Can there be privacy with Google Play Services?
I guess I could move to SimpleX and ditch Signal but that would be tough given I spent years convincing people to move to Signal 🙂
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Sotto il suolo dello stadio, lo scheletro incompiuto della Torre quasi-Eiffel di Londra
Sotto il suolo dello stadio, lo scheletro incompiuto della Torre quasi-Eiffel di Londra - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Quattro fori verticali, oscuri e quasi totalmente ingombri, di detriti, ghiaia aggrovigliati resti di vegetazione.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Direct carbon capture falters as developers’ costs fail to budge
Wait, the solution that relies on basically violating thermodynamics rather than fixing literally anything and mostly existed as an excuse to not fix anything doesn't work?
I'm shocked.
No no no no no. You just need to believe in the process. We need to be open minded and trust the fact that only new technology™ can save us. Maybe if we would simply give more money to startups.
Don't worry though, after the U.S.'s inevitable complete decline into fascism there will probably be some wars to spread and defend "FREEDOOM". If neoliberalism dies in those wars we maybe have a shot at saving whats left of earth and nature.
You seem to forget fascists can lose to local opposition.
You just need to either get rid of the shitlibs fighting for them or get them to fight against the fascists.
In 2019, the Swiss start-up, which has raised more than $1bn from investors, predicted it would cut its capture costs from $600 per tonne to roughly $100 per tonne in “another four years”.
In reality the costs are still 2 to 3 times that, closer to $2000 per tonne. And that's not even taking into account the entire running costs of this ridiculous company, only operating their wildly inefficient plants.
If you actually go and divide their 1bn fundraising so far by their a bit over 1000 tonnes removed so far you end up with almost a million dollars spent for every ton of co2 removed, which I know is oversimplified but still shows how ridiculous this entire venture is.
US revokes Colombian President Petro’s visa over Gaza protest speech in NYC
‘I don’t care’: Colombia’s President Petro dismisses revocation of US visa
The Colombian leader was filmed joining thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters outside UN headquarters in New York.Alastair McCready (Al Jazeera)
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Can We Ever Ditch Big Diesels? | driving 4 answers [28:59]
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Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain [Canada]
Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government pursues a grand bargain with it.Canada's National Observer
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Any way to default new posts to the Link type?
Hi y'all, I use the default web UI (desktop and in Android on my phone) when accessing piefed.social and when I create posts, 99% are the Link type. I would love to find a way to make that my default type of post if there's any way.
I don't see any such settings but thanks for any ideas / pointers.
That's a good idea. Not sure if it should be a per-profile setting or just a global default.
Also if you go to piefed.social/community/piefed… and then add the bookmarklet at the bottom then you can quickly share any web page you're looking at on piefed, without going through the process of choosing a post type.
I think its probably 50/50 whether or not people usually preference Discussion or Link posts as a default goto. So it should be per-profile if you do add this. I currently have bookmarked adding new posts to my communities for QoL though.
I think few people would ever want Image, Video, Poll or Event though.
I've been thinking this setting would make the most sense if it was on a community rather than a user. Most communities are for posting links but some communities are primarily images, some primarily discussions....
So link would be the default but mods could override the default for their community.
NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36822644
Murtaza Hussain
and Ryan Grim
Sep 28, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but includes crucial new context on Epstein’s operation.It’s well known that Epstein had personal ties to Israel, including to senior political officials like Barak and Ehud Olmert, and that he donated to organizations like Friends of the IDF. But Epstein’s activities in Mongolia show, for the first time, that he facilitated a deal that led to a security agreement between Israel and other nations.
NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement
Murtaza Hussain
and Ryan Grim
Sep 28, 2025Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but includes crucial new context on Epstein’s operation.It’s well known that Epstein had personal ties to Israel, including to senior political officials like Barak and Ehud Olmert, and that he donated to organizations like Friends of the IDF. But Epstein’s activities in Mongolia show, for the first time, that he facilitated a deal that led to a security agreement between Israel and other nations.
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NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement
Murtaza Hussain
and Ryan Grim
Sep 28, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but includes crucial new context on Epstein’s operation.It’s well known that Epstein had personal ties to Israel, including to senior political officials like Barak and Ehud Olmert, and that he donated to organizations like Friends of the IDF. But Epstein’s activities in Mongolia show, for the first time, that he facilitated a deal that led to a security agreement between Israel and other nations.
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Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36822087
Olivia Rosane
Sep 28, 2025
For another, the memorandum casts a very wide net, targeting groups, individuals, funders, and “entities” and listing several protected beliefs as “indicia” of extremism.These include:
* “Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;
* Support for the overthrow of the #US Government;
* Extremism on migration, race, and gender; and
* Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”What’s more, the memorandum entrusts enforcement to the #FBI’s over 4,000-strong Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), which removes the legal challenges to directing the National Guard or other military forces to quash domestic dissent.
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents | Common Dreams
Olivia Rosane
Sep 28, 2025For another, the memorandum casts a very wide net, targeting groups, individuals, funders, and “entities” and listing several protected beliefs as “indicia” of extremism.These include:
* “Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;
* Support for the overthrow of the #US Government;
* Extremism on migration, race, and gender; and
* Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”What’s more, the memorandum entrusts enforcement to the #FBI’s over 4,000-strong Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), which removes the legal challenges to directing the National Guard or other military forces to quash domestic dissent.
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents
"By targeting beliefs and protest activity, the directive positions dissent itself as a potential crime," one news organization said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36822087
Olivia Rosane
Sep 28, 2025
For another, the memorandum casts a very wide net, targeting groups, individuals, funders, and “entities” and listing several protected beliefs as “indicia” of extremism.These include:
* “Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;
* Support for the overthrow of the #US Government;
* Extremism on migration, race, and gender; and
* Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”What’s more, the memorandum entrusts enforcement to the #FBI’s over 4,000-strong Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), which removes the legal challenges to directing the National Guard or other military forces to quash domestic dissent.
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents | Common Dreams
Olivia Rosane
Sep 28, 2025For another, the memorandum casts a very wide net, targeting groups, individuals, funders, and “entities” and listing several protected beliefs as “indicia” of extremism.These include:
* “Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;
* Support for the overthrow of the #US Government;
* Extremism on migration, race, and gender; and
* Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”What’s more, the memorandum entrusts enforcement to the #FBI’s over 4,000-strong Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), which removes the legal challenges to directing the National Guard or other military forces to quash domestic dissent.
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents
"By targeting beliefs and protest activity, the directive positions dissent itself as a potential crime," one news organization said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents | Common Dreams
Olivia Rosane
Sep 28, 2025
For another, the memorandum casts a very wide net, targeting groups, individuals, funders, and “entities” and listing several protected beliefs as “indicia” of extremism.These include:
* “Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;
* Support for the overthrow of the #US Government;
* Extremism on migration, race, and gender; and
* Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”What’s more, the memorandum entrusts enforcement to the #FBI’s over 4,000-strong Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), which removes the legal challenges to directing the National Guard or other military forces to quash domestic dissent.
Underreported Memo Is 'Declaration of War' Against Trump Opponents
"By targeting beliefs and protest activity, the directive positions dissent itself as a potential crime," one news organization said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)
‘I do not work for you’: MTG speaks out on growing rift with Trump’s White House over Epstein files
‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials
Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”
Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.
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Trump-style 'climate hoax' playbook spreads to Australia
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jess Davis (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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L’attacco di Trump a Lisa Monaco per colpire Microsoft: la posta in gioco è il cloud per Israele
Monaco è stata vice procuratrice generale sotto l’amministrazione Biden, e Trump l’ha accusata di essere “corrotta” e “una minaccia per la sicurezza nazionale”, sostenendo di averle revocato le autorizzazioni di sicurezza.
La strana coincidenza: la richiesta di licenziamento arriva in un momento delicato per Microsoft, che ha appena deciso di ridimensionare la cooperazione con l’esercito israeliano.
Il colosso tech avrebbe spento un servizio utilizzato dall’intelligence di Tel Aviv per operazioni di sorveglianza di massa sui civili palestinesi a Gaza.
Il ministero della Difesa Israeliano avrebbe utilizzato il servizio Cloud, Azure Israel Central, per archiviare milioni di telefonate effettuate dai palestinesi in Cisgiordania e a Gaza. Microsoft ha condotto un’indagine interna e trovato conferme.
L’attacco di Trump a Lisa Monaco per colpire Microsoft: la posta in gioco è il cloud per Israele
Il presidente ha chiesto il licenziamento della top manager, scelta da Biden come vice procuratrice generale. La Big Tech aveva appena spento il servizio usato…Massimo Basile (la Repubblica)
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Malian PM blasts Ukraine as supplier of kamikaze drones to terrorists
Malian PM blasts Ukraine as supplier of kamikaze drones to terrorists
Abdoulaye Maiga has urged Western nations to halt arms deliveries to KievRT International
Ex-Trump lawyer says president using Comey indictment to conceal being ‘criminal’
Ty Cobb, who managed Trump’s Mueller investigation response, said president is trying to ‘rewrite history’
The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former senior White House lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the president’s political opponents.
Ty Cobb, who defended Trump’s first administration during the Mueller investigation into his 2016 campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, also told CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial.
Trump’s moves, he said on the Sunday morning show Face the Nation, were “wholly unconstitutional [and] authoritarian” and an attempt to hoodwink future generations.
I have so many bans on Reddit.
I was banned from r/soapmaking for saying that people who buy soap made by other people, melt it, add perfume and trinkets, and pour it into moulds aren't making soap, they're doing arts and crafts. I raise the pigs, render the fat to make lard, and do the chemistry to turn it into soap. I make soap.
I was banned from r/canada for wondering if Danielle Smith was going to pay the lunatic street preecher charged with violating Covid restrictions a conjugal visit, after she made a fawning phone call to him while he was on trial, when he was convicted and sentenced to jail.
I was banned from r/Conservative for pointing out that the headlines that said that the DOJ had found massive voter fraud in Georgia was actually written by a Trump political appointee and contradicted the DOJ, the Republican Attorney General of the United States, the Republican Attorney General of Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, and Republican election officials from Georgia.
I was banned from the Freedom Convoy sub for asking which constitutional rights had been taken away since the protesters had exercised their Section 2 rights to assemble, their Section 6 rights to cross interprovincial borders freely and that they were free to leave Canada if they could find any country that would take them and free to return if they quarantined, and that since none of them were vaccinated they had obviously exercised their Section 8 right not to receive the vaccine.
Never, ever speak truth into an echo bunker.
Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease
Remember how the evil Dems were going to steal elections with AI videos? Instead, it's time to play Piss Off Your Own Dying Base With Empty Promises (batteries and oxygen not included).
President Donald Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he’s seen promoting “med beds” — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can supposedly heal any sickness.In a post to his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, Trump shared a phony, AI-generated Fox News clip — purportedly from Fox’s My View with Lara Trump — in which he’s seen rolling out this magic technology to hospitals nationwide. (UPDATE: Trump has now deleted the video.)
“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” AI Trump said. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Americans need to make work / life ‘tradeoffs’ to compete with China.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Americans need to make work / life ‘tradeoffs’ to compete with China.
Easy for a guy who never has to work another day in life to suggest other people need to change their work / life balance. What Forbes calls China’s “cutthroat work culture,” of 996 (9AM to 9PM, six days a week) others simply call human rights abuse.Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)
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What happened to those always on AI glasses that recorded everything and doxed anyone you met?
We are already living in a privacy nightmare. Whether you film and then doxx folks with a smartphone, a camera you've hidden in your clothing, or one built into the frame of some spectacles really doesn't move the needle much any more. We're in the red already. The nightmarish data collection and then sharing is already baked into our internet experience.
And the people at large sit in a chair in a burning room that is this nightmare we're in, uttering "It's fine." It's been years since the Google glasshole debacle. People are so used now to other people just filming shit all the time. I think these glasses will end up just being tolerated. There won't be thousands around in your daily life, like smartphones. Society will acquiesce even in occasional perverts and intentional doxxers. The digital Overton window will move on.
What I can foresee is a more enforced no filming ban in certain areas, like restrooms and changing rooms. There could even be a technical solution that garbles recordings whether they are attempted or not.
Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation
by @beet_keeper
I introduced bsdiff in a blog in 2014. bsdiff compares the differences between two files, e.g. broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and creates a patch that can be applied to broken_file_a to generate a byte-for-byte match for corrected_file_b.
On the face of it, in an archive, we probably only care about corrected_file_2 and so why would we care about a technology that patches a broken file?
In all of the use-cases we can imagine the primary reasons are cost savings and removing redundancy in file storage or transmission of digital information. In one very special case we can record the difference between broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and give users a totally objective method of recreating corrected_file_b from broken_file_a providing 100% verifiable proof of the migration pathway taken between the two files.
#ac3 #Archives #audio #audiovisual #Audit #authenticity #av #Bash #bsdiff #checksums #Code4Lib #corruption #corruptionIndex #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalForensics #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #diplomatics #FileFormats #flac #glitch #glitchAudio #GlitchArt #integrity #mp3 #PreservationAnalysis #PreservationMetadata #provenance #sensitivityIndex #Storage #wav
Patrick Baab: Europe Prepares the Public for War with Russia
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China tests world’s largest megawatt-level flying 'windmill' airship
China tests world’s largest megawatt-level flying 'windmill' airship
China’s S1500 airborne wind turbine completes maiden flight, becoming the world’s largest floating wind-power generator.Sujita Sinha (Interesting Engineering)
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Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock | When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.
Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock
When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
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An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital's collapse as Israeli forces surround it
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36812418
By ABDEL KAREEM HANNA, SAMY MAGDY and SARAH EL DEEB
Updated 2:30 PM EDT, September 27, 2025
Al-Quds once had capacity for 120 patients. Now, roughly 20 remain, including two babies in intensive care. About 60 doctors, nurses and patients’ families are sheltering there.Vaughan is from Seattle and volunteered through the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association since July. She kept a video diary of her time at al-Quds, occasionally posting on social media.
She shared dozens of videos with The Associated Press, which verified them. Volunteers in Gaza like her have become a vital source of information, as Israel has forbidden foreign media.
An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital's collapse as Israeli forces surround it
By ABDEL KAREEM HANNA, SAMY MAGDY and SARAH EL DEEB
Updated 2:30 PM EDT, September 27, 2025Al-Quds once had capacity for 120 patients. Now, roughly 20 remain, including two babies in intensive care. About 60 doctors, nurses and patients’ families are sheltering there.Vaughan is from Seattle and volunteered through the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association since July. She kept a video diary of her time at al-Quds, occasionally posting on social media.
She shared dozens of videos with The Associated Press, which verified them. Volunteers in Gaza like her have become a vital source of information, as Israel has forbidden foreign media.
An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital's collapse as Israeli forces surround it
By ABDEL KAREEM HANNA, SAMY MAGDY and SARAH EL DEEB
Updated 2:30 PM EDT, September 27, 2025
Al-Quds once had capacity for 120 patients. Now, roughly 20 remain, including two babies in intensive care. About 60 doctors, nurses and patients’ families are sheltering there.Vaughan is from Seattle and volunteered through the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association since July. She kept a video diary of her time at al-Quds, occasionally posting on social media.
She shared dozens of videos with The Associated Press, which verified them. Volunteers in Gaza like her have become a vital source of information, as Israel has forbidden foreign media.
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6274710
A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds: ecocide.While the destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza is visible in every video we see, less visible is the parallel destruction of ecosystems and means of subsistence. Before the 7 October atrocity that triggered the current assault on Gaza, about 40% of its land was farmed. Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged. That’s roughly 200 hectares – the only remaining area directly available to feed more than 2 million people.
Part of the reason is the systematic destruction of farmland by the Israeli military. Ground troops have demolished greenhouses; bulldozers have toppled orchards, ploughed out crops and crushed the soil; and planes have sprayed herbicides over the fields.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) justify these attacks by claiming that “Hamas often operates from within orchards, fields, and agricultural land.” And apparently from hospitals, schools, universities, industrial estates and any other resources on which the Palestinians depend. All the IDF needs to do in order to rationalise destruction is to suggest that Hamas has operated or might operate from the thing it wants to destroy. And if there’s no evidence – sorry, too late.
The IDF is steadily expanding the “buffer zone” along Gaza’s eastern border, which happens to contain much of the Strip’s agricultural land. As the human rights specialist Hamza Hamouchene points out, rather than “making the desert bloom” – a mainstay of Israeli state propaganda – it is turning fertile and productive land into desert.
The Israeli government has been felling Palestinians’ ancient olive trees for decades to deprive them of subsistence, demoralise them and break their connection with the land. Olives are both materially crucial, accounting for 14% of the Palestinian economy, and symbolically powerful: if there are no olive trees, there can be no olive branch. Israel’s scorched-earth policy, in conjunction with its blockade of food supplies, guarantees famine.
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
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When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note
#Palestine #Prisoners
#InstitutionalisedRacism"There are currently some 3,613 Palestinians under administrative detention in Israeli prisons, according to the July 2025 CDA report, and more than 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli custody (not including those held in military camps) in total"
Not a word by the US corporate media when any of them die "while the fates of Israelis held captive by Hamas regularly make front-page news"l
When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note
The different treatment accorded to the plights of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners by US corporate media illustrates a persistent double standard that treats some people as more human than others.FAIR
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US Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
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I believe in a gold backed economy, but most gold is a hologram put there by god to test us. And my religion and/or race and/or culture and/or gender and /or sexualty and/or group in a political senses gold is real and only we can tell what's real,
And we believe a whole lot of other crazy weird quasi religious nonsense we strictly adhere to.
We all believe doing exactly this like everyone else is the only one true way to be free. Therefore anything we do is justified.
Ukraine Is Deliberately Targeting Russian Civilians. These Horrific Events Are Largely Absent From Western Media Coverage
Ukraine Is Deliberately Targeting Russian Civilians. These Horrific Events Are Largely Absent From Western Media Coverage
In the evening of 21 September, Ukrainian drones attacked a sanatorium in Foros, a village in Crimea. Three people were killed and 16 more were injured in the strikes.Anonymous834 (South Front)
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They are at war. Russia shoots at civilians. Ukraine shoots at civilians. Both are wrong to shoot at civilians.
South front press just doesnt take issue with Russia shooting at civilians.
How a major US DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change
The Trump administration recruited five marginalized researchers to challenge the international consensus on global warming. Here’s how it went wrong.
Well known among those who follow the topic, but haven't seen other outlets try to tell the whole story.
A Marxist Perspective On AI
A Marxist Perspective On AI
AI has become as a deeply polarizing issue on the left, with many people having concerns regarding its reliance on unauthorized training data, displacement of workers, lack of creativity, and environmental costs.Dialectical Dispatches
It's important to make a distinction between the definition of "open source AI" canonized by the OSI that doesn't require open training data, and models where all of the training data used is also made available.
Separately, the tools most people think about when they hear "AI", generalized generative AI models, only exist as capitalist surplus, and we shouldn't be defending them. Hyper focused AI tools such as the Te Hiku Media project to create speech recognition tools for the te reo Māori language are unequivocally good, and we should be making a lot more projects like this.
Streameast Reclaimed Domain Name Previously Seized By the U.S. Government * TorrentFreak
Streameast Reclaimed Domain Name Previously Seized By the U.S. Government * TorrentFreak
Last year, U.S. authorities seized several Streameast domain names, but the pirate sports streaming site has reclaimed one of them.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Brand recognition. Existing web links and references to it.
While the site swiftly moved to new domains, the old ones were pointing to a seizure banner.Streameast ‘Reclaims’ Streameast.xyz
Their name is still the same as before. So it makes sense to reclaim it.
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in reply to trilobite • • •Signal uses Play Services for its push notifications. It does have a fallback method which maintains a connection to their servers to get message notifications. It requires changing some battery optimisation settings which might have some minor battery impacts.
Personally I'm using Molly which implements UnifiedPush for Push Notifications without Molly/Signal needing to run in the background constantly. Also swaps a few other Google dependencies (like location pins) with open source alternatives.
Having the second profile with Google Services is a good idea though. That was what I used to do before I shed my last few Google dependencies.
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in reply to dracs • • •Me too, but even with no limit to battery usage it still gets killed after a while in the background...
dracs
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in reply to dracs • • •dysprosium
in reply to dracs • • •Is it that UnifiedPush could be used for many other apps at the same time?
dracs
in reply to dysprosium • • •dysprosium
in reply to trilobite • • •You need to reinstall Signal for it to fall back to its own push notification system. This is not about updates but checking for messages in the background. This doesn't mean you cannot receive messages at all without it, just that you'd have to do so manually by opening the app every time.
It may have worked for a little while, but a reinstall is required for restoring full functionality
utopiah
in reply to trilobite • • •It's not linear. The first time they probably thought "Oh... another chat app, such a big deal, so complex! I'll never manage" but now that they did with Signal and realize it's not that hard, having another will be much easier.
Now on the actual question, I do not know. What actual information does Google get from it and as importantly what can they infer from it? Might actually be good to ask Signal developers since it's because of their choice.
Related discussions github.com/signalapp/Signal-An… which suggests signal.org/android/apk/ might not need GPS and isn't delivered via Play Store.
Cannot register phone number without Gapps (number change)
idealemu (GitHub)TurtleTourParty
in reply to trilobite • • •GitHub - TheCapsLock/langis
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in reply to trilobite • • •No, Google Play Services in any form is spyware.
Replace signal with molly (a signal fork). It still works with signal perfectly, but does not complain about Google Play services.
trilobite
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in reply to shortwavesurfer • • •Molly.im does not have a lot of documentation. Does it equally rely on a centralised server? If it does, then surely one of the downsides is that there probably isn't a huge foundation behind it ensuring the bills are paid, etc. Or is it that Molly is piggy backing on Signal servers? And is the Signal Foundation happy to be have Molly users using its services? How long before Signal Foundation kicks Molly users off it servers?
Also I note u can download two different version: one with Google blobs and one without. What compromise do I have to make if I choose the Google version?
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in reply to trilobite • • •GitHub - mollyim/mollyim-android: Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.
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in reply to trilobite • • •Pardon my french, but you're screwed.
Signal is centralized, contains binary blobs from Google and requires Play Services. It's just wrong on many levels.
Matrix is better but with it's own controversies. I have accepted that XMPP could be a better choice than any other, provided people get the guidance needed to chose the right client for them.
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in reply to warmaster • • •I think signal is very useful. Private messages are only useful when other people use it and it's difficult really difficult to entice people to switch if it's any less convenient than what they were already using.
With signal you can just tell your friend or relative that its like WhatsApp but better.
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in reply to warmaster • • •pulsewidth
in reply to warmaster • • •Wrong. Signal does not require play services. You can build the apk yourself from the source code, or you can download the prebuilt apk directly from Signal here:
signal.org/android/apk/
This apk is self-updating and does not require Google Play services to update nor message. If it detects Google Play Services (or OpenGApps/microG), Signal will register you as an Firebase Cloud Messaging user for push notifications. If you do not have those services installed it will use WebSocket connection to the Signal servers instead.
I tried it but ultimately went back to Signal via microG, as the push notifications are half the value of instant messaging - WebSocket was unreliable. I tested about 3 years ago though, so they may have improved their implementation.
Signal Android APK
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in reply to pulsewidth • • •Signal is my only instant messenger and I can happily report no issues these days with notifications, that said, I never really noticed them previously and have been using for >3 years.
Occasionally we'll use Signal whilst on a live call, someone will tell us they messaged on Signal and I'll get the notification immediately - i.e. I knew when it was sent and received.
This is working smoothly on my grapheneos phone and the desktop client across Linux and Windows.
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in reply to ScoffingLizard • • •In my (limited) understanding of it 'blobs' are encrypted blocks of data that are distributed with apps in their APK. The app code internally will then have references to the blobs to indicate start and end locations in the blobs and usually a function that reference serves.
That means less for closed source apps, as they could contain any obfuscated code already - but open source advocates are very skeptical of arbitrary blobs, as they can be used to distribute anything - trackers or malicious code for instance. Their primary function in the Google App store seems to be to distribute signing certificates, encrypted keys and checksums that Google uses to verify the build version and that app is from the Play Store (Google calls this 'frosting' the app, going with their Android dessert theme).
So I have not checked, but I imagine the Signal direct-download APK would not have blobs as it's not been signed/'frosted' by Google.
See brief discussion below from IzzyOnDroid devs for additional terms if you're curious to research further.
gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…
Dealing with BLOBs found in APK signing blocks (#491) · Issues · IzzyOnDroid / repo · GitLab
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