise. Shit's bad, The OSA can get tae fuck, but having Yanks who watched videos made by other yanks who don't know shit about fuck on the ground lecture me about my own fucking country as if it's just "America with funny accents" not only doesn't help, it's just spreading bullshit.
End users.. ... aren't paying shit
Users dont pay for the services. Okaay.
Well done you know how sales tax works. Customers pay the business. Business pays the Government. My point.
Swing and a miss on all points.
FYI I used the common terms for your benefit, you sounded American.
Well done you know how sales tax works. Customers pay the business. Business pays the Government. My point.
...and where in this chain is YOTI et al paying the government?
Frankly, you sound like the most odious little turd I have ever met on Lemmy.
Oh my sweet summer child:
- Pretty much everything that's happened since 2014 (Brexit, the erosion of Scotland's autonomy, the nixing of the GRA, The Covid Response, Liz Truss) has pushed Scotland toward Independence. This isn't even that big a push for us.
- The investment firm/think tank who basically wrote this bill, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, IS HEAD-QUARTERED IN FUCKIN' DUNFERMLINE.
I fucking hate the UK, so much.
The MPs and Peers only fucking learnt about VPNs when this bullshit bill was being passed. They're so fucking clueless about the whole thing. They don't understand what a VPN exactly is and what it does and the fact their own government (hopefully) uses them, as do Banks (for security), Companies, and indeed, how it works.
This will lead to more bullshit.
Wrote a email to my MP for this exact reason.
The OSA needs repealing. All it's doing is either teaching people to follow poor digital hygiene practices, or forcing people to follow more risky methods of bypassing the OSA controls.
Whole guise of child safety is laughable when they've made zero attempts to educate everyone (not just kids) on being safe online.
Yeah, I noticed Google had evaded the ban.
Would have thought they'd be all over the opportunity to gobble up even more data.
to more obscure and risky providers who don't care about the law instead
There's no need to go that far, there will still be plenty of well-known and trustworthy providers who care about the law but simply operate outside of UK jurisdiction.
In that case they have to geoblock UK to be out of UK jurisdiction. Which a lot of these providers are already doing.
And if they aren't doing it themselves, the UK will likely do it for them by forcing UK network providers to block them.
Let's extend our unpopular law to more places! Soon, you'll have to verify your age to see boobs in real life. Which will be pretty unfortunate for teens trying to get busy in the backseats of cars.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
I wonder how they figure that's going to work out.
I couldn't imagine being this pants-shittingly stupid about how the internet works.
Don't forget to donate to Tor Project and/or a relay operator if you use it, even $1 covers like several TB of traffic.
We did the year of Linux. Let's make this the year of Tor.
If literally everyone used it at all costs, websites would be forced to support traffic from it and blacklisting relays would kill the whole internet
A VPS is one of the best tools on the internet. Make your own relay, with or without blackjack and/or hookers.
You use Tor to pop out in any other more enlightened country where you use bitcoin or some other crypto to purchase access to a good vpn and download the installer.
Then download TBs of porn through your shiny new vpn subscription rather than bogging down the onion network
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(Not the most economical, but a good way to bootstrap into a VPN if more traditional payments are not available)
Private Internet Access Anonymous VPN
Purchase Private Internet Access' VPN service with a gift card and stay completely private. Choose a card on the list of approved retailers and don’t worry about your privacywww.privateinternetaccess.com
at the moment no one is going into that level of granularity. I do own some monero, if i feel the need in the future i may switch over to that completely or at least start purchasing bitcoin anonymously which is something else a VPN can help with.
Add to that the fact that if a place accepts crypto there's a good chance that they only accept one and that is BTC
They wouldn't be able to get this shit to fly against the other members of the EU, I don't think.
Those people are doing the Lord's work, forcing companies to give control over user data, to the users, making USB C a standard for all devices... I won't list everything, but shit. The rest of the world has benefited by proxy on so many things, because of the EU.
The UK is acting like a bunch of pearl clutching soccer moms.
In the UK we already have a law where isps block porn by default (blacklisting) the adult who took out the plan can contact the isp and ask them to opt out of these blocks. That's been a thing for about 10 years. You can own a Pay-as-you-go sim as a minor but you have to send government id to prove you are over 18 to get the adult content filtering turned off.
That's one of the things that made it clear to me that the new law is an authoritarian data mining operation and blatant power grab. Like... We already have these tools in place. If you don't want your kid accessing porn, don't opt out of the filters provided by your isp.
You could argue that putting the onus on the platform is more effective at "protecting kids" than having the isps maintain blacklists but there will always be small sites that don't comply and enterprising kids who find a way around any block. Just like the law requires you to be 18 to buy alcohol or tobacco here but there are always dodgy shops who sell tobacco to underage kids. There are older siblings and relatives willing to buy cigarettes and alcohol for underage teens.
This was never about protecting the children. That was the Trojan horse used to justify these laws to the technically uninformed.
Why is my internet blocking adult sites? - How web filters work
Find out more about how and why Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk are blocking websites, how web filtering works and how to remove it.Matt Powell (Broadband Genie)
They take crypto, wash a few satoshis through lightning and you're as good as anonymous.
sure, xmr would be better, but 🤷🏻♂️
edit: well shuck my corn!
"We accept cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monero, bank wire, credit card, PayPal, Swish, Eps transfer, Bancontact, iDEAL, and Przelewy24."
That's a niiiice tip.
Deleting my account and re-joining under TOR when my lapse comes around. Might as well hide my use entirely.
To the people of the UK:
What the hell is this authoritarian, pearl clutching shit? You're fucking shit up for everyone. Can you get your people to please fuck off?
Thanks, from some guy on the Internet.
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You can be damn sure the "people of the UK" have nothing to do with this, we didn't vote on it.
Should just take a leaf out of the French book and just start burning shit.
The French get shit done. I can certainly say that. They're a population that really won't stand for being shit on. It's why they made such good use of the guillotine, historically.
Taking a page from their book may not be a bad idea.... Or you could reference the alleged works of Saint Luigi from America. He also made a profound impact. At least for a while.
It's funny, because that's exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school's firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server -- but these days it wouldn't be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
"Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?"
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
all of the sudden these goody two shoes politicians want to control porn for "the safety of the children"
what a bunch of tards
Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for Torrent Client, Developer Left in the Dark * TorrentFreak
While alternative app stores operate independently and are required by EU law, Apple is still in a position to exert some control. This became apparent a few weeks ago, when iTorrent users suddenly ran into trouble when installing the app.
Thought this was an interesting story, since it's pretty analagous to the recent Android situation, with third party app stores being enabled to some extent, but the company retaining ultimate censorship power.
Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for Torrent Client, Developer Left in the Dark * TorrentFreak
Apple has inexplicably revoked the EU distribution rights for the iTorrent app, and left its developer in the dark without answers.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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No. But we can sideload. Two apps for free, have to be authorized every 7 days. (It’s actually three, but the app that does this for you takes a slot, so that and two others.)
You can also get a developer license for $99/year that lets you do unlimited with a much longer authorization window.
I don’t do it. The 7 day thing really isn’t worth it and they aren’t any iOS apps to sideload I care about.
Delta is the coolest emulator due to cloud sync and it’s in the App Store.
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A relative from a different country gave me their old phone, a iPhone 11 Pro Max.
I can't use it as a phone to call, because it currently takes 3 times the phone's cost to register foreign originated phones to use permanently inside my country.
I don't have a mac, so I can't start coding native apps on it. At most I was able to test flutter web projects, which are basically websites. I have a goddamn phone and the most customizable thing I can make on it is testing my web app.
If I could try developing native apps on it for free, straight out of my machine I would. But it's honestly so expensive that it drives me away any time I get slighty interested on the idea, it's much easier on Android.
, because it currently takes 3 times the phone’s cost to register foreign originated phones to use permanently inside my country.
That sounds like the stupidest tech thing I've heard this week. Where is this? In my country and at least in every nearby country that I'm aware of, there's a flat cost to registering a phone to operate and while it is a cost, it's not too much (nowhere near the full cost of a pjone in the market, defo) and the only really annoying part of the process is that it somehow takes four whole weeks.
Turkey. The phone I mentioned is easily findable on the 2nd hand market for around 12-15k TL (non registered that is, registereds are around 20k TL), registering a new abroad phone currently costs 45k TL. It is a flat cost, but it still is three times the cost of the phone.
Retarded government economy management at its peak. Speaking of, did you know that on a brand new car purchase in Turkey, 3/4th of your purchase will be the sales tax? One car for you, three cars for the government.
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You know what I find deplorable? Spyware as a feature. Like Android.
Also, Google bypasses ad blockers. Say you have an iPhone, or an unrooted Android phone. You're blocking ads? You're using DNS to do it. The Google app, and Google apps in general, ignore the system DNS settings and use Google's own DNS. There are some good reasons they do it, but the chief upshot for Google is, they get to inject ads into a device whose owner explicitly tries to block them. Since ads can also carry malware/ransomware, Google is intentionally opening a security hole in a device you may not be able to 100% secure, but could be fairly secure. Relatively secure. For a smartphone.
I actually got ransomware on a popular Android blog through an ad they served. I'd just wiped my phone — this was the last Android phone I'd owned. So I mean, I'd wiped the internal ROM. Repartitioned it, installed a recovery (TWRP, naturally), and then flashed a custom OS. Back then, you couldn't get stock Android on a national carrier in the US. So, I was flashing a European CFW customised with the CDMA radios that the US was using at the time (we're all GSM now like the rest of the world, I think the last CDMA towers, which were 3G, have been shut down but I'm not sure — Sprint and US Cellular were CDMA and they're both part of T-Mobile, and Verizon was the big one and they're all on the GSM tech now). Anyway, I hadn't installed AdAway yet, I was just reading tech blogs, when my screen went red, said illegal content was detected on my device, pay "the FBI" so many thousand dollars in Bitcoin to unlock my device. I laughed, wiped the internal ROM again and started over... installing AdAway before going out to the open web. Lesson learned. But that's the kind of thing Google intentionally opens its users up to by tunneling around the ad blocker. (I don't name the tech blog because I contacted them and they were very helpful in identifying the source of the ransomware attacks and getting that advertiser de-listed. So there is no reason to "name and shame." But it can happen to anyone, and without even going to "shady" sites.)
Oh, I hate a lot about Android/Google too. One particular pet peeve of mine is that WebAPKs are still exclusive to Chrome (and, on Samsung devices only, Samsung Internet) despite the FAQ promising that "We are working on it. We are committed to making this available to all browsers on Android and we will have more details soon." (Last updated 2017-05-21)
There is no good option in smartphones, you have to choose the lesser evil. For me that's Android. I can appreciate that for some people it would be iOS. What drives me up a wall is that people defend these awful practices.
WebAPKs on Android
When the user adds your Progressive Web App to their home screen on Android, Chrome automatically generates an APK for you, which we sometimes call a WebAPK.web.dev
Yes. If you're a free developer (you have to register as a developer to even do this), you have to re-authorise the app every 7 days or it gets "revoked" which means the app will not launch.
You also have to install a certificate that certifies the app(s) to you. This is generally safe, but you should be careful with trust certificates. You're basically taking full responsibility for the code that's being executed on your device. If you haven't audited the source code (or if someone you trust hasn't), it might be a risk.
If you used a signing service, someone has bought a bunch of paid developer licenses and they've given you the certificate for one of them. Once Apple discovers this, they'll revoke that developer license which revokes your apps. The signing service will then issue you a new certificate. Revokes aren't super common, or so they say (I've never used a signing service).
They recently (two days ago) did a massive revoke on the paid certificates. All known sellers got hit with the massive revoke and it is at the moment a bit of a mess.
Rumor goes that Apple also hit actual developers with the revoke hit. So curious how that goes.
it's not an alternative if they still have final say.
it's also not your property if the company can dictate what you run on it either. Stop giving these scum your money.
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StarLite 12.5-inch
Its fanless design ensures your StarLite will never make more than a whisper - unless you want it to. The Mk V supports coreboot open source firmware which you can effortlessly configure to your preferences via our coreboot configurator.Star Labs®
If it's Sailfish OS (Xperias or Jollaphones, updates are paid), apart from apps (hit or miss if it's popular enough, pure miss if it isn't), everything works fine (I guess, I haven't tried it).
If it's anything else, it's still murky.
It isn't. I don't particularly care for phones, and nobody mentioned phones specifically.
Edit: Though there are plenty of linux phones or linux for android phones.
Sadly, there are very few Linux tablets, so we thought we'd give an option.
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Trump’s administration again appeals to the Supreme Court over his foreign aid funding freeze
Trump’s administration again appeals to the Supreme Court over his foreign aid funding freeze
Trump has portrayed the foreign aid as wasteful spending that does not align with his foreign policy goals.The Associated Press (Federal News Network)
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A lot of legit websites saying they a bad certificate
SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN means incorrect SAN information, proxying, or DNS manipulation is occurring.
You could compare what you see in the browser and what you see via something like:$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect cs.rin.ru:443
You could also check the DNS resolution and traceroute to see how you are getting there to confirm if DNS is being effected or you are being proxied:$ dig cs.rin.ru @127.0.0.1 A$ mtr cs.rin.ru
How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers
How Trump’s Anti-Environment Crusade Enriches Drug Traffickers - Inside Climate News
The president has pledged to combat transnational drug organizations. Yet these groups make vast sums from environmental crimes, and his administration has gutted personnel and programs that targeted them, a new report shows.Inside Climate News
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Passenger Assaulted in Viral TikTok Video Sues Southwest Airlines, Blames Seating Plan
Southwest is transitioning to assigned seats in January 2026.
Case file: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…
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Israel launches fresh airstrikes in Damascus countryside in Syria
Israeli warplanes struck several sites near the town of Al-Kiswah in the Damascus countryside in southern Syria on Wednesday evening, local media said, Anadolu reports.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastmo…
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Mining the Deep Sea Could Threaten a Source of Ocean Oxygen
Deep-Sea Nodules May Produce Oxygen—Raising Concerns over Ocean Mining
Deep-sea rocks packed with valuable metals may also be making oxygen in the deep, dark ocean—raising new questions about the cost of mining them.Rachel Feltman (Scientific American)
Texas uses special session to push “discriminatory & harmful” anti-trans & anti-abortion bills
Despite mounting public protest, Texas lawmakers are fast-tracking two anti-trans and anti-abortion bills. Both measures are being advanced during a special legislative session convened by Governor Greg Abbott (R), who has made restricting transgender rights and reproductive freedom central to his agenda.
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Vuoto a perdere 07: la festa di Freddie
MONDO REALE: il 18 febbraio 1990 i Queen hanno festeggiato i loro 20 anni di carriera ed è stata l’ultima occasione in cui Freddie Mercury abbia presenziato a un evento pubblico.
FANTASIA: Mark Wilson partecipa alla festa di Freddie come membro dello staff ma viene umiliato pubblicamente. Come al solito. Allora si arrende all’evidenza, o almeno così sembra…
La figlia di Freddie?
Anni 2020. Maledizione! Fossero esistiti i social network negli anni 80 e 90 avrei rintracciato in pochi minuti la presunta donna che aveva dato una figlia a Freddie; invece, con la smania di mantenere il segreto, ho rispedito la lettera al mittente e, ora che ho in mano uno smartphone con l’intelligenza artificiale capace di tradurre, rimpiango di non averla fotocopiata o trascritta a penna.
Ma per fortuna, nel 1987, né Freddie né il suo compagno mi chiesero mai conto della busta dopo averli convinti fosse stato il delirio di un folle mitomane, così ho lavorato da loro fino al 1990 fingendo di accantonare il mio piano di sangue.
1990. L’invito
14 febbraio: mi mandò a chiamare Freddie in persona; quanto era debole e magro, ogni giorno che passava la malattia progrediva sempre più come se il virus volesse dirmi: “Se non ti sbrighi, lui sarà tutto mio!”
Bastava avere il coraggio di strappargli con violenza la cannula usata per somministrare i farmaci, e in pochi minuti avrei avuto il suo sangue tutto per me invece quel giorno mi feci uno scrupolo. Almeno fagli passare la festa degli innamorati assieme a Jim, ci penserai domani! Fu un’occasione d’oro persa per sempre, e me ne resi conto troppo tardi.
Chi si aspettava un invito da lui a un evento ufficiale, di certo non io! Mi sentivo sempre l’ultimo della lista, e mi commossi quando Freddie mi propose: “Ehi, William, o qualunque sia il tuo nome. Il 18 febbraio celebro i 20 anni di carriera coi Queen. Vieni, vero? Ormai sei uno di famiglia!”
“Qualunque sia il tuo nome.” Riflettendo col senno di poi, dovevo sospettare che avesse scoperto le mie intenzioni e volesse tendermi una trappola ma allora l’eccitazione non mi fece ragionare.
Mi avvicinai a lui e mentre lo stringevo forte a me per ringraziarlo, il mio braccio sfiorò la cannula dei farmaci. “Fermo, Mark, non è il momento”, pensai tra me, e mi allontanai.
Le notti seguenti fui colto sempre dagli stessi incubi: Freddie che, discreto, entrava nella mia stanza e si spogliava davanti a me. “Ho capito chi sei e cosa vuoi; sono qui, prendimi!” Così dicendo, si apriva la pelle di una mano con un coltello e avvicinava la ferita al mio volto, quel poco che bastava per farmi sentire l’odore del sangue. Ma alla fine si allontanava succhiandosi il taglio e ridendomi in faccia: “Negativo pauroso! Ecco cosa sei!”
Al mio risveglio sentivo ogni volta il sapore metallico, il mio cuscino era sempre macchiato… Ma ero solo io che nel sonno mi mordevo la lingua o le labbra, facendo uscire gocce di sangue eternamente negativo dal mio corpo inutile.
Chissà come sarebbe stato, una volta avuto ciò che mi spettava? Più gustoso, più caldo, più carico, insomma POSITIVO, come dovrebbe essere!
Vuoto a perdere: La festa di Freddie
Il 18 febbraio fu una serata memorabile, l’industria discografica britannica premiò i Queen per l’importante contributo dato alla musica inglese e loro festeggiarono i vent’anni di carriera; il chitarrista Brian May attribuì scherzosamente il premio al riciclo di grandi quantità di vinile ma Freddie non si fece coinvolgere. “Grazie e buonanotte”, disse, rimanendo isolato per tutto il tempo.
Il malore
Quando uscimmo mi avvicinai di nuovo a lui e gli feci le congratulazioni per il premio ma non mi rivolse una singola parola; i suoi occhi erano solo per gli amici Queen, così finsi un malore e iniziai a barcollare da destra a sinistra. “Freddie, sto male”, urlai. “qualcuno mi aiuti!”
Intervennero diverse persone in mio soccorso ma lo shock più grande fu quando vidi l’ultimo uomo al mondo che pensavo di incontrare a un simile evento: Raymond Still, ex bullo della scuola, ormai diventato un famoso scienziato.
Cosa ci faceva lì? Forse gli era veramente arrivata la mia lettera in cui gli dicevo che Freddie era malato di AIDS, e aveva preso contatti per il suo lavoro sul virus, senza dirmi niente?
No, dai, pensai per calmarmi. Sono mesi che la stampa specula su Freddie Mercury e la sua malattia, la voce sarà arrivata sicuramente da là! Raymond è un bullo ma non calpesta le persone nel lavoro, lo conosco bene!
L’incontro con lui mi fece realizzare che da allora in poi niente c’era più da perdere, o adesso o mai più! Dissanguare Freddie in quel preciso momento avrebbe consentito di condividere il virus tra me e Ray, dimostrandogli finalmente che anch’io nella vita potevo combinare qualcosa di concreto.
“Freddie!” Mi misi a urlare e il frontman dei Queen mi guardò perplesso. Inevitabilmente pensai agli ultimi giorni del mio defunto ragazzo Andy e senza più alcuno scrupolo tirai fuori tutta la mia rabbia, e un coltello a serramanico che tenevo ben nascosto nei pantaloni.
“Te la farò pagare, il mio compagno è morto per colpa tua!”
D’improvviso mi sentii afferrare da dietro ma non erano gli addetti alla sicurezza dei Queen: era Ray Still a bloccarmi!
“Ti conviene andartene”, intimò a voce bassa, ma non abbastanza da non essere sentito. “Altrimenti rivelerò a tutti chi sei veramente!”
“Lo so già dottor Still”, aveva risposto Freddie. “Da mesi il mio staff lo tiene sotto controllo e ho capito quant’è pericoloso. Da oggi sei licenziato, William Karson, anzi Mark Wilson!”
Non ebbi altra scelta e me ne andai con lo staff dei Queen, mentre Raymond portò via Freddie per prendersene cura. Da allora nessuna notizia mi arrivò più, fino al 23 novembre 1991 quando Freddie annunciò la propria malattia, e il giorno successivo il mondo apprese la sua morte.
1992: Ritorno alle origini
Era accaduto: il virus se l’era portato via prima di me. Così me ne tornai nel paesino dov’ero nato, e dove continuai a lavorare come addetto alle pulizie. “Chi aspetta sarà premiato”, il mio povero fidanzato Andrew continuava ad apparirmi in sogno con quella dannata frase, a cui aggiungeva: “Ricorda, i cantanti che son morti non son morti veramente!”
Non ho mai capito cosa volesse dire; certo, Freddie era ancora vivo grazie alla musica ma non bastava. L’unica mia speranza per avere il suo DNA dentro di me, era trovare una persona a cui avesse trasmesso il virus o, addirittura, il suo gifter. Colui o colei che gliel’aveva dato; decisamente un’impresa impossibile.
Finché un giorno del 1994, guardando una serie TV ambientata in un ospedale di Chicago, vidi la bambina. Tatiana, 7 anni, russa e malata di AIDS. La presunta figlia di Freddie era nata in Russia, possibile che fosse stata portata in America?
Non volendo esser preso per matto evitai di cercare informazioni e presi la storia come un episodio drammatico di una serie tv, così lasciai passare il tempo finché la vicenda di Freddie e presunta figlia passò nel dimenticatoio.
2000: nuove speranze
Un giorno del 2000 mia sorella Virginia arrivò con una notizia che, forse, mi avrebbe portato dove erano iniziati i miei fallimenti e le mie speranze.
“Sai Mark, fratellone”, mi disse raggiante. “Sto partendo. Mi trasferisco in Italia!”
Appassionata di cucina com’è sempre stata, poteva solo realizzarsi in un paese come quello dove la gastronomia è apprezzata in tutto il mondo! “Mi hanno selezionato all’università di Bugliano, andrò a conseguire un master di specializzazione per diventare chef.”
La International Bugliano University Of Life, conosciuta ovunque perché ha fatto nascere le migliori eccellenze in ogni materia. Certo! Virginia ha molte più capacità di me, sicuramente supererà gli esami con lode mentre io sono stato un completo fallimento!
“So cosa stai pensando fratello”, mi disse abbracciandomi. “Ma se non sei passato in medicina, certamente potrai essere un ottimo insegnante di musica. Che dici?”
Anni 2020: Bugliano, arrivo!
E così eccomi qua. Dal 2001 insegno musica all’università e mi sono sposato con la docente di chimica e mi prendo cura di sua figlia Gloria come fossi il suo vero padre, una ragazza meravigliosa che da tempo lavora alla centrale nucleare di Bugliano.
Dissanguare Freddie? Mi dicono che è morto, della figlia non ho più avuto notizie, ma Andrew nei miei sogni appare ogni notte raccontandomi che la verità è un’altra.
Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns
Security researchers have concerns that Anthropic's Claude for Chrome is vulnerable to malicious prompting. Claude for Chrome allows users to chat with Claude as they browse the web. Claude can read webpages, fill forms, and click on links and buttons to perform complex tasks for the user. But Anthropic's testing revealed that 11.2% of malicious prompting attempts succeeded even with safety measures in place. One test case was a malicious email that asked Claude to delete all emails in the user's inbox for "mailbox hygiene". AI researcher Simon Willison states that an 11.2% success rate is unacceptable for so-called AI agents, especially when several AI companies are releasing their own browser extensions. One competing product, Perplexity's Comet browser, was found to be vulnerable to a prompt injection attack that instructed it to start password recovery for the user's Gmail account. Although Perplexity attempted to fix the issue, Comet remains vulnerable to this attack.
Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns
Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Second, if it were free or very cheap and I could sandbox it to only respond to painful cookie request menus to reject cookies, I would use it. I have consent o matic but it does a shit job and only works on a small percentage of sites.
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You can do that just with ublock with the annoyance list, or using an extension like i don't care about cookies. Simple and efficient, no need for an "ai agent" for that
I don't care about cookies seems to be for people that feel that way. It sounds like if it has any difficulty blocking cookies is just accepts the to kill the pop up. I do care about cookies. It's my understanding unlock will just get rid of the pop-ups and allow cookies to default to accepted.
Both of these tools are detrimental imo as they just work against the protections that were attempted to be put in place by the EU to help minimize cookie abuse. Using these accomplishes Exactly what websites want. They have made pop ups and menus annoying enough that people are happy. To ignore them and allow them to default to aggressive tracking methods.
DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Disaster-aid groups said the new contracts would make it harder for nonprofits to help the most vulnerable Americans in the aftermath of a disaster.
In other words, if your house burns down, or you need rescue after being swept away in a flood, you need to produce proof of citizenship or a visa before you can get help from anybody. Even if your ID was lost or destroyed in the disaster.
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