Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
If Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been a site of tension in your family for the last two Thanksgiving holidays, this year should be no different. The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter turkey dinner, but when we look at the harrowing status quo for Palestinians in Gaza today, there is no peace to be thankful for — especially not on a day that marks the remembrance of this country’s own genocide against Indigenous Americans.
To be clear, if two years of livestreamed annihilation have failed to shift your loved ones’ support away from the Israeli ethnostate, I doubt there is anything a dinner table argument could do to persuade them. There can be no reasoning with a worldview that forecloses seeing Palestinians as fully human.
I navigate this with pro-Israel members of my own British Jewish family. It’s painful, and I don’t have any good advice. Whatever your approach with your family, there can be no pretense that the genocide in Gaza is over.
Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
Why we need to keep pushing for the end of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even if that means an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner.Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)
Fierce battle for frontline towns where Ukraine's soldiers are surrounded
Fierce battle for frontline towns where Ukraine's soldiers are surrounded
With a peace plan put to President Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad - fiercely defended throughout the war - risk being encircled by Russian forces advancing in the Donbas.Annoa Abekah-Mensah and Sophia Massam, Data and Forensics team (Sky News)
Guinea-Bissau coup: What happened, why it matters, what happens next?
Military officials in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau have announced a new leader one day after seizing power in a military coup.
General Horta Nta Na Man was named as the head of a one-year transitional government at about noon (12:00 GMT) on Thursday. In a statement, he justified the seizure of power and said the army had taken charge in the face of threats to Guinea-Bissau’s stability.
Meanwhile, the African Union and ECOWAS will likely pressure the military to return to democratic rule as soon as possible, Cummings said. Both have, in the past, suspended and sanctioned countries in which coups have taken place, before reinstating them after clear timelines for elections are set.
Guinea-Bissau coup: What happened, why it matters, what happens next?
General Horta Inta-A is named the head of a one-year transitional government after President Embalo was detained.Shola Lawal (Al Jazeera)
China has lent more to US than any other country since 2000, report finds
China has lent more to US than any other country since 2000, report finds
China’s lending has been ‘vastly’ larger – and far more skewed towards developed countries – than previously assumed, AidData study finds.Ralph Jennings (South China Morning Post)
We are witnessing the purest expression of imperial hypocrisy. For years, the US propaganda apparatus diligently constructed a fable, a so called "debt trap" mythology, to frighten the nations of the Global South away from China's Belt and Road Initiative. It was a tale of predatory lending designed to isolate and contain a strategic competitor.
And yet, what do we find? The most eager client for these very loans, to the tune of over 200 billion dollars, was none other than the United States itself. Turns out that the entire narrative was a conscious fraud. They never believed their own warnings. They recognized that Chinese financing was a credible, attractive alternative to the stranglehold of Western financial institutions.
So, while publicly sounding the alarm to scare away other customers, the empire privately availed itself of the service. Here we see the very essence of imperial strategy. Its goal is to monopolize the very resources and opportunities it denies to others, all while cloaking its cynical self interest in the righteous language of concern.
Grand jury declines to reindict Letitia James
A grand jury declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, 10 days after a federal judge threw out the initial charges against her, according to a person familiar with the development Thursday.
Another source familiar with the situation said there should be no premature celebration, because the Justice Department could try to seek the indictment a third time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-letitia-james-again
Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?
I just bought a new motherboard and I’ll be buying a new CPU, too. The current one is a gigabyte 520i AC AM4 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on it currently. The new one is also gigabyte 550M AM4 and the new processor is Ryzen 7 5800xt. I currently dual boot Cachy OS and windows 11. Each has their own boot partition and I use grub. I’m going to bring everything over from the old mobo except the cpu that will stay on it since it’s going into another pc. Meaning, I’m bringing my SSDs and all that. Will I need to reinstall (please say no lol)? Will it be just plug and play or will I need to fiddle with a live environment to chroot?
Please let me know if you need more info. Thank you in advance.
dd the raw disk image over to the target disk, do the rituals to make it bootable, and consider configuring new partition UUIDs.
‘We are not Enron’: Nvidia rejects AI bubble fears 🤣
The investor has also claimed the way Nvidia’s graphics chips are accounted for is incorrect, claiming they have a much shorter use life than has been suggested.
Also, the part about chips burning out faster than expected will become a real problem in a few years. You need rare earths to produce chips, and China has an effective monopoly on refining them. China will obviously prioritize its own domestic use. As Chinese companies continue to ramp up production of chips, solar panels, EVs, and so on, there will be less and less available for export. Even if the government wanted to help the US for some reason, it would be politically impossible for them to say they will starve their own industries to supply the US.
Meanwhile, even under the most aggressive diversification scenarios, China is projected to maintain around 80% of global refining capacity all the way through 2040s. So once the current supply of chips burns out, it is not clear how new ones will be made outside of China.
Looking for a Good Spanish TTS Engine on Manjaro (Offline / Local)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to find a reliable Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) solution for Manjaro Linux that can read a text file and output a wav audio file or similar. I recently tried using Kokoro‑TTS:
uv tool install kokoro-tts
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin But when I ran:
kokoro-tts --help-languages it only lists languages like
en-us, fr-fr, ja, etc.—no Spanish, so it looks like the Spanish voice isn’t included.What I’m looking for:
- An alternative TTS engine that supports Spanish (ideally
es_ES) - That runs locally on Manjaro (or Arch-compatible)
- Simple to install and use from the command line
- Reasonable naturalness (doesn’t have to be super “neural,” but better than very robotic)
Questions:
- Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
- Which are the simplest to install and use?
- Which are the most natural sounding ones?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:
huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…
VOICES.md · hexgrad/Kokoro-82M at main
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Before the change, High Court Justice Martin Chamberlain, an expert on free speech law, had been set to rule on whether or not to overturn the government’s ban on Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group.
But on Wednesday last week, he was abruptly replaced by a panel of three – Victoria Sharp, Karen Steyn and Jonathan Swift. For a judge to be replaced so close to the hearing date is unusual.
High Court Judge Victoria Sharp’s twin brother Richard Sharp sits on the board of trustees of charity One Million Mentors alongside Trevor Chinn, a key British funder of pro-Israel groups.
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.The Electronic Intifada
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Before the change, High Court Justice Martin Chamberlain, an expert on free speech law, had been set to rule on whether or not to overturn the government’s ban on Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group.
But on Wednesday last week, he was abruptly replaced by a panel of three – Victoria Sharp, Karen Steyn and Jonathan Swift. For a judge to be replaced so close to the hearing date is unusual.
High Court Judge Victoria Sharp’s twin brother Richard Sharp sits on the board of trustees of charity One Million Mentors alongside Trevor Chinn, a key British funder of pro-Israel groups.
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.The Electronic Intifada
Macron unveils voluntary military service as concerns grow over Russia
Macron unveils voluntary military service as concerns grow over Russia
President Emmanuel Macron has announced the creation of a voluntary youth military service to start by mid-2026 as France moves to strengthen its armed forces amid rising concern over Russia’s threat beyond the war in Ukraine.RFI
Mike Johnson says lawmakers should be able to continue owning stocks
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that members of Congress should be able to continue owning stocks.
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
Earlier this year, Johnson expressed support for a ban, citing the "appearance of impropriety."
Mike Johnson says lawmakers should be able to own stocks
Johnson suggested that a ban could discourage people from running for office. He had earlier voiced support for a Congressional stock trading ban.Bryan Metzger (Business Insider)
What you do with your windows button on your keyboard?
Israeli settler caught on video kicking detained Palestinian as IDF soldiers stand nearby
Israeli settler caught on video kicking detained Palestinian as IDF soldiers stand nearby
The Israeli soldiers on scene – including members of an IDF West Bank unit made up of local settlers – saw the incident but did not intervene. The army said the troops' conduct is 'under review'Matan Golan (Haaretz)
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Yes, which part are you skeptical of? I think these are pretty clear at this point, though. Most of this is from comrade @yogthos@lemmy.ml
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU reuters.com/article/idUSBREA15…
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us…
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/…
- Monthly Review Online, 2021: The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-ma…
- Maidan coup thread archive.ph/BAxYc
- Coup details consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/…
- Don't Get it Wrong: Ukraine and "Israel" are Both Tools of US-EU Imperialism
- An article from August 2021 advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine to subjugate it and draw it away from China nationalinterest.org/feature/s…
- An important piece that reveals Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war against Russia in the Donbas since, it's implied, 2014. news.yahoo.com/exclusive-secre…
- NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/e…
- Nordstream US involvement evidence thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/evi…
- The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-…
So, there were these points you mentioned:
- The west has absolutely hollowed out and looted Ukraine
- used it as a battering ram to damage Russia as much as they could.
- The US blew up Nordstream specifically to try to decouple western Europe from cheap Russian gas.
- The US Empire, post-2014 Euromaidan coup, uses Ukraine similarly to how they use Israel, to secure its interests in the region.
The first two links are about US officials discussing who they'd like to see active in a Ukrainian government and who they don't. Doesn't relate to any of your points. Maybe the last, but simply discussing which people are currently doing what in another country during a state of turmoil doesn't really say anything.
The counterpunch link is just weird... It's just a long list of weird accusations and propaganda without any substance at all. Looking at the site, it's not a neutral news source anyway, but that, too, doesn't give any sources concerning any of your points beyond "look, western politicians visited Ukraine". Well, no shit.
The Consortium News article starts with brandishing the opposition as a Neo-Nazi movement and disqualifies itself utterly by that within the first few sentences. Like, those are your sources? That's insane.
The Monthly Review Online article is about the Maidan massacre. Not directly related to the points above.
Maidan coup thread: deals with the question "Is there any credible evidence that Ukraine's 2014 revolution was due to a CIA coup". Even if the answer to this was "yes", it wouldn't be relevant to any of the points above.
Coup details: same. Like, it keeps going on how the US influenced actors. Well, no shit. That's what politicians do. I still don't see the connection to the allegations stated above and the way it's framed in the article is despicable.
"Don't get it wrong": "The EU doesn’t care about Ukrainian lives — in 2014, they supported a far-right coup", nah, I'm out. "Far right coup", what bullshit. This whole myth of Nazis taking over Ukraine is just ridiculous and any article that keeps iterating that Russian propaganda is not believable.
advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine... Helping Ukraine defend itself against an invading agressor because it serves your interest as well doesn't make your second point true. Russia could stop the war today if they simply stopped attacking another country. They don't. It's not the west that uses Ukraine, it's Ukraine that uses the west's interest to reduce Russian power to defend itself. You're mixing up cause and effect.
Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war - bullshit. The article is about US people training Ukrainian people, not about the CIA fighting a war. Helping Ukraine defend itself doesn't mean you're "using it". If you're teaching somebody some self defense to no longer get beaten up by a bully, you're not fighting a proxy fistfight. What a stupid take.
NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement - same.
Nordstream US involvement evidence - long, long article that ends up accusing Ukrainian nationalists. No US involvement mentioned.
The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals - and here it is, the one part that I agree with you and that I think is believable. And of all the points up there, this only partly backs up the last one, because "getting resources" isn't really "securing its interest in the region" (or one might argue it's even the opposite, considering historic precedence such as Versailles, but I guess Trump doesn't think that far ahead). Yeah, that sucks. But still, there is no indication of the US or any other western state being the cause here - it's just Trump, the Russian asset of all the people, trying to take advantage of a situation.
I gave a variety of sources, because you were incredibly vague. One thing you do repeatedly in this comment, though, is immediately dismiss any source that agrees with the reality that Ukraine is governed by a far-right nationalist group that upholds Stepan Bandera. This truth is so counter to your understanding that you feel it a claim capable of being dismissed without any evidence from your part. Regardless of how well-sourced and backed up this is, from whatever source, even the pro-Ukraine New York Times, you still deny it.
If I give you hard evidence, and you dismiss it purely because it disagrees with your ideology, what's the point in me giving you evidence? Genuinely. Your only argument against Ukraine being governed by far-right nationalists is that Russia also believes this, which is racism at worst and utterly confused logic at best.
As for the reason why I showed western involvement in setting up the current government of Ukraine, it's because it's quite clear that that was the reason for the Euromaidan Coup. The west set up a group of far-right nationalists, for the ends of securing their economic interests in the region. This includes encircling Russia, cutting off supply of cheap Russian gas, and drawing out an unpopular war to try to economically weaken Russia as much as possible.
You further add your own conspiracy theory, that the most Statesian president ever doing the most Statesian things, is somehow a Russian asset. You provide no evidence for this either, just like you provided no evidence to counter mine, yet just leave it hanging as though stating it is evidence.
I implore you to move beyond sheer knee-jerk reaction, and actually pay attention to the points being brought up. No news source is ever neutral, and a source not being neutral does not mean it is wrong.
It’s virtually impossible to be in an “echo chamber” when living in a Five Eyes country. Or rather, it’s virtually impossible to not be stuck in the Five Eyes liberal echo chamber. You would have to go full Kaczynski, living in a shack in the woods.
As if we weren’t—and aren’t still—exposed to exactly the same life-long indoctrination, education, and propaganda as everyone else in the imperial core. But somehow we, who looked beyond the cultural hegemony in which we’re surrounded, are the ones living in a bubble.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
We have no idea what content is most viral on YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X – because they refuse to share basic data.
On the DSA’s Birthday (Oct 4th) we've led a “mass data access request” along with @mozilla and DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory, where a series of ~20 orgs requested daily data on their top 1,000 most-viewed posts in EU Member States. Every single one refused.
Join us in demanding platform transparency.
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We have no idea what content is most viral on YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X – because they refuse to share basic data.On the DSA’s Birthday (Oct 4th) we've led a “mass data access request” along with @mozilla and DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory, where a series of ~20 orgs requested daily data on their top 1,000 most-viewed posts in EU Member States. Every single one refused.
Join us in demanding platform transparency: mozillafoundation.org/en/campa…
Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.Mozilla Foundation
Should I set the language when I post something?
On the web I can select the language of a post and comment. The two mobile apps I've tried so far don’t have any language-related features.
So I end up posting and commenting with a mix of languages.
Should I just not set any when using the web UI?
I always set it (mobile client, Thunder), because I find it pretty annoying when I see posts in my feed that I don't understand (so it's only fair that I don't cause it to others)
Fortunately it hasn't been much of an issue on Lemmy, but Mastodon is pretty much unusable for me partly for this reason (last time I tried to curate my feed, ~50% of the posts I saw were in languages I cannot understand -- and I don't follow language-specific topics or people)
It seems it has now been "solved", with a popup for users posting from the website, reminding them to select a language: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i… I think users (including me) will always make mistakes, and, as you note, not all clients support this setting, so I don't think relying on the UX of everyone's clients is a permanent solution 😕
In the meantime, the best I can do is set the tag manually when I'm posting 😔
Re-introduce automatic language detection for posts
Pitch Many users (even bots!) don't correctly set the language tag when posting. This can result in timelines containing very frequent unreadable posts for users not speaking the language, which is...gkaklas (GitHub)
This Commission That Regulates Crypto Could Be Just One Guy: An Industry Lawyer
This Commission That Regulates Crypto Could Be Just One Guy: An Industry Lawyer
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a crypto regulator, and its sole member could be Trump nominee Mike Selig, a former crypto industry lawyer.Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance.While the Council removed the obligation for scanning, the agreed text creates a toxic legal framework that incentivizes US tech giants to scan private communications indiscriminately, introduces mandatory age checks for all internet users, and threatens to exclude teenagers from digital life.
The article is non-paywalled, freely readable on the link --^
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance.Patrick Breyer
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Remember that the Council is meant to protect and enable trade. They only care about citizens for submitting them to exploitation.
If you discuss "the EU" you have to distinguish between Council and Parliament. The Council has no obligation to act according to the Parliament's wishes. They are not a democracy.
Thanks for your comment. I'm still only learning how legislation in the EU works. However, so far I haven't been able to confirm what you're saying. Could you help if you know? (I assume not only me, but possibly other readers, too)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_…
Here it doesn't say (almost) anything about "trade". Admittedly I've only read 2-3 pages and then used Ctrl+F to search on the rest of the page though.. Is it a de-facto split between the legislative powers of the Council and the Parliament? Where to read about it?
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.Patrick Breyer
Guinea-Bissau’s President Says He Has Been Deposed. The Opposition Says It’s a Trick.
cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18616130
The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.
Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.
The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.
“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.
Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.
After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.
After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.
Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.
Guinea-Bissau’s President Says He Has Been Deposed. The Opposition Says It’s a Trick.
The military announced on Wednesday it had taken over the West African nation. Later, the opposition leader accused the incumbent president of staging the coup d’état to try to retain power.Gunfire rang out near the presidential palace and national electoral commission headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, prompting confusion across Bissau, the capital.
Then, in a scene that has become familiar during the spate of coup d’états across West Africa in recent years, a military spokesman went on state television surrounded by heavily armed, uniformed men. He announced that they had deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, closed the country’s borders and airspace and suspended the electoral process. He also announced a curfew and declared a state of emergency.
The statement from Mr. N’Tchama came shortly after the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, made an impassioned speech claiming to have won Sunday’s election, and saying that he was only waiting for the final announcement of the national electoral commission on Thursday.
“We will go out into the streets to say thank you to all the people of Guinea-Bissau for all that they have done,” he told a crowd of supporters.
Mr. Dias is supported by an opposition coalition that includes the country’s largest party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. That party and its leader, Domingos Simões Pereira, a former prime minister, were barred from running in last week’s election.
After the military takeover on Wednesday, Mr. Pereira’s nephew, Edson Pereira, said that his uncle had been arrested and was being held in a prison in Bissau.
After armed clashes broke out in December 2023 between military forces and the national guard, Mr. Embaló, who was out of the country at the time, declared a coup had been attempted against his presidency. Days later, he dissolved Parliament, in which the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde had held the majority.
Before his campaign, Mr. Embaló repeatedly said that even if he did not win, Mr. Pereira should not be allowed to run the nation. Mr. Dias had promised to restore the government that Mr. Embaló dissolved.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/world/africa/guinea-bissau-coup.html
Britain's young communists are ready for revolution
Britain’s young communists are ready for revolution
A teenaged goth and a ponytailed man were smoking outside the Revolution Festival. “I’m outside because someone who is 16 years old and needs to be chaperoned everywhere is being a little dick and neEmily Lawford (New Statesman)
Ok, so I was in the UK a couple years ago, and while I have some pretty stark disagreements with our Trot friends, it was the trot orgs who were most adamantly pro-trans.
Most UK ML parties are still on the "being queer is bourgeois decadence" thing, in 2025.
JKR will be the Lenin of CPGB-ML before anything else
JKR will be the Lenin of CPGB-ML before anything else
funny you should mention that!
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[Video] Israel TV airs pity video about how traumatizing it is for their prison guard rapists to be on trial for raping Palestinians
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Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z Rebellion’ Exposed as Right-Wing Plot
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z Rebellion’ Exposed as Right-Wing Plot
Intent on toppling Mexico's popular president, local oligarchs and an international right-wing network backed a youth-led anti-corruption uprising, Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg report.Consortium News
Overheard a conversation at my college. The one answering was from US.
"Do Europeans celebrate thanksgiving?"
- "Yeah it's in the bible."
How to skirt websites that block known domains of email forwarding services? [SOLVED]
Solved: Thanks to all who commented, especially those who took the time to respond to my follow-up questions. Your responses were enough to convince me of the value of buying a custom domain in order to keep one's true email address private w/ the added benefit of working on websites that block known domains of temp/forwarding service providers.
Key takeaways:
- Forwarding services' shared domains are useful for blending in w/ the crowd. (credit to @Cricket@lemmy.zip)
- Custom domains are handy when you don't care about blending in and you want to use a website that blacklists known domains of disposable/forwarding service providers, including the paid-tier domains.
- Deciding whether to enable catch-all:
- Enabled: You can make up new addresses without having to configure the alias manually each time, but it's also easier for spammers to guess valid addresses.
- Disabled: It's more difficult for spammers to guess valid addresses, but you'll have to configure your aliases manually unless you have regex matching for automatic creation of new aliases. With regex matching for automatic creation of new aliases, disabling catch-all has few if any downsides.
- Regex matching: Seems to provide the best of all worlds by making it harder for spammers to guess valid addresses without having to configure aliases manually each time.
- For aliases, including a string of random characters after the company name makes it harder for spammers to guess your other aliases and/or learn where else you have accounts by spamming emails to every
$companyname@example.comand seeing which ones bounce back. (credit to @erebion@news.erebion.eu)
Original post:
I've recently signed up for an email forwarding service w/ aliases so that I can keep my true email address private when I sign up for new websites and services. I should clarify that I'm less concerned about concealing my identity as I am about protecting my real email address, identifying who leaked my info when my email address is compromised, and being able to stop the spam by turning off that alias.
While updating my existing profiles to point to aliases instead of my real address, I've hit a snag - some sites (Steam, Slack, etc) won't allow me to update my email address to any known domains from my email forwarding service.
On these sites that block email forwarding addresses, for now I'm either updating my existing email address w/ a plus sign if the website allows it, otherwise I'm just leaving my existing email address unchanged. It's not the end of the world, they already have my real email address, and I can probably go a Very Long Time without needing to check those inboxes anyway, but I'm still miffed that I can't completely migrate my existing accounts to my new scheme.
I've read numerous posts about the benefits of custom domains to enable portability of email service providers, and I'm wondering if custom domains are the answer to these sites that disallow forwarding addresses, but I have questions:
- How do other people deal with this situation?
- Do these websites that block known email forwarding domains typically work on a whitelist or blacklist model? If the former (whitelist), then I'm thinking a custom domain will have the same problem, but if the latter (blacklist), then I reckon a custom domain with catchall might work.
- Particularly owners of custom domains, do you find your custom domain is allowed more often than not or do you run into the same problem?
EDIT: Clarified my objectives.
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No, graphene isn't being targeted by the french government.
There's been some posts about Graphene leaving france and accusing the government of targeting them.
This isn't happening. What happened is that le parisien posted an article that presents what french law enforcement think of grapheneOS, which is obviously mostly crap, then present part of graphene's respone, which does in fact include their references to human rights organizations, large tech companies and others using GrapheneOS, unlike what grapheneOS claims. The main flaw with the article is the fact that the author takes what the french law enforcement says at face value, which is not a good move.
If you haven't been following this you may be wondering how this was extrapolated into the government targeting them. Well, it's because government owned news sites also reported on this. This is because le parisien's article got regurgitated by a bunch of other news sites looking for an easy article to get ad revenue from, normal news site behavior. The government news sites are fully editorially independent from the government, which the GrapheneOS lead should know, since that's how the canadian CBC works.
For chat control, that measure isn't supported by the majority of french meps, just the (massively unpopular) head of state and his minority government. No similar law has been passed nationally, in fact, a law that guarantees privacy rights is making it's way through the legislature (tuta article). If chat control passes, it affects several of the countries (germany and belgium, afaik) they moved to as well, anyways.
Graphene's announcement also disparages the other two big privacy roms, both based in france, which is odd and makes me personally think this may have more to do with the visible hatred the project lead has for those projects.
Please tell me what you think, and if I missed anything important, because it really seems like a big nothing-burger to me.
Yes, sorry I was too lazy to provide any sources here are a few (mostly in french sorry). It was called the 8 December case or "L'Affaire du 8 décembre" in french.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Decemb…
- lundi.am/Affaire-du-8-decembre…
- lemonde.fr/societe/article/202…
- laquadrature.net/2023/10/02/af…
- laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/af…
- web.archive.org/web/2023060713…
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- archive.is/lemonde.fr/societe/…
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