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Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide

How I built and configured a Bluesky PDS in Azure

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Evaluating AI language models just got more effective and efficient

Assessing the progress of new AI language models can be as challenging as training them. Stanford researchers offer a new approach.

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Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms | A new study reports that more than 100 United States government health datasets were altered this spring without any public notice.

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Republicans Proceed with Bill to Increase Energy Costs and Make Americans More Vulnerable to Nuclear Threats

During today’s Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee markup of the 2026 funding bill, House Democrats exposed how the bill increases costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our nation…

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Elon Musk Floats a New Source of Funding for xAI: Tesla

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Elon Musk Floats a New Source of Funding for xAI: Tesla

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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 privilege

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andallthat

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

"Trump insider" sounds like a tapeworm

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eldavi

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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redlemace

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Dessalines

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De-dollarization can't happen fast enough, as the dollar is one of the pillars of US power. Good thing countries are banding together to make it a priority.

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gandalf_der_12te

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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OhVenus_Baby

in reply to gandalf_der_12te • 2 mesi fa • •

Explain how Trump can order the federal reserve to simply print infinite money? That seems like a total lack of checks and balances. I don't see that happening at all. But it sounds good online.

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gandalf_der_12te

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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.

central banking system of the United States

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omega_x3

in reply to gandalf_der_12te • 2 mesi fa • •

It does have to pay interest on that debt to all the bond holders, if it doesn't then the bonds lose value and everyone that owns them trys to offload them.

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if the interest is just as high as the general inflation, then the government can just take out extra loans to serve the interest without actually increasing the real total debt, because the nominal increase in debt is just eaten by the inflation.

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小莱卡

in reply to omega_x3 • 2 mesi fa • •

Which they print too.

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humanspiral

in reply to gandalf_der_12te • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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小莱卡

in reply to OhVenus_Baby • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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WizardofFrobozz

in reply to OhVenus_Baby • 2 mesi fa • •

That seems like a total lack of checks and balances

Where have you been

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OhVenus_Baby

in reply to WizardofFrobozz • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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geolaw

in reply to gandalf_der_12te • 2 mesi fa • •

Imagine if the Bank of North Dakota decided to acquire reserves of BRICS currencies

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explodicle

in reply to gandalf_der_12te • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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gandalf_der_12te

in reply to explodicle • 2 mesi fa • •

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

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Ragnor

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

I have personally advocated for doing this exact thing quite a few times over the past decade or so. It simply isn't fair that the US gets to tax people from all over the world when they print more money.

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snekerpimp

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May if he wasn’t actively crashing the dollar, people wouldn’t want to move away from it.

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narwhal

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Countries that value financial sovereignty would still be interested.

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HumanPenguin

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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.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to HumanPenguin • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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HumanPenguin

in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to HumanPenguin • 2 mesi fa • •

They also fucked up entire Japan economy (and kicked hard several others) with it in Plaza Accords, dollar is a weapon.

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Yeather

in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • 2 mesi fa • •

Wikipedia disagrees with you. None of the other members of the Plaza Accords had an economic bubble. It blames the massive expansionary monetary and fiscal policies that lead from the Plaza Accords since Japan was now considered a major player in the international monetary system.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to Yeather • 2 mesi fa • •

None of the other member of Plaza Accords was so dependant on trade with US (especially Germany since German Mark was the second currency in question), so while i would maybe agree about others not being kicked that hard, but those accords were aimed specifically at Japan.

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Wikipedia disagrees with you.

I am once again begging liberals to stop treating Wikipedia like it's The Holy Scripture.

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小莱卡

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Feared not respected. The dollar standard was imposed, not elected.

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HumanPenguin

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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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Everyday I wake up wishing that this rapist President will finally choke to death on his well done steak and that his supporters will join him in hell.

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Imagine working 40 years at the CIA destabilizing the global south for this dude to do a Strangelove and wipe his ass all over your life's work cause his dick stopped working

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You love to see it.

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Glory to comrade JDPON Don! 🫡 /s

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HumanPenguin

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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.

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pie boy (he/him)

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

I mean, if breaking the propaganda arm of US cultural bullshit (aka regulating US Big Tech) is a defining issue in this battleground, let's make it BRICCS and add Canada as well. It's too bad that BRICS has some incredibly authoritarian and brutally imperialist leaders themselves.

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huf [he/him]

in reply to pie boy (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

it's okay, most of them arent as bad as canada's leaders.

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yeahiknow3

in reply to huf [he/him] • 2 mesi fa • •

Genuine question, are you fucking insane?

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rottingleaf

in reply to pie boy (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

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".

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humanspiral

in reply to rottingleaf • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to rottingleaf • 2 mesi fa • •

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. 😎

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rottingleaf

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I meant joining BRICS together after formally ceasing to be part of British monarchy. And becoming less dependent on other integrations much abused today.

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小莱卡

in reply to pie boy (he/him) • 2 mesi fa • •

you realize theyre labeled "authoritarian" precisely because they're not easily bossed around like actual "authoritarian" US wants?

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pie boy (he/him)

in reply to 小莱卡 • 2 mesi fa • •

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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Treczoks

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

The biggest De-Dollarization efforf is done in the White House itself, with their attempt to get the US Treasury under control.

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HobbitFoot

in reply to Treczoks • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah. A Trump White House is the biggest proponent to dedollarization.

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acabjones

in reply to Treczoks • 2 mesi fa • •

You likely mean getting the federal reserve under control. The Treasury is already under executive control and is intended to be so.

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WalnutLum

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

I thought Trump and the project 2025 gang's entire goal was the devaluation of the dollar.

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humanspiral

in reply to WalnutLum • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Bakkoda

in reply to WalnutLum • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Laser

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

BRICS as an organization and not as a loose grouping concept is somehow less than the sum of its parts I always think

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JillyB

in reply to Laser • 2 mesi fa • •

Brics is basically an alignment against the west, rather than for something. Each of the members has ambitions that are, at best, completely different from one another, and in some cases, contradictory. It reminds me of the cold war era non-aligned movement.

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Kapirotto

in reply to Dessalines • 2 mesi fa • •

The dedollarization is a path with no return. The clever ones will join China and the BRICS before the fall. This will be the new global order.

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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.

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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.

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Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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Open article

A month after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,

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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

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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.

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How the World Looks from Tricontinental

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Stick To The Classics

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is this the time to bring the word "mouthfeel" back into vogue?

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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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JupiterSnarl

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Update again: I just uninstalled Maxthon. It actually installed uuGPT on my computer as a separate program, and pinned a shortcut to the taskbar. I did not notice (& am pretty watchful for these things) it ask permission to do so during setup.
... 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.

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Hellfire103

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Definitely neither. Epic is not private, and Maxthon is Chinese. Both are based on Chromium anyway.

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JupiterSnarl

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Care to elaborate on how Epic is not private? It's whole pitch is about privacy, and I wonder what they're hiding then.

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Matt

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GNOME Web maybe?

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TimLovesTech

in reply to JupiterSnarl • 2 mesi fa • •

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".

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anothermember

in reply to JupiterSnarl • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't remember hearing Maxthon mentioned since the 00s, I'm a bit surprised it still exists! Epic is proprietary and Chromium-based, so avoid.

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nimpnin

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My thoughts: basically all browsers are just chrome or firefox with some extra bells and whistles. So it doesn’t really make a difference.

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RDX for Reddit developer here: I have made OffChess a tracking free, no BS, 100K+ Offline Chess Puzzles App that you might like

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One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions

One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions - NASA

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from

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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

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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.

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A Year Since the UK Riots, Elon Musk's X Is Still 'Profiting From Anti-Muslim and Anti-Migrant' Hate

Fuelling Hate — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

CCDH’s new research shows that X remains a breeding ground for anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hate, one year after the 2024 UK summer riots.

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Sorry Mario

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really had to use AI for a fucking mario meme?

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Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal

Cloudflare has become the first internet intermediary beyond local residential ISPs, to block access to pirate sites in the UK. Users attempting to access certain pirate sites are greeted with 'Error 451 - Unavailable for Legal Reasons'. In theory, ISP blocking should prevent UK users from even seeing this notice, but a combination of Cloudflare's blocking mechanism and choices made by some VPN users results in a piracy dead end.

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Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.

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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…

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lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)

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Where counter intelligence?

No one to blame or owner f-cked up? Blame Russia 😅

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

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It's bullshit as always in such case, the one in Siemianowice i heard first news in radio and the workers who were onsite said it was accident with laser cutter. The one in Minsk is unknown but insurance fraud is apparently suspected (it isn't rare in Poland in case of such businesses).

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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.

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The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad

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Over a week, more than twenty civilians of the Russian Federation died from the shelling of the Ukrainian Nazis.

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conspiracypentester via Privacy

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Are smart glasses allowed in public in EU?

More and more, i see people wearing these 'smart' glasses as sunglasses which i find totally creepy and intrusive.
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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pressedhams

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

Is there an expectation of privacy when in public spaces in the EU?

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porous_grey_matter

in reply to pressedhams • 2 mesi fa • •

"expectation of privacy" is a US-specific legal standard that doesn't apply on much of the EU. In many countries, you can't just record someone without their permission or some other permission, regardless of their expectation of privacy.

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FiveMacs

in reply to porous_grey_matter • 2 mesi fa • •

what happens if you record say, a tree and someone walks in frame..when what? is it the camera person's fault, or the one walking.

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porous_grey_matter

in reply to FiveMacs • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't know, I'm not that much of a legal expert. My guess would be in most places you're just supposed to delete it or not use it.

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James R Kirk

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

Using a camera on public property in the EU is broadly very legal.

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Libb

in reply to James R Kirk • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Sidyctism II.

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

i mean you would be allowed to wear it in germany, but recordings or pictures would only be allowed if the recorded person agrees

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Lumidaub

in reply to Sidyctism II. • 2 mesi fa • •

The way I understand it is that if anyone complains, you'd also have to prove that you didn't record and the device has never had the ability to create a permanent record. Which seems difficult.

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Lumidaub

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Libb

in reply to Lumidaub • 2 mesi fa • •

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 ;)

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Lumidaub

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

You can use public spaces all you like, you do not get to use my face however you like.

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Libb

in reply to Lumidaub • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Lumidaub

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't really care whether you benefit in any way from my picture, published or not, for profit or not. If I don't want you to have it, you don't get it. What gives you the right to take my picture? Besides, why do you even want it if you're not using it for something?

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Libb

in reply to Lumidaub • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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NKBTN

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

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

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Libb

in reply to NKBTN • 2 mesi fa • •

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 ;)

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yetAnotherUser

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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DeathByBigSad

in reply to Lumidaub • 2 mesi fa • •

Guess we gotta ban police bodycams, surely nothing will go wrong... 👀

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Lumidaub

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Different situation altogether.

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PrivacyDingus

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Isaiah Berlin's negative and positive liberty in one product

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film

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You have no right to privacy in the public.

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koper

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

Many EU countries have their own different laws about this stuff. The GDPR likely does not apply here because of the exception for "purely personal and household activities", article 2(2)(c).

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Libb

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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 ;)

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merde alors

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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.

consultation.avocat.fr/blog/mu…

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 ?

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anton

in reply to merde alors • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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VoxAliorum

in reply to Libb • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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jnod4

in reply to VoxAliorum • 2 mesi fa • •

I was vlogging in Berlin and there were some turkish street scammers and I caught on camera when sb got pickpocketed and the officers told me that I'll be getting in trouble.

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VoxAliorum

in reply to jnod4 • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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Lyra_Lycan

in reply to James R Kirk • 2 mesi fa • •

Which is wild because they shut down Google Glass in the UK because of the ability to photograph and record people without their knowledge. Preemptive bans by establishments, government and the public were followed by Google giving up on the consumer base after a couple months. Privacy and decency is no longer part of this world, it seems.

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foremanguy

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

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

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francois

in reply to foremanguy • 2 mesi fa • •

Well law enforcement already use videos uploaded to social networks, what's gonna stop them from using videos recorded by glasses once they are in the cloud?

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foremanguy

in reply to francois • 2 mesi fa • •

You're absolutely right but these are mainly a droplet in the glass of global surveillance started by global facial cameras
But at the end they are surely going to even more increase this shit

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N0x0n

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

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 😮‍💨😮‍💨

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Matt

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

What about combatting smart glasses with dumb glasses? It works now and even facial recognition software cannot recognize you if wear a cap and dumb glasses.

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irotsoma

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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iamtherealwalrus

in reply to irotsoma • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

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irotsoma

in reply to iamtherealwalrus • 2 mesi fa • •

There are many places that have those rules as I mentioned. For private property, it's not uncommon, but mostly only in secure locations that you buy tickets or otherwise pay or that have other restrictions to enter. Especially artistic venues where artists don't want their works recorded. This is mostly for protecting financial interests over privacy, though. It's not common for stores, gyms, and other locations that are open to the public, even if on private property, where taking photos isn't a financial concern of the location. That's pretty rare because it was too difficult to convince people to leave behind their phones or trust a worker to keep track of who's phone is whose, so it kept people from coming to those places. Instead people often voluntarily keep their phones secure in lockers or keep them in their pockets or otherwise don't take them out in plain view due to social pressure for privacy, especially in public showers, bathrooms, and changing rooms which were the places some politicians insisted it would end up being a major issue without laws.

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utopiah

in reply to conspiracypentester • 2 mesi fa • •

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.

Extended Reality (XR)

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.

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Wear them and see if you get arrested

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iCloud for Linux

I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with this?

snapcraft.io/icloud-for-linux

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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Why use linux if you want to use iCloud? Its a crime.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I've been using Tresorit on Linux for 5 years. I even got it to work on NixOS somehow ;o

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