TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off…Techdirt
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TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off…Techdirt
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‘Deserve to die': Texas man indicted over series of violent threats to Mamdani
The man allegedly made phone and written threats to the New York mayoral candidate, warning the democratic socialist should “go back to Uganda” before someone shoots him in the head.
Authorities have arrested a Texas man for allegedly making phone and written threats to New York City mayoral candidate and state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, warning the self-described democratic socialist to “go back to Uganda” before someone shoots him in the head, the Queens district attorney said Thursday.
Jeremy Fistel was arraigned on a 22-count grand jury indictment charging him with making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and related charges in the case. Prosecutors allege he started sending the messages to Mamdani’s office in June and continued to do so through July.
According to the charges, Fistel allegedly left an anti-Muslim message June 18 saying the Uganda-born Mamdani wasn’t welcome in New York and warning him to watch his back and his family’s backs. He called him a terrorist.
‘Deserve to die': Texas man indicted over series of violent threats to Mamdani
Mamdani faced threats directly to him and to his campaign in June, a senior official familiar with the matter says.Jonathan Dienst, Melissa Russo, Andrew Siff, Jennifer Millman, Tara Guaimano (NBC New York)
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Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’
Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman criticize ABC’s parent company, Disney, and FCC chief, Brendan Carr
Late-night show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon and former host David Letterman have all rallied behind Jimmy Kimmel following ABC’s decision to indefinitely suspend his popular late-night show after his comments about the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.
In his opening monologue on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert mocked executives at Disney, ABC’s parent company, for caving to threats from Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, when they pulled Kimmel off the air.
In an excerpt posted on Instagram before broadcast, Colbert also scolded Carr for calling Kimmel’s commentary on the rush to politicize Kirk’s murder an affront to community values. “Well, you know what my community values are, Buster?” Colbert asked. “Freedom of speech.”
Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’
Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and David Letterman criticize ABC’s parent company, Disney, and FCC chief, Brendan CarrRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
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la nuova appistica NoteTand per scrivere note col dente blu (app Android di appunti Bluetooth!!!)
Mi secca non averlo potuto scrivere ieri, ma completare questo nuovo momento epico mi ha rubato un po’ di tempo, e quindi si era fatto tardi, e rip… ma l’importante è che ora l’ennesima app dall’utilità iperspecifica è per mano mia esistente, e stavolta è una app Android per scrivere note e sincronizzarle con il […]
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Machining is a lot of learning, but it's real, tangible work that gives more satisfaction than anything I did in corporate IT.
Moreover, even though the welding side can be a bit 'blokey' (macho?) you'll find places fall into either horribly sexist (you'll know within a few meters of walking in...) or millennials/onward that don't mind who you are.
Machining side even the old men don't care who you are, as long as you do a good job and don't skimp on calibration.
It's sexism in its own right, but a few of the older men prefer me doing the calibrations since they assume women=dexterous.
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The enshittification of tech jobs
The enshittification of tech jobs Our last line of defense has fallen. I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me at NEW ZEALAND’S UNITY BOOKS in AUCKLAND (May 2 …Cory Doctorow (Medium)
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A Deep Dive On Creepy Cameras
A Deep Dive On Creepy Cameras
George Orwell might’ve predicted the surveillance state, but it’s still surprising how many entities took 1984 as a how-to manual instead of a cautionary tale. [Benn Jordan] decided to …Hackaday
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Estate: L'Abbronzatura si prepara in cucina
Un tempo si cantava "stessa spiaggia, stesso mare", ma i consigli per un'abbronzatura perfetta non cambiano mai! In piena estate, il desiderio di una pelle baciata dal sole è al culmine. Ma sapevi che il segreto per una tintarella sana e duratura non sta solo nelle creme, ma anche in quello che mangi?
Abbiamo esplorato il ruolo dei cibi che stimolano la melanina e i trucchi per abbronzarsi velocemente e in modo naturale, senza rischi. Dalle carote all'olio d'oliva, scopri come preparare la tua pelle dall'interno per un'estate luminosa e sicura!
Il sole è il vero abbronzante naturale: i cibi che aiutano a ottenere una tintarella splendida e duratura, senza scottature
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Traders Say ‘Insane’ Tech Is Making FX Markets Sleepier
Currency Volatility Is Getting Crushed in Era of ‘Insane’ Tech Advancements
Advancements in electronic trading may be crushing volatility in the currency market, making prolonged wild swings a thing of the past.Alice Atkins (Bloomberg)
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Jon Stewart was slightly pissed off about Kimmel's cancelation. So he hosted last night's Daily Show.
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Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd
On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a slew of new augmented reality glasses, including what he claimed to be the "first AI glasses with high resolution," a new $799 version of its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that features a tiny screen that's viewable to the wearer.But it didn't take long for the company's MetaConnect 2025 keynote to descend into chaos. The social media giant's demos repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.
The poor showing painfully demonstrates that the tech is far from ready, even as companies continue to shove AI into every aspect of our daily lives.
Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's demos of new smart glasses repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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Personally, I don't care enough. Mostly my kids watch SpongeBob, and I can tell when vaguely paying attention as they watch it that I've seen every episode in seasons 1-3 (the only seasons I bothered to load) multiple times, which would specifically have been when I was a kid watching live TV. And half the time it's on shuffle anyways so the order doesn't matter at all
Edit to add: not sure if the issues people are describing are Plex specific but Jellyfin required zero manual effort when I injested the rips. All episodes have correct metadata (as two parters, so for example I have "S1E10-11 Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple" as a single episode)
I am too much of a lerfectionist (metadata) to not care. 🙁
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Thing is, not every release respects the aired or the DVD-order that TVDB uses.
So you might have some episode which deviates from the current order and suddenly it doesnt work anymore.
New York lawmakers arrested for blocking Ice access to federal building
New York lawmakers arrested for blocking Ice access to federal building
Arrests include 11 city officials who had demanded to see the conditions of an Ice intake facility on the 10th floorJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
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Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
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R1 is thought to be the first major LLM to undergo the peer-review process. “This is a very welcome precedent,” says Lewis Tunstall, a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face who reviewed the Nature paper. “If we don't have this norm of sharing a large part of this process publicly, it becomes very hard to evaluate whether these systems pose risks or not.”In response to peer-review comments, the DeepSeek team reduced anthropomorphizing in its descriptions and added clarifications of technical details, including the kinds of data the model was trained on, and its safety. “Going through a rigorous peer-review process certainly helps verify the validity and usefulness of the model,” says Huan Sun, an AI researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus. “Other firms should do the same.”
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Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
R1 is thought to be the first major LLM to undergo the peer-review process. “This is a very welcome precedent,” says Lewis Tunstall, a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face who reviewed the Nature paper. “If we don't have this norm of sharing a large part of this process publicly, it becomes very hard to evaluate whether these systems pose risks or not.”In response to peer-review comments, the DeepSeek team reduced anthropomorphizing in its descriptions and added clarifications of technical details, including the kinds of data the model was trained on, and its safety. “Going through a rigorous peer-review process certainly helps verify the validity and usefulness of the model,” says Huan Sun, an AI researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus. “Other firms should do the same.”
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000.Gibney, Elizabeth
China connects its largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant - Energy Storage
China has connected to the grid a 100 MW hybrid energy storage facility that integrates supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteriesTouted as the world’s largest supercapacitor-based installation, the facility combines a 58 MW/30-second supercapacitor array with 42 MW/42 MWh of lithium-ion battery storage, spanning a footprint of approximately 16,800 square meters.
Supercapacitors provide ultrafast response times – specified at 0.001 seconds – and maintain over 85% capacity at –40°C, significantly outperforming lithium-ion batteries in extreme cold. By offloading rapid-response tasks to the supercapacitor, the system is expected to extend battery lifespan and reduce lifecycle costs by around 30%
China connects its largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant - Energy Storage
China has connected to the grid a 100 MW hybrid energy storage facility that integrates supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries, setting a new benchmark for ultra-fast frequency regulation services.Marija Maisch (Energy Storage)
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San Francisco Gets An Invasive Billionaire-Bought Surveillance HQ
San Francisco billionaire Chris Larsen once again has wielded his wallet to keep city residents under the eye of all-seeing police surveillance.The San Francisco Police Commission, the Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie have signed off on Larsen’s $9.4 million gift of a new Real-Time Investigations Center. The plan involves moving the city’s existing police tech hub from the public Hall of Justice not to the city’s brand-new police headquarters but instead to a sublet in the Financial District building of Ripple Labs, Larsen’s crypto-transfer company. Although the city reportedly won’t be paying for the space, the lease reportedly cost Ripple $2.3 million and will last until December 2026.
The deal will also include a $7.25 million gift from the San Francisco Police Community Foundation that Larsen created. Police foundations are semi-public fundraising arms of police departments that allow them to buy technology and gear that the city will not give them money for.
Snoops gives more context to his statements on empathy. He qualifies his statement by saying he prefers sympathy over empathy. He didn't give any explanation.
Interestingly he was correct that empathy is a relatively new word in English (early 1900s) and sympathy is much older (1500's).
If we age going to make a judgement on age alone, I don't want to go back to the 1500's.
Charlie Kirk once said empathy was 'made-up, new age term'
Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."Jordan Liles (Snopes.com)
Honestly, this sounds to me like something a sociopath would say, which is why I don’t buy it when these people are using the ‘full context’ defence here.
The difference between empathy and sympathy is subtle, yet important, and (I think) exposes that he was a sociopath.
I’m not sure how to explain what I mean other than that sympathy is passive whilst empathy is active. Sympathy exists at arms length, whilst empathy is truly felt. Or, perhaps, sympathy is cerebral whilst empathy is emotional.
Does that make sense? I think sociopaths can understand sympathy, and maybe can tell themselves they ‘feel’ it, but empathy is a foreign concept – and in Charlie Kirk’s mind, a weakness.
So, for me, the context actually makes this quote worse.
The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitcoin Self Custody
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The Treasury Is Expanding The Patriot Act To Attack Bitcoin Self Custody
We shouldn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator.Marty Bent (TFTC – Truth for the Commoner)
Ironically this does not prevent technologies like Monero from becoming the next big platform; nor will it really prevent people from evacuating their coins to a more private and self-custodial wallet.
In general it really only puts a few more onerous steps into the equation where there will be fences and people who are expected to digitally mule bitcoin around.
In the same manner that organized criminals work around modern financial regulations aimed at capturing them; they can also work around regulations surrounding Bitcoin itself; and once the Bitcoin itself is fenced off into a Monero or other privacy preserving coin; it will remain there 'burned' or get 'laundered' by a group of gang members a few hundred times to re-mint coins clean enough to be re-deposited and re-used in the same manner.
It won't matter in the long run that they are tracking the provenance of every satoshi. Especially not if it's far too common that anyone making a suspicious move turns out to be a privacy conscious, law-abiding, yet innocent citizen.
We asked Israel's president if he's a war criminal in front of Starmer
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How much the recent developments with android are gonna affect the Foss world?
Nvidia 580 update freezing gui - Ubuntu Studio
Anyone else having this issue? I just updated through Discovery and it auto installed 580. Taskbar froze up, but everything else worked fine. I had to purge nvidia drivers, reinstall 550, and reboot. Now I'm on X.Org Nouveau. Pretty sure I was on Nvidia 570 prior to this but I don't know how to go back, still new to this Linux stuff haha
Edit: Ok, I was able to get back on 570 with software sources (kept getting an error before). 580 is still borked for me though (says proprietary and tested). Do I just wait for the next update?
Number of photos and evidence for the genocide in Gaza: infinite
Number of photos and evidence of the "genocide" in Xinjiang: 0
Young Activists Say 3 Trump Orders Violate Constitutional Rights
In a Montana courtroom, a group of young people argued that a judge should halt three of President Trump’s sweeping executive orders on climate and energy policy.
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"Israeli-American" IDF Sniper Brags About Killing Palestinian Civilians.
In shocking leaked audio, Daniel Raab, an Israeli-American IDF sniper from Chicago, brags about killing unarmed Palestinian civilians.
As an investigation by the Guardian reported in the leaked video, Raab was shown “footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza” and Raab replied, “That was my first elimination”.
The Guardian noted that, “The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head”, that “Raab concedes he knew that,” and that “he says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed”.
The Guardian quoted him saying, “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me, I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”
The Guardian quoted Raab bragging, “They’re thinking: ‘Oh, I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong, that’s what you have snipers for”.
The Guardian noted, “After Salem was shot, his father, Montasser, 51, rushed to the site, and tried to collect his sons’ bodies for burial, but was also fatally injured by a sniper.” The paper noted that, “Raab treated love and grief as cause to kill,” quoting him saying, “they just kept on coming to try and take these bodies”.
It also noted that the video of this massacre was posted by an IDF soldier, writing, “The video of Salem’s killing, and footage of other attacks on unarmed Palestinians, was posted online five months after his death, part of a montage made by a soldier called Shalom Gilbert to celebrate a deployment in Gaza.”
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IDF Sniper Brags About Killing Palestinian Civilians.
In a secret recording, an Israeli American sniper brags about shooting civilians.The Dissident
x forwarding still works under wayland
i know this sounds silly and it should be obvious, but i've been using x forwarding at work for a few days now, but it just dawned on me that i'm running wayland on my plasma machine and the x forwarded window is display through xwayland. it works so well that i didn't even notice a difference and in fact it seems to perform better than on x
this is not even the first time xwayland works better than pure x at work. i also need to use horizon client every once in a while and it got so much more stable after i moved to wayland -- even though the application claims wayland is unsupported
Also WPRS
github.com/wayland-transposito…
GitHub - wayland-transpositor/wprs
Contribute to wayland-transpositor/wprs development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Is there a Macro application that doesn't need a whole lot of scripting knowledge?
Morning y’all
Since I switched from windows a couple years back I have yet to find a useful macro application that can handle both mouse and keyboard inputs that also doesn’t need a lot of scripting knowledge.
Back on Windows the Logitech GHub was the perfect application for making macros. Record the macro, edit the key press down & up, delay and change whether or not the macro was a toggle or of the key needed to be held was really easy to do but ever since I switched to Linux/Debian I’ve tried numerous different applications that all seem to need a bunch of scripting knowledge that I honestly don’t have the time nor energy to learn.
I’ve tried:
GitHub - sezanzeb/input-remapper: 🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. - sezanzeb/input-remapperGitHub
I've been meaning to check out open.qa/ from the OpenSUSE folks. It's what they use to test their operating system, so I figure it should be pretty good at having mouse and keyboard events scripted under it.
Wish I could give more info, but it's been a "I want to check it out" project, so I don't know much other than it exists.
openQA, automated testing for operating systems
Home of openQA, the engine at the heart of http://openqa.opensuse.orgopen.qa
Europe is legally allowed to classify nuclear and natural gas as sustainable investments
Europe is legally allowed to classify nuclear and natural gas as sustainable investments
Austria sued the European Commission, the bloc's executive, to try to have gas and nuclear excluded, but the courts shot down that argument.Canada's National Observer
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Those two things are very different in sustainability.
Including gas as a renewable makes that classification worthless.
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Payment privacy
What are the options for increased privacy in how you pay for things where you live?
Cash is the obvious answer, but what about buying stuff online?
UK here. Thinking of ditching cards/contactless for good old cash. No idea about online payments - not doing anything illegal so might persevere with cards for now. Zero experience with crypto.
Cash is the correct option.
The person raising alarms about note scanning is misinformed about how frequently atms actually scan bills as they go out (it may be that all British atms have been updated in the last ten years but it’s not likely) and has completely discounted the laundering effect of just buying something small with your big bill or getting change at a store somewhere.
The argument against cash is that they know what bill you took out and that they know where that bill got deposited from, because the atm reads the bill serial and the bank does too when the shop makes their deposit. So they know where you went!
Even if you can only pull from an atm that scans the bill serial and you have a bank that actively correlates that information to your kyc account holder information and uses facial recognition to verify it’s you using the atm taking physical custody of the withdrawl, when you use a 50 or a 20 to buy a bag of potato chips or ask a bar to change your 100, the cash you get back isn’t now associated with you.
Further: places that deal with cash do not deposit every bill they take in, so there’s a decent chance that the panopticon will never associate your withdrawal with having gone to the corner store or the bar sometime after you withdrew the money. Those bills may have ended up making change for someone else or in the cash portion of the tip out or used to cover some expense that day or any number of other things.
So the choice is between some electronic form of payment where there’s an absolute paper trail between you and the recipient of your money, with a transaction id that can be correlated to your purchase.
Or
The possibility that the atm read the serial number of the bills dispensed to you, then if they made it into some shops daily deposit, the indication that that bill was possibly spent at that shop.
No indication it was you, no paper trail, no transaction id, no amount of purchase that can be correlated with actual items based on their price, just two data points with no real correlation between them.
Use cash.
Chat Control 2.0
The EU Commission is lying open on social media about chat control.
Tomorrow EU governments debate about Chat control 2.0
Use the fightchatcontrol.eu email tool to make yourself heard
‘Danger to Democracy’ patrick-breyer
‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control
Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed "Chat Control" regulation.Patrick Breyer
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I don't see how we can stop it. If they don't succeed this year, they will try the next, and if not next, they will try the year after until it works. How do we stop this? We can't. Its like cancer. You can only slow the process down by being against them. Thats it :/ we all will be surveiled and there is nothing to stop it.
All we do as privacy advocates is to jump around. If one thing becomes illegal, we jump over to something else that provides privacy once again.
We are slowly becoming cashless, but new tech arrived and we started with crypto like monero. Once crypto is banned, we find different methods in staying anonymous or private 😀
Should I use Zen or Floorp Browser ?
I am currently using Librewolf.
But Zen & floorp browser looks beautiful.
What do you suggest?
I personally like the looks of Zen.
I would also appreciate any tips to make Zen more secure than it already is.
Edit: consider this too
Negative post about zen: reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comment…
Positive post about zen:
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The privacy/security struggle is real.
Solidarity my brother. If I can't bend a website to my will, screw it. The info is more than likely duplicated across the internet anyways.
'Free Palestine worse than KKK' claims Jerry Seinfeld, funnyman who dated 17-year-old
'Free Palestine worse than KKK' claims Jerry Seinfeld
Many people say Jerry Seinfeld isn't funny, but this really isn't funny - amid Israel's ongoing genocide and famine in GazaWillem Moore (The Canary)
funnyman who dated
Pedophile who raped FTFY
The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware
The United States has emerged as the largest investor in commercial spyware—a global industry that has enabled the covert surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, diplomats, and others, posing grave threats to human rights and national security.
The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware
And new countries are linked to the dangerous software.WIRED (Ars Technica)
Regardless of which service it is, it shouldn't be selected on national lines (this "Buy European"/"Use European" crutch is reactionary nationalist bs), but rather on pragmatic terms: F/LOSS. Because even European services and legislation don't have your best interests in mind:
- The EU Funds Surveillance Around the World: Here's What Must be Done About it
- AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
- Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware
- Female health apps aren’t doing enough to protect sensitive data, study says
- 20 Biggest GDPR Fines of All Time
Border-transcending, fully transparent and easily accessible and auditable F/LOSS software is what should be strived for.
20 Biggest GDPR Fines of All Time
The past few years have seen massive GDPR fines handed out to firms. Here's a breakdown of the top 20 penalties from 2018 to 2024 thus far.Emmeline de Chazal (Skillcast)
It's definitely a shortcut bus since the EU start GDPR it does force a lot of services, in the EU and elsewhere, to at least show some of the practices that are privacy threatening.
There are plenty of services in the EU that are not better than in the US and elsewhere so "buying EU" does not always mean buying better.
Yet... there are also not geopolitical changes that can't be ignored. Sure the US had the NSA, 5 eyes, etc before with new regulations and examples like Microsoft, US company, that can't even tell its relatively big French government client that its data will NOT cross the boarder despite the promise of doing so initially.
So again, yes it's a shortcut, a heuristic, imperfect by definition, but at least it prompts most users to become customers, namely pay for services rather than get them for free and try to insure that they are indeed private then IMHO it's an interesting trend.
PS: note that I didn't even suggest "Buy European" so I'm not even sure why that was addressed to me specifically but because it's a recurrent trend happy to try to address the concerns.
PS2: the EU is not Europe, the EU does not represent all countries, all members state have their own regulation, the EU itself includes the Parliament, Commission, Council, etc and Members of the European Parliaments go from the far right to the far left so to somehow imply it is all for privacy or all for surveillances is an oversimplification of a much more complex situation.
It really isn't that complicated. All these major EU services adhering to the oh-so-sacred GDPR doesn't mean or guarantee anything in the grand scheme of things for as long as they run their services with Google Ad Services, AWS, Cloudflare, etc...
No matter how many times GDPR violations have been paid for, these services aren't exactly punished for doing what they do when they pay their dues in pennies.
Even if they don't use or embed tracking into their services like "promised" (which we don't even know or can confirm since most of them are closed-source), they're still under EU jurisdiction, any request for data from the service's respective origin EU country HAS to be fulfilled and they can just make up any pretense (e.g. "think of the children!!" and like we see there linked in the article about "Enhanced Border Security Partnership"). They'll also gladly incorporate literal spyware (Pegasus), with the EU's full approval.
So yes, blindly switching from US to EU services, believing that EU services are so great because muh GDPR, doesn't actually achieve "more privacy", it is simply nationalist delusion, you can read every single article linked to see why.
We still supply military support, and the DFAT page is gross: dfat.gov.au/geo/israel/israel-…
Also, abc.net.au/news/2025-08-14/aus…
We take liars at their word - because money and mossad i guess. It's not unexpected, but horrible.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Annika Burgess (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Anyone have experience with NymVPN?
It's one of the VPN products I saw on fdroid, but I couldn't find payment info and it says it's experimental. Has anyone tried it and have a baseline on how it is compared to other VPNs?
Also do they have payment methods? I couldn't find them last time I looked and I'm worried it's a free VPN
Sonalder explained it very well. I just want to emphasize that it's much more private than any other vpn because its impossible for Nym to keep logs.
I also want to add to his comment that it's like Tor network but adds noise to data and harder to deanonymize. As there aren't as many and as fast nodes as in Tor, it's slower. Here is the owners conversation with the Youtuber The Hated One:
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