India’s new tax law raids your cloud
India’s new tax law raids your cloud
The 2025 Act arms tax officers with sweeping powers to crack open passwords, sweep digital lives, and hide their reasons from scrutiny.Apar Gupta (Internet Freedom Foundation)
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Skill issue. If you can't fix this, how will you ever fix that?
See part 1: lemmy.world/post/35312231
Classic tech disinformation and my battle-tested counterattack cheat sheet (work in progress)
Privacy is multiplayer. So, we must spread it.To do well, we must fight efficiently.
We cannot waste our lives writing a custom essay against every troll, disinformer and psyop agent.
Short, simple and focused response is vital.
Here is what works for me:
- > I do not care about privacy
- Agreed. We do not control X, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- Agreed. X is not libre software, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- Agreed. X fails to include a libre software license text file, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- > Open source ...
- 'Open source' misses the point of libre software, by design.
- 'Open source' is a blatantly backdoored phrase, engineered to neutralise libre software.
- > Developers [owners] [of anti-libre software] need [to make money] to eat.
- You are not entitled to infect our devices and hijack control over our computing.
- Selling libre software is good.
- > You must read all its source code to guarantee it is safe.
- Blatant lie, classic disinformation, who told you to read it alone? lmao
- When it bans us from forking it, we do not control it, guaranteed. lmao
- > Crypto [currency] ...
- Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
- Cash will never be more safe or private than 12 words in my head.
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They have to come around it themselves.
I just plant seed, they come back once they are ready to have the adult discussion.
it took years to move my friends into privacy focused product. with each new fiasco one or two would reach out.
What are you going to do
I've already done it and I never needed force.
An app is never convenient when we do not control it.
Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don't, it would come with its own legal challenges.
Section 247(1)(ii)–(iii) mandates individuals and businesses to disclose passwords or encryption keys and permits officers to “override the access control” of any device or account. If you don’t hand over your phone passcode or email password on demand, officials can hack into the device. Any refusal is now explicitly punishable as non-compliance.End-to-end encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal could be forced open during a tax raid.
Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.
They won't know what we're using.
If you can't challenge a few apps, you'll never challenge that.
If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn't affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.
Bottom line: As long as you don't touch the street dogs you can get away with anything
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I hate that you are right. I really wanted to do something to make a difference, but it's saddening to see no one batting an eye to this.
But you can do something to make a difference, get others to care. How? See this:
Start with the easy stuff. Get those around you off WhatsApp and Discord.
Now they don't have to use other methods of regurgitating garbage, they can now use LLMs to automatically regurgitate garbage FOR them.
It's almost like these rich people have some other idea of how the world works, and some seem to not notice it.
US commandos killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
US commandos killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
US commandos killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy SEALs shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said Donald Trump approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
This is just adding insult to injury "yeah we invaded a foreign country who has never done any harm to us and gunned down a group of random bystanders but you can't get mad at us because we wrote a piece of paper saying that we're allowed to do it"
NATO troops on Ukraine battlefield would be ‘legitimate targets’ – Putin
NATO troops on Ukraine battlefield would be ‘legitimate targets’ – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated opposition to any Western military presence in UkraineRT
PM Benjamin Netanyahu shares article calling him an 'icon of the global right'
PM Benjamin Netanyahu shares article calling him an 'icon of the global right' | The Jerusalem Post
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retweeted statements made by MK Avichai Chikli shortly after Likud's Twitter account accused social media sites of "political censorship."The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Only 15% of French people trust Emmanuel Macron
La confiance des Français à l’égard de Macron et Bayrou continue de chuter, leur record d’impopularité battu
Seulement 15 % des Français font confiance à Emmanuel Macron, tandis que François Bayrou recueille 14 % d’opinions favorables, selon un sondage.Le Parisien avec AFP (Le Parisien)
Jeena's Hyprland Demo
I switched to Hyprland some time ago and now I made a video showcasing all the features I've implemented for myself, check it out!
In this video I'm showing my current Hyprland setup as a demo. I'm showing features I implemented myself and my configuration of hyprland, waybar, tofi, wlogout, kitty and other tools.
And here the link to my hypr-dotfiles: git.jeena.net/jeena/hypr-dotfi…
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Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage
Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage | Truthout
When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.britney (Truthout)
Let’s use healthcare as an example. Liberalism generally believe in the power of the markets so are quite happy to privatise healthcare.
It’s pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that a healthcare system that requires private individuals to pay for coverage will result in the poorest and most unfortunate having no coverage.
The very idea of privatised healthcare being acceptable on any level is antithetical to leftist beliefs but compatible with liberal ideology, hence it is right wing.
Liberalism is an ideology with two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on individual freedoms, democracy, and human rights. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.
Liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. The talks of promoting freedom and democracy is just a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.
This is an excellent primer on the subject orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/…
Liberalism: the two-faced tyranny of wealth
1. The rule of money 2. Liberalism as deception 3. Liberalism and fascism 4. Fake “lessons from history” 5. A spectacle of lies 6. Case study: Macronist France 7. Conclusions 1. The rul…organic radicals
Palestinian boys shot in testicles as “target practice” (Video short)
Dr. Nick Maynard, from Oxford University Hospital, talks about Palestinian boys in Gaza with gunshot wounds he believes were caused by deliberate targeting by Israeli soldiers.
Palestinian boys shot in testicles as “target practice”
Dr Nick Maynard on treating Palestinian boys in Gaza with gunshot wounds he believes were caused by deliberate targetingAl Jazeera
Over 19,000 children killed in Gaza by Israel as genocide marks 700th day
According to the latest figures from the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, at least 19,424 children have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023 - the equivalent of one child every 52 minutes. Among them are 1,000 infants under the age of one.
Over 19,400 children killed in Gaza by Israel as genocide marks 700th day
Children in Gaza account for more than 30 percent of deaths since Israel began its genocide nearly two years ago, as the besieged enclave remains the "most dangerous place to be a child".Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
Hamas publishes new video of captives
“We thought we were hostages of Hamas; but the truth is we are hostages of our own government, of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich,” captive Guy Dalal said in the video, according to a translation on Telegram.The video called on the public to protest the Israeli government’s actions and highlighted the vulnerability of the captives as Gaza City is being levelled by Israeli strikes.
The first video is Palestinian CCTV, the second video is IDF militants bragging how much money they are stealing.
Many money exchanges have been raided, the videos might not be from the same exchange. But they are from this week.
Some additional context in this short Aljazeera video:
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Pretty ballsy to sit and count the money in the bank as you steal it rather than taking it and counting later.
Then again who's going to stop you when they are who show up when the cops get called.
US officials threaten Lebanon with ‘new Israeli war’ if Hezbollah stays armed: Report
US officials threaten Lebanon with ‘new Israeli war’ if Hezbollah stays armed: Report
A Lebanese government session will be held in the coming hours to discuss disarmament plansthecradle.co
Revealed: The ships carrying fuel and arms to Israel
A list of 36 ships that have consistently supplied arms and fuel to Israel during its genocide in Gaza has been revealed by a coalition of activist groups.
The blocklist, announced on Thursday by the No Harbour for Genocide campaign, is designed to support a “people’s embargo” of ships and companies facilitating the genocide.
Seen first by Middle East Eye, the blocklist includes Maersk container ships that have been transporting military supplies and exports for Israeli settlements across the Atlantic as part of a US maritime programme.
A fleet of vessels operated by the Danish shipping giant has been sailing under US and Hong Kong flags, as part of the United States Maritime Administration (Marad) programme.
Mandela's grandson says Palestinians' plight is worse than apartheid
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela's grandson has said Palestinians' lives under Israeli occupation are worse than anything Black South Africans experienced under apartheid, and urged the global community to come to their aid.
Mandla Mandela, 51, spoke to Reuters on Wednesday evening at Johannesburg Airport, where he was boarding a flight to Tunisia to join a flotilla aiming to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to Gaza despite an Israeli naval blockade.
"Many of us that have visited the occupied territories in Palestine have only come back with one conclusion: that the Palestinians are experiencing a far worse form of apartheid than we ever experienced," Mandela said. "We believe that the global community has to continue supporting the Palestinians, just as they stood side-by-side with us."
~~Israel rejects comparisons between the lives of Palestinians who have lived under occupation or economic blockade for more than half a century and the apartheid era in South Africa, when the Black majority was ruled by a repressive white minority government.~~
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Einar Tangen: China, Russia & India Build New Economic World Order
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This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
I first wrote about Farahi’s case in 2009, when it was one of the earliest public examples of the FBI using immigration to recruit Muslim informants. At the time, the FBI denied the practice outright. As other journalists uncovered similar cases, the FBI continued to deny.
Farahi’s fight with the government began in November 2004. As he walked home from evening prayers in North Miami Beach, he saw two men waiting outside his apartment. They introduced themselves as FBI agents.
The country was still in the grip of post-9/11 panic, and the agents wanted information about two men who had attended Farahi’s mosque: José Padilla, the so-called “dirty bomber” accused of plotting to set off a crude radioactive device, and Adnan El Shukrijumah, a Saudi national who became a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda after leaving the U.S.
Farahi said he’d talk, but only in the open. He wanted his congregation to know why he was speaking to the FBI. The federal agents wanted something very different: secrecy. “I can’t,” he told them. To him, becoming an informant would have meant betraying his faith community. “People trust you as a religious figure, and you’re trying to kind of deceive them,” Farahi said to me years ago, when I first asked him about his encounter with the FBI. “That’s where the problem is.”
Years later, FBI agent Terry Albury leaked internal documents to The Intercept, confirming what Farahi’s case had suggested: using immigration as leverage wasn’t a rogue practice, but rather had been codified in the pages of the FBI’s internal policy manuals.
FBI agents were even tasked under official policy with helping deport informants who were “no longer suitable for use” — an acknowledgment that the policy goal wasn’t transactional so much as coercive.
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
Foad Farahi had resisted the FBI since the George W. Bush administration. Under Trump, ICE rounded him up.Trevor Aaronson (The Intercept)
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
I first wrote about Farahi’s case in 2009, when it was one of the earliest public examples of the FBI using immigration to recruit Muslim informants. At the time, the FBI denied the practice outright. As other journalists uncovered similar cases, the FBI continued to deny.
Farahi’s fight with the government began in November 2004. As he walked home from evening prayers in North Miami Beach, he saw two men waiting outside his apartment. They introduced themselves as FBI agents.
The country was still in the grip of post-9/11 panic, and the agents wanted information about two men who had attended Farahi’s mosque: José Padilla, the so-called “dirty bomber” accused of plotting to set off a crude radioactive device, and Adnan El Shukrijumah, a Saudi national who became a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda after leaving the U.S.
Farahi said he’d talk, but only in the open. He wanted his congregation to know why he was speaking to the FBI. The federal agents wanted something very different: secrecy. “I can’t,” he told them. To him, becoming an informant would have meant betraying his faith community. “People trust you as a religious figure, and you’re trying to kind of deceive them,” Farahi said to me years ago, when I first asked him about his encounter with the FBI. “That’s where the problem is.”
Years later, FBI agent Terry Albury leaked internal documents to The Intercept, confirming what Farahi’s case had suggested: using immigration as leverage wasn’t a rogue practice, but rather had been codified in the pages of the FBI’s internal policy manuals.
FBI agents were even tasked under official policy with helping deport informants who were “no longer suitable for use” — an acknowledgment that the policy goal wasn’t transactional so much as coercive.
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
Foad Farahi had resisted the FBI since the George W. Bush administration. Under Trump, ICE rounded him up.Trevor Aaronson (The Intercept)
UK exit from European Convention of Human Rights ‘would remove foundations of Good Friday agreement’ says Irish deputy PM
UK exit from ECHR ‘would remove foundations of Good Friday agreement’
Peace deal cannot be ‘negotiated away’ by British political figures who want to quit ECHR, says Irish deputy PMLisa O’Carroll (The Guardian)
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AI is not just ending entry-level jobs. It's the end of the career ladder as we know it
AI is not just ending entry-level jobs. It's the end of the career ladder as we know it
The most inspiring CEO stories come from workers who rose from entry-level positions at their firms to the top. What happens when AI takes those jobs away?Trevor Laurence Jockims (CNBC)
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Can you run popular Android games on linux phones?
Recent AOSP news had me in shambles.
But I like my stupid games like clash of clans and royale.
My entourage has a lot of gamers. When we want to play together but don't have access to our computers, we can take out out phones and play a quick game of clash or some other stuff and I'd like to keep doing this.
I'm already a fanboy of Fedora & KDE which I'm running on both my personal and workplace machine. I'd like to also "clean" my phones.
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RFK Jr accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’ in Senate hearing
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, faced the Senate finance committee in a tense and combative hearing on Thursday, during which lawmakers questioned his remarks expressing vaccine skepticism, claims that the scientific community is deeply politicized and the ongoing turmoil plaguing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a hearing lasting more than three hours and ostensibly about the Trump administration’s healthcare agenda, Kennedy defended his leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), claiming that his time at the agency will be focused on “unbiased, politics-free, transparent, evidence-based science in the public interest”.
Senate Democrats on the committee began the hearing calling for Kennedy’s resignation. “Robert Kennedy’s primary interest is taking vaccines away from Americans,” ranking member Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon, said in his opening remarks. “People are hurt by his reckless disregard for science and the truth in this effort. I hope the very least, Robert Kennedy has the decency to tell the truth this morning.”
RFK Jr accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’ in Senate hearing
Health secretary defends his leadership as Democrats attack his vaccine policy and demand his resignationShrai Popat (The Guardian)
RFK Jr accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’ in Senate hearing
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, faced the Senate finance committee in a tense and combative hearing on Thursday, during which lawmakers questioned his remarks expressing vaccine skepticism, claims that the scientific community is deeply politicized and the ongoing turmoil plaguing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a hearing lasting more than three hours and ostensibly about the Trump administration’s healthcare agenda, Kennedy defended his leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), claiming that his time at the agency will be focused on “unbiased, politics-free, transparent, evidence-based science in the public interest”.
Senate Democrats on the committee began the hearing calling for Kennedy’s resignation. “Robert Kennedy’s primary interest is taking vaccines away from Americans,” ranking member Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon, said in his opening remarks. “People are hurt by his reckless disregard for science and the truth in this effort. I hope the very least, Robert Kennedy has the decency to tell the truth this morning.”
RFK Jr accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’ in Senate hearing
Health secretary defends his leadership as Democrats attack his vaccine policy and demand his resignationShrai Popat (The Guardian)
Zak George’s Dog Training Revolution - My Stance on Palestine
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Fury as iconic Brutalist hotel in Tunisia faces demolition
The start of demolition work on an iconic Tunisian hotel has sparked strong opposition from citizens, architects, NGOs and heritage experts in the North African country and around the world.
Hotel du Lac, located in the capital Tunis, was built in 1973 by Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani.
It is considered a masterpiece of Brutalism, an architectural style that emerged in the middle of the 20th century and is characterised by monumental, unadorned forms magnifying the use of industrial materials with a functionalist aesthetic and social message.
Recognisable by its inverted pyramid structure, the hotel is said to have inspired the creators of the cult film saga Star Wars - some scenes of which were filmed in Tunisia - for the design of a spaceship.
Venezuelan fighter jets flew over U.S. Navy ship in "show of force"
Two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the USS Jason Dunham on Thursday, according to multiple Defense Department officials who described the action as a "show of force."
The Dunham, an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, is among a flotilla of U.S. warships dispatched to the region in recent weeks that the Pentagon says have been deployed to target criminal organizations and narco-terrorism.
CBS News was unable to determine what actions the USS Jason Dunham took, if any, in response to the flyover.
Following the publication of CBS News' story, the Defense Department confirmed in a statement on X that two Venezuelan aircraft "flew near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters."
Venezuelan fighter jets flew over U.S. Navy ship in "show of force"
Two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the USS Jason Dunham on Thursday, multiple defense officials told CBS News — amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.James LaPorta (CBS News)
Zionist Grifters Are Taking Over Establishment Media
Bari Weiss has been making the world worse for a long time.
Twenty years ago, as a student at Columbia, she led a racist smear campaign against Arab professors who had the audacity to criticize Israel. As a New York Times columnist, she constantly hawked right-wing bile while posing as a liberal who was just tired of all the extremism and censorship on the left—a tedious bait-and-switch that nevertheless sent her media profile soaring. And, as founder and editor of The Free Press, she has pushed genocide denial, transphobia, and the freedom to make Nazi salutes.
If we lived in a less terrible time and place, Weiss would be dismissed as a crank and a bigot, and never heard from again. But we live in the waking nightmare that is the United States in 2025. So instead Weiss is being rewarded with a prize that even she must think is kind of wild.
That prize? CBS News.
The person handing this gift to Weiss is David Ellison, the billionaire nepo baby who just merged CBS News’ parent company, Paramount, with his company, Skydance Media. Ellison, Puck’s Dylan Byers reported on Wednesday, is paying somewhere between $100 million and $200 million to buy The Free Press and install Weiss somewhere at the top of the network.
Vile Grifters Are Taking Over Establishment Media | The Nation
Paramount is reportedly set to pay between $100 million and $200 million for The Free Press and will install Bari Weiss at the top of CBS News.The Nation
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