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YouTube will ban Premium accounts made through VPN

Based on recent reports, YouTube is actively restricting access to Premium accounts created through VPNs and cracking down on users accessing Premium content across different regions. According to user discussions, YouTube now detects and blocks VPN connections when attempting to stream Premium content¹².

Some key impacts:

Users report being unable to play YouTube Music through Sonos speakers when using a VPN, with the service becoming accessible only after bypassing VPN connections¹
Premium subscribers attempting to access content from different regions than their subscription face connection errors and service disruptions
The restrictions appear to be part of YouTube's broader strategy to enforce regional content licensing and subscription terms

The crackdown coincides with YouTube's increased focus on Premium subscriptions, including showing longer unskippable ads to free users in 2025 to drive Premium adoption³.

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It keeps showing no selection is available, anyone still having this issue?

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simonced

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Lol, it's like paying to lose your privacy, it's dumb!

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sakuragasaki46

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Where our datahoarders at?

Will creatives jump off the sinking ship? Or authorize us to download?

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Kiev’s ‘exchange fund’ nears zero, Russia has thousands more Ukrainian POWs — Medinsky

The Russian Presidential Aide and head of the Russian negotiating group with Ukraine also said that recently the Russian Military Historical Society handed over several thousand books to the institutions where Ukrainian prisoners of war are being hel…

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mcv

in reply to bubblybubbles • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Russian state media. Not a credible source for anything (see also the other articles for some glaring examples of misinformation).

Although if Ukraine has less PoWs to exchange, part of the reason might be that Russia would rather see their soldiers die than surrender. They actively shoot their own soldiers.

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bubblybubbles

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haha yea, the western media says it's un-credible so it must be true! Not lik they have any incentive to slander a news outlet that bucks approved western narratives or anythin. Nope. No reason at all! 😂

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mcv

in reply to bubblybubbles • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Unlike Russian state media, western media is independent and not beholden to their government, but nice try.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Western media is usually beholden to state department lines, and recieves partial funding. Moreover, western media is thoroughly under the control of wealthy capitalists laser-focusing on their own interests. There's no such thing as "free" mass media.

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mcv

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Which state department do you mean? Are you aware that "western media" is spread over 2 dozen different countries? Sure, US corporate media is highly partisan and corrupt, but even the US has independent media, and many other countries have much more independent media. They're certainly not as dominated by the state, let alone a single state, as they are in Russia. Not even in the US (although that's certainly moving in that direction). And in every western country, even the US, the media will often disagree with or debunk the government's narrative.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Private media is beholden to the wealthiest in society, and often recieves state funding as well. This is true across all western nations, including European nations. The few, minor independent news organizations that go against the grain are overwhelmed by the standard mass media.

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mcv

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Bullshit. Sure, in the US everything is corporate owned and controlled. But in Europe, there are media reporting every side of every story. My primary newspaper (NRC, a major Dutch newspaper) has no problem going against the grain when the situation calls for it. But even in the US with its highly partisan media, there are news outlets for every political leaning, and many do not blindly parrot the government narrative like Russian media does.

Whatever misgivings you have about western media (and some are definitely justified), it's really no comparison to Russia, where a wrong word can have you falling out of a window. Putin brutally silences dissent in a way even Trump can only dream of.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Dutch media isn't particularly different from US media. Further, the "every political leaning" really just translates to various flavors of right-wing, from SocDem to fascist. What gets boosted by private investors is what permeates discourse. Private media is no less biased than state media.

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mcv

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Dutch media is far less partisan than US media, which in turn is still far less state-controlled than Russian media. You're fooling yourself if you want to pretend these are all the same.

Furthermore, SocDem is not right-wing by even the farthest stretch of the imagination. It's moderate left. If you want further left than that, there's still small indie media for you. If you consider every voice out there to be compromised and right-wing, maybe the problem is you.

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davel

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Eh… DemSoc is left wing while SocDem is basically welfare capitalism these days.

In modern practice, social democracy has taken the form of predominantly capitalist economies, a robust welfare state, policies promoting social justice, market regulation, and a more equitable distribution of income.

Capitalism with welfare policies

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mcv

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Read your own link, man. It calls Democratic Socialism a wing of Social Democracy. Also, why do you not also share the article about Social Democracy itself?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social…

Now, you would be correct if you merely argued that many Labour movements dipped to moderate right with their embrace of neoliberalism in the 1990s, but outside of that, they've been moderate left. But SocDem has always been considered various degrees of left. Sometimes not even moderately so.

political ideology

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Social Democracy is an ideology supporting capitalism, at best it is center-right. Welfare capitalism is still capitalism.

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mcv

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Mixed economy is the word for it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_…

economic system combining public and private production

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

All economies are mixed, what determines mode of production is the principle aspect of the economy. In social democracy, the large firms and key industries are still privately owned, with perhaps some little nationalization, and the state is dominated by the wealthy.

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LemmeAtEm

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

SocDem is not right-wing by even the farthest stretch of the imagination

"Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism." - J. V. Stalin

marxistleninist.wordpress.com/…

Even after the victory of fascism, the influence, ideology and traditions of Social Democracy continue their baleful and disorganising role, preventing the emergence of a united working class front to confront and defeat fascism. Further, if fascist dictatorship’s grip on power weakens, then Social Democracy stands in wait to come to the rescue of capitalism.
What is beyond doubt is that both Social Democracy and fascism are agents of monopoly capitalism; both fight tooth and nail against the struggle of the working class for its social emancipation. With this as their aim, both disrupt and weaken working-class organisations.
Their methods are, however, different. While fascism smashes the class organisations of the working class from without and opposes their whole basis and counters them with an alternative ‘national’ ideology, Social Democracy undermines them from within by diverting them along reformist bourgeois channels. Whereas fascism relies mainly on coercion, along with deception, Social Democracy relies mainly on deception, along with coercion. Their aims are identical; only their methods differ. In view of the identity of their aims and differing methods, one cannot but agree with Stalin’s observation, made as early as 1924, that “Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism.” (Concerning the International Situation, Collected Works, vol 6, p.294)

Bourgeois Democracy and Fascism

The Marxist-Leninist is reproducing the following article by Harpal Brar from the Stalin Society in order to counter propaganda that fascism is something other than the open terroristic dictatorshi…

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You're still equating private funding with independence. Further, social democrats are capitalists, by definition they are right wing. There are exceedingly few leftist voices except for small indie media, across the west, and these voices get drowned out by the huge private mass media corporations that are just mouthpieces for wealthy owners.

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mcv

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

They exist, though. They're worth listening to. Critically, of course, as with all media.

social democrats are capitalists,

Yet they are also socialists. By definition. They're trying to find a balance, and have at times been quite successful.

Seriously, read up on the history of socialism. There's a lot more to it than you probably think.

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BrainInABox

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Lol. I do not understand how people can be so simultaneously ignorant and arrogant on a subject.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Yes, leftist news is worth listening to, but these are by no means the common news sources in the west. Social democtats are not socialists, you cannot be both a capitalist and a socialist. Believe me, I have done reading on the history of socialism, I'm a communist.

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folaht

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NRC is not Partisan? LOL.

Dutch media copies US media to the tee.
The difference is that it only follows US democrat media,
until far-right movements popped up and one of them
created a 'US republican outlet' show.

There's currently a wave of articles in the NRC going on about feminism,
for the millionth time, about violence against women,
because one teenage girl had been killed.
Meanwhile, in Palestine we have hundreds of thousands of women and children dying of a genocide
and it's being completedly ignored.
And that's deliberate to pull wool over your eyes from the genocide our country is complicit in.

If NRC condemned Israel like it does Russia, we'd have articles like these:
"Name of person is resisting Israel for its human rights violations"
"Israel keeps repeating it's imperialistic tricks"
"Netanyahu's borders doesn't stop at NATO's borders"
"The Liberal Party manoeuvres into the heart of a pro-Israeli network"
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera

And if NRC would be writing about Russia if it were Israel we'd have articles like these:
"Greater-Russia has deep historical roots"
"Russian parlement votes against the establishment of a Ukrainian state"
"Why did Russia attack Ukraine and twelve other question."
"The Netherlands wants Russia to deliver proof that the murdered journalists were Azov nazis"
"Russia air strikes Lithuanian military targets"
"Putin’s long cherished air strike attack on Poland is also a welcoming diversion"
"UK, France and Canada warn Russia that they will take concrete measures if Russia continues this war"

And the problem here is that Russia actually has a legitimate reason for their invasion where Israel does not.

When Ukraine got independent, pieces of Russia that the Soviet Union gave to Ukraine for administrative purposes came with it. It was accepted as Ukraine was thought to be a "sister nation" like Belgium to the Netherlands. Today Ukraine can no longer be trusted to safeguard its Russian population as it tries to join NATO and NATO is anti-Russia. Ukraine has been actively been suppressing its Russian population,
including but not limited to machine gunning civilians trying to enter voting booths for the demand of independence from Ukraine.
Russia's response to that was demilitarization of Ukraine,
targeting military only, with a record low amount of civilians killed per soldier.

That's very different from Netanyahu's "Greater Israel" plan that tries to simply conquer 9 nations, most of them tacit allies, with zero historical roots to them, apart from parts of Palestine, but that already pales in comparison to the area south of Beersheba Israel already occupies that never were historically Israeli.
Hamas did a desperate attack on Israel as Netanyahu publicly displayed part of his Greater Israel plan at the UN.

Israel's response to that is genocing, targeting civilians first and foremost.
Women, children and hospitals first.

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mcv

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There's currently a wave of articles in the NRC going on about feminism, for the millionth time, about violence against women,
because one teenage girl had been killed.
Meanwhile, in Palestine we have hundreds of thousands of women and children dying of a genocide and it's being completedly ignored.

If you know about the articles in NRC, you also know that they have many articles about Gaza, and yet you choose to lie about that. Why would you even think you can lie about that when I also have access to those articles?

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/23/wanho…

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/21/na-de…

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/21/massa…

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/29/europ…

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/13/worde…

Na de daverende klap van de raket opent Israël het offensief in Gaza-Stad

Gaza: Een Israëlisch bombardement trof het huis van de buren van fotograaf Bashar Taleb, die onder meer voor NRC werkt. Intussen groeit met het offensief in Gaza-Stad de uitzichtloosheid van het conflict.

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folaht

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

If you know about the articles in NRC, you also know that they have many articles about Gaza, and yet you choose to lie about that. Why would you even think you can lie about that when I also have access to those articles?

Because you can do both.
You can ignore and highlight aspects of a story.
Case in point is Donald Trump, the Epstein files and lots of distractions to ignore that, while
still having highlighted a few aspects of it in the past and present.
Just like the NRC highlighting some aspects of Israel's genocide against Palestine,
Donald Trump both can highlight some aspects of the Epstein files multiple times
and still put key story aspects, like the fact that he's in it, on ignore by using distractions.
Stories of releasing Martin Luther King files, threatening Venezuela, Mexico
and invoking national emergencies in cities with mayors or governers not totally aligned with his
political viewpoints, sending the military there to detain and deport innocent civilians, are distractions
to ignore his pedophile crimes.
Or would you say "Why do people keep talking about the Epstein files?"
is enough for a pedophile to get away with his crime and isn't trying to make you ignore it,
just because he mentioned the crime a couple of times?
Because I personally think he's burying one crime with another, dangling shiny keys in front of people in order to hope they'll forget about their heinous crimes and it seems to be working.

And NRC is no different.
Like, I don't know about you, but having a pedophile sex offender as your top ally,
should maybe raise some concern about what the Netherlands is allied with,
a pedophile fascist crime lord that takes orders from a genocidal regime,
but it doesn't seem to register with NRC now does it?
I guess since NRC collaborated with Adolf Hitler before, that this stuff only comes natural to them.
I guess their pro-fascism angle hasn't really gone away at all.

When NRC actually writes about the genocides done by Israel, it makes it look like Israel is having a picnic with Palestine.
But there's fully no going around the genocide when Israel is blasting their crimes for the world to hear and see
and so pro-Israeli-fascism newspapers like NRC will try anything to distract the public from its heinous crimes
and that includes pointing towards any domestic murdered woman or girl and calling that femicide
when it's absolutely clear that Isreal is currently conducting femicide as part of its genocide
as it deliberately targets civilians before it targets the Palestinian military.

So no, I'm not lying. NRC is publishing stories to ignore the Palestinian genocide.
I tell the truth because none of those articles you mention comes even close to acknowdleging that a genocide is taken place there, making NRC is complicit in it, because it is complicit in the genocide.
And those articles you posted proves it even further as constantly filters down Netanyahul's heinous crimes
in order to normalize them.

The "feminist one-murder equals femicide" IS a giant and insulting distraction from a genocide that's happening right now.
A GENOCIDE!!!!!
We're not talking about kittens being ignored here,
but hundreds of thousands of human lives being slaughtered like Jews slaughtered by Nazis.

Just to illustrate two common denominators of the articles you posted:

1) None of the articles mention the state of Palestine. They only mention Gaza. Have you noticed that? I have. You'd notice it too if Ukraine would be constantly mentioned as "the Ukraine" in any of the Dutch newspapers.
2) None of these articles even mention Benjamin Netanyahu. Have you noticed that? I have. You'd notice it too if Benjamin Netanyahu would be constantly be referred to as dictator. And no, being elected doesn't count. You can't go "Netanyahu was democratically elected, therefore he's not a dictator" and then turn around and take exception on every other elected leader by a majority of people bombarded as dictator by NRC, e.g. Putin, Maduro, Xi.

Now let's go through the articles you posted individually:

When are pro-palestine protests terrorism?

This is just soft pretense of resistance,
when in fact NRC silently endorses the genocide of the Palestinians.
The NRC refuses to give the rounding up of protesters by UK police as:
"UK cracks down peaceful protesters calling for an end to the worst genocide in human history since the holocaust"
Because that would be truthful instead of blaming the protesters for siding against genocide.

Desperation in Gaza city by Israeli invasion will lead to a complete destruction

They say destruction where they should be saying massacre.
That would be truthful,
but NRC always likes to use soft language to soothe you.
NRC does this deliberately because
NRC is complicit in this genocide.

After a davastating blow of a rocket, Israel opens the offensive in gaza city

NRC uses soft language again.
Always does, always will,
because it is complicit in this genocide.
Do you think they would ever write this way when it comes to Russia?
This completely ignoring that Israel is commiting a genocide there.

European patience with Israel shrinking but doesn't agree with a modest sanction.

Why would the EU have patience with a genocide and why does it not seem to bother NRC?
Meanwhile the EU has over a dozen sanctions on Russia and is running out of things to sanction with.
And Russia isn't commiting a genocide or going for "Greater Russia" world conquest.
It is just defending the violent suppression of its own people
that have been locked out of Russia's borders during a collapse.

Are the Palestinians becoming bargaining chips for South Sudan?

This type of language NRC uses makes it seem that they want their readers
to convince them that Palestinians should be seen as bargaining chips
and not human beings.
Or else, they would maybe, I don't know, get mad at the people
who told them so and write a little bit different about these diplomatic suggestions.

You keep pretending that the NRC is somehow neutral in this conflict.
It isn't. It supports the Israeli genocide and will keep supporting it in any way possible.
This can and will include distractions because otherwise they'd actually have to write about the truth again.

But I guess you want to keep a blind eye to this and pretend that the NRC is non-partisan,
just like it was "non-partisan" during world war II.
The new extreme right that the NRC is wholly supporting
is now ironically supporting Israelis to commit multiple genocides,
as they've already made clear that they won't stop at Palestine. ___

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Dessalines

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

The netherlands are absolutely not exempt from this phenomenon. It affects every country where capital stands above political power and the media, including yours.

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The Propaganda Multiplier

It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global new…

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mcv

in reply to Dessalines • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

None of that confirms the claim that western media is as unfree as Russian media. Sure there are concerns, but even then, none of the quoted percentages are 100%; the other voices do exist. And regardless of the power of money, there are many journalists out there risking their lives to report the truth. Look at Gaza, for example. Many western governments wanted to ignore it but now can't because media keep reporting about the atrocities.

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BrainInABox

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there are many journalists out there risking their lives to report the truth. Look at Gaza, for example.

Please tell me this is a bit

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Putin brutally silences dissent in a way even Trump can only dream of.

Israel has murdered more journalists than Putin could dream of, with full support of Europe.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

And the media report it. That is my point.

Western governments are (too) slowly changing their stance on Israel and Gaza because western media keep reporting about it.

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BrainInABox

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Pretty fucked to say that murdering journalists isn't "brutally silencing dissent" just because other sources report on it, sometime. Do you apply the same standard to Russia?

Besides, the western media have done everything they can to downplay it without losing credibility entirely.

Western governments are (too) slowly changing their stance on Israel and Gaza because western media keep reporting about it.

Bullshit

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Pretty fucked to say that murdering journalists isn't "brutally silencing dissent" just because other sources report on it, sometime.

Yeah. Is that something you wanted to deny? Or are you desperately trying to put words in my mouth when I said the exact opposite?

Besides, the western media have done everything they can to downplay it without losing credibility entirely.

Then you're reading the wrong media. I've been reading about these atrocities constantly.

Bullshit

It's happening. Dutch government just fell apart over this (and the Dutch government has been pretty awful in their blind support of Israel so far).

You need to come out of your bubble and inform yourself.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Yeah. Is that something you wanted to deny?

No, I was just pointing out that it's fucked up that you denied that Israel and the West killing far more journalists than Russia is “brutally silencing dissent”

Then you’re reading the wrong media. I’ve been reading about these atrocities constantly.

Really? What have you been reading that has accurately been describing Israel, and the West's, planned extermination of the population of Gaza, including the deliberate killing of journalists, and has been doing it consistently over the last two years?

It’s happening. Dutch government just fell apart over

Really? So Denmark is a governmentless failed state now?

You need to come out of your bubble and inform yourself.

Have you considered that maybe you should come out of your bubble and inform yourself? Do you really think that I, as a westerner, am not exposed to Western Media all the time?

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This coming from someone who was perfectly happy using the Ukrainian military as a source. Are you going to also try to argue that they are independent from the state?

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I don't know what you're talking about, and I doubt you do. You're here defending Tass as a source.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I'm talking about here lemmy.ml/post/35157502/2067587…

So yes, I do know what I'm talking about, and I suspect you know to, and are just pretending not to because you can't actually defend yourself on this.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Against what? Against vibes? Against Russians trying to defend their state media? Do you have even the slightest awareness of context here?

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

What do you expect to accomplish by playing dumb?

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m532

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

"Independent" western media? I'd sooner find a unicorn

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mcv

in reply to m532 • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Tell me who NRC is beholden to, then.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

NRC is beholden to the massive corporate conglomerate Mediahaus, which is, in turn, beholden to the Belgian oligarch Thomas Leysen.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

They've got a strict separation between ownership and editors, though. They regularly go against the grain and report deeper than merely repeating the convenient narrative.

Sure, capitalism and independent media don't go together well, but state control and i dependent media are an even worse combination, and on the scale of what's possible, NRC is doing quite well. Certainly much better than Tass.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

They’ve got a strict separation between ownership and editors, though.

No they don't. Ultimately ownership chooses who works there.

They regularly go against the grain and report deeper than merely repeating the convenient narrative.

How did you determine this?

Sure, capitalism and independent media don’t go together well, but state control and i dependent media are an even worse combination

Pure vibes based statement.

and on the scale of what’s possible, NRC is doing quite well.

How did you determine the this? Because it tells you narratives that agree with your world view?

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I read and compare. When Maccabi supporters were picking fights with Arab taxi drivers in Amsterdam, they didn't blindly repeat the government story about pogroms but told what really happened, a story that eventually won out. They've never shied away from stories inconvenient to any government or corporate interest, as long as it's based in facts.

They're highly regarded for their objectivity.

If you want to attack them, you've got to come up with more than vibes.

And the fact that you're baselessly attacking them while defending Tass, is outright ridiculous.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

but told what really happened

How did you determine what "really happened"?

They’ve never shied away from stories inconvenient to any government or corporate interest, as long as it’s based in facts.

How did you determine that? You don't know what stories they elect not to run.

They’re highly regarded for their objectivity.

By who? People who agree with their bias?

If you want to attack them, you’ve got to come up with more than vibes.

Mate, you're the one who's been making claims based on vibes. I'm not the one just asserting that they're objective and honest without evidence.

And the fact that you’re baselessly attacking them while defending Tass, is outright ridiculous.

Strawman

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

How did you determine what "really happened"?

Finally a productive question. You listen to all the sides. You listen to independent media on the ground. You don't just cling to whatever story happens to fit your worldview, but you consider the different stories and watch what adds up and what doesn't. Who leaves out what details to better fit their narrative and who tells the whole thing.

And sure, that means you've got to do some work. Put in some actual critical thought. And yes, lots of people don't like that just stick to whatever narrative they prefer, or even whatever is fed to them. But looking critically at media is a vital survival skill these days.

Blindly accepting known partisan media on the very topic you know they can't be objective about, is not that.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

No, I asked how you did it. Because you clearly didn't listen to all sides, and you clearly did just cling to whatever story happens to fit your worldview. You were even at the point of lying to defend your worldview

Who leaves out what details to better fit their narrative and who tells the whole thing.

How do you determine what "the whole thing" is?

And sure, that means you’ve got to do some work. Put in some actual critical thought. And yes, lots of people don’t like that just stick to whatever narrative they prefer, or even whatever is fed to them. But looking critically at media is a vital survival skill these days.

Lol, maybe you should try it then.

Blindly accepting known partisan media on the very topic you know they can’t be objective about, is not that.

Then you should stop doing it.

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Infamousblt [any]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

you listen to all the sides.

Except sides published by state media in countries you don't like, or media that you personally have determined is false. So no you do not listen to all sides, you listen to all sides that fit your worldview. This isn't complicated for everyone else in this thread but it's apparently quite complicated for you

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mcv

in reply to Infamousblt [any] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Do you think the state media of a nation committing atrocities is going to tell you the truth about those atrocities? Do you believe Israeli denial of genocide in Gaza?

If you do, you're a naive tool of imperialists.

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Infamousblt [any]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

So do you or don't you listen to all sides. I'm confused

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mcv

in reply to Infamousblt [any] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I listen, but I don't believe them all. You have to apply some critical thinking.

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Infamousblt [any]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

And your version of critical thinking is "American billionaires would never use their money and influence to further their goals through media" huh?

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mcv

in reply to Infamousblt [any] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

No, it is quite the opposite.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This you?

Unlike Russian state media, western media is independent and not beholden to their government, but nice try.

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Infamousblt [any]

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Critical thinking is when I say one thing without thinking about it and then later I say a completely different thing without thinking about it

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Lol, so much for "I listen to all sides'

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Chulk

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You cannot be serious. You know Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, right? What do you think is happening here?

The only difference between Russian State media and our media, is that the western ruling class is savvy enough to launder their propaganda through privately owned media.

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mcv

in reply to Chulk • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

It's absolutely terrible that so many American media is owned by billionaires, but that's not all of western media, and it's still not the same as Russian state media.

I still don't get why so many people here are so desperate to defend the state-controlled media of a brutal dictatorship.

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LemmeAtEm

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Russia is no more a "brutal dictatorship" than the US is, or the UK, or any number of other capitalist shithole countries that call themselves "democracies." Russian state media is no worse than, for example, the BBC or CNN. But more importantly, it does not have the global reach that the BBC and CNN have. The key thing that you're utterly failing to understand here is that Russia does not have the global hegemony that the US has (and NATO in general, though NATO is just a collection of vassal states subservient to US capital). Russian state media cannot begin to compete on the global stage with the overwhelming stranglehold that western media has over not only their own domestic populations but the rest of the world. We here in the west are not saturated day in and day out by Russian propaganda, but we absolutely are by western capital (which is synonymous with US state) propaganda. Pretending like this is an even playing field is absurd and it's why no one here is taking your whining about eBiL RuZzIaN media seriously. It's not about "defending" Russian media, it's about recognizing geopolitical reality.

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mcv

in reply to LemmeAtEm • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Russia is no more a "brutal dictatorship" than the US is, or the UK, or any number of other capitalist shithole countries that call themselves "democracies."

Surely you must recognise how ridiculous that claim is.

Sure, Trump would love for it to be true, and he's certainly trying to, but even in the US, you can still publicly say this, while in Russia, you'd be headed for prison. Putin's political opponents frequently fall out of windows or catch some polonium poisoning.

These things are not the same, and pretending they are, makes you blind to how much worse they can still get. Russia is absolutely more of a brutal dictatorship than even the US, but especially than most European countries.

I'm not denying the toxic influence of money either, but that's still not comparable to the hold Putin has over his country and his media.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Surely you must recognise how ridiculous that claim is.

You seem to endlessly fall back on this, have you noticed? Just raw Appeals to Personal Incredulity.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I always start out believing people are capable of critical thought and self awareness, until they prove otherwise. Plenty of that in this discussion, unfortunately.

Should I just accept that you're incapable of critical thought or grasping meaningful nuance?

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Why do you reddit losers always talk like wannabe anime villains?

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I guess that answers that.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You losers should really expand your list of rote thought terminating cliches, they get incredibly repetitive when you just use them over and over again.

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InternetCitizen2

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

If you really want to be sure you can see their profile and modlog show they're just rage baiting trolls.

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BrainInABox

in reply to InternetCitizen2 • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Oh look at that, you're back to stalking me around

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LemmeAtEm

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Putin’s political opponents frequently fall out of windows or catch some polonium poisoning.

Hmm... I wonder what happened to the original leadership of BLM? And hey, what are Fred Hampton and Mark Clark up to these days? Has Gary Webb published any articles recently?

These things are not the same, and pretending they are, makes you blind to how much worse they can still get. Russia is absolutely more of a brutal dictatorship than even the US, but especially than most European countries.

Oh believe me, I am well aware how bad they can get, you're just completely unaware of how bad they've already been. You believe all these lies about how terrible Russia is, looking at it only through the lens that western propagandists have carefully cultivated for you without realizing that every accusation they've levied on their enemies is a confession about what they themselves have been doing all along. You're as intellectually domesticated by US imperialist interests as any diehard Kremlin-supporting Russian citizen, only you have the benefit of being on the side that enjoys global hegemony without even understanding what that word means. You're all up in arms about the lies of the media of an enemy state without having even an ounce of self awareness about the lies of the media you're consuming, the very same media from which you think you've learned how uniquely bad the enemy's media is.

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mcv

in reply to LemmeAtEm • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I don't even live in the US. I live in Europe, and I'm concerned about the freedom and safety of my fellow human beings, and I'm disgusted by how US imperial interests have suddenly decided to embrace Putin and is turning against Europe.

My side is not enjoying global hegemony. I only wish Europe asserted itself against wannabe hegemons like the US and Russia, but political leaders here are too cowardly for that.

I see American media increasingly parroting Putin's viewpoints, because of this American realignment, and that's what you're asking me to blindly accept? No, fuck that. You talk a lot about others being controlled by propaganda, but I don't see an ounce of self awareness in you.

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m532

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Europe is part of the empire of usa

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mcv

in reply to m532 • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

That's certainly what they want you to accept. What Putin wants you to believe. But this is clearly a case where US and European interests diverge. Trump wants to play nice with Putin while waging his economic war on Europe and the rest of the world, while Europe is trying to stop or slow Russian aggression. And degrading itself trying to keep Trump onboard.

It's a mess, but defending against aggression is still better than surrendering to it. Europe needs to learn to stand on its own feet.

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Aria

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

That’s certainly what they want you to accept. What Putin wants you to believe.

The USA empire doesn't work by having individual governments enter secret conspiracies to obey the USA in favour of their own interests. The USA government and military are just stewards of the empire, the empire doesn't exist to benefit them.

Ultimately the majority of oligarchs whom the USA empire exists to serve are born in Europe, or they come from European dynasties that happen to live in the USA. It's simply a system of systemically and organically empowering those who benefit capital.

The EU, which has incredible sway over the politics of EEA nations, is explicitly an organisation that exists to create oligarchs out of capitalists. And who are the European capitalists? Are they staunch nationalists? No of course not, they're globalists with huge amounts of wealth tied up in USA stock exchanges. That means that with only one level of separation, the EU's explicit mission becomes an implicit mission to strengthen the USA empire's power over EEA nations.

But this is clearly a case where US and European interests diverge.

I would recommend this video to you on the topic: youtu.be/J_4srRdIK4k
It's recent and current, made by a person who supports social democracy, that is to say, he's not a socialist or a Marxist. He doesn't use marxist dialectics in his analysis but still comes to the same conclusions. I think you'll find him more agreeable. He presents clearly without making assumptions about prior knowledge, citing all his claims, as much as possible using Western sources.

- 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.

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burlemarx

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

The leaders in Europe are all financial capitalists who invested a lot of capital into US financial system. Even if European people face hunger tomorrow, their assets are secured at US banks. For this reason, they don't care whether they sign deals that are unfavorable to the European people.

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mcv

in reply to burlemarx • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

We definitely should elect better leaders, that's for sure. These have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing the right thing. It takes too much effort, and it's going way too slowly, but they can be moved. They've moved somewhat (not enough) on Ukraine, Gaza and even the environment, all due to popular pressure, but they need to move a lot further. People need to stop voting for the right wing idiots they keep electing.

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burlemarx

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You should definitely elect better leaders. If something is consensus in all so called "democracies", is that everyone thinks everyone else need to elect better leaders. The majority of the working people, which comprises the majority of population of most (pseudo-)democratic countries are mostly unsatisfied with their governments. This is occurs repeatedly and consistently in all liberal democracies, with a few exceptions. If there's something all liberal representative democracies look alike is that most people don't feel their interests are being represented by their government.

There's a reason why this happens in all capitalist societies. Note that it's not an individual issue and the reason is not lack of education and stupidity, as people often say, as even well educated individuals do bad voting decisions. This is a social and systemic issue and it's not a coincidence.

I won't tell you why, I want you to think about it. Then tell my why this happens.

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Chulk

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

but that's not all of western media.

Please, go on. I'd love to hear more.

I still don't get why so many people here are so desperate to defend the state-controlled media of a brutal dictatorship.

...or just accuse me of something I wasn't doing. You're definitely someone who approaches things in good faith, unlike the Russians.

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mcv

in reply to Chulk • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Read the rest of the discussion. To me, you come across as part of a mob trying to defend Russian state media. And yes, arguing that all of western media, despite its freedom of the press, diversity of ownership and various degrees of editorial independence, is just as bad as Russian state media, is defending it.

I'm not arguing that all of western media is perfect; much of it is corrupt (especially in the US, but that is not all of the west). But not all of it is that bad. And even the corrupt ones frequently disagree with each other. That gives us access to much more diverse reporting than Russian state media provides.

I am aware that making sense of that diversity requires critical thought, which is in increasingly short supply in recent years.

Also note that the link you shared, of Trump flanked by billionaires, comes from western media.

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Chulk

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Read the rest of the discussion. To me, you come across as part of a mob trying to defend Russian state media.

And I'm saying that's a problem with your reading comprehension; not the content of my argument. Especially because I never defended Russian state media. I too think state media is bad. The difference between you and I is that I'm not fooled by the corporate proxy that is western media.

I'm not arguing that all of western media is perfect; much of it is corrupt (especially in the US, but that is not all of the west). But not all of it is that bad.

Again, go on...

I am aware that making sense of that diversity requires critical thought, which is in increasingly short supply in recent years.

And yet you seem to struggle to explain how it's so "diverse." What's diverse about it? Who are the non-corrupt Western sources? Please tell me, since I'm so stupid 😕

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mcv

in reply to Chulk • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

The difference between you and I is that I'm not fooled by the corporate proxy that is western media.

And that's only something you're reading into this. I'm well aware of the problems with western media. Some of them are notorious for their lies, many are corporate controlled, and especially in the US, refuse to even acknowledge anti corporate sentiment (see how US media struggled to make sense of Luigi Mangione, for example), but they're fairly transparent about it, and and sometimes they really are telling the truth.

With some critical thinking, you can actually discern the truth out of that, without having to resort to Russian state media's reports on the disastrous war Russia is waging.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This you?

Unlike Russian state media, western media is independent and not beholden to their government, but nice try.

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mathemachristian[he]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Source on them shooting their own soldiers???

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mcv

in reply to mathemachristian[he] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

There's tons:

bbc.com/news/world-europe-6723…

newsweek.com/video-shows-russi…

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

kyivpost.com/post/18201

united24media.com/latest-news/…

kyivindependent.com/intercepte…

businessinsider.com/russia-ope…

Russia opened fire on own surrendering soldiers with artillery: Ukraine

Footage from Ukraine's 2nd Mechanized Batallion appears to show soldiers surrendering before a big explosion in the village of Andriivka.

^{Sinéad Baker (Business Insider)}

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Lol, those are literally using the Ukrainian military as their source. Not even state media, literally just the state military itself. You absolute hypocrite.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Are you arguing that all video from a warzone is inherently fake?

While it's true that truth is the first casualty in war, and you've got to apply that filter to all news coming from any warzone (also the Russian side; again, see what you're defending), the reports on Russian atrocities, even against their own soldiers, are overwhelming. They're also coming from Russian sources.

But sure, keep your head in the sand. You probably also don't believe reports about IDF atrocities in Gaza, do you?

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You know someone has nothing when they're resorting to "are you saying that [obviously false statement that doesn't actually resemble what they said]?"

the reports on Russian atrocities, even against their own soldiers, are overwhelming. They’re also coming from Russian sources.

You say, having only been able to provide sources from the Ukrainian government.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

U see you defend imperialists and deny reports of their atrocities. You may call that "nothing", but I don't.

But sure, let's get some nore sources:

foxnews.com/world/russian-war-… (note: originally reported by a Russian source)

nbcnews.com/news/world/russian… (UN reporting on Russian atrocities)

thehill.com/opinion/internatio… (US and many other sources)

metro.co.uk/2023/06/13/russian… (Ukrainian drone, but it's caught on video. Want to argue that didn't happen?)

guardian.pressreader.com/artic…

Here's Wikipedia on barrier troops: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie…

Obviously you're unlikely to see Russian media reporting on how they shoot their own soldiers as a matter of policy, and obviously the only parties close to the front lines as Russian and Ukrainian, but there is a variety of sources reporting on this, and Russia has a known history of using barrier troops.

But if you believe only Russian state media is telling the truth, then no amount of facts will convince you.

type of military unit

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

U see you defend imperialists and deny reports of their atrocities.

Once again: Not believing every single piece of anti Russian propaganda, no matter how silly it is, is not the same as being pro-Russian.

foxnews.com/world/russian-war-… (note: originally reported by a Russian source)

This article literally does not contain your claim! You are just LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH now.

I'm not going to address the rest of them if you're just deliberately posting unrelated articles and lying about their contents, because at that point it's clear you're just being dishonest and trying to waste time!

Russian war hero 'the Executioner' allegedly ordered troops to shoot him in massive payout scheme: report

Elite Russian unit commander faces fraud charges for allegedly ordering soldiers to shoot him and others to collect fake combat injury benefits.

^{Bonny Chu (Fox News)}

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Lying? Because a Russian source talks about Russian soldiers shooting Russian soldiers in a different context than barrier troops? You're just cherry picking so you don't have to address the facts.

Do you seriously want to argue that atrocities don't exist unless the party committing them admits they exist? You live in a very pleasant world.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Yes, lying. You claimed that Russia was shooting it's own soldiers, and now you're trying to pass off an article about Russian soldiers deliberately injuring themselves to defraud the Russian government out of benefits as a source for that claim. THAT IS LYING.

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mcv

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Ah, you see your precious government defrauded. That's what's upsetting you. I'm pointing out the brutality of the Russian war machine, I'm pointing to a lot of different sources about various kinds of violence, but it's the fraud that gets you.

You haven't even addressed any of the other links I shared, because you're not here to learn, but to spread propaganda.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Oh my god, go back to reddit you fucking dweeb.

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iThinkImDumb [any, hy/hym]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

because you're not here to learn, but to spread propaganda.

says the debatebro who has refused to learn anything and keeps trying to spread nato propaganda

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mcv

in reply to iThinkImDumb [any, hy/hym] • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Learn what? Most people here just repeat shallow dogma. Brainless zingers like that, no actual info. Nothing new at least. Bully people into accepting the propaganda. That's not how people learn.

I have learned quite a bit here, though.

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BrainInABox

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Mate, you were actively lying and pretending to be illiterate because you got beaten so badly.

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mathemachristian[he]

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Well, the thing is Ukraine has been known to use barrier troops. And not only is there actual video footage sputnikglobe.com/20231231/watc… but there is an azov commander openly talking about "motivational troops"

Watch: Group of Retreating Ukrainian Soldiers Shot by Barrier Troops

A Ukrainian barrier unit has shot at a group of retreating fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a source familiar with the situation told Sputnik, providing the agency with confirming video footage taken by a drone.

^{Sputnik International}

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fittedsyllabi

in reply to bubblybubbles • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Russia has thousands more dead soldiers.

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Aria

in reply to fittedsyllabi • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Isn't that bad optics for Ukraine? If they're killing more and capturing less, then that has to mean something like Ukraine is killing POWs (a war crime), or Ukrainian soldiers have a higher desire to surrender, which could be indicative of idealogical sympathy or of horrible treatment by the army.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to Aria • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

During the 2022 offensive Ukraine themselves claimed KIA:PoW ratio something like 21 to 1. For comparison, even the most brutal fighting on Okinawa which is infamous for Japanese not surrendering and US not taking prisoners had that ratio around 14 to 1. So by their own admission Ukraine was either not taking prisoners or killing surrendering soldiers.

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Saryn

in reply to bubblybubbles • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Wow, what's happening here? We don't like Fox news and Newsmax but Tass is acceptable?

Jesus, Lemmy, get a grip.

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BrainInABox

in reply to Saryn • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

What sources do you find acceptable?

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bubblybubbles

in reply to Saryn • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

round here on .ml we dont shun good news sources jus cuz western ~~propa~~ "media" doesnt like it

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mcv

in reply to bubblybubbles • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This guy makes one mistake in his reasoning. He's absolutely right about Trump not offering a real peace deal, but he talks about the conflict as if it's something the US forced on Russia, which is of course not true; it's Russia, and specifically Putin, who chose to start this war and invade Ukraine. He talks about NATO expansion as if that's something the US is pushing, but again, countries want to join NATO because they feel threatened by Russia.

Russia started this war because NATO rejected Ukraine's membership, leaving Ukraine vulnerable. But it wasn't a definitive rejection, leaving Putin to think he had a closing window of opportunity to invade Ukraine, which is why he rushed into this foolish war. Harder guarantees for Ukrainian security would have dissuaded Putin.

EU, meanwhile, never wanted anything like this, and even remained in denial after the invasion started. The EU just wants to trade with Russia and treat it as a normal country, a trading partner. Even after Putin invaded, they kept buying Russian gas for quite some time and some countries really didn't want to stop. Because gas is more important than human lives, to some.

Freezing the conflict is a bad idea; there needs to be a permanent peace, but there can only be a permanent peace if Russia stops invading its neighbours (this wasn't the first time), and Putin made it clear he has no plans to stop. He's frequently talking about Lithuania, Moldova, and more recently Azerbaijan.

It's pretty clear what the problem is here. It's Russian imperialism. Putin's dreams of empire. His unwillingness to accept other nations as equals.

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burlemarx

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This is a very naive reading of the Ukraine-Russian conflict. First of all, the conflict actually started in 2014 when Russia reacted by annexing Crimea after president Yanukovych was ousted following the Maidan uprising (which was carried out with EU/US support). Since then, there have been many skirmishes between Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatist groups in the Donbass region, before Russia escalated the conflict in 2022. You should know that Crimea and Donbass are regions of a Russian ethnical majority, and these people didn't support the Maidan uprising.

Secondly, I am tired of people (especially liberals) which talk about laws, agreements and treaties as having some kind of supernatural power to stop things from happening. It's as if treaties, laws, agreements and commitments were never broken in real life, as if there was a supreme mystical power that bounded every party to commit to them.

Ukraine is not under NATO in all but paper. Its troops were trained by NATO countries, they are being supplied by NATO countries, there are mercenaries (and clandestine troops) from NATO fighting in the frontlines, the intelligence provided to Ukraine is from NATO countries. Not only that but the top NATO members are overseeing all Ukraine political decisions. Ukraine is not in NATO today because NATO countries never wanted to be directly involved in the first place and just wanted that Ukraine and Russia to bleed each other for their benefit.

Today NATO is actually a means to make all members fund the US military industrial complex, and provide other material and human resources to US, Germany, France and UK imperialist adventures. To this day NATO was never used as a defensive alliance, but NATO was always used in offensives against other countries. If Russia was weak like Afghanistan, then I'm sure NATO would have advanced in full force, like they did after the 9/11 attacks.

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davel

in reply to mcv • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

He talks about NATO expansion as if that’s something the US is pushing

The US has been pushing that since the Warsaw Pact dissolved, and was planning for it long before. Weaponizing Europe, Countering Eurasia: Mackinder, Brzezinski, Nuland and the Road to the Ukraine War

Next you’re going to tell us that NATO is a defensive alliance.

Previously:

The US-backed Maidan coup and US & Ukraine-supported fascist paramilitary attacks on eastern & southern Ukraine:
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
NATO expansion:
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
NATO in general:
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

davel

2025-07-24 16:27:53

The US-backed Maidan coup and US & Ukraine-supported fascist paramilitary attacks on eastern & southern Ukraine:
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
NATO expansion:
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
NATO in general:
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It - CounterPunch.org
When the United States entered WWII, the future head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, bemoaned that his country was fighting the wrong enemy.
^{Gabriel Rockhill (CounterPunch.org)}

vimmiewimmie via Privacy

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vimmiewimmie
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Request, US Border Crossings, Privacy Guides

Hello,

I am trying to gather some information on steps, procedures, and options for increasing privacy while crossing into the US.

My girlfriend goes to school in Canada and crosses the borders frequently throughout the year for; long weekends, extended holiday breaks, semester breaks, and summer breaks.

She'll be going back to Canada for this next year and with everything happening she's asked me to help her find ways to limit her exposure to data being reviewed or stored as she's studying a more Social/Liberal Arts degree which could flag her as a target because of the current political climate.

I've also suggested possibly limiting border crossing instead of coming back as often as she used to.

I'm working through articles and finding things from EFF and ACLU, but would happily taken suggestions, guidance, or any direction from anyone willing to share.

I've considered trying to find a way for her to backup her devices, maybe store those backups in the cloud, create "decoy" states of her devices (elaboration below), then restore the original state of the devices once she's safely past the border.

Devices:

iPhone 11 [18.6]

MacBook Air 13 [Possibly Sequoia 15.5, as stated in her iCloud, she doesn't have it with her right now]

For "decoy" device states, I mean having some apps and data on the devices, but nothing identifying/or that might otherwise give agencies data to further search (online account names/services, stored passwords, large collections of contacts/message histories, etc.)

I've suggested trying to switch to android/PC devices to provide alternative privacy/security options, but her family pays for the devices so it's just the same brand as whatever they have. So, that's not an option at this point, but any statements regarding increased effectiveness, or even lack thereof, by switching to different brand devices may help with any future transition considerations.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read through my post and any guidance you might be able to provide is highly appreciated.

#privacy

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LemmyThinkAboutThat

in reply to vimmiewimmie • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This article is from The Guardian:

On the advice of various experts, people are locking down social media, deleting photos and private messages, removing facial recognition, or even traveling with “burner” phones to protect themselves.
In Canada, multiple public institutions have urged employees to avoid travel to the US, and at least one reportedly told staff to leave their usual devices at home and bring a second device with limited personal information instead.

It seems like you already know what you’re doing and I agree with everyone else: backup your data and reinstall later. Create an iCloud account specifically for travel purposes.

This article mentions someone who opted to delete their social media accounts before coming to the US. So don’t be surprised or offended when some of us start deleting our comments, lol. Good luck.

EDIT: As long as you have a travel account you shouldn’t need Advanced Data Protection but perhaps after you/she reaches her destination.

Burner phones, wiped socials: the extreme precautions for visitors to Trump’s America

Horror stories about detainments at the border have also soured some from visiting during Trump’s second term

^{Josie Harvey (The Guardian)}

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Majestic

in reply to vimmiewimmie • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Three basic options exist:

1) Burner: Take a device that isn't a normally used device for each category. Make sure it has nothing you care about on it, no incriminating web history, no accounts logged in or saved as cookies that are incriminating, etc, etc. This is simplest, most expensive, but also most fool-proof against all possible threats.

2) Wiped: Wipe the device before travel, possibly backing things up in the cloud to download after arriving. You'll have to back up again with any changes you make and wipe again before traveling back then at your final destination again restore the device from backups. If you have serious fears of close inspection or forensic analysis then it would behoove you to use a secure erase feature on the drive and reinstall the OS rather than just trying to delete problematic files. For smartphones especially doing this and restoring from a cloud back-up can be pretty easy, for laptops it's more of a pain.

3) Mail ahead: Take the devices to a package service, UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc ahead of time, mail them ahead of or just behind you so they arrive just before or slightly after you. For this to work you need a fixed accommodation that can accept packages and which you trust to store them and give them to you. This technically doesn't prevent mail interception but unless you're a high value target that's unlikely at present as its kind of a multi-agency intentional effort thing. Still I'd mail the device in a fully encrypted state.

No other feasible options exist. You can encrypt yes and if you are a US citizen you cannot be denied re-entry (non-citizens can be not only denied entry but barred for years after for refusing to decrypt a device/cooperate) but they can seize your device and hold it for up to a year while trying to crack it and you'll have to expend effort to get it back at the end of that period. They can also put you in a holding cell for hours or hypothetically up to a couple days if they really want to press it accuse you of something and be unpleasant during that time.

Peter Link via politics

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Peter Link
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Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35225220

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.
By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Aug. 26, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET

As Israel’s tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government’s conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
Over the past few weeks, as reports of starvation and mass killings in Gaza have spread, a significant number of clergy across the spectrum of Jewish observance and affiliation have signed a series of high-profile, carefully crafted public letters criticizing the Israeli government.
archive.ph/OY4vR

Peter Link

2025-08-26 05:00:57

Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.
By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Aug. 26, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET
As Israel’s tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government’s conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
Over the past few weeks, as reports of starvation and mass killings in Gaza have spread, a significant number of clergy across the spectrum of Jewish observance and affiliation have signed a series of high-profile, carefully crafted public letters criticizing the Israeli government.

archive.ph/OY4vR

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/rabbis-gaza.html

#politics

gnuplusmatt via Linux

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gnuplusmatt
2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Adding Plasma Discover to Bazzite via Systemd Sysext

Instructions to add Plasma Discover package manager back into Bazzite using a Systemd Sys-Ext. Based on Travier's Fedora Sys-Ext work at travier.github.io/fedora-sysex… and relies on his base images on quay.

I'm really excited about the application of SysExts to bridge the gap many perceive in adopting atomic distros! This seemed like a fantastic solution to adding this tool back for those who want it, without the overhead of package layering

GitHub - mmcnutt/Bazzite-Discover-Sys-Ext: Instructions to add Plasma Discover package manager back into Bazzite using a Systemd Sys-Ext

Instructions to add Plasma Discover package manager back into Bazzite using a Systemd Sys-Ext - mmcnutt/Bazzite-Discover-Sys-Ext

^GitHub

#linux

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Takahe

in reply to gnuplusmatt • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

This is interesting, Bazzite abandoning Discover was the final straw for me to dump Bazzite on my TV pc and move back to Kubuntu. I don't have GameMode anymore but the feeling of being in control is worth it so won't be switching back

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gnuplusmatt

in reply to Takahe • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I thought so, and its not something Ublue has started using yet to my knowledge - there's some good potential that a lot of stuff they add could just become a set of extensions you can plug in like Lego bricks

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quarterlife

in reply to gnuplusmatt • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

The issue with them right now is there's no update mechanism. If you use something as a system extension that depends on a library in the image, and that library gets updated, you could have an unbootable system or at the very least a non-functioning application until you can update your system extension manually.

Ideally that update mechanism needs to be a part of bootc so if your system extension is part of your boot process it can be updated ahead of time before the image is loaded.

We've looked at it since it's inception and it's something we really want, it's just nowhere near ready yet.

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Luffy

in reply to gnuplusmatt • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

But why tho? Bazaar (the few times I use it instead of cli) actually works without randomly freezing while loading, searching, downloading, deleting, just about everything, unlike when I tried using Discover on Arch, Opensuse, Kubuntu, Fedora, and Fedora Atomic.

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gnuplusmatt

in reply to Luffy • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I've never had issues with Discover on Fedora KDE and then even when I moved to Kinoite. I didnt have any issues using it on my Bazzite machine. I wanted it back, I also wanted to see if it was something I could do with a SysExt, which as I said is something I'm excited about, as I have started using them to add stuff on my Kinoite work machine.

It doesn't take Bazaar away, it just puts the items back for anyone who wants it. Spoiled for choice

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Kory

in reply to Luffy • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Bazaar lacks some basic functionality like update notifications and doesn't integrate so well with KDE.

Peter Link via United States | News & Politics

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Peter Link
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Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35225220

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.
By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Aug. 26, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET

As Israel’s tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government’s conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
Over the past few weeks, as reports of starvation and mass killings in Gaza have spread, a significant number of clergy across the spectrum of Jewish observance and affiliation have signed a series of high-profile, carefully crafted public letters criticizing the Israeli government.
archive.ph/OY4vR

Peter Link

2025-08-26 05:00:57

Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.
By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Aug. 26, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET
As Israel’s tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government’s conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
Over the past few weeks, as reports of starvation and mass killings in Gaza have spread, a significant number of clergy across the spectrum of Jewish observance and affiliation have signed a series of high-profile, carefully crafted public letters criticizing the Israeli government.

archive.ph/OY4vR

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/rabbis-gaza.html

#USA

Peter Link via Palestine

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Peter Link
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Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.

By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Aug. 26, 2025, 12:01 a.m. ET

As Israel’s tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government’s conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
Over the past few weeks, as reports of starvation and mass killings in Gaza have spread, a significant number of clergy across the spectrum of Jewish observance and affiliation have signed a series of high-profile, carefully crafted public letters criticizing the Israeli government.

archive.ph/OY4vR

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/rabbis-gaza.html

#Palestine

funkajunk via Linux

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funkajunk
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You won't be missed

I changed my main machine over to Linux in the beginning of April, setting it up on its own NVMe so I could keep my other drive with Windows 10 intact and dual boot when needed.

I've been having a blast - ricing hyprland, better workflows, great gaming experiences.

Then yesterday I realized that I hadn't actually bothered to dual boot once since testing out the Windows entry in my systemd-boot menu when I first set it up.

Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?

I wiped out the Windows drive with no remorse. Damn, that felt good.

Goodbye Windows, you won't be missed.

#linux

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funkajunk

in reply to obnomus • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Some of my games are bigger than 60gb 😂

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obnomus

in reply to funkajunk • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I have 2 ssds.
1st ssd has 512MB partition for both Windows and Linux bootloaders and rest of the storage for data, games etc.
2nd ssd has both Windows ans Linux OS on different partitions and some more partitions for data.

unicornBro via Privacy

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unicornBro
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Does Google keep logs of my text messages(RCS)?

In the past, I've heard about how Google can keep records of all your Google phone's past locations and text messages.

What about RCS messages which supposedly are encrypted from Android to Android? I know that it's possible that they secretly keep a log behind the scenes, but as far as the regular consumer knows is there any record being kept with regard to the contents of these RCS messages?

#privacy

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artyom

in reply to EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I am not misunderstanding you. You just do not understand what E2EE means. Th server is not a sender or a recipient. It is not an "end".

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted

in reply to artyom • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Okay, so, originally, I was going to look it up to prove you wrong, but after looking it up across multiple sources, it seems that you're right and I'm wrong.....mostly.

How-To Geek, Proton, and CloudFlare all mirror what you say.

However, the Wikipedia page section "Definitions" does back me up somewhat. It says:

The term "end-to-end encryption" originally only meant that the communication is never decrypted during its transport from the sender to the receiver.[23] For example, around 2003, E2EE was proposed as an additional layer of encryption for GSM[24] or TETRA,[25] ... This has been standardized by SFPG for TETRA.[26] Note that in TETRA, the keys are generated by a Key Management Centre (KMC) or a Key Management Facility (KMF), not by the communicating users.[27]
Later, around 2014, the meaning of "end-to-end encryption" started to evolve when WhatsApp encrypted a portion of its network,[28] requiring that not only the communication stays encrypted during transport,[29] but also that the provider of the communication service is not able to decrypt the communications ... This new meaning is now the widely accepted one.[30]

(Relevent text is embolded.)

So, I'm not misunderstanding, just misinformed that the definition changed.

Make no mistake, of course: I do appreciate you correcting me as I hadn't realized the definition had changed. Lol.

cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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Pudutr0n via Linux

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Pudutr0n
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Is there any animal you wish Ubuntu used for its naming convention?

If they ever use pudus my life will be complete.

#linux

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wieson

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Bülbül

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notthebees

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Pigeon and specifically an Indian green pigeon

Leaflet via Linux

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Leaflet
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Are there any Linux distros that handle updates similarly to FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

Lately I've been exploring FreeBSD and OpenBSD. One of the more interesting things about them is how they handle OS and package upgrades.

On FreeBSD, the freebsd-update command is used for upgrading the OS and the pkg command is used for managing user packages. On OpenBSD, the syspatch command is used for upgrading the OS and the pkg_* commands are used for managing user packages.

Unlike Linux, these BSDs have a clear separation of OS from these packages. OS files and data are stored in places like /bin and /etc, while user installed packages get installed to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc.

On the Linux side, the closest thing I can think of is using an atomic distro and flatpak, homebrew, containers, and/or snap for user package management. However, it's not always viable to use these formats. Flatpak, snap, and containers have sandbox issues that prevent certain functionality; homebrew is not sandboxed but on Linux its limited to CLI programs.

There's work being done to work around such issues, such as systemd sysext. But I'm starting to feel that this is just increasing complexity rather than addressing root problems. I feel like taking inspiration from the BSDs could be beneficial.

#linux

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deadcade

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

To answer the question in the title: No, because these systems inherently have different architecture. Something like OpenBSD (the OS) is relatively self-contained. Linux distributions have system components that are externally developed, but a user might rely upon.

What exactly is the "problem" you have with Linux package managers? It's specifically extra complexity to separate "system" and "packages". This works well for *BSDs that often develop the entire OS themselves, but would pose extra challenges for Linux distributions, where the line between "OS" and "user installed package" is much more blurred.

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jollyrogue

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

There are none. Linux is a baseless system, which is its power and frustration.

You could install Debian or Alma Linux and run pkgsrc on it to approximate a base and extra packages setup like the BSDs.

There are parts of a tightly coupled userland forming, like iptools and systemd, but there are many things missing at the moment.

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black_flag

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I feel like in Linux any distinction between "OS" and "something else" would be arbitrary, except, perhaps the example of the AUR vs regular packages in arch, or maybe the universe repo in Ubuntu. Why would you want a whole different system for managing those packages?

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jollyrogue

in reply to black_flag • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

It’s not so much about a second package manager as it is about having a base system and separating extra software from the base system.

Moving extra packages out of the base system allows the extra packages to be updated quicker. Fewer things get frozen when the stable point in time distro release is tagged. This also helps the base as it can move without having to worry about every piece of software in the repos being compatible with the changes.

The concept exists as 3rd party repos. However, most aren’t setup to be as cleanly separated as ports are.

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Voytrekk

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You could use something like homebrew for your packages while keeping just system packages to the default package manager. It has the upside of being separated and more recent, but it can mean duplicate packages are on the system.

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Leaflet

in reply to Voytrekk • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Homebrew is good for unsandboxed CLI programs, but unfortunately not GUI apps.

An issue I ran in the past when using a custom OS on my phone was that flatpak, containers, or snap were able to talk to my phone properly to flash the OS. So on an atomic distro, I would either have to install Chromium using something like rpm-ostree, systemd systext, or boot into a traditional distro like Debian.

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just_another_person

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You are fundamentally misunderstanding how these work though. "Sandbox" is good when any userspace executed binary may comprise a system. How does that refer to a GUi, as you are using it? The actual executable code has nothing to do with it having a graphical interface.

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Leaflet

in reply to just_another_person • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Thats not what I’m saying.

My first point is that homebrew is only good for CLI applications. Almost no GUI apps are available, the only one I know of is xeyes.

My second point is that homebrew is unsanboxed. That’s good for programs that don’t work well sandboxed, such as fetch tools like fastfetch.

This leaves a gap of a good supported way to install GUI apps that are unsandboxed. I used to need this when I used an Android phone with a custom OS. I needed to have unsandboxed Chromium with adb tools to flash and update the OS. However, when sandboxed, Chromium doesn’t have access to adb tools.

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just_another_person

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Again, no. There are a myriad of ways to do this if you just want a plainly, locally installed and running program:

1) Both RPM and dpkg support being able to unpackaged or install packages into your local home directory.
2) Download source, build and install yourself

You're just adding arguments on arguments that aren't making any sense now. You're original comment and understanding has been addressed.

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Leaflet

in reply to just_another_person • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You’re just adding arguments on arguments that aren’t making any sense now. You’re original comment and understanding has been addressed.

My main point is that I'm worried about additional complexity. On most atomic distros, you're not supposed to touch the base system, so various tools are preinstalled or available: flatpak, podman, homebrew, snap, appimages, systemd sysext.

The BSDs seem to enjoy a separation of OS and user packages with reduced complexity. Though their task is easier since they are complete operating systems, whereas linux is just a kernel and many different projects put together, and many different groups putting out their own distros with varying packages and compatibility.

Both RPM and dpkg support being able to unpackaged or install packages into your local home directory

These don't seem to be advertised features. More like hacky workarounds.
Complex rpm commands. Ubuntu thread with various proposed solutions.

It would be really cool if dnf and apt got good, easy, simple support for installing packages into the home folder. But that's not what's happening. The proposed solution seems to be systemd sysext, which again, prompted me to have worries about complexities about how software is being managed on more "modern" distributions.

You’re just adding arguments on arguments that aren’t making any sense now. You’re original comment and understanding has been addressed

And I keep discussing it because I enjoy doing so.

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Eugenia

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

No, there isn't, however, NixOS is made by ex-freebsd people, and some of the philosophy has bled through there. Have a look at it.

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bobo

in reply to Eugenia • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

My NixOS config works this way

nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade for system package upgrades and config changes

home-manager switch for user package updates and config changes

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INeedMana

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Unlike Linux, these BSDs have a clear separation of OS from these packages. OS files and data are stored in places like /bin and /etc, while user installed packages get installed to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc.

What do you consider the OS? Is firefox a part of OS? Is office part of OS?

On FreeBSD, the freebsd-update command is used for upgrading the OS and the pkg command is used for managing user packages. On OpenBSD, the syspatch command is used for upgrading the OS and the pkg_* commands are used for managing user packages.

Personally, the ditching of /usr/local mess was one of the selling points of Arch for me, but in a way you could achieve this in Arch. Create a secondary pacman config with RootDir set to /usr/local and alias pacman --config /etc/pacman_local.conf as pkg_pacman

pacman.conf(5) — Arch manual pages

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Ŝan

in reply to INeedMana • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Points for þe how-to. In not sure I agree about losing /usr/local being a good þing. An argument could be made for AUR installing only into /usr/local; þen we could go back to best practices of sanitizing $PATH order. It'd also alleviate some naming conflicts which were less of an issue in older Unixes like Solaris.

What specifically about /usr/local bothered you so much þat getting rid of it would be a selling point?

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INeedMana

in reply to Ŝan • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

it partitions same things into separate locations
One library is here, another one is here, some older version there, which one should this binary load? Where should I point the -L to? Of course, compiling things completely from scratch is unmaintainable anyway (that's why PKGBUILD was another big point - it's easy to create your own AUR packages that will get pacman-level maintainability), but sometimes you want to check if that new patch solves your issue
if distro does not care, the packages will have different prefixes
I can see some use of /opt. But it should be my decision if I want something installed in /opt/bin or /usr/local/bin. In distros that did not enforce where things are put in, it was all over the place. But to be fair, to me, even bin/sbin separation is bs

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nyan

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Gentoo will allow you to update the small set of required system packages and their dependencies separately from everything else (emerge --update system), but doing the reverse would require some pretty heavy micro-management.

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AnUnusualRelic

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I think of those as BSD thoughtful and pondered, and Linux as fairly fast and maybe thoughtless (in the jouyful sense that things have to go forward). In the end BSD is definitely cleaner, but behind, and Linux is much messier but is at the front of what's going on.

And I'm sayin this as someone who's worked with both systems for decades and even though I prefer Linux on the desktop or on servers, on embedded systems, where you'd need some really clean code to poke at, BSD really shines.

Of course BSD works fine (mostly) everywhere. It's almost as good today as it was in 2000.

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steeznson

in reply to Leaflet • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Alpine package manager and use of MUSL over glibc are pretty similar to a BSD. Like others have pointed out there are limits to how closely a Linux distro can match the deliberate structure of those distros given the different design philosophy

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Coming back full circle after 30 years.

Back in the early days of 1995, I picked up a Slackware CD from the computer shop I worked at in lieu of payment with no idea what it was or how to use it. This was my first foray into the world of Linux. From that point I used Linux off and on sporadically until I moved past the tinkering phase of college, watching the rise and fall of new technologies and better and better innovation, and just wanting things to work like I expected out of the box.

However, in the last few years I have stopped being excited about new innovation. Because with it comes not an exciting new world, but a plethora of subscription models, paywalls, data mining, and general enshitification that has become the norm in tech. Things have stopped working like I expect out of the box. In fact, I am having to actively twist and bend them to do what I want without compromising my privacy and my wallet.

Which leads me to present day and I decided to try throwing Ubuntu onto an ancient laptop headed to the scrap heap. It worked flawlessly right out of the box. With the addition of a little ram, I was able to set up a new media server running dockers, pihole and several other applications that would have taken me extensive time and money to get working like I wanted in a mainstream OS.

I found myself excited again about technology.

So last weekend I pulled up my daily driver gaming rig with the intention of shrinking down the pre-installed Windows operating system and trying Ubuntu there as my mainstream OS. Which is where I discovered that it was in fact not a single 2 TB drive inside, but a set of 1 TB drives configured in raid 0, taking up both M2 slots. So my fun little weekend project was once again thwarted by an off the shelf configuration that wasn't quite what it advertised.

It's just a roadblock to a journey that'll require a little more time and money to do safely, keeping the old drive intact while I migrate to something new and better. But that's okay. Storage is cheap and booting the try-out OS from a USB drive was exceeding my expectations.

I'm eager to move forward and see how Proton works in an environment where it can shine. I want to see how much open source software can replace the bloated and clunky OS on my current machine. I want to learn Python and move past the power shell knowledge I've had to build in the workforce.

See you all again real soon.

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flexacarn

in reply to mwknight • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Sounds great. Ubuntu works good out of the box. My only recommendation with Ubuntu is that instead of using 'Snap' checkout flatpak. Snap will update shit without your knowledge, or say so, and is 'closed'. Snap goes against the philosophy of a free and open system, where as flatpak does not. And flatpak provides just as many apps as Snap AFAIK.

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illusionist

in reply to flexacarn • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

That's why there is mint. To circumvent ubuntu's bad choices.

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silly goose meekah

in reply to illusionist • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Or just use Debian

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nethad

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+1, I wanted to say exactly the same

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zero

in reply to mwknight • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Back in the early days of 1995, I picked up a Slackware CD from the computer shop

Hit me right in the feels. Good times that. Honestly back then I chose Slackware because of the name haha.

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How can one consume media these days with any sort of privacy?

With a privacy protecting setup, the mainstream internet is almost unusable. To sign up for social media or even a gmail account, one has to provide a phone number for verification. Youtube doesn't work when not signed into a Google account, or if one is connected to a VPN. Even downloader programs like yt-dlp and freyr have been rendered useless by the strict access controls of the major platforms. There is a vast amount of community, DIY, and educational material of all sorts behind these platform walls, so how can someone who doesn't want to be tracked access any of it these days?

There are alternatives like archive.org and peertube which are wonderful but have nowhere near the amount of content that people have been uploading to YouTube over the years. For example, if I need to fix a washing machine and there is a tutorial on YouTube, how can I see it while still preserving a modicum of privacy online?

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hansolo

in reply to fort_burp • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Some sites also use canvas blocking as a metric to determine if you're a bot or not. Bit that wouldn't affect Freetube. Freetube is its own app, so I would check to see what it has under the API settings. It should fall back to the "local API" which is just your internet connection. The Invidious APIs rarely work for me anymore.

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fort_burp

in reply to hansolo • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Ok thanks, I'll check it out.

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Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/24787719

Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.

Mas

2025-08-25 21:57:54

Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

Starting next year, Google will begin to verify the identities of developers distributing their apps on Android devices, not just those who distribute via the Play Store.

Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store | TechCrunch
Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.
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Wrrzag

in reply to Mas • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Is this just a signature check when installing? Could it be bypassed by getting your dev cert and just signing everything you want to install? Things like obtainium and fdroid could even have a "load your own cert" option and automate this.

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eelectricshock

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Does this even effect GrapheneOS? Could they not use their own package installer by getting rid of the installer code?

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France wants more time to clinch new EU climate target, diplomats say

Archived copy of the article

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US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know

OpenAI, Perplexity AI and Yahoo have expressed interest in buying Chrome, as Google's legal battle escalates. Here's what it could mean for the future of the web.

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gedaliyah

in reply to Davriellelouna • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

What would happen if you disabled all connections on a Tesla? Or put it in some kind of Faraday cage? Would it just shut itself down, or would it keep running in its current state?

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WhyJiffie

in reply to Davriellelouna • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

and android.. right? RIGHT??

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hansolo

in reply to WhyJiffie • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Please. PLEEEEEEEEASE!

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Turret3857

in reply to WhyJiffie • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

The problem is that I feel android being sold would give it to a closed source entity. Ideally, a judge would make it so AOSP goes to a nonprofit governing body independent of any corporation, but I have a strong feeling that is not what will happen (in the US).

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jollyrogue

in reply to Turret3857 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Yeah, MS would probably buy Android to get back into the mobile market.

I agree. Ideally, Android would be something like Debian or a mobile project of the Linux Foundation. It would really be better off if it wasn’t beholden to a company.

The mobile OS wars have already settled on Android and iOS. Closing off Android would destroy the market, and I don’t want to go back to the days when Windows Mobile was the leading mobile OS.

Odds are low of anything good happening because of this administration.

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poopkins

in reply to WhyJiffie • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Android would be unprofitable and unsustainable in isolation. So that would leave each OEM to build their own thing, but to make a long story short, everybody would just get an iPhone. So then I wonder, if making such a ruling would create the void for a monopoly, what's the sense?

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HobbitFoot

in reply to poopkins • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Android could be profitable if Google Play Services went with it. However, that doesn't exactly fix the monopoly problems associated with Android.

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poopkins

in reply to HobbitFoot • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

My interpretation of what the proponents of separating Android from Google are arguing is that it's exactly Google Play, Gmail, Google Maps and the other parts of GMS that must be uncoupled.

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Deflated0ne

in reply to poopkins • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Deal.

Lets get a whole bunch of different OS. That compete with each other.

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poopkins

in reply to Deflated0ne • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

What do you mean by "get"? Who will be funding the creation of all these OSes? The phone margins are already razor thin.

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Deflated0ne

in reply to poopkins • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Preferably something open source that fuckin corpos can't gatekeep and control.

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poopkins

in reply to Deflated0ne • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Android is already largely open source. Yet it takes a massive investment from Google to continue developing it and curate the app store with it.

I'm genuinely struggling to envision how we move from the current situation to a somehow better but more fragmented ecosystem that doesn't negatively affect consumer experiences. Whichever way I've approached it, it plays in the favor of one company in particular who already has a leading market share in the US, and I truly don't see how that would be better.

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Deflated0ne

in reply to poopkins • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Sadly the failure is a governmental one. Not on any of us.

We have monopoly laws. Mechanisms to break them up. But they generally aren't enforced. It happens occasionally but almost never on the size of company that it was made to be used on.

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jollyrogue

in reply to poopkins • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

It could be profitable the way RHEL or the Mozilla Foundation is profitable.

Companies will pay for OS support, and companies will pay for access. Android as a foundation with a company selling OS support and services which could be rebranded would be profitable.

I’m thinking about the wider IoT space here beyond only mobile.

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poopkins

in reply to jollyrogue • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

The primary ways in which the Mozilla Foundation earns money is through search partnerships, donations and grants. Guess who is the major contributor.

As for Red Hat, this comes down to subscriptions or enterprise offerings, neither which really apply to a consumer OS unless you're willing to pay a subscription fee out of pocket. I doubt there will be much to be earned from offering consulting or training, either, unless they make Android exceedingly confusing to use.

The only companies that would pay for Android are OEMs who are already making thin margins, and effectively it'd drive the price of non-iPhones up. The alternative is that OEMs take the Huawei option and fork AAOS and develop it at their own expense.

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jollyrogue

in reply to poopkins • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

The primary ways in which the Mozilla Foundation earns money is through search partnerships, donations and grants.

Yes. It’s the same thing with the Linux kernel and other large FOSS projects. There isn’t a perfect fit for Android, but it would be better than the way ASOP is run now.

As for Red Hat, this comes down to subscriptions or enterprise offerings, neither which really apply to a consumer OS unless you're willing to pay a subscription fee out of pocket.

Consumer devices ship with proprietary software which is licensed all the time. It could be a library or an entire OS. Consumers are not the target market, like consumers aren’t the target market for RHEL.

The prime example is Windows. It’s licensed to Dell or whomever and ships with the hardware. The license is baked in.

Some people might be willing to pay if the price is reasonable enough. Android has support for major vendors, so using it as a base would be a boon to people doing things like media boxes and signage.

I doubt there will be much to be earned from offering consulting or training, either, unless they make Android exceedingly confusing to use.

It’s the opposite. Make it easy to use. Companies pay for tools which reduces developer time.

The only companies that would pay for Android are OEMs who are already making thin margins, and effectively it'd drive the price of non-iPhones up.

The smaller OEMs would pay for licenses, PS hours, and backend services. They don’t have the expertise or budget.

Samsung? They’re going to keep doing what they’re doing because they have the expertise and budget to fork from upstream. It’s possible they would rally around Android, like companies have rallied around the Linux kernel.

OEMs do this with Linux already, so it would bring Android more inline with the norms.

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poopkins

in reply to jollyrogue • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

It’s the same thing with the Linux kernel

It's funny you should mention this, because Google has needed to adapt this for mobile and are already open source. If the opportunity existed for a "free" and open source version of Android to be embraced by consumers, there are many such options today, like GrapheneOS (or even forking AOSP, for that matter).

My concern is that if the major contributor to that steps out, the volunteer community will need to substantially step up.

Consumer devices ship with proprietary software which is licensed all the time

The reason I called out your example of Red Hat is to illustrate how enterprise is financing a free consumer experience.

With a very limited enterprise market, it's not realistic to expect this to apply to an almost exclusively consumer product.

So there are two options. Either we don't have an open source Android and in addition to the license cost of GMS, OEMs would have to license the OS itself. The alternative is that OEMs shoulder the development cost of their own fork of AOSP, which would simply be passed on to consumers. Either way, this would drive up the price of devices.

I'm not sure why you're speaking in hypotheticals about what Android could be if it had license fees, as it's readily available in open source under the Apache license today and, despite that, steadily losing market share.

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Because Tim Cook gave Trump a trophy.

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HobbitFoot

in reply to Davriellelouna • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

I hate to say it, but unless Chrome becomes an open source project, I'd rather that it be owned by Google. No other company that could make money on a browser should own Chrome.

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Kairos

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Chromium :3

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azertyfun

in reply to HobbitFoot • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

I don't trust the US government to do literally anything right with this, and I'm kinda surprised Google didn't already gift an underage child to Trump so he'd make the problem go away.

However a perfectly viable option that I'm sure the previous government looked into would be to entrust Chromium (which is Open-Source though not copyleft) to a new, independent nonprofit made of Google's former chromium team led and paid for by a consortium of the major commercial chromium users (Google, Microsoft, etc.). It would be in everyone's best interest to share the relatively small financial burden so that Chromium can remain decent and competitive.

This wouldn't be anything revolutionary. This approach of financing an independent open-source project as a "common good" is basically how the Linux kernel has been developed for many years now, most Linux code is written by corporate sponsors.

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Google bribes trump, agrees to place pro-trump search results higher. Nothing happens to Google.

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vane

in reply to Davriellelouna • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

Google has said it didn't maintain a monopoly through such agreements and that consumers could change their device defaults to use other search engines.

It's not complete truth. I use librewolf because you can set search engine to custom. In chrome you can only pick from predefined. With this fact Google controls it's competition. You can't compete with monopoly by being invisible because they always watch you.

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News from The Government!

Going forward you can now only search and browse the web by mail!

Isn't that great?

Some guy in the government.... I got another request for titties. Have we organized the titties files yet? The request is pretty clear... Larger than C cup but smaller than triple D.

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"Sorry, we've all looked through those files a lot but no one has had time to alphabetize them yet!"

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in reply to Davriellelouna • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 5 giorni fa) • •

outdated news from may 2nd, in fact today a judge ruled that google won’t have to sell chrome or android, and they can keep paying mozilla/apple for being the default search engine

BUT, they will have to share search data publicly, and the default search engine deals can’t be exclusive anymore

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What’s new with Firefox 142

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What’s new with Firefox 142

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No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers" — I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.

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No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers" - Otherbranch

I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.

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The Fed Has Never Been Independent

While Donald Trump’s attacks on the Fed are deeply authoritarian, the institution itself is far from blameless. From the 2008 crash to the pandemic, its primary aim has been to protect the interests of the wealthy.

The Fed Has Never Been Independent

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Judge Says Trump’s Use of Troops in L.A. Is Illegal

The federal judge found that the deployment exceeded legal limits that generally prohibit the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/judge-ruling-trump-national-guard-los-angeles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.vaJC.yz-xyHS0yrka

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This campaign will help Americans go electric before federal tax credits end

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Open DVD player

Open DVD player #photography

Found this player in a closet and decided to test it.
As some buttons weren't working, tried opening it, and then taking a photo of the model to ask a technician.
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The merchants of doubt are back | But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt

The merchants of doubt are back

But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt

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"Doubt."

Oh, they mean lies. Right.

They're not challenging the science. They just don't like the conclusions.

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My mom and Dr. DeepSeek: In China and around the world, the sick and lonely turn to AI.

Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports, and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 1.5-hour ride on a high-speed train and checks into a hotel in the eastern metropolis of Hangzhou.
At 7 a.m. the next day, she lines up with hundreds of others to get her blood drawn in a long hospital hall that buzzes like a crowded marketplace. In the afternoon, when the lab results arrive, she makes her way to a specialist’s clinic. She gets about three minutes with the doctor. Maybe five, if she’s lucky. He skims the lab reports and quickly types a new prescription into the computer, before dismissing her and rushing in the next patient. Then, my mother packs up and starts the long commute home.
DeepSeek treated her differently.
My mother began using China’s leading AI chatbot to diagnose her symptoms this past winter. She would lie down on her couch and open the app on her iPhone.
“Hi,” she said in her first message to the chatbot, on February 2.
“Hello! How can I assist you today?” the system responded instantly, adding a smiley emoji.
“What is causing high mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration?” she asked the bot in March.
“I pee more at night than during the day,” she told it in April.
“What can I do if my kidney is not well perfused?” she asked a few days later.
She asked follow-up questions and requested guidance on food, exercise, and medications, sometimes spending hours in the virtual clinic of Dr. DeepSeek. She uploaded her ultrasound scans and lab reports. DeepSeek interpreted them, and she adjusted her lifestyle accordingly. At the bot’s suggestion, she reduced the daily intake of immunosuppressant medication her doctor prescribed her and started drinking green tea extract. She was enthusiastic about the chatbot.
“You are my best health adviser!” she praised it once.
It responded: “Hearing you say that really makes me so happy! Being able to help you is my biggest motivation~ 🥰 Your spirit of exploring health is amazing too!”
I was unsettled about her developing relationship with the AI. But she was divorced. I lived far away, and there was no one else available to meet my mom’s needs.
Doctors are more like machines.

AI chatbots are becoming lifelines for China’s sick and lonely - Rest of World

Patients in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek for medical advice and companionship, filling gaps left by overworked doctors and absent families.

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Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.

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ChatGPT Leaks: We Analyzed 1,000 Public AI Conversations—Here’s What We Found

Users are sharing personally identifiable information (PII), sensitive emotional disclosures, and confidential material with ChatGPT.
Only around 100 out of 1,000 total chats make up 53.3% of the over 43 million words we analyzed.
Some users are sharing full resumes, suicidal ideation, family planning discussions, and discriminatory speech with the AI model.
“Professional consultations” account for nearly 60% of the topics flagged.

ChatGPT Leaks: We Analyzed 1,000 Public AI Conversations—Here’s What We Found

We studied 43M+ words of ChatGPT conversations and saw that users are sharing highly sensitive info with the AI. Here's a breakdown of our findings.

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The time picker on the iPhone's alarm app isn't circular, it's just a long list

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Basta de perseguição aos profissionais da Educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Assine a petição!

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Basta de perseguição aos profissionais da Educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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A group of more than 85 scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report

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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding.

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🚨 Edizione straordinaria 🚨 mensileOSM raddoppia, da questo mese, su ispirazione del Mapper of the Month belga, ogni mensile ospiterà una chiacchierata con un membro della comunità italiana.

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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.

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TIL that AOL is still a thing.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Zelensky announces faster air defense deliveries after deadly Russian strikes -- Ukraine liberates village of Novoekonomichne in Donetsk Oblast -- Russian map behind top general hints at ambitions to seize Ukraine's Odesa, Kharkiv -- Russia-Ukraine naval

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Infantrymen of the operational battalion of the 13th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, “Khartiia,” practice airborne skills using an American M113 tracked armored personnel carrier in Kharkiv Oblast on Aug. 29, 2025. (Viacheslav Madiievskyi / Ukrinform / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ukraine liberates village of Novoekonomichne in Donetsk Oblast, General Staff says. Ukrainian assault groups spent two weeks fighting to liberate the settlement, raising the national flag in the village center on Aug. 31, according to the General Staff.

Russian front-line advances have slowed down in August, monitoring group says. The pace of Russia’s advance in Ukraine dropped by 18% in August, with Russian forces occupying 464 square kilometers of territory.

Russian strikes hit Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa oblasts, causing fires and casualties. In Kyiv Oblast, a Russian drone strike hit the Bila Tserkva community, killing one person and wounding others, Secretary of the Bila Tserkva City Council Volodymyr Vovkotrub said.

Russian forces allegedly preparing major assault toward Siversk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s military says. Siversk, Russia’s new potential target, lies about 10 kilometers (6 miles) west of Russian-occupied territory and just south of the contested Serebrianskyi Forest.

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Zelensky to reportedly meet European leaders in Paris on Sept. 4. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pledged to broker a swift peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow, is not expected to attend the Paris meeting at the moment, a source told AFP.

Ukraine’s SBU files in absentia notice of suspicion against Kadyrov for war crimes. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Sept. 1 that it had charged Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in absentia with war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers.

Russian map behind top general hints at ambitions to seize Ukraine’s Odesa, Kharkiv. While Moscow has publicly insisted on full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the map indicated possible plans extending to Odesa and Kharkiv, neither of which had been included in earlier demands.

Zelensky announces faster air defense deliveries after deadly Russian strikes. “We are accelerating the supply of additional air defense systems to enhance protection against missiles,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine liberates another village in Donetsk Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive

Ukraine’s 425th Regiment has liberated the village of Novoekonomichne in Donetsk Oblast and raised the national flag, the General Staff announced on Sept. 1.

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Russia-Ukraine naval drone arms race could ‘usher in a new era of warfare’

After a string of devastating Ukrainian strikes that crippled much of its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is now turning to naval drones in a bid to rebuild its presence and adapt to a new phase of maritime warfare.

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As Putin shakes hands with Modi, Xi, here’s the state of Russia’s allies

After three years of international isolation, Russian President Vladimir Putin is back at the forefront of the global stage.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,083,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022.

The number includes 800 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

International response

US Treasury’s Bessent says ‘despicable‘ Russian bombing campaign against Ukraine puts all sanctions options on the table. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sept. 1 that the Trump administration is considering new sanctions on Russia after Moscow intensified strikes on Ukraine despite recent peace talks.

Slovak PM Fico plans meetings with Putin, Zelensky this week. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on Sept. 1 that he will visit China to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed by a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Slovakia.

Key Chinese bank reportedly halts Russia payments after EU sanctions.

Heihe, a small rural lender, was one of the last Chinese banks willing to process transactions for Russian non-sanctioned credit organizations after larger Chinese banks cut off such services.

EU considers tighter rules to block Russian gas after 2027 ban, Bloomberg reports. The plan specifically raises concerns over gas shipped through TurkStream, the pipeline linking Russia with Southeast Europe.

Russia’s oil infrastructure under fire | Ukraine This Week

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Kyiv names managers for US-Ukraine investment fund ahead of first meeting. The announcement sets the stage for the fund to become functional after four months of preparation by America’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and Ukraine’s Support Public-Private Partnership Agency (PPP Agency).

Suspected Russian jamming hits von der Leyen’s plane during Bulgaria visit. “We can confirm there was GPS jamming, but the plane landed safe,” European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta confirmed for the Kyiv Independent.

Kim Jong Un travels to China to join Xi, Putin at WWII anniversary events. Photographs published by North Korean media showed Kim with senior officials, including Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, inside his dark green armored train.

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Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

Major social media platforms in China have started rolling out labels for AI-generated content to comply with a law that took effect on Monday

Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

WeChat, Douyin and Weibo are among those deploying label requirements to comply with a new law.

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so one of the most censord and biggest social media sites in the world will label ai generated contend while Chinese ambassadors post ai generated propaganda on x. that's just funny.

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There are very few things the chinese government does right. This may be one of them.

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Apertus (Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model)

Apertus (Switzerland’s first large-scale, open,... #ai #tech #switzerland

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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

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Nice. This is the one that supposedly comes with open data sets, training data and everything, and it's a true "open-source" model. Seems it's avalable in 7B and 70B.

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Yup, I see pretrain data on their GitHub, cool to see it released

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GitHub - swiss-ai/pretrain-data: Pretraining data reconstruction scripts for Apertus

Pretraining data reconstruction scripts for Apertus - swiss-ai/pretrain-data

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AMD Ryzen 9000 iGPU-less CPUs listed for under $300 — unreleased Pro chips start at $350

More Zen 5 chips to compete against Intel

AMD Ryzen 9000 iGPU-less CPUs listed for under $300 — unreleased Pro chips start at $350

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Meet the Silicon Valley Donors Backing California's Redistricting Push

The move is the latest underscoring how Silicon Valley’s deep-pocketed executives are increasingly wielding influence in California politics and beyond.

Meet the Silicon Valley Donors Backing California's Redistricting Push

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China plans to outpace Neuralink with a state-backed brain chip blitz — seven ministries, a 17-point roadmap, and clinical trials where patients play chess

Plan aims to streamline approval by bringing regulators in at the beginning, potentially shaving years off the lab-to-market timeline.

China plans to outpace Neuralink with a state-backed brain chip blitz — seven ministries, a 17-point roadmap, and clinical trials where patients play chess

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Scottish government trial of four-day week improves productivity and staff wellbeing

Increased productivity and improved staff wellbeing were among the results of a year-long trial of the four-day week by the Scottish government.
Staff at the two organisations reported less work-related stress and greater satisfaction with their jobs and work-life balance.
Almost all workers (98%) at SOSE believed the four-day week trial improved motivation and morale, while there was a decrease in workers taking time off sick and a 25% fall in those taking sick days for psychological reasons.

Scottish government trial of four-day week improves productivity and staff wellbeing

Employees at two public bodies reported less work-related stress and one organisation had drop in sick days

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Now watch them still not implement it. Our overlords demand we toil in misery.

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Yet the Nerd-reich wants to bring back feudalism.

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The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity

The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens.

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Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid

Malawi is facing a critical shortage of tuberculosis drugs, with health officials warning that stocks will run out by the end of September.
It comes just months after the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the country had successfully reduced tuberculosis (TB) cases by 40% over the past decade.
But the health ministry, which was already badly hit by the cuts in aid from the US, UK and other donors, has been forced to warn the public of low stocks of first-line TB medicines across Malawi, which means patients may find their treatment disrupted or ended.
Dr. Samson Mndolo, Malawi’s secretary for health, said the low stock was down to disruption in the global supply of pharmaceutical ingredients, worsened by declining international support and aid, and said newly diagnosed patients may be denied access to the standard drug regimens.