A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
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La premiata coppia Erik “Ripley” Johnson & Sanae Yamada, in arte Moon Duo, torna a far danni in questo 2015. Il Duo per l’occasione si trasforma spesso e volentieri in un trio, con l’aggiunta del batterista John Jeffrey a dare nuova linfa a quei ritmi densi e corposi, sempre in bilico tra kraut rock e psichedelia, che sono un po’ il... Leggi e ascolta...
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NYPD boss Jessica Tisch’s brother calls Zohran Mamdani ‘enemy’ of Jewish people in speech
The brother of the Big Apple’s top cop called mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani an “enemy” of Jewish people during a fiery charity dinner speech where he railed about the future of the city.
Benjamin Tisch — younger brother of police Commissioner Jessica Tisch — was presenting an award Wednesday evening during the Met Council’s annual holiday dinner when the top exec at the Loews Corporation skewered the radical DSA lawmaker, according to sources.
The comments come just weeks after Jessica Tisch accepted an offer from the Mamdani to stay on as police commissioner — despite being far apart on a number of issues, including bail reform, raise the age and Israel.
The Tisch family, excluding Jessica, spent millions during the mayoral election to back Mamdani’s top foe, Andrew Cuomo, in an attempt to stave off the socialist mayor.
NYPD boss Jessica Tisch's brother calls Zohran Mamdani 'enemy' of Jewish people in speech
The brother of the Big Apple’s top cop railed about incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani being the “enemy of Jewish people” during a charity dinner speech where he bemoaned the sad state of affairs in New…Craig McCarthy (New York Post)
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Hardware resources usage over time ?
Hi,
I'm looking for a FLOSS way to have hardware resources usage ( cpu, mem, storage, network, etc.. ) over time ?
Any lightweight solution suggestion ?
It can be TUI or GUI ( XFCE )
It could be nice also to can filter result/graph by process, user etc..
Thanks
Here's an actual answer, a system monitor with historical data: beszel.dev/
It's a webUI but that shouldn't really matter vs an app with its own GUI.
Beszel | Simple, lightweight server monitoring
Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, Docker stats, and alerts.Beszel
Damn ! look very promising !
Do you know if we can filter the historical data on pid, uid ?
doing material analysis and direct action to change the world is just like praying to a higher power, I am very smart
Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Nightreign on Mint is really framey compared to Windows
Posting here because I don't know any other decent communities to ask.
I'm running Mint on a fairly beefy PC that was top spec in 2022. I started with Windows then added another SSD for Linux. I went with Mint but overall I've found games to be a bit lackluster on here.
The main one is Elden Ring: Nightreign. It runs buttery smooth on Windows, but on the same PC using Linux it gets a little choppy and almost unplayable if I'm in a round with others.
I've noticed other issues like Arc Raiders is meant to work well on Linux but was an unplayable mess for me.
I'm just doing everything through Steam so nothing weird or hacky going on, I have a laptop with Bazzite I use to get games from Myabandonware running and it has been fine by comparison.
Are there any extra programs or dependencies I should download? Or should I just switch to Bazzite given I'm gaming and running a Nvidia card? I got into Linux after building this PC so I didn't know AMD was better for Linux at the time. Building this PC showed me how to install an OS on a computer so it was the start of the rabbithole for me in a way.
I know there isn't a lot of details on specs here, but I'm more wondering if there's anything more I should do on a non-gaming focused distro or if it's easier to just switch.
System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-88-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 nobleMachine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX Z790-F GAMING WIFI v: Rev 1.xx serial:
part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2602 date: 09/27/2024CPU:
Info: 24-core (8-mt/16-st) model: 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
smt: enabled arch: Raptor Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 2.1 MiB L2: 32 MiB L3: 36 MiBSpeed (MHz): avg: 848 high: 1100 min/max: 800/5500:5800:4300 cores: 1: 1100 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 1100 8: 800 9: 1100 10: 800 11: 1100 12: 800 13: 1100 14: 800 15: 845
16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800 21: 800 22: 800 23: 800 24: 800 25: 800 26: 800 27: 800
28: 800 29: 800 30: 800 31: 800 32: 800 bogomips: 191692Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD102 [GeForce RTX 4090] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05
arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DP-1,DP-3
empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2684 class-ID: 0300Device-2: Remo Tech OBSBOT Meet driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 3564:fef2 class-ID: 0102Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
screens: 1nvidia-driver-580-open
Version 580.95.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Also I'm not running any compatibility for Nightreign at the moment. I've tried diffferent Proton variations and it hasn't made a difference.
Kristi Noem Pushes Expanded Travel Ban
Kristi Noem Pushes Expanded Travel Ban
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is urging an expanded U.S. travel ban targeting about 30 countries amid intensified immigration crackdowns following a deadly DC shooting linked to an Afghan national.Popsmokemedia
Putin’s High-Stakes India Visit Puts Modi at the Center of a Shifting Global Power Game
Putin’s High-Stakes India Visit Puts Modi at the Center of a Shifting Global Power Game
Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to New Delhi arrives at a moment when India is navigating intense pressure from both Washington and Moscow, juggling oil diplomacy, defense demands, and strategic autonomy.Popsmokemedia
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Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
The latest strike was the first in nearly three weeks. It comes as the Pentagon and the White House have struggled to answer questions about the legal basis for the campaign to kill suspected drug smugglers with military strikes, with US lawmakers promising to investigate the first such attack, in September, in which two survivors clinging to wreckage were killed in a follow-on strike.Hegseth has faced increasing scrutiny over the 2 September strike following a report from the Washington Post that the defense secretary had verbally directed the military to "kill them all". On Thursday, a Democratic lawmaker introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth, pointing to the boat strike and a report that found he broke rules by sharing information about an attack on Signal, but such an effort is unlikely to succeed.
Experts urge release of boat strike video as US admiral denies ‘kill them all’ order
Democrat Jim Himes calls footage ‘one of the most troubling scenes’ he’s observed in public serviceJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
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Greek unions reaffirm solidarity with Palestine after West Bank visit
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6931655
cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/1138…
The All-Workers’ Militant Front organized a solidarity visit to trade unions in the West Bank, witnessing firsthand the violence faced by Palestinian workers under occupation.The post Greek unions reaffirm solidarity with Palestine after West Bank visit appeared first on Peoples Dispatch.
Around the time the so-called ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was announced, the Greek All-Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) organized a solidarity visit to trade unions in Palestine. During their trip, PAME’s delegation met with labor organizations in the West Bank and traveled to refugee camps and communities that face regular attacks by Israeli settlers.
The delegation, which included PAME Secretariat member Giorgos Perros and Markos Bekris from the dockworkers’ organization ENEDEP, witnessed firsthand the daily reality of workers in the West Bank. “Every day, at the checkpoints of the army of the murderous state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians are subjected to humiliating inspections, waiting for hours in the heat or cold just to reach their workplace,” PAME described. “Every day they risk their lives under the barrel of a gun, struggling to earn a day’s wage to feed their families.”
Since the beginning of the genocide, PAME added, unemployment in the West Bank has reached roughly 70%. As Israel continues to deny work permits to Palestinian workers, many have been left with no option but to attempt risky crossings in search of occasional work. Several workers have been killed, and many more injured, trying to bypass the apartheid wall erected by Israeli authorities, including during the delegation’s visit, as documented by the media organization 902.gr.
The trade unionists also collected testimonies from agricultural workers and farmers whose land continues to be confiscated by Israeli authorities or seized by settlers, as well as from people from refugee camps, violently expelled from their homes and forced into schools or other makeshift shelters. This pattern of violence only escalated throughout the genocide and has continued despite the ceasefire announcement.
“The unrelenting, murderous attacks, even after the so-called ‘truce’ of October 10, 2025, with a gun held to the head of the Palestinian people, show that the crime has never stopped,” PAME wrote in a declaration published on November 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. “The working class and the people of Greece stand on the right side of history, against the slaughterhouses and wars of the imperialists, asserting the inalienable right of all peoples to live in peace in their own homeland.”
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Someone broke it down for me like this, and I haven't forgotten since:
Bour: because they're boring
Geo: because they want to control the earth
Isie: because life would be so much more isie without them
Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline
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High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
Pesticide Action Network Europe study finds average concentrations 100 times higher than in tap waterHelena Horton (The Guardian)
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Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation has revealed that Israeli soldiers bulldozed the bodies of Palestinians killed while trying to access humanitarian aid near the Zikim crossing into northern Gaza.Tamara Turki (Middle East Eye)
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The Former Israeli Spies Overseeing US Government Cyber Security
Axonius is commonly described as an American company. While its headquarters and administrative functions are in New York, its founders, senior executives, and its primary financiers are all Israeli, and, critically, its software and engineering functions are based in Tel Aviv. Axonius has more than eight-hundred employees, and a search of LinkedIn profiles confirms that a majority of Axonius's engineers in Tel Aviv have a background in Israeli military intelligence.Perhaps none of this matters, and Axonius is simply indicative of the sleazy, symbiotic nature of the relationship between the US and its colonial outpost.
This would be a fair argument if it wasn't for Israel's long history of espionage in the United States. From recruiting Hollywood producers who ran front companies that stole nuclear technologies, to selling bugged software to foreign governments, spying (especially cyber spying), has been central to Israel's foreign policy. Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was a spy for Israel, and a significant amount of circumstantial evidence suggests Jeffrey Epstein was also an Israeli military intelligence asset. More recently, during Trump's first term, Israel planted miniature spying devices around the White House and other US government buildings in Washington DC to monitor US officials.
Arnon Milchan And Israel's Nuke Program
It seems he was no ordinary spy.Michael B Kelley (Business Insider)
Report: 20% of all US aid to Afghanistan was ‘wasted’
Report: 20% of all US aid to Afghanistan was ‘wasted’
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction issued a scathing final analysisConnor Echols (Responsible Statecraft)
United Nations paid $11M to Syrian security firm owned by Assad intelligence services, documents show
For over a decade, U.N. aid agencies poured millions into the company despite warnings from human rights advocates.
U.N. agencies “had no viable alternative and therefore proceeded to engage Shorouk despite the elevated risk profile,” the country team wrote to ICIJ. “Shorouk provided better value for money.”
Well okay then.
The US, UK, and Israeli imperialists already got what they wanted: Assad deposed by the moderate rebels1 that they’d funded & armed, so what’s the point of this smear campaign now? Why kick a dead horse? Just to jab at the UN for not dancing to their tune?
Many details of the Western propaganda and interference schemes in Syria are still unknown, locked in classified internal government and corporate documents. Yet the few leaks and investigative reports we have reveal an extensive, well-funded, years-long propaganda and disinformation warfare campaign waged first against the Syrian government but perhaps more intensely against Western publics. Through groups like the White Helmets and the media they produced, Western governments and corporations backed up their multi-billion-dollar effort to flood Syria with weapons and fighters with propaganda and civil society campaigns worth about a billion dollars. These facilitated rebel administrations on the ground and helped sell a simplified whitewashed narrative of the Syrian Civil War and build war fervor for Western intervention. This built off historical precedents, committed by the same people who engaged in similar campaigns in other Muslim majority countries.
- Salafi-Jihadist warlords ↩︎
Directing the Moderate Rebels: Syria as a Digital Age Crucible for Information and Propaganda Warfare
By Ben Arthur Thomason A decade into Syria’s catastrophe as one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century, we can take greater stock of its effects not just on geopolitics and Syria itself, but on imperial management strategies, information warfa…Ben Arthur Thomason (Hampton Institute)
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
GitHub - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame: Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺"
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shameGitHub
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Weird issues after swapping GPU from nVidia to AMD: audio crackling and mouse cursor "lagging" and going crazy
PoP_OS 22.04.
Recently upgraded GPU and went from nVidia to AMD. Since AMD drivers are already baked into the kernel, I simply uninstalled nVidia ones by
sudo apt purge ~nnvidiabut after doing so and rebooting with the new GPU, the game I had been playing until minutes before the swap started giving me an unbearable amount of audio crackling, mainly (but not exclusively) when there's audio besides the one from the game playing (e.g. background music player).
Searching online I found out it's an issue with pipewire, and found someone mentioning a solution that edited the quantum values, though that didn't work for me; specifically, making default.clock.quantum larger.
The second issue happens everywhere but fullscreen applications (e.g. games): if I quickly draw circles with my mouse, at some point the pointer starts drifting away in erratic ways, even though I'm still drawing circles with my mouse; other times, especially when there's a windowed app (such as FreeTube while playing a video), even simply moving the mouse across the screen results in the pointer lagging behind as if the screen were jelly, and if I start drawing circles, the video stutters to the point of freezing.
Now, the audio issue is extremely problematic since I have to keep volume very low, as even an average volume means crackling is loud to the point it hurts my ears; the jelly-pointer is less of an issue, but still very annoying.
Any ideas?
Anyone who had these issues and is now on PoP 24 beta? Long shot, but it releases next week and if the issue was fixed for you, I'll wait, otherwise I might just try a different distro.
Thanks in advance!
The United States Using Drones Modeled on Iran’s “Shahed” UAVs
The United States Using Drones Modeled on Iran’s “Shahed” UAVs
The United States is now operating a squadron of attack drones known as “LUCAS,” which have reportedly been built through reverse engineering based on Iran’s Shahed drones.KhabarOnline News Agency
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation based on video footage, satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts found a 'pattern' of mishandling bodies
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation has revealed that Israeli soldiers bulldozed the bodies of Palestinians killed while trying to access humanitarian aid near the Zikim crossing into northern Gaza.Tamara Turki (Middle East Eye)
Introducing Proton Sheets
Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business
Proton Drive now includes Proton Sheets, giving you secure, encrypted spreadsheets for safer collaboration, organized data, and aligned teams.Anant Vijay (Proton)
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Dumbest excuses/stuff your family/other people told you about Privacy on the internet and degoogle?
My mom claims there is no problems into being tracked and stuff and that "Every normal person will use gmail";
My brother says you only should hide your data if you are a criminal or something.
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Not personally, no.
Big fan of his work, though.
Enjoy ProtonMail's premium custom scheduling & custom snoozing for free
Using this userscript I made : git.kaki87.net/KaKi87/userscripts/protonmailWithoutAnnoyances
ProtonMail allows scheduling and snoozing messages for free at preset times, e.g. tomorrow, next Monday, this weekend, etc., and always at 8, but makes people pay to choose a customized date and time.
I had a hunch that this restriction might only be implemented client-side, so I tried modifying the value in DevTools for the first time, and I couldn't believe it : that worked !
So, in order to automate this, I created a userscript that replaces the button press handler for the "custom" option, then lets you input whatever value you need, e.g. (next) Wednesday, (in) 30 minutes, (today at) 8 PM, Thursday at 7 (AM), etc.
Then, it lets the app believe that we're gonna schedule using the tomorrow preset, until it intercepts the request and swaps the time value with the user's choice.
Enjoy !
This is a cool user script. I don't want to take that away from you. Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You're providing a useful feature to people.
However I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful. If your script auto updates you are opening yourself up to a delayed attack. And if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation. Determine your threat model and capability and proceed appropriately.
This is the privacy community after all.
Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You’re providing a useful feature to people.
i had the same though when i read the title and it appealed to me because of it and also because i'm a proton user (for now).
i'd like to think this is safer than the other scripts that existed(ed) out there in that you can see the source for yourself, so maybe the threat isn't so extreme.
This is a cool user script.
Thank you !
I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful.
What about stuff that runs everywhere, including email clients ?
uBO for example, is a much bigger codebase that no random user is gonna read, yet it does run on ProtonMail and there's no way to be sure no malicious person injected something in there to read people's emails.
In addition, I also have userscripts that technically do run everywhere, but only do something concrete on some websites, that I don't have a finite list of URLs for.
For example, Fediverse redirector is a userscript that redirects any Fediverse app instance to the user's choice. But, any URL may be a Fediverse app, and I need to check it first. Same with Enhancements for Forgejo, this one adds features to Forgejo instances, but any URL could be a Forgejo instance.
if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation
Yeah, maybe I should add some comments, and also highlight the import of createFetchInterceptor (still my own code but in a separate file for reusability).
This is the privacy community after all.
* Piracy 😉
Can you get Clipboard History on Gnome+Wayland?
I wanted a simple clipboard history on Win+V.
I've installed CopyQ - it's ugly, starts with a lag and doesn't quite work on Super+V shortcut. I've switched to Wayland and it silently stopped working altogether.
Next, I've installed Gnome Clipboard History Extension - it looks good, fast, works on Super+V, but for some reason it can't paste into Kate text editor.
Is it possible to get a reliable clipboard history manager on Gnome+Wayland, or should I stop wasting my time? Maybe someone has a working solution?
I am a little but frustrated by the obstacles I encounter trying to get this simple feature.
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Do Ubuntu derivatives use the TPM out of the box for cryptographic operations?
The TPM could be used to generate a LUKS decryption key from a password or PIN.
That would tie that password to the hardware, but with LUKS you can have multiple ones, so a long password that directly unlocks the key should be possible in addition
This is probably the main reason every mainboard has TPMs now, since all common operating systems (Android, iOS/MacOS and Windows) do it.
From what I heard the Ubuntu installer offers a version that doesn't suck (if secure boot is enabled at install time) so using that is probably fine, but I would beware of trying to DIY it since it's easy to do incorrectly, most guides are wrong, and you will likely end up with easily bypassable encryption.
Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock | oddlama's blog
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TPM is great on paper, but in practice, there was little planning to ensure that cryptographic keys would be safeguarded by hardware manufacturers, and that's exactly what happened. Now TPM is considered weak as a means of securing data.
I'm not aware of any consumer distros that use TPM enrollment for anything out of the box, though the tools may be present.
Have a look at how Clevis works. That will give you an idea of how easy it is to work tish TPM in Linux.
South Korea developing app that shows real-time location of stalkers
South Korea: Government developing app showing real-time location of stalkers
Critics have voiced concern over the pervasiveness of stalking and violence against women in South Korea.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety.Yet in a bizarre move, Waymo — whose self-driving cabs had been enjoying extraordinary safety metrics — has just taken steps to make its robotaxis more human-like, eroding the safety narrative that’s been central to the autonomous vehicle narrative.
Recent reporting by The Wall Street Journal observed a startling change in Waymos’ road etiquette, a new aggressive streak that would make a BMW driver blush. These include illegal U-turns, aggressive lane switching, rolling through cross walks, and running red lights.
Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Waymo has been experimenting with programming to make its typically-cautious robotaxis "confidently assertive."Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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The internet was not meant to be centralised.
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