The mathematics of starvation: Why aid can't fix the lethal shortage of food in Gaza
The mathematics of starvation: Why aid can't fix the lethal shortage of food in Gaza
The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation boasted this week about meal deliveries – but a closer look at the numbers shows hunger in the Strip has only worsened since the weekendNir Hasson (Haaretz)
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Outbreak of Chikungunya Virus Poses Global Risk, Warns WHO
Outbreak of Chikungunya Virus Poses Global Risk, Warns WHO : ScienceAlert
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling for urgent action to prevent it.AFP (ScienceAlert)
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Chikungunya: WHO fact sheet on Chikungunya providing key facts and information on scope of the problem, who is at risk, prevention, WHO response.www.who.int
Indian police arrest man accused of running fake embassy
Indian police arrest man accused of running fake embassy
Suspect allegedly claimed to be adviser or ambassador for entities including ‘Seborga’ or ‘Westarctica’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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I was thinking the same thing reading the article! It's a greasy kind of respect, but the hustle is impressive in its audacity. There are 195 recognized countries in the world this dude could have falsely claimed to represent, but he went the extra mile and made up Seborga and West Arctica.
Incredible.
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Le Punizioni dei Pirati nell'Epoca d'Oro della Pirateria
Il più crudele di tutti i pirati fu l’inglese Edward Low, attivo nei Caraibi e nell’Atlantico orientale dal 1721 fino al 1724. “Ned” Low costruì un catalogo di spregevoli crimini. Nel 1722 fece a pezzi e impiccò un gruppo di passeggeri portoghesi tra i quali due frati.
(Cartwright, Mark. “Punizioni dei Pirati nell’Epoca d’Oro della Pirateria.” Tradotto da Omayma Ghendi. World History Encyclopedia. Modificato il ottobre 07, 2021)
Da Wikipedia: William Kidd (Greenock, 22 gennaio 1645 – Londra, 23 maggio 1701) è stato un pirata scozzese. Uno dei più celebri corsari di sempre, era stato incaricato inizialmente di combattere contro i pirati, ma si unì in seguito alla pirateria e finì per essere catturato e giustiziato
Punizioni dei Pirati nell'Epoca d'Oro della Pirateria
I pirati durante il periodo d'oro della pirateria (1690 - 1730) infliggevano e subivano una vasta gamma di punizioni creative. Le vittime della pirateria sopportavano torture, frustate e cerimonie di...Mark Cartwright (https://www.worldhistory.org#organization)
‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet
Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company “formed a ring” around her, she says.
At another event in Ottawa, Carney Almroth was “harassed and intimidated” by a plastic packaging representative, who barged into the room and shouted that she was fearmongering and pushing misinformation. That meeting was an official event organised by the UN. “So I filed the harassment reports with the UN,” said Carney Almroth. “The guy had to apologise, and then he left the meeting. He was at the next meeting.”
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Putin appears unfazed by ‘emotional’ Trump’s threats over Ukraine
Benefits of better US relations come second to Russian leader’s maximalist war aims, say insiders and analysts
Vladimir Putin appears unfazed by Donald Trump’s first tangible break with Moscow – a sign, analysts and Kremlin insiders say, that the Russian leader had long anticipated a deterioration in relations from the apparent improvement at the beginning of Trump’s second term.
While Moscow views the souring of ties with Trump as regrettable – the US president dramatically shifted tone last week as he announced a deal to arm Ukraine and threatened massive sanctions against Russia – sources say Putin was always going to prioritise the war. He remains confident that Russian forces are gaining ground and that Ukraine’s resistance could soon unravel.
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Germany updates: AfD keeps 'suspected extremist' label
Germany updates: Ship collision triggers oil spill at port
Two vessels collided in Cuxhaven port, spilling 6,000 liters of oil into the water, with crews racing to contain the spill. Meanwhile, Germany's chancellor is hosting the French president in Berlin.Timothy Jones (Deutsche Welle)
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Is „suspected“ the right translation?
In German it’s „gesichtert“, which I would translate as „proven“ or „confirmed“.
Yes, "confirmed" or "proven" would be the right term. This is even legally correct, which is important in the age of ChatGPT and the like.
The AfD is legally classified as a right-wing extremist party and, as such, is rightly under observation by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ("Verfassungsschutz"). This is the assessment of an organization that itself has major problems with right-wing extremism — even they confirm this.
Starving civilians in northern Gaza lured to aid sites and executed, revealing brutal pattern of Israel’s genocide
Starving civilians in northern Gaza lured to aid sites and executed, revealing brutal pattern of Israel’s genocide
The occupation army ordered the civilians to approach aid trucks with their hands raised—a clear sign of surrender—and then opened fire on them without provocation.Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Interpol lifts red notice for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson
Interpol lifts red notice for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson
Interpol had issued the notice against Watson, known for tactics including confrontations with whaling ships at sea, at the request of Japan, but has now decided the measure was 'disproportionate,' lawyer William Julie said.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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Dude stops whaling ships from violating intentional law.
interpol: "so I took that personally."
Protests in Ukraine as Zelensky signs bill targeting anti-corruption bodies
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a bill that critics say weakens the independence of Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies, sparking protests in several cities and drawing international criticism.
The new law grants the prosecutor general control of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (Sap), and critics say it undermines their authority.
Ukraine's chief prosecutor, Zelensky loyalist Ruslan Kravchenko, will now be able to reassign corruption probes to potentially more pliant investigators, and even to close them.
Protests in Ukraine as Zelensky signs bill targeting anti-corruption bodies
New law sparks concern among Western allies as critics say move undermines the authority of the watchdogs.Vitaly Shevchenko (BBC News)
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Shocked.
Just shocked... that a wartime partner of the United States would demonstrate an openness to corrupt, self-enriching governance.
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Yeah in South Africa when our then President, Jacob Zuma, disbanded our independent corruption body, the Scorpions, that started basically corruption on such a scale, even had a commission of inquiry for state capture. Just look at South Africa's growth since then, basically entrenched poverty and joblessness to our countrymen.
Be afraid Ukraine, even if Zelensky has good intentions, what about the next president. All the advice I can give you is to become active, continue putting pressure on your elected officials. The people have the power, especially through the ballot
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Indian prime minister makes UK state visit to sign landmark trade deal
Indian prime minister makes official UK visit to sign landmark trade deal
Britain’s car and whisky industries set for boost while India gets visa concessions, but some sensitive issues unresolvedGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Chinese officials warn comedians that mocking the other sex is no laughing matter
Chinese officials warn comedians that mocking the other sex is no laughing matter
The warning comes after a string of shows by women comedians joking about men went viralGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Oil-rich Sudanese region becomes new focus of war between army and rival forces
Sudan conflict: Kordofan becomes the latest front line in the civil war
Control of oil-rich Kordofan is a big prize for both warring groups in their bid to take the country, analysts say.Anne Soy (BBC News)
Zelenskyy defends bill stripping anti-corruption bodies’ independence amid protests
Zelenskyy defends bill stripping anti-corruption bodies’ independence amid protests
Move by Ukrainian president widely opposed and may prove a setback to hopes of country one day joining the EULuke Harding (The Guardian)
Far-right Sanseito party wins shock electoral gains in Japan on anti-foreigner platform
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Lovense sex toy app flaw leaks private user email addresses
The connected sex toy platform Lovense is vulnerable to a zero-day flaw that allows an attacker to get access to a member's email address simply by knowing their username, putting them at risk of doxxing and harassment.
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US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic production
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The US has plenty of areas with a shitton of sun in the winter. Very dry areas, like southern Spain, or Israel, produce year round and with little available water, but well managed.
The Netherlands produce vegetables, competitive for export, with half the sun or heat.
Vegetables are one of the few sectors that can be repatriated in a short time through tariffs.
When you get into tree crops and such is when you have the same problem as with factories, years until production.
Yes they can. See Almeria, Spain. Similar to Arizona/NM weather, and as dry.
Also, the Dutch do it, in climate controlled greenhouses, price competitive.
It can definitely be done.
The temperature in Almeria has never gone below freezing in all of recorded history, which is not the case anywhere in Arizona or New Mexico. Even Yuma, AZ goes well below freezing sometimes, and winter averages are well below the comfort threshold for tomatoes, where in Almeria average lows are warmer. And the summer highs in the US southwest (tomatoes also suffer and will not set fruit when temps are consistently above 95° (35°C) blow Almeria and everywhere in Europe out of the water.
I'm not saying you can't grow in greenhouses and still be able to afford tomatoes, but there's no situation in which growing in a greenhouse doesn't cost more than growing outdoors in a suitable climate. Mexico has that suitable climate year-round, and the US does not, and as a result this tariff on Mexican tomatoes is going to significantly raise tomato prices in the US.
I imagine you have searched for data, and have looked up Almería (city) not the province. The city is on the shore. Almeria province is hilly. As soon as you go some few hundred meters up climate becomes way more extreme.
temps are consistently above 95° (35°C) blow Almeria and everywhere in Europe out of the water.
Hate to tell you, but in Madrid (and it's not the hottest) it's been between 34 and 40ºC since June. Albox, in the province of Almeria for example had a max in 2021 of 45º C.
For most vegetables, passive methods, such as greenhouses, with shade systems and ventilation, these extremes can be reduced.
environmental control or protection.
That's what they elsewhere call "greenhouse".
Extremist Israeli politicians and right-wing settlers hold Gaza annexation conference
Extremist Israeli politicians and right-wing settlers hold Gaza annexation conference
Extremist Israeli politicians and right-wing settlers held a conference in Israel's parliament on Tuesday where they said the US had given them the "green light" to transform the besieged Gaza Strip into a "resort town" once they had completed the et…Nadav Rapaport (Middle East Eye)
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Iran ready for war with Israel, will not halt nuclear programme: Pezeshkian
Iran ready for war with Israel, will not halt nuclear programme: Pezeshkian
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Iran’s president insists Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme will continue.Al Jazeera
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Protests in Ukraine as Zelensky signs bill targeting anti-corruption bodies
Protests in Ukraine as Zelensky signs bill targeting anti-corruption bodies
New law sparks concern among Western allies as critics say move undermines the authority of the watchdogs.Vitaly Shevchenko (BBC News)
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Trump announces Japan trade deal with 15% tariff on imports
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They will probably buy our rice
Rice situation in Japan is pretty dire atm and probably will stay that way through 2026. It’s a staple crop and prices have gone up substantially due to the shortages
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Agree, and using the rice situation as leverage is shitty tbh. It’s a crisis and while Japan is a developed nation with a relatively good standard of living for the most part it’s also one with extremely stagnant wages and economic growth, fairly significant wealth inequality, etc.
many Japanese are struggling to get by more than Americans. Though it’s hard to directly compare. The average salary in Japan in far lower than in America (~30k vs ~39k) and wages for equivalent positions are much lower (like a computer programmer who gets paid $80k for an American company might get $50-60k from a Japanese company), but the cost of living is much lower in many ways, rent costs are substantially lower (even a Tokyo apartment is like $500usd/month unless you want something crazy extravagant), robust public transit network making car ownership truly optional, healthcare system that is not ideal but has much more managed costs than the us, etc
That’s probably in part why sanseitō (think japanese maga: anti immigration (in a country that barely allows it), super nationalist (in a country that’s already crazy nationalist), anti vaccination, etc) is seriously picking up steam and just picked up several seats in the upper house, going from 1 seat to 14 at the expense of the LDP and communist party who lost seats. They ran on rhetoric similar to trump, a “silent invasion” of immigrants is “taking over Japan”. It captured their youth, who are frustrated by a lack of meaningful jobs and the reality of an economy that has been stagnant for many decades at this point (arguably caused by boomer policy and refusal to break from tradition) but instead of looking inward at what could’ve been done wrong domestically they are looking for a boogeyman to easily shift blame to. Sound familiar?
The right wing shift is not limited to America unfortunately. AfD, sanseitō, national rally, Lega, Orban and bolsonaro, etc. many of these are picking up quite a bit of steam
Tell that to yoshinoya, who has been mixing California rice into their rice for the past year with some locations using entirely American rice, or Matsuya, who have switched to American rice at many locations due to cost. Lawson is also starting to prototype bentos with rice blends. Even if the consumer takes a nationalist approach the invisible hand of capitalism will reject that for profit
And with that there’s data to suggest the consumer doesn’t reject imported rice. Aeon sold the 80/20 blend with US rice and that proved popular enough that they are now selling 4kg bags of 100% california rice due to consumer demand. The 80/20 bags were 10% cheaper, the 100% is likely far more
It is a dangerous game. This is how walmart destroyed American small business. Everyone has ideals and principles until a massive vendor with huge advantage shows up and undercuts everyone in town by 10-30%. Doesn’t matter if the product is inferior. People don’t have money
I stand corrected!
I, however will not buy US rice from a shitty experience I had with it, and the fact that I'd rather not support a shithole run by a president who wants to annex Canada.
Understandable
I use us rice because I live here and in terms of global warming unless there is a shortage and I have no other option it makes the most sense to use California rice
That said Japanese rice is more aromatic and has lower arsenic content so in a perfect world I would use that. However, I do not want to both contribute to the emissions of shipping rice across the globe when there is rice that is good enough plus I don’t want to contribute to taking Japanese rice away from Japan. It appears that a big contributor to the rice shortage is again capitalistic scumbaggery - both in terms of middlemen scalping with shortages occurring and the export market valuing Japanese rice as “premium”. I don’t want to contribute to that just like I won’t buy a marked up concert ticket or game console.
Japan, with the best automotive engineering in the world, is going to buy more shitty US made vehicles?
Yeah. Ok.
The best "US made" vehicle I've owned was a 2006 Ford Ranger and it was actually just a rebadged Mazda which, go figure, is Japanese.
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We need to stop all reporting of Trump deals until they are in writing. Anyone notice that Coke never confirmed the sugar thing? The UK tariff framework isn't anything more than a handshake. The healthcare plan is just two weeks away. We have always been to war with Eastasia.
Nothing is real until it is signed. He gets the bump by announcing them and then nothing happens and he isn't held accountable.
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So, if good sense fails me not: japanese goods imported into the US will have a 15% markup at border...
Right.
What makes me morbidly curious is what Japan waved in return of that "agreement".
I'd more quickly turn my back on them and let them levy whatever tariffs on my nation's goods they see fit and enter "negotiations". Yes, it would be painful in the short term for my country but it would be worth it.
My stocks here in Japan shot up the other day, which is weird because we still have tariffs — just less than what he had originally proposed. We'll see how long this "deal" lasts.
I've just been buying the dips and it seems like it's working out. I just hope I receive enough dividends to allow me to keep buying domestic rice.
VPN use surges in UK as new online "safety" rules kick in
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But to evade the new rules, a growing number of people in the UK are turning to tools more often used by citizens in authoritarian regimes to get around internet censorship.
This should say something like the following to explicitly call out the UK goberment for their shit
"But to evade the new rules, a growing number of people in the UK are turning to tools to bypass an authoritarian regime and to get around internet censorship."
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Japan's PM Ishiba denies talk he will quit following election drubbing
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They all do that, even those who intend to resign deny it until the day it happens.
Ishiba doesn’t have any big scandals currently, so I see less public outrage directed at him in the news and it feels more like infighting within the LDP (just my impression). Of course losing so many seats in the election is a cause for resignation but I’m not sure anybody who replaces him will be able to quell the public’s discontent either.
Iran's detainees in 'unbearable' conditions after Israeli strikes on prison
Evin prison: Iran's detainees in 'unbearable' conditions after Israeli strikes
Iranian prisoners transferred to other facilities report overcrowding and unhygienic conditions.Ghoncheh Habibiazad (BBC News)
so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.
Parola filtrata: nsfw
Tesseract was the only client that had an in-community search input, compared to all the other clients that require re-entering the community name. That shows how functional it was to me.
I'm looking for third-party instances right now (that's how I ended up on this post), found one so far (but outdated) : lemmy.max-p.me/
EDIT : found others
UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill
Prominent backbench MP Sarah Champion launched a campaign against VPNs previously, saying: “My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.” And the Labour Party said there were “gaps” in the bill that needed to be amended.
Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK households
Labour won't ban the use of Virtual Private NetworksJames Rodger (Birmingham Live)
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How many small businesses can afford such permit? Hell, I'd argue that even bigger companies will have a problem paying for that.
Also, what if I just connect to a vps overseas and set my exit point there? Will they ban vps too? This is gonna be so much fun to see from the outside
How many small businesses can afford such permit? Hell, I'd argue that even bigger companies will have a problem paying for that.
Feature, not a bug.
They want people back in offices to help landlords and property prices. This way they can say that remote work is not banned and it's just companies choosing not to buy a permit and offer it.
I work from office and i regularly use a vpn at work to connect remotely to devices that are not physically with me. Not to talk about companies that provide remote assistance and use them to connect to their customers devices.
Remote work is just a byproduct of vpns, but not the real reason why you use them at work.
Absolutely not, of course. I'm just hoping they try to enforce this so a shitstorm of proportions only seen in the brexit will ensue.
One thing we must acknowledge to these idiots is how much effort they put on showing the world the consequences of extremely stupid acts so the rest don't have to do it.
how much effort they put on showing the world the consequences of extremely stupid acts so the rest don't have to do it.
Kinda sucks to be the world's policy alpha tester though.
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those who understand binary
and those who dont
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It's something russia has been doing for a decade and got pretty good at.
A long term blanket vpn ban is not compatible with a modern digital infrastructure, but with certain protocols (openvpn, wireguard) they can detect their usage and filter them out when necessary.
It does require a lot of expensive DPI (deep packet inspection) hardware I'm not sure UK has, so building a Great Firewall of Britain (Hadrian's Firewall?) will take some time.
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the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems
The government: Parents have you tried being a parent to your children?
Parents: Oh lord no that's too difficult can't you just, I don't know lol, ban it or something?
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In my English textbook, ca. 2007 there was a comic of a child in a cage hanging outside the house. The father told the neighbor something like "This way they get out of the house, but stay off the streets."
I think that hit quite well, what many consider parenting in the UK.
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Just to fast-forward this dumb cat-and-mouse thing, the next step is people go back to torrenting their porn and deeper down the rabbit hole of garbage "free" websites skirting the rules.
As always, the UK is useful on the international stage because sometimes you need to be able to point at some idiot trying dumb stuff to explain to people why dumb stuff is dumb.
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It does feel that way. UK bureaucracy is just one giant guinea pig stunting it's own commonwealth.
Next someone will try enforcing paper umbrellas as a solution for climate action. We'll all say, "That won't work". They'll still do it; it won't work. We'll say, "We told you so", and it won't get reversed because they're already aiming at the next foot to shoot.
There has to be a logical next step for the information age. Old school government is not fucking working, and we can all see it.
The fact that there aren't large scale riots already is astounding.
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It's probably true that a few anti-porn people exist somewhere in the world. It's certainly true that fascists love adding in new tools to keep the general population from using the internet freely.
So the answer to your question is yes, and yes.
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I am pretty sure they would consider tor as using a VPN.
Probably they would demand ISPs to run lists of known VPN addresses and if you connect to them, they will forward the information to the anti-terrorism unit and you will get SWATed.
Don't the people in those countries use a proxy to access tor first? probably that means cycling through the proxies regularly as they become known. I have no doubt that it is impossible to prevent truly tech savvy people from access. Also Russia, Iran and China all run state sanctioned hackers, so the governments have a vested interest in allowing these groups to obscure where they are coming from.
But i am not sure how much that transpires to a broader public.
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But what if I work for Proton and I am in the UK?
Edit: it's hypothetical
Oh that makes it easier for the government.
Maybe that the end goal, force people back into the office by banning vpn
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Oh, wait, no, that was about the evil communists.
Can't do it all at once or the ~~peasants~~ populace might catch on!
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The anti-terror unit needs to fill its new vacancies first. Do you know ho many enforcers it takes to arrest a single man in a wheelchair?
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Will the next step be banning VPS then? Because that's what will happen: if you ban VPNs (good luck with that lol), people will just connect to a VPS in a less stupid country and exit from there.
I hope they start looking at TOR too, that should be really fun.
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let people live life is more than just good for individuals… it’s just safer for everyone
focusing on harm reduction rather than abstinence and bans
I'd tentatively say, casually available heroin, morphine and laudanum/opium.
It obviously caused problems and pushed the market underground but it seems to have worked out.
I'm not aware of any studies in to this though, so it's only conjecture/guesswork.
I'll also clearly state I'm not putting them on the same level as this current dystopian bullshittery.
It obviously caused problems and pushed the market underground but it seems to have worked out.
"Worked out" is people dieing from tainted drugs of a unknown potency? Youre a fucking monster.
Hey now, that's a lot of animosity for a statement that doesn't do much to make a good point.
The original question was
Show me a ban that didn’t came with 10x problems
I posited a conjecture based guess with some basic reasoning and as i said , it was opinion more than provable fact.
By "worked out" i meant the overall situation is better after the ban, despite the negative consequences.
It seems that was lost on you, but now you know.
So let's address your reasoning, such as it is.
People died from tainted drugs before the ban, probably a lot from tainted drugs of the type in the ban.
Unless you have any evidence those numbers changed significantly after the ban, I'll chalk that up to your opinion.
Not a very reasonable one to my eyes, but such are angry people on the internet.
I was not aware i needed to provide an example of a ban that resulted in everything being completely fixed after the fact (mainly because that's not how the question was worded) but if that was, in fact, the requirement, my bad.
If I'm a monster (in your opinion) because i think the reduction in access to terribly addictive drugs might have overall brought down fatalities and other negative consequences, then i can live with that.
What would be defined as a VPN and even then there are other options to get access to content as if you where in a different country or ways to bypass the age restriction.
A lot of companies and governments also use VPN's to get people to work on their servers, so how would the UK function.
It always baffles me that they try shit like that.
Edit: heck proper sex education is a way better solution to reduce unhealthy sex habits
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Edit: heck proper sex education is a way better solution to reduce unhealthy sex habits
It's not about sex, or protecting the children.
It's about control.
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Maybe it and maybe it isn't, but kicking against it trying to change won't help because there is a certain amount of the population who believes that it isn't for control, but it is actually for sex or protecting the children or what not.
If you want to get those people over to change their behaviour, you want to work on compromises or in this case you want to deflect them into fixing something else.
Trust me, I have a lot of right and even some mildly right people around me and with going hard against them you will just confirm their bias.
That sounds a bit like fear mongering from Reform: a VPN is safety 101 when using public networks, and most businesses make use of VPNs to secure their data. They are also a key component if WFH (you use the company VPN).
If Labour are stupid enough to go after VPN usage, I suspect it would guarantee their loss at the next election.
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It has always been the main aim of legislation like this to nobble VPNs, they just needed the "child" "violent pornography" etc. excuse to do so. UK government already monitors all of the internet traffic for the UK, except for MPs who are exempt, VPNs are a blocker for this.
Obviously, not even the UK government would expect a private VPN ban (work VPNs would likely need an Ofcom license) to stop everybody from using a VPN or suitable alternative, its not the aim. The aim is to stop the majority from doing so and criminalize the minority who do still bypass the block as it gives them the power to seize equipment, ask for your logins (its illegal punishable with jail time to not supply this in the UK), request ISP logs etc. to deep dive into your life.
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Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears
Proton, the Geneva-based encrypted email provider founded 11 years ago by three scientist who met at CERN, will freeze its investments in Switzerland, its chief executive Andy Yen told Le Temps on WedLe News
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I saw this news and I guess it’s good that privacy is being discussed somewhat soberly over there in the wake of this investment decision.
Personally I have recently been exiting out of the UK, a much more invasive country, so Switzerland for now does seem like an improvement for me. Norway is further out geographically and has less Mullvad servers, would seem like the less favorable option for me unless the proposed laws actually pass.
Frankly I’m scrambling after the UK’s ID thing.
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They pivoted quite hard a few years ago to try and win an election.
They are just Tory Lite now.
For starters, the whole "Progressive" thing is an American concept born out of the American environment (with its very deep religious moralistic strain amongst a large fraction of the population) and does not really applicable to Britain because, at least until recently, they didn't really have regressive tendencies.
Beyond that Labour hasn't been Leftwing since Tony Blair took over in the 80s and started talking about it being New Labour - they're Neoliberals and quite strongly so, so pretty rightwing.
What they did was performative Identity Politics like in the US: theatrics in the Moral space to make them seem different from the other mainstream party, rather than actually having genuine Liberal Principles.
Of late they even ditched that and seem to be trying to outfascist the Fascists.
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All it takes is one big brother/sister that knows how to access a free or paid VPN and their 5 year old little sibling and all their friends will have it also. Despite the difficulty teaching them math or history, they DO learn very quickly and are fast to figure out new things that interest them.
Do you know what's smarter and more talented the the UK government?
14, 402, 544 kids............
A lot more than you know, I knew how to use it since middle school.
And if they don't know they will use Reddit to find out how to access the sites:
reddit.adminforge.de/r/teenage…
redlib.baczek.me/r/teenagers/c…
Don't underestimate kids.
Turns out it's comically easy to bypass Reddit's new age verification - r/teenagers
View on Redlib, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.redlib.baczek.me
I started using a VPN after my friends/classmates told me about them in my Sophomore year of HS, mostly to get around the Wifi banning us from accessing certain apps (social media). Now, like all the other dumb kids, I used whatever they recommended, which was some shitty "Free" VPN that was probably stalking my data. But by Senior year, I smartened up and learned about online privacy and got myself a Proton VPN subscription after using the free version for a bit.
So yeah, I could totally believe middle-school and up are using VPNs, cause that's what we literally did.
Were you never a child? I formatted my family pc and reinstalled windows xp in 5th grade, and used a proxy to circumvent the schools online filter in 7th grade.
Children are not as stupid as you seem to think
VPNs also accept many anonymous payment methods that happen to be easily accessible to children, like gift cards. And free VPNs exist
Where there is a will there is a way, I guess.
Still, a possible ban on VPNs affects way bigger group of business and adult users than the number of tech savvy kids.
Where should the line be drawn? How much rights should everyone have to give up so that little techie Billy can’t hack his way to see some titties?
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Netherlands is part of the Nine eyes. They know exactly what your activities are.
Whether they choose to chase you down is a different issue.
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I don't think it's that centralized. Just some elite somewhere pushes through what elites everywhere would want, and they try to do the same around it.
Like spread of a disease.
I think the way to fight it is similar. Unions, customer associations, parties (not for election, but for having as many people as possible for mutual aid and actions ; it might even be counterproductive to get into government, since that breeds expectations which are not delivered upon, which hurts the party ; better to do volunteer projects without using state power as much as possible).
apparently having a functioning brain isn't a requirement of being an mp
but of course we knew that when she did this in 2019:
On 16 July 2019, Champion stated: "If my party comes out as a remain party rather than trying to find a deal or >rather than trying to exit, I can't support that, it goes against democracy". She said she would rather support a "no-deal Brexit" than remain in the EU, as she believed Labour had to deliver the result of the 2016 referendum.
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This ends with just another war on encryption.
When encryption is legal, they can't know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?
It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.
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Easy enough to do when it's mega corps. They don't really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.
So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can't win. All very Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread".
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There will be others too, those are just in my head's cache.
Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.
The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It's terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.
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I mean anyone can rent a server in Europe and install OpenVPN themselves. Hell, it doesn't even need to open OpenVPN, Wireguard works just as well and is basically undetectable.
Eat shit, UK government, for real. Idiots think that by speaking the same language as US fascists they can have similarly dumb ideas.
To be honest, I've found WireGuard's performance is harmed more by replay attacks than OpenVPN. Least that is what I put it down to when I tried them both from a VPN provider that offered both.
Edit: missed the a in replay.
Personally I've found Wireguard performance to be significantly better, especially on spotty mobile Internet
Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.
It's not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It's the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.
I've certainly happily used SSH tunnels --- on Linux it's great in that it's readily available wherever you already have OpenSSH installed --- but one downside of OpenSSH as a general-purpose tool for tunneling is that it is intrinsically TCP and thus forces packet ordering across multiple tunneled connections, which may not be necessary for whatever you're doing and can have performance impact. Part of the reason mosh exists is to deal with that (not for the SSH-as-a-tunneling-protocol case, but rather for the "SSH-as-a-remote-shell" case).
Wireguard is UDP, and OpenVPN can use either TCP or UDP, depending upon how it's configured.
If we were going to move the world to a single "tunneling" protocol, SSH wouldn't be my first choice, even though it's awfully handy as a quick-and-dirty way to tunnel data.
Mosh: the mobile shell
Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo. Like SSH secure shell, but allows mobility and more responsive and robust.Mosh
I used putty for tunnels on windows machines. As for mosh I forgot it exist. I use wireguard now. But if they ban VPN it will be harder for them to prove the SSH is being used for the purpose evading their stupid law. The high bandwidth usage could be a lot of things... right?
While in the hospital ten years ago I did get a visit from the IT dept. They didn't have any qos on ssh and I was moving a lot of data through it. They just asked me to limit my high usage to late night.
I used putty for tunnels on windows machines.
Fair enough, and come to think of it, I think I have too. Just was pointing out that not all SSH implementations have tunnelling functionality.
But if they ban VPN it will be harder for them to prove the SSH is being used for the purpose evading their stupid law.
Yeah, that's true.
update: I think not only the handshake packets contain a recognizable pattern. look at "Subsequent Messages: Exchange of Data Packets"
especially if the receiver/sender_index and the counter are what I think they are.
also have a look at this page: wireguard.com/known-limitation…
Farage: Gets elected.
Everyone: At least you'll abolish the OSA!
Farage: Nah, I said that because it would make me popular. Amma use the OSA to ban things I consider "woke".
There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit "score" based on individuals' behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.[4][5][6] In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.
(NOTE: Any links to politician tweets in this comment are from Nitter mirrors, not direct links to Elon Musk's nazi bar.)
The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, pretty much called Nigel Farage a paedophile in a news network interview earlier today because he opposed the Online Safety Act, by saying he's on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile.
He then went to Twitter and doubled-down on this stance:
If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.
This of course generated a lot of fury among the site's users.
For context, the Online Safety Act has been used to censor and age-gate anything and everything deemed "illegal content" under Ofcom guidelines. Any social media platforms must comply, else risk getting fined up to 10% of your annual global revenue. This is so broadly worded that it includes anything related to illegal immigration and people-smuggling (literally quoted in the GOV.UK page I linked.)
Twitter had genuinely been forced to censor all coverage around anti-asylum seeker protests behind age verification requirements, which has riled up a lot of right-wing politicians here. The reason for these protests is that the previous (Conservative) government had been paying exorbitant amounts of money to house asylum seekers in hotels, effectively lining the pockets of hotel chain executives - all while we deal with a massive housing and cost of living crisis.
This was meant to be a measure to give asylum seekers temporary accommodation which was put in place at the start of COVID, but has been government policy since 2020 with no end in sight.
Labour have also done jack-shit to resolve our skyrocketed (legal) immigration levels since they got into power, except for scrapping the Rwanda Deal which would have deported any illegal migrants to a third country for processing (which as the name obviously suggests, is the East African state of Rwanda.)
Zia Yusuf (head of Reform's DOGE division, yes they're ripping off Trump and Elon Musk) had this to say about the OSA on Twitter:
Britain is now a country which you can enter illegally without ID, but need photo ID to watch a protest against people entering without ID.Let that sink in.
Labour have fucked up so catastrophically hard with how they've handled this legislation, that they've straight-up generated bipartisan sympathy for the leaders of a right-wing populist party - who are the only political force that have vowed to repeal the legislation because it is being used for mass surveillance and censorship.
Also, if you're thinking of voting Reform UK in 2029 (and it has honestly crossed my mind because age verification checks are a major sticking point for me), then you should take the pledges from Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf with a grain of salt. Richard Tice (the party's deputy leader) openly tweeted support for pushing through mandatory ID checks on social media four years ago.
If Labour don't get rid of Keir Starmer, do a full cabinet reshuffle and reverse course, we are going to see a Reform landslide in the next election...
The new Christian nationalist orders are not so patient. Even Charles X of France rolled back rights too speedily, sparking public outcry resulting in Parisian haircuts. (a bit off the top 🪟🔪)
SCOTUS used to be sneakier, carving out sections of fourth- and fifth-amendment protections, but since Dobbs the Federalist Society Six have tossed subtlety and reason to the wind and now adjudicate away rights based on vibe and conservative rhetoric grievance.
Hopefully the US and UK both will recognize why the French public was swift to act when manarchists took shears to the Napoleonic Code.
The problem is that content filters don't work all that well in the age of https everywhere. I mean, you can block the pornhub.com domain, that's fairly straightforward ... but what about reddit.com which has porn content but also legitimately non-porn content. Or closer to home: any lemmy instance.
I think it would be better if politicians stopped pearl clutching and realized that porn perhaps isn't the worst problem in the world. Tiktok and influencer brainrot, incel and manosphere stuff, rage baiting social media, etc. are all much worse things for the psyche of young people, and they're doing exactly jack shit about that.
Every society has its pathway there. TERFs are one of the last milestones.
GB has really wanted to go fascist autocratic since Germany looked over in the 1920s and saw a like minded kin.
Enterprises will love that. A perfect excuse to end wfh. However, this will cripple business travelers. I'm sure there'll be some exception for corporations where they can exercise maximum control over their employees while still being allowed to generate capital.
Hey UK: suck it.
They couldn't switch off VPNs for businesses. I work in a hospital and we use VPNs to create secure tunnels to other third party health care companies as well as NHS adjacent health services amongst other things. This is to protect patient sensitive data amongst other things. This would cripple our service and go against NHS england and government requirements for the secure transfer and sharing of data.
This would have to be public VPNs only. Despite the fact that it would be complete bullshit either way.
Unless things have changed massively in the UK in the last 5 years or so, in my actual experience you don't unless you make a profit.
The yearly baseline costs of opening and operating a Limited company in the UK are pretty low (less than £100 if I remember it correctly).
This is to protect patient sensitive data amongst other things.
Its 2025, we no longer need such silly things. Don't worry, its for the greater good.
You're literally being Jimmy Salvile right now
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If they outlaw VPNs then all internet-connected businesses will flee and everyone will just move to the dark net. Then you’ve got a whole other problem.
These ancient tyrants are in over their heads.
VPNs are one of the core security measures of all large companies.
VPNs aren't just a "hide your IP" tool, they're a way of giving someone access to an organisation's internal network. Sensitive servers such as databases, wikis, scheduling tools etc don't have publicly exposed IPs, they only have connections that are accessible from inside that VPN. See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_…
"Safety" meanwhile these same mp's can't budget can't run critical public services like bloody hospitals.
But don't worry, your thoughts and activity are policed.
Democratic failure to prioritise and run a country at its finest on display for the world to see. The waste is astounding.
"If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
When I was a kid, Reddit and general public Internet access weren't things, but I sure managed to get my hands on pornography. I'm pretty confident that even entirely killing Internet access isn't going to stop kids who want to get ahold of porn from getting ahold of it.
They can come and pry TOR from my cold dead hands lmfao
this law can eat shit. i ain't gonna dox myself and feed my personal info to companies. maybe they should take this as a hint that most people care about their privacy
if you don't want kids seeing NSFW stuff be an actual parent and don't raise your kids on the internet??
Yeah I'm Australia we have just decided to ban all social media for people under 16, i think it's great honestly because screw from insta etc but I don't think it's the government ls job to prevent kids from using social media.
I really think it's a way to force adults to register their id to accounts not about protecting kids.
Parents should monitor what their kids are doing not the government
I agree that it should primarily be a parents responsibility to keep kids off social media. But the big problem with social media is that a large proportion of young children don't want to be on social media and recognise the detrimental impact it has on them, but the fear of missing out or being excluded is what keeps them on it. it then becomes a collective action problem, to get them off it you need to get a lot of their peers off it as well. There are movements where groups of parents try to do this, but reaching the critical mass necessary to do it is difficult.
Hopefully the ban keeps a large number off to reduce the pressure on kids to be on it and at the same time the parents can do their bit as well.
Parents should monitor what their kids are doing not the government
While I agree wholeheartedly with this, it's often not that easy.
Back in the days of 28.8 modems my parents found my little bro's downloaded porn stash. It was in a Zip disk in his underwear drawer. They then locked down both of our AOL accounts so we couldn't see that stuff.
I thought this was bullshit because I kept my Zip disk full of porn next to all the other ones and labeled it "Homework." Why should I get punished if I didn't get caught?
So I downloaded a keylogger, stole my dad's password, and unlocked my account and continued to download porn.
However, I don't think government regulation would have worked in my case.
Someone should start a bussiness near the border of Republic of Ireland and get two antennas pointed at each other across the border, with the RoI side having connected to the free internet, then the UK Northern Ireland side connected to the Intra-net. You pay a "Club Membership Fee" to get access to the proxy network.
Its not a VPN, its a Nerd Techie Club, just with a free proxy service as part of the club membership 😉
Proxy is a step below VPN since it doesn't tunnelise data.
Anti-detect browsers. Do you mean Tor? It's a decent solution, albeit the slowest one.
What people use to bypass the great Chinese firewall is VPN with VLESS protocols. Unlike usual VPN protocols, those are specifically made to bypass censorship.
I'm looking forward to the next UK election where the headline will be: Labour has lost the election in a landslide that left them with dozens of votes total
Every single person who didn't think this would affect them who watches porn in any capacity is very likely highly pissed off and will continue to be for as long as this draconian bullshit is enabled.
I love watching politicians try to understand the internet.
VPNs have loads of vanilla use cases.
It would be infinitely more productive to regulate the predatory practices of stream providers and reduce the incentive for piracy.
Reddit already tried to block VPN users.
Expect the corpos to bend the knee.
after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.
That's the only source? A far-right conspiracy website?
The linked story has been updated. The headline now reads:
Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK householdsLabour won't ban the use of Virtual Private Networks
And the story begins:
Labour has ruled out a possible VPN ban after reports thousands of UK households were at risk following the Online Safety Act kicking in under the government. Labour Party Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has revealed that the Government is "not considering a VPN ban" - after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.
This shows that this bill has shit all to do with the protection of children, it's just again the over reach of religious zealots
Can we please ban religions instead? This would ACTUALLY protect minors and just in general make the world such a better and more beautiful place.
Convert churches into museums for art and displaying the horrors of religion
Convert churches into museums for art and displaying the horrors of religion
Not all of them have pretty art. Just turn the boring looking ones into secular club houses or even just regular housing.
Most conventional VPNs, e.g. OpenVPN, WireGuard, AnyConnect, PPTP/L2TP, IKEv2/IPsec, etc., actually don't work in China. Technology-wise GFW is quite sophisticated and conventional VPNs are not designed for censorship circumvention anyway.
You'll have to use things like Shadowsocks or V2Ray, which is out of the reach of most people.
If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems
Your law is the difficult problem you daft cunt
This makes me feel like they were in a bind here. The so called "online safety bill" was a tory concoction that took years to pass through the courts because of how invasive it is and how anyone could easily bypass it.
If labour want to stop it, they'll be accused of not wanting to protect children.
Whatever anyone thinks of labour, I'd ask people to ask themselves, if you were in that position, what option do they have other than to let it play out as the spectacular failure it was always going to be and making sure everyone knows who's fault that was afterwards?
The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later
The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later
Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving fo…Hackaday
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The problem doesn’t concern me as much at how bad we’ve become at maintaining shit that already works.
There is also the fact that during Y2K, we didn’t have as much reliance on computers.
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Issue 2038 will be easier to fix because many systems are already 64-bit, as 32-bit systems could only handle 4 GB of RAM, and programs need more RAM.
The only issue would be critical issues that run on 32-bit systems and must be fixed before that date.
32-bit systems could only handle 4 GB of RAM
I don’t understand why people always say that. Pentium Pro could handle 64 GB even though it was a 32 bit CPU. It had a 36 bit address bus. Later models are the same.
What does a 64-bit system and 4GB RAM have to do with using 64bit timestamps?
32bit systems can use 64bit values without issue. In fact, even an 8bit system can handle 256bit values or even longer ones without issue.
The bittiness of a CPU and its address space have nothing to do with the length of usable data unless you end up with data longer than the RAM volume (and even then there's swap).
The only issue would be critical issues that run on 32-bit systems and must be fixed before that date.
So, many banks and government agencies which still run on mainframes...
Cobol mavens burned both ends of the candle and made bank, while making banks work.
Many were old enough to retire after that.
There is also the fact that during Y2K, we didn’t have as much reliance on computers.
And we still shouldn't.
Uniting the reliance upon long-range electric connectivity (radio, PSTN - but that now depends on computers too), the reliance upon computers (like mainframes), the reliance upon microcontrollers, the reliance upon personal computers (like Amiga 500), the reliance upon fast encryption helped by computers, the reliance upon computers used for mining cryptocoins or some beefy LLMs, the reliance upon computers capable of running Elite Dangerous, and the reliance upon computers capable of running devops clusters with hundreds of containers, - it's wrong, these are all different.
An analog PSTN switching station shouldn't care about dates. A transceiver generally shouldn't too. A microcontroller doesn't care which year it is, generally.
With an Amiga 500 one can find solutions, and it's not too bad if you don't.
The rest is honestly too architecturally fragile anyway and shouldn't be relied upon as some perpetual service.
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It only depends whether the app and its OS/kernel interface use a 32-bit value to store the time information.
32-bit architecture or OS has nothing to do with this bug, for example 16-bit architectures must've used 32-bit time, too (otherwise they'd be able to only count up to 32-65 seconds).
It's a problem with the internal represensation of a C/C++ type alias called time_t, mostly. That's the thing that holds the number of elapsed seconds since midnight on Jan. 1, 1970, which is the most common low-level representation of date and time on computers. In theory, time_t could point to a 32-bit type even on a 64-bit system, but I don't think anyone's actually dumb enough to do that. It affects more than C/C++ code because most programming languages end up calling C libraries once you go down enough levels.
In other words, there's no way you can tell whether a given application is affected or not unless you're aware of the code details, regardless of the bitness of the program and the processor it's running on.
I don't think anyone's actually dumb enough to do that
Never underestimate human stupidity.
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Linux kernel has had support for 64 bit time for years. On Debian, packages for the upcoming release were updated to 64 bit time earlier this year. I'm fairly sure the other distributions have done or are doing the same. So basically you now have 2 years to upgrade your OS and to pester the vendors of commercial software to do the same.
Like someone else said, it will be 2 very busy years, but we can survive this.
That's the thing though: It was well-prepared and due to that there was no big issue.
2038 is the same: very well prepared and thus it will not be a big issue.
Of course, if ignored, both would be very problematic, but that's not the point.
Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data
Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
: Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoffLindsay Clark (The Register)
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It's mostly just 2 or 3 MAGA zealots trying to pretend to be a, "disinterested third-party denizen that doesn't believe the mainstream, so they can't make a solid judgment on Trump or his actions until they have a dinner conversation with him in private."
I'm so very tired of shills and cultists.
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They prefer the term Hams and love to remind people (in morris code of course) that not all heroes wear capes.
Hams are responsible for helping out in just about every natural disaster, war, power outage and anything else where a cellphone signal cannot be had.
In truth though, hams are just a bunch of likeminded nerds with a love of the airwaves.
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Fun fact! I'm studying for my amateur radio technician license and learned that ham came from calling amateur telegraph operators' sloppy work 'ham-fisted'. The amateur radio community decided to lean into it, and thus the ham radio operator was born
I'll assume FCC Technician license; it's a fun hobby. I have had a General license since the 1990s when the FCC still required a proficiency in morris code. At a cost of $35 to renew and the ability to have a cellphone alternative while traveling long distance by car, it's worth keeping.
Have fun, find your Ham niche and enjoy it for the rest of your life!
Russia to fine people for searching for 'extremist' content
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Just another brick in the wall.
And to think that some people still bristle when I say Russia hasn't been a democracy for a long time.
But hey, all the best to the protestors. In that political climate, it's an act of selfless heroism.
Russia's Ministry of Justice's list of extremist materials spans more than 500 pages and contains over 5,000 entries. These include songs that praise Ukraine and blog posts by the feminist rock band Pussy Riot.
Creating Your First Game with Ebitengine (Go game engine)
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Rilasciato Linux 6.16: prestazioni migliori, NVIDIA Blackwell Open Source e Intel APX
Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX
As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stablewww.phoronix.com
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Russia’s VK unveils WeChat clone built on Putin’s orders: the app has mic and camera access, gathers user data, and shares it with the state
Russia’s VK unveils WeChat clone built on Putin’s orders: the app has mic and camera access, gathers user d...
On June 4, during a meeting with government officials, Vladimir Putin stated that all public services must be moved to the national messenger app called MaxThe Insider
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Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest
Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest
Tourists greeted on Syros by banner saying Stop the Genocide and prevented from disembarkingHelena Smith (The Guardian)
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Good. Fuck them. Evil bastards.
They are feasting while they starve millions to death a few miles away.
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If Greece was doing what Israel is doing and my fellow Greek electors were responsible for electing for 20 years in free and fair elections the government that does it AND they were polling the government coalition responsible for doing it first for the next election AND in opinion polls overwhelmingly supported the genocide and I was one of the few brave souls doing the protesting, not only would I be ok with the conflation, I would be encouraging.
Holding autocracies to account is easy: send the dictator to the Hague.
Holding democracies (even flawed ones like Israel's) to account is harder.
That's what I've been saying this whole time! Watch people find a reason for racism :/ genocide is abhorrent, but can we really say we should hold everyone accountable by association?
Interact with real people from Israel and suddenly there's a lot more to it than "Israeli bad"
Bet Americans would appreciate the same grace
Canada is still selling weapons to Israel via loopholes (i.e. selling them to the US who then passes them on to Israel.)
readthemaple.com/canada-sold-1…
Canada Sold $18.9 Million Of Military Goods To Israel, Despite ‘Pause’
Canadian companies sold $18.9 million of military goods to Israel in 2024.Alex Cosh (The Maple)
Israel exists because there wasn't anywhere in the world that would grant Jews asylum in WW2. Rejecting boatloads of Jews is continuing the strong case for the need for a Jewish state.
And you can't call Jews living in Israel "colonists" as if they can "go back to Europe" now. They can't leave Israel now,
On one hand there's a large number of people that want to "wipe Israel off the map" and on the other hand we have European countries not allowing Jews to enter. So what is the meaning behind "wipe Israel off the map" now?
I used to think a Jewish state wasn't necessary, though I didn't have a problem with there being one. I figured we'd never go back to a to the dark times of the past. But now I'm absolutely convinced that a Jewish state is 100% necessary. So... congratulations, protesters?
They didn't even use the word "Jew" in their reply. So why are you conflating the 2?
Holy mental gymnastics, Batman.
The thing is with dog whistles is that the people that use them think they're being clever and fooling everyone. But it doesn't really fool anyone, and those that use the dog whistles pretend to be offended when you start talking about the subject they're really talking about.
Seen it hundreds of times with the MAGAs and y'all are no different from them.
Elimination of Israel != elimination of the people living there.
Quite the opposite; Israel, as a settler colonial project, necessitates the elimination of many of the people living there.
We're in a thread under an article celebrating how Israelis aren't welcome in other countries.
So that indicates eliminating Israel isn't just about ethnically cleansing Jews from the area, since you don't want there to be anywhere else for them to go. So what does "eliminating Israel" mean now?
Who cares about what you think, you're a genocide denialist. There's zero point in wasting time talking with pedophiles about the merits of fucking kids.
Israelis are very welcome to turn themself in to international justice and get trialed for their war crimes.
Also:
Israeli=/=Israeli government
I don't care if you think all Israeli's approve of their government, ultimately those are different things.
I hear this a lot, but I don't think it's the gotcha people claim it is. Most genocide in the modern day tries to aim for economic strangling by eliminating/stealing what few opportunities exist for some populations. See, for instance, the IDF's efforts to starve Gaza rather than shoot every single Palestinian. Or fascist America's efforts to deny jobs (even the ones that are not in competition) to disabled or minorities.
I don't see it as "I'ma move and get rich", I see it as "I'ma move and not starve on the street".
That's sadly not true, at least in Europe: since most people cannot enter legally, they have to resort to illegal way, and smuggler know this, and strangle them with bribes, extra fees etc. Most "trips" to enter through Italy for example for this reason cost thousands of dollars, not something a poverty stricken family can afford. Most economic migrants are from middle class in their own countries, who are attracted by the false promises of TV shows about how everyone in Europe or other countries depict themselves, but again, are decently well of on their own countries. Source for prices: International migration and illegal costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe smuggling routes - ScienceDirect share.google/YgcY5iFUeuZLvPmPH
For the US, on the other hand, since you have a river vs a desert + sea, can be a lot cheaper
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I don’t even see a justification for the need to put these departments more closely under the control of the executive
False corruption charges are frequently used by insurgencies and foreign influence operations to undermine legitimate governance. I'm not saying it is or isn't a legitimate concern in this case but, if it were, we definitely wouldn't know the exact reasons. Given Russia's history of using foreign influence as a weapon of war and, in particular, their history of doing so in Ukraine, I can definitely understand the concern.
Of course real corruption can't go unanswered because of the possibility of trumped up charges. It's a tricky bit of business to get right.
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in reply to RandAlThor • • •Article assumes every single person in Gaza needs aid of 3 meals per day, i.e. are 100% aid dependant
I'm not sure that's true but it might end up that way if Israel continues as it is
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in reply to ryannathans • • •It is true.
Israel has enacted a total blockade on Gaza. Even before the full blown genocide Israel already starved Gaza for years by limiting calories allowed to enter.
Israel is killing fishermen off the coast of Gaza and systematically destroyed agriculture in Gaza since 2023.
The point you refer to has been reached about two month ago. This is why now people drop in the streets from starvation.
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