ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The warning was delivered to Karim Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defence lawyer at the court who told Khan he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor and, according to a note of the meeting lodged on file at the ICC and seen by Middle East Eye, was "authorised" to make him a proposal that would allow Khan to "climb down the tree".
This, it was suggested, would allow Israel to access the details of the allegations, which it could not do at the time, and challenge them in private - without the outcome being made public.
Kaufman told MEE: "I do not deny that I told Mr Khan that he should be looking for a way to extricate himself from his errors. I am not authorised to make any proposals on behalf of the Israeli government nor did I."
ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was warned in May that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were not withdrawn, he and the ICC would be "destroyed".David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The warning was delivered to Karim Khan by Nicholas Kaufman, a British-Israeli defence lawyer at the court who told Khan he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor and, according to a note of the meeting lodged on file at the ICC and seen by Middle East Eye, was "authorised" to make him a proposal that would allow Khan to "climb down the tree".
This, it was suggested, would allow Israel to access the details of the allegations, which it could not do at the time, and challenge them in private - without the outcome being made public.
Kaufman told MEE: "I do not deny that I told Mr Khan that he should be looking for a way to extricate himself from his errors. I am not authorised to make any proposals on behalf of the Israeli government nor did I."
ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was warned in May that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were not withdrawn, he and the ICC would be "destroyed".David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Holidays in the Lake District
I recently went on a holiday trip to the Lake District in England, staying a week in Windermere. This was a really nice break, and it’s a wonderful place to explore.
The towns of Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere are lovely to explore, with plenty of nice places to eat out at. La Trattoria and Jintana in the town centre of Bowness are particularly good. The bus routes connecting the towns nearby, and with stops making walking routes accessible outwith the towns, are all fairly frequent and quite cheap to use. Walking in the towns in OK, but the traffic can be quite bad, and I really feel that the whole area would benefit from some modern traffic reduction schemes. There are a few cruises around the lakes that are a bit expensive, and a cheaper frequent ferry service to get across for walks or cycles.
I did two long distance walks over a whole day. I started with a clockwise walk around the lake, starting at Windermere, taking the ferry across, and hiking up Claife Heights, then continuing round to Ambleside. I stopped off at Wray Castle, which unfortunately has been closed for renovations. The views from Claife Heights gave some very nice vistas of the pikes to the west, and the air force exercises that take place over the lakes, while I had a picnic lunch.
The walking routes on the west side of Lake Windermere are fairly good, with lots of segregated pathways for cycles and hikers, but there are quite a few areas where inexplicably you have to rejoin a very busy carriageway which makes for some unpleasant negotiations with traffic.
Later in the week I did a longer walk starting with a bus up to Troutbeck, where I hiked along to High Street, and then back along the hiking trail to Windermere. This walk was less pleasant than the first as I spent most of the several hours stuck in cloud cover. The path is well marked so as long as I didn’t stray I couldn’t get lost, but it did mean that I missed out on the nice views, only getting a small glimpse of the valleys nearby at the very top of the trail.
I managed to see a lot of dragonfly and damselfly, and even a far off glimpse of a red kite. There were a lot of sheep, and a few deer, up the mountains.
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Jeffrey Sachs: End of the Western-Centric World & Rise of BRICS
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Swapping from Win10 on laptop
I have an old laptop that I use as a Minecraft server as well as running RPG campaigns during game night. I'm getting tired of Windows 10 and I'm looking for a good replacement. I don't have a lot of experience with Linux lately, the last time I did anything with it was maybe 10 years or so ago and I used Ubuntu, which I've read here is maybe not a good choice any longer. Stats of laptop are below. Recommendations are appreciated, thanks.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.70 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro K2100M (2 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (113 MB)
What program are you using for your rpg campaigns?
Minecraft server is fairly universally supported.
All of these can be run on any Linux distro. Dropbox is probably a better choice than Google Drive as Google drive doesn't have an official Linux app (but you can get it working beyond just using it in a Web browser if its a must).
I'd go.with Linux Mint as it's well supported but any point release distro will serve your needs well. For example Fedora KDD or OpenSuSE Leap, Debian etc. I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu.
+1 for fedora kde
I've tried dozens of distros this year. Kept arch for my personal use and fedora for shared. Fedora was the easiest to setup with everything working as they should out of the "box".
unless you use a touchscreen, don't install gnome
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Or the current Debian testing, which will become stable soon. If you have experience with a Ubuntu from 10 years ago, you might know about apt already. If not, the package manager is already integrated into gnome-software. Additionally you can easily enable Flathub for flatpak and install packages using gnome-software afterwards.
And yes, I would avoid Ubuntu on the desktop because of snap and other weird choices for defaults.
On the server however my experiences with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 were not bad. But if it were my choice I would go Debian stable for servers.
If you want to do less maintenance, Fedora has good defaults and will have major updates twice a year. But, if you don't want to get custom to new things on your machine that often, Debian is my recommendation.
Only if you have too much time, try Gentoo. I've used it for more than 15 years on the desktop besides Debian on Raspberries.
It's relevant for a few reasons with regard to new users:
1) Snap is SLOW
2) Snap takes up a massive amount of space
Switching somebody with 256GB of storage to Ubuntu and pointing them to the Gonna software store to install whatever they want is just asking for confusion and problems.
What happened to all my disk space?
Why does it take 8 seconds for a browser to start?
These are new users who expect things to operate as they've known them to operate coming from Windows or MacOS. Ubuntu is just problematic to that point of view.
I've switched hundreds of desktop users in the past few years, and the above expectations and experience is what made me switch to Fedora.
Ubuntu is problematic at current.
You're not getting it...
A 125MB package like Firefox has up to 5 versions by default kept under the Snap system. Do this 10x across different packages, and suddenly you're missing a lot of storage you can't account for.
Second, SNAP IS JUST SLOW. People don't like when it takes 5-10 seconds to launch a very simple app. Let's not even get into the performance being absolutely horrendous when you need direct access to memory or GPU. It's not what people want.
Last, your problem with Nvidia drivers lies with Nvidia themselves. I run a cluster of a thousand instances which never hiccup on the Nvidia server+CUDA drivers.
Desktop is a shit show, and that's their fault. Don't blame your misunderstanding of these two things to be the fault of the distro.
Oh no 1gb of space is being used windows users totally care about that as they go from an OS that out of the box takes 100gb to one that takes 30gb. Thats pretending what you said is true because Snap doesnt store 5 versions by default it stores two. Secondly the common runtimes are shared between applications and versions so the amount of extra space when storing multiple versions is minor also distro packaging also stores multiple versions by default 3 if I recall correctly for dnf.
I think the fact that you think a win10 user cares more about an app taking a few seconds longer to open on first load than their GPU driver being unstable(from a new user perspective) is everything. Yes! the driver is nvidia's fault but its also fedora intentionally choosing to not ship it out of the box. Many other distro's do this so nvidia users dont have to go through the hassle of foss drivers and them breaking every kernel update.
Also I dont blame fedora for this, fedora doesnt target new users and as a fedora user I like that they aim to ship a fully foss system and I think they make it easy to include properitary packages if thats something you want. However its pointless to point someone to a distro where you have to then give them a bunch of extra steps to enable basic functionality when there are plenty of distros that work out of the box.
For a new user one of the ublue spins is a good choice. They get the base fedora experience with nvidia gpu's sorted out of the box and flatpak.
You apparently don't deal with actual end-users, so let me inform you...they absolutely fucking care.
You seem to keep skipping the part where SNAP IS 10X SLOWER.
Get lost with your lazy argument.
I decided to go with Linux mint. After installing it alongside windows, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?
Link from boot repair: paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/
Did you nuke the whole disk? Just 1 big Linux partition?
Try enabling/disabling Secure Boot.
That's not entirely true. Snap is a good reason to avoid Ubuntu as you're not given the choice whether day to day apps like Firefox are a native app or snap app. You can only have snap versions. The lack of choice in having a slower less efficient version of apps forced on users without official alternatives is a good enough reason for people to recommend avoiding Ubuntu.
That is regardless of all the commercial and proprietary concerns people have.
That does not apply to Ubuntu based system like Mint where users are given choices and still benefit from other aspects of the Ubuntu ecosystem.
I don't disagree that snaps aren't the best thing but Ubuntu does allow you to turn off auto updates now if you want and although it took a little extra setup, I also use the .deb version of Firefox right now. It works well. I'm running Kubuntu 24.04.
For servers especially, Ubuntu can be a really good option. I've heard some people actually like snaps for servers because the auto update so its one less this to worry about. Yea you can setup a script to do that too but its a nice to have for some folks.
All that said, its not for everyone, but for servers I think Ubuntu is a good option just for compatibility alone, not to mention the documentation, tutorials, etc.
Thats just my opinion though.
If it is FUD, can you please point out the factually inaccurate claim?
Actually, let’s just walk through the claims made.
- Ubuntu does not give you a choice between Firefox as a Snap or as a traditional deb package
Fact check: it does not (only Snap is provided)
- The Snap package is slower and takes up more space than the deb package
Fact check: it is and it does
- Other Ubuntu based distros, like Mint, replace Snaps with deb packages
Fact check: they do
“Wild”
Other information:
On Ubuntu, you can get a deb package directly from Mozilla. Not a big deal but that statement made in the post is true.
Putting "company things" in quotes like you don't believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down...
Ubuntu is fine for very beginners, but don't lie and say "it's fine", only to have any competent user discover
very quickly that snaps take precedence over deb, snaps will be reenabled on minor release upgrades, even if you disabled them, ubuntu's built-in NVIDIA install support has become abysmal, ubuntu has recently made the choice to fall out of step with its own supported DEs with regard to xorg support, etc.
Putting “company things” in quotes like you don’t believe people when they say Ubuntu has let them down…
That's not true. I believe them. I just don't care.
I personally generally recommend Mint as a good starting distro. It is widely used, which means lots of support readily found online. It also has some of the benefits of Ubuntu without having the Snap forced on users. It also generally works well on a wide range of systems including lower powered systems due to its selection of desktops.
Your laptop is decent and I'd personally be running a slick desktop on that, specifically KDE. But alot of that comes down to personal preferences, and Mint isn't the best KDE desktop as it's not a main desktop for it (although it is available).
However once you get to grips with the basics of Linux I think other distros offer better more focused benefits for different user groups. There are lots of choices such as Gaming focused distros, rolling release vs point release distros, slow long term projects like Debian vs bleeding edge focused projects, immutable systems etc.
I personally use OpenSuSE Tumbleweed because it's cutting edge, but well tested prior to updates, with a good set of system tools in YaST, and decently ready for gaming and desktop use. I also like that it is European. But that may not be a good fit for your specific use case. Leap, the OpenSuSE point release distro would be better - a nice KDE desktop with a reliable release schedule and a focus on stability over cutting edge.
What software do you use for RPG campaigns? Is it just PDFs and word processors, or do you use a an online VTT? It should mostly be fine, but I figured I should ask.
Also, what are you doing in terms of the Minecraft Server? While I think most support Linux, there could (not certainly are) be weird caveats depending on the server.
To be fair Ubuntu is still okay especially starting out, it's one of the more polished distros with a ton of online documentation when you need to search around and figure out how to do things. And no one says you have to stay with a distro, once you're comfortable with Linux it's easy enough to check out other distros.
That aside a lot of people have been recommending Mint for new users so that's definitely one you can check out if you want to try branching out now rather than later.
PS - Nvidia has a less than stellar reputation for their Linux drivers, you may want to consider reading up on that for whichever distro you choose. I have an Nvidia GPU (old non-Quadro class) running on Debian, works fine now but I did have a few false starts getting it going properly at first.
That hardware will fly on Linux.
Given you use NVIDIA I might recommend Mint over Ubuntu.
I do not want to over complicate things but there is some information that may help given that you have NVIDIA hardware.
Linux is going through a technology transition in its graphics technology from something called Xorg (x11) to something called Wayland.
Mostly you do not have to worry about this. Don’t let it distract you.
Everybody will be using Wayland in a year or two but right now today, it depends on the distro and desktop environment you choose. For example, current Ubuntu will default to GNOME on Wayland. Linux Mint defaults to Cinnamon in Xorg.
Until recently, NVIDIA has been buggy with Wayland. Specifically, NVIDIA needed something called “explicit sync”. This has now been added to newer NVIDIA drivers, Wayland compositors, Mesa, etc. So things work great now if you use the latest versions of things.
Again, you may not need to know any of these details. So, why am I bring it up?
Well, if you have an “up-to-date” distro, NVIDIA will likely work well. But if any of the required components are not available or older on the distro you use, you may have problems with NVIDIA. Only “may”. It may also work fine.
To avoid problems, you can use a very up-to-date distro like EndeavourOS. Or you can use a distro that will default to Xorg for now, like Linux Mint.
If you use a distro with older software versions, like Debian, or older software drivers, like OpenSUSE, or that lacks proprietary drivers, like Fedora, NVIDIA hardware can be a pain.
The reason people recommend AMD or Intel for Linux is because none of the above really matters on that hardware. They are more likely to “just work”.
Again, I hope I did not complicate things. I offer all this just so you can make sense of things if you run into trouble. You probably will not. And in a year or so, none of this will matter anymore even on NVIDIA. On many distros, it already doesn’t.
You never see it mentioned, but PCLOS is a great Linux starter OS. It was started by Bill Reynolds, TexStar, and is tock solid. It is my go-to when installing Linux for new users because it is extremely stable, has a great community, and avoids anything bleeding edge.
www.distrowatch.com is a great place to get an overview of most Linux and BSD distros.
Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide
Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide
How I built and configured a Bluesky PDS in AzureChris Greenacre (Tophhie Cloud Blog)
US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil
US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil
Close Trump allies like Steve Bannon say "the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS dedollarization effort". The US fears the Global South challenge to the dollar's exorbitant privilegeBen Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
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Musk declared on Twitter, “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it”.
i used to think that trump et. al. unmasking de facto american international policy would help make americans understand what's happening, but now it's clear that they just never cared.
we would not be the same country any longer
Newsflash: you're way past that point. No one believes, trust or respect the USA any longer.
It's also interesting for California and other blue states.
Since Trump is attacking the blue states especially, there's a form of warfare there. As we all know, wars are really expensive and are often decided by who can stay solvent longer.
Normally, that would be California and other blue states, because they have the better economy. If they stopped paying taxes, that would severely harm Trump.
However, through the federal reserve, Trump can just print infinite amounts of dollars, and that effectively overrides the blue states' strong economy.
So the blue states have a serious interest in de-dollarization, sothat Trump's money-printing federal reserve becomes meaningless.
basically when the federal government goes into debt, that basically means that the federal reserve which you can imagine like a big bank hands out a loan to the government.
the government doesn't really have to pay back that debt, ever. (it technically has to but that can be avoided by simply taking out a new loan at a later time).
i hope i explained that correctly.
the federal reserve which you can imagine like a big bank hands out a loan to the government.
No. Debt goes directly to markets. Federal Reserve QE operations are acts of imagining new money to buy bonds from the market. You are describing QE operations, not debt. Past QE operations have forgone interest on Federal reserve holdings, gifting it to Treasury such that the bonds that Fed holds become interest free. The accounting magic is that when the bond is finally due, the Federal reserve does get paid in order to erase the imaginary money they created to buy the bonds. But a given QE balance sheet level, they just buy a new bond from the market with new imagined money.
They simply do press a button and numbers appear in a federal account. There is some bureocracy involved but that's how it works in a nutshell.
The US can do this freely without much repercussions because of the US role as an intenational reserve currency, the inflation that comes with printing dollars is offloaded to the rest of the world while the US increases it's amount of dollars.
Not in disagree with that statement to some degree. But going full authoritarian, and I mean full to the point if mythical scenarios that some people online are spouting. I just don't see that happening. Sure there's a shit load of injustice, imbalance of power, overreach, all sorts of adjectives, adverbs, etc. But I think some of these what ifs or scenarios are far fetched and the internet loves to reach.
There's been loads of cover ups, breaches of power, scandals, you name it. But printing infinite money because trump says so and crashing the global economy is not high up on the bingo card. Anything is possible. I'm just saying it seems highly unlikely is all.
Increasing supply (printing) without increased demand (taxes) will cause the price (dollar value) to go down. If it goes down too fast, then nobody will want dollars until tax season, and the dollar will hyperinflate.
Conspiracy theory: that's exactly what Trump wants because he takes crypto bribes.
it all fits together really nicely, somehow. i'm not sure whether trump actually has a plan or things just randomly fit, though:
- texas wanted to secede from the US for centuries (i believe this is actually a big point that people give too little weight to)
- the US realizes that the US is not simply going to "allow" texas to secede
- conservative thinktanks realize that the only way that blue states are gonna be ok with texas seceding is if they themselves dramatically understand the relevance of state's autonomy and self-responsibility
- trump attacks california and new york to make blue states understand the importance of having greater independence from the federal government
- blue states are gonna demand greater independence from the federal government in the next months (2025-2027)
- texas can then comfortably also claim greater autonomy for itself
Countries that value financial sovereignty.
Keep it by storing a tradeable reserve in other currencies. And or gold and silver but that has become less common.
The doller has won purely because it is respected around the world. Because most nations have some desire to trade with the US.
As that desire weakens sovereignty or your own currency is less strong if you are holding less stable currencies. And the doller is looking less and less stable every time trump talks.
The doller has won purely because it is respected around the world
That is not correct, dollar won because US, being the economical winner of WW2, made all other notable capitalist economies dependent on it in Bretton Woods accords and effectively hegemonised oil trade in much of the world.
Well yes. That is why it was respected. America used it's delayed entry to build it's reduction capability. Used that to help win. Then not having exhausted it took advantage.
But while correct. It's a more accurate way of saying the doller was respected. As a strong trade currency other nations could use.
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
I am once again begging liberals to stop treating Wikipedia like it's The Holy Scripture.
When has any global standard ever been elected. What process even exists to do so.
The whole idea that some other nation gaining power post ww2 being more democratic is just crap
The pre WW2 world was far from some democratic ideal. The US just took over from Europe's fiscal control using exactly the same techniques. Just as the UK took over from Spain etc.
Is it shitty yes. But the idea that if any of these nations sat back. Some peaceful agreement between waring nations would have evolved. Is just fantasy. It is looking back with a modern mindset that simply did not exist in any power regime at the time.
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BRICC current dedollerization has more to do with his tarrifs attacks harm to international trade then then anything else. Making trade with your nation less profitable. Is a rather stupid move if you want the world to use your currency to trade amounts each other.
When the global currency is run by a petty man child. It is the nations not making an effort to move away from it that are more worrying.
The western countries are dependent on the imperial framework of "the eyes" cooperation, other intelligence and security cooperation, NATO cooperation, similarity of financial, patent and IP regulations, similarity of legal systems, interconnectivity of their elites and various blackmail material on those, and their common crime networks (one would hope that at least mafia groups should align along some other clusters on the map, but it doesn't seem so).
Those regulations support the status of western elites, which means the elites themselves won't reform anything in any good direction.
The NATO cooperation is extremely efficient and comfort-providing - instead of countrywide mandatory conscription you have small groups of professional soldiers and military bureaucrats, military matters are not something that all the society cares about.
Instead of domestic military industries sufficient to fulfill the needs of a military you can have as much silent and respectable corruption as you wish. It's both convenient for the population and for the elites (criminals) to have a small professional military, an international (imperial) MIC framework, all not influenced significantly by domestic popular opinions.
Intelligence cooperation allows domestic intelligence services to bypass all limitations that exist for them on paper about their own citizens. It also makes every such service more powerful than intended.
Similar financial regulations lead not only to good things, like smaller cost of doing business, but also to bad things, like monopolies. Even the EU supposedly big regulations don't prevent big tech from abusing honestly whatever they want. GDPR is a farce in its actual enforcement.
Patent and IP regulations - well, that's basically a way to legal monopoly, and that's how it works. BTW, let's just remember that even trademarks are a relatively new thing legally. And copyright. And patents. And when all these were introduced, that was similar to state monopoly on alcohol beverages in some countries or state monopoly on tobacco in others, and was reasoned legally in exactly that way - authorship and right to print something should be registered for the crown to have an income from that, not because of some ownership of ideas or protection. It still works like an imperial mechanism.
Similarity of legal systems - I'll admit at some point I thought English law is the best thing after sliced bread. But I'm not so sure at this point. At some point a German court acquitted Tehlirian, after all. As an example of the main competing family of legal systems.
Elites and crime - I mean, your whole part of the world is in the "trade and denial" stage after really buying the 80s and 90s idea that democracies and institutions don't require perpetual struggle to maintain. That is, fiction of those years would usually argue with that idea, but sometimes wide masses just want to believe something so badly that no art can dissuade them. And in the 00s it was decided.
OK, too much text.
What I really mean is that for Canada it doesn't make sense to join BRICS unless it manages to pull a Brazil and somehow switch the camp from "imperial" to "fringe kingdoms".
What I really mean is that for Canada it doesn’t make sense to join BRICS unless it manages to pull a Brazil and somehow switch the camp from “imperial” to “fringe kingdoms”.
Canada needs more direct investment from anyone willing to make it. The US is not on the list anymore, and the political unanimity that still pretends that US is ally are simply all traitors.
You mean like if the Alberta independence referendum succeeds and the country collapses? If Alberta goes, Quebec independence soon follows, and at that point Canada mostly just Vancouver+lesser provinces.
And then all three countries join BRICS. 😎
Russia is trying to genocide Ukranians, and India has a Hindu Nationalist leader (aka a synonym of our local Christian Nationalist leader)...so yes, I completely understand that the West will do its best to undermine it's political opponents, but also, they haden to have some existentially oppressive and shitty aspects to their collective as well.
Fuck the US, but also fuck Putin and fuck Modi.
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Not sure that is specific Project 2025 item, though it is a consequence of Trump trade policy. US$ value is a function of total trade with US. A $ is not destroyed when it is sent abroad, and there is general appeal to use it to buy US assets to ensure the wealth to purchase more imports. Unjustifiable extortion is resulting in less capital inflows to US treasuries even as the colonies rulerships seemingly submit to the extortion.
As OP's charts show, China saved the US in GFC aftermath legitimizing their extreme QE and bailouts.
I would be willing to bet the absolute geniuses behind project 2025 planned for a very specific percentage of devaluation in order to still be wildly wealthy but absolutely crush the general pop.
They just can't do it because they are fuckin idiots. They will burn it all down trying though.
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia
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Parte in Italia il test UE per la verifica dell'età sui social. Scopri come funziona, l'impatto sulla privacy e cosa cambia per te con il nostro approfondimento.Pietro Iaria (Pianeta Tecnologia)
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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Unearthed 2014 article shows Zohran Mamdani’s early advocacy for Palestinian rights
A resurfaced college article has shed light on Zohran Mamdani’s long-standing support for the Palestinian cause, years before he became a leading figure in New York politics.
Mamdani, now 33 and the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, co-authored the piece as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College, where he co-founded the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
Published on January 10, 2014, in Bowdoin’s student paper, The Bowdoin Orient, Mamdani’s article strongly endorsed the American Studies Association’s (ASA) decision to join the academic boycott of 'Israeli' institutions, a move aimed at pressuring 'Israel' to end its occupation of Palestinian territories
Unearthed 2014 article shows Zohran Mamdani’s early advocacy for Palestinian rights
Zohran Mamdani with a screenshot of his college article (Credit: AFP)Roya News
BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race
As always, "here's how" can be excised from a hed without any negative side effects.
In mid-2022, when BYD executive Lian Yubo was asked to compare Chinese manufacturing with Tesla’s technology, he remarked that Elon Musk was an example that all Chinese carmakers could learn from.“Tesla is a very successful company no matter what. BYD respects Tesla and we admire Tesla,” he said in an interview on Chinese state media.
Yet just three years later, Tesla’s technological lead over its Chinese rivals has narrowed dramatically. It is fighting to stay ahead in the world’s largest car market, its sales are falling in many other countries and its efforts to develop fully self-driving vehicles are running into regulatory roadblocks.
Having once scoffed at the idea that BYD could ever be a competitor to Tesla, Musk returned from a visit to China last year with a sombre assessment for his senior management. “He had seen the BYD factories, the cost and their tech,” says one former Tesla executive, adding that Musk believed China was winning the electric vehicle race.
As Tesla’s sales decline following Musk’s forays into US politics and amid a lack of new models, BYD has overtaken it to become the world’s largest manufacturer of EVs. Its annual revenues surpassed $100 billion for the first time in 2024.
BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race. Here’s how.
With technology gap narrowed, BYD is poised to outsell Tesla this year.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
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Me: Mom, can we get a Ferrari?
Mom: No, we have Ferrari at home
Ferrari at home:
Made he an duet with her?
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Any thoughts on Epic Browser or Maxthon?
I've been trying out a bunch of "alternative" browsers based on what I've read here, but there's a couple I haven't really seen discussed much: Epic and Maxthon browsers. I know you guys will have deets and opinions so let me hear them!
So far, I like Maxthon, but it's a bit "sign up for an account" which you can bypass but still... I don't need an account to use a browser, thank you. Otherwise it seems fine. I only just found Epic so I'm still trying that.
Update: I've uninstalled Maxthon because it installs AI chatbot uuGPT on my computer without asking.
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... Update: Just tried to search for something instead of search results, Maxthon uses an integrated AI chatbot called uuGPT - which apparently integrates all of the major chatbots into one. Not great, I guess.
We don't keep Epic in an online repo just because Chromium is a massive codebase and Epic is not a fork but a modified version of Chromium so we don't have a consistent codebase rather it changes with each new version of Chromium. Chromium which Epic is built on is open source software which anyone can immediately download and audit.
That is from the Epic FAQ page and doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. They basically are hacking stuff onto Chromium and saying "just let us know what you want to see", and "BTW Chromium is auditable but since we are making who knows what kind of hacks to its codebase it's kinda a moot point".
RDX for Reddit developer here: I have made OffChess a tracking free, no BS, 100K+ Offline Chess Puzzles App that you might like
Hey folks ,
You might know me as the dev behind RDX, the completely free, open-source, ad-free, privacy friendly Reddit client. RDX has hit 100K+ downloads on both app stores combined with apple having the lion's share of it.
This time, I built something different—but still in the same spirit of privacy, simplicity, and it works without needing an internet connection.
Well, my Wi-Fi is terrible in the bathroom, and that's where I, like everyone, do some of my best thinking. I tried printing out paper chess puzzles to solve offline, but they weren’t fun without interaction. So I built OffChess.
OffChess is an iPhone/Android app that contains over 100,000 chess puzzles, fully offline and completely ad-free. You can solve puzzles by category (Mate in 1/2/3/4/5, tactics like pins/forks/skewers, or openings like Sicilian/French, etc). You gain or lose points based on how you perform, so there's a light rating system to keep things engaging.
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Trump’s stablecoin push “will open floodgates to massive fraud,” lawmaker warns
Trump’s stablecoin push “will open floodgates to massive fraud,” lawmaker warns
Trump’s crypto bills could turn trusted big tech companies into the next FTX.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
It wasn't, and neither were those sprites for Mario and Toad or that tileset for the castle levels.
In fact, I'm struggling to figure out how this image was made in such a way that it ended up this different from the original game, as opposed to just editing the text on any of the thousands of readily available screenshots of this moment.
In Poland, two factories burned in two days — they blame "Russian agents"
In Poland, two factories burned in two days — they blame "Russian agents": EADaily
EADaily, July 15th, 2025. Each fire is assessed in terms of whether it could have been the result of an act of sabotage, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Semoniak said in response to large fires in the cities of Semianowice-Slensk and Minsk-Mazowiecki…EADaily
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No one to blame or owner f-cked up? Blame Russia 😅
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We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower
We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower
We’ve mistaken complexity for progress — and forgotten how things work. A 41-year-old computer still boots instantly, while today’s “smart” tech buckles.Elektormagazine
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Over a week, more than twenty civilians of the Russian Federation died from the shelling of the Ukrainian Nazis.
Over a week, more than twenty civilians of the Russian Federation died from the shelling of the Ukrainian Nazis.
Throughout the week, an extremely high level of intensity of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on civilian targets continued. On average, it reached 400 arrivals per day.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
Are smart glasses allowed in public in EU?
Living in the EU, i am wondering how these glasses are even 'allowed' in public or may even be sold here.
It becomes harder to avoid cause they become so hard to identify.
How to deal with this?
To what extend is this allowed? (cause apparently it is some way)
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Using a camera on public property in the EU is broadly very legal.
Less and less so; at least here in France and in Germany and also in the UK, which was quite surprising to me. In the EU, the GDRP being another nail in the coffin of the right of photographing on public space and photographing random people in that public space. Most of the cases I've heard of in the last few years ended up with the plaintiff winning against the photographer, even if the picture was not exploited professionally.
Smart glasses will raise a new flag and push all rules to the next level of paranoia (rightfully so, I'm afraid) and will then be used as an excuse to remove even more of our liberty to use public space (which is supposed to be ours).
Edit: clarifications.
remove even more of our liberty to use public space (which is supposed to be ours).
I mean, your freedom to record in public ends where my freedom to not be recorded in public starts.
I mean, your freedom to record in public ends where my freedom to not be recorded in public starts.
Prior to our wonderful times, and even more so in the UK, public space meant that were no right to privacy to be expected at all while using said public space because, you know, it was public. But the moronic age we live in have managed to change that. So be it.
So, worry not my dear friend: as a law abiding citizen myself, I dutifully respect your so-called freedom to use what is supposed to a public space as your very own private space, and I 100% gave up on photography the second time I was confronted to the consequences of people considering their freedom implied they were to decide what 'public' meant.
Instead, I switched to sketching the very same people in the very same public space.
They may be as annoyed by me doing that but good luck forbidding me to sketch in a public space or even proving it was them I specifically I sketched... as, even though I do enjoy it, I suck at sketching ;)
I said not allowed to take picture never told it was to publish or share them. Really, if you have access to you should read recent justice decisions and see how, here in France and in Germany at the very least, they will almost be in favor of... not the photographer, whether the photo was meant to be published or not, whether the photo earned them a cent or not.
For the rest, we live in a free society and I will happily let anyone practice photography as they see fit (provided they do it politely) but don't expect me to pretend trends have not changed in regards to justice and the right to image, because those trends they have indeed changed and not in favor of photographers.
What gives you the right to take my picture?
Check the definition of the word public in 'public space'.
But I think you should first need to work on yourself, that would help a lot being able to have a discussion instead of what looks a little bit too much like an argument we certainly should not have you and I as I don't know you and have as much desire to photograph you as I wish to eat poop.
Have a nice day.
Thing is, that google and apple will, for most people, automatically upload photos to their servers and process them in ways none of us are really certain of. By photographing with a phone, anyone's face could be matched up with a time and place.
And then there's the potential problem of the person uploading it on purpose.
Photography isn't the problem - it's the tech attached to it.
Personally, I'm with you - because I'm not a person of interest. If I was a political agitator, e.g. trying to start a McDonald's union, I might feel differently
Indeed, it's a mess. And that mess is one of the reasons we have been witnessing a shift against the very notion of public space.
I've noticed a few people trying to argue with me specifically. I have no idea why (like I think I said, I just mentioned what I know and I don't even do photograph anymore) but that's fine with me. And while they seem to be so vocally willing to defend their undisputed (by me, at the very least) right to privacy I can only wonder how many of those privacy warriors are carrying their own spyware riddled smartphone absolutely everywhere they go, including to the most private place I can think of: the bathroom. And I feel 100% reassured knowing they will pick the right fights ;)
There is an expectation of privacy anywhere.
The GDPR applies to everyone - including individuals. How long will you store my data? With whom will you share it? How can I contact you and revoke my consent of being recorded? What purpose is the storage of my data?
It does not infringe on your right to photograph in public by the way. As long as the person only happens to be in the photograph somewhere in the background without being the focus you are free to photograph anything and everything.
Your targeted photographs violate the freedom of movement of those you photograph. You are not free in your decisions if you are recorded. You will take the fact you are recorded into consideration and adjust your decisions accordingly.
What prevents someone from innocently setting up a security camera - which happens to also record the entrance of an LGBTQ bar and anyone who enters and exits it? Surely it would be a shame if this footage was then entered into facial recognition software to create a list of people. That is fully legal in countries without the right to privacy in public like the US.
Like I mentioned elsewhere, anyone is more than welcome to do what they want. I simply noticed how frequently justice decisions started to punish the photographer, whether the photo was destined at some personal use or not, whether it was sold or not.
I'm no lawyer. I simply don't want to waste anymore of my time, and money, dealing with that kind of shit. It's not worth it... to me at least but, once again, I won't prevent anyone else to keep doing photography like if nothing had changed if that's what they want... I may even sketch them if I see them taking their chance doing that ;)
that would mean the death of street photography. Do you have any sources for those cases?
photographing in public space is still a right. There are exceptions, but they are understandable.
Ainsi, la simple captation d'une image dans un lieu public ne suffit pas à autoriser sa diffusion, surtout si cette diffusion peut porter atteinte à la dignité ou à l'intégrité de la personne photographiée. Le droit à l'image en France se distingue par son approche stricte.Contrairement à d'autres pays, où la captation d'images dans des lieux publics peut être plus tolérée, le législateur français a choisi de protéger de manière rigoureuse la vie privée des individus.
Par conséquent, toute photographie d'une personne identifiable sans son consentement préalable peut engager la responsabilité civile du photographe, qui peut être contraint à des réparations pour le préjudice subi par la victime
it very much depends on the context.
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1. Les limites du droit à l'image
Bien que le droit à l'image soit un principe fondamental, il existe certaines exceptions qui permettent une captation et une diffusion d'images sans le consentement préalable de la personne photographiée. Ces exceptions sont généralement liées à des intérêts publics ou à des contextes spécifiques :
- Les lieux publics et le droit à l'information : Dans les espaces publics, la captation d'images est souvent permise, notamment dans le cadre d'événements d'intérêt général (manifestations, cérémonies, etc.). Cependant, même dans ces cas, la diffusion de ces images peut être soumise à des conditions strictes. Par exemple, la diffusion d'une image prise lors d'un événement public ne doit pas dénaturer le propos ou porter atteinte à la réputation des personnes présentes.
- Les personnes publiques : Les personnalités publiques, telles que les politiciens, les artistes ou les sportifs, bénéficient d'une protection moins stricte de leur droit à l'image. En effet, leur statut entraîne une certaine forme de renonciation à ce droit lorsqu'ils apparaissent dans des contextes liés à leur activité professionnelle. Toutefois, cela ne signifie pas qu'ils sont dépourvus de droits ; toute exploitation commerciale de leur image nécessite souvent une autorisation.
- L'usage artistique : Dans le cadre de la création artistique, certaines œuvres peuvent utiliser des images de personnes identifiables sans leur consentement, à condition que l'œuvre ait un caractère artistique et ne porte pas atteinte à la dignité de la personne représentée. Cette notion est cependant sujette à interprétation et peut donner lieu à des litiges.
A-t-on le droit de photographier des inconnus dans la rue ?
L'interrogation relative à la légitimité de la photographie d'inconnus dans l'espace public soulève des questions complexes, mêlant des considérations juridiques, éthiques et socioculturelles. Dans un monde où la technologie et les ...Avocat.fr Publication
that would mean the death of street photography.
Here in Germany it's fine to photograph a crowd, but if you stand next to someone in public transit with camera glasses, I don't think you can claim that exception.
I think you are mistaken. In Germany public photography is legal as long as it is not your intend to photograph/monitor individuals. They can totally be part of the image, just not the focus. Videos are also legal as long as it is not targeted or constant indiscriminate monitoring.
I don't think other EU countries have largely different laws given how common dashcams are.
Police officers? The main issue here is that those laws are about balance. Balance of your rights and the persons' you are filming. There are some general rules and a large grey area.
In general your vlogging isn't an issue. However, if you knowingly start recording a specific person e.g. a busker, or in your case a street scammer, things become more difficult - especially because you are vlogging. The expectation that you are going to upload the video makes it unlikely that you are just recording for evidence.
I am not a lawyer. I think the police promarily tried to de-escalate here.
Facial recognition street cameras are far more dangerous than these.
Sure they are pretty creepy but without rayban you could already insert tiny cameras into glasses to spy on people
EDIT : the only big concern is that they get more popular and that they increased even faster the global surveillance
But at the end they are surely going to even more increase this shit
Ugh... Movin Facial recognition, what a joke. I put them on the same level of stupidity as those who put Tesla's AI chip in their brain.
Sad days for privacy and anonymity enthusiasts 😮💨😮💨
I don't think it's a big deal most of the time if in public. And private places are always allowed to ban cameras. If you ban smart glasses because of the camera, then you have to ban phones and that was tried and failed in most places. And banning cameras in public or requiring a license to carry one would be a huge hit to freedom overall. All of those things were already tried when portable cameras and then cell phones with cameras were new if you want to research why.
The idea is to allow social pressures to deal with these things. And most of the imagined problems never actually pop up. Like there wasn't much of a significant increase in illicit photography in changing rooms when cell phones were allowed. The only difference here is that the smart glasses may end up being difficult to differentiate from ordinary glasses eventually. But companies like putting their brands on things, so that may not end up being an issue.
And there have been illicit versions of these things for ages and that isn't going to go away just because it's illegal to wear it. It's already illegal to do a lot of the things people are using them for that you're likely worried about. Having an additional law for possession is not going to change that very much and definitely won't balance out the harm caused by disallowing all cameras in public.
If you ban smart glasses because of the camera, then you have to ban phones and that was tried and failed in most places.
A few years ago, some venues here in Copenhagen, Denmark started banning phones, i.e. you would have to place your phone into a small, locked bag for the duration of the show and then when you left the venue, you could unlock the bag and use your phone again. I think that was perfectly allowed.
Most answers here are opinions which are perfectly valid, even important, but also irrelevant regarding the actual law.
I'm not a regulator or a lawyer so instead of providing another opinion or false information I recommend checking dedicated structures, e.g. AccessNow accessnow.org/tag/augmented-re… or EFF eff.org/issues/xr while being mindful both of those are from the US and thus if you are not looking for EU specific article, they are basically irrelevant too. You can also check legal research e.g. edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL/2… which would be useful to get a better understanding of the current legal situation regardless of suggestions.
FWIW this is me speaking for 3min at he European Commission just few weeks ago video.benetou.fr/w/65FQnvrncex… on providing and using an open stack for smart glasses, more broadly XR, but again this is JUST my perspective, not the actual law. Overall my rule of thumb is now legal situation comes from nothing, so relying on what has existed before, e.g. seeing smart glasses recording as wearable smartphones is at least a starting point.
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Extended reality technologies (XR), which include Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), are rapidly maturing and becoming more prevalent to a wider audience, especially as the pandemic drives more people to virtual activities.Electronic Frontier Foundation
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
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Ukraine Loses Up to 435 Soldiers in Battles With Russian Forces
Ukraine Loses Up to 435 Soldiers in Battles With Russian Forces
Russia's Tsentr (Center) group of forces has eliminated up to 435 Ukrainian soldiers over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.Sputnik International
iCloud for Linux
I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with this?
I’m working on transitioning to Linux from Mac pretty casually and I’ll still be using this iPhone til it’s dead. So I’m figuring out solutions to my current computer-usage before I switch my main machine. I’d like to maintain some interoperability between my phone and desktop computer so this has me intrigued.
Is it well-maintained? Trustworthy? Easy to use?
I have an old Thinkpad T420 I’m testing stuff on before I take the plunge but I figured I’d ask before giving it my credentials.
Edit: thanks so much for all the advice. I’m going to try a couple different ways to do it and see what I like 😀
Edit again a few weeks later: My tests on my experimental computers went so well that I took the plunge on installing Mint on my MacBook Pro (2015 I think).
I ended up using Syncthing to sync my iCloud Documents and desktop folders on my desktop Mac with what I’m now calling my Mintbook. That automatically syncs to iCloud, so I can get the important stuff on my phone easily.
Then I created a web wrapper of iCloud.com/calendar using Mint’s built-in web app creator. It works well enough; my only complaints are that I can’t copy and paste events by right-clicking like I can on the Mac app, and no notifications on Mint.
From there it’s easy enough to switch from calendar to notes, photos, FindMy, etc. so I’m happy with my iCloud “app” for my laptop usage.
I think the only things holding me back from switching my desktop now are photos syncing, and I haven’t tried DaVinci Resolve on Linux yet (I do some light video editing from time to time.) and I’ll need to buy another 5TB hard drive to transfer from my APFS formatted storage drive to a Linux-formatted drive. (I believe the transfer process will be easy once I get it thanks to SyncThing)
So, I’m a third of the way to abandoning apple on my most-used machines. Feeling pretty good about it.
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Ah ok, thanks
I suppose the biggest thing I’m looking for a solution for is photos.
I have my phone to set up to sync to iCloud, which then automatically download to my desktop, which is then automatically backs up via Time Machine.
How could I transition this behaviour to Linux keeping in mind I’ll be using an iPhone for at least another 3 years?
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GitHub - pixelspark/sushitrain: Securely synchronize files with your devices on iOS using Syncthing
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You could replicate this workflow by replacing iCloud with Nextcloud and Time Machine with Timeshift.
The iOS app for Nextcloud allows the automatic upload of photos, you just need an account with a Nextcloud provider (or just host your own instance).
Timeshift is preinstalled on a bunch of distros, including Linux Mint, and can be installed on all other major ones. See github.com/linuxmint/timeshift for details.
GitHub - linuxmint/timeshift: System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is runni
System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be re...GitHub
I have a Synology NAS (from 3 years ago). My photos are synced from my iPhone via the Synology photos application and can be accessed from my Linux desktop via nfs.
I found alternatives for almost everything except Apple Music. I just connect my phone via Bluetooth nowadays to play music at a higher bitrate than what Apple allows via browser. Wish they would build an official client.
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This just seems to be the web app in weird packaging, and you would get very little benefit installing it.
Personally, I use an iPhone, and I just resort to the web app, and I can live with it. Not as fancy as on the Mac, but I manage. I'm able to access my Apple e-mails and photos just fine. I eventually just plan to jump the Apple ship, but like you, that's not possible for me at the moment.
As others have said, rclone might work for you, but I personally don't use iCloud Drive, so I don't know enough to speak about it.
The difficult reality is many people, no matter how interested and technically skilled, aren’t going to have the time, money (yes, money, due to hardware), and energy to immediately go with fully self-hosted OSS paired with a LineageOS (or similar) phone.
For one, you have to either acquire the hardware to run a server for self-hosting or get a VPS (admittedly not a huge financial hurdle, but still effort required). Additionally, you then have to take the time to migrate from iCloud to the alternatives. There’s also the fact that it’s a moderately expensive proposition to purchase a new phone capable of running something more libre like LineageOS. Until you switch operating systems, Apple makes using at least a little bit of iCloud difficult; for instance, you’ll probably need to use Find My at least once.
These reasons largely explain why I’m still on iPhone for now. I usually don’t use iCloud for the storage, but I frequently have to use Photos, Mail, and Find My.
I certainly plan to jump ship, but being stuck for now due to personal circumstances, I can’t blame OP.
You pretty much said what I would’ve said, but probably better 😀
I have 3 Macs I want to switch to Linux, so I’m approaching this conversion piece by piece, using my thinkpads as placeholders. Figuring out new cloud software can wait until they’re all switched.
Luckily, I’m down to just an iPhone.
I used to use iPad Minis, but I was otherwise more of a Windows guy until 2022.
The only other kind of Apple thing I have is a GPU-accelerated Hackintosh running under KVM, which mostly gets used for adding non-streaming songs to my Apple Music library these days. I do plan to quit Apple Music eventually - I’ve been collecting and ripping CDs by TMBG, which is mostly what I listen to anyway.
I’m planning a similar exodus. I like my apple stuff but considering its heavy reliance on the cloud, lower level system access I can’t control, and that it’s an American company operating under a Nazi regime, I really can’t trust it anymore.
Moving to Linux isn’t so bad, but I’m really struggling with leaving iOS. Android has a lot of limitations if you try to break free from Gemini-surveilled stuff. Simple things I take for granted like tap to pay wouldn’t be practical on such a device anymore.
It kills me there’s nothing I can do software-wise to make the Samsung z fold7 an acceptable option for me. Really impressed by that device and my carrier does have some compelling promos for it, but even under this regime, I don’t trust Samsungs software.
They don't even hide their racism
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He looks like an absolute badass
They really chose the worst photo to make him look bad.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I obviously don't know anything about the veracity of the sexual misconduct or sexual assault allegations, but the timing of this stuff makes it seem like Israel is at least involved in raising these allegations. And it's exactly the sort of tactics that would likely be used to carry out such a threat.
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