Everything is and always has been terrible. So why cant i want something that is terrible as a treat?
Depends what it is. A sleeve of Oreos or binging half a pie one night is probably fine.
Meth? Maybe reconsider.
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Maybe the NYT's headline writers' eyes weren't that great to begin with?
The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality — as we know it.
We already declared that with the advent of photoshop. I don't want to downplay the possibility of serious harm being a result of misinformation carried through this medium. People can be dumb. I do want to say the sky isn't falling. As the slop tsunami hits us we are not required to stand still, throw our hands in the air, and take it. We will develop tools and sensibilities that will help us not to get duped by model mud. We will find ways and institutions to sieve for the nuggets of human content. Not all at once but we will get there.
This is fear mongering masquerading as balanced reporting. And it doesn't even touch on the precarious financial situations the whole so-called AI bubble economy is in.
You couldn't "trust" video before sora et al. We had all these sightings of aliens and flying saucers - which stopped conveniently having an impact when everybody started carrying cameras around.
There will be a need to verify authenticity and my prediction is that need will be met.
The tech could represent the end of visual fact — the idea that video could serve as an objective record of reality — as we know it.We already declared that with the advent of photoshop.
I think that this is "video" as in "moving images". Photoshop isn't a fantastic tool for fabricating video (though, given enough time and expense, I suppose that it'd be theoretically possible to do it, frame-by-frame). In the past, the limitations of software have made it much harder to doctor up --- not impossible, as Hollywood creates imaginary worlds, but much harder, more expensive, and requiring more expertise --- to falsify a video of someone than a single still image of them.
I don't think that this is the "end of truth". There was a world before photography and audio recordings. We had ways of dealing with that. Like, we'd have reputable organizations whose role it was to send someone to various events to attest to them, and place their reputation at stake. We can, if need be, return to that.
And it may very well be that we can create new forms of recording that are more-difficult to falsify. A while back, to help deal with widespread printing technology making counterfeiting easier, we rolled out holographic images, for example.
I can imagine an Internet-connected camera --- as on a cell phone --- that sends a hash of the image to a trusted server and obtains a timestamped, cryptographic signature. That doesn't stop before-the-fact forgeries, but it does deal with things that are fabricated after-the-fact, stuff like this:
The real danger is the failing trust in traditional news sources and the attack on the truth from the right.
People have been believing what they want regardless of if they see it for a long time and AI will fuel that but is not the root of the problem.
Traditional news sources became aggregators of actual news sources and open source Intel, and have made "embellishing" the norm. Stock/reused visuals, speculating minutes into events, etc etc
It is increasingly faked. The right just pretends that means they're lies that feel "good" are the truth
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words, no longer a "smoking gun". Videos basically become like eyewitness testimony, well... its slightly better as it protect against misremembering or people with inadequate lexicon and unable to clearly articulate what they saw. The process wil become: get the witness to testify they had posession of the camera, was recording at the time of incident, and they believe the video being presented in court is genuine and have not been altered, then its basically a video version of their eyewitness testimony. The credibility of the video is now tied to the witness/camera-person's own credibility, and should not be evaluated as an independent evidence, but the jury should treat the video as the witnese's own words, meaning, they should factor in the possibility the witness faked it.
A video you see on the internet is now just as good as just a bunch of text, both equally unreliable.
We live in a post-truth world now.
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And that's perfect, that's the world that made all the due process and similar things evolve.
There's never been such a thing as independent evidence. The medium has always mattered. And when people started believing this is no more true, we've almost gotten ourselves a new planetary fascist empire, I hope we're still in time to stop that.
Videos are now basically have the same weights as words...We live in a post-truth world now.
It's interesting that you start with a bold statement that is IMHO correct, namely that namely what was once taken as unquestionable truth now isn't, but also it's not new, just yet another media, but still conclude that it's different.
Arguably we were already in a post-truth World, always have been, it only extends to a medium we considered too costly to fake until now. The principle is still the same.
In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen. And the legal systems and the concepts of knowledge were not very good.
And still the latter evolved to become better long before people started recording sounds to wax cylinders and shooting photos.
In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen
FWIW even centuries later, during Linneaus time, people were actually looking for unicorns.
Meh we're not there yet. But the day is coming.
"The Running Man" predicted the future!
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That’s not really feasible without phones doing this automatically.
Even then didn’t the first Trump admin already argue iPhone video can’t be trusted because it’s modified with AI filters?
Sign every video automatically? Sounds like chatcontrol all over.
Also, I could just generate a video on my computer and film it with my phone. Now it's signed, even has phone artifacts for added realism.
it means if you see a logo that shows CNN, and its signed by CNN, then you know for sure that CNN released it. As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc, but they can at least be held to account at that point.
versus random ai generated video with a fake logo and fake attribution that is going viral and not being able to be discredited in time before it becomes truth.
then you know for sure that CNN released it.
Why not link to the original CNN source then, if you want to be trusted? You'd have to do that anyways if you want to use the CNN footage in your own video.
I don't think people who care about the validity of a news video will be helped much with this, and people who don't care about the truth can easily ignore it too.
As a news organisation they should have their own due diligence about sources etc
But what if they can't anymore? News orgs don't only show video that they recorded. They have videos from freelance reporters, people who were at an event, government orgs, other news orgs in other countries...
building a web of trust has to start somewhere.
currently we're in the "its all very difficult, we cant solve all the tricky things, so we're not even trying" stage.
hopefully we find a way to move forward, even if its not perfect.
also: if a pixel changes then it isn't the original source video, by definition. being able to determine that it has been altered is entirely the point.
The point was to sign AI footage so you know what's fake. NFTs can be used as a decentralized repository of signatures. You could realistically require the companies to participate, but the idea doesn't work because you can edit footage so it doesn't match the signature. More robust signatures exist, but none is good enough, especially since the repo would have to be public.
Signing real footage makes even less sense. You'd have to trust everybody and their uncle's signature.
A digital signature works with public/private keys and content hashes. This is a solved problem.
In fact, it's part of secure DNS.
How does that answer my question, how do NFTs help an organization prove that a key belongs to them?
NFTs and blockchains are an entirely virtual construct that can't affect the real world, or take trusted, non-key inputs from the real world. That's not 100% true, but it is mostly true.
So really, you need a way to tie or bind a key to an identity or organization. You could perhaps sign some data, such as a domain name with a key on a chain, but that doesn't prove anything. Anyone could sign anything with any key, so you need to approach the problem from the other direction.
You can install the key directly, or the hash of the key into DNS, verifiers can retrieve the key from DNS, then resolve it to the full key if necessary. You can then use the key to verify signatures of signed data.
Why DNS? Because that is currently the most standard way to identify organizations on the internet. Also, much of the security of the internet is directly bound to DNS. For example, getting certificates for websites often entails changing a DNS record at the request of an issuer to prove that you own the domain in question.
This is not an idea I invented just now, there are multiple DNS record types that have been defined for literally decades at this point which allow an organization to publish keys to DNS. Among the first is this: rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2535#sec… Not completely related, but it is a key of some kind published to DNS.
I don't think NFTs provide any useful functionality in helping organizations prove that a key is theirs, at least nothing much better than a simpler solution which already exists.
It's kind of besides the point. Yes they don't add anything unique and yes it was most likely because if hype, but NFTs is just what they used in the wip to store the signatures on, but the core principle is flawed no matter what you put it on.
Sorry I thought you suggested DNS to solve the core issues.
Cryptographic signatures are something we should have been normalizing for awhile now.
I remember during the LTT Linux challenge, at one point they were assigned the task "sign a PDF." Linus interpreted this as PGP sign the document, which apparently Okular can do but he didn't have any credentials set up. Luke used some online tool to photoshop an image of his handwriting into the document.
Is this going to kill Onlyfans?
Or is the market decidedly because Onlyfans is about personal creators and thus it's more meaningful than porn?
But when short AI videos become so good you can't tell if you're being catfished, will it feel the same?
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ClamAV 1.5 open-source antivirus engine is now available for download with major new features, improvements, and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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Did western media ‘enable genocide’ in Gaza?
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Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
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Canadian broadcaster tried to cover up Ukrainian fighter’s swastika tattoo (VIDEO)
Canadian broadcaster tried to cover up Ukrainian fighter’s swastika tattoo (VIDEO)
CBC news blurred the Nazi symbol in an aired report but left it visible in the video’s thumbnailRT
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
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Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Stephen Miller may have just accidentally confirmed that he, not President Donald Trump, is the one calling the shots in regard to deportation raids and National Guard deployments.“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN on Monday. “Why would the mere presence—just think about this for a second. If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
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Taliban accuses Pakistan of bombing border town, Islamabad cites cross-border terrorist attacks
"Pakistan violated Afghanistan's airspace, bombing a civilian market in the Marghi area of Paktika near the Durand Line and also violating Kabul's sovereign territory," the defence ministry said in a post on social media."This is an unprecedented, violent, and heinous act in the history of Afghanistan and Pakistan," it added.
Taliban accuses Pakistan of bombing border town, Islamabad cites cross-border terrorist attacks
Pakistan says Afghan soil is being used to launch cross-border terrorist attacks.TRT World
Maria Machado dedicates her Nobel "Peace" prize to Donald Trump.
This is building consent for a US war on Venezuela.
Nobel war prize more like, considering the people they award this to.
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María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Maria's history is interesting, she's basically spent her entire career calling every Venezuelan election fraudulent.
Jimmy Carter himself decried her and her organisation as releasing "deliberately erroneous" information. I guess she's just more politically convenient now.
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Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
The current claims of mas firing dont seem to be substantiated yet
Edit: looks like they're firing the computer security folks
New Mass Layoffs?
You’ve probably seen that Russ Vought went on Twitter today and said “the RIFS [government speak for permanent layoffs] have begun.” Obviously I can’t know…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Trump, given an excuse to do what he's wanted to do ever since he got mad and fired my brother from another mother. Per the NY Post:WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is among the offices being permanently downsized as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown, The Post has learned.
The RIFs (reductions in force), which started Friday, will fire some of CISA’s 2,540 employees as well as thousands more within the federal bureaucracy — after President Trump repeatedly threatened to target offices cherished by Democrats if the party’s senators refused to reopen the government.
In an indication of the possible scale of the RIF, CISA had planned to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.
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Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown
CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.Steven Nelson (New York Post)
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VPN Comparison 2.0
After making a post about comparing VPN providers, I received a lot of requested feedback. I've implemented most of the ideas I received.
Providers
- AirVPN
- IVPN
- Mozilla VPN
- Mullvad VPN
- NordVPN
- NymVPN
- Private Internet Access (abbreviated PIA)
- Proton VPN
- Surfshark VPN
- Tor (technically not a VPN)
- Windscribe
Notes
- I'm human. I make mistakes. I made multiple mistakes in my last post, and there may be some here. I've tried my best.
- Pricing is sometimes weird. For example, a 1 year plan for Private Internet Access is 37.19€ first year and then auto-renews annually at 46.73€. By the way, they misspelled "annually". AirVPN has a 3 day pricing plan. For the instances when pricing is weird, I did what I felt was best on a case-by-case basis.
- Tor is not a VPN, but there are multiple apps that allow you to use it like a VPN. They've released an official Tor VPN app for Android, and there is a verified Flatpak called Carburetor which you can use to use Tor like a VPN on secureblue (Linux). It's not unreasonable to add this to the list.
- Some projects use different licenses for different platforms. For example, NordVPN has an open source Linux client. However, to call NordVPN open source would be like calling a meat sandwich vegan because the bread is vegan.
- The age of a VPN isn't a good indicator of how secure it is. There could be a trustworthy VPN that's been around for 10 years but uses insecure, outdated code, and a new VPN that's been around for 10 days but uses up-to-date, modern code.
- Some VPNs, like Surfshark VPN, operate in multiple countries. Legality may vary.
- All of the VPNs claim a "no log" policy, but there's some I trust more than others to actually uphold that.
- Tor is special in the port forwarding category, because it depends on what you're using port forwarding for. In some cases, Tor doesn't need port forwarding.
- Tor technically doesn't have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one.
Takeaways
- If you don't mind the speed cost, Tor is a really good option to protect your IP address.
- If you're on a budget, NymVPN, Private Internet Access, and Surfshark VPN are generally the cheapest. If you're paying month-by-month, Mullvad VPN still can't be beat.
- If you want VPNs that go out of their way to collect as little information as possible, IVPN, Mullvad VPN, and NymVPN don't require any personal information to use. And Tor, of course.
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VPN Comparison
I made a spreadsheet comparing different open source VPN providers.
Part 2 here
Providers
Notes
- Please do not start a flame war about Proton.
- Please do not start a flame war about cryptocurrencies. Monero is the only cryptocurrency listed because of its privacy.
- The very left column is the category for each row, the middle section is the various VPN providers, and the right section is which VPNs are the best in each category.
- IVPN has two differing plans, which is why "Standard" and "Pro" are sometimes differentiated.
- For accounts, "Generated" means a random identifier is created for you to act as your account, "Required" means you must sign up yourself. Proton VPN allows guest use under specific conditions (e.g. installed from the Google Play Store), but otherwise requires an account.
- Switzerland is seen as more private than Sweden. Gibraltar is seen as privacy neutral.
- All prices are in United States Dollars. Tax is not included.
- Pricing is based on the price combination to achieve the exact time frame. For example, Proton VPN does not have a 3 year plan but you can achieve 3 years by combining a 2 year plan with a 1 year plan.
- The availability section is security based. Availability is framed around a GrapheneOS and secureblue setup.
- The Proton VPN Flatpak is unofficial, but based on the official code.
- Availability on secureblue is based on the
ujust install-vpncommand. Security features must be disabled on secureblue in order to use the GUI for IVPN and Mullvad VPN, but not for Proton VPN. Mozilla VPN and NymVPN are available as Flatpaks, which are safer than layering packages.- I wanted to include more categories, such as which programming languages they are written in, connection speed, and security, but that became far too difficult and complex, so I decided to omit those categories.
Takeaways
- NymVPN is very very new, but it's off to a strong start. It wins in almost every category. I actually hadn't heard of it until I started this project.
- If you want a free VPN, Proton VPN is the only one here that meets that requirement.
- If you want to pay week-by-week, IVPN is the only one that allows that.
- If you're paying month-by-month on a budget, Mullvad VPN is the cheapest option.
- NymVPN is the cheapest plan for anything past 1 month.
- If you want to use Accrescent as your main app store, IVPN is the only VPN available there for now.
- If you want to pay for a bundle of apps, including a VPN, Proton sells more than just a VPN.
- Mozilla VPN is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is a verified Flatpak, but NymVPN also has that so it doesn't even matter.
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This is the source code
This is the Google Play Store link (just in case)
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Tor VPN for Android. Everything is subject to change.GitLab
"Tor VPN is beta software. Do not rely on it for anything other than testing. It may leak information and should not be relied on for anything sensitive"
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Its available through FDroid, you have to enable the the guardian repo first:
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I've been concerned about performance lately; after having been on Mullvad forever, performance dropped to "abysmal" on every server, so I tried ivpn and got much better speeds. Still, it's a fraction of my fiber capability, wiþ VPN off. I looked at Nym, but haven't tried it; it doesn't seem like þroughput is a primary selling point for þem.
If you do try it, could you report back on speed impact?
I get 8% of my raw þroughput on Mullvad's servers. I get 28% on ivpn. Neiþer seems like a reasonably cost for Wireguard, and should be better.
Yeah, please report back if you do.
I don't know what's up w/ Mullvad. Þey were great for years.
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It's more private, but you'll sacrifice speed as a result of having to go through at least 2 servers.
They even have a 5-hop mode, which I don't know, probably would be slower than tor xD
I appreciate the attempt to quantify availability, but don't most of these providers allow you to generate OpenVPN and Wireguard configs, which can be used practically anywhere?
Nevertheless, your work is appreciated.
I've been using one of these since forever and it just works. Should I look at the others?
I don't want this to be a "I use x and its the best" type comment so I won't say which one.
I only use wireguard and wouldn't touch openvpn just because it seems so complex in comparisson.
The price is fine, the speed is fine, wireguard makes it ubiquitous, never had a problem with reliability.
Very much appreciate this work, but I am again gonna ask if there is some way to include I2P, perhaps in its own thing, perhaps segregated by outproxies.
Yep, its super slow compared to basically all VPNs, and is a bit of struggle to set up compared to most VPNs.
But, it is also entirely free, and you can use I2P with outproxies to access the wider internet outside of I2P's... I2P-net... allows port forwarding, works very well for a slow but steady churn of uh, filesharing, etc.
I would also argue I2P is a better way that TOR to protect your IP and your actual net traffic, due to TOR nodes being known to be run as honeypots ...
Its possible an I2P outproxy could also be operated as a honeypot, but as I understand it, ... so long as you are not unlucky enough to just directly route through an outproxy without first bouncing through other I2P users/hosts... you're basically good.
And even in that scenario, its would be very difficult to reverse engineer all the packets and figure out which parts were going to who, as well as the actual contents of those packets.
Agreed, if OP is going to add Tor in a "VPN" list then may as well add I2P. I2P + outproxies are pretty much the same thing as Tor + Tor Exit Relay. It's not the best way to utilize I2P but the option does exist.
Then again neither Tor nor I2P should be in a "VPN" list, the whole thing seems more of a VPN provider topic.
Honestly i wish these kind of vpns had a different name.
Wireguard isnt even on the list and its entirely free, but also it doesn’t serve this same purpose.
Vpn stands for private personal network, selfhosted vpns do exactly that, i can use my
Phone to connect to all my home services which replace expensive subscriptions without actually exposing those services to the net or requiring a domain for them.
Vpns are amazing, but most people i know irl that use them barely understand what they are or what they can be used for.
Virtual private network,i know, i know, but i just wrote the wrong thing on accident.
Since its been up for so long feels dishonest to change it. I am owning up to my mistakes and my sentiment that the post is about providers only still stands.
PIA does not have WireGuard configs available. To get those, you have to use third-party tools to capture and generate the necessary info. Otherwise, you have to use their client, or else no WireGuard.
Users have been asking for years (since 2018, I think), and they've never provided them.
GitHub - pia-foss/manual-connections: Scripts for manual connections to Private Internet Access
Scripts for manual connections to Private Internet Access - pia-foss/manual-connectionsGitHub
PIA was also purchased by the Israeli company, Kape Technologies, which is tied to Unit 8200. If your concern is privacy, I would recommend do against it.
The very first CEO of Crossrider, Koby Menachemi, happened to be once a part of Unit 8200 which is an Israeli Intelligence Unit in their military and has also been dubbed as “Israel’s NSA “.
Private Internet Access VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
arccompute.com/blog The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of…Telegraph
I have the same question about PureVPN.
Does Pure fly under the radar, or just not as well known?
I've been using it for years and never any problems.
Since September 2021, ExpressVPN has been a subsidiary of Kape Technologies, a company wholly owned by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi.
Teddy Sagi is an Israeli businessman and convicted criminal based in London and Dubai.
PIA is also owned by Sagi btw. Shouldn't even be on this list.
All VPNs are blocked on my university's network
I live off campus, thankfully, but it sucks that I can't have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.
it sucks that I can’t have any privacy on my laptop while on campus.
tunnel to your home connection then. unless you live an hour or two away from your campus, it's not gonna add a delay that's noticeable to you.
Mullvad on desktop has QUIC protocol encapsulation so that wireguard just looks like normal https traffic.
There's also shadowsocks protocol encapsulation to look like ssh traffic. And that's even available on mobile too.
If you care about privacy no.
If you just need to unlock regional content then it should be good.
Keyword being "free".
Could you suggest a better VPN that's free?
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First of all Mullvad isn't German.
Second, they have already proved they respect customers privacy.
Get your facts straight and don't cry if someone criticizes your favorite corporation.
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I agree.
Though, it's not that deep. I was saying how it's the best amongst the free ones. I'm not saying it's the best in general.
One thing you may want to update - listing Tor's logging policy as "No Logs" is a bit misleading, that's really more of a voluntary recommendation for individual Tor exit relay operators.
Tor exit relay operators absolutely can store logs of outgoing connections if they choose to. And technically they could even snoop on non-secure traffic if they choose, there's a reason you should be using HTTPS if you're going to use Tor for clearnet browsing.
Of course most Tor exit relay operators aren't going to do these things but it's all voluntary, seems incorrect to claim all exit relay operators follow no log principles.
EDIT: Also AFAIK you can't forward a port from the clearnet through a Tor exit relay's public IP address back to your own Tor client, Tor doesn't do port forwarding like that. It's definitely not needed to run Tor Browser (and Tor VPN I think) but that isn't needed for any of the other VPNs either, a bit confusing how you listed that one.
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Show me where he endorses Trump.
Oh, you can't? But you read it on Facebook or something so it must be true?
Common, show me your information.
This is bullshit based on some old tweet Andy Yen did about trump doing good going against big tech. You can read about it here or search for it elsewhere.
It always comes out when someone says something nice about ProtonVPN, who have an amazing track record IMO.
Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings)
Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings) Recently, allegations surfaced on Reddit that Proton (or at least Proton’s CEO) supports Trump. Hillary Keverenge from …ovenplayer (Medium)
Thank you!
And sorry if I came around a bit agressively. Kudos to you for checking the link and updating your view.
That write up does seem to ignore the doubling down here:
Calling out that JD Vance was the only one to answer is pretty troubling to me after reading about some of his new-right ties. It's way, way too close for my liking to a mouse telling everyone that will listen that the cat was amazing for inviting him and all his friends to his house in a week. ie. Playing into what just seems like an obvious strategy.
That said, I'm pretty ignorant about the CEO. I just remembered this lemmy comment and I didn't notice it included in the write up that was being linked.
The official @protonprivacy@[url=https://mastodon.social/actor]mastodon.social[/url] account replied and doubled down
protonprivacy@[url=https://mastodon.social/actor]mastodon.social[/url] - @[url=https://aragon.sh/users/jonah]Jonah[/url]Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.
Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.
At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.
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protonprivacy@[url=https://mastodon.social/actor]mastodon.social[/url] - @[url=https://aragon.sh/users/jonah]Jonah[/url] By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.
Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.
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(Less importantly, my response)Eric Gerlach (@egerlach@hachyderm.io)
@protonprivacy@mastodon.social @jonah@neat.computer Unfortunately, there's a line beyond which it's not okay to view a political party through one issue, and IMO the Republicans have crossed that line. Privacy is a human rights issue.Hachyderm.io
I do not use Windows and I do everything in my power to use non American phones.
The difference is that proton's founder voiced support whereas Microsoft has always had a relationship w my govt and it's dragnet for the Gazan genocide is quiet.
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Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)
The 'availability' is misleading. If they offer OpenVPN or Wireguard then they are available pretty much anywhere.
Using just plain Wireguard or OpenVPN configs would also be much better than installing random VPN provider apps.
cryptostorm - The VPN service provider for the truly paranoid
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I'd love to see them audited.
Back when they were in the US, they closed shop and moved to Iceland to avoid turning over data for a subpoena.
That's both admirable and an admission that they had longs to turn over.
But that they generate accounts on the fly like the best? Is promising in context.
The issue there AFAIK is that some app builds aren't fully reproducible, because if they were the developer signature would still apply and be used. In the reproducible case the security of the build infra wouldn't matter, because the same app would be produced the same regardless were they are build.
Without reproducible builds, you cannot really trust the software anyway, because the Dev could hook some hidden code only for the released binary app and sign that.
uhm no not really?
I mean reproducible builds are used to cross verfiy that it is the same binary in this case, but like android has no mechanism to do that, this is not how it works.
that a build should be reproducible is more about your second point and doesnt really have anything to do with fdroid, as far as i know
Edit: these links should explain it all:
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21675…
Once it passes inspection, the F-Droid build service compiles and packages the app to make it ready for distribution. The package is then signed either with F-Droid’s cryptographic key, or, if the build is reproducible, enables distribution using the original developer’s private key. In this way, users can trust that any app distributed through F-Droid is the one that was built from the specified source code and has not been tampered with.
f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/goog…
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...f-droid.org
I haven't looked at all providers, merely Nymvpn as I was interested. Turns out they have a 2TB/month cap. Might not be an issue for some, but might be for others.
ProtonVPN: only 8 years old: RED FLAG!
Well reddish flag at least, is there a rationale behind this? I mean 8 years is quite a long time.
So you also think the choices were not that good?
I mean what you are saying is that if there had been a 50 year old one, all the others should be red?
I'm just explaining the reason why it's more reddish (but not as red as others). It's something most spreadsheet software (this was clearly MS Excel) can do automatically with numbers for visual indication so we can more easily see the distribution, it does not mean 8 years old is bad.
If there's a big unbalance in color it would just make it more visible that there's a big unbalance in ages. Probably if that had happened more colors could have been added to the gradient, maybe maroon->red->yellow->green->blue->white. But I think it was not seen as necessary in this case (or the author was lazy, since these are one of the defaults I believe).
Who cares about why it happened? I mean it's kind of obvious. No one questioned why excel shows a specific colour, but I did why the person making the spreadsheet did in fact use what you go to lengths to explaine, in a specific way. It's like saying sorry your paycheck was halved because we have this software and today it divided your salary in half. Not saying that's not ok or anything, but explaining how "dividing by 2 halves a number".
I feel you explain something, while correct, had nothing to do with what I said.
(this was clearly MS Excel)
LibreOffice Calc, actually. You are correct about the color grading.
(or the author was lazy, since these are one of the defaults I believe)
I changed the conditional colors from the default to match the colors that LibreOffice uses for "Good", "Neutral", and "Bad".
Calc | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft
LibreOffice, Calc, spreadsheet, ODF, open standardswww.libreoffice.org
Edit: I so I thought. I had set it up and apparently not kept up with the times
For anyone who considers getting the tor vpn android app
"Tor VPN is beta software. Do not rely on it for anything other than testing. It may leak information and should not be relied on for anything sensitive" (it is a disclaimer from their website)
Thank you for adding the created date column and making sweden green
Yes. The owner/developer is Kape technologies, an Israeli spyware/adware company.
For maximum privacy, I recommend VPN providers with a jurisdiction outside of Five Eyes and other international intelligence-sharing agreements -- that is, one headquartered outside of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. So it initially seems like a positive sign that, while CyberGhost has offices in Germany, it's headquartered in Romania. German entrepreneur Robert Knapp says he founded the $114,000 startup on the back of low-wage Bucharest labor before flipping it for $10.5 million in 2017.The issue is who he sold it to -- the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users' browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.
Crossrider was so successful it ultimately drew the gaze of Google and UC Berkeley, which identified the company in a damning 2015 study. (You can read the Web Archive version of that document.)
This practice, commonly called traffic manipulation, is condemned web-wide. And the only difference between it and one of the oldest forms of cyberattack, called man-in-the-middle (MitM), is that you clicked "agree" on the terms and conditions.
Whether or not PIA or ExpressVPN or the other providers owned by Kape fulfill this data scraping and ad-serving pipeline in my mind is irrelevant. Choosing to do business with them rewards bad actors when there are other VPN sellers who don't have such a tainted lineage.
Good work. Might be valuable to add a "allows port forwarding" row.
Edit: whoops, I'm a silly willy. It's right in front of me! My bad.
I see that Windscribe was included. Their price tier is always in promotion so I'd take that in consideration.
Also, they have app for Linux: windscribe.com/features/linux/
It is not in Electron like many others. It is native Linux.
Get the Fastest VPN for Linux | Windscribe
Get fast, secure & private browsing with Windscribe’s Linux VPN. Block ads, evade trackers & access global content from the command line. No credit card needed.windscribe.com
I think it's worth noting NYMVpn uses a quite advanced mixnet for security which is different from other VPNs and theoretically more secure than even TOR. I say theoretically because it hasn't yet been proven with large scale use.
What is a mixnet? Unparalleled online privacy with a VPN
Learn how a mixnet works and how it can power the world's most private VPNCasey Ford, PhD (Nym)
Checklists Are The Thief Of Joy - Dhole Moments
I have never seen security and privacy comparison tables (henceforth referred to simply as “checklists” for brevity) used for any other purpose but deception. After pondering this obser…Dhole Moments
C tor/little-t-tor/etc. is licensed under the "3-clause BSD" license
Tor technically doesn’t have a WireGuard profile, but you could (probably?) create one
I dont know a lot about wireguard, but of the cuff answer would be no.
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International but the actual license file is a different license.
Tor is distributed under the "3-clause BSD" license
The reason gitlab says it is, is because the LICENSE file contains all licenses for the codebase, including stuff like geoip which is destributed under CC BY-SA 4.0
This file contains the license for Tor,It also lists the licenses for other components used by Tor.
Last time I said it was hard to figure out if this was some kind of malice or just someone without much experience/knowledge.
I been thinking about what this post and the one before it actually are though. They’re not disinformation, I don’t think they’re misinformation although I think that argument could be made if there was actual intent (and a person could also make the argument that there is intent).
This just kind of seems like white noise or what would be called slop if it were generated by ai.
It’s not useful in making a decision.
A vpn is a tool and you use the right tool for the job. A chart comparing the various similarities and differences between a box and open end wrench, flare nut wrench, socket set, power drill, impact driver and torque wrench would be useless for decision making about what tool to buy because they’re for different jobs.
If you need to take the lug nuts off a truck the right tool is an impact, if you need to replace brake lines you’re gonna use a flare nut wrench.
It’s not useful to compare pia and mullvad. If all you need is a cheap way to reliably bypass geofencing then pia is the right tool. If you need deniability and trust then mullvad is the right tool.
It makes no sense to compare air and nord. If you need the cheapest per device service for bypassing content blocks then the tool is nord. If you need port forwarding for torrents, soulseek and usenet all at once then the tool is air.
The problem with posts like this is that they don’t really provide any useful understanding or decision making process and wouldn’t be useful from an educational perspective like the comparison between various wrenches made above (if it were in some kind of Tools for Dummies publication) because they’re not even contextualized as such.
A better start for this kind of post would be “here are some reasons to use a vpn service” or “here are some actual important differences between different vpn services apps”, not weather they’re available on Jim’s cut rate Secure I Promise (tm) alternative android App Store.
Last time I said it was hard to figure out if this was some kind of malice or just someone without much experience/knowledge.
Totally disagree with the first few paragraphs. Someone makes a post you feel has inadequate depth and you think they're the goddamned CIA? I don't see any basis for the hostile tone.
If you need port forwarding for torrents, soulseek and usenet all at once then the tool is air.
But like it's nice to be able to have a reference to quickly exclude certain options without having to wade through all their various websites. If you already know that you need port forwarding, then a chart like this will help you exclude several mainstream options. If there is some other criteria you already know about it could save you a lot of time.
A better start for this kind of post would be “here are some reasons to use a vpn service” or “here are some actual important differences between different vpn services apps”
Those do exist elsewhere and I don't think there is much wrong with summarizing the current state of things for an informed audience. We are on lemmy here! I wouldn't mail this chart out to the whole neighbourhood or anything, it's probably not a good very first intro for most people. Although even for a person just getting started, having the column of criteria on the left could be useful to point out "what are the things to consider". Like maybe you wouldn't even guess that the number of devices would be limited.
Long narrative comparisons can be hard to follow. They are good for understanding the differences but then once you are having an understanding how do you pick? It's very convenient if someone else goes to the trouble to sift through the information. On wikipedia there are some subjects that have tables comparing things and I find them very helpful. Otherwise I'd just have to spend hours making my own tables.
BTW wikipedia has a table comparing different kinds of wrenches so obviously someone thought it would be useful!!
The main issue is that the information could become out of date or erroneous in the first place so you need to verify for yourself whatever is key to your decisions. That's just the nature of third party info.
So like I said, I don’t think the post is malicious.
I tried to be careful not to take a hostile tone. It’s possible you’re correctly identifying a critical tone, because my comment was intended as criticism of the post.
There are ways of presenting factual information that are not helpful or useful and actually serve the opposite purpose. You certainly don’t need to use prose to present information in a useful way, but consider how much closer to the old car paint color versus mileage chart (or whatever example they used to teach you about uncorrelated data in school) the posters chart is than the Wikipedia wrench table you linked.
The Wikipedia wrench table is in the context of “tools for dummies” that I said might be appropriate for that type of presentation, just as an aside.
The whole point of using some kind of chart or table is to make understanding easier, not more difficult. The posted chart does the latter. I think its because the op doesn’t understand both what they’re trying to say or the information they’re trying to show to convey it and because they chose a really excessively dimensional way to do so. A flowchart, infographic or anything other than a three dimensional chart would be better but since it’s so unclear what they’re trying to express, except possibly how much they love nymvpn and how people should really take a look at that previously underrepresented option, I can’t really make a recommendation.
OK well then I should divulge to you full disclosure that I think you, like OP, are also probably not a hostile actor who is commenting to fuck with me specifically or ?lemmy users? in general. More likely someone who's got a bit spun up their head. But I can't say for sure......
As it happens, last time I was looking at different VPN vendors I had to spend a ton of time basically creating an abbreviated version of this chart that had the items most salient to my use case. To sift through the websites, forums, support sections etc, because the information isn't clearly presented was annoying. They are all trying to emphasize their strengths to make a sale based on their marketing strategy.
I can say that this chart, exactly as it is, would have saved me significant time had it been available. I found similar but they were old. And I looked at it to see if the conclusion I came to is still the right one for me--- it is. I can clearly see the required information.
Good! You’re on a public forum and people do that shit! Our instance is slightly better than the other Reddit offshoots but most of them haven’t kicked the social media curse and everything you read on lemmy needs to get the sidest of ways glances.
I have trouble taking your statement that you can see the required information seriously when the required information literally isn’t there. Important stuff like weather a service accepts cash anonymously, is owned by what company and what that company’s affiliations are (talking about kape and israel here, not the proton red herring) and how forwarded ports are allocated are not included in the chart.
Of course, that kind of information doesn’t fit neatly into a table so it’s another example of the format of the data being inadequate.
I can believe that a broad generalized table like this is useful in the context of learning the ropes of what’s out there in terms of vpn services, but it isn’t being presented in that way. If this kind of table were around years ago when I was getting my feet under me I would have made bad choices based on it.
My comments saying “hey, this is bad and not something to use” are not coming from my seat of power at the player haters annual dinner and awards ceremony but from clear recognition of misleading information based on experience.
Mozilla VPN is just Mullvad, so you are on a very good vpn service.
As long as you are happy, I don't see why you should swap.
(Going to mullvad directly could be slightly beneficial if you want a generated account that has no direct metadata to link to you, using a card to pay would negate that benefit, but theres other options.. in the end you are using a good service already)
Since you do not seem to list self-hosting options, e.g. WireGuard or OpenVPN, then IMHO it'd be good to at least have a line on each about what's the actual backend, e.g. does service X runs on WireGuard, OpenVPN, something else, something proprietary that has been audited by 3rd party if so whom and when.
Edit: suggested self-hosting (but not at home) WireGuard in the previous thread lemmy.ml/post/37270537/2153605…
It's not entirely a big deal to me.
I think I agree with the staff reply on this thread: airvpn.org/forums/topic/56799-…
Our software is free and open source, while we repute at the moment not acceptable to provide external companies with root access to our servers to perform audits which can not anyway guarantee future avoidance of traffic logging or transmission to third parties. On the contrary, we deem very useful anything related to penetration tests. Such tests are frequently performed by independent researchers and bounty hunters and we also have a bounty program.
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Also this post is from Lemmy, so I retooted a Lemmy post
Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho
Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says
Hegseth The Defense secretary made the announcement at a Pentagon press conference with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's defense minister.Lillian Rizzo (CNBC)
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While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
Senate Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP late Thursday to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit.
The final vote on the Senate’s $925 billion version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 was 77-20, with Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) not voting. The passage tees up talks with leaders in the House of Representatives, where nearly all Republicans and 17 Democrats approved an NDAA last month.
“Yesterday, the Senate voted to give the Pentagon a trillion-dollar spending package while the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans play politics with troop pay and nuclear security and refuse to reopen the federal government,” Markey said in a Friday statement. “All the while, they are stealing healthcare from American families to fund tax breaks for CEO billionaires. This isn’t a budget that funds America’s real security needs.”
While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
"Congress continues to expand military spending while denying investments in the programs that will truly build a safer, healthier future for working- and middle-class families," said Sen. Ed Markey, who voted no.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
Senate Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of them voted with the GOP late Thursday to give nearly $1 trillion to the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit.
The final vote on the Senate’s $925 billion version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 was 77-20, with Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) not voting. The passage tees up talks with leaders in the House of Representatives, where nearly all Republicans and 17 Democrats approved an NDAA last month.
“Yesterday, the Senate voted to give the Pentagon a trillion-dollar spending package while the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans play politics with troop pay and nuclear security and refuse to reopen the federal government,” Markey said in a Friday statement. “All the while, they are stealing healthcare from American families to fund tax breaks for CEO billionaires. This isn’t a budget that funds America’s real security needs.”
While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill
"Congress continues to expand military spending while denying investments in the programs that will truly build a safer, healthier future for working- and middle-class families," said Sen. Ed Markey, who voted no.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
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Uncle Tom means racist black man in favor of white people and the usage is correct.
Obama is a racist and mass murderer of brown and black people. And now he's doing PR for Apartheid.
Personally I just think he's an equal opportunity asshole and sociopath.
He does what's best for him and everybody else, white, black or any other race, are only important when he can use them to further his own interests, otherwise screw them.
So yeah, such a person, even being black himself, would not at all care for blacks (unless they're rich blacks or he can use them for votes), just like he doesn't care for anybody else beyond their utility to further his own personal upsides.
(Anybody expecting a top US politician to be different just because they're from a race other than white, a gender other than cis-male or a sexual orientation other than heterosexual is seriously deluded).
That also still fits the definition of Uncle Tom.
Obama participating in a racist system of oppression and Apartheid for his own gain instead of ideological convictions doesn't magically make it better. His actions matter way more than his motivation.
Yeah that caught me way off guard.
He may be too middle of the road but to call him a race traitor like that is absolutely wild.
Like this is a headline I expect to see from a hardcore rightwing publication.
Hey, I get it. Obama wasn't a bad President on the scale of US Presidents, but there are a lot of left wing people who have genuine grievances with him.
I could see anyone who is an advocate for or Middle Eastern themselves be pretty damned pissed at him, considering he dropped twenty-six thousand bombs on seven countries. This was AFTER he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
I was right smack in the middle of the Finance Industry back in the 2008 Crash and paid very close attention to what he did to "rescue the Economy" in the aftermath of it.
Let's just say that the complete total crash from well above most of Europe to near zero of Social Mobility in America and the acceleration of the growth in inequality (especially between people whose income comes from Work vs people whose income comes from Asset Ownership) and subsequent problems with impoverishment of the Working Class which fed the growth of the vote in Far Right Populists like Trump, are all down to which kind of people Obama choose to Rescue and which ones he chose to pay for it.
He didn't just cause grievances for left wing people, he fucked up the US with his choices at a pivotal moment, pretty much plowing, fertilizing and seeding the field were Trumpism grew.
His influence is way more massive than it seem to many, mainly because of the moment in History when he became president made his choices have far reaching effects that structurally pivoted the US Economy which in turn cascaded into changes to the US Politics and Society.
However, as he's a veritable songbird with the gift of the gab (plus Liberals pushed for decade the whole Racist idea that his race made him inherently a better person) a lot of people formed opinions on him based on his race and his speeches rather than on his actions.
Besides being famous for drone striking and murder in the Middle East, Obama's most impactful policy on America was bailing out Wall Street with American taxpayer dollars and surpressing protests against it.
Many corrupt billionaires could have lost their assets in 2008 but Obama is the reason the elite cabal is still alive and kicking. And they were even able to buy the dip.
He's a sleazy sociopath with the gift of the gab who happens to be Afro-American.
The last part has nothing to do with the rest, both in a negative sense and a positive sense - sleazy sociopaths with the gift of the gab come in all sizes, shapes and colors.
In fact, it's actually a form of Prejudice to expect a black American President to be any better towards Afro-Americans than a non-black one: Racism but "positive", the kind that liberals tend to voice towards minorities whose votes they want to get.
He’s a sleazy sociopath with the gift of the gab who happens to be Afro-American
Indeed the last part has got nothing to do with the first, nobody said it had.
It is however relevant since we're talking about Uncle Tom and race.
...to expect a black American President to be any better towards Afro-Americans than a non-black one:
Another thing I never said, are you not reading my comments or are just misinterpreting things deliberately to find some non-existent racism?
The entire logic of using an "Uncle Tom" on Obama is that he is expected to treat black people better because of being himself black, but is not doing so, "hence" he is like Uncle Tom.
It's Racist to expect that as a black person he would treat black people better both because of the "he's black hence" part (i.e. expecting that what one does depends on skin color) and the expectation that people should help people of the same skin color (which when that skin color is "white" is literally a white supremacist dog-whistle).
In summary, the entire concept of Race Traitor - which for Afro-Americans is encapsulated in calling them an Uncle Tom - is Racist as fuck, which is probably why even the NAZIs would throw around accusations of people being Race Traitors when they were deemed Arians but did not support the NAZIs.
The non-Racist take is to expect that people in positions of power should help people in need, quite independently of the race of any of them. From that viewpoint, which has no "Race Traitor" concept, Obama by his own actions is just another sleazy sociopath.
Here is what Obama wrote:
After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza — and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.
US approves record $38bn Israel military aid deal
The US agrees a military aid package for Israel worth $38bn (£28bn) over the next 10 years, officials say, the largest such deal in US history.BBC News
This is the dumbest post I have seen in ... hours.
Progressives impotently punching at black people because Progressive social media person is unhappy with purity language tests.
Hows about run for office, Ms Rachel ? Put your past through the ringer publicly to help more than rich children with fast internet, nice computers, and free time to be talked to by a stranger online. You know ... children of wealth.
Or make sure y'all stay as divided as possible. That is what wins the day!
Lemmy has been pretty insane lately - like I definitely feel like i'm in the liberal equivalent of /r/TheDonald or /r/conservative. Just absolutely asinine takes, completely out of context, with no nuance whatsoever. The comments are even worse, with insane virtue signaling and justification for abhorrent behavior.
This isn't why we wanted to move off the big platforms, we weren't looking for an even more toxic mechanism to spread misinformation and shit opinions.
For the record I'm a liberal, but what is thriving here at Lemmy is something rotten and is bad for the community.
For the record I’m a liberal
You could have started off with that. Saves everyone some time.
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I am for sure side-eyeing every post on the instance now. I have never seen the Horseshoe Theory this blatant.
This comment in particular is very revealing for the record. Continue though so I can have an anecdote to cite later when asked about the big tent approach.
You can principally call out Obama without resorting to an anti-black slur. Is Obama still a tool for white hegemony? OBVIOUSLY. No one is disputing that, it is your language that is the issue here. However, you and your buddies in this thread will continue proving why afro-pessimism and generally the Black Radical Tradition frameworks are so important when engaging with folks like yall.
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Is Obama still a tool for white hegemony? OBVIOUSLY.
So... An uncle tom? The term uncle tom is not used demeaningly by colonizers CEO's and slave owners. It is used by those who despise these oppressors and their collaborators.
Denying Palestinians a communal identity has always been a key approach to dehumanization within Western discourse.
The Western world has historically tied itself into knots justifying horrific atrocities like the Atlantic slave trade while trying to present itself as a champion of personal freedoms.
The KKK was fighting to oppress black people, not to liberate white people from oppression.
So no, that is not how it works whatsoever.
If you are looking for other examples similar to Uncle Tom, see also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusano
Oh ok lol, thanks. That makes sense.
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The State Department Isn’t Telling Congress When U.S. Weapons Fall Into the Wrong Hands
On paper, the guardrails are clear. When the U.S. ships weapons overseas, partner governments promise three things: That they’ll use them only for authorized purposes, keep them secure, and not hand them off to third parties.
If those conditions are violated or serious suspicions arise that they are, the State Department is obligated to investigate and, in many cases, alert Congress.
In practice, however, a new Government Accountability Office report shows the system is ad hoc, with little guidance or follow through. The State Department largely relies on overseas Defense Department officials for tips about potential end-use violations.
Since 2019, the Pentagon has flagged more than 150 incidents that could be violations. But the State Department has reported just three end-use violations to Capitol Hill.
The State Department Isn’t Telling Congress When U.S. Weapons Fall Into the Wrong Hands
Congress is being left in the dark about the fate of U.S. weapons transfers, a new federal watchdog report found.Alain Stephens (The Intercept)
I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide
“This is a great day for the world,” the U.S. president said when the first phase of a ceasefire agreement was announced. “This is a wonderful day, a wonderful day for everybody.”
It has taken two years of unrelenting genocide for us to finally hear this. I keep wondering: Is it real? Might our suffering actually end soon?
This partial ceasefire deal comes amid the most horrific phase the Gaza Strip has witnessed since the war began. Gaza City has been under a rapidly advancing Israeli occupation, putting the roughly 200,000 people who remain there into unimaginable circumstances. According to the latest reports, Israel has displaced nearly 900,000 people from the city.
I became one of them just one month ago. It feels like a whole year. I left everything behind and fled to the south, where Israel has said it would be safer, but bombs still rain down around us. Now, the thought of returning home again brings life back into me. It brings peace even for a rare moment.
My heart pounded as I followed the news last night. It was “the final minutes,” all the channels reported. Everyone was ready to sign. I watched my people finally smile — finally feel a moment of comfort — after two long years of sadness and grief.
Why did it take two full years? Were they waiting for us to suffer even more? Children, women, and men have been killed in this genocide. Generations are growing up and being born amid these unfathomable horrors. This war has shaped new identities — minds and hearts forged in pain, loss, and resilience.
Now, Israel expects us to feel grateful for obtaining our basic rights to life and liberty — as if they were favors, not ordinary human rights.
In the tent camps where I am now displaced, the word “ceasefire” feels empty. The last round of ceasefire negotiations began with enthusiasm. It ended with my family displaced in a tent.
Ceasefire doesn’t mean the end of our suffering. It is simply a step toward justice after endless days and nights filled with fear and violence against us in Gaza. It doesn’t bring back the schools, universities, hospitals, streets, or homes that Israel bombed. It cannot heal the trauma we carry from those long nights of pain and terror. The sounds of drones and explosions will forever echo in our minds. A ceasefire cannot erase that.
I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide
U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire deal marked “a wonderful day for everybody.” Why did it take two years to arrive?Sara Awad (The Intercept)
BHP agrees to settle some iron ore sales to China using RMB instead of USD
China-BHP Billiton negotiations on iron ore supply result in RMB trading settlement, opening new era
Major Australian miner - BHP Billiton - agreed with Chinese state-owned iron ore trading arm China Mineral Resources Group together with Chinese ...GSALIH (SteelOrbis)
China's Eric Li Destroys a Room Full of Western Journalists On Their Own Turf
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The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37163347
The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg
The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg
The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territorial waters on Friday.Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)
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I suggest creating another account on some other instance. Start with Lemmyverse to find a nice one. Once you find an interesting instance, check Fediseer for more details. Click the little (i) next to the instance name in the Lemmyverse results, and navigate to Fediseer endorsements. If the instance has been endorsed, censored or whatever, this is the place where you'll find some info about it.
For example, here's what it says about Hexbear. As you can see in the "censures received" section, that list is pretty long. BTW all the biggest instances attract attention, so disagreement and conflict naturally follow. However, the way the instance is run plays a role too. If you want to access more communities, make an account on one of the less conspicuous instances that hasn't been blocked by others.
Lemmy Explorer
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USB pasthrough used to work, and I'd run a VM but I no longer am able to do this.
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(I wonder if anyone wrote up one of these for MS-DOS back in the pre Win9X era. That'd be interesting just to see the roots of the copypasta, lol.)
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