Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
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Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
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Aug 29, 2025A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demandin…jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demandin…jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Maker of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile facing corruption probe
Exclusive: Maker of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile facing corruption probe
Ukraine's anti-corruption agency has been investigating the country's star deep-strike drone company — Fire Point — over concerns it misled the government on pricing and deliveries, five sources with knowledge of the investigation told the Kyiv Indep…Kollen Post (The Kyiv Independent)
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Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
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Aug 29, 2025
Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza'
"Our boats carry more than aid. They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
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Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025
Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza'
"Our boats carry more than aid. They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025
Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza'
"Our boats carry more than aid. They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Its not suicide if you die from defacto slave labor to create cheap products. Since this strategy of state-subsidised factories, normally operating a massive net loss, being employed to undermine economies around the world in exchange for dependence on China, a workers suicide could be ruled a MIA since its economic warfare. Not suicide.
~ The Chinese government, probably
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‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people
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- Hacker News.
:::‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people
Young people who are being abused or neglected are more likely to turn to informal online support systems than to authorities.The Conversation
Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.
Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
From the outside looking in, it can sometimes feel unclear as to what steps the Social Web Foundation is taking to achieve its goals. The non-profit organization’s About Page states lofty ambitions, such as bringing together implementers to build tools, policies, and protocols to advance the Fediverse. The Projects Page includes End-to-End Encryption, a Fediverse Starter Page, GDPR Compliance, and Long-Form Text.However, the SWF has been working on several interesting projects outside of these stated scopes, and it’s something Evan Prodromou has been bullish about: leveraging the ActivityPub Client-to-Server API. Historically, this piece of the ActivityPub protocol is rarely ever implemented, due to complexity as well as the fact that Mastodon’s own client API has seen widespread adoption.
A quick ActivityPub C2S primer
To really understand the C2S API, we have to go back in time to when the protocol was being developed. The basic concept was that any ActivityPub implementation would effectively act as a generic server, with clients providing unique experiences. Compared to Mastodon’s dedicated API, C2S isn’t explicitly limited to microblogging or statuses. Instead, clients dispatch activities to and from an Actor’s inbox and outbox.
Instead of every new social experience in the Fediverse acting as a bespoke server, the C2S API instead lets a wide range of clients interact with an instance. Instances no longer become specific delegates of what activities can or cannot be used. C2S opens the floodgates for any kind of application to hook in to a Fediverse account. Instead of an instance doing all the hard work, clients would handle much of the advanced logic themselves.
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There is a meaningful parallel to ActivityPub C2S, and oddly enough, it can be found within the AT Protocol’s ecosystem. Boris Mann presents a fantastic talk that shows radically different sets of apps that all do very different things, some of which have their own social graphs, leverage unique kinds of data, or offer interactions not available in other places.
Social Login
Setting aside unique applications for a moment, one of the key killer-features that ActivityPub C2S could offer the Fediverse is a coherent and streamlined login system for any Fediverse account.
I don’t know what this thing would look like or what we would collectively call it, but here’s some ideas.
This idea is actually not new. Pump.io, the prototype that largely became a foundation for ActivityPub’s design, offered the ability for people to remotely sign in to any other Pump server, using the account that was local to them. This was initially designed to let people interact with remote objects that their own instances had not yet collected.
Pump crawled so that ActivityPub could run.
The idea of a unified method for Social Web logins is extremely compelling. Right now, a lot of Fediverse apps offer platform-specific sign-on, leveraging a bunch of different APIs.
GreatApe, an upcoming media platform, offers four different ways to log in through the Fediverse.
The upside of this approach means that more apps and services can just let people sign in with their remote accounts, without creating a local account there. The downside is that it adds to the maintenance pile, because of how many different platforms exist within the Fediverse today.
What is the SWF is working on?
There are a few experimental areas where the Social Web Foundation is focusing on building up, so let’s talk about them. The main thing to understand is that these are building blocks, meant for iterative development and discussion with the wider community. As time has gone on, these projects have become more ambitious, and exist to showcase what’s possible with the C2S API.Places.Pub – GeoSocial Data
Places.pub is an attempt to marry OpenStreetMap data with ActivityPub by using specific GeoSocial parts of ActivityStreams. More specifically, it uses these vocabulary words for activities:Travel
,Arrive
, andLeave
.One important need for geosocial software is that all objects in ActivityPub, including Place objects, need to have a permanent URL as theirid
property, which shares the description of that object in Activity Streams 2.0 format. However, there isn’t a good dataset of geographical objects — countries, states or provinces or regions, cities, buildings, businesses, parks, streets — available in AS2 on the Web right now. That is slowing down experimentation in the Geosocial Task Force.Evan Prodromou, Blog Entry
Interestingly, Places.Pub operates as a hosted service by the SWF, and allows developers to connect to it using the C2S API. It simply acts as a repository of places, represented as ActivityPub objects.CheckIn – An Example Client for Using GeoSocial Data
Checkin is the example client developed specifically for interacting with Places.Pub. It’s a relatively simple app, but the intention is to demonstrate a proof-of-concept to the community.
Something like this could be used to build a Foursquare-style GeoSocial app, powered entirely by open APIs and protocols. As a bonus, the client-first approach here would mean that developers wouldn’t necessarily have to take on the burden of building a full-stack Foursquare clone with a server backend and federation.
ReactivityPub
Although this is still in the tentative stages, ReactivityPub is an upcoming effort to integrate the ActivityPub C2S API directly into the React framework. It may or may not be related to the ap-components project, which intends to offer a toolkit for rendering and representing ActivityPub data using Web Components.OnePage – A one-page ActivityPub Server
OnePage.pub is more of a personal project by Evan Prodromou, but could eventually be moved under the SWF project umbrella. Effectively, this acts as a headless server that’s primarily intended for the ActivityPub C2S API. It can be used to log into the CheckIn example client.Why is this important?
At face value, all of these developments might not appear to mean much. However, these are significant because it shows the SWF taking a progressive approach on several fronts. It showcases the benefits of a long-neglected API, while attempting to address several wide-spread design issues that affect the network. If the organization can continue to build libraries, tooling, and other resources, they might be able to drum up further interest in making C2S possible.
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Seriously tho, this is floating around the socials right now...
I don't want to get my hopes up, but I can taste the champagne already...
I don't know how someone can live that long eating that kind of diet. On the upside though, if they give him an enema before he dies they can bury him in a matchbox 😁.
(Stole that from Christopher Hitchens).
Big if true, but this unfortunately just seems like wild speculation.
There's articles going back to before the election talking about how Trump hasn't been seen in several days. I couldn't find anything more recent than June. He apparently has a habit of flaking on commitments, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
I don't know how unfortunate this would be. Vance will be president and Thiel will still control the US.
I know it is unlikely but I still want a trial for Trump.
The cult of personality losing its figurehead would cause a significant amount of people to have second thoughts.
That might be enough of a push to get the ball rolling.
You are right. There are people that do love Trump for just being Trump. This is just a guess since I have no data to back this up but those people probably would vote for his kids.
The second is the theory that people that voted for Trump are simply fascists. That means they would just vote for the next fascists.
There are several people that can fit these criterias. That might still be big enough to win the next election.
On top of that the younger generation is getting more radical MAGA. The Supreme Court is still MAGA. And gerrymandering will be worse.
I still have hope but my logical side seems very pessimistic right now.
i'm trying to remember what i eat for the stankiest shits hold on
edit: i'ma go ask the wife
Thoughts and prayers.
Thoughts: please be real please be real
Prayers: oh god please make this real it would be so funny
MAGA is a Cult of Personality, and won't survive Trump's death. The administration will try to hold it together, but it will very quickly devolve into ferocious backstabbing, leaks, allegations, accusations, etc. A lot of people are important to Trump who will be useless to Vance, like Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller, and they won't give up their power easily. It will take no longer than 48 hours for it to start to fall apart.
Dems would be wise to stoke the fire with questions like "Are you going to let him say that about you?"
The street level MAGAs will instantly start spreading conspiracy theories about who killed him. At first they'll blame liberals, but soon they'll turn on the new Vance administration, especially if Dems encourage it.
At the same time, every Sociopathic Oligarch will take advantage of the societal chaos, and use whatever mechanisms they have to make money.
If you think things are crazy now, just wait until Trump croaks.
I doubt it very much. These morons love Trump, and Trump alone. I've seen no evidence that they see Jr, or anybody else, as a worthy substitute. Some will go there, but most won't. The Right will be splintered badly as various factions and ambitious candidates fight for control.
It will be entertaining for a while.
He's the new Marshall Tito.
"Doctors hope that if his condition improves, they can declare him dead by next week."
Denmark issues first apology over forced contraception of Greenlandic women
Denmark issues first apology over forced contraception of Greenlandic women
Prime minister admits ‘systemic discrimination’ after thousands of girls and women fitted with IUDs without consentMiranda Bryant (The Guardian)
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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.Shiona McCallum (BBC News)
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Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin's circle....
Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and "efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you," according to The New York Times.
Whole new dimensions of creepiness from Trump's best friend.
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including a ranch to breed women with his DNA
wtf is with the gen-x broligarchy’s hyper-natalism? your genes aren’t special, dorks. you just happened to be in the right place at the right time and won the internet lottery. everything after that just came from having a scrooge mcduck pool of wealth, not because you’re a a special boy.
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Tech titans like Elon Musk want to save earth by having tons of children
In the underground world of pronatalism, the elite think it's their duty to fill the earth with their kids — and are funding tech to make it happen.Julia Black (Business Insider)
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It's fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch. They're really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they'll never learn.
Also, their whole sense of self-worth ties in with the story that they got where they are through merit, not luck. And the willingness of society to listen to success stories of the wealthy and ignore stories of the non-wealthy means they benefit from its myth-making and financial survivorship bias.
Epstein clearly had other deeply messed up shit going on too though.
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Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public spaceHelena Horton (The Guardian)
So short, and thanks for all the flinch | From Gnome Foundation's recently departed Executive Director
So short, and thanks for all the flinch
As the board announced earlier today, I will be stepping down from the Executive Director role this week. It's been an interesting four months. If you haven't been following my work with the...Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)
I bricked my drive. Help.
I wanted to install Aeon. In a youtube video, the dev said it's increadibly easy. It even asks if you want to backup existing users and it leaves their home folder as is. This info was backed up by the docs.
Once I clicked on "install now" it reminded me that there is no going back once it starts installing the system. I clicked on OK because usually the installation process starts at the end of the configuration phase.
It then loaded, and I feared that it really erases everything now and not after configurartion. I stopped the process by shutting down the computer.
The computer does not detect any filesystem. It should be ext4 if I remember correctly. fsck yields no result. It suggests using two different blocks but with no success. I can't mount anything. Hence I also can't fix grub.
Did I just erase my disk within one second? If so, I can just continue. If not, I'd like to backup some stuff. (Most is backed up, but not the most recent stuff)
Fsck is not a tool to find lost partitions or partition tables. Start from a Live USB stick (or one of the data rescue linux systems) and see what your harddisk/ssd looks like. Maybe the data is still there. If it's gone, try if a tool like testdisk finds your old partitions / old data.
There are some recovery tools available: wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_…
Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? / Yea
Hey Little Man Hows It Goin? refers to the webcomic "A True Conversationalist" by comic artist Mysillycomics in which a person attempts asks a baby how it is going, and responds to its gibberish by saying "yea.Philipp (Know Your Meme)
afaik: short for janitor, and intended to be derogatory when used towards mods or admins.
I think it might have been popularized on 4chan? Idk that’s the context I’ve seen it in most and it fits their MO of shitting on people for working jobs or contributing to society at all.
Seems like a pretty shitty attempt at an insult imo tho, cuz a mod and a janitor basically do the same function (cleaning the shit so nobody else has to deal with it, ensuring the place is actually nice for users) and both are critical for public places but underappreciated/underpaid.
those wetlands are such a waste of space, why do we even care about them?they can stop tanks in their tracks
oh if it is war related then here
Why do we take military threat more seriously than the threat of our planet literally becoming uninhabitable for our species? Won't be much left to defend when that happens eh?
Seriously, I genuinely think this is the great filter. We KNOW it's happening yet we're still doing it.
" conversationalist"?
You're using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
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GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
A pair of House Republicans is moving forward with an investigation that will seek to reveal the identities of Wikipedia editors who have edited articles to include information that portrays Israel negatively. The representatives asked Wikimedia's CEO, Maryana Iskander, for "assistance in obtaining documents and communications regarding individuals (or specific accounts) serving as Wikipedia volunteer editors who violated Wikipedia platform policies as well as your own efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into important and sensitive topics."
Of chief concern to the legislators is investigating Wikipedia's handling of content related to Israel. They cited a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pro-Israel lobbying group, which the legislators said "raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the state of Israel."
The ADL report makes the allegation that 30 "bad-faith" Wikipedia editors, whose identities are not public, were collaborating to edit pages about the Israel-Palestine conflict by "spotlighting criticism of Israel and downplaying Palestinian terrorist violence and antisemitism," and in the process violating Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality.
GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
A pair of House Republicans is moving forward with an investigation that will seek to reveal the identities of Wikipedia editors who have edited articles to include information that portrays Israel negatively. The representatives asked Wikimedia's CEO, Maryana Iskander, for "assistance in obtaining documents and communications regarding individuals (or specific accounts) serving as Wikipedia volunteer editors who violated Wikipedia platform policies as well as your own efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into important and sensitive topics."
Of chief concern to the legislators is investigating Wikipedia's handling of content related to Israel. They cited a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pro-Israel lobbying group, which the legislators said "raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the state of Israel."
The ADL report makes the allegation that 30 "bad-faith" Wikipedia editors, whose identities are not public, were collaborating to edit pages about the Israel-Palestine conflict by "spotlighting criticism of Israel and downplaying Palestinian terrorist violence and antisemitism," and in the process violating Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality.
GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald | Gnome Foundation's Executive Director leaves after just 4 months
Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
Steven Deobald has been in the post of GNOME Foundation Executive Director for the past four months, during which time he has made major contributions to both the Foundation and the wider GNOME...Allan (Form and Function)
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He probbaly didn't realise the committment involved.
Sitting in someones front garden, on the edge of a pond with a red pointy hat, with a fishing rod, for days on end, can be very tiring.
Then you got the cats pissing on you and the birds landing on your head.
Its no fun, I can tell you.
Its tough being a gnome
Who is the guy and how did he get that position?
I'm guessing he's just a businessman that was hired based on connections or "credentials"? Does he have any connection with the free software space at all?
We need to keep scumbags like that as far away from the ecosystem as possible. They are leeches and will take advantage of our ignorance if we let them.
I have practically no respect for the gnome project at this point, so it wouldn't surprise me if this guy was brought in because the gnome foundation wants to emulate proprietary software companies.
Looking at his list of contributions, he didn't do much but probably sucked up a fat paycheck.
GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director
We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone for the GNOME Foundation as we welcome Holly Million to our team as the new Executive Director. Holly is a multi-talented individual with a...GNOME Foundation
“Nothing More Than a Piece of Paper”: Armenians Displaced From Nagorno-Karabakh Say New Peace Accord With Azerbaijan Abandons Rights and Accountability
Emily Wilder
Aug 27, 2025
In September 2023, after years of alleged abuses by Azerbaijani forces against Armenian civilians and soldiers—including beheadings and torture—and a 9-month Azerbaijani military blockade of movement and humanitarian aid into the region, Azerbaijan began shelling the capital city of Stepanakert and other areas of Nagorno-Karabakh for two days. Following the surprise bombardment, Azerbaijan opened the one road from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia, and in the course of ten days, over 100,000 Armenians fled—an event that human rights experts described as ethnic cleansing, even genocide. Only a few dozen Armenian people remain in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to representatives, while the rest have resettled in Armenia, Russia, and elsewhere.
“Nothing More Than a Piece of Paper”: Armenians Displaced From Nagorno-Karabakh Say New Peace Accord With Azerbaijan Abandons Rights and Accountability
Trump’s gestural peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan ignores the conflict’s main victims from Nagorno-Karabakh and excludes their right to return home.Emily Wilder (Drop Site News)
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Russia & China are destroying us, openly, and we haven't done anything about it
- The Israel-Hamas conflict (and a genocide) is a distraction from Russia and Iran (yes, they disregard human lives that much), to avoid people from figuring out their plans, keeping a far-right Israeli government, and distracting from Ukraine. It also allows for Iran (and thus Russia) to test against missile and drone defense systems in Israel (that are the best anyway, therefore anything that passes will shred through any Western nation).
- Climate change isn't ignored; rather, it is done purposely. If farming fails, we will be in starvation, allowing them to take us out/dominate us much more easily. Additionally, there are studies that prove an increased temperature leads to lower productivity, thus proving this hypothesis further — and Russia won't feel as big of an impact there, especially in winter.
- The “AI” hype is being funded by both Russia and China, to lower our critical thinking, also allowing us to be tricked and attacked more easily. Furthermore, it increases the speed of climate change, and takes away even more clean water from us. This allows them to be able to poison our waters much more easily, since only a select few freshwater points will be out there,
"Israel-Hamas conflict"
How to spot an astroturfer 101:
- doesn't use the term Palestine or Gaza
- Says conflict instead of genocide.
US blocks Palestinian officials from attending UNGA as countries prepare to recognize Palestine
The US has revoked visas for Palestinian officials, barring them from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, a move that comes as several Western countries prepare to recognize a Palestinian state.
“In accordance with US law, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly,” the State Department said in a statement on Friday.
It said that the PA Mission to the UN will receive waivers per the UN Headquarters Agreement.
The agency accused PLO and PA of failing to repudiate terrorism, inciting violence, and pursuing “international lawfare campaigns” through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ)
US blocks Palestinian officials from attending UNGA as countries prepare to recognize Palestine
The US has revoked visas for Palestinian officials, barring them from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, a move that comes as several Western countries prepare to recognize a Palestinian state.
“In accordance with US law, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly,” the State Department said in a statement on Friday.
It said that the PA Mission to the UN will receive waivers per the UN Headquarters Agreement.
The agency accused PLO and PA of failing to repudiate terrorism, inciting violence, and pursuing “international lawfare campaigns” through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.
The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was put on hold pending a compliance review to make sure it adhered to an executive order that restricts the US government’s use of spyware, Wired reported at the time.
That pause has now been lifted, according to public procurement documents, which list US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as the contracting agency.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweaponsStephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
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Found an article that says this software is usually in-memory only and restarting regularly will purge it (obviously you could get reinfected): ~~zdnet.com/article/is-meta-secr…
Edit: wrong article, someone replied with the correct one
Every early morning. Mine is right before my alarm goes off, so the notification sounds just meld.
Also, no one should be using biometric data to log into thier phones. 6 digit pin isn't very obtrusive once you get used to it
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6 digit pin will be broken in less than 40 minutes by a graybox. A 6-digit pin is way more vulnerable than someone who uses a 30-digit password + biometrics
edit: sorry it’s instantly in 2025 hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-…
Are Your Passwords in the Green?
Passwords that felt secure a year ago might not hold up in 2025. Hive Systems’ updated Password Table reveals just how much faster hackers can break into accounts today.Corey Neskey (Hive Systems)
Sure bro, put a 30 character password into your phone every time you want to find the nearest fucking coffee shop.
edit: I guess I should explain. I'm into privacy not necessarily absolute security. If a cop wants in my phone I forgot my PIN. There's no biometric to get into it so he's going to have to get a warrant if he wants anything to actually stick. With face ID he just holds it up to my face. With fingerprint he can force my finger onto the sensor. In the USA, don't know about Europe.
No? I quint-click my power button through my pocket any time there’s even a whiff of sketch. Now biometrics are 100% off. And even if a cop was holding my phone I’d have to open my eyes, keep one shut at all times and after 2 bad scans biometrics turn off completely.
I don’t understand your argument in the least, maybe you could read about how current biometrics work and give me your feedback once you’re caught up?
I just needed this info out there, I don’t really care what you do - I just need to make sure Lemmy stays safe and you’re spouting leaky insecurity disguised as best practices.
Best of luck
I think I just leaked a little right now. I don't believe you have a 30 character unlock on your phone. That doesn't make sense on a device someone uses multiple times a day in one hand at like a bus stop or something.
And I'm no security professional, just some dumbass out in the street.
+ biometrics
This means you only enter the password when your phone restarts, you access specific settings, or I think one or two other rare cases. Personally I only need to enter my pin maybe once a week
What the actual fuck>!><!>>!>!
Are you assholes actually inputting 24+characters plus biometrics into your phone to unlock it?
Fuck you, no you are not.
Of course I do. FaceID allows me to input it exactly once a week, sometimes less.
What don’t you understand?
The linked article doesn’t mention whether it can bypass the max attempt lockout or not. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the article you linked does nothing to support your claim.
That said, an alphanumeric password is certainly more secure than a PIN, no doubt.
After I didn't see the mentioned content I looked around Zdnet, and I think you might have meant to link this article instead:
zdnet.com/article/rebooting-yo…
Bad click, it happens. Good article, though. Thanks!
Rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click attacks - here's why
Phone hacking technologies are getting stealthier. It's time to treat your phone like a computer, says this cybersecurity expert.Matene Toure (ZDNET)
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Updated Cellebrite Google Pixel Matrix Leak February 2025
GrapheneOS is still not vulnerable to Cellebrite device exploitation as of the February 2025 support matrix which have leaked online in multiple places.Privacy Guides Community
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I mean imo everyone's threat model should be at least their local police if not the national authorities. Local cops have cellebrite. Only the latest pixel is secure before first unlock on this chart.
I'm finna go dumbphone in a Faraday bag.
Yeah, don't blame the brownshirts kicking teeth in, blame the government that hires them /s
They volunteered for this, they can sleep in the pit for it in the end.
Sure, I get the "just following orders" criticism, my point is that killing ICE agents wouldn't solve anything. I imagine many of them joined long before the crackdown started and are there to arrest actually bad people (i.e. cartel members) and don't like the direction the current admin is going. There are also plenty of people who support this nonsense too.
Regardless, attacking the people following orders doesn't change the orders, we should be attacking the top.
I understand your point, but these people know what they're signing up for and why they're putting in the uniform every day. We shouldn't pretend these people are in anyway innocent or not culpable for their crimes. Regardless of orders, these are people who are willingly causing pain, suffering and death to innocents.
Fuck them. Fuck their bosses. None of them get any credit or sympathy. I don't care if they started when ice was formed, they know what their orders are and are still there, what they signed up for is entirely immaterial. Also, ice was shit from the start, so even less sympathy from me.
Regardless, attacking the people following orders doesn't change the orders, we should be attacking the top.
Making people hesitant to throw in with the brownshirts for fear of social reprisal is a perfectly valid strategy for attacking the top. Make less people want to participate in their crimes makes it harder for them to do crimes.
Make less people want to participate in their crimes makes it harder for them to do crimes.
No, it just means the reasonable people will leave and it'll attract the types who actually agree with it. There will always be more people to take those jobs.
The real solution is changing the leadership and laws.
That's a much smaller pool of people than those who may willingly go along with it but object otherwise.
Stop giving thugs a pass for being thugs, just because their bosses are shit. You can attack both, this isn't some kind of mutually exclusive action.
This is the original comment (not you):
Only good Ice agent is a dead one.
This is your reply:
They volunteered for this, they can sleep in the pit for it in the end.
That sounds to me like you're happy if one of them gets killed. That's not directly advocating for murder, but it's pretty close IMO.
The proper process is through a trial and a change in the law, and probably a change in leadership.
My original point was that blaming the agents misses the point, if they're unwilling to follow orders, people who are willing will be hired. The real problem is the orders and the people given them. Individual agents may have some culpability, but focusing on that won't solve the problem.
The fuck? How?
"Just following orders" isn't a valid excuse. We know this from history.
I never said it was.
My point is that killing the soldier doesn't change the orders, they'll just find another soldier. If one soldier isn't willing to follow orders, they'll find another that is.
You were kind of making the same defense though...
The implication was that we shouldn't blame the soldiers because they weren't the ones who made the decision.
That's not how this works.
No, the implication is that targeting ICE agents doesn't solve the problem. I'm not saying that ICE agents should be immune from the law, I'm saying that the root of the problem is the orders. If some ICE agents refuse to follow orders, they'll be replaced by those who will follow them, just like a murder will replace a gun if it doesn't function properly.
The focus should be on the source of the problems, which is a mix of the law and the leadership. We should certainly hold ICE agents accountable for any laws they break, but targeting them w/ violence shouldn't be the focus.
If they fear actual consequences, then less people will be willing to join.
They are literal extrajudicial fascist brownshirts that want my friends and neighbors dead. These are actual people under those masks, and they need to understand that their actions have consequences. I'm not saying people should go out and kill them, but I'm saying that they need to fear that.
You can focus on both my dude.
No, recruitment will just focus on hiring people that are okay with those circumstances, which means people with less empathy and quicker to use force. I'm not implying we should ignore illegal actions by ICE agents (we should absolutely hold them legally accountable), I'm just saying that it's not likely to solve the problem w/o changes to the law and/or the leadership, especially given how the courts tend to give law enforcement officers a pass.
As people target ICE agents more and more w/ violence, the more violence they'll use in response. Violence begets violence, and that's not going to solve the problem.
What we need are lawsuits challenging the legality of their actions, and ideally criminal charges against the leadership making illegal orders. We need to pressure our representatives to change the law. We need to protest peacefully and get positive media coverage so our voices cannot be ignored. Violence isn't going to solve it.
Sure, and what will adding more violence accomplish? What has violent opposition ever accomplished? Unless we're willing to wage a full on revolution (which would have different targets), all that'll happen is more people will die and we'll justify the rhetoric that these are "bad people" with "gang affiliations." The more "success" you have opposing ICE, the more justified the admin will be in using the National Guard and maybe even the federal military.
None of that sounds like progress to me. Working through the system takes longer, but I do think it's more likely to be successful.
And what way is that?
For example, Spain became a liberal democracy after the death of Fernando Franco. Alberto Fujimori of Peru was forced out due to public outcry over a corruption scandal during the runoff for his third term. Silvio Berlusconi of Italy resigned after a budget bill he pushed for was rejected. None of those involved a violent overthrow.
Sometimes that's the only option (i.e. Nazi Germany and Italy under Mussolini), but not always.
For the Democrats/liberals who think they're leftist in the room, note that this done by Biden, how it was put on hold for review so that news spread and pacifies the anger, and how it came back stronger when you forgot about it. And now Democrats will shrug and say "Trump is in charge, we're powerles."
Democrats are not your friends, they are not a lesser evil, we need a revolution.
Not defending democrats here, but it says it was halted pending reviews. I would say at least the democrats have some sense of following rules, while under the Trump administration, these were immediately lifted.
Make of it what you will, but it’s pretty clear that following the laws/rules is a thing of the past in the US of A.
Dems didn't invent ice.
Nor Epstein
Nor trump.
Voters need to take some culpability to their own mistakes here and stop blaming it on anyone else but themselves for this shit show they created.
It's funny how one immigrant country is "securing homeland" from another immigrant country. At some point in the late XIX century US, Argentina, Brazil seemed similarly attractive directions for the "give me your tired ..." thing.
I had two books called "anthology of romantic and adventure", pretty much only centered around sea travel, it had both poetry of a fascist Russian white movement member who was a submariner and "Tamango" by Merimee and Vysotsky's songs and Poe's short horror stories and Melville's "Benito Sereno" racist story, in general a pretty equal mix of radical views of life, honestly, both the good and the bad ones.
So - it's mostly rather old stuff, as you might guess, and the image of all those overseas colonized lands is somehow similar and blended. Now you wouldn't think that there's much similarity between USA and Brazil and Argentina, LOL.
OK, I just got carried away. Perhaps that moment when your whole country started feeling "settled" is when the bad things started accumulating (other than lynchings of blacks and lobotomies of autists, I mean). And started feeling less of a union and more of one country.
EDIT: Forgot South Africa.
The Democratic Leadership knew the position we were in, yet they still refused to run a popular campaign offering any real reforms or attacking anyone increasingly gouging us and ran as the status quo while the Republicans ran as reform.
We all knew the voters did not know better. The responsibility is in the establishments corner. Three presidential shit shows in a row and they are brushing off the old Hillary Clinton excuses blaming voters as if that would justify letting them stay in control of the party.
By running as they do they doom us to the Republicans. I do not see how that is hard for you to understand. Being better than the other guy is not enough to win elections, you should have realized that in 2016 at the latest, yet here we are approaching 2028 and you are still advocating for this doomed to fail policy despite being one election away from a permanently rigged system for a one-party state?
And make no mistake it will be rigged every way it can be but 2028 we have a chance to take it from them in the succession fight. Not with the establishment leaders we have though.
“Doom us to republicans”
No this is bullshit as you’re choosing to vilify one for what the other is doing. If you blame your mistake on choosing worse for yourself and blame someone for your choice it is you to blame. It’s what enablers do to protect their abuser. You are speaking like a Stockholm syndrome right now.
This. This is why you’re rigged right now. This is all on you for not holding republicans accountable for doing what they do. Blaming dems isn’t going to save you. You’re nothing more than an idiot if you thought this victimhood bullshit was ever going to get you saved rn. Do better.
You framing everyone as is critical of the opposition party as voting for the party and Power gives lie to your argument. That is an ad hominem you learned from the party in power and the opposition party.
And you did not answer the point, it is unanswerable so it makes sense you resort to ad hominems. By not being popular and running as the status quo in an Ever devolving plutocracy, the Democrats Doom us to Republican rule. That is evident.
And for anyone else, anywhere in the world.
Giving governments tools to fight crime that can also invade your privacy is a sure path to governments invading your privacy for any reason they deem righteous. If not the current one, surely the next one.
No no, anytime someone criticizes a democrat it's because they love Trump. The democrats are infallible and above reproach you see, so the only reason you'd say anything they ever did was bad it's because you're a nazi childkiller who wants a dictator.
It's probably not dangerous at all that we've positioned the US as either "uncritical support of the dems or you're a nazi," letting a party become unquestionable is good for sure, nothing bad could ever come of that.
I, for one, unquestionably support whatever group gets me upvotes on social media. Gavin Newsom to the moon!
Seriously though, neither party seems interested in fielding a good candidate. My request isn't ridiculous, I just want someone who loves democracy and wants to make things better for Americans and the world.
I'm not a fan of Bernie Sanders' policies, but I would've voted for him had he won in 2016. I'm not a fan of many of Ron Paul's policies, but again, I would've voted for him. Those two are polar opposites, but I believe both would do what they think is best for Americans and the world. But no, we got Clinton and Trump...
I just want someone who wants to serve the country, but instead they serve themselves and their party.
Oddly I agree, I'd have voted for either of those opposites as well. Though, I do agree with both of them on some things, and disagree with both of them on others.
Ideally I'd actually have them run together and temper each other's views a little to land somewhere more reasonable, but no we have to pick from the two of the worst, most self serving people available instead.
Historically, NSO has avoided selling to US-based clients and was banned by the US Commerce Department under President Joe Biden's administration for allegedly supplying spyware to authoritarian governments. However, shifting political dynamics under the Trump administration raised the possibility that spyware could become more prevalent in the United States, exacerbating mobile exploitation
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Rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click attacks - here's why
Phone hacking technologies are getting stealthier. It's time to treat your phone like a computer, says this cybersecurity expert.Matene Toure (ZDNET)
Blaming it on dems that you voted Republican?
It’s your finger on the trigger with the gun to your own head. That's not biden’s. This is how people with mental illness sociopathy reason their actions. Manipulation and unreasonable rules that never hold themselves accountable to themselves.
I'll just vote third party or avoiding voting altogether if democrats run a corporate stooge.
If this bothers you, target your frustrations towards those who keep nominating them.
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Complaining to me is a waste of time, energy, and only serves to make yourself feel good while doing nothing effective.
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Not a spoiler: Complaining the way of blaming one evil for you doing another evil is not effective either.
Go back to soiling your diapers.
Complaining the way of blaming one evil for you doing another evil is not effective either.
Try not to have a stroke.
When politicians say "israel is our greatest ally" they aren't lying.
Their definition of "our" just doesn't include us
I read somewhere about AL being so racists because that’s where all the Nazi scientists went who started working on the space program.
No idea if it’s true. Pretty sure the south was balls deep in slavery before that, but it does make some sense.
I already know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask if anyway.
How did we go from the most paranoid group of people choosing death over vaccinations bc of government surveillance conspiracies, literally storming the capital in an uprising over false rumors, and now that we have multiple confirmations of the most insane and ongoing 1984 government surveillance programs: fucking crickets?
Decades of stoking the rural/urban divide.
Workers are divided because rulers want them to be.
They never cared about surveillance. If anything they want as much as possible. They just want their guys to be in charge for it. It is like how the people who use the strongest anti-child porn language are also the most likely to get caught with the worst child porn imaginable. You notice how roblox isn't suffering under the new laws despite the laws being explicitly worded to protect children? This is because it was always about monitoring dissidents. Regular criminals will continue to use tech to do regular crime (drug dealing, murder, theft) and a minimal precaution on their end might be sufficient to prevent them from getting caught. They will not be subject to any more new restrictions.
But protesters? That is what they have always been for. Always.
Anyone got the torrent ?
Yes. The leaders and their families will have their heads on pikes.
Just being realistic, their families expect ours to serve them.
It has also said it has a no tolerance policy and will cut off government clients who use the spyware to target members of civil society, such as journalists
Citizen Labs confirmed joirnalists have been targeted
Nice of The Guardian to repeat their obvious lie without immediately calling it out. This is just NSO Group 2.0. They're moving all the engineers over because even the US was willing to sanction NSO Group after everything they did
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