people hate on translators a lot for reasons that seem obvious, but completely forget about editors, chief editor, simply censors, and others who will and do impose on perfectly fine beautiful text with their own failed writer ambitions while bragging about not even knowing the language of the source material

and speaking of hate, graphic designers also get a ton of unwarranted hate, when it's their clients who choose the final result

> Psalms 46:6-10 📖

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown.
God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.

The Lord who commands armies is on our side!
The God of Jacob is our protector! (Selah)

Come! Witness the exploits of the Lord, who brings devastation to the earth!

He brings an end to wars throughout the earth;
he shatters the bow and breaks the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.

#bible

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So if you've installed Windows 11 recently, you're familiar with the very lengthy setup process where you can uncheck a lot of toggles to try and limit what the OS collects.

What the OS will collect is the following:
- Microsoft Store Logs
- Network data
- Hardware information
- Accessory data
- Application-related data
- Event metrics

You'll also send complete words that you typed or wrote, not just statistics. You'll also send speech recognition data, and activity history, so every document you opened, website you visited...

But that's just what Microsoft tells you about. Recently, a youtuber called "The PC Security channel" analysed a completely fresh Windows install, using Wireshark, and what they found was is that Windows makes a few connections to third parties it never really told you about.

THEIR VIDEO:

  • trustedsource.org.
  • scorecardresearch.com
  • Bing and msn.com
  • privacyportal.onetrust.com

So what exactly can Microsoft do with all this data?

Well, they have more than enough to completely fingerprint your device, they can reliably tell what you use in terms of apps, and what type of content you watch, and they also basically can have a keylogger on your computer. And finally, Windows sends some data to third parties.

Fortunately, you can disable all the option stuff straight from the settings.You can go to the privacy and security options, and go into each category and disable everything there.

You can also completely disable the telemetry service. Just hit Windows + R, and in the run dialog, type services.msc. In there, look for something called "Connected user experiences and telemetry", double click that, and in the "General tab", you can set "startup type" to "disabled".

Apple talks a big game when it comes to privacy, but in the end, is it really true?
Out of the box, macOS sends to Apple your IP address, location, and some usage patterns, like all the apps you run, and when you run them. Other telemetry data, out of the box, includes browsing history, search history, crash data, performance and diagnostic data, location information, health information if you use that on an iPhone for example, all the info you entered in your AppleID, the device serial number, payment information, everything you bought using that Apple ID, and potentially your government ID.

Fortunately, macOS lets you disable virtually everything that's being collected. You can just head over to the Security and Privacy settings, and in analytics and improvements, uncheck everything.

Now, how about Linux? Well, Linux based operating systems, or at least desktop Linux distributions don't collect any data out of the box, with a few exceptions.

The first one is Ubuntu, who will collect telemetry data out of the box, with no personal information at all. It's just hardware data, but it could still be used to fingerprint your device. Canonical doesn't currently have any ad server that I know about, so they probably only really use this to know what their users actually use and focus their efforts on that, but if you're uncomfortable with that, you can disable it at install.

Some Ubuntu derivatives that use the same installer might also have that kind of telemetry. On top of that, you have the ability to turn some entirely optional telemetry on in KDE's settings; and GNOME also has a telemetry tool that you have to install manually.

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Not that anyone's counting, but Israel has now killed as many starving Palestinians queuing for food alone as civilians were killed on Oct 7.

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

#Gaza

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Question and challenge to the Residents of No Authority Social.

I suffered some of Thursdays No Agenda Morning zoo shit show.

Then I Listened to this. Let me know what you think.

Client Cast: Tommy Carrigan with James Kunstler, Dave Collum, Tom Luongo | 11 JULY 2025

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I like Tom Luongo, he has an interesting speculative thesis on the war against of The City of London vs Trump & Powell.

His placement of a Comey & Brennan prosecution above the pure evil of child sex trafficking blackmail networks is disappointing & off putting. There are more in addition to Epstein/Maxwell.

There not only needs to be punitive accounting for all the 'clients', but also a reckoning for the all the intelligence agencies that managed the currency of blackmail.

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@jazzilla I think Luongo has developed a mechanism to capitalize on the established debt leverage backed monetary system that relies on the baton of control being passed to New York/Wall St. from City of London control, without destroying that system.

Epstein info being fully reckoned with would profoundly effect Wall St. dependant income schemes, he knows this.

The proximal control mechanisms that blackmail networks influence are a profound & primary cancer that needs a cure.
@RoboftheVolcano

Lord,
we praise you with our lips,
and with our lives and hearts.
Our very existence is a gift from you;
to you we offer all that we have and are.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

________

May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.

Yesterday was the remembrance day for the genocide of Srebrenica. War criminals Radic & Karadžić were convicted by the International Court of Justice and are serving life sentences in jail. icty.org/en/press/radovan-kara…

A similar massacre is taking place in Gaza, with 800 hungry civilians recently killed while searching for food. It won't be too early until the #ICJ also convicts Netanyahu & Gallant, currently charged with war crimes & crimes against humanity.
theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

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I just created an account on the newly-launched social media platform UpScrolled.

First impression: clean, really easy to sign up to and get going. Format looks like a mix between Twitter and Instagram.

I like the core ideas behind this platform. It's based in Australia, with servers in Ireland. Created by Issam Hijazi, an Australian-Palestinian, and backed by Tech For Palestine incubator.

So, unlike Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon, Palestinians and Arabs will not constantly have to deal with shadowbans or suspension.

It promises to be activist, artist, and organiser friendly. Will be interesting to see how the community develops.

Download on Google Play Store or Apple App.

This is my account
share.upscrolled.com/en/user/d…

More info:
upscrolled.com/en/about-us/

updates.techforpalestine.org/u…

Some Dems are terrified to be blamed for shutting down the government. What leverage do we have, they whine. THE PURSE:

1. The budget on offer is going to be absolutely horrific; reject it and OFFER BETTER.

2. MusktRump has already shut the government down by firing so many thousands of people.

3. DEMANDS:
a. no budget until he rehires all those people they were illegally fired;
b. a SANE budget; and, most importantly,
c. FIRE MUSK & RATS AND ELIMINATE DOGE.
rsn.org/001/what-leverage-do-w…

Clearly an option many are considering. A few may have the wherewithal? Or maybe Trump will surprise everyone and change into something more decent and rational.
(Who knew a laugh tastes bitter.)

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
and this guy--
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

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Just to be clear: Palestinians who refuse to “voluntarily” enter this concentration camp will be MURDERED if Israel decides with no proof or obligation to provide any proof.
Those inside the "most humanitarian concentraiton camp" will also be killed if Israel "think" they are Hamas or may be a danger to Israel any time in the future, even children since many IDF forces see Palestinian resistance as something in the bloodline of the resistance fighters.

That’s the plan. Stated openly. And people still insist with a straight face that this isn’t genocide.

And this is the country and the criminal regime the EU, US, Canada, Australia and the Arab league support, fund and protect!

#Israel #Gaza #ConcentrationCamp #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #USpo #EUpol #Politics #WarCrime #Inhumanity #BDS #SanctionIsrael #StopIsrael

@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

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Is it possible to have a national class action suit to remove Trump and Krew due to his acts of sedition (destroying the US government), treason (same), murder, fascism or any other litany of CRIMES these nazi shits are committing? WE MUST RID OURSELVES OF HIM.

"But a new Washington Post report reveals quite the opposite — that Florida officials are relying in large part on minor traffic stops to find immigrants to throw in the facility."
rawstory.com/alligator-alcatra…

Das ist nicht nur kein Widerspruch, sondern ein und dasselbe. Es ist gar nicht möglich, zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt "pro-israelisch" zu sein ohne dadurch effektiv übelsten Antisemitismus zur Schau zu stellen. Was ist antisemitischer als jüdische Menschen zwanghaft mit Völkermord in Verbindung zu bringen? Was ist antisemitischer als zu behaupten, jüdische Menschen seien ipso facto gar nicht zur vollen Bandbreite menschlichen Handelns fähig?
bird.makeup/users/hahauenstein…

Stell dir vor, du bist derart menschenverachtend und moralisch verwest, dass du in einem offiziellen Dokument, behauptest, es sei ein gutes Argument gegen ein Aussetzen der privilegierten Sonderbehandlung Israels durch die EU, dass ein “bake sale" zugunsten von Kindern in Gaza stattgefunden hat, den du irgendwie doof findest. Dass das also irgendwie genauso schlimm sei, wie lückenlos dokumentierte sadistische Kriegsverbrechen und Massenmord und gegen diese aufgewogen werden müsse.

Die EINZIGE Erklärung ist, dass Frau Schnurbein Palästinenser*innen als buchstäbliche Untermenschen betrachtet, und sich dazu auch noch schriftlich bekennt. bird.makeup/users/hahauenstein…

"Does anyone really believe that would not have happened if there were just some different executives at Google? The structural forces of capitalism, of the public market, of the demand for growth at all costs would have bowled them over too.

Indeed, we’ve already run the experiment on whether a set of companies and executives claiming they’d be better than the old guard will really deliver on that promise. That was exactly the narrative the tech industry sold to the world when it was a bunch of startups and scrappy founders fighting to displace the dominant firms they were going up against. They promised they would “do no evil.”

That narrative was valuable in selling themselves and their products to the public, with ample help from a credulous media that loves to chase money and power. Years later, we can see it was an effective marketing campaign that allowed them to evade regulation and taxation that applied to traditional industries for far longer than they should’ve gotten away with.

The tech oligarchs are just as bad as — if not worse than — the executives and monopolists that preceded them, and a new crop of founders won’t change the way that vast wealth and power tends to corrupt those who wield it.

There are certainly exceptions to these rules. Wikipedia remains a non-profit entity and Signal seems to be resisting the pressure to pursue growth at all costs. But they’re few and far between, and it’s not better founders that will change that. It requires upending the structural forces that push companies and the people who run them to cast all other considerations aside in the pursuit of power and profit."

disconnect.blog/p/better-found…

#Capitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley

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@jae@darkdork.dev @zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org
Yep, they work as expected!
I must have a DM-related trauma — my original Fedi instance, Librem Social, which is a fork of old Mastodon, has no DMs… I don't think it has any scopes. It also has no other timelines, but people you follow — so finding people to follow was no small feat. That is probably why I expect nothing to work 😆
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@jae@darkdork.dev @zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org
I believe this instance is hosted on the potatoest computer of all Fedi. The PowerPC MacMini with only 1 gig of RAM it runs on also hosts an XMPP server (Prosody), all my Git repos and acts as a bittorrent seedbox (transmission) and a print server! It's 20 years old of which I think for 15 it was running 24/7, poor thing 😅
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My proxy server/VPN box has 512 Mb 😂
I still like that thing because it's passively cooled, it's connected to the amp and I run cmus on it and listen to the music — really appreciate being able to do this without computer noise.
It also hosts my Gemini capsule and few other small things. It's kinda funny because my "client" machines have their RAM maxed out, by I manage to get away using very little on the machines I host things on, I think I've even patched its kernel to prevent RAM from being reserved for video 🤔
512 Mb is surprisingly usable BTW. I have Toshiba AC100 — one of the early widely-available ARM machines, for TUI software it's perfect! I can't use it any more — the backlight died, maybe I'll replace it one day. It has a built-in cellular modem and with a new battery it could be a nice machine. Then I have an old ThinkPad T40, also with 512 Mb — with software like gomuks, profanity, w3m, tut, cmus — works like magic. Lagrange works fine and I can even open a lightweight website in surf/WebKit.
I think we got spoiled with overabundance of it — of everyday things web browsers consume most RAM, otherwise you can still have fun with very little.

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Leur démocratie, ce sont nos futurs cancers

"La loi « Duplomb » visant à « lever les contraintes au métier d’agriculteur » a été adoptée à l’Assemblée nationale par une majorité de députés : 316 pour, 223 contre. Les parlementaires ont majoritairement voté pour cette proposition de loi alors que la société civile, des syndicats paysans, des scientifiques, …
L’article Leur démocratie, ce sont nos futurs cancers est

EN/ES: BLACK AUGUST Call for a month of action and propaganda by comrades Lupi, Tortuga, and Belén -(Internacional) AGOSTO NEGRO Llamado a un mes de acción y propaganda por lxs compañerxs Lupi, Tortuga y Belén (Chile)
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"via: informativoanarquista BLACK AUGUST

Absolutely in love with these little guys recently, but I know I'm completely incapable of handling them. Tokay geckos are fast, defensive and have one of the meanest bites among all species of gecko that they like to use any time they feel threatened.

Why do these complete demons have to be so adorable?

in reply to :VD15_0::VD15_1::VD15_2::VD15_3::VD15_4::VD15_5::VD15_6::VD15_7:

Conversely, chameleon geckos are just as adorable and much more handleable. They're curious, personable and absolutely tiny, with a fully-grown adult typically measuring between 2.5 - 3 inches in length.

I'm debating getting some of these, but I'll wait and see if I'm still interested in 3-4 months so I know I'm not just going through a lizard phase.

#Israel defence minister’s announcement on Monday of his plans to forcibly transfer all #Palestinian civilians in #Gaza to a camp in the ruined city of #Rafah without allowing them to leave.
#ConcentrationCamps
theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

(Netherlands ) Animal Liberation Front attacks slaughterhouse.
actforfree.noblogs.org/2025/07…

"In early hours of 10th June 2025 the Animal Liberation Front carried out an attack on Slaughterhouse Plukon in Oosterblokker, Netherlands. 9 chicken transportation trucks and one van were completely burned down. (via: indymedia.nl/node/55854) Factory manager Erlend Beltman reports to De Telegraaf (media) that he suspects

Αυτοί κλέβουν το χρήμα, άλλες φορές νόμιμα κι άλλες παράνομα, και το μοιράζουν στην τάξη τους. Από εκεί οι δίαυλοι διαμοιρασμού του δημόσιου χρήματος είναι στους δικούς τους. Οπότε έχουν ένα κράτος εν κράτει.
Υπάρχουν παρόλα αυτά άνθρωποι που σκέφτονται ότι μια βίαιη, πλήρης, απαλλοτρίωση όλων των ιδιωτικών περιουσιών για την αναδιανομής τους είναι λάθος. Ώσπου η κρίσιμη μάζα πειστεί για το δίκαιο αυτό και να το (ξανά)προσπαθήσει θα υπάρχει το κράτος εν κράτει και θα βυσσοδομεί στο σώμα της πλατιάς κοινωνικής πλειοψηφίας, της εργατικής τάξης.
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Αφορμή για το σχόλιο ήταν αυτό το αρθράκι. news247.gr/gnomes/borei-na-kle…

Ein Artikel der Friedrich Naumann Stiftung zu #Milei.


Inhaltlich ok aber auch hier, sinnlos entweder gelogen oder schlicht keine Lust zur Recherche.
freiheit.org/de/argentinien-br…

Dr. Hans-Dieter #Holtzmann schreibt zur Freigabe des Wechselkurses: “Milei wollte diese außenwirtschaftliche Liberalisierung aus Furcht vor einem Wertverfall des Pesos und Wiederanstieg der Inflation, ausgerechnet vor den #Kongresswahlen im Oktober, eigentlich vermeiden. Der #IWF zwang #Milei für das Zustandekommen eines neuen USD 20 Milliarden Kreditprogramms im April aber zu seinem eigenen Glück.”

Das ist schlicht falsch.


#Milei hat schon im September 2024 versucht 15 Milliarden für die Freigabe zu bekommen. Nicht der IWF hat ihn, sondern er und vor allem sein #Wirtschaftsminister hat den #IWF davon überzeugt, so dass dieser ein einmaliges, nie da gewesenes Programm, das eigentlich dem üblichen #Vorgehen des #IWF #widerspricht, akzeptiert hat. Jeder hatte erwartet, dass er die #Währung trotzdem nicht sofort freigeben wird, was m.E. auch keine Bedingung des IWF war, aber er hat immer gesagt, er macht es sofort, wenn die Bedingungen stimmen, und hat die Freigabe noch am #Tag der #Unterschrift, ein #Freitag, für den nächsten Montag erklärt. Niemand musste ihn zu seinem #Glück zwingen und “Furcht vor einem Wertverfall” hatte er auch nicht.

Dazu führt der Autor weiter aus:
“Anders als von Milei befürchtet, brach der Peso nicht ein, und es kam zu keinem Run auf die Banken, obwohl Argentinier nun unbegrenzt USD eintauschen können.”

Das ist geradezu lächerlich. Milei hat entgegen allen anderen, die genau das immer prophezeit haben, schon seit Mitte 2024 in jedem Interview behauptet, dass der Peso eine starke Währung wird. Am Tag nach der Freigabe, am Dienstag, hat er im Rahmen eines fünfstündigen Interviews mit extra gefertigtem handschriftlichem Skript allen #Argentiniern erklärt, warum der #Peso gegen den Dollar NUR STEIGEN KANN. Ganz nebenbei hat er den Argentiniern dann noch erklärt wer Carl #Menger ist, nachdem ihn der Moderator gefragt hat, was geschieht, wenn die Unternehmer trotzt erstarkendem Peso die Preise eingeführter Güter nicht senken.

Milei hat nichts “befürchtet”, er hat es gewusst. Die Anhänger der falschen Theorien hatten #Furcht und manche wohl auch die #Hoffnung, dass das scheitert.

#Hayek #Mises

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Among the 24 countries surveyed in early 2025, the majority of respondents had a negative view of Israel (median 62%)
Just three countries had more positive responses than negative: India, Kenya, and Nigeria

Israel's Declining Favorability
In the U.S., disapproval increased from 42% to 53% between 2022-2025, with similar trends across Europe and East Asia, particularly among younger demographics. The data indicates a broad erosion of Israel's global image following recent conflicts.

voronoiapp.com/public-opinion/…
via @quarkrotto

More graphics and analysis: pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

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#2025
Brandon Kroll and The Maverick Artist #Victor-Hugo discuss #Trump being made Aware Of Alien Species On #Earth: Greys, Nordics, Insectoids and Reptillians.
New Age Is Satanic Squid Game #Illuminati #Symbolism In Catholic Churches Brandon Kroll #VictorHugo

"Interesting bit from Tucker’s remarks on Epstein last night:

“Was (Jeffrey Epstein) working on behalf of Mossad? Every single person in Washington DC thinks that. I don’t know any of them that hate Israel, but no one feels they can say that. Why? And I think the longer that we play along with it, the more subterranean and creepy and hateful the conversation actually becomes. So I think it’s better just to say it right out loud. (much more)

Nick Fuentes on Telegram

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Nice. I thought things were going well with this new siding company until it came to the meter box. They detached it from the house. Then I’m told ot’s not an emergency but to call the power company. I was busy getting two cars serviced and just doing other things that I forgot to call until last night when the power went out due to the passing thunderstorm and I thought maybe it was our meter. I texted the contractor re meter box. Now he says get it done asap.

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