Morrison, CO.
I seem to have somewhat of a knack lately, for positioning astrological bodies at the top center of cool pictures.
Thank you for seeing my work!
Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance - Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
The world is entering an era where identity is no longer a matter of personal relationships, lived experience, or even paperwork. Increasingly, it is reduced...Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control — The Black Alliance for Peace
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
The concept of “crime” is not a fixed, objective reality but a fluid and politically potent construct which has been meticulously weaponized to serve the interests of power.BAP Communications (The Black Alliance for Peace)
Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them
The Trump administration is selling out America’s national parks. Keeping them open during the shutdown makes them dangerous, filthy, and easier to seize.Whitney Curry Wimbish (The American Prospect)
America Is Overdue for a General Strike
America Is Overdue for a General Strike - Inequality.org
Workers have the power to bring the whole economy to a halt. Will they use it?Inequality.org
ProtonVPN or Mullvad? Why would you choose one over another?
I'm thinking about paying for a VPN, I currently don't use one.
I'd like to use Mullvad but they don't seem to have regional prices, while Proton does.
I wonder if Proton is still a reliable option, Proton is 60% cheaper in my country, probably because regional pricing (but I didn't check if it's really the case).
If anyone has any other suggestion I'd like to hear it.
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Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital | UN News
Drone victims, terror and death: 30 minutes inside a Gaza hospital
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gaza’s makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly …UN News
The Private Conversation
The Private Conversation
The Threat Against the Cornerstone of Democracy and the Individual’s
Right to Choose Who Listens
Introduction
“Chat Control 2.0” is once again on the table, and one can’t help but wonder why our politicians are so eager to outlaw private conversation between citizens.
This is not the first open letter written about this legislative proposal. Many people far more technically competent than I have addressed lawmakers and voiced strong criticism against it, often with detailed and well-reasoned arguments. Yet these arguments have mostly fallen on deaf ears. Since our elected representatives seem unwilling to listen to the experts, I am instead turning to you, the people, the very ones who will be affected. Time is short, but our democratic rights are not yet lost.
We have had democracy for a very short time, as little as a few decades in some parts of Europe, The fact that it is so poorly protected, especially by those who are supposed to be its champions, is deeply tragic. Sitting in democracy’s front hall, they now cast their votes in the name of self-interest rather than in the name of the people. Let me make one thing absolutely clear right from the start: this legislative proposal uses children merely as a costume to conceal its true nature,
to open up Sweden’s and the EU’s citizens to mass surveillance.
Perverse Argumentation
Every objection to the proposal is met with the same response: “We just want to protect the children.”
This line is used to force opponents into a defensive position, where their moral intentions are questioned, instead of engaging them in a proper, mature debate. It is, quite simply, a deceitful form of argument.
Consider this: If someone were to oppose locking all children in isolation without human contact until the age of 18, on the grounds that it would “protect them” from online harm or exploitation, one could respond with:
“So you don’t want to protect the children?”
Most of us would recognize how absurd that is. Just because someone opposes total isolation of children doesn’t mean they wish them harm.
Questionable Motivation and False Pretenses
Let’s take a closer look at two specific paragraphs from the proposal currently on the EU agenda, soon to be voted on.
(2) “Those providers often being the only ones in a position to prevent or combat such abuse.”
It has always been, and will continue to be, parents who are primarily in the position to prevent their children from coming to harm online. The widespread apathy toward digital literacy among parents and the general public, ongoing since the late 1990s, bears much of the blame for why adults today are so detached from what their children do on their devices and on the internet.
Even today, in one of the world’s most digital societies, people still toss around phrases like, “I’m not good with technology,” “I’m technically incompetent,” or “I’m from the wrong generation to understand the internet.” But this isn’t a funny joke. Humanity sent people to the moon in 1969, radar was invented in 1904, and the internet has been publicly available for 30 years. Technology is not new.
Of course, there should be moderation on platforms where children are expected to frequently interact, but to claim that technology companies are the only ones in a position to prevent harm to children online is an admission of impotence. It reveals, quite clearly, the staggering technical ignorance of those who support this proposal.
If these lawmakers truly wanted to protect children from exploitation, and if this proposal wasn’t just a Trojan horse for mass surveillance, then why don’t they instead propose things like:
-Requiring parents to become digitally literate.
-Providing more resources to schools.
-Laws regulating children’s unsupervised use of the internet and smartphones.
-Support services for families and children targeted by grooming or online exploitation.Or even active police protection for every child.
Why not? Because that would cost money!
The cost of implementing this proposal will be astronomical, but that’s fine, because as a bonus, they’ll gain the ability to monitor the population. That is apparently priceless, unlike a child’s innocence, to which they’ve clearly assigned a monetary value.
Of course, I care deeply about our children and want them to be safe. But I cannot leave my children alone in Sarek National Park and then claim that the only ones who could have prevented them from getting hurt were the park rangers, and therefore, the rangers must have the right to listen in on everyone hiking in the wilderness.
The Return of the Class Society
(12a) “In the light of the more limited risk of their use for the purpose of child sexual abuse and the need to preserve confidential information, including classified information, information covered by professional secrecy and trade secrets, electronic communications services that are not publicly available… should be excluded from the scope of this Regulation…”
First, one must ask: how do the authors of this proposal even know how much CSAM (child sexual abuse material) passes through or within corporate internal communication systems? Moreover, they openly acknowledge here that there is a need to preserve confidentiality between two parties for communication that is not childporn.
But apparently, the individual citizen is not deemed worthy of this right. Companies, like feudal lords above the serfs, are placed above the individual. The proposal even carves out exemptions for what it calls “Bodies of Authority,” hammering home the vision of a return to a class-based society across Europe, where rights are stripped from ordinary citizens and reserved only for the so-called elite.
There’s an even darker implication here. Let’s unpack it logically:
• Lawmakers claim that encrypted communication is used by pedophiles to share child pornography.
• Yet they want scanning to apply only to individual citizens, while they themselves are exempt.
• Meaning: politicians want to retain the ability to freely share images and videos on the very platforms they describe as being “used” (and note they changed the wording from misused to used) for child pornography.
So, the only logical conclusion is that those who wrote, support, or vote for this law must either be pedophiles themselves, or wish to create an environment where such material can flow freely within the political and corporate elite, away from public scrutiny.
Do I seriously believe all supporters of the bill are pedophiles? No. Most are likely just useful idiots serving those who stand to gain power or money from it. But history is filled with examples of immoral people seeking positions of authority precisely because those positions lack oversight, so they can indulge their perverse desires at others’ expense.
Returning to paragraph 12a, its wording “in the light of the more limited risk” essentially says: a certain acceptable amount of child pornography is tolerable, as long as corporate interests and trade secrets remain unharmed.
In fact, if you read the paragraph literally, it implies that even a group like “The Berlin men who touch Boys. Inc.” could legally create a private organization and share child abuse material among themselves without oversight.
Let me repeat this clearly: this law’s only purpose is to lay the groundwork for a new class-based society, one in which the individual is perpetually considered suspicious and therefore must be watched by the elite to maintain order.
We cannot allow our elected officials to elevate themselves into a higher social class, standing above ordinary citizens.
A Tiger Without Teeth
We can ask more questions about this obsessive desire for surveillance. Suppose the law passes and comes into force. Let’s even ignore that only massive corporations will have the resources to implement this fantastical solution, and that it will not immediately expand into direct monitoring of all communication.
Do these technically infantile politicians truly believe that criminals won’t adapt? That they won’t find new ways, like TOR, which already exists? But of course, they can’t touch TOR, because many national security agencies depend on it for their own secret communications and operations.
I would even dare to say that the lawmakers probably don’t understand that it’s entirely possible for motivated and skilled groups to communicate secretly, in plain sight, online, using data that is neccesarily random.
A law like this will be like pouring wine on a goose: a complete waste of money, leaving only an angry goose, and the total decay of democracy, of course.
The Unspoken Consequences
The proposal suggests that one or several technical systems (never explained in detail) will automatically scan all images and videos shared between private individuals, to detect known illegal material, but also to identify new, previously unknown material.
First, this is not technically feasible today, not securely or reliably.
Second, it means that this “AI,” which must be a generative model trained on known illegal material, will by definition be capable of generating new child pornography itself if the model is inverted.
In other words, EU lawmakers want to build a child-porn-generating AI model trained on EU’s combined police databases.
Now imagine you send a picture of your toddler playing in the bath, or smiling on a changing table, to their grandparents. A completely normal, innocent family photo.
Would you want an unknown third party to have access to that image? Or for it to be absorbed into a generative AI that could then produce child pornography based on it?
The supposed safety of such a system would rely entirely on the hope that no ill-intentioned individuals ever gain access. But no system is secure.
Remember the Swedish Miljödata Data leak? Now imagine that instead of that data, it was all your private photos from every chat with your family, partner, and friends, open for anyone to search.
Clean Flour in the Wrong Bag
As historian Wilhelm Agrell once said:
“Clean flour in the wrong bag; even the most innocent are caught in the machinery of a surveillance society, and this is nothing new.”
He tells the story of April 29, 1978, when a carpenter named Torsten Leander parked his car at a schoolyard in Norrköping, not knowing that the area was reserved for attendees of a cultural association’s annual meeting.
It wasn’t an offense, but a local security agent recorded all license plates, and Leander’s name ended up in secret police files.
He had done nothing wrong, merely been unlucky enough to get caught in one of the Cold War’s invisible surveillance nets.
It is not up to individuals to prove their innocence. Our justice system was never meant to work that way.
Now imagine that same innocent family photo to the grandparents. If the automated scanner falsely flags it as child sexual abuse material, what happens?
Studies show that AI-based image and facial recognition systems vary wildly in accuracy, sometimes over 90%, but in other cases as low as 36%.
I wouldn’t board a plane with a pilot that inconsistent. Yet in this case, you could be wrongly branded a pedophile.
Good luck clearing your name, even if the investigation is dropped.
The Broken Trust
If this law passes, the foundation of a new class society will be cemented. Along with it, public trust will be irreparably broken.
How could we ever again trust our representatives, knowing that they so easily and ruthlessly discard our civil and human rights in the name of self-interest?
Final Words
I sincerely hope that you, the reader, found parts of this text absurd, because the truth is, the law being proposed is absurd.
Under the banner of “think of the children,” it seeks to dismantle the very foundations of a democratic society.
We cannot allow democracy to become a fleeting curiosity, a relic in the history books.
Capacity takes time to build, but motivation can change overnight.
We need only look across the Atlantic to see how quickly democracy can be dismantled. Laws once made with good intentions are now used to suppress free speech and democratic values.
I know it’s tedious to read EU legislation and proposals, but these 209 pages could be what cements European democracy as nothing more than a historical chapter.
The flour in your bag may be clean today, but who knows how it will be judged tomorrow?
Today it’s legal to criticize your government. Tomorrow, it might not be.
, Folke Arbetsson
-Requiring parents to become digitally literate.
-Providing more resources to schools.
-Laws regulating children’s unsupervised use of the internet and smartphones.
-Support services for families and children targeted by grooming or online exploitation.
I'm not from Europe, but this was my response. Kind of the same energy. lemmy.world/post/34673832/1888…
The Private Conversation
The Private Conversation
The Threat Against the Cornerstone of Democracy and the Individual’s
Right to Choose Who Listens
Introduction
“Chat Control 2.0” is once again on the table, and one can’t help but wonder why our politicians are so eager to outlaw private conversation between citizens.
This is not the first open letter written about this legislative proposal. Many people far more technically competent than I have addressed lawmakers and voiced strong criticism against it, often with detailed and well-reasoned arguments. Yet these arguments have mostly fallen on deaf ears. Since our elected representatives seem unwilling to listen to the experts, I am instead turning to you, the people, the very ones who will be affected. Time is short, but our democratic rights are not yet lost.
We have had democracy for a very short time, as little as a few decades in some parts of Europe, The fact that it is so poorly protected, especially by those who are supposed to be its champions, is deeply tragic. Sitting in democracy’s front hall, they now cast their votes in the name of self-interest rather than in the name of the people. Let me make one thing absolutely clear right from the start: this legislative proposal uses children merely as a costume to conceal its true nature,
to open up Sweden’s and the EU’s citizens to mass surveillance.
Perverse Argumentation
Every objection to the proposal is met with the same response: “We just want to protect the children.”
This line is used to force opponents into a defensive position, where their moral intentions are questioned, instead of engaging them in a proper, mature debate. It is, quite simply, a deceitful form of argument.
Consider this: If someone were to oppose locking all children in isolation without human contact until the age of 18, on the grounds that it would “protect them” from online harm or exploitation, one could respond with:
“So you don’t want to protect the children?”
Most of us would recognize how absurd that is. Just because someone opposes total isolation of children doesn’t mean they wish them harm.
Questionable Motivation and False Pretenses
Let’s take a closer look at two specific paragraphs from the proposal currently on the EU agenda, soon to be voted on.
(2) “Those providers often being the only ones in a position to prevent or combat such abuse.”
It has always been, and will continue to be, parents who are primarily in the position to prevent their children from coming to harm online. The widespread apathy toward digital literacy among parents and the general public, ongoing since the late 1990s, bears much of the blame for why adults today are so detached from what their children do on their devices and on the internet.
Even today, in one of the world’s most digital societies, people still toss around phrases like, “I’m not good with technology,” “I’m technically incompetent,” or “I’m from the wrong generation to understand the internet.” But this isn’t a funny joke. Humanity sent people to the moon in 1969, radar was invented in 1904, and the internet has been publicly available for 30 years. Technology is not new.
Of course, there should be moderation on platforms where children are expected to frequently interact, but to claim that technology companies are the only ones in a position to prevent harm to children online is an admission of impotence. It reveals, quite clearly, the staggering technical ignorance of those who support this proposal.
If these lawmakers truly wanted to protect children from exploitation, and if this proposal wasn’t just a Trojan horse for mass surveillance, then why don’t they instead propose things like:
-Requiring parents to become digitally literate.
-Providing more resources to schools.
-Laws regulating children’s unsupervised use of the internet and smartphones.
-Support services for families and children targeted by grooming or online exploitation.Or even active police protection for every child.
Why not? Because that would cost money!
The cost of implementing this proposal will be astronomical, but that’s fine, because as a bonus, they’ll gain the ability to monitor the population. That is apparently priceless, unlike a child’s innocence, to which they’ve clearly assigned a monetary value.
Of course, I care deeply about our children and want them to be safe. But I cannot leave my children alone in Sarek National Park and then claim that the only ones who could have prevented them from getting hurt were the park rangers, and therefore, the rangers must have the right to listen in on everyone hiking in the wilderness.
The Return of the Class Society
(12a) “In the light of the more limited risk of their use for the purpose of child sexual abuse and the need to preserve confidential information, including classified information, information covered by professional secrecy and trade secrets, electronic communications services that are not publicly available… should be excluded from the scope of this Regulation…”
First, one must ask: how do the authors of this proposal even know how much CSAM (child sexual abuse material) passes through or within corporate internal communication systems? Moreover, they openly acknowledge here that there is a need to preserve confidentiality between two parties for communication that is not childporn.
But apparently, the individual citizen is not deemed worthy of this right. Companies, like feudal lords above the serfs, are placed above the individual. The proposal even carves out exemptions for what it calls “Bodies of Authority,” hammering home the vision of a return to a class-based society across Europe, where rights are stripped from ordinary citizens and reserved only for the so-called elite.
There’s an even darker implication here. Let’s unpack it logically:
• Lawmakers claim that encrypted communication is used by pedophiles to share child pornography.
• Yet they want scanning to apply only to individual citizens, while they themselves are exempt.
• Meaning: politicians want to retain the ability to freely share images and videos on the very platforms they describe as being “used” (and note they changed the wording from misused to used) for child pornography.
So, the only logical conclusion is that those who wrote, support, or vote for this law must either be pedophiles themselves, or wish to create an environment where such material can flow freely within the political and corporate elite, away from public scrutiny.
Do I seriously believe all supporters of the bill are pedophiles? No. Most are likely just useful idiots serving those who stand to gain power or money from it. But history is filled with examples of immoral people seeking positions of authority precisely because those positions lack oversight, so they can indulge their perverse desires at others’ expense.
Returning to paragraph 12a, its wording “in the light of the more limited risk” essentially says: a certain acceptable amount of child pornography is tolerable, as long as corporate interests and trade secrets remain unharmed.
In fact, if you read the paragraph literally, it implies that even a group like “The Berlin men who touch Boys. Inc.” could legally create a private organization and share child abuse material among themselves without oversight.
Let me repeat this clearly: this law’s only purpose is to lay the groundwork for a new class-based society, one in which the individual is perpetually considered suspicious and therefore must be watched by the elite to maintain order.
We cannot allow our elected officials to elevate themselves into a higher social class, standing above ordinary citizens.
A Tiger Without Teeth
We can ask more questions about this obsessive desire for surveillance. Suppose the law passes and comes into force. Let’s even ignore that only massive corporations will have the resources to implement this fantastical solution, and that it will not immediately expand into direct monitoring of all communication.
Do these technically infantile politicians truly believe that criminals won’t adapt? That they won’t find new ways, like TOR, which already exists? But of course, they can’t touch TOR, because many national security agencies depend on it for their own secret communications and operations.
I would even dare to say that the lawmakers probably don’t understand that it’s entirely possible for motivated and skilled groups to communicate secretly, in plain sight, online, using data that is neccesarily random.
A law like this will be like pouring wine on a goose: a complete waste of money, leaving only an angry goose, and the total decay of democracy, of course.
The Unspoken Consequences
The proposal suggests that one or several technical systems (never explained in detail) will automatically scan all images and videos shared between private individuals, to detect known illegal material, but also to identify new, previously unknown material.
First, this is not technically feasible today, not securely or reliably.
Second, it means that this “AI,” which must be a generative model trained on known illegal material, will by definition be capable of generating new child pornography itself if the model is inverted.
In other words, EU lawmakers want to build a child-porn-generating AI model trained on EU’s combined police databases.
Now imagine you send a picture of your toddler playing in the bath, or smiling on a changing table, to their grandparents. A completely normal, innocent family photo.
Would you want an unknown third party to have access to that image? Or for it to be absorbed into a generative AI that could then produce child pornography based on it?
The supposed safety of such a system would rely entirely on the hope that no ill-intentioned individuals ever gain access. But no system is secure.
Remember the Swedish Miljödata Data leak? Now imagine that instead of that data, it was all your private photos from every chat with your family, partner, and friends, open for anyone to search.
Clean Flour in the Wrong Bag
As historian Wilhelm Agrell once said:
“Clean flour in the wrong bag; even the most innocent are caught in the machinery of a surveillance society, and this is nothing new.”
He tells the story of April 29, 1978, when a carpenter named Torsten Leander parked his car at a schoolyard in Norrköping, not knowing that the area was reserved for attendees of a cultural association’s annual meeting.
It wasn’t an offense, but a local security agent recorded all license plates, and Leander’s name ended up in secret police files.
He had done nothing wrong, merely been unlucky enough to get caught in one of the Cold War’s invisible surveillance nets.
It is not up to individuals to prove their innocence. Our justice system was never meant to work that way.
Now imagine that same innocent family photo to the grandparents. If the automated scanner falsely flags it as child sexual abuse material, what happens?
Studies show that AI-based image and facial recognition systems vary wildly in accuracy, sometimes over 90%, but in other cases as low as 36%.
I wouldn’t board a plane with a pilot that inconsistent. Yet in this case, you could be wrongly branded a pedophile.
Good luck clearing your name, even if the investigation is dropped.
The Broken Trust
If this law passes, the foundation of a new class society will be cemented. Along with it, public trust will be irreparably broken.
How could we ever again trust our representatives, knowing that they so easily and ruthlessly discard our civil and human rights in the name of self-interest?
Final Words
I sincerely hope that you, the reader, found parts of this text absurd, because the truth is, the law being proposed is absurd.
Under the banner of “think of the children,” it seeks to dismantle the very foundations of a democratic society.
We cannot allow democracy to become a fleeting curiosity, a relic in the history books.
Capacity takes time to build, but motivation can change overnight.
We need only look across the Atlantic to see how quickly democracy can be dismantled. Laws once made with good intentions are now used to suppress free speech and democratic values.
I know it’s tedious to read EU legislation and proposals, but these 209 pages could be what cements European democracy as nothing more than a historical chapter.
The flour in your bag may be clean today, but who knows how it will be judged tomorrow?
Today it’s legal to criticize your government. Tomorrow, it might not be.
, Folke Arbetsson
Russian Troops Strangle Kiev Forces In Kupyansk (Videos)
Russian Troops Strangle Kiev Forces In Kupyansk (Videos)
The Russian military’s offensive in Kupyansk gained momentum on October 4, but Kiev is still attempting to hold onto the...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Taliban Reject Trump’s Demands as Russia and China Warn Against US Presence in Afghanistan
Taliban Reject Trump’s Demands as Russia and China Warn Against US Presence in Afghanistan
Donald Trump’s push to retake Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase has drawn sharp warnings from the Taliban, Russia, and China, with fears that the move could spark a wider geopolitical conflictPetr Ermilin (Pravda English)
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Explanation Of New Approach On Security Patches
Our security preview releases provide early access to Android Security Bulletin patches prior to the official disclosure. Our current security preview releases provide the current revision of the November 2025 and December 2025 patches for the Android Open Source Project. We recommend enabling this.The only difference between our regular releases and security preview releases are the future Android Security Bulletin patches being applied with any conflicts resolved. The downside of security preview releases is we cannot provide the sources for the patches until the official disclosure date.
The delay for being able to publish the sources is why we're now going through the significant effort of building 2 variants of each release. Our most recent 3 releases have both a regular and security preview variant:
2025092500 and 20250925012025092700 and 20250927012025100300 and 2025100301
You can enable security preview releases via Settings > System > System update > Receive security preview releases.
Our plan is to keep it off-by-default with a new page added to the Setup Wizard which will have it toggled on as a recommendation. We'll prompt users on existing installs to choose.
We're maintaining the upcoming Android security patches in a private repository where we've resolved the conflicts. Each of our security preview releases is tagged in this private repository. Our plan is to publish what we used once the embargo ends, so it will still be open source, but delayed.
The new security update Android is using provides around 3 months of early access to OEMs with permission to make binary-only releases from the beginning. As far as we know, GrapheneOS is the first to take advantage of this and ship the patches early. Even the stock Pixel OS isn't doing this yet.
During the initial month, many patches are added or changed. By around the end of the month, the patches are finalized with nothing else being added or changed. Our 2025092500 release was made on the day the December 2025 patches were finalized, but we plan to ship the March 2026 patches earlier.
Previously, Android had monthly security patches with a 1 month embargo not permitting early releases. For GrapheneOS users enabling security preview releases, you'll get patches significantly earlier than before. We'd greatly prefer 3 day embargoes over 3 month embargoes but it's not our decision.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
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Desktop calendar etiquette for shared teams
• Clear titles that protect privacy
• Time-blocking vs granular events
• When to use reminders vs quiet hours
• Color rules the whole team follows
• What to hide on shared views
Share your dos and don’ts that actually worked for you.
Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Officers start arresting activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisationRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Police have arrested almost 500 people in London at what organisers hoped would be the biggest demonstration so far against a ban on the proscribed organisation Palestine Action.
Officers began arresting demonstrators at the silent vigil in support of the group, which has been classed by the UK government as a terror organisation since July this year.
The first arrest took place shortly after 1pm as the seated protesters took out pens and wrote signs showing support for Palestine Action. Dozens of police were lined up to begin arresting members of the group, who were sitting silently on the pavement in the square.
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Officers start arresting activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisationRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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"They can't arrest us all!"
Well, actually....
Where the fuck do they take 500 people? How big is the London holding cells? Jesus Christ.
Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Police have arrested almost 500 people in London at what organisers hoped would be the biggest demonstration so far against a ban on the proscribed organisation Palestine Action.
Officers began arresting demonstrators at the silent vigil in support of the group, which has been classed by the UK government as a terror organisation since July this year.
The first arrest took place shortly after 1pm as the seated protesters took out pens and wrote signs showing support for Palestine Action.
Dozens of police were lined up to begin arresting members of the group, who were sitting silently on the pavement in the square.
Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo
Officers start arresting activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisationRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
Career and privacy
I know this might come across as a very impractical expectation but I wanted to hear from people who have a fulfilling career and also a sense for privacy: How did you do it?
I've recently had trouble finding a new job in the tech sector. So far I've been doing alright without LinkedIn, just directly applying to companies, but it seems less successful now. So I thought what the hell, might have to do this after all. After I've made an account I got quickly banned for logging in once from a VPN connection. Only way to get unbanned is to give my government ID to them - but that really rubs me the wrong way (so many leaks of IDs recently and all).
I'm remaining banned for the moment, contemplating what impact this might have on my career. It gives me a fair bit of anxiety, considering that my sense of where my boundaries are seems to be deemed unacceptable by the monopoly of international job markets. Should I just give in and send my ID? Am I delusional?
As always, I appreciate the discourse of this wonderfully decentralized community we have here on lemmy! ☺️
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I have the rare ability to not attach my career to my self worth. This makes it much easier for me to be happy regardless of what I do to get paid.
Honestly it sounds like you might be making things more difficult then they need to be. Does your threat model actually require you to take the actions you are taking?
fair point. my hobbies aren't expensive either so i could live a modest life.
however I wouldn't consider my anxiety as relating to a threat model - it's more like this:
if i go to a career fair, i might need to show a ticket but often there's no need to show anything.
this is a career site so their request for data should be at the same level. however they request as much data as an airport, which has much higher requirements to achieve passenger safety. i really hate that internet users are just fine with these invasive data requirements these days
“China’s Low Energy Rat Girls – Who and What are They?” — “Le Ragazze-Ratto a Bassa Energia Cinesi – Chi e Cosa sono?”
È davvero lollissimo stasera, che ho scoperto che persino il girlrotting è sfuggito così tanto di mano che in Cina sarebbe diventato una moda… Ma non nel senso solito per cui è bello e divertente e fa figo e allora se ne parla e si ride come faccio io, bensì proprio all’ennesima potenza per cui […]
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“China’s Low Energy Rat Girls – Who and What are They?” — “Le Ragazze-Ratto a Bassa Energia Cinesi – Chi e Cosa sono?”
youtube.com/watch?v=pLLG9OGg3U…È davvero lollissimo stasera, che ho scoperto che persino il girlrotting è sfuggito così tanto di mano che in Cina sarebbe diventato una moda… Ma non nel senso solito per cui è bello e divertente e fa figo e allora se ne parla e si ride come faccio io, bensì proprio all’ennesima potenza per cui delle cosiddette ragazze-ratto (non ragazze-gatto eh, e già qui capiamo il tenore della cosa…) fanno di ciò il proprio stile di vita assoluto, assicurandosi e certificando che i soli momenti posseduti e vissuti nelle proprie giornate siano esattamente quelli di marcitura… Pubblicando video delle proprie giornate in cui non fanno niente, con a schermo gli orari, o in certi casi, a quanto dice il tizio, pure facendo dirette streaming… 🤩
Sarebbe qualcosa che, per quanto mi riguarda, approverei istantaneamente, ma… dove pare esserci il bello, c’è in realtà sempre la puzza, e questa scoperta non fa eccezione. Posso infatti abbattere tutte le belle vibe costruite col paragrafo precedente semplicemente dicendo che, come suggerisce il tizio del canale… molti video sono probabilmente falsi — con alcuni in cui la luce non risulta nemmeno ben coincidente con gli orari mostrati, che può essere un buon indicatore di menzogna — e le dirette, per quanto invece probabilmente legittime, lo sono solo per un motivo: questi ratti hanno i soldi. 💔
Ehh, purtroppo con le cose che si imparano su Internet non si può mai davvero godere, e dispiace in primis a me. Più precisamente, da un lato queste ratte si possono evidentemente permettere di avere davvero un simile stile di vita solo perché hanno i soldi, quindi non devono andare a lavorare (…o, forse, sono semplicemente parcheggiate all’università come me, però io durante le mie giornate non è che marcisco così pesantemente…), oppure, cosa che direi ancora peggiore, avranno ottenuto i soldi proprio creando questo tipo di contenuti (con le piattaforme ma temo anche donazioni)… che, oggettivamente, a parte il gran ridere, sono l’assoluto nulla — quasi peggio dei post che scrivo io quando rotto. E non so a questo punto cosa dire… ma il girlrotting che diventa business è praticamente un controsenso, quindi non mi pare bellissimo; marcite tutti, se lo volete, ma fatelo dal profondo del cuore!!! 👅
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Hamas blasts “Netanyahu’s lies” of shifting to defensive operations after strikes kill 70 in Gaza
Hamas issued a statement saying that the continued ‘Israeli’ attacks and horrific massacres in the Gaza Strip expose what it called the "lies" of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding a reduction in military operations against civilians.
The group stated that strikes and "brutal bombing" since this morning have resulted in the deaths of 70 people, including children and women.
Hamas described the violence as a "bloody escalation" that contradicts Netanyahu's claims.
Indigenous resistance in Paraguay forces Peña’s government to back down
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6333975
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72891
For several days, various Indigenous communities have been mobilizing and protesting in Paraguay against recent decisions of the right-wing government of Santiago Peña. Peña hails from the Colorado Party, one of the oldest parties in Latin America, which, incidentally, was the political base of the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989), one of the longest-serving dictators in 20th-century history.The protesters are demanding the resignation of the president of Paraguayan Institute of Indigenous Affairs (INDI) and the restoration of the institution’s headquarters.
On October 3, it was announced that this Indigenous struggle in Paraguay had been successful. The leaders of the protests said, “Our heroic resistance has paid off. Today, the first point of our demand was achieved: the dismissal of Ramón Benegas from the presidency of the INDI. Following this measure, we held a meeting with the new president of the INDI, Mr. Hugo Samaniego, to whom we reiterated our demands. The new president agreed to return INDI’s headquarters to Asunción, which will allow for the full reactivation of services to our brothers and sisters.”
In addition, the Indigenous organizations stated: “In light of this situation, we have decided to return to our communities and remain in permanent assembly, ready to take to the streets again if the commitment to reopen the INDI headquarters in Asunción, with all its services fully guaranteed, is not fulfilled. Once again, we have demonstrated the strength of our resistance and our struggle. Long live indigenous resistance! We continue to fight for life and dignity.”
However, the news has been silenced by the dominant national and international media, which have instead attempted to portray Paraguay as a country without significant social conflicts, even amid growing protests against the corruption of the Colorado Party. To better understand this moment of struggle, Peoples Dispatch spoke with Amado Arrieta, a Paraguayan journalist and member of the Popular Party.
Peoples Dispatch: What was the political context of the Indigenous communities’ protest?
Amado Arrieta: The political situation in Paraguay is quite worrying. We are in a state of regression. In Paraguay, narco-politics has taken over the powers of the state. In the last elections, phenomenal fraud was reported, but the institution responsible for the elections did not allow the voting machines and the envelopes where the records were kept to be audited. There were many complaints. In this context, the conditions were created for the Colorado Party movement, called Honor Colorado and led by Horacio Cartes, to have an absolute majority in Parliament. The United States canceled Cartes’ visa and declared him corrupt, among other things, and he is now unable to leave the country. He is practically the president in the shadows. Santiago Peña worked with the company linked to the Cartes family and obviously follows Cartes’ orders to the letter. And the other factor is that the United States evidently reached an agreement with that political movement, and Santiago Peña obeys everything the United States orders him to do.
PD: And what hold does the Cartes group have on Paraguay?
AA: There is a monopoly of all businesses by this political group [Cartes]. They own practically all the gas stations. The large chains, supermarkets, and the most important media chains were acquired by Horacio Cartes. So there is no critical journalism. There are very few alternative media outlets that try to highlight the other Paraguay that is not seen in the mainstream media. In line with this, our organization, the Popular Party, has a citizen media outlet that is about to celebrate its 14th anniversary and is the only left-wing media outlet in the entire country: Radio TV Paraguay. There is a feeling of weariness and hardship among the people, among many people. And within this hardship and mistreatment, Indigenous communities suffer the most.
PD: Why did the Indigenous people protest on this occasion?
AA: INDI, the Paraguayan Institute for Indigenous Affairs, is the government agency responsible for addressing and trying to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples. One day, Santiago Peña decided to close its headquarters in Asunción and supposedly open departmental offices with the excuse that this would facilitate administrative procedures. What the government really wants to avoid is Indigenous people coming to Asunción [the capital of Paraguay], because they often come and stage protests and camp around the INDI headquarters for months. That is why it closed the office. In fact, the government changed the INDI headquarters: it abandoned the historic building where the office had always been located and moved it to a military barracks to prevent Indigenous people from camping there. But it didn’t work, because the Indigenous people closed all the roads around it.
PD: So they requested the reopening of their headquarters…
AA: The Indigenous mobilization began with the demand that the headquarters in Asunción be reopened, basically because all the institutions that can help meet the needs of the Indigenous peoples are in Asunción, not in the departmental capitals. So it makes no sense to open several departmental offices with the excuse that this will facilitate the process, because it is not true. After all, ultimately everything is resolved in Asunción. [The Indigenous people] met, I don’t know how many times, with the president and other government authorities to try to negotiate the reopening, but it was impossible. So the Indigenous mobilization hardened, and what they asked for in the first place was the reopening of the headquarters. [And now] they are calling for the removal of the current president. They are asking for more budget for land acquisition and an end to the evictions and violent abuses suffered by the communities.
The mobilizations lasted 11 days and closed roads in the departmental capitals. [At the protest sites] riot police, prosecutors, and governors appeared, trying to engage in dialogue and threatening to evict them from the roads to allow free transit, which is a constitutional guarantee, but so is mobilization and protest.
PD: Which Indigenous peoples protested?
AA: Basically, they are all Indigenous peoples from the western region, or Paraguayan Chaco, and the eastern region.
PD: What were the Indigenous peoples’ means of protest?
AA: They blocked roads. In some places, it was intermittent, meaning they would close the road for an hour and then open it for 30 minutes. But in other places, they closed the roads for four or five hours. It depends on where the Indigenous people are most numerous, so in those places the measures are also stronger. Some roadblocks last four or five hours and cause traffic jams stretching for miles. Consequently, there were protests against the roadblocks. Only after several days of protests did the media begin to talk about the mobilization, but they said that the Indigenous people were breaking the law and preventing free transit, always criminalizing the measures and never talking about the underlying problem, what the Indigenous people are asking for and demanding.
PD: What was the response of the Peña government?
For several days, the government’s response was absolutely nothing. We have an almost dictatorial government that finds it difficult to engage in dialogue. Suffice it to say that Santiago Peña is currently in Brazil, where he went for two days. He cares little or nothing about what is happening. But the inconvenience caused by the protests, the hellish traffic jams, and the loss of time throughout practically the entire country forced him to engage in dialogue.
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As Israeli Forces Seize Final Sumud Boat, Another Flotilla Sails Toward Gaza
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6333976
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72888
By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, October 4, 2025
As Israeli forces on Friday captured the last remaining vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla that aimed to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, another group of boats was headed for the Palestinian territory.
The 11 vessels, most of which started sailing last week, are “carrying over 150 healthcare workers, journalists, and activists,” according to organizers, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and Thousand Madleens to Gaza.
“As journalists and medical professionals, we carry the responsibility to speak truth and preserve life,” said Dr. Ricardo Corradini, a general surgeon from Italy, in a statement. “This mission is an appeal to our colleagues—and to the institutions that represent us globally—to break their silence, uphold their ethics, and stand on the right side of history.”
FFC highlighted earlier this week that the ship ”Conscience, bombed by Israel off the coast of Malta in May 2025, has returned to serve as a vehicle for medics and media determined to reach their colleagues in besieged Gaza.”
Huwaida Arraf, an FFC steering committee member aboard Conscience, said that it “is the latest and largest boat in this historic flotilla—and its name represents not only steadfast resistance to Israel’s illegal blockade, but a call to awaken the conscience of the world.”
Since Israeli forces began intercepting Global Sumud Flotilla vessels late Wednesday, a fresh wave of global protests has occurred. People around the world have repeatedly taken to the streets over the past two years, as Israel has responded to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack by devastating infrastructure across Gaza, including healthcare facilities, wounding at least 169,165 Palestinians, and slaughtering at least 66,288.
Experts warn the true death toll in Gaza is likely much higher. Among the dead are many doctors and nurses—one count, from Healthcare Workers Watch, said at least 1,200 as of February. Israel’s killing of Gaza’s healthcare professionals continued this week with the death of Omar Hayek from Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The Israeli attack that killed Hayek and wounded four others “took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers,” the group said Thursday. “We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir al-Balah.”
Also among the dead are over 200 journalists, with recent tallies ranging from 223 to 270. The Israeli government has prevented international reporters from entering Gaza—and has been widely accused of intentionally killing Palestinian journalists who have reported on the genocide while trying to survive it.
Global press freedom groups have frequently spoken out against Irsael’s treatment of journalists, including this week, when Israeli forces took members of the media into custody while blocking the Global Sumud Flotilla from reaching Gaza.
“Arresting journalists and preventing them from doing their work is a serious violation of the right to inform and be informed,” said Martin Roux, head of the Crisis Desk at Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), in a Thursday statement.
“RSF condemns the illegal arrest of the news professionals who were on board these ships to cover a humanitarian operation of unprecedented scale,” Roux continued. “The Israeli army, which has killed over 210 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, is continuing its media blockade of the Gaza Strip with these illegal arrests at sea, with the obvious goal of covering up the crimes it is committing against the Palestinian population. RSF urges Israel to respect the status of journalists, protect them, and guarantee their safety in accordance with international law.”
Early Friday, the flotilla announced on Instagram that ”Marinette, the last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted at 10:29 am local time, approximately 42.5 nautical miles from Gaza.”
According to the flotilla, whose more than 450 members included politicians, actors, and activists from dozens of countries:
Over 38 hours, Israeli occupation naval forces illegally intercepted all 42 of our vessels—each carrying humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the determination to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza.Marinette sailed forward with the spirit of sumud—steadfastness—even after seeing the fate of 41 boats before her.
But this is not the end of our mission. Our determination to confront Israel’s atrocities and stand with the Palestinian people remains unshaken.
As people rise up in cities worldwide to demand an end to these horrors and to take a stand for humanity, we rise together with one voice.
We will not stop until the genocide ends. We will not stop until Palestine is free.
Until the interception, the flotilla faced repeated attacks widely believed to be from Israel, whose Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday continued to smear the peaceful humanitarian mission as the “Hamas-Sumud provocation” and a “sham.”
“Already four Italian citizens have been deported. The rest are in the process of being deported. Israel is keen to end this procedure as quickly as possible,” the ministry said on social media. “All are safe and in good health.”
In a Friday statement about the Global Sumud Flotilla, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights group in the United States, said that “the detention of these humanitarian volunteers, including American citizens, is deeply troubling and completely unacceptable.”
“These are civilians engaged in delivering essential aid to people in desperate need in Gaza,” he continued. “Denying them legal counsel, holding them incommunicado, and putting them at risk for simply performing humanitarian work is a flagrant violation of human rights and the principles the United States stands for. We urge the US government to act immediately to secure their safe release and make clear that targeting Americans performing humanitarian missions will not be tolerated.”
Under President Donald Trump and his Democratic predecessor, the United States has provided Israel with diplomatic support on the global stage and billions of dollars in military aid. Joined at the White House on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court—Trump unveiled a proposed peace plan for Gaza.
In a long post on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, Trump railed against Hamas and gave the group that has governed Gaza for the past two decades until Sunday at 6:00 pm Eastern Time to agree to his proposal. Trump wrote, “If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.”
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Trump-Netanyahu Joint Remarks Ripped as 'Litany of Lies... Not a Promising Foundation for Peace'
One critic noted Trump's plan for Gaza "contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past."brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Is there any point in surfshark VPN besides being able to bypass region restrictions for about $3 per month?
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Blessin: „Was soll ich machen?“ Warum ein Afolayan-Einsatz kein Thema war
Sie lagen zurück, brauchten dringend einen Treffer und hatten beim Spiel nach vorne deutlich Luft nach oben. Dennoch gehörte Oladapo Afolayan nicht zu den
BBC caught rigging Question Time to bar pro-Palestine audience members
This week’s BBC Question Time took place in Belfast, and the Canary has received reports of pro-Palestine prospective audience members being turned away at the door.
BBC Question Time: rigged
Lisa McKee said she was invited to attend, but on arrival at the studio, she was rejected on the basis of her social media posts, and questions she had drafted. She was told by staff that she was “too political”. That seems an odd line of reasoning for a political discussion programme. The questions read:
What will it take for the UK government to change their current policies on sanctioning Israel, and demand a break of the siege on Gaza and an end to illegal occupation throughout Palestine? How is Stormont ensuring that the UK govt fulfils its legal obligation in the event of, what has already been declared, a genocide?
Neither of these are any more political than the first audience question of the night, where a man asked the panel:
Why do the government and left wing politicians continue to call concerned citizens far right when the vast majority are just concern about illegal immigration?
So detailed and specific questions about Britain’s participation in genocide – bad. Unsubstantiated immigration panic about the “vast majority” and how “concerned” they are – good.
Deirdre Linder also reported being refused entry due to an apparent “imbalance in the audience.” BBC Question Time staff told Linder that they had phoned earlier to inform her that she had not been accepted, but no record was present on her phone indicating such a call had been made. This meant a 100 mile round trip from Rostrevor was made for no reason. When she requested a manager to lodge a complaint, she was shepherded away by bouncers.
After then using a quarter of the programme’s time to frame the immigration non-issue as the most salient of our time – ahead of war, genocide, climate breakdown, the crippling cost of living – the discussion latterly moved to Gaza. The question was good – asking whether the current Trump/Blair/Netanyahu stitch-up disguised as a peace plan can work without the involvement of Palestinians. The rightful owners of Palestine have been almost entirely excluded from the proposals, which are currently being reviewed by Hamas.
Western civilisation? “I think it would be a good idea.” c. Gandhi
Trump, for his part, described the moment of its unveiling as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation.” That would imply that civilisation exists in a world where butchers like the US president and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu can stand in an opulent room and pontificate over the corpses of the likely 700,000 people they’ve murdered in Gaza.
On the BBC Question Time panel, Sinn Féin MP John Finucane was first to respond, acknowledging the lack of a Palestinian role in the so-called peace plan. He went on to say “serious questions” must be asked about so-called Israel’s “credibility as a sincere partner for peace.” Host Fiona Bruce was quick to suggest we ought to have similar concerns about Hamas. The latter have shown more willingness for peace than senior Israeli figures, with their 2017 charter accepting a two-state solution if it were to gain the approval of a majority of Palestinians. They have also adhered more strictly to ceasefires, and have continued to engage in peace talks, despite multiple murderous attacks on their negotiators.
Bruce also took issue with Finucane’s correct description of the “kidnapping” of Sinn Féin’s senator Chris Andrews by Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF). Andrews was taken in international waters when the Global Sumud Flotilla he was sailing on was blocked by Israeli naval vessels.
Crawley crawls up Netanyahu’s arse
The BBC then plumbed new depths today, with its flagship radio programme Talkback seeking to blame pro-Palestinian protest for Thursday’s violent attack at a Manchester synagogue, which left three dead. Kicking off, host William Crawley sombrely posed the question:
Should Palestinian street protests be paused…as a mark of respect and solidarity with our Jewish communities?
Crawley put this to Sue Pentel, a Jewish member of the Belfast branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), who responded:
The reason we felt that we could not stand down yesterday is because while we were marching and during the day over 70 Palestinians were killed. Some children died of starvation due to the Israeli blockade.There are thousands of Jews involved in these demonstrations. All over the world, Jewish people are involved in standing up and saying “how can we mark the day of atonement when Israel is bombing and starving people in our name?”
Crawley went on to ventriloquise a hypothetical Jewish population of his own imagining, terrorised by equally fictitious antisemitic pro-Palestine protests:
If a large number of Jewish people around your protest feel threatened by it, feel it is fuelling antisemitism, feel they are living in the real world with the rhetorical or actual violent response that is generated by the atmosphere around those protests…if you were worried about it, then you might have a conversation with them about what it is that’s doing that.If we want to take antisemitism out of the experience of these protests wouldn’t you talk to Jewish people about how you might do that.
Here Crawley – completely without evidence – suggested that Palestine protests are the cause of violence like that seen in Manchester. He had put this grotesque smear to People Before Profit activist Marc Mac Seáin, who responded:
I think that’s starting from a position that’s conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
Crawley then stammered, again without substantiation:
No it’s not, it’s literally not doing that.
When the necessity of putting pressure on one’s own government while it aids genocide was put to Crawley, he followed the standard BBC line of holocaust denial. This is despite the UN, the vast majority of genocide scholars, and Israeli human rights group B’Tselem describing it as such.
Asked by the Canary for comment on the discussion, Pentel said:
Anti-Zionism is as old as Zionism itself and there is a growing movement of Jewish people globally who oppose Israeli war crimes, land theft, starvation and genocide. I am one of many, so it was important to be heard on the radio, but to link peaceful protests against genocide and starvation with the violent aggression in Manchester was absolutely unacceptable and frankly insulting.It was in itself putting those who peacefully oppose Israel, oppose Apartheid, and genocide into the same category as the perpetrator of this attack.
Zionist pile-on as right to protest attacked yet again
The BBC Question Time debacle marks another low in what has been a cynical free-for-all on the Palestine movement since the terrible Manchester attack.
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood provided us with the limited contents of her largely vacant head, saying:
I do think that carrying on in this way feels un-British, it feels wrong, and i would ask people who are thinking about going on protest this weekend – take a step back.
It’s true that opposing genocide, land-theft and ethnic cleansing would be a very un-British thing to do, given the nation spent several hundred years participating in those crimes. Not to mention the fact that Britain was key in setting up the Zionist entity that is the source of ire for demonstrators.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis piled in too, saying Palestine protest and “what happened in yesterday’s attack” are “directly linked.”
Meanwhile Novara’s Rivkah Brown lamented how the media treated perhaps the most relevant figure one might find in the current context – “Jewish lad from Salford” and Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Brown remarked on “parachuted-in Israel lobbyists” who “use a tragedy to defend Israel”, while Polanski is “subjected to hostile interviews” for his pro-Palestine views.
Defund Question Time and defund the BBC
The BBC, as genocide supporters two years into a slaughter which is overwhelmingly evidenced, can at this point be considered irredeemable. Just as it’s up to all of us to build alternatively political movements, we need to do likewise with media. If you’d like to hasten the BBC’s demise, you can do so here.
Funding the BBC is at this point little better than putting a bullet in an IGF rifle – cancel your license and tell them Palestine sent you.
Featured image via the Canary
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📚 Ruminating on eReaders: Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage
📚 Ruminating on eReaders
Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyagerenkotsuban.com
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It's hard to drone a solar panel
The best reason for nations to switch to power from the sun and wind is that it will reduce, by some degree, the severity of the climate crisis (and save millions of lives lost each year to pollution). The second best reason is that it’s cheaper than fossil fuel, and any nation who doesn’t shift will be stuck with an economy running on expensive energy. But it seems to me—not a military analyst, but a fairly good tea-leaves reader—that the war in Ukraine may be adding a third to the list: its comparative invulnerability to attack.As the world has begun to figure out, something important has happened amidst the carnage of Russia’s immoral invasion: warfare has changed forever, with the small drone quickly replacing much of the military hardware we grew accustomed to in the 20th century. Drones have been ubiquitous along the front lines, where the no-man’s zone between the armies is lethally patrolled by squadrons of drones able to take out tanks, troop transports, and pretty much anything else—that explains much of the stasis of the last two years; the competing forces are largely pinned down.
Over the course of the war, by sheer necessity, Ukraine has developed a formidable drone industry, and increasingly it is using them against a singular set of targets: the oil refining and transport infrastructure spread out across its sprawling foe. Russia has formidable air defenses, of course—Ukraine couldn’t fly a bomber across 1,400 kilometers of the country’s airspace to bomb a refinery. But the small and comparatively slow drones have proved equal to the task. As the FT reported last week,
Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow.The strikes have disrupted more than 1 million barrels a day of Russia’s refining capacity, according to Energy Aspects, a research group. Diesel exports, if they maintain the current rate, will fall to the lowest monthly total in September since 2020, according to both OilX and Vortexa, which track cargoes.
“It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far,” said Benedict George, head of European petroleum products pricing at Argus, which reports commodity prices.
It's hard to drone a solar panel
The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtuesBill McKibben (The Crucial Years)
Online attacks threaten major climate-friendly diet report - major scientific report in the crosshairs of a pro-meat misinformation campaign.
Online attacks threaten major climate-friendly diet report
A major scientific update to one of the most influential food and planetary health reports of the past decade is in the crosshairs of a pro-meat misinformation campaign.Martin Kuebler (Deutsche Welle)
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and waterLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting offices
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'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference
Middle East Eye talks to Co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali and party organisers about left-wing politics and their vision for Britain
'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference
It's the Green Party's moment and the membership knows it. In mid-September, I was in the Bournemouth International Centre covering the Liberal Democrat party conference. The colour yellow featured prominently, and the mood was calm and genteel.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff
Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting officesAdam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
Latte intero si, no, forse, chissà!
Latte Intero contro Latte Scremato: La Scienza Che Cambia Idea (Ancora!)
Quante volte ci siamo sentiti dire che il latte scremato fosse la scelta più salutare? Per decenni, la scienza o almeno una certa corrent...Giuliano (Blogger)
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How to solve wi-fi problem on Macbook Air mid 2013?
We have a Macbook Air mid 2013 and no matter what distro I tried, making wi-fi work was pain due to Broadcom drivers and not having ethernet port. Basically had to install the drivers via phone tethering.
However, probably because of the drivers, there are certain problems like disconnecting out of blue or really slow connection or cannot reconnect unless reboot the PC.
So I want to ask, if you have this Macbook and have Linux installed, which distro you're using it with? How is it?
Recently I installed Bazzite on a home computer and printers, Xbox controller, iPhone connection, everything the owners need worked out of the box. I'm wondering, would it also work fine with this Macbook too?
Edit: I added these to a blocklist, which I created here >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf
This is for BCM4360 adapter.
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssbFor now, it seems fine but need more time to see if the problems are actually gone. At least the reception issue is gone I guess.
Edit 2: Installed LMDE, which wi-fi was working even on live ISO. However, same problems also present here. It has dkms version of the driver but I don't sense any difference. Same connection drops, same random slowness.
Also found this thread. It describes my issues, but sadly no replies.
Edit 3: Currently experimenting with iwd since I found out this thread from Reddit, surprisingly not deleted, yet.
I installed iwd, disabled NetworkManager, enabled iwd.
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start iwd
sudo systemctl enable iwdPut these on
/etc/iwd/main.conf.[Scan]
DisablePeriodicScan=true
[DriverQuirks]
DefaultInterface=wl
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
[Rank]
BandModifier5Ghz=9.0 Though I didn't add BandModifier since we don't have 5Ghz anyway.
Then edited /etc/resolv.conf.
nameserver 192.168.1.3 #pi-hole IP
Also installed iwgtk to manage iwd with UI.
Seems fine so far, will edit again if it's good or not.
Correctly install and configure the drivers for the Broadcom BCM4360 Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter 14e4:43a0 rev 03 for Ubuntu 24.04
I've installed Ubuntu 24.04 on an old macbook air. I followed the steps and tips found in a popular answer -> Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers However nothing seems to have my wifi work smo...Ask Ubuntu
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Thanks for the reply!
Yeah, I saw some people recommended USB adapters. Luckily I got it working with blacklisting (still testing for possible issues though), without that it indeed had ridiculous speeds.
A Deal That Would End Universities’ Independence | The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.
A Deal That Would End Universities' Independence
The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.Kevin Carey (The Atlantic)
do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/3587385
I don't mean only the US but in much of the world: in many European countries the populist far right is unseating Christian-Democratic parties (conservative parties), like in Hungary, Slovakia or Czechia. In others like Germany or France the far right is at the gates of power, in the UK, Reform UK is running high in the polls. In Turkey autocratic Erdogan is copying the Putin playbook to systematically dismantle the social-democratic opposition. In Japan, a neo Thatcherite that doesn't hide she honors Japanese war criminals is about to become the new PM.Something common I see in all these parties is strong disaffection with the current state of their countries and a longing to an idealized past they promise to bring back, to make countries great again...
Except that societies have changed beyond recognition in the last 40 years, emerging China, India, Mexico and a myriad of south east Asian countries can produce cheaper than us in the developed countries, so called first world democracies are now much older and indebted than 40 years ago (no wonder societies have shifted so hard to the right), buying a house is now waaaay more expensive than 40 years ago, you cannot earn a livable wage just assembling toasters like 40 years ago, you just cannot roll automation and digitization back, no matter how much you complain...
The past cannot come back, neither will it come back just because some people want it to. It's completely futile, but people are not rational about this, they're completely emotional and tribal.
It's like a huge, collective effort in denial: denying that we in the developed world are older, not the first ones in the world anymore, that other countries we always considered inferior to us are even surpassing us technologically while we complain and hope for a savior that brings us 40 years back when we, the white guys, ruled all over.
I don't see it happening: being angry and voting the far right may make some people feel good, it may make them feel they're somehow taking their country back, but it's not going to stop China, India and other countries from developing, investing in new technologies and even creating trade alliances that bypass the US or the EU.
My question: was there a moment in history where societies were so shifted to the right like today? How long did it last?
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Just look at Europe at the start of the 20th century and the rise of fascism. We're seeing a very similar dynamic unfolding in the west today. It lasted until USSR broke the back of the fascists in WW2. It's also important to note that right wing extremism gets a lot of support from the rich normalizing their views.
It's also dangerous to think that such right wing movement can be stopped simply by voting. German nazis never won more than 37% of the vote while there were still democratic elections in place. Once these people get in power the mask comes off.
First chapter in Blackshirts and Reds discusses the rise of fascists in Italy and nazis in Germany, and it's hard not to draw parallels with what we're seeing happening across the Western sphere right now:
After World War I, Italy had settled into a pattern of parliamentary democracy. The low pay scales were improving, and the trains were already running on time. But the capitalist economy was in a postwar recession. Investments stagnated, heavy industry operated far below capacity, and corporate profits and agribusiness exports were declining.To maintain profit levels, the large landowners and industrialists would have to slash wages and raise prices. The state in turn would have to provide them with massive subsidies and tax exemptions. To finance this corporate welfarism, the populace would have to be taxed more heavily, and social services and welfare expenditures would have to be drastically cut - measures that might sound familiar to us today. But the government was not completely free to pursue this course. By 1921 , many Italian workers and peasants were unionized and had their own political organizations. With demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, factory takeovers, and the forceable occupation of farmlands, they had won the right to organize, along with concessions in wages and work conditions.
To impose a full measure of austerity upon workers and peasants, the ruling economic interests would have to abolish the democratic rights that helped the masses defend their modest living standards. The solution was to smash their unions, political organizations, and civil liberties. Industrialists and big landowners wanted someone at the helm who could break the power of organized workers and farm laborers and impose a stern order on the masses. For this task Benito Mussolini, armed with his gangs of Blackshirts, seemed the likely candidate.
In 1922, the Federazione Industriale, composed of the leaders of industry, along with representatives from the banking and agribusiness associations, met with Mussolini to plan the "March on Rome," contributing 20 million lire to the undertaking. With the additional backing of Italy's top military officers and police chiefs, the fascist "revolution"- really a coup d'etat - took place.
In Germany, a similar pattern of complicity between fascists and capitalists emerged. German workers and farm laborers had won the right to unionize, the eight-hour day, and unemployment insurance. But to revive profit levels, heavy industry and big finance wanted wage cuts for their workers and massive state subsidies and tax cuts for themselves.
During the 1920s, the Nazi Sturmabteilung or SA, the brown shirted storm troopers, subsidized by business, were used mostly as an antilabor paramilitary force whose function was to terrorize workers and farm laborers. By 1930, most of the tycoons had concluded that the Weimar Republic no longer served their needs and was too accommodating to the working class. They greatly increased their subsidies to Hitler, propelling the Nazi party onto the national stage. Business tycoons supplied the Nazis with generous funds for fleets of motor cars and loudspeakers to saturate the cities and villages of Germany, along with funds for Nazi party organizations, youth groups, and paramilitary forces. In the July 1932 campaign, Hitler had sufficient funds to fly to fifty cities in the last two weeks alone.
In that same campaign the Nazis received 37.3 percent of the vote, the highest they ever won in a democratic national election. They never had a majority of the people on their side. To the extent that they had any kind of reliable base, it generally was among the more affluent members of society. In addition, elements of the petty bourgeoisie and many lumpenproletariats served as strong-arm party thugs, organized into the SA storm troopers. But the great majority of the organized working class supported the Communists or Social Democrats to the very end.
In the December 1932 election, three candidates ran for president: the conservative incumbent Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the Nazi candidate Adolph Hitler, and the Communist party candidate Ernst Thaelmann. In his campaign, Thaelmann argued that a vote for Hindenburg amounted to a vote for Hitler and that Hitler would lead Germany into war. The bourgeois press, including the Social Democrats, denounced this view as "Moscow inspired." Hindenburg was re-elected while the Nazis dropped approximately two million votes in the Reichstag election as compared to their peak of over 13.7 million.
True to form, the Social Democrat leaders refused the Communist party's proposal to form an eleventh-hour coalition against Nazism. As in many other countries past and present, so in Germany, the Social Democrats would sooner ally themselves with the reactionary Right than make common cause with the Reds. Meanwhile a number of right-wing parties coalesced behind the Nazis and in January 1933, just weeks after the election, Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor.
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Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
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Reports are emerging that Israeli authorities have abused activist Greta Thunberg while illegally holding her in detention.
Greta Thunberg beaten by Israeli authorities
On Saturday 4 October, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October.One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters:
They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.
BREAKING: Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik:
“They [Israelis] dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” pic.twitter.com/gV6SeMZr7U
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) October 4, 2025
Separately, the Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from:
dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.Meanwhile, other released activists spoke of similar degrading treatment.
Turkish activist Samanur Sonmaz Yaman, a member of the flotilla, recounts details of the occupation’s oppression and abuse of veiled women from the boats:
Occupation soldiers ripped off our headscarves during our arrest and took them from us, and our non-veiled friends gave us their shirts to cover our heads.thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…
Adalah, the legal centre that monitors the cases of detainees, said that detention conditions at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert are ‘deteriorating alarmingly,’ amid reports of ill-treatment and violence against some detainees.
A spokesperson for the organisation said that it is difficult at this stage to provide a comprehensive assessment, but confirmed that the mistreatment primarily affects non-European detainees, especially those whose countries do not have diplomatic missions in Israel.
Ongoing Israeli violence
This incident is the latest chapter in the confrontation between Israel and the international solidarity flotillas that recently set sail in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years, amid growing international warnings about targeting solidarity activists and civil society activists, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip, which is suffering from famine and shortages of medicine and fuel.Israel intercepted 40 ships in the Global Solidarity Flotilla that set sail to reach Gaza to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing war of extermination on Gaza, which is now entering its third year.
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Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
So that very important day is almost upon us.
October 14th is the day set for when Windows 10 stops security updates (no consumer is going to pay for extended) and begins to really push people to Windows 11. Windows 11 has strict hardware requirements that a lot of "older" devices that most people have do not meet.
And so, I am sure many individuals and companies may be getting rid of their old laptops and even desktops to recoup the vost of new devices.
What is the plan, when should we move in? What kind of deals should we be looking out for?
I want to find a great deal on a great laptop just for the fun of it. Some of my friends (converted to Linux) are waiting to get new laptops and score a deal. I have been waiting years for this day and I hope it can feel like a special day.
Any good places to look for these kinds of deals?
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I got a Macbook Pro 15" 2012 (i7 Ivy quad-core) with an excellent battery for $20. retrofitted it with 16 GB for $15 and a "damaged" 500 GB SSD for $10. runs Fedora with Plasma like a dream - that kinda deal?
this morning scored a 15" hires 2011 for less than $5 that I'm gonna take the screen off and transplant it ova here. plan to rock this beast for many, many moons.
I regret throwing the box away. I think it's a 2019 Macbook Pro with an Intel i7 CPU. The device has been wiped but macOS Utilities is still on it. Last when I was working on it, I think I needed to reinstall a OS in order for the hardware to have a link to the Apple for firmware updates?
Today is a good day to set this device up. It's been on my todo list.
Those are great laptops and were well built. I think the 2011 might have the Radeon GPU issue though but if it's lasted this long, you are probably safe.
My grail was a 17" MacBook Pro from that era. I saw one the other day at a tech market but the vendor wasn't at the booth for me to make an offer =/. I'll swing by again an see if I can get it for around $50. They really do live a second life as Linux machines and OWC keeps me supplied on replacement parts.
I have 2010s (nVidia GT330M) and 2011s (Radeon 6xxx) in various states of decay in the double digits, I get them in the sub$10 range. all of them can easily be repurposed as linux workstations, their finnicky broadcom wifi notwithstanding. all of them can have the discrete graphics turned off, whether they work or not - less heat, longer battery life, no driver complications.
this is the first 2012 I've gotten, as they were always unreasonably expensive for their advanced age - coulda gotten ten 2011s for the price of one 2012! so now I got one and it's... meh; yeah it's better (Ivy vs Sandy, HD4000 vs HD3000, USB3.0, etc.) but nothing spectacular. still, for $20 I could do worse.
Peaky Blinders ritorna con due nuove stagioni: arriva il sequel con la nuova generazione Shelby, mentre il film è in post-produzione
A tre anni dal finale della sesta stagione, Peaky Blinders è pronta a tornare su Netflix con un sequel incentrato su una nuova generazione della famiglia Shelby. Il progetto prevede due serie da sei episodi ciascuna, mentre l’atteso film ambientato nello stesso universo è in post-produzione.
LEGGI I DETTAGLI: Peaky Blinders ritorna con due nuove stagioni: arriva il sequel con la nuova generazione Shelby, mentre il film è in post-produzione
Peaky Blinders: in arrivo due nuove stagioni e il film
Peaky Blinders torna con un sequel in due stagioni da 6 episodi: ambientazione Birmingham 1953. Il film è in post-produzione.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Tradimento, anticipazioni puntata di venerdì 10 ottobre 2025: Güzide dubita della maternità di Dündar dopo la rivelazione dell’ostetrica
Nuovo scossone in Tradimento: nella puntata di venerdì 10 ottobre 2025, in prima serata su Canale 5, Güzide Özgüder riceve la visita di Cemile, l’ostetrica che ha fatto nascere Dündar. Il suo racconto, ricco di dettagli, rimette tutto in discussione: Dündar potrebbe non essere suo figlio. Una “verità” che trascina con sé indagini, sospetti e conseguenze inaspettate per l’intera famiglia.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Tradimento, anticipazioni puntata di venerdì 10 ottobre 2025: Güzide dubita della maternità di Dündar dopo la rivelazione dell’ostetrica
Tradimento, anticipazioni 10 ottobre 2025: Güzide dubita di Dündar
Tradimento, anticipazioni 10 ottobre 2025: l’ostetrica Cemile rivela che Dündar potrebbe non essere figlio di Güzide.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Starmer just made an antisemitic attempt to stop the Gaza protests
Starmer just made an antisemitic attempt to stop the Gaza protests
Starmer's statement is profoundly antisemitic, suggesting that all Jewish people support Israel's mass slaughter of PalestiniansSkwawkbox (The Canary)
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •The main difference I see between the two is that Mullvad no longer offers port forwarding services and ProtonVPn does offer port forwarding services.
This can make a big difference based on your use-case scenarios. If you are gaming and need port forwarding or are torrenting and need port forwarding Protonvpn is the better choice.
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in reply to lIlIlIlIlIlIl • • •FutileRecipe
in reply to LifeInMultipleChoice • • •A quick search says November 2019.
whereyaaat
in reply to lIlIlIlIlIlIl • • •whereyaaat
in reply to maxprime • • •I use PIA and it's cheaper than both of the other options.
You won't fit in with the losers on these forums, but you're probably better off for it.
AtariDump
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in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •morriscox
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •"On 29 May 2023, Mullvad announced that they would be removing support for port forwarding, effective on 1 July 2023."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad
mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-t…
Removing the support for forwarded ports
Mullvad VPNadj
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •bl4kers
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe
Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.
Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.
Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren't the most visually appealing but get the job done.
dubyakay
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •PeachMan
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Why do you want a VPN? Is it just for some light piracy? Staying safe on public wifi? Or do you actually NEED to maintain your privacy, with real consequences if you can't?
If you need true privacy, the answer is Mullvad. But there's also more required than just switching on a VPN if you want privacy. If you want a convenient and easy VPN that's part of a bigger privacy-focused suite of tools, then I'd recommend Proton. They make some pretty good products.
tomkatt
in reply to PeachMan • • •Nice try, FBI.
shaggyb
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Tenderizer78
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Oof, seriously? I had no idea. Fuck.
Edit - just looked it up, Kape Technologies via parent company owned by Ted Sagi.
FriendOfDeSoto
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •If you care about things beyond the operations, the Proton boss came out in support of 47's adminstration with regards to regulating big tech IIRC. I'm not aware the Mullvad chief did something similar.
Proton works well. But it's designed to be the basket for all your eggs (VPN, office suite, email, etc.). They want you to use all their services and push for upgrades to the highest tier. I found their customer support you be ... very ... slow.
If you need port forwarding, AirVPN is another option. I think they're cheaper than Mullvad but it's held together by dedication and duct tape. It works okay but read their website first to see if you're okay with how it's set up.
Tenderizer78
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Mullvad VPN is more private but I find I'm being asked to prove I'm human more often. Proton VPN I don't trust with anything like piracy because they're a large company with too much to lose by being overly private.
EDIT: Oh, and reminder that you should use the Mullvad browser too if you want to keep anything private.
CountVlad47
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •I chose Mullvad because they don't ask for any personal details and you can pay anonymously, which means that their service is privacy protecting by design. You don't have to rely so much on trust.
Proton seems to be a large and rapidly expanding company which looks like it's trying to be a more privacy respecting competitor to Google's many services. While that's not necessarily a bad thing, I prefer companies that value stability over rapid expansion. I also don't like relying on a potential single point of failure for everything. I have a Proton e-mail account but I don't use any of their other services because I don't want everything in the same place.
ki9
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Good speed with port forwarding.
RogueBanana
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •AlecSadler
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Proton's CEO sucks. I canceled my extremely low-priced, grandfathered subscription and moved elsewhere. I had been a user since basically day one, a subscriber since available, and converted family members and friends to it. Not anymore.
Mullvad has been stellar. Fast, anonymous, easy to use. Zero complaints.
/home/pineapplelover
in reply to AlecSadler • • •Damn, I couldn't let go of my extremely-low priced grandfathered subscription. I contemplated about it and getting both mullvad and tuta but it ads up more than what I pay proton.
Also, I believe proton ceo apologized or something like that
AlecSadler
in reply to /home/pineapplelover • • •The apology kind of felt like a "sorry you're offended".
I don't fault anyone for staying but I definitely don't champion them anymore. I did move to Tuta as well and it is far from as seamless of an experience - it does everything I need (including domain aliases), but it was much less intuitive to configure. The system is way slower with search (it doesn't index anything for privacy reasons) and in similar vein the mobile app only syncs something when opened. So you'll get a notification for a new email but when you open it doesn't load for 2-8 seconds.
I get it all somewhat because they're only syncing what's needed at any point in time and decrypting it or whatever, but it does feel janky.
/home/pineapplelover
in reply to AlecSadler • • •I read this article and it certainly is something to consider.
It talks about how Andy Yen was just pointing out how under Trump's first admin, they started to actually attack big tech when dems haven't done anything. Which is true. He praises Gail Slater and Lina Khan (but Lina Khan was recently fired...sooooo).
They clarified how the andy1011000 (andy88) username probably is more about how Andy's birthday was in 1988 and 88 is a lucky number in Taiwan, unlikely that he's a white supremacist.
They also traced the money of Proton's donations and none of the organizations were republican, and pretty much all of the donations align with the practices of Democrat donors.
Andy has a history of posting online supporting Ukraine, being against xenophobia, against racism, supporting women in tech, supporting refugees receive education in Switzerland.
When the Democrat party had proposals for regulatory efforts, Andy supported them.
proton.me/blog/congress-antitr…
He even made a tweet and blog post talking about the tech surveillance underneath the Trump administration and how people should fear it.
So it seems to be that Andy is more liberal when donating money and publicly acknowledge whoever is in support of anti-trust and anti-surveillance to me.
If it's the goal of Proton to seem neutral, then they maybe did it a little too well. They convinced people that Andy is a full on fascist when in reality, he seems better than democrat politicians we have nowadays.
The US congressional antitrust report is a win for privacy
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in reply to /home/pineapplelover • • •BlameTheAntifa
in reply to /home/pineapplelover • • •Their hands are not clean. They should not be trusted.
trust.zone/post/proton-privacy…
techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/encr…
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)/home/pineapplelover
in reply to BlameTheAntifa • • •From what I gather these are about the IP Logging, deanonymizing user, and having accounts on temporary suspension.
You could search it why on your own or even read the articles you just cited but basically.
It seems everything they did was to comply with the laws and 2 of these situations could've been easily avoided by the user. The third case just put their accounts in suspension for some further review.
AlecSadler
in reply to /home/pineapplelover • • •Then why did they take the comments to double and triple and quadruple down after the initial issue?
Unlike Ladybird, which is undeniably shit - I won't judge someone for using Proton. I realize people's takeaways from the situation are different. I've been fine without it.
pathief
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •0x0
in reply to Clark • • •...so is Tor?
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •I like mullvad because I can pay for it with vouchers and have nothing to tie my payment to my account#
I don't think any other VPN can do that.
Theres also the fact that mullvad was raided by the (Swedish)police and even though they fully complied, the police ended up walking away with nothing because mullvad had nothing to give them.
Proton on the other hand, will at the very least be storing your email, payment info, and possibly other info in your account that mullvad won't. I also don't like how they have aligned themselves with conservative politics.
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Sarothazrom
in reply to Ardens • • •Ardens
in reply to Sarothazrom • • •It certainly does - if you don't know how to actually use it in a proper way, because then it becomes totally meaningless to even have VPN... No matter where you live. Please read up on what it does and does not!
pcmag.com/explainers/7-dangero…
tomsguide.com/features/are-you…
Kushan
in reply to Ardens • • •Yes locks on your door are pointless because if someone wants to break into your house they're going to do it once way or another, especially if you leave the window open
This is a dumb take.
Ardens
in reply to Kushan • • •You are right, your take is really dumb. So why do you share it?
A dumb take is, to pay for something you might get nothing from. But hey, you do you... VPN-providers are happy for people like you.
Kushan
in reply to Ardens • • •And which VPN provider is it you're getting "nothing" from? There seems to be a budding market for VPN's out there, lots of people are paying for them and continue to do so, why do you think that is? Because the whole world is stupid and it's a pointless waste of money? Or because they are actually in fact getting some kind of use from them?
VPN's have a myriad of uses, you're focusing on some ambiguous nation-state attacker tracking you down for whatever reason. Meanwhile, quite a lot of users would just like to watch porn without having to submit ID. I'd say they're getting plenty of use out of their VPN for that.
Ardens
in reply to Kushan • • •Do take the time to read the comments, so you get the context.
As I already said, if you don't know how to keep your usage of the internet private, then you will not be private with a VPN either. VPN doesn't keep you private. It will help you to attain a little more privacy, but only is you use it right.
Please don't tell me what I am focusing on, when I haven't even said it... Making straw man arguments is low. Lying is low...
Kushan
in reply to Ardens • • •I literally quoted you, so don't try playing the "I never actually said that" card.
It's ironic that you're now complaining about context and strawmen when you yourself started it with the whole "anyone who wants to know who you are..." argument. This mysterious "anyone" is the ultimate strawman because they're anonymous and all encompassing. Meanwhile, you have zero idea what anyone wants from their VPN's so you're making the broad, sweeping statements while lacking any context yourself.
Ardens
in reply to Kushan • • •I didn't write that anywhere... You are clueless, to say that you "literally quoted" me... You didn't. What a great liar you are.
It's ironic that you are this dumb, so please go troll someone else with your childish way of making shit up in a debate.
Kushan
in reply to Ardens • • •Ardens
in reply to Kushan • • •99 % percent will find, that they think they are safe, and yet they are not.
Thanks for your made up history about me. Hope it made you feel better. 😀 But it didn't refute anything I have said. And since you can't either, you just go ad hominem... That's just sad.
prole
in reply to Ardens • • •You just described every form of insurance.
Ardens
in reply to prole • • •To you, maybe... I'm sorry to hear that your insurances isn't working for you.
What I described might be taken as me describing an insurance, that you totally foil, without knowing it, because you didn't read the policy, and you don't know what it covers and doesn't cover.
prole
in reply to Ardens • • •If everyone always got payouts for the insurance they pay into, the industry literally could not exist.
It's the entire business model.
Ardens
in reply to prole • • •Clueless... If you have insured your house against fire, and your house burns down, you should always get the money you have insured it for. If the shed in your yard is not covered by that insurance, you won't get any money if it burns down. That's logic. If you want money for that too, it should be included in the police.
But I see that you really don't get the point here, even though you wanted to use "insurance" as the (faulty) example here. Maybe you should stick to the topic.
utopiah
in reply to Ardens • • •What does that sentence even mean without context?
Safe against whom? I'm pretty convinced a VPN is safe against :
I'm pretty convinced might be safe against larger scale surveillance :
- your ISP if it is not doing deep packet inspection (and that's pretty much per country basis AFAICT)
I'm pretty convinced might NOT be safe against professional individual surveillance :
- state level professionals using exploits and actually knowing your name, not your nickname
- your VPN provider or the cloud provider you rely on to install the backend side of Wireguard or OpenVPN
So... no I don't think anyone can make your VPN pointless. Clearly the random person sitting next to me in a cafe can not. Only few people with the technical expertise or power can do that. None of that matters though if you already volunteer your information elsewhere publicly on private platforms like Instagram or YouTube though.
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Ardens
in reply to utopiah • • •You certainly are "pretty much"... 😀
So, what do you do, since you don't trust your family? Seems pretty much suspect there... or pretty much paranoid.
You are not safe against any of those you mention. Don't you know what VPN does, and does not?
You are pretty much NOT safe against large scale surveillance.
Thanks for backing me up, with the last thing you wrote. And then please go read up on what VPN actually does, and does not.
chaoticnumber
in reply to Ardens • • •Eager Eagle
in reply to Ardens • • •Ardens
in reply to Eager Eagle • • •I always keep my secrets. 😀
I have also linked to a couple of articles that touch on what I'm talking about...
Eager Eagle
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in reply to Eager Eagle • • •CodenameDarlen
in reply to Ardens • • •technocrit
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in reply to technocrit • • •rozodru
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Mullvad.
All you are to them is an account number. that's it. no name, no email, nothing. you can even pay in cash. while mullvad's GUI is still meh their CLI is top notch and very quick.
unconsciousvoidling
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in reply to unconsciousvoidling • • •i too miss the alias service, and i dont really know an alternative aswell.
The issue is kinda, that any alias service is basically just forwarding your mails ... so it is really hard to trust anyone with that
and a private domain is not really a solution, for privacy
and like tuta does offer 15 or 30 (but 30 is super expensive) permanent aliases.. which is like nice but does fill up super quickly if used like how it is used for proton
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in reply to unconsciousvoidling • • •OP asked about VPNs.
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Both options are good. I think for the most part it boils down to wanting a single product or suite of products.
While you certainly can get just one proton service, the idea of having an easy entry point into multiple privacy focused solutions is what they are going for.
The pro argument for that is cheaper overall, simpler to get into and mange, etc. The con argument is an eggs in one basket philosophy isn't ideal because you can have a single point of failure. This is all subjective to your personal threat model.
pathief
in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •I used to have Mullvad and switched to Proton because I use pretty much their entire suite...
If you don't need port forwarding, I think Mullvad is superior in everything. Such a great service, highly recommend it.
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •I would recommend mullvad.
the ceo of proton did idicate support of the trump and the republican party and while they backtracked and apologized and all that, is it out that atleast some in the company think like that and i dont trust them anymore.
and trust is number 1 priority for vpn.
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •I dont use the well known ones, seems to me that those would be the first to have backdoors since people pick them.
I have a vpn that is never mentioned anywhere. Perfect.
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IVPNZoma
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in reply to CodenameDarlen • • •Definitely Mullvad, the whole point of VPN is to stay private and Proton does not accept crypto while Mullvad does.
If the VPN has your payment details then any privacy just goes out the window.