Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race
Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that he is dropping his third-party bid for re-election, narrowing the field for November’s election.Megan Lebowitz (NBC News)
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Title generation and quote posts
renchap@oisaur.com 044f specifies the use of a link to the quoted post as fallback, hidden behind .quote-inline.
Right now Mastodon puts this top of post, and this interferes with title generation logic on NodeBB. Essentially the URL becomes the title, which is not ideal.
Any chance the class name could be upgraded to a MUST so I can code against it? Potentially other implementors could use different class names.
I didn't want to make it a MUST in the FEP because there are lots of reasons you may want to do the fallback differently (and we only include it if it's not already in the post: the URL could conceivably be part of the message)
as for Mastodon, there are technical reasons why we decided to put it on top, but Mastodon-inserted fallback will always use quote-inline. This is also consistent with what another implementation did (can't remember which one off the top of my head)
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As US-Venezuela tensions rise, Maduro trains civilians for "undeclared war"
As US-Venezuela tensions rise, Maduro trains civilians for "undeclared war"
Tensions between the two countries have increased after the US Navy targeted boats off the coast of Venezuela.Nicole Kolster (BBC News)
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But I thought Maduro was a dictator; wouldn't giving his people guns and training them to use it mean he's creating a militia hostile to him in his own country?
If only there was a lib who could finagle an explanation for me for why this still tracks.
I think if the libs had a frame of comparison, it'd be like that time Ukraine gave off weapons to civvies during such conflict.
Albeit, unlike Ukraine, hopefully this time, the Venezuelan gov't gave their people gun training and discipline.
Ukraine problem is different.
After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited significant stocks of Soviet weaponry, and Ukrainian military personnel were trained to operate this equipment.
Regarding the transition to NATO standards, this process requires time and resources. Mastering new weapon systems, changing supply chains, and adapting tactics are complex challenges for any army. Many countries transitioning to the Alliance's standards face similar challenges.
The Russian defense industry continues to produce equipment compatible with Soviet standards, which creates certain difficulties in the current conditions.
Also, not being able to buy cheap and effective Chinese dual usage drones to not offend the USA is a huge limit.
but it’s a valid analogy
Almost; the added context that unfortunately breaks it is that this would have to be on the eve of a war with a comparative superpower that is leagues superior to America and having to hope that you aren't arming subversive forces who'll turn on you in this one sided war; then there's also that this superpower would have crafted a rival political group that both it and the superpower accept as the legitimate government (so like if Democrats said the election was rigged and they were the real winners, and the superpower treated it as fact). Trump isn't stupid enough to do that; basically no one is; for example this national police force would also need to number high enough to be of any value in war, and this many people easily allows for subversive forces.
Heck, in the real world you have leftist youtubers infiltrating these groups all the time.
The idea is too crazy for the analogy to be valid; you'd have to dumb everything way too down for it to work.
Edit: actually for that matter, there's no one in America that seriously wants to actually militarily overthrow Trump, which is the ludicrous claims about Maduro.
bless the people's troops, it takes immense bravery to face the army of the Great Satan
(NATO-nazis can procede straight to hell)
Title generation and quote posts
renchap@oisaur.com 044f specifies the use of a link to the quoted post as fallback, hidden behind .quote-inline.
Right now Mastodon puts this top of post, and this interferes with title generation logic on NodeBB. Essentially the URL becomes the title, which is not ideal.
Any chance the class name could be upgraded to a MUST so I can code against it? Potentially other implementors could use different class names.
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data^___^
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data": "A provided da…yro.slashdot.org
Uh, unless you want to make tableau basically an effective monopoly on the... idea of graphs...
Then no, no, this is a very bad idea.
Data processing for visualizing hierarchical data
Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data. A provided data model may include a tree specification that declares parent-child relationships between objects in the data model.patents.google.com
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?
America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data": "A provided da…yro.slashdot.org
Zelensky condemns 'vile' Russian strikes lasting 12 hours
A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.
The barrage - involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine - is one of the heaviest in recent months.
Zelensky warned that Ukraine would retaliate and said the "vile" attack showed Moscow "wants to continue fighting and killing". Russia said it struck military facilities and industrial enterprises supporting Ukraine's armed forces.
Kyiv hit by 'massive' Russian attack, mayor says
As well as intensifying attacks against Ukraine, Russia is also accused of violating the airspace of several Nato countries.Chris Graham (BBC News)
‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts
‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts
Dana Leigh Marks had a long and notable tenure on the bench. Now she’s watching the Trump administration trash her institution – and raising the alarmIsabeau Doucet (The Guardian)
Need text editor advice
I am a big fan of Notepad++ in windows and I have been using Notepadqq, a linux clone. Lately though, I have been experiencing more and more crashes and bugs with it. Looking for advice and wisdom. Is there something better? Should I stick it out and try and troubleshoot my problems with Notepadqq?
Edit: Just wanted to thank everyone for all the great advice! I know people can sometimes be territorial and/or religious about their choices here, but people in this thread were helpful and informative, so thank you!
I am trying out Notepad Next but I also installed Notepad++ with Wine. Both seem promising, thanks.
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I also used Notepadqq for the first year I used Linux, I ended up switching to Kate since it did everything I liked about Notepad++ and it came installed with my KDE desktop soooo.
Also for the few times I gotta use a terminal text editor I use Micro (It really should be the default instead of Nano)
Helix, Kakoune, build Codium from source would be my suggestions.
I use Helix now mainly - I use Codium if I need a graphical editor for something, or one of it's plugins.
At work the systems use VSCode but I use the Dance plugin with Helix bindings to get some of that functionality back.
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
What did Reconstruction do for us, anyway?
Because the executive and legislature branches seem to have jumped the constitutional shark, some people continue to hold out hope that the judicial branch, with the supreme court at its apex, will offer a way out of this mess. That would be a mistake: like Congress, the Republican majority on the supreme court has lined up behind most of the president’s sweeping assertions of novel powers. The supreme court has blocked lower federal court rulings that had reined in the president’s authority to withhold federal medical research grants for ideological reasons. It has allowed the executive branch to deploy roving immigration patrols to engage in racial profiling; to expel noncitizens to countries on the brink of civil wars where they could face torture, trafficking or death; to fire non-regime friendly officials (in violation of federal law); to dismantle entire departments and more.But one specific case on the court’s docket for this term illustrates its role in a more far-reaching rightwing project that goes back all the way to the end of the civil war.
Louisiana v Callais is a major challenge to what remains of the Voting Rights of Act of 1965, and could radically rework the structure of political representation in the United States. A successful challenge to the VRA would allow the Republican party to further cheat democracy by engaging in even more partisan gerrymandering and erasing several legislative districts held by Democratic officials, many of whom are racial minorities.
Remember to call your rep... oh, right.
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stakeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
TP Link Router wants to share client info with third parties
My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I'm a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they'd like to share my clients info.
cool...
![A screenshot with text on top, a generic red background image in the middle, and buttons on bottom saying "Maybe Later" and "Authorize". The text on top says "We are now better at identifying clients! To accurately identify your connected clients, we will share your clients' information to a third-party service if you authorize it. We won't save your private information. For more details, refer to the Privacy Policy [in red, presumambly a hyperlink]".](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/60382538 "A screenshot with text on top, a generic red background image in the middle, and buttons on bottom saying \"Maybe Later\" and \"Authorize\". The text on top says \"We are now better at identifying clients! To accurately identify your connected clients, we will share your clients' information to a third-party service if you authorize it. We won't save your private information. For more details, refer to the Privacy Policy [in red, presumambly a hyperlink]\".")
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aggregocttica moria senza soluzioni più spumose (l’Aggregoctt è morto e a fatica trovo alternative)
Settimane fa, o qualcosa del genere, mi era passato di mente il dover segnalare che l’Aggregoctt è fallito. Nel senso, funziona ancora — abbastanza a magia tra l’altro, devo dire, perché è assurdo che non si sia ancora rotto… cioè, in realtà è successo già tipo 2 volte, ma ogni volta ho potuto aggiustarlo senza […]
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aggregocttica moria senza soluzioni più spumose (l’Aggregoctt è morto e a fatica trovo alternative)
Settimane fa, o qualcosa del genere, mi era passato di mente il dover segnalare che l’Aggregoctt è fallito. Nel senso, funziona ancora — abbastanza a magia tra l’altro, devo dire, perché è assurdo che non si sia ancora rotto… cioè, in realtà è successo già tipo 2 volte, ma ogni volta ho potuto aggiustarlo senza fare cambiamenti radicali, il che è sorprendente — ma il problema è che, per come l’ho fatto, con questa roba del sito statico che deve compilarsi a partire da infiniti file HTML (ormai credo diverse centinaia di migliaia, al punto che GitHub si rifiuta di indicizzare la repo), prima o poi raggiungerà per forza un tetto pratico… e a quel punto fallirà davvero. 🥴Certo, potrei implementare la purga periodica di post vecchi, ma io che sono un’accumulatrice seriale mi sentirei proprio male… e poi, questa non è l’unica rogna. Infatti, per giunta, per quanto sia figo che funzioni interamente senza un server di hosting dinamico, aggiornandosi in automatico solo grazie alla CI gratuita di GitHub, un bel problemino che ho visto è che certi feed non si aggiornano lì sopra, perché il sito sfigato di turno sarà stato settato a minchia, con una protezione bot che blocca gli IP non-domestici pure per le richieste del feed… quindi, quella manciata di siti particolari non si aggiorna mai. 💔
Temo allora che la mia paura iniziale, cioè che l’Aggregoctt fatto con Jekyll e uno script Python vibe-codato rischiasse di essere solo un ripiego, si è confermata. In realtà, per chi è a posto con queste limitazioni, il template costruito fino ad ora rimane alquanto valido, e ancora consiglierei di forkarlo a chiunque vorrebbe farsi il proprio sito aggregatore (inserendo i propri URL nel file della lista) senza un server e senza grossi smanettamenti (anche se forse, per evitare che qualcuno si trovi in sorprendenti difficoltà, farei bene ad implementare quella maledetta purga, oltre a maggiori ottimizzazioni per il caricamento dei dati)… però io, avendo il serverino, potrei permettermi di più. 🙄
Problema: non c’è niente di ideale già fatto (altrimenti non avrei certamente speso tempo a creare l’Aggregoctt, avrei direttamente preso quel qualcosa e tanti saluti)… quindi dovrò vedere di fare io qualcosa e bla bla bla, mannaggia al mio tempo che scompare. Però, giusto per non cadere nella più totale disperazione (e in parte anche per assimilare passivamente idee di design simili alle mie ma lievemente diverse, per questo specifico tipo di applicazione), da qualche giorno sto provando un aggregatore trovato cercando nelle liste più improbabili di top aggregatori di feed selfhostabili: RSS. Si, il creatore — che stranamente non è uno scappato di casa, bensì è lo stesso che ha creato BookStack — lo ha veramente chiamato solo “RSS”, con la scusa che è un progetto a bassa manutenzione e creato principalmente per uso personale… vergognoso, ma lasciamo stare. 😕
Oh, sembrava bellino, e dopo averlo provato devo confermare che effettivamente lo è… ma allo stesso tempo ho percepito una puzza, quindi per ora l’ho messo sul mio classico dominio usa-e-ricicla di ; non si merita (per ora?) un dominio permanente. È simpatico, perché non ha login o permessi, e quindi replica bene la filosofia del primo Aggregoctt per cui il lettore personale funge anche da blogroll (cioè, una cosa del decennio scorso attraverso cui chi segue me può scoprire altre persone da seguire, potendo banalmente vedere una lista di chi seguo io… o, in certi casi non “seguo“, bensì “tengo d’occhio“, lieve differenza), e l’interfaccia è pulita e funzionale. Purtroppo è anche antipatico, visto che per funzionare richiede JavaScript moderno (zio pera, è una maledizione con tutti ‘sti cosi web), e quindi non si può usare sul Kindle (o anche, in generale dispositivi utili da riciclare per leggere, che però hanno browser web antichi); ma non ha neanche la modalità di lettura integrata, quindi comunque su Kindle e compagnia sarebbe un incubo da usare. (Ah e, edit: ho dimenticato di dirlo, la gestione di errori in questo coso è inesistente, e alcuni feed misteriosamente non caricano.) 😴Vabbè, alla fine il bilancio netto è comunque positivo, perché ora nel mondo esistono tecnicamente ben 2 Aggregoctti, e se non riesco a fare pace con tutto ciò prima o poi ne dovrà uscirà pure un terzo (e speriamo non di più, perché sennò veramente sarebbe la fine… cioè, la tragedia della mancanza di una fine, l’eterno ritorno dell’Aggregoctt)… Il fatto è che, a parte funzionalità improbabili che ora nemmeno vorrei ri-descrivere ma che sarebbe figo implementare, di piccole cose da poter fare per avere un’esperienza davvero epica ce ne sono a bizzeffe… come un’ottimizzazione per i feed dei social in modo che i post si vedano meglio rispetto agli articoli di blog classici, o un’ottimizzazione per i feed di YouTube per cui viene mostrato automaticamente l’embed per i video… ed è tutta roba semplice, ma, avendo il primo Aggregoctt le difficoltà che ho detto, più che spendere tempo a metterle lì farei bene a creare questa v3. (Aiutatemi!!!) 😽
#aggregator #Aggregoctt #feed #RSS
Memo by ██▓▒░⡷⠂𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜⠐⢾░▒▓██
RSS by Dan Brown, A simple, opinionated twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator written in PHP: + https://codeberg.org/danb/rss Memos
[SOLVED] I cannot add flatpaks as user, what am I doing wrong?
SOLUTION: add Flathub as a user remote too:
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak lets you install applications as user vs system. I want to install as user because my .var is full.
example: flatpak install --user org.fcitx.Fcitx5 returns error: No remote refs found for ‘org.fcitx.Fcitx5’
flatpak remotes returns flathub system
I'm logged in as user5. whoami returns user5
I don't know what remote I have to add or if I have to add user5 as a remote
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I could be wrong but no remote refs refers to not finding a repo for what you are trying to install, so either the flathub repo isnt added which it sounds like it is, or the app you want isnt in that repo.
So you may need to add the repo for that app:
fcitx-im.org/wiki/Install_Fcit…
what are these books?
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Are Rooftop Solar Panels the Solution to America’s Growing Energy Crisis?
Are Rooftop Solar Panels the Solution to America’s Growing Energy Crisis?
Electric grids are increasingly under strain, and demand for energy is soaring. But not everyone sees the virtue in dotting homes across the country with solar panels.Ivan Penn (The New York Times)
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Part of it, yes. Agrivoltaics is another good part. Charging for electricity on a sliding scale is another part. Stop giving data centers discounts on electricity.
Also can we stop making all black rooftops?
US revokes Colombian president's visa after UN visit
US revokes Colombian president's visa after UN visit
Gustavo Petro told US soldiers to "disobey Trump's orders" while addressing a protest in New York.Stuart Lau (BBC News)
How do you get yourself to do anything?
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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.Christopher McFadden (Interesting Engineering)
A question for everyone regarding AI calculations
MotoGP Giappone 2025: a Motegi vince Bagnaia, Márquez campione del mondo per la nona volta
Bagnaia domina il GP del Giappone 2025 a Motegi, davanti a Marc Márquez e Mir. Márquez vince il mondiale. Classifica completa della gara.
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US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts
Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program
Archived version: archive.is/20250928120037/theg…
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Pfizer sued in US over contraceptive that women say caused brain tumours
US class action lawsuit alleges company failed to warn about risks of using contraceptive injection Depo-Provera
The stripper who ushered in the modern subscription-based internet
In the 1990s, nobody knew how to make money through Internet subscriptions. It took an entrepreneurial porn star to crack the code.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry responds to Hungarian official suggesting Ukraine give up territory for peace
Georgii Tykhyi, spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has said Ukraine does not need advice from Hungarian officials on exchanging territory or sovereignty.
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How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World
Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.
Archived version: archive.is/20250928145535/wire…
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How Keir Starmer’s polling became one of the worst in the west – in charts
How Keir Starmer’s polling became one of the worst in the west – in charts
The UK prime minister’s approval is among the lowest at home and abroadAlex Clark (The Guardian)
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Germany is shamelessly weaponising its Nazi past to justify support for genocidal Israel
The result of this Israel obsession within Germany is that the space for open discussion and honest debate is getting smaller all the time
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Hamas lose contact with two captives during Gaza fighting
Hamas's armed wing said on Sunday it lost contact with two captives, Matan Angrest and Omri Miran, during Israeli military operations in two Gaza City neighbourhoods.
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
Zelenskyy condemns Russia’s ‘vile and brutal’ 12-hour bombardment of Ukraine
Moscow targets Kyiv and other regions with about 500 drones and 40 missiles, killing at least four people
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‘Hundreds’ of Russian missiles and drones hit Ukraine as Poland scrambles jets
At least four people were killed in the overnight strikes on Kyiv and other regions as Poland takes preventive measure to secure airspaceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Namibia deploys army to fight wildfire burning third of Etosha game reserve
Vast tract of park that is home to 114 mammal species, including critically endangered black rhino, affected
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Moldova embassy in Brussels evacuated after election day bomb threat
The diplomatic mission has been doubling as an overseas polling station in Moldova’s critical parliamentary vote.
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in reply to harfang • • •VintageGenious
in reply to Ŝan • • •AliSaket
in reply to harfang • • •Please don't jump to conclusions. A well implemented eID can even improve privacy compared to the alternative of accessing big parts of the internet by trusting private companies to handle sensitive information like photos of physical IDs.
There is something in cryptography called Zero Knowledge Proof. With it only minimal information is exchanged and no party can tell anything about the person accessing it, i.e. the website who you are or profiling your ID, nor the verifier or issuer what you're doing.
Without knowing how the eID will be implemented, you can't just make such blanket statements. Want to know the details? It is open source and you can look up any technical details as well as the software code publicly.
swiyu - the Swiss Trust Infrastructure ecosystem
GitHubprism
in reply to AliSaket • • •AliSaket
in reply to prism • • •That would be my biggest worry as well. Although this isn't specified yet, I assume that they would develop the software for Google/Apple. IIRC the Digitale Gesellschaft, a privacy advocacy group, has mentioned this as feedback about a year ago. I don't know what was done with that though. Other issues were included in the development plan though.
Also: With how this law is worded, no one is forced to use an eID. You can go the old fashioned way and e.g. go to the traffic office in person.
robber
in reply to prism • • •PropaGandalf
in reply to AliSaket • • •someacnt
in reply to AliSaket • • •JustTesting
in reply to someacnt • • •Sonalder
in reply to JustTesting • • •In most Web3 blockchains ZeroKnowledgeProof aren't proof. They often only have the succinctness of the proof and this is enough for the marketing team.
Also there is many things valuable in modern cryptography thanks to Bitcoin and other chains, blockchain and crypto are buzzwords for sure but that doesn't mean that i's 100% BS.
ColeSloth
in reply to AliSaket • • •interdimensionalmeme
in reply to ColeSloth • • •Deanonymization isn't about age gate bullshit, it's about doxxing you. Think of the children is and has always been BULLSHIT, children are the enemy, children are merely human shield and Israel shows what is to be done with human shields.
If an entity successfully deploys deanonymizing technology and profits, they will outbreed non-deanonymizing entities.
Therefore, anything that DARES to employs this technology is the enemy and the enemy is to be EXTERMINATED.
Matt
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •May I remind you that you were a child back in the day.
But yeah, it goes really bad when the govt. starts to replace the parent's duty for child's safety.
interdimensionalmeme
in reply to Matt • • •I remember, it was really terrible, we had severely regimented time schedules controlled by clocks and bell. We had to go there with hours-long bus rides. I remember watching the clock, watching every second tick while one person was talking to everyone about really profoundly boring things which they could not and would not articulate the relevance of beyond an immediate examination and far of idea of "the labout marketplace" in which we would all compete against one another to avoid homelessness and death. I could read on the computer at home about the things they were saying, it was obvious at the time this information would have no practical use whatsoever to anyone but I could not imagine an alternative so I kept going until they gave me some papers after 13 years of this. Of course now I understand why, we were doing appearance of productivity, as training for our future as obedient workers who would do what they were told. The subject of the matter was not the point, it was being moulded into docility. This is why there was no clarity as to what use the information lectured about would have. It only needed to appear to be productive and useful, it did not have to be relevant or interesting as we were a captive audience, fearful of this homelessness situation we would find ourselves in if we disobeyed. This was the social stalemate that kept us from being sent to the mines IMMEDIATELY, we were supposed to be grateful and happy that we didn't have to work in the field, picking rocks and vegetables in the field with the undocumented immigrants.
We were a captive audience, this is why it didn't have to be interesting, that was not the point, the teacher tried really hard, I could see it hurt them to be our jailors, they tried to make it fun, but we knew we were in prison even if we couldn't articulate it. The teaching prison guards had their empathy eventually dried out and shrivel, they tried spending their own money to make it tolerable for us and they were met with disinterested ungratefulness, no recognition from us nor the bosses. The cheerful colourful decorations of our jail cells somehow made things worse, like something was wrong with US for being unhappy with the situation.
zqps
in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •hell yeah!
Ah, we're having a normal one today 😆
interdimensionalmeme
in reply to AliSaket • • •Let me stop you right there, how about no to that, and no to whatever EID is too.
And anything that does, fire, that's my solution ? Want EID ? Eat fire.
Lychee
in reply to AliSaket • • •bleistift2
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in reply to bleistift2 • • •Matt
in reply to harfang • • •Our eID app (eDoklady) stores the data as passkeys, so you can easily selfhost something like Bitwarden if you want the digital representation of your ID stored with you.
And when it comes to verification on the website, it goes like this with ZKProofs:
providing validity without revealing any other data
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Blisterexe
in reply to Matt • • •Matt
in reply to Matt • • •MonkderVierte
in reply to Matt • • •RazzleDazzle
in reply to harfang • • •the group that organized the referendum against the first version is actually supporting this one:
digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/…
Digitale Gesellschaft sagt Ja zum neuen E-ID-Gesetz - Digitale Gesellschaft
Digitale Gesellschaftharfang
in reply to RazzleDazzle • • •freeman
in reply to RazzleDazzle • • •It is completly differently inplemented this second time.
MonkderVierte
in reply to harfang • • •It's limited by law to official services anyway. Your online shopping platform can't ask you for E-ID verification.
E-ID is one thing we got right this (the second) time, imo.
If you're pro-privacy, better fight against the inconstitutional VDS (complaint in EGMR still pending for years now).
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in reply to MonkderVierte • • •Do you think this may change in the future? Because, change in such law is what potentially makes this predatory.
Such limit to this law is the best case scenario. And definitely something I'll support, but the chance it might extend further is what holds me and others away from this.
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in reply to harfang • • •Some important context here is that Switzerland already has a national ID card system, this is an extension allowing people to use a digital version if they prefer.
I'm not saying that isn't going to be without its privacy concerns, but them narrowly voting that in is a far cry from, oh I don't know, the UK government forcing an entirely new scheme on people without a referendum.