A new report has accused London’s £34 billion ($45.43 billion) public sector pension fund of investing billions in companies allegedly complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians, Anadolu reports.
The Blood Money report, released Thursday by the campaign group Shake The CIV, claims that the London Collective Investment Vehicle (LCIV) — which manages £34.2 billion on behalf of 32 London local authorities — has over £7 billion ($9 billion) invested in firms “enabling Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.”
The fund represents the deferred wages of around 700,000 Londoners.
Thoughts on Rishi taking up jobs at Microsoft and Anthropic?
Apparently he plans to "donate his earnings to a charity he founded", which makes sense, given that his family is already worth around £640 million.
Also Rishi apparently already has a job with Goldman Sachs in addition to another existing job of his: remaining the MP for Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire.
This is from a few years back but I always find a chance to show everyone that google is a sus company. I decided to post this after reading and doing research on a separate yet somewhat related topic on how when you do CAPTCHA online you are usually training A.I. now and days.
If you wanted to know why there are more CAPTCHAs than ever before. Biggest insult to injury is that certain A.I.s can solve them 70% of the time
As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.
In his opinion, which extended the consent decree until February, the judge lifted all conditions of release for 11 people detained in the Chicago area who were subjected to warrantless arrests, and ordered ICE to produce names, detainee tracking information known as “A-numbers,” and arrest documents for anyone arrested in the northern Illinois without warrants since June.
Liberty Vote announced the acquisition in a brief news release that proclaimed the mission of the new company would be “to restore public confidence in the electoral process.” It featured language favored by conservatives, professing to “improve election integrity in America” and “leveraging hand-marked paper ballots enabling compliance with President Trump’s executive order,” a reference to the president’s effort in March to overhaul electoral processes that has been largely blocked by courts.
The founder of Liberty Vote, Scott Leiendecker, is a former Republican election official from St. Louis with years of experience in elections. He also is the chief executive officer of KNOWiNK, a company that produces electronic poll books, digital devices that are used across the country to help election workers upload and maintain voter rolls at voting sites. In July, KNOWiNK announced that its Poll Pad “was the first electronic poll book to earn certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.”
yeah, how about we start with their fucking nukes? where are the comparable UN sanctions that the DPRK and IRI suffer under for isntreal's NPT violation?
Does it really boggle the mind that Israels handler and primary sponsor will bend over backwards to recontextualize the issue into a palatable, hypocritical, perversion of itself just to "increase" support among the (already entirely supportive) near centre voting populous. They do the same to every other event, surely it's not mind boggling if the context leads you to expect it.
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Io, in fondo in fondo un minimo scherzavo, pazziavo, sulla storia per cui sono tremendamente distrutta oltre ogni limite dalle cose susseguentesi… un minimo, perché comunque la storia di base è assolutamente vera… eppure, oggi mi rendo conto che non ero per niente pronta per il momento in cui tutto questo sarebbe diventato reale per […]
giornata cacata per fattori multiuniversali (analisi delle mie ultime paturnie, applicate a oggi ma non solo)
Io, in fondo in fondo un minimo scherzavo, pazziavo, sulla storia per cui sono tremendamente distrutta oltre ogni limite dalle cose susseguentesi… un minimo, perché comunque la storia di base è assolutamente vera… eppure, oggi mi rendo conto che non ero per niente pronta per il momento in cui tutto questo sarebbe diventato reale per davvero, al di là dei miei sottili ma ampi e ben impilati strati di ironia… Ed esattamente come le mie lagne sono un combinarsi di cose per formare il racconto di esperienze assolutamente non invidiabili, questo mio progressivo sfaldamento è da imputare a fin troppi fattori combinati, quindi non c’è una singola particolare cosa che se cambiata risolvererebbe tutto. (No, neanche il dormire 13 ore in un giorno… anche se spero di comunque riuscire a fare proprio questa fine sabato!) 🐭
1, il sempre presente: Il freddo. Ormai lo sto dicendo ad nauseam, ma veramente… mi distrugge tipo da dentro, mi consuma e mi rende una persona più vuota, a fatica permettendomi di finire la giornata!!! Ed è un ciclo continuo e subdolo, seppur con un po’ di variazione da un giorno all’altro, per via di come sono strutturati i miei orari… Esco di casa e, se è mattina presto, tengo freddo (beh, in realtà anche solo a stare in casa a quell’ora fa il freddo, ma quando mai non è stato così in case di letteralmente il secolo scorso… e vaffanculo alla società di 50 anni fa che ignorava totalmente il concetto di efficienza energetica). Bisogna aspettare a più tardi, all’orario comodo di sveglia che io preferisco ma non sempre posso permettermi, per non piangere… e poi sorprendentemente si sta bene, anche fuori; addirittura oggi, non essendoci quel vento bruttissimo di giorni fa, fuori si stava proprio bene, c’era un gustoso tepore… ma anche un’escursione termica da spavento tra l’ombra e il sole, al punto che non ironicamente dovevo prepararmi mentalmente per entrare in un edificio, essendoci il portico. E poi, la sera… giuro, dal momento in cui il sole tramonta, da che sto bene inizio a fottutamente tremare; ma non fuori alla strada eh, dico proprio dentro casa (si torni al punto delle case di merda.)… NON ce la faccio!!! 🥀
Le mattine di giovedì e venerdì, specialmente, sono particolarmente traumatiche, comunque. Questo perché l’aula di merda in cui in quelle mattine ho lezione — che è merda per lo stesso motivo della casa, e infatti mi risulta sia stata costruita circa nello stesso periodo (non so come, visto che l’edificio ha la seconda numerazione più recente, ma così ci disse il prof molto vecchio l’anno scorso, ed è l’unica fonte disponibile, seppur credo una per niente affidabile… quindi non si può fare altro che credergli) — dove, a differenza delle altre aule, i climatizzatori attualmente mi risultano spenti, e l’edificio fa schifo e proprio lo percepisco come se fosse posseduto ed emettesse freddo verso dentro… ma forse sarà solo il vento gelido da fuori che entra pure con tutto chiuso, forse perché essendo per metà finestre sarà fisicamente per metà spifferi. Poi, ovviamente, non aiuta che il professore della seconda materia abbia aperto metà delle imposte per “far cambiare aria“… poi qualche decina di minuti dopo qualcuno ha chiuso almeno quelle che stavano direttamente dietro di me, però intanto il vento è entrato prepotente a rompere ancora di più l’anima; in qualche modo demoniaco e fisicamente incomprensibile riuscendo a soffiarmi pure all’altezza delle caviglie!!! 😭
Tra l’altro, stamattina mi sono pure svegliata con una gola atrocemente secca, non so perché. Durante la giornata poi mi è salito a tutti gli effetti proprio il mal di gola, con ogni tanto pure il coff coff… solo nella sera mi è sembrato un po’ meglio, ma sento comunque la gola fatta di carta vetrata fine (oh, poteva essere molto peggio… a granula grossa…). E durante il pranzo mi è venuto pure il raffreddore, o comunque qualunque cosa porti a far uscire il muco dal naso, e che palle veramente… già in primavera devo stare con questi porca puttana di fazzoletti per l’allergia; se ora a inizio ottobre già riesce fuori la merdata del muco divento una bestia. 🤧
E ok, un (1) fattore quantomeno l’ho decodificato per bene, ma non ci posso fare granché; se mi vestissi invernale già ora, sarebbero problemi. Il resto rimane poco chiaro, invece… Mi distrugge così tanto andare 5 giorni su 7 in culandia a semplicemente sentire sciroccati yappare? Perché stress vero e proprio non ne ho… o almeno, non ho motivi per pensare di starne subendo un’accumulazione; non ho esami di mezzo, sto prendendo tutto per i cazzi miei, alla fine la verità è che comunque ‘sto nel chill. Quindi, 2 e oltre: ancora boh, per ora. 😑
L’unica cosa buona della giornata, almeno, è che ho detto vaffanculo e sono andata al ristorante a pranzare (anche perché oggi in giro a quell’ora non ho intravisto nessuna persona che non mi detesta, quindi sarei stata piantata lì per niente), dunque a pranzo ho certamente goduto, e non indifferentemente… ma l’ho fatto perché già con soli 2 giorni di fila a mangiare solo pane e acqua fino a quando non arriva la cena, che è ben 7-8 ore dopo, finisco a casa che un altro po’ cado per terra — non subito, a dire il vero, ma appena cala il sole e arriva il freddo di cui sopra si — 3 volte una dietro l’altra mi sa mi sa che sono proprio un suicidio, manco fossi detenuta in un campo di lavoro forzato di uno qualsiasi dei tanti famosi paesi poco democratici esistenti nel nostro mondo… quindi bene spendere dei soldini per sopravvivere. 😇
Comunque, anche in questo c’è una cosa bizzarra: bono e saziante il pranzo, con primo e secondo, e ho speso appena 15 euro in totale, quindi non posso proprio lamentarmi…ma comunque dopo un po’ mi è salito quell'”aaaaa” di stanchezza di mezza giornata… no, non è abbiocco post-pranzo, perché quello in genere non mi viene, almeno non quando pranzo per bene. Ho fatto tutto con estrema calma, godendomi i momenti della goduria, quindi ho passato più di 1 ora al ristorante, muovendo i piedini con pazienza nell’andare e tornare, e prendendo il caffè al bar dell’università (e non alle macchinette, stavolta, vaffanculo agli stronzi ladri criminali!!!) pur di perdere altro tempo… però alla fine dei conti mi sono trovata comunque con mezz’ora bucata e nulla di particolarmente infognante da fare sul PC nel restante spicchio di pomeriggio, quindi mi è salito comunque quel sentimento di vuoto di stomaco misto a vuoto dell’anima… 😬
Inspiegabile, tutto ciò, davvero. Almeno, ora che sono a casina (cioè, da ore, come l’altra volta, poi ho avuto altro da fare), comunque la differenza con il fatto che ho pranzato veramente si vede, perché non mi sento sul punto di morte… evviva!? E in realtà, tra scrivere questo stesso post e finirne altri per il blog della stufa, ho smesso di sentirmi cacata come a prima… Aspe… miiinchia… ma vuoi vedere che, sotto sotto, il professore con l’accento siciliano ha ragione, e l’aria dell’università è realmente viziata (in tutte le aule, non solo quella di stamattina) e peggiora magicamente l’umore???Si vede che sarebbe probabilmente il caso di abbatterli proprio, ‘sti palazzi schifosi, e fare direttamente lezione all’aperto, a questo punto, basta. 👻 …Comunque, questo fatto è sempre più vero!!! #giornate #paturnie #pensieri #problemi
A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists.
Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been accused of “complicity in genocide” in a complaint lodged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rome’s support for Israel as it bombards Gaza.
The complaint, dated October 1, was signed by some 50 people, including law professors, lawyers, and several public figures who accused Meloni and others of complicity by supplying arms to Israel, according to the AFP news agency.
“By supporting the Israeli government, particularly through the supply of lethal weapons, the Italian government has become complicit in the ongoing genocide and the extremely serious war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people,” the authors of the court filing against the Italian leaders wrote.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been accused of “complicity in genocide” in a complaint lodged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rome’s support for Israel as it bombards Gaza.
The complaint, dated October 1, was signed by some 50 people, including law professors, lawyers, and several public figures who accused Meloni and others of complicity by supplying arms to Israel, according to the AFP news agency.
“By supporting the Israeli government, particularly through the supply of lethal weapons, the Italian government has become complicit in the ongoing genocide and the extremely serious war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people,” the authors of the court filing against the Italian leaders wrote.
For those unaware, Google is continuously enacting policies that are closing down the open environment of Android, and I fear this will significantly harm projects like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and others.
If you can spare a couple dollars, please consider throwing some money at PostmarketOS or any other mobile Linux project you like.
are you aware of any articles/documentation that can make a noob aware of how these projects compare to each other?
i'm going to eos on a nothing phone in the near future, but that's only because i can find step-by-step documentation with exact hardware and eos version on how to do so thanks to Lemmy.
yup it is very active. u can follow the account here: @postmarketOS
as for why the devices seem old: it takes a lot of work trying to get the old android kernel working with the mainline kernel. its much harder than lineageos as we dont reuse the old android kernel and a lot of work needs to be done on both the kernel and userspace
basically one person is doing an entire engineering departments work
if ud like the newest phone, u can get a fairphone 5
Agreed, just not the statement I was responding to, which I took as Signal - the company - getting on board with Linux mobile. But maybe I misinterpreted.
The Signal lead has been vocally against doing a fully fledged version for Linux for a while now. He really likes his closed ecosystems. "for security"
Desktop Linux is soooo insecure because users can access their own data.
The Linux app is just the desktop app, which doesn't have the functionality that the Android and iOS apps do. It only works when paired with an Android or iOS device, so you'd still be shackled to those ecosystems without proper support for a mobile Linux app.
Most of the chips in a smartphone are made by Qualcomm, both processors and peripheral chips like 5G modem, LTE modem, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Qualcomm chips require proprietary binary blobs to function, and usually only have a support lifetime of about 2 years. They also only supply those blobs to the manufacturer of the device.
Qualcomm being what they are is the reason Apple was able to provide a better lifespan for their phones for like a decade (you'd get 5-6 years of iOS major version upgrades compared to 0-2 on Android phones).
Google actually pushed the Android ecosystem to do better by creating its' own Tensor SoCs which they support for longer... But they don't really make the drivers for those open source either. So we're still not doing better in that regard.
rooting for the guys although I don't want none of them things. I run my device without a modem on (hopefully I disabled it correctly) and I want it to run like my other shit runs - I turn it on when I want it, no doing shit in the background nobody asked it to, syncing to the clown, none of that.
the results are awesome - I get like days of standby out of a severely degraded battery that can't manage a whole day under android. still, I understand that other people need this stuff. for me, SMS and calls utilizing the utterly broken, insecure, and definitely compromised telecom infra shouldn't be a thing in 2025.
Will there ever be an app ecosystem for Linux phones. I don't see how could happen. I'm talking actual apps like banking or payment systems. Institutional software such as government apps that requires a stable platform. Not a janky Linux system that is prone to breakage every few updates or scatter across different distros. Seems like the year of the linux desktop meme could end up morphing into the year of the linux phone.
Why can't we just use banking websites? You don't need an app ecosystem for that. They just need to build a responsive website that will work on a computer or phone. If you have bank to bank transfer (like e-transfer in Canada) that can be done from the mobile website as well.
Payment like NFC payment is a different story. I suspect its unlikely we ever see that.
Exactly. And as I said in another comment, you can make a wrapper for it if their website is not the most mobile-friendly. Any browser can handle everything beneath the skin.
Banks sometimes need a 2FA app, this is what some people need "banking apps" for. The bank website itself is trivial to just use, but you need to be able to log in. In sweden, much of society, from fetching a post package to booking an appointment with a doctor or getting a bus ticket, relies on this 2FA app. You can barely function in society without this app.
It's unfortunate that sweden decided to lock 2FA behind proprietary smartphone apps.
For every country its going to be a different story. I think instead of trying to build an app ecosystem for things like bank apps on linux it would be easier for citizens of those countries to convince the government / banks to allow other 2FA methods like OTPs that can work on any a device using an OTP client. That would honestly benefit more people as whole since they wouldn't be lock down to just Android/Apple or even owning a smartphone. They could do all their important government/finance stuff just with a computer.
Well, they all have standard web interfaces, and so many apps are merely wrappers for it or a rebuilt front-end. On a Linux device one would presume you’ll have a standard web browser so all you need really is a wrapper for the website and the browser engine handles all security. Is there any reason not to just go that route?
Obviously AI generated images and videos are already being used in politics, generally as far as I've seen by right wingers.
A thought I had would be to flip the table and generate AI videos of Trump attacking right wingers for being too far right, too racist, not supporting trans or LGBT+ rights, etc, in ways that are guised as old school conservative values. Like the "The govt shouldn't be interfering in a private citizen's healthcare choices" type stuff.
His supports seem the type already to believe AI videos are real, so do you think stuff like that would work or just circle in left wing groups and never take off among his worshipers? If they did spread, would they even be effective in triggering his base to push back towards the center?
Immigration authorities are detaining hundreds of children for longer than the 20 days allowed by a federal judge, a Scripps News investigation has learned.
Scripps News obtained a document filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a federal court order that shows more than 600 juveniles held in ICE custody at some point in July.
The children are being arrested and detained with their families while going through lengthy deportation proceedings. Many of the juveniles end up at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a sprawling site located in Dilley, Texas, that reopened in March.
The detention center is owned and operated by CoreCivic, a for-profit company contracting with ICE to hold immigrants.
Arriva un’esclusiva ufficiale di Deadline sul nuovo film A24 firmato dal regista Aidan Zamiri e dalla popstar Charli XCX: si intitola The Moment e promette di essere uno dei progetti più discussi del 2026.
Nel cast spiccano Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott (Bottoms) e Kate Berlant, accanto a Alexander Skarsgård, Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Demetriou, Arielle Dombasle, Hailey Benton Gates, Trew Mullen, Mel Ottenberg, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah, Tish Weinstock, Michael Workéyè, Shygirl e A.G. Cook.
Jamie Dimon, who is the chair and chief executive of the giant Wall Street bank JPMorgan Chase, said he was “far more worried than others” about a serious market correction, which he predicted could come in the next six months to two years.
“I would give it a higher probability than I think is probably priced in the market and by others,” he told the BBC. “So if the market’s pricing in 10%, I would say it is more like 30%.”
Dimon added there were a “lot of things out there” creating an atmosphere of uncertainty, pointing to risks including the geopolitical environment, fiscal spending and the remilitarisation of the world.
“All these things cause a lot of issues that we don’t know how to answer,” he said. “So I say the level of uncertainty should be higher in most people’s minds than what I would call normal.”
The comments are the latest in a string of warnings that stock markets may be due a correction.
A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists.
Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
The professor had said he was moving to Europe after receiving death threats.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”
I used to use gaytorrents. They have the content and forums and it’s a nice little community. However, it’s suspicious they aren’t trying to prepare for the censorship hitting all other adult sites. They flat out stated in the forums they will not adopt i2p or tor or any other darknet and will start using age verification/start banning IP ranges when requested. If we don’t like it, we are told to just use a VPN.
This is an incredibly dumb response.
So I need to plan my migration away while there is still enough open conversation to discover new places. My state already bans porn unless we hand over our IDs to be handled irresponsibly/given to identity thieves/added to a list of undesirable people they want to toss into a gas chamber.
Under this regime, I’m not giving that out. Fuck them.
This doesn't answer your main question but I suspect their thinking is that VPN use is already very common in torrent communities. So common that it's not really a big deal for users to browse the site via VPN if necessary. It's not really that the staff there is going to do age verification, realistically if necessary they'd likely just block access from whatever states/jurisdictions are giving them issues with age verification.
That aside not too sure if what you're looking for currently exists. There are a few general torrent sites that also operate Tor / I2P domains, and also the general torrent indexer Postman exists on I2P. The amount of users in Tor / I2P networks is way lower vs the clearnet torrent sites so a hyper-focused torrent site in Tor / I2P doesn't seem viable but I could be wrong.
It doesn’t have to be one or the other exclusively. They could be accessible on both sides, giving an easy mode with clearnet and VPN for those who are comfortable with the gas chambers and mass graves, and the I2P mode accessing the same content but passing the traffic around differently for literally everyone else.
A VPN doesn’t solve the problem. I would be paying for a stall at best, and one that has no way of knowing for sure they don’t keep logs or aren’t compromised. Look at what happened with Ovano back when Facebook bought them then lied about it.
Some VPNs have a long record of doing their best not to collect any data and have audits from reputable cybersecurity companies. Examples are Mullvad VPN, IVPN , ProtonVPN , AirVPN.
Unisciti a noi per il Linux Day 2025, l'evento annuale dedicato alla promozione di Linux e del software libero! Che tu sia un esperto, un appassionato o semplicemente curioso di scoprire di più sul mondo dell'open source, questo appuntamento è pensato per te!
Durante il pomeriggio, potrai partecipare a talk coinvolgenti e laboratori pratici, dove professionisti ed esperti del settore mostreranno come il software libero possa avere un impatto reale nella vita quotidiana e nel lavoro. Sarà un'opportunità unica per incontrare la comunità locale, condividere esperienze, porre domande, scambiare idee e conoscere o approfondire il mondo Linux e le sue applicazioni.
L'evento si terrà sabato 25 ottobre 2025 dalle 14:00 alle 18:00 presso il 37100Lab a Verona, e sarà seguito da un rinfresco.
Vieni a scoprire la potenza del software libero e contribuisci alla costruzione di un mondo più aperto e collaborativo!
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Protection of political, economic and commercial interests has led to FIFA’s ‘double standards’ in countering anti-Israel protests and calls for sanctions, say experts.
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.
The news shows that Appleand Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort.
“Our goal is government accountability, we aren’t even doing real-time tracking,” the administrator of Eyes Up, who said their name was Mark, told 404 Media. Mark asked 404 Media to only use his first name to protect him from retaliation. “I think the [Trump] admin is just embarrassed by how many incriminating videos we have.”
💡 Do you work at Apple or Google and know anything else about these app removals? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.
Mark said the app was removed on October 3. At the time of writing, the Apple App Store says “This app is currently not available in your country or region” when trying to download Eyes Up.
The website for Eyes Up which functions essentially the same way is still available. The site includes a map with dots that visitors can click on, which then plays a video from that location. Users are able to submit their own videos for inclusion. Mark said he manually reviews every video before it is uploaded to the service, to check its content and its location.
“I personally look at each submission to ensure that it's relevant, accurately described to the best I can tell, and appropriate to post. I actually look at the user submitted location and usually cross-reference with [Google] Street View to verify. We have an entire private app just for moderation of the submissions,” Mark said.
Screenshots of Eyes Up.
The videos available on Eyes Up are essentially the same you might see when scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, or X. They are a mix of professional media reports and user-generated clips of ICE arrests. Many of the videos are clearly just re-uploads of material taken from those social media apps, and still include TikTok or Instagram watermarks. Mark said the videos are also often taken from Reddit or the community- and crime-awareness app Citizen too.
Many of the videos from New York are footage of ICE officials aggressively detaining people inside the city’s courts, something ICE has been doing for months. Another is a video from the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), which represents more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups. Another is an Instagram video showing ICE taking “a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her,” according to a caption on the video. The map includes similar videos from San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, which are clearly taken from TikTok or media reports, including NBC News.
“Our goal is to preserve evidence until it can be used in court, and we believe the mapping function will make it easier for litigants to find bystander footage in the future,” Mark said.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told 404 Media “Like any other government agency, DHS is required to follow the law. The collection of video evidence is a powerful tool of oversight to ensure that the government respects the rights of citizens and immigrants alike. People have a right to film interactions with law enforcement in public spaces and to share those videos with others.”
“If DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned,” he added.
Apple removed ICEBlock, another much more prominent app, on Thursday from its App Store. The move came after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials acting at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox. A statement the Department of Justice provided to 404 Media said the agency reached out to Apple “demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store—and Apple did so.” Fox says authorities have claimed that Joshua Jahn, the suspected shooter of an ICE facility in September in which a detainee was killed, searched his phone for various tracking apps before attacking the facility.
Joshua Aaron, the developer of ICEBlock, told 404 Media “we are determined to fight this.”
ICEBlock allowed people to create an alert, based on their location, about ICE officials in their area. This then sent an alert to other users nearby.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday about Eyes Up’s removal.
Mark provided 404 Media with screenshots of the emails he received from Apple. In the emails, Apple says Eyes Up violates the company’s guidelines around objectionable content. That can include “Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or harm a targeted individual or group. Professional political satirists and humorists are generally exempt from this requirement.”
The emails also say that law enforcement have provided Apple with information that shows the purpose of the app is “to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”
In an appeal to the app removal, Mark told Apple “the posts on this app are significantly delayed and subject to manual review, meaning the officers will be long gone from the location by the time the content is posted to be viewed by the public. This would make it impossible for our app to be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”
“The sole purpose of Eyes Up is to document and preserve evidence of abuses of power by law enforcement, which is an important function of a free society and constitutionally protected,” Mark’s response adds.
Apple then replied and said the ban remains in place, according to another email Mark shared.
Can you please tell me you're entirely ethical smartphone setup?
Obviously you won't have any Android in there, including Android ROMs which are based off of AOSP, as Google is just as, if not more, evil than Apple, and any project based off Google's OS is inherently unethical.
Are you're using a Fair Phone? If not, what ethical phone are you using?
Uh, that would have been a good argument back when flagship models didn’t cost more than the latest iPhones. Unless you’re buying something other than Samsung though, you’re paying more than $2k for something that soon won’t even be able to side-load apps.
The gap between Android and iOS is closing as fast as Google can build the wall around their garden.
The person I was responding to was declaring that their choice to use an Android based phone makes them a more ethical consumer, and therefore a better person, then iPhone users.
That's an absurd position, which was what my comment was highlighting.
How about you just don't act high and mighty and pretend that your personal consumer choice of using an Android based OS somehow make you more ethical then those who use an iPhone.
Your argument seems to be "all things that aren't perfect are equally bad, so you must either boycott them all or never complain about any." This is obviously silly. We're talking about Apple and ICE, not every other company and every other bad thing.
Can you please tell me you're entirely ethical smartphone setup?
A used Onpeplus 10 with Lineage on it
au contrair, that's still Android!! We got em! Ez, kek!
Yeah, and I didn't pay for it. I don't use Google services. You said ethics, right? I bought it used, Google doesn't profit and I don't use any of their services, so, they don't continue to.
Seems pretty sound to me. Lemme know if you need a recc for a TV or anything. I'm good with those too. I like helping normies connect with technology.
One guy standing tall is cute and all but that'd not how systematic change happens. Need like 10-15% of people to get in the fight to send a proper message
Which is why I stay away from Google's products too.
I guess can see how buying items second hand and flashing a ROM is not quite the same as buying a brand new phone running Android, but it seems unfair to then besmirch all iPhone users.
If you are still using an apple phone in times like these then you are not taking your life serious enough. Big techs power will absolutely fuck things up in the coming series of purges in the US and people are totally unprepared for it.
How does one prepare for it without sitting around being a bored luddite all day? Idk how to tell you this, but the rot is total, and Americans simply aren't willing to meet the moment
Can you not have fun without big tech platforms? There is so much stuff out there to do. So many hobbies both digital and physical to entertain yourself with.
For tech things there is the open source nerds that continue to make it possible to remove the influence of our tech overlords from our lives while still making use of the hardware we already have.
For climate change there are local groups in many cities (at least in Germany) with the specific idea of creating future proof communities that will survive supply chain collapse for food, water, electricity, etc.
Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don't tell them their actions are irredeemable and they've lost you for life.
If you tell them you'll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You're essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don't mind them bending the knee.
How much "feedback" do you think it will take to make them contradict the vindictive sitting President? Apple doesn't care about what you think about this because it's not for you.
You know what you can do? Stop giving them money. Write them an email from your iCloud account, then delete said account. Cancel any subscriptions (this seemed to be effective against Disney).
The fed gov holds too much power. You have to show them that Americans, collectively, have more power to affect their bottom line than the Pres, and (most importantly) are willing to exercise it.
Apple fans are not that type of person, though. They're better than everyone else, and so is their owning entity! They can do no wrong, this app was obviously guilty of doxxing cops ...
Well I was going to pretend not to be a pessimist but realistically, no group of people is "that type of person", which is why we're all so helpless. People are addicted to their favorite platforms and there's nothing you or the platforms can do to make them leave.
The only people worse than Apple fans, are Apple haters.
Because I see a lot of vocal Apple haters on Lemmy, just shitting all over Apple users, but I rarely see Apple users here shitting on Android or anything else.
I use a iPhone, my mom and dad (may he rest in peace) were already using them and wanted to use the family features on them to keep my brother and me safe. I didn’t choose to be in the ecosystem, I was just placed in it.
I also just have no reason to talk shit on android users because I know many of them are like me. Just placed into the ecosystem by parents, since their parents used them. Also just who really gives that much of a fuck? It’s a phone, it’s a laptop or earbuds or whatever. Largely things that people just need in the modern world, and it’s easy to stick with what you know and what’s easy to use.
Well, we give a fuck because modern society has required us to need a device that fundamentally destroys any real resistance. Naturally people are gonna be frustrated
lol you're just plain wrong on that. Apple fans these days are like you: They make fun of everyone outside of their group instead of the products themselves, because you all understand you won't ever be winning an objective argument.
Out of nowhere, you just started talking shit about Apple users to make yourself feel superior about your individual consumer choices, really cool bro.
Also unclear who I was making fun of, unless you consider pointing out how absurd your Apple user hate is, to be making fun of you.
But that's not making fun of you, it's pointing out how pathetic your unprompted and vocal hatred for Apple users was.
Really proving how intelligent Apple fans are with that reading comprehension... The argument referenced there is obviously referencing the arguments you brought up elsewhere on the internet between Apple fans and other fans.
It's not out of nowhere. This is a topic about how people maybe should not give Apple money if they don't want to support a corporation that will bow to fascists.
How stupid and captured their dumbass fans are is DIRECTLY related to how easy it'd be to convince them to not keep throwing money at Apple.
The fact you cannot even follow a basic conversation is the only pathetic thing here.
It's not my reading comprehension that's to blame for your rancid hatred of Apple users and I'm confident that your behavior is repulsive to more people than just me.
The irony is that I use Linux for desktop and Graphene for mobile so my objections are not rooted in defending my own consumer choices, they're based entirely on your pathetic blind hatred of people who use Apple products.
lol so you defend that which you do not even use and that which you do not undertand? What a joke...
My hatred is anything but blind, and you calling it such is sealioning beyond belief. I love your hypocrisy... An Apple user without even using Apple products... Truly, your lot in life is more dreary than you could ever admit.
And you either didn't read the entire thread, or you agree that OP is morally superior to anyone who uses Apple products, and that Apple users are people that should just be hated.
Let me get this straight, you are here to correct everyone that Apple Haters are wrong?
No wait, it is there are too many Apple Haters on Lemmy?
No, I got it you don't have a fucking point because you are playing devil's advocate like a dumbass.
You make a bunch of bullshit statements about your opinions and then expect us to just believe you?
Please post proof that there are more Apple Haters than Android. Please post proof that your brain isn't a fucking pretzel you jackass. I want to see a picture of it!
Not only do you clearly have no idea what playing devil's advocate means, conceptually, like at all, but you keep trying to pigeonhole it into your little argument and it has me crying bro, I'm dying laughing.
Apple is the trend setter. The avant garde. If Apple does it, soon everyone will be doing it. If you see Apple doing something shitty, you need to nip that in the bud right quick.
They kind of got that rep though for defending things people saw as anti consumer such as soldered ram, limited, storage, and blocking installation of non Apple apps. Always going Apple knows best and its for security.
Not exactly the group known for demanding more, but ones who are more complacent.
I'm an Apple owner too with MacMini and iPad so these criticisms of Apple users isn't coming from a non Apple product owning hater. I think average Apple fan in general really sucks for how they seem to kneel over to whatever Apple decides compared to other platform users who are much more critical and demanding of products.
Here come the devil's advocates, good lord that is something I don't miss from Reddit.
Wake up call! Apple doesn't need you defending it. It is okay to shit on them. This isn't about fairness so please take you tired schtick somewhere else.
They're based in the USA, they have to work with the government or they'll be targeted/taken over/shut down, surely?
They could try to escape the USA and move all their operations to Europe, but I think they're just going to stick where they are and do whatever the fascists want them to do. So long as they're getting paid why should they care?
They had no problem standing up to the FBI when they knew the Constitution still worked. It's not bravery when it doesn't cost you anything and there's nothing to be afraid of. But now things are different and regular every day people don't want to say it out. The implications make them uncomfortable.
Apple's market share outside of the US is pretty pitiful. Even with their piles of money, it would hurt.
No, they're pointing out the chilling effect of shitting on the topic.
You're the kind of fuckwit that would say Chris Hansen does no good against predators because he's one guy doing a small set of stings... You're the kind of guy who'd shit on a compromise policy that's otherwise still a step in the right direction. You're the kind of guy to make good the enemy of great.
and you have the gall to use insults when YOU are the one committing the social faux pas...
Pathetic. If you're going to point out flaws, be constructive with it. Otherwise it is still on YOU if someone assumes negative intent from unconstructive criticism.
I'm not particularly concerned with what some random person on the internet thinks of me, so I'm not going to bother reading all that. But feel free to go off, just do it to my hand because the block I just gave you means I'm not listening.
OK, so you had an incorrect perception of a comment, but it's not your fault. No, surely it must be everyone else that's at fault for *checks notes* "nullifying action", whatever the fuck that made-up nonsense verbiage means. not only that, but then your pet attack dog comes along and somehow twists that into me defending pedophiles.
idk, maybe the problem here people is contorting themselves into human pretzels so they can leap to nonsensical conclusions.
not only that, but then your pet attack dog comes along and somehow twists that into me defending pedophiles
I should actually pop back in and look at the thread, instead of just replying to my inbox. I have a pet attack dog? That's kinda neat. I wasn't aware, but neat nonetheless.
My point stands: when called upon to boycott Tesla, no resistance. When called upon to boycott Apple, blow up the conversation into anything but generating momentum for an Apple boycott.
Features: • Anonymous Recording – No account, no personal details required. • Secure Uploads – Encrypted transfer to privacy-focused storage. • Map-Based Sharing – Videos appear where they happened, for public awareness. • Offline Support – Record even without internet; upload when connected. • Metadata Control – Strips identifying data before publishing.
Surely all of those things can be done in a browser. You can grant location and camera permissions to a website easy enough. And encrypted transfer can be done any number of ways. Offline recording is possible with localstorage. All of this seems very achievable and effectively uncensorable by Apple.
The only thing it can’t get is App Store search rank.
I guarantee you that all this can be done in Mobile Safari. I have done it before.
You have to go through the “Share > Add to Home Screen” workflow instead of having the site simply install it for you, so it’s a bit more effort (and confusion) on the user’s part.
It would definitely be a bit more annoying to program, and a bit more naggy to the user for permissions during setup I'm sure, and running in the background would take some finagling and extra work and iOS could still kill it in the background on you ... but otherwise it'd be the same.
Sure, it's possible. But you're basically turning the browser into a virtual machine and building an app on that virtual machine, jumping through a lot of weird hoops in the process. It's unnecessary. Or should be unnecessary, anyway, with a sane operating system.
A web browser is already basically a "virtual machine". You can even run what basically amounts to native code using WebAssembly (yeah it's closed to JVM but you get what I'm trying to say).
Yeah, you get some offline capabilities (like recording video to local storage) when you have a PWA. Obviously app or not, nobody is going to be uploading video without an internet connection.
Because people are stupid. We had a new client whose employees were asking for an app to access their payroll. I told the manager we didn't have one but our website was optimized for mobile. Also told her I can show them how to put a shortcut on their home screen.
"They're just not going to be able to handle that. If they can't download from the app store they're helpless."
"But they'll have an icon to click, just like an app."
She just shook her head. I ended up wrapping the site in an app and putting it in the Play Store.
I’m growing very annoyed with Apple lately. Giving Trump a solid gold brick was bad enough. I knew it would get worse with all those Trump dinners Tim Cook has been attending.
Between Apple Google AWS and Microsoft the amount of control by US tech is terrifying.
This year I’ve started divesting but politically I think I need to accelerate.
I’ve been a user of the Mac for 20 years, this year I moved to a Linux desktop. Now I need to look into Linux phone and laptops soon.
with the advent of the walled garden for Android, the future for privacy respecting mobile phones seems to be with Linux. I imagine it won't be long before they start targeting GrapheneOS, and since they control the hardware, we need new hardware that was never intended to run Android in the first place.
Wish there was a way to make our own phones as opposed to be continuing to be at the mercy of OEMs who build phones without the intention of people running custom roms. Wish it was like PCs where we could pick and choose our own parts without having to buy prebuilts.
Nothing that has expectations of its users ever does. The only reason desktops let you build them is that IBM set a default for modularity to save money, and most consumers ignore it. Trying to change a dumb default to be smarter as with phones will never happen though
So if we ever take back this country, we've gotta destroy Palantir, Apple, Google, Meta, Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, CVS (working to compile a medical database on all USAmericans)... and every company that backed Trump's Nazi campaign. Start making a list now. The corporations alone will be a life's worth of work.
Basically every company over a certain size. They all got that big by unfair conduct or outright abuse, because your market laws are way too lax and regulators look away.
You have created menaces that the rest of the world (and the environment) has to deal with.
Nationalize all of them, democratic the new platform so the government can't control it. We get one environment that's compatible with everything AND can't be weaponized by tyrants
The Trump administration is launching a new program that will allow Americans to share personal health data and medical records across health systems and apps run by private tech companies.
More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system.
Apple has consistently been a completely anti-consumer just basically evil corporation for 30+ years. Everyone knows it, there are just the people who care and who will never be smart enough to care.
Unironically yes, mostly cause most websites on mobile are the most horrid experience and an app for the average audience is just how phones are nowadays
A lot of sites suck on mobile because the browser sucks, the app can't be bothered to make a mobile friendly version, or it's intentionally made awful to force you to use the app (assuming they don't literally just redirect you to the app store when you try to go to the website).
I'm actually surprised at how often a shitty looking website looks fine once I tell the stupid fucking built in kneecapped chrome browser to open in Firefox and it's fine.
Lol I tried using Baidu Maps too look up the neighborhood I used to live in mainland China, and jesus christ it automatically attempted to download the .apk EVERY TIME I tap something on the site. Wtf lol 🤣
Also some shady company can get full access to my photos, contacts, call history, location data, camera etc. when I use their app to remind me to buy tomatoes and eggs. its just how things are in 2025 🤷 /s
I realize I'm not entirely free yet, but I sleep better ever since I changed to a non-Google Android ROM. Also because the path to proper mobile Linux feels shorter now.
Anyone still on Google Android: Look into making the change. It's worth it.
And if not, at least start getting your apps from F-droid whenever possible.
MicroG makes most things work, so it's not much compromise in my experience. 😀
I use /e/OS which has access to apps from the Play Store, so that I still have my banking apps and stuff. I think streaming apps should work just fine.
I'd love to make the switch. I was looking into custom roms for my S24U and finally decided I'm okay with tripping Knox, so I'd give it a go... Nope! Samsung has removed the ability to unlock the bootloader in OneUI 8, with no path to downgrade. So I'm stuck with an excellent piece of hardware, running software that collects and sells my data.
Me too, but the lords of Technofeudalism, backed by government, won't allow that forever. Maybe on PCs, but not phones. No "side loading" what they don't approve. Banks and co, only allowing their apps on approved OSs. No satnav traffic data unless you use an approved satnav, rendering them useless.
The problem isn't technological, it's political. We need decent government protecting citizens and enforcing competition laws. The problem is the population don't understand what is being done to them, so don't vote against it.
None of it is new. Liberty vs security, monopoly, etc, aren't new, but wrapping it in technology blinds most people to it.
Same problems though. If you run something odd ball like Ubuntu, the banking apps won't work and you may struggle to have a satnav with traffic info. If you run stock Android, you will soon only be able to install, sorry, "side load", apps Google approves.
Well you can build Linux from scratch if you want to create your own.
Building a project is not creating your own.
And RISC hardware is opensource, and gaining adoption.
RISC-V, and what's gaining adoption is not what's opensource.
I don't think you are getting my point. When you depend on one humongous project, open or not, you depend on what those having influence in it decide.
That's why they make autonomies, checks and balances, minority quotas, proportional systems and so on in democracies. Because deciding everything through a simple majority vote with no limitations and nuance, with winner taking all, doesn't make things good.
In this case it's a weight of work vote, not majority vote, but the results are not too much different. Similar to how Bitcoin turned out.
So-o - in Linux most of work is now being done by a set of the same big corporations. It's not the magic freedom tool someone would want it to be, sorry.
And there are so many Linuxes (some like Redhat that gets influence from Intel, and some like (insert name here) that are peoples own projects) that corporate control cannot dominate it all.
Like nixOS has controversy at the moment because a steering board member is linked to US military. He could compromise the project by steering it toward the fascist regimes agenda, so you load Gentoo or VOID.
Choices are freedom
The claim that most of the work is bring done by big corps , skips a step. Corps have money and dedicate people to add to projects to suit their own needs, their commits to kernel may be high, but its not neccessry for a running system...there is a world wide open source community building their own stuff out of passion alone.
Like Facebook contributed a lot to btrfs, if you feel that somehow has shady backend, just don't include it in your kernel modules.
No, there's one Linux and its versions. And various ways you can use it, build it, package it.
What I meant is that the codebase is mostly one.
It's sort of like with Bible.
And there are so many Linuxes (some like Redhat that gets influence from Intel, and some like (insert name here) that are peoples own projects) that corporate control cannot dominate it all.
No, those people will still use code contributed by RedHat, and the OS whose development has been influenced by RedHat.
Like nixOS has controversy at the moment because a steering board member is linked to US military. He could compromise the project by steering it toward the fascist regimes agenda, so you load Gentoo or VOID.
NixOS is a distribution. Somehow in this quote you admit that said compromise can come in various ways, so controversy arises from that board member themselves just being there.
But with enormous companies making the actual software you ignore it.
Also replacing nixOS with Gentoo or Void is not quite equal. I've been trying to move to GuixSD from Void (because Nix gives me anxiety, Guile doesn't, and the whole GNU spirit is nice), but I'm always too lazy to wait for actual Guix installation to finish, so I interrupt it and forget it for a while.
The claim that most of the work is bring done by big corps , skips a step. Corps have money and dedicate people to add to projects to suit their own needs, their commits to kernel may be high, but its not neccessry for a running system…there is a world wide open source community building their own stuff out of passion alone.
Too complex. When you need a more vague explanation than the obvious, cynical, common sense one, it's likely wrong.
People building stuff out of passion alone do much more idea-centered and specific things. Which are much smaller. They don't make consumer operating systems or web browsers or office suites or device drivers.
You can probably attribute things like Emacs and, ahem, Guix and a few other GNU projects permanently in alpha, like GNUNet, to this. And plenty of interesting obscure stuff.
But not things that make money. In that domain everything is done to in order make money by people paid for their work and in the way that doesn't hurt moneymaking.
Like Facebook contributed a lot to btrfs, if you feel that somehow has shady backend, just don’t include it in your kernel modules.
No, that is probably fine, except btrfs still doesn't react well to power loss, probably cause Facebook and Oracle think more about servers with UPSes. And that's typical, other people make their own project goals, the results may work for you too, but you'd have something better if you paid for it directly.
Haiku is not about paranoia, but speaking about volunteers and passion - it's a system made that way.
If you want to get that deep into it even your tomato choices are controlled by a large company (hybrid seed, chemical starter, distribution, preestablished deals with vendors) but you can still grow your own.
Nothing stopping anyone from being the next Linus and deciding to start something new.
Nothing stopping anyone from forking an old kernel and doing something different with it and stripping out the big corp stuff you don't like.
Linus made a Unix clone. One can say, started with the wrong premise.
It's a lot of work. I honestly think what Emacs developers are doing - assume that the underlying OS won't ever be good enough, and just put all your ideology into particular environment you're making, - is the right approach. I'm not even sure if what I'd want to do requires anything but Emacs, I think I'll get busy with learning elisp.
Yeah, he created an OS from scratch to avoid corporate greed of what they charged for Unix.
Which was a Unix clone. Which was the subject of the famous Tannenbaum-Torvalds argument, and Tannenbaum's position in it is pretty much obvious.
To be honest nobody has given me a good view of what emacs actually does…so I’m all ears
It's a nice cozy lisp environment - almost an operating system - that runs on many popular OSes. First of all it's a powerful text editor, but can be used to chat, manage e-mail, read e-news, and so on.
Yep. I use Firefox, got a cheap flip phone with potato OS and a mail.com email. Deleting the windows portion of my HD on the 14th. Don't need any of that shit.
Never owned one of their products, not even once. When I realized the iPod didn't support USB file transfer and they forced you to use iTunes, I knew that they were a bad company and I vowed to never use their products.
I can't think of a reason why, with client side scanning, they couldn't in the near future implement a filter similar to this. Pictures and videos deemed "problematic" could magically disappear. And of course, your iPhone will send a helpful report to the local Gestapo branch. Eventually, "Sorry, network permission is required to run the camera app. You may not capture images of law enforcement activities per executive law. The camera will now be disabled until you comply."
The thing is - the Internet itself is a fascist technology. Fascists, and especially German Nazis, used electric terms and analogies to refer to their politics. Mostly referring to unification of various parts into one network, except in their case the information medium really used was radio.
But the basic idea was that any kind of fascism thrives as means of mass politics. Anything unique, specific, individual is in conflict with that. But the Internet is the tool to slowly grind through that conflict, because it gradually reinforces one voice, one way and one meaning.
It's a very intelligent trap and one hard to believe in, but our world today is so much more fascist than even in dictatorships 30 years ago, that I think I'm right.
Also consider that the very shock of something so modern and new and comfortable being used as a channel of control is, too, what Nazis did.
And when you want to argue that in the Internet one can post their own opinions and create their own spaces and do their own things, think again. These abilities are inherent to reality as well. Make a thought experiment - could you whisper with your friends at a Nazi meeting in the back rows? Could you not even attend? Could you have private conversations on everything you'd want elsewhere? Yes, these all are true. But the only voices to be heard by everyone and reinforced by that system and order were those from the tribune, and millions of voices would answer them in one and the same way, and millions of hands would raise in salute.
And LLMs and such new tools are going to make this worse, because they are tools of situational speech accord with what you expect, leveled by the common average, just like fascism is an ideology of situational emotional accord with what you feel, leveled by the common average. Fascism is the extreme ideology rejecting logic and semantics, and the Internet on every level has been built to reject logic and semantics as a medium of communication of living people. And LLMs are an even more direct tool to do well only that, all the rest is attempts to sell it, but this is its main trait.
And let's recall again how that stopped - by spending all its resources and being defeated in a war.
A truly visionary and futuristic regime, honestly. It's funny how Nazis were so futuristic despite being blood and soil barbarians, and Stalin's regime was really reactionary despite dreaming of space travel, except Stalin's regime's official philosophy was dialectic materialism which is the only thing convenient to describe this contradiction.
That and also anti-intellectualism with ability to physically destroy intellectuals. People like Lysenko and Lepeschinskaya and so on being able to do that to their opponents are, IMHO, the main difference between 20s USSR which was pretty believably in avantgarde and 60s USSR which in all parts of its society just wanted some silent life and no more greatness.
Even when that anti-scientific crap and repressions stopped, Soviet science fiction and Soviet state ideology and Soviet system couldn't be believed any more. They've lost basis in reality.
20s' USSR had just restored its economy to 1914 levels and above in a few years after WWI, the revolution and the civil war, made a new republic, and seemed a successful resolution of Russia's early XX century dead end.
60s' USSR failed agriculture, controlling some of the most agriculturally productive areas on the planet.
They actually did try the years ago. The idea was a signal could be sent to deactivate cameras and microphones on all phones in a vicinity. It was being pitched as a way to stop people from recording a live events like concerts but there was enormous outcry over the potential for abuse so it was dropped.
I'm glad the google play store never censors apps, oh wait. It's almost as if big corporations and now governments have no citizens best interests in mind, mind blowing.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” - Benito Mussolini
Very light on the details here. How did the app do this? What was the functionality of the actual app? From looking at the play store it seems to be basically a LE tracker as well, no matter how much they want to say it isn't. Getting cute and saying "no my app where you can tag where ICE agents are and upload photos of the ice agents isn't actually to track ICE agents, it's just a photo sharing app" doesn't actually work, no matter how much people on sites like this think it does.
Also lol at this:
Mark asked 404 Media to only use his first name to protect him from retaliation.
He released an app on the apple store, they know who he is.
I’m curious why you think someone who entered the country illegally deserves a “fair trial” before being deported when they’re in the country illegally?
What's the process to make sure those get checked before you get punished for being there? I say "you" on purpose - if I said "freedom advocate is here illegally! Take them!" and they believed me and threw you in the back of a van, what would you expect to happen at that point? Who would you speak to? How? How would you make sure they did what needed to be done to establish *your* legality? How would you make them check your papers?
They wouldn’t punish me in the first place because they’d have checked their records and seen that I am a citizen. No one is just being rounded up on an allegation and deported. No citizens have been deported.
You’re saying that they don’t follow procedures, and your solution is……procedures?
A US-born man is in custody on a 48-hour U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold at the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee, Florida, after he was charged as an “unauthorized alien” who entered Florida without being inspected by immigration officer…
if I were law enforcement I probably could establish whether you had a driver's licence, but who's making me do it? If I tried to put you in jail for driving without a licence, even though you had a licence that I didn't check, what's your recourse?
Our law- rightly- operates on the basis or natural rights. Endowed by their creator, and inalienable. Do you know what that means? It means rights aren't something given to you by the constitution, you are born with them just for being a person, and they cannot be taken away. If we have a right to fair trial, so does everyone who ever lived, whether they got them is just a matter of how oppressive their governments were. Illegal immigrants are people and thus have natural rights.
You don’t have a right to a “fair trial” for not being able to prove you’re a citizen or have a valid visa to be in the country though lol. This doesn’t need a trial because there’s nothing to argue, nothing in question. Citizenship records exist. Visa records exist.
That doesn't even make sense. A trial is where you'd find out whether or not you'd be able to prove it. Are you suggesting weresupposed to not assume innocence if they don't have an idea in them at the time of detainment, because that's a right too
You know that police can check citizenship on these things called computers, right? When the police ask if you have a drivers license, they already know if you have one or not, and even if it’s expired.
You don’t need a trial to prove you’re a citizen - you just need to actually be a citizen. Do you think people go to trial to prove that they have a drivers license? Lol
Yes they do lol. They give you a ticket on the spot. If you don’t have a license, which they can tell simply by looking up your details, you are guilty. It’s the same with citizenship/immigration status - it’s not a subjective thing, or something that can be argued in court.
You don’t go to trial for being caught driving without a license lol
Why? Going to trial for not having a license when you don’t have a license makes no sense. It would be a waste of time and money for everyone involved as the outcome is known from the get go.
Better though than Framework who donate to bad open source developers. Hail big corporate! /s
(This isn't directed at you, I'm more frustrated by the people in the Framework controvery threads who somehow thing buying Apple or Dell is a more ethical choice).
It’s too late. Even without the influence of tech assholes, the western world has gone full fascist and it’s just not coming back to anything safe without a fuckton of Luigi’s.
Future of democracy in the US relies on the people being vaguely intelligent as a group. Right now tens of millions of people there are straight-up worshipping an obvious fascist as god-king and a sizeable portion of the other chunk is still desperately clinging to the idea of being “moderate”.
A linux phone would be nice but it’s not going to save the world if the people are still dumb and cowardly.
Why can’t this be a web app that uses web notifications? Why does it even need to be an on-device app? That’s building in a vulnerability that doesn’t need to be there.
Make it a site. Go to the site. Pin the site. Allow notifications from site. Done.
Yes, Apple and Google are in the wrong, but why are we relying on them for this at all? Not everything needs to be a fucking app.
This isn’t a tech illiteracy issue. Sure you CAN take a video, and upload it to archive.org from your phone.
Try doing that while actively being abused by ICE.
It’s about making the process as foolproof as possible, because seconds matter here, and making sure that footage is backed up as quickly as possible is paramount.
Stuff like this is why Google wants to restrict sideloading to "verified developers" only. Even if an app like this isn't distributed through Google Play, they could disable the developer's account for any vague "abuse" reason.
Attenti al Libro è la nuova serata one-shot di Rai 3 firmata Rai Cultura e condotta da Francesca Fialdini, in onda questa sera, giovedì 9 ottobre, in prime time. Un viaggio giocoso e appassionato nel mondo della lettura che riunisce artisti, scrittori, attori e musicisti per raccontare, a modo loro, il rapporto con i libri.
I had no idea she was running for governor until she made headlines today. Newsom is term limited and 2026 will be his final year. Think her chances are better in this one than when she ran for Senate.
Good day folks, my company recently gave me some hardware, one in particular I’m curious if there are any real use cases for it. I’m not particularly well with networking. This device is a Cisco Meraki MX64. I saw it doesn’t support open WRT so I’m curious if there are any other known projects or alternative software that could run on it. I’d love to toss it in with my network stack but all I have now is just a switch that it’ll plug in to but would love to replace e switch with it.
Meraki is cloud controlled, so without that connection or licence you can only use the config that was on it prior to the disconnect if I remember right.
Meraki is just e-waste without it's (really expensive) license. I've seen cheaper licences floating around on sketchy websites but wouldn't recommend it.
They are excellent in my experience. Very easy to work with. Had a bad batch of APs that all died on me but that was almost a decade ago and the replacements were just fine. Used a couple of sample devices I got from Meraki (they gave them out for participating in their seminars) and used them until the 2 year license ran out. Now I'm mostly using Mikrotik with RouterOS at home. Way more advanced but also more fun to mess around with.
In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
These are some practices which worked for me, You can adjust them to match your preferences. Feel free to add your own in the comments
1. If you are forced to use something that is privacy invasive, Make it isolated from your actual profile. (Ex- Using a 2nd Browser profile, Using an alias to signup)
2. Always use the services that you use from their official clients. Don't blindly trust 3rd party clients just because they claim that they are "more private", Do some research before using it.
3. Don't mix up your work life with your personal life. Consider getting a second phone just for work purposes or you could use a second profile for work purposes if your phone has the ability to create multiple user profiles.
4. Keep a habit of clearing the browser data once in a while. (You can make your browser automatically clear the browser data when closing but it can be kinda annoying when you have to log back into websites everytime)
5. Strip away the metadata of your photos and documents when sharing them.
6. Check connected apps/services regularly and revoke unused ones. (on Discord, GitHub, Matrix and etc.)
7. Audit app permissions regularly (Some apps adds in new permissions or re-enables permissions over updates)
The old #3 tip got removed (The password one) because it served no additional protection and was pretty annoying. It was a mistake by me, sorry
Using a password manager also helps alleviate the inconveniences highlighted in point 4. Logging back into a website isn't so bad when you can just auto-fill your way in.
The point of a password manager is to enable the use of multiple different passwords and usernames. The point of using multiple, hopefully unique, passwords and usernames is that when joes website gets breached and their passwords and usernames get leaked because they were storing them in plaintext it doesn’t mean all your accounts everywhere else are now compromised.
That happens a lot and if you want to learn how affected you are at this very moment just check haveibeenpwned to see what’s osint on your usernames.
So let’s say you’re appending the classic “monkey1” to your autofilled password manager passwords. You’d be protected from a password manager breach until one of your website logins is breached and someone realizes all your gibberish high entropy passwords have “monkey1” on the end. Considering there are billions of leaked credentials and millions get added each week, that’s kind of like putting wallpaper up so the tank coming through your brick wall has to work a little harder.
So what would be actual good advice? Key rotation. At some interval, clear your cache, browsing history etc and change all your passwords. Now you’re actually protected from breaches of old credentials and current credential breaches are rendered moot.
If you read all the way down to here, consider not relying on this community for privacy or security advice. The fact that “stupid asshole” was able to easily articulate why something on the list is a waste of time when no one else has done so should raise some eyebrows.
That’s not harsh. The closing sentences were not meant as an attack on you but as commentary on a pattern in this community.
It’s worth noting that appending a string to your password manager passwords would protect you from simple automated attacks after a password manager breach. Sometimes that’s enough.
Silo ALL online accounts. All online accounts should have a separate name, avatar, email alias, etc, and be opened in assigned Firefox containers. Burner email aliases will be your friend here. Do not link these accounts, or if you must, link one or two but have them dead end there. The last thing you want is someone hopscotching all the way to your front door.
In reference to #5, daily use of BleachBit at the end of each computer session. Tick the 'Free Disk Space' box under the System options. Takes about an hour and a half for my system, so I run BleachBit in the evening. It won't free up disk space, nor will it make your computer run faster, but it's certainly good for security aspects. PrivaZer is also a good piece of software but it's windows based.
#3 is a pretty good tip although Bitwarden's track record of breaches that resulted in password leaks, is fairly substantial.
#6 makes me giggle because I do that for rare pictures I post online. Sometimes, I'll inject something like 'The music is reversible but time is not. Turn back, turn back, turn back' in one of the exif slots, just to see if someone is paying attention. BTW, the phrase is from an ELO instrumental that was laced with a backwards message. IIRC, the same song was used by NBC for an intro to one of their sports broadcasts back in the 70s.
Is there any kind of automate way to do that? Because if you have always to think what account goes in what container :/ This is a lot of brain overheat !
Yes there is actually. FireFox Containers is what you are looking for. Now, it does take a little effort to set up, but once set up, it works like a charm. First, I create containers, lets say Lemmy is a container. Then I open Lemmy in the Lemmy container, right click the FireFox Container logo in your url bar, choose 'Always Open Site In Container' (the Lemmy container). The next time you click on your Lemmy bookmark, it will ask you 'Do you always want to open this site in the Lemmy container'. Select yes, and Jack's a doughnut, Bob's your uncle. It will always open Lemmy in the Lemmy container. You can add some other containers say 'General Slop' that you use to open random sites in.
I mean, there have been breaches. In 2023 there were a small handful, and again in 2024/2025. There have been some incidents where passwords were lifted from Have I Been Pwned and some other reused passwords that were already out on the tubes, but none to my knowledge that resulted in user's db being hacked.
The Ceasefire Agreement is a First Step Towards Ending the Genocide; Our People's Steadfastness and Valiant Resistance Have Broken the Zionist War Machine and Imposed the Agreement
Reaching a ceasefire agreement and beginning the implementation of its first phase is an important achievement and a first step on a long road to ending our people's suffering. The time has come for the genocide to stop. This is the fruit of the legendary steadfastness presented by Gaza and our Palestinian people, and the immense sacrifices of the martyrs, wounded, prisoners, and missing, who embodied the most magnificent images of sacrifice and resolve.
We extend a greeting of pride and honor to the sons of our people in the homeland and the diaspora, and to our martyrs, wounded, prisoners, and missing, who embodied the most magnificent images of sacrifice and steadfastness. Our people have endured what no other people have, and despite the destruction, massacres, and starvation, the occupation failed to achieve its goals and reaped nothing but failure, disgrace, and isolation.
The Front has continued its efforts without interruption, from the start of the aggression until the moment of signing the agreement, in coordination with all Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic forces, to reach this moment where the Zionist war machine stops. The Front will remain by our people's side in this difficult and pivotal stage of its history, continuing its role in supporting their steadfastness and struggle until their national goals are achieved.
We highly appreciate the efforts of our brothers in Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and all other Arab and Islamic nations, and the positions and movements of free countries and peoples around the world who rejected the continuation of the massacres and sought to stop them; their efforts contributed to reaching this agreement. We particularly value Egypt's firm position rejecting displacement and supporting the steadfastness of our people on their land.
The current agreement has broken the Zionist "no's" and objectives. It is the possible option under the current circumstances, and its success is linked to the occupation's commitment and clear American guarantees to prevent stalling. Our goal now is to continue working to completely end the war of genocide, achieve a comprehensive withdrawal from the Strip, break the siege, and end the suffering of our people.
We are working with all factions under Egyptian auspices for a comprehensive national dialogue that opens a new horizon for building a unified strategy based on our people's historical constants and rights to confront the next stage, and to rebuild our national institutions on the basis of partnership to face all challenges.
We reject foreign guardianship and affirm that the administration of Gaza must be purely Palestinian, with Arab and international participation in reconstruction and recovery.
The world today stands with us and supports our right to freedom and self-determination. The global movement must continue and the occupation and its leaders must be pursued even after reaching a ceasefire agreement, so that Palestine remains alive in the world's conscience until the occupation is eradicated.
…Comunque, questo fatto è sempre più vero!!!
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