Bosnian genocide survivor fired from Luxembourg school over pro-Palestine posts
A Luxembourg elementary school teacher and Bosnian genocide survivor has been dismissed from her position after the Ministry of National Education ruled that her Instagram posts in support of Gaza constituted "antisemitic expression".
The ministry’s decision was made without notice on October 7, 2025, a date Fatima described as symbolic and deeply unsettling. She said officials relied on screenshots from her personal Instagram account, where she has more than 111,000 followers and regularly shares commentary critical of 'Israel’s' actions in Gaza. According to Fatima, her lawyer reviewed the ministry’s evidence and agreed to take the case, convinced that the accusations lack merit.
Fatima says she has endured repeated police complaints and monitoring from the organization RIAL, which lists her in its annual report on antisemitism. None of the examples cited in the report provide clear evidence of antisemitic statements, according to déi aner. Fatima claims the group has monitored her for nearly two years and that the labeling has taken an emotional toll.
Bosnian genocide survivor fired from Luxembourg school over pro-Palestine posts
Fatima K (Credit: aamitaaf7 via Instagram)Roya News
distros with isolated programs?
I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.
Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you're running.
If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don't know how to limit is GPU compute.
Why I Dumped YouTube (and Why You Might Want to Too – No More Crap)
Hey Lemmy fam,
After years of wading through endless crap—click‑bait thumbnails, algorithmic rabbit holes, and non‑stop ads—I finally stopped using YouTube. Below are the main reasons I walked away and a handful of privacy‑friendly alternatives that let you keep the content you love without the garbage.
YouTube’s recommendation engine throws endless crap at you, turning a 5‑minute tutorial into a 2‑hour binge you never signed up for.
What I do instead:
- Lemmy – I follow specific communities (
r/technology,c/firefox,c/degoogle ``) and browse chronologically or by “Hot”. No hidden agenda, just the posts I chose. - RSS feeds – Subscribe to the channels I actually care about via an RSS reader (Feedly, Newsboat, or Lemmy’s built‑in RSS). New videos appear as they’re posted, no surprise junk.
Every view, pause, and hover is logged and sold to advertisers. Even with an ad‑blocker, YouTube still harvests data through its API calls and cookies.
What I do instead:
- PeerTube – Decentralized, ad‑free video hosting. Each instance runs its own moderation and privacy policies. You can even self‑host a node if you want full control.
Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home
A seemingly indispensable aide until today, Yermak was a former intellectual property lawyer and film producer who knew Zelenskyy in his days as an actor and comedian before helping him be elected as president. Yermak became a foreign policy adviser, then the president’s chief of staff in February 2020.Rapidly he assumed a central position as Zelenskyy’s gatekeeper in the charge of the president’s office. He was routinely consulted on foreign policy, domestic affairs and appointments. Never far from Zelenskyy’s side, the two were particularly close during the early days of the invasion, when Kyiv was under threat.
Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home
Ukrainian president announces departure of Andriy Yermak, who was leading peace talks with USDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Tesco worker facing hearing for refusing to sell 'Israeli' products
Pro-Palestine campaigners have turned up in their hundreds to a Tesco branch in the small County Down seaside town of Newcastle, protesting disciplinary action being taken against a worker who refused to assist in the sale of items from so-called ‘Israel’. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, objected on the basis that the proceeds from such items go to fund the Zionist entity’s genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian people.
The action from Tesco management had first been highlighted in a post on the social media page of local activist group Mourne for Palestine, whose name is a play on words using the name of a notable nearby mountain range. Alongside the statement can be found more wordplay, with Tesco’s slogan remixed to say “Every little helps genocide”. The group said:
Today’s protest was organised by direct action group BDS Belfast, with activists pouring in from across Ireland, recognising the significance of a worker taking such a stand. A strong union presence was visible, with representatives from Unison, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and union-linked solidarity group Trade Union Friends of Palestine among those in attendance. The action from the worker represents the most noteworthy instance of this form of defiance in the North of Ireland since the Zionist settler-colony began its campaign of mass murder over two years ago.
Tesco worker refuses to sell Israeli products
Just as Dunnes workers led the boycott of South African items, so too is one Tesco worker leading the boycott of Israeli products in IrelandRobert Freeman (The Canary)
Switch to a Fully free Operating System
As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free:
Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS
Do you agree or no?
I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.
What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.
Just 100% free open code, no traps.
What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?
Hard disagree. Only people that are already in linux-land should even think or talk about this, and only after they're aware of what they depend on and whether they can even do that in the first place.
Main reason: biggest thing holding Linux back is user-base. The more users there are, the more that companies will actually care about supporting the OS. In the meantime, newbies to Linux need an OS that is as hassle free as possible that supports what they need. Windows and macOS have their downsides, but you can't disagree that they work out of the box. You only get a few chances to get someone to even think about switching ecosystems, and going to a straight free distro is another huge hurdle on top of that. Most closed source applications only get tested on debian/rhel based distros anyway, I wouldn't be able to do my my day job on a distro outside of that without some serious headache.
There are many closed source components that don't have equivalent open source alternatives, and features are a thing that will snag many people. Most people aren't technical.
What do you think of tools for setting colorschemes in many apps at once, like pywal and base16?
It's very clear that the ricing community wants to set any given colorscheme in many apps automatically, most tools do so either with wallpapers (which is inherently opinionated), or the base16 spec. The original base16 repo hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and 16 colors simply isn't enough to make rich granular themes, especially when code has many different syntax elements. We need a successor that allows for more colors on both TUIs and GUIs, more than 16 colors (like 24 or even 32), mapped more granularly.
My story:
I've spent lots of time looking at how to have good colorschemes in apps that change dynamically, to make my desktop pretty and with variety. Many tools can apply colorschemes to apps using image / wallpaper colors like Matugen and Pywal. These tools are very well made, but I realized I actually prefer rainbow colorschemes like Catppuccin. Either way I got attached Matugen, fortunately it can be used without wallpapers and supports custom keywords, there are also base16 colorscheme managers like flavours and tinty.
But Cattppuccin's base16 theme didn't look right compared to its Neovim plugin. The plugin is very well integrated and colors a lot things for you that base16 plugins may not, I would have to set certain UI colors myself if I wanted them to match. Some of the major colors (variables, keywords, brackets, etc.) were shuffled around, so out of the box Catppuccin's base16 theme doesn't even match Cattppuccin's original vision / color harmony. All of this probably applies to other colorschemes as well. So if I want to switch between different schemes while staying true to each one, I would need to set up plugins for each app rather than automatically.
GitHub - chriskempson/base16: A Framework for building Themes
A Framework for building Themes. Contribute to chriskempson/base16 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
If I keep js disabled and then use extension will it still be a fingerprinting issue?
So if I keep js disabled with Ublock origin (I'm doing it for a while now) and then install dark reader will websites still be able to tell that I have dark reader installed?
This could be a fingerprint as very few people keep JS off and you might stand out.
On the other hand, the browser gives out very little information without JS active. Turn off JS and test your browser on deviceinfo, amiunique, etc and see how many entries are "unknown".
I played around with coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and realized that I'm quite unique whether I allow js or not. Many trackers get blocked by the absence of js though so that would hamper them somewhat.
My Sony phone with 21:9 screen ensures I'm uncommon compared to most.
My goal isn't to be untrackable but to block the ads they try to shove in your face as step 2.
Interesting, it seems that while IronFox has the protections activated by default (and with some changes) you can also activate most of them on Firefox.
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox…
Ironfox Devs themselves say that the only browser that can truly protect you against fingerprinting is the Tor Browser.
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox…
Do you feel IronFox breaks many sites for you?
IronFox/docs/Features.md at dev · ironfox-oss/IronFox
Private, secure, user first web browser for Android. This is a read-only mirror of https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox. - ironfox-oss/IronFoxGitHub
Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office
Andriy Yermak, the influential chief of staff of Ukraine's President, has resigned hours after the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) conducted searches in his office.
Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office
Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches in the office of the presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, NABU said in a statement on November 28.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
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Possible to avoid Google's future open source ban on Android devices?
Google cracks down! APKs, ROMs, and Emulators banned — is Android freedom over?
Google is implementing a significant policy shift, banning unverified APKs, ROMs, and certain emulators on certified Android devices starting in 2026.Muskan Singh (Economic Times)
I'm guessing that maintaining such forks would be prohibitive. Especially since they do have resources to play cat and mice
But I don't really know much about Android code, I'm just relying what I've heard
It's not crowd-funded anymore mastodon.social/@Liberux/11561…
Great News, Liberux Community! 🎉1️⃣ The Liberux NEXX is moving forward with new self-funding. We listened to your feedback, and the NEXX will come with improvements. We maintain our #opensource commitment and #privacy focus. More details soon!
2️⃣ We are looking for a Developer (Open Source, C++, Wayland, Linux Kernel, ModemManager, D-Bus, PulseAudio) for #liberuxos. If you are passionate about digital freedom, join our team!
➡️ Send your CV to people@liberux.net.
Google has partly backed away from this plan, and it was only announced for "certified" Android devices, which yours isn't after rooting.
It does affect you indirectly though. If open source on Android gets harder, fewer people will do it.
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Average Debian system update experience:
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No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it
Sorry but.. why on earth would you do that? Kali is a specialized distro, it's not made for day to day desktop use, much less for gaming on it. If you want to game on Linux, pick either a generic or gaming-oriented distro, and use Kali in a VM or dualboot.
Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts.
I purchased a custom domain to use with mailbox.org.
The MX records are setup and basic tests are working. I'm getting myname@customdomain.com showing up in my mailbox.org account.
But I got confused with setting up a family member with theirname@customdomain.com
Do they need to pay for a plan too?
There not worried about the privacy they just want the custom email address. Is there anyway to do this for free or cheaper, without self hosting email?
Side question. I've been paying for anonaddy to hide my normal @outlook account. Are there any benefits in keeping anonaddy to send emails to my custom domain. Instead of just using a catchall, or pre-configuring some aliases?
The only benifits I see are
- Anonaddy can make accounts on the fly
- On The Fly accounts might be easier to disable than
things sent to a catchall - Anonaddy dosnt reveal your domain (maybe this is the big draw card?)
Thanks.
Is this via a rule, as in the email hits the inbox then gets sent on.
Or is it a setting when you configure the alias.
Where the email goes to fastmail then gets sent onto gmail, are you limited to replying from the gmail?
Each alias has a configured delivery destination. Aliases that only point externally never reach the main account inbox.
You are limited to replying from the gmail unless you jump through more advanced hoops. Those include telling gmail in its settings that it can “Send mail as” something else, and also giving gmail authorization to send mail for your domain by adding them into your SPF and DKIM records. Those are more complicated than I want to describe here, and it will be complicated to merge both mailbox.org and gmail into them, so if you don’t already know about them, let’s just say yes, you can only reply as the gmail user.
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Defend Our Juries on Instagram: "Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org"
3,751 likes, 241 comments - defendourjuries on November 27, 2025: "Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org".Instagram
West Bank: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
West Bank: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
The Palestinian Authority says the killings are a "war crime", while an Israeli minister backed the soldiers.Jon Donnison (BBC News)
Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/40232992
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Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR
Since then, two things have happened:
The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.
noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.
What noyb has now put on the table
On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”
Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:
New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs
The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.
This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).
Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.
Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.
For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.
Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.
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Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR
Since then, two things have happened:
The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.
noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.
What noyb has now put on the table
On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”
Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:
New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs
The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.
This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).
Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.
Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.
For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.
Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.
Weakening ePrivacy protection for data on your device
Today, Article 5(3) ePrivacy protects against remote access to data on your devices (PCs, smartphones, etc.) – based on the Charter right to the confidentiality of communications.
The Commission now wants to add broad “white-listed” exceptions for access to terminal equipment, including “aggregated statistics” and “security purposes”.
Max Schrems finds the wording of the new rule to be extremely permissive and could effectively allow extensive remote scanning or “searches” of user devices,ces as long as they are framed as minimal “security” or “statistics” operations – undermining the current strong protection against device-level snooping.
Opening the door for AI training on EU personal data (Meta, Google, etc.)
Despite clear public resistance (only a tiny minority wants Meta to use their data for AI), the Commission wants to allow Big Tech to train AI on highly personal data, e.g. 15+ years of social-media history.
Schrems’ core argument:
People were told their data is for “connecting” or advertising – now it is fed into opaque AI models, enabling those systems to infer intimate details and manipulate users.
The main beneficiaries are US Big Tech firms building base models from Europeans’ personal data.
The Commission relies on an opt-out approach, but in practice:
Companies often don’t know which specific users’ data are in a training dataset.
Users don’t know which companies are training on their data.
Realistically, people would need to send thousands of opt-outs per year – impossible.
Schrems calls this opt-out a “fig leaf” to cover fundamentally unlawful processing.
On top of training, the proposal would also privilege the “operation” of AI systems as a legal basis – effectively a wildcard: processing that would be illegal under normal GDPR rules becomes legal if it’s done “for AI”. Resulting in an inversion of normal logic: riskier technology (AI) gets lower, not higher, legal standards.
Cutting user rights back to almost zero – driven by German demands
The starting point for this attack on user rights is a debate in Germany about people using GDPR access rights in employment disputes, for example to prove unpaid overtime. The German government chose to label such use as “abuse” and pushed in Brussels for sharp limits on these rights. The Commission has now taken over this line of argument and proposes to restrict the GDPR access right to situations where it is exercised for “data protection purposes” only.
In practice, this would mean that employees could be refused access to their own working-time records in labour disputes. Journalists and researchers could be blocked from using access rights to obtain internal documents and data that are crucial for investigative work. Consumers who want to challenge and correct wrong credit scores in order to obtain better loan conditions could be told that their request is “not a data-protection purpose” and therefore can be rejected.
This approach directly contradicts both CJEU case law and Article 8(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Court has repeatedly confirmed that data-subject rights may be exercised for any purpose, including litigation and gathering evidence against a company. As Max Schrems points out, there is no evidence of widespread abuse of GDPR rights by citizens; what we actually see in practice is widespread non-compliance by companies. Cutting back user rights in this situation shifts the balance even further in favour of controllers and demonstrates how detached the Commission has become from the day-to-day reality of users trying to defend themselves.
EFRI’s take: when Big Tech lobbying becomes lawmaking
For EFRI, the message is clear: the Commission has decided that instead of forcing Big Tech and financial intermediaries to finally comply with the GDPR, it is easier to move the goalposts and rewrite the rules in their favour. The result is a quiet but very real redistribution of power – away from citizens, victims, workers and journalists, and towards those who already control the data and the infrastructure. If this package goes through in anything like its current form, it will confirm that well-organised corporate lobbying can systematically erode even the EU’s flagship fundamental-rights legislation. That makes it all the more important for consumer organisations, victim groups and digital-rights advocates to push back – loudly, publicly and with concrete case stories – before the interests of Big Tech are permanently written into EU law.
Summary on Proposed Crypto Regulation in the EU and the US - EFRI identifies financial crime enablers to curb cyberfraud
EU’s MiCA sets strict crypto rules while US regulation remains fragmented. EFRI compares both regimes and their impact on exchanges, tokens, and DeFi.Elfriede Sixt (European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI))
Israeli forces execute two surrendered Palestinians at point-blank range
Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinians at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.
The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers.
The troops then shoot them dead.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood of Jenin.
[Video] Israeli occupation forces execute two unarmed Palestinians point blank after searching and detaining them in the West Bank near Jenin
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19 Linux resources in 11 minutes | Bread on Penguins [List in comments]
0:00 sg2d - supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-…
0:48 rescatux - supergrubdisk.org/category/dow…
1:06 cmd gems - commandlinefu.com/commands/bro…
1:30 tldp - tldp.org/index.html
2:05 wikis - wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page… wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_… wiki.debian.org/
2:38 cmdline weather - curl wttr.in
3:22 sh bible - github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-… github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bas…
4:10 shellcheck - shellcheck.net/
4:44 uefi vs bios - rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.ht…
5:47 performance guides - brendangregg.com/linuxperf.htm…
6:16 tldr, manual pages - github.com/tealdeer-rs/tealdee…
7:44 cmdline cheatsheets - curl cheat.sh
8:31 fhs - refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/F…
8:58 otw games - overthewire.org/
9:38 awesome lists - github.com/sindresorhus/awesom…
10:40 how to learn.
GitHub - dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible: 📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes.
📖 A collection of pure POSIX sh alternatives to external processes. - dylanaraps/pure-sh-bibleGitHub
Why use a terminal pdf viewer?
I've been using Firefox to view PDFs and it works fine. Recently though I wanted to try something more minimal with vim keybindings. Found two options: Zathura and tdf (terminal pdf viewer).
What I'm curious about is why someone would choose a TUI pdf viewer over a regular one (like Zathura). What are the actual advantages people find in practice. tdf mentions being fast but I wonder if that's something you'd actually notice day to day?
Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ? Maybe someone uses one here?
Tdf seems relatively popular with 1.4k github stars.
GitHub - itsjunetime/tdf: A tui-based PDF viewer
A tui-based PDF viewer. Contribute to itsjunetime/tdf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
New to Linux Advice
Ive not had a PC or gaming PC in 15 years. I want to get back into it now.
Im fairly against windows. I'd like to try a Linux system and thought this would be a fun way to get into Linux.
Ive been looking at some black friday sales here Newegg sales
Its been so long since ive looked at PC specs I feel like im completely new. Ive read that an AMD GPU can be easier for Linux so I started there.
So Ive got two questions!
What are some must have specs in you opinion to run most modern games, and would you have a #1 recommend for a prebuilt to get started with?
What disto is best for a total newbie who wants to use it for gaming and eventually transition for anything/everything else?
Even after using PopOS I dont understand the hype. It is Ubuntu-based, meaning that its packages are stale and often quite out of date, which isn't something I would recommend for a gaming distro.
Better to pick one of the following, which are gaming focused, user friendly, and have up-to-date packages for {Mesa, Vulkan, Wine, Kernel, etc}:
- PikaOS
- Bazzite
- Nobara
Edit:
My reason for saying that up-to-date packages are paramount is because a newer kernel supports more features, better performance, new hardware support, less bugs, and the same is true for packages that effect gaming. Desktop environments get better quickly through updates and bug fixes that effect gaming may take a year of more to reach pepetually out of date distros like Ubuntu. It is generally quite important, but less important if you use Steam Flatpak because it is slightly sandboxes.
Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.bazzite.gg
Recovery Partition
Here is how to use the recovery partition to repair, refresh or reinstall your operating system.System76 Support
I just wanted to compare FOSS Linux budgeting software
Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/
I scrolled down a bit more and got this:
i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screensh…
Scrolled down some more and this:
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I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don't think I've ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.
Anyone have a good comparison video? I'm just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use 😀
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander, a maneuver the state legislature had carried…John Light (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
The behind-the-scenes campaign of subversion ironically affirmed the key tenets of the Walt and Mearsheimer paper. In other words, wealthy and well-connected men were deploying their financial resources and connections in order to undercut a paper claiming that wealthy and well-connected men were using their wealth and financial resources for the benefit of the state of Israel and against the interests of the United States.
Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein—in the same week.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
I’ve been putting off switching because of everything I have setup for work, but next week I have a new laptop arriving and I’ll be wiping the pre-installed windows and chucking probably fedora on it.
Once I have that first one done, I’ll be able to start moving all my others. I have a bunch of Hyper-V VMs that I need to migrate which has been the main cause of my hesitation.
Debate on Israeli attacks on Gaza blocked in European Parliament
Debate on Israeli attacks on Gaza blocked in European Parliament
Left group says 'right, center' blocked debate as bombings continue despite ceasefire - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
Ireland: Most crimes last year were committed by repeat offenders, new stats show
Most crimes last year were committed by repeat offenders, new stats show
Re-offending was highest among burglary and trespassing cases, where 87% of detected incidents involved a previous offender.TheJournal.ie
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Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/40205739
I'm posting this to hopefully stop the posts that keep appearing, suggesting that progress has been made to defeat chat control.
That's not correct.
The article:
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance. Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and expert on the file, warns journalists and the public not to be deceived by the label “voluntary.”
While the Council removed the obligation for scanning, the agreed text creates a toxic legal framework that incentivizes US tech giants to scan private communications indiscriminately, introduces mandatory age checks for all internet users, and threatens to exclude teenagers from digital life.
“The headlines are misleading: Chat Control is not dead, it is just being privatized,” warns Patrick Breyer. **“What the Council endorsed today is a Trojan Horse. By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification.”
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Continue reading here - patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-c…
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance.Patrick Breyer
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The timeline is here
Currently Denmark pushing it, they hold the EU presidency at the minute. Their minister for justice - Peter Hummelgaard is responsible for the big push and the wording. Specifically trying to pull the wool over the general public.
Ireland are next (they take over in January)
And the minister for justice in Ireland (Jim O'Callaghan) is also in favour of it.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Right to privacy in the digital age
U.N. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Data privacy: A right to read without being read | United Nations
According to the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, libraries play a vital role as the privacy rights of their users are under increasing threat.United Nations
Thank you.
But what groups are advocating for this? There is clearly a significant campaign behind this. It doesn't seem at all grassroots.
At a guess, I'd imagine big tech companies are lobbying as most of the information that they use comes from data gathering. Using data directly from texts etc. Leaves them open to court cases.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The options are limitless to the politicians regarding money making opportunities pushing x,y and z through once our private correspondence and devices are being scanned.
For example, in years to come insurance companies could refuse to pay out on all sorts of claims using that data.
Doctor may have recommended you walk a mile a day and change your diet.
You don't do it, or just miss a day, your life insurance policy is voided.
Car crash not your fault, no payout because you missed something else etc.
I couldn't begin to to guess the amount of ways that this information could be used, but it's a complete u-turn from what the EU was saying only a few years ago
They still recommend using signal - but only internally.
Which in itself is bizarre.
And exempting themselves from being scanned is just showing what they really think.
What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law? - GDPR.eu
What is the GDPR? Europe’s new data privacy and security law includes hundreds of pages’ worth of new requirements for organizations around the world. This GDPR overview will help...Ben Wolford (GDPR.eu)
I'm trying to learn more about EU politics, and when something like this won't die after being beat down several times, in the US it's almost always some industry lobbying organization.
And a problem we have globally, is that there isn't an organized counter movement in the opposite direction (that privacy is a human right, that this isn't a path to security, that states need to be restrained and restricted in their tendencies towards authoritarianism).
Without that countermovement, it's almost inevitable something like this will pass as the lobbying organization can long outlive the current generation of activists or politicians who see the problems with something like chat control.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11…
Yes, that's the same with many things. No counter movement.
We will see how transparent it all is
We have to be the ones that continue building the movement. Plenty of us already are but with each of us active, and getting others active-connected it will help so much. We all can way more in a healthy way get things done. Let's not make it easy for them at all.
Getting people to switch to Matrix, & Stoat for real-time collaboration.
Piefed for overview and more organization by having people doing.
Pixelfed, & Loops by Pixelfed for Live-Streaming Incidents.
Also, to stop them infecting people's minds with their virus
I agree. A proper counter movement is needed.
Big American corporations are heavily lobbying EU council and governments.
Transparency is not working, EU council are rolling back on GDPR, massively eroding our privacy, which is irreversible.
With the likes of Trump in charge the US are not trustworthy with any data. The data that they already take illegally is too much.
The UDHR article 12 is supposed to protect our privacy.
We need a counter movement big enough to scare the politicians when they start bending to the Big-Tech.
They are not in the least bit worried as things stand now.
Peter Hummelgaard (among others) and his arrogance does not seem even a little concerned about his position.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated into over 500 languages.United Nations
I posted this before, but it doesn’t even seem to be voluntary at all, from what I can tell from the draft:
“Upon that notification, the provider shall, in cooperation with the EU Centre pursuant to Article 50(1a), take the necessary measures to effectively contribute to the development of the relevant technologies to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse identified on their services. […]”
“In order to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse effectively, providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services should take all reasonable measures to mitigate the risk of their services being misused for such abuse […]”
These quotes sound mandatory, not voluntary. And let’s look what these technologies referenced are:
“In order to facilitate the providers’ voluntary activities under Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 compliance with the detection obligations, the EU Centre should make available to providers detection technologies […]”
“The EU Centre should provide reliable information on which activities can reasonably be considered to constitute online child sexual abuse, so as to enable the detection […] Therefore, the EU Centre should generate accurate and reliable indicators,[…] These indicators should allow technologies to detect the dissemination of either the same material (known material) or of different new child sexual abuse material (new material), […]”
Oops, it sounds again like mandatory scanning.
Source: cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/…
The new draft seems to pretend better to look less mandatory, but it still looks mandatory to me. Feel free to correct me if somebody can figure out that I’m wrong.
Too bad its creator seems to like Trump mstdn.social/@rysiek/114630877…
I prefer deltachat delta.chat/
Hey @simplex is this really your founder? 👀
xcancel.com/epoberezkinEvgeny (@epoberezkin)
@SimpleXChat (http://simplex.chat) founder - the 1st chat network without user IDs. Created Ajv #JSON validator used by millions of JS apps.Nitter
Looking for a Good Spanish TTS Engine on Manjaro (Offline / Local)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to find a reliable Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) solution for Manjaro Linux that can read a text file and output a wav audio file or similar. I recently tried using Kokoro‑TTS:
uv tool install kokoro-tts
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin But when I ran:
kokoro-tts --help-languages it only lists languages like
en-us, fr-fr, ja, etc.—no Spanish, so it looks like the Spanish voice isn’t included.What I’m looking for:
- An alternative TTS engine that supports Spanish (ideally
es_ES) - That runs locally on Manjaro (or Arch-compatible)
- Simple to install and use from the command line
- Reasonable naturalness (doesn’t have to be super “neural,” but better than very robotic)
Questions:
- Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
- Which are the simplest to install and use?
- Which are the most natural sounding ones?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:
huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…
VOICES.md · hexgrad/Kokoro-82M at main
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Macron unveils voluntary military service as concerns grow over Russia
Macron unveils voluntary military service as concerns grow over Russia
President Emmanuel Macron has announced the creation of a voluntary youth military service to start by mid-2026 as France moves to strengthen its armed forces amid rising concern over Russia’s threat beyond the war in Ukraine.RFI
What you do with your windows button on your keyboard?
like this
Yes, which part are you skeptical of? I think these are pretty clear at this point, though. Most of this is from comrade @yogthos@lemmy.ml
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU reuters.com/article/idUSBREA15…
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us…
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/…
- Monthly Review Online, 2021: The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-ma…
- Maidan coup thread archive.ph/BAxYc
- Coup details consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/…
- Don't Get it Wrong: Ukraine and "Israel" are Both Tools of US-EU Imperialism
- An article from August 2021 advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine to subjugate it and draw it away from China nationalinterest.org/feature/s…
- An important piece that reveals Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war against Russia in the Donbas since, it's implied, 2014. news.yahoo.com/exclusive-secre…
- NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/e…
- Nordstream US involvement evidence thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/evi…
- The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-…
So, there were these points you mentioned:
- The west has absolutely hollowed out and looted Ukraine
- used it as a battering ram to damage Russia as much as they could.
- The US blew up Nordstream specifically to try to decouple western Europe from cheap Russian gas.
- The US Empire, post-2014 Euromaidan coup, uses Ukraine similarly to how they use Israel, to secure its interests in the region.
The first two links are about US officials discussing who they'd like to see active in a Ukrainian government and who they don't. Doesn't relate to any of your points. Maybe the last, but simply discussing which people are currently doing what in another country during a state of turmoil doesn't really say anything.
The counterpunch link is just weird... It's just a long list of weird accusations and propaganda without any substance at all. Looking at the site, it's not a neutral news source anyway, but that, too, doesn't give any sources concerning any of your points beyond "look, western politicians visited Ukraine". Well, no shit.
The Consortium News article starts with brandishing the opposition as a Neo-Nazi movement and disqualifies itself utterly by that within the first few sentences. Like, those are your sources? That's insane.
The Monthly Review Online article is about the Maidan massacre. Not directly related to the points above.
Maidan coup thread: deals with the question "Is there any credible evidence that Ukraine's 2014 revolution was due to a CIA coup". Even if the answer to this was "yes", it wouldn't be relevant to any of the points above.
Coup details: same. Like, it keeps going on how the US influenced actors. Well, no shit. That's what politicians do. I still don't see the connection to the allegations stated above and the way it's framed in the article is despicable.
"Don't get it wrong": "The EU doesn’t care about Ukrainian lives — in 2014, they supported a far-right coup", nah, I'm out. "Far right coup", what bullshit. This whole myth of Nazis taking over Ukraine is just ridiculous and any article that keeps iterating that Russian propaganda is not believable.
advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine... Helping Ukraine defend itself against an invading agressor because it serves your interest as well doesn't make your second point true. Russia could stop the war today if they simply stopped attacking another country. They don't. It's not the west that uses Ukraine, it's Ukraine that uses the west's interest to reduce Russian power to defend itself. You're mixing up cause and effect.
Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war - bullshit. The article is about US people training Ukrainian people, not about the CIA fighting a war. Helping Ukraine defend itself doesn't mean you're "using it". If you're teaching somebody some self defense to no longer get beaten up by a bully, you're not fighting a proxy fistfight. What a stupid take.
NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement - same.
Nordstream US involvement evidence - long, long article that ends up accusing Ukrainian nationalists. No US involvement mentioned.
The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals - and here it is, the one part that I agree with you and that I think is believable. And of all the points up there, this only partly backs up the last one, because "getting resources" isn't really "securing its interest in the region" (or one might argue it's even the opposite, considering historic precedence such as Versailles, but I guess Trump doesn't think that far ahead). Yeah, that sucks. But still, there is no indication of the US or any other western state being the cause here - it's just Trump, the Russian asset of all the people, trying to take advantage of a situation.
I gave a variety of sources, because you were incredibly vague. One thing you do repeatedly in this comment, though, is immediately dismiss any source that agrees with the reality that Ukraine is governed by a far-right nationalist group that upholds Stepan Bandera. This truth is so counter to your understanding that you feel it a claim capable of being dismissed without any evidence from your part. Regardless of how well-sourced and backed up this is, from whatever source, even the pro-Ukraine New York Times, you still deny it.
If I give you hard evidence, and you dismiss it purely because it disagrees with your ideology, what's the point in me giving you evidence? Genuinely. Your only argument against Ukraine being governed by far-right nationalists is that Russia also believes this, which is racism at worst and utterly confused logic at best.
As for the reason why I showed western involvement in setting up the current government of Ukraine, it's because it's quite clear that that was the reason for the Euromaidan Coup. The west set up a group of far-right nationalists, for the ends of securing their economic interests in the region. This includes encircling Russia, cutting off supply of cheap Russian gas, and drawing out an unpopular war to try to economically weaken Russia as much as possible.
You further add your own conspiracy theory, that the most Statesian president ever doing the most Statesian things, is somehow a Russian asset. You provide no evidence for this either, just like you provided no evidence to counter mine, yet just leave it hanging as though stating it is evidence.
I implore you to move beyond sheer knee-jerk reaction, and actually pay attention to the points being brought up. No news source is ever neutral, and a source not being neutral does not mean it is wrong.
It’s virtually impossible to be in an “echo chamber” when living in a Five Eyes country. Or rather, it’s virtually impossible to not be stuck in the Five Eyes liberal echo chamber. You would have to go full Kaczynski, living in a shack in the woods.
As if we weren’t—and aren’t still—exposed to exactly the same life-long indoctrination, education, and propaganda as everyone else in the imperial core. But somehow we, who looked beyond the cultural hegemony in which we’re surrounded, are the ones living in a bubble.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Should I set the language when I post something?
On the web I can select the language of a post and comment. The two mobile apps I've tried so far don’t have any language-related features.
So I end up posting and commenting with a mix of languages.
Should I just not set any when using the web UI?
I always set it (mobile client, Thunder), because I find it pretty annoying when I see posts in my feed that I don't understand (so it's only fair that I don't cause it to others)
Fortunately it hasn't been much of an issue on Lemmy, but Mastodon is pretty much unusable for me partly for this reason (last time I tried to curate my feed, ~50% of the posts I saw were in languages I cannot understand -- and I don't follow language-specific topics or people)
It seems it has now been "solved", with a popup for users posting from the website, reminding them to select a language: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i… I think users (including me) will always make mistakes, and, as you note, not all clients support this setting, so I don't think relying on the UX of everyone's clients is a permanent solution 😕
In the meantime, the best I can do is set the tag manually when I'm posting 😔
Re-introduce automatic language detection for posts
Pitch Many users (even bots!) don't correctly set the language tag when posting. This can result in timelines containing very frequent unreadable posts for users not speaking the language, which is...gkaklas (GitHub)
Guinea-Bissau’s President Says He Has Been Deposed. The Opposition Says It’s a Trick.
cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18616130
The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.
Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.
The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.
“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.
Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.
After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.
After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.
Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.
Guinea-Bissau’s President Says He Has Been Deposed. The Opposition Says It’s a Trick.
The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.
Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.
The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.
“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.
Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.
After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.
After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.
Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/africa/guinea-bissau-coup.html
How to skirt websites that block known domains of email forwarding services? [SOLVED]
Solved: Thanks to all who commented, especially those who took the time to respond to my follow-up questions. Your responses were enough to convince me of the value of buying a custom domain in order to keep one's true email address private w/ the added benefit of working on websites that block known domains of temp/forwarding service providers.
Key takeaways:
- Forwarding services' shared domains are useful for blending in w/ the crowd. (credit to @Cricket@lemmy.zip)
- Custom domains are handy when you don't care about blending in and you want to use a website that blacklists known domains of disposable/forwarding service providers, including the paid-tier domains.
- Deciding whether to enable catch-all:
- Enabled: You can make up new addresses without having to configure the alias manually each time, but it's also easier for spammers to guess valid addresses.
- Disabled: It's more difficult for spammers to guess valid addresses, but you'll have to configure your aliases manually unless you have regex matching for automatic creation of new aliases. With regex matching for automatic creation of new aliases, disabling catch-all has few if any downsides.
- Regex matching: Seems to provide the best of all worlds by making it harder for spammers to guess valid addresses without having to configure aliases manually each time.
- For aliases, including a string of random characters after the company name makes it harder for spammers to guess your other aliases and/or learn where else you have accounts by spamming emails to every
$companyname@example.comand seeing which ones bounce back. (credit to @erebion@news.erebion.eu)
Original post:
I've recently signed up for an email forwarding service w/ aliases so that I can keep my true email address private when I sign up for new websites and services. I should clarify that I'm less concerned about concealing my identity as I am about protecting my real email address, identifying who leaked my info when my email address is compromised, and being able to stop the spam by turning off that alias.
While updating my existing profiles to point to aliases instead of my real address, I've hit a snag - some sites (Steam, Slack, etc) won't allow me to update my email address to any known domains from my email forwarding service.
On these sites that block email forwarding addresses, for now I'm either updating my existing email address w/ a plus sign if the website allows it, otherwise I'm just leaving my existing email address unchanged. It's not the end of the world, they already have my real email address, and I can probably go a Very Long Time without needing to check those inboxes anyway, but I'm still miffed that I can't completely migrate my existing accounts to my new scheme.
I've read numerous posts about the benefits of custom domains to enable portability of email service providers, and I'm wondering if custom domains are the answer to these sites that disallow forwarding addresses, but I have questions:
- How do other people deal with this situation?
- Do these websites that block known email forwarding domains typically work on a whitelist or blacklist model? If the former (whitelist), then I'm thinking a custom domain will have the same problem, but if the latter (blacklist), then I reckon a custom domain with catchall might work.
- Particularly owners of custom domains, do you find your custom domain is allowed more often than not or do you run into the same problem?
EDIT: Clarified my objectives.
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No, graphene isn't being targeted by the french government.
There's been some posts about Graphene leaving france and accusing the government of targeting them.
This isn't happening. What happened is that le parisien posted an article that presents what french law enforcement think of grapheneOS, which is obviously mostly crap, then present part of graphene's respone, which does in fact include their references to human rights organizations, large tech companies and others using GrapheneOS, unlike what grapheneOS claims. The main flaw with the article is the fact that the author takes what the french law enforcement says at face value, which is not a good move.
If you haven't been following this you may be wondering how this was extrapolated into the government targeting them. Well, it's because government owned news sites also reported on this. This is because le parisien's article got regurgitated by a bunch of other news sites looking for an easy article to get ad revenue from, normal news site behavior. The government news sites are fully editorially independent from the government, which the GrapheneOS lead should know, since that's how the canadian CBC works.
For chat control, that measure isn't supported by the majority of french meps, just the (massively unpopular) head of state and his minority government. No similar law has been passed nationally, in fact, a law that guarantees privacy rights is making it's way through the legislature (tuta article). If chat control passes, it affects several of the countries (germany and belgium, afaik) they moved to as well, anyways.
Graphene's announcement also disparages the other two big privacy roms, both based in france, which is odd and makes me personally think this may have more to do with the visible hatred the project lead has for those projects.
Please tell me what you think, and if I missed anything important, because it really seems like a big nothing-burger to me.
Yes, sorry I was too lazy to provide any sources here are a few (mostly in french sorry). It was called the 8 December case or "L'Affaire du 8 décembre" in french.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Decemb…
- lundi.am/Affaire-du-8-decembre…
- lemonde.fr/societe/article/202…
- laquadrature.net/2023/10/02/af…
- laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/af…
- web.archive.org/web/2023060713…
Edit:
- archive.is/lemonde.fr/societe/…
Sept militants de l’ultragauche mis en examen pour « association de malfaiteurs terroriste »
Arrêtés mardi, ces militants sont soupçonnés de projets d’actions violentes ciblant des policiers, sans qu’un projet précis de passage à l’acte ait été identifié à ce stade.Samuel Laurent (Le Monde)
Except that for the moment, no decision of the judges shows that they have retained the fact of having Linux, Signal, /e/OS or GrapheneOS installed, even in the case of 8 December. And I'm talking about not the investigating judges here, but the decisions of the judges of the court.
These articles speak only of investigating judges, not of conviction.
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Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV
Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV
With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archive…www.phoronix.com
Nexoflexo
in reply to jankforlife • • •RiverRock
in reply to Nexoflexo • • •ILoveUnions
in reply to RiverRock • • •RiverRock
in reply to ILoveUnions • • •That's the one who's only sources is literal CIA radio free Asia cutouts and one Mr Adrian, "I am on a mission from God to destroy Beijing" Zenz, correct? The one funded by NED money? Whose "local" front organization is straight-up headquartered in Washington DC?If we're lying about that, shouldn't you be able to prove it? Gaza is the most heavily controlled and censored place on earth, yet I still see daily video of the killing. Xinjiang is an open tourist mecca that saw 300 million visitors from around the world last year, yet nobody has seen one shred of violence. Make it make sense for me, cultist.
I watched four riot cops break a college kid's arm right in front of me for being against Palestinian genocide. And then shitlibs like you insisted I had to vote for the genocide to continue, or else I wanted the genocide to continue. Choke on your hypocrisy, fascist-in-denial.
It's so cute when you try to use big words you don't understand. Fascism is when you legally take reposession of your own territory that was taken from you by open, rapacious colonialists. Fascism is when ethnic Russians in Ukraine call for help against the literal US-backed nazis terrorizing them for a decade. If you were around for WW2, your smug, know-nothing supremacist ass would have been calling every allied victory fascist, because you don't know shit about shit.
What the fuck does this mean?? Yeah, you have to be voted into office to hold it. No shit? "Oh but the CCP-" shut up. The CPC has over nine million members, and is the largest of nine political parties in the People's Republic of China. It enjoys a 95% satisfaction rate among the people there so unless you want to argue that they're all just too stupid to understand how bad their lives actually are without the freedoms of crushing medical debt and gambling app, I suggest you look to Occam's Razor and entertain the notion that perhaps you have been propagandized to thoughtless repeat these vague and sinister-sounding canards, that you and I who live in the biggest anticommunist propaganda bubble history has ever seen, actually know very little for sure about the enemies of the rich pedophiles who own us.
And here we reach the inevitable conclusion of liberal analysis, the ultimate course of liberal praxis: do nothing, sit smugly in despair, make no practical choices, shit our pants and wait for fascism to kill us all. But hey, at least by doing nothing but symbolic art-protests at the gestapo as they kneel us before the trench, we can await the bullet with the knowledge that we were never tainted by the dirty work of actually building an alternative, unlike those filthy tankies.
Liberal epistemology is a joke, liberal ideology is a genocidal self-deluding joke, and the reason liberalism is being eaten alive from both ends by both communists and fascists is because it's not actually designed to understand power, only to hypocritically excuse it when it's exercised against humanity by a handful or western billionaires and condemn it when it's exercised against the billionaires by the organized masses of humanity. Free Palestine, long live the Chinese People's Revolution, Death to America.
REEEEvolution
in reply to RiverRock • • •95 million members actually, and around 110 mllion in its youth wing. So about one in seven chinese.
RiverRock
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •ThirdConsul
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •That's actually a stupid argument. There's no alternative party. Belonging to CPC helps with being promoted in public service.
(I'm not arguing with anything else, just questioning this argument)
RiverRock
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •ThirdConsul
in reply to RiverRock • • •😁
And if any of them was legally allowed to take over the government from CCP, that would be true. However they are not, and in the CCPCC charter they are defined to be more like... subservient lobby groups?
RiverRock
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •"There aren't any other parties"
"Yes there are"
"Uhhh well they don't count"
Anything to avoid admitting you're wrong, eh?
ThirdConsul
in reply to RiverRock • • •RiverRock
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •"Trust me bro I totally read the mandarin charters of eight other parties (who i was just claming dont exist) and they all say what I'm claiming, no I will not be posting anything to back up my assertion"
Lmao are you 12? This is giving such "liar kid in elementary school" energy
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in reply to RiverRock • • •davel
in reply to ILoveUnions • • •So both sides bad. Good media consumer; stay paralyzed by hopelessness.
The reason the rich & powerful put so much effort into shoving that bullshit down our throats is that the truth threatens their legitimacy. We’re not supposed to see that a better world is possible.
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in reply to ILoveUnions • • •Johnny_Arson [they/them]
in reply to Nexoflexo • • •Corridor8031
in reply to Johnny_Arson [they/them] • • •looks at sout china sea, looks at Uyghurs, looks at hong kong, looks at the opression
yes sane take 🤡
RiverRock
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in reply to juliebean • • •FoundFootFootage78
in reply to Carl [he/him] • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to Carl [he/him] • • •Notice the flags? This is not about imperial China, it is about the PRC.
Or are you one of the weirdos who also thinks Russian Empire = USSR = Russian Federation?
Saapas
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •grahamja
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •Notice the war in 598? The one mislabeled as a war of defence? When the Sui dynasty invaded Korea?
Are you one of those weirdos that doesn't bother to look stuff up instead of reposting?
Oppopity
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in reply to Carl [he/him] • • •Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
in reply to jankforlife • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to Assian_Candor [comrade/them] • • •Overall it was a shitshow. Vietnam also ethnically cleansed its chinese minority and there was fighting at t he border because it was pretty much indefined. Furthermore, Vietnam ahd close ties to the USSR, with which China had recently broken. Thus China saw itself between the allied stated of Vietnam and USSR.
Fittingly the resulting border war also was a total shitshow. A few PLA divisions pushing into Vietnam, without artillery or air support. Vietnam defended with local militias as its army was in Cambodia. China occupied some border cities, but took severe losses, then it went home. The vietnamese militias were excellent fighters but lacked heavy arms, so all they could do is delay the chinese (which they did admirably). Both sides claimed victory and the relations between the two countries were in the gutter until a few years ago.
davel
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •FoundFootFootage78
in reply to jankforlife • • •South China Sea? Granted building a military base in another country's waters isn't technically an attack but ... come on.
Also Tibet. Whether or not it was a legitimate "state" it was definitely an "other nation".
RiverRock
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •1:Tibet is absolutely not an other nation, having been officially part of China for multiple dynasties before the Revolution.
2: I'm pretty sure the people there are happier with schools, hospitals and running water than as illiterate medieval slave-serfs to a despotic class of torturing, r*pist landlord-priests
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
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in reply to RiverRock • • •REEEEvolution
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in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •BrainInABox
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •RiverRock
in reply to BrainInABox • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •The claims in the South China Sea overlap. Some islands are claimed by Brunai, Malasia and the Philipines, others are claimed by the PRC and the Philipines.
The military bases are less because of claims but because the US is sending its warships through this area all the time in a "nice trade routes you have here, would be sad if someone did something about them..."-move.
Tibet was a part of China, it was essentially a warlord territory. With the warlord being the Dalai Lhama. It did not consider itself "other nation", which is obvious from the fact that its regime did agree to join the PRC. Both sides came to an accord regarding the conditions, most importantly Tibet had to abolish slavery within a agreed uppon timeframe. The Lhama regime did not do so, thus peaceful unification was off the table and the PLA did the unifying.
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in reply to jankforlife • • •ThirdConsul
in reply to jankforlife • • •How to fuck has USA caused Russian Civil War?
By missing terror bombings in Italy I question your methodology. As in - bullshit. And don't even pretend it's because you're only listing "military operations", because you've added CIA operations in Brazil.
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You mean this one? Technically the USA were invited in like vampires by the current official ruler technically to fight rebellion. So "attacked" - no. Sold itself like a mercenary imperialistic scum in some deal to a despotic tsar - definitely.
Oh, and they were barely USian soldiers, it was mostly Europeans. And to be perfectly candid, everything about that intervention is considered to be British brainchild - look at the Korniłow and the support he got from Britain until he failed.
At least that's my take on it.
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in reply to RiverRock • • •I forgot you mentioned PRC specifically.
If we're talking about PRC then China fought against Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 3rd Indochina war, and Sini-Vietnam war
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