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A World Health Organization (WHO) toxicologist has blown the whistle to reveal that he was "threatened" when he raised concerns about the dangers of Covid mRNA "vaccines."
@StephenMckenna Yea I was thinking of selling my house for twenty million too, the gaming industry, unlike many, is not crucial to my survival, so I really don't give a shit about their stupidity.
Russia launched another night of its largest drone and missile attacks, which the Kremlin noted were in retaliation for the hundreds of drones launched by Kiev.
In spite of living only 13 miles from Seattle, I regret having never seen Nirvana live. I guess I thought they were a phenomena that would live forever and then Kurt Cobain was gone. Although this is certainly not the mechanically best performance it is one of the highest energy.
This is perhaps one of the best performances of this song ever, certainly one of the most excellent recordings. This was from the Cure's appearance on MTV. So good!
LMAO — now that you say it... yeah, with a bit of imagination, that layout does hit different.
You've got:
The wrapper div — kind of like the base, setting the stage.
Then the two rounded image containers, aligned center — the symmetry's doing a lot there 😏
Then the central vertical content block — the "main shaft" of content, if you will.
And those block quotes? Just... decorative flair. 🤣
Honestly, unintentional or not, it’s a masterpiece of accidental innuendo. You’ve made the first ever full-stack phallic portfolio. Internet art meets Linux power.
I say leave it — it's subtly absurd, wildly memorable, and still technically solid. On-brand as hell.
Need an Easter egg JS trigger that replaces the <title> with "🔞 Forbidden Architecture" on Konami code or something? Just say the word.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a car drove into a crowd of Liverpool fans celebrating the club’s Premier League title on Monday, injuring nearly 50 people, including four children.
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @pluralistic@mamot.frJust because something is *illegal* it doesn't mean it's *wrong*. It was illegal to teach a slave to read and write. It was illegal for a black man to marry a white woman. It was illegal for women to vote. The UK and Germany are making it illegal to speak out against Israel's genocide and making it illegal to speak out and protest in support of Palestine. Regardless, the legality of something carries no weight about the moral, ethical, or just cause for doing something.
“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo” – @pluralistic
It’s NEVER been like this. So much bubbling just below the surface. So many completely unaware of the obvious. So much blatantly obvious but somehow undetectable. It’s maddening. This superior age of communication. The ignorant are beyond saving. I will offer pity. Beyond that, a simple prayer. Best I can do anymore. God bless you all.
On Monday, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez condemned statements by Carla Barnett, secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), who earlier on Monday expressed support for Guyana in the territorial dispute over the Essequibo terri…
"Refuse the REAL ID at all costs because they are setting up... the biometric digital control system, essentially... prison bars for all of us."
"This net is closing, and we must stop them from doing it.
In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously.
“Autism doesn’t destroy families. Ignorance does. Isolation does. Shame does. Especially when it comes packaged in a suit with a microphone and a claim to public good.” 👍🏼💪🏼
I've known a number of people who are on the spectrum and have some familiarity with some of the severe challenges of raising them.
Most are/were not tragedies.
The problem with you, RFK, and your supporters, is lack of understanding. Sure, some people on the spectrum are tragedies, just like some neurotypical people are tragedies. But if you only look at the tragedies, you're misinformed and doing huge harm, both to millions of people as well as to our society and our country.
Right in the feels. Being diagnosed with autism on my sixth year - and mid twenties with ADHD - I reckon both myself and the beloved ones in this letter.
And I am incredibly honored to have a supportive environment while growing up - for the most part. But others don't have that privilege.
As controversial as this might be - the attitude of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. feels like discrimination and a crime against humanity.
Having been there - having experienced what a diagnosis is like - the good, but also the bad and worst sides - we should be supportive of everyone. Especially if they are "different" or fall outside the lines of the system.
Autistic people have a low tolerance to lies & bullshit, and tell it like it is. In other words, exactly the kind of people most antithetical to fascism. No wonder authoritarians hate them and the Nazis tried to exterminate them.
You must let go of old tenants taught to you. The disreputable have been especially wily. There is discomfort when surrounded by the brainwashed. You know right. Be not afraid. Be bold. That will save you. Right is. It will stand. Don’t be diluted. Stay strong. Powerful. Stand alone if you must. No compromise. Resolute. Be.
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... and blew it on a $2 million yacht and shopping
he was caught, fined $4.4 million and given an 18-month jail term
then his mother attended a $1 million Trump dinner ...
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Over Memorial Day weekend 2025, Woke Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the celebration of “African Day.” Many Americans took the announcement as another jab at American culture. Particularly an insult to Memorial Day observances.
Meanwhile, fake mainstream media outlets have consistently downplayed or outright denied claims of a “white farmer genocide” in Africa, particularly in South Africa, dismissing them as exaggerated or misleading narratives. Even though as of last week, new video has surfaced of black South African rebels calling to “kill the farmer.” A go to chant specifically targeting white South African farmers. minds.com/newsfeed/17742488031…
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“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo” – @pluralistic
I know the longterm solution is to eliminate DRM anti-circumvention laws (or at least their enforceability for such misapplications, if that's as much as is politically feasible initially), but for now: What if the publisher gives the proven ebook buyer a Kobo gift code for the same ebook, and Kobo waives the cost to the publisher of accepting that code?
My semi-ridiculous idea: ship a modified and restricted browser (perhaps a LibreWolf fork), preconfigured to capture a corresponding HTTP Archive and filtered packet capture, starting after the user logs into their Amazon account, capturing only while they navigate the browser to their Kindle or Audible library (to confirm purchase), before or after visiting the "Login & Security" page (to match the account email address). Then automatically log the user out of that session (to invalidate the captured session token) when they click "Save."
The network traffic should be indistinguishable from a customer browsing their own account. Having the human drive the browser, based on a checklist of links, would be the easiest way to have the timing look human.
The captured corresponding plaintext and TLS traffic would provide a digital signature, courtesy Amazon's web servers, authenticating the contents of the customer's library and the email address associated with the customer's account. That solves the forgery problem.
I imagine the ToS now or later could prohibit capturing one's one network traffic, but I don't imagine a means by which Amazon could detect packet capturing to enforce that.
My semi-ridiculous idea: ship a modified and restricted browser (perhaps a LibreWolf fork), preconfigured to record a corresponding filtered packet capture and the TLS session key, starting after the user logs into their Amazon account, capturing only while they navigate the browser to their Kindle or Audible library (to confirm purchase), before or after visiting the "Login & Security" page (to match the account email address). Then automatically log the user out of that session (to invalidate the captured session token) when they click "Save."
The network traffic should be indistinguishable from a customer browsing their own account. Having the human drive the browser, based on a checklist of links, would be the easiest way to have the timing look human.
The captured corresponding TLS traffic and session key would provide a digital signature, courtesy Amazon's web servers, authenticating the contents of the customer's library and the email address associated with the customer's account. That solves the forgery problem.
I imagine the ToS now or later could prohibit capturing one's one network traffic, but I don't imagine a means by which Amazon could detect packet capturing to enforce that.
In Portugal, @ansol worked to change the law: when the DRM is used to stop you from doing legal things, it's not DRM (by law's definition), so you can break it. When the DRM is used to stop you from doing illegal things, continues to be DRM and you can't break it. (AFAIK this new law was never tested in court)
@paulasimoes @ansol Probably one ofthereasons it was never tested is that you need someway to break the DRM before the law may become applicable. Modern DRM is technically sufficiently sophisticated that it's a serious obstacle. And those working on breaking the DRM may not be protected by the law because their DRM-breaking efforts may also be used for illegal purposes ☹️
I'm not sure if I understand your point. The law proposal was discussed in Parliament, right holders representatives (and others) were called to give their opinions, then it was voted and approved. After that, the President of the Republic signed it (when the president has doubts, he can send it back to the Parliament or to the court to check it. He didn't have doubts in this case). So, the law is applicable. I'm not a lawyer, but I've seen that sometimes courts don't interpret the law exactly as it was intended and then, in those cases, there are changes by the Parliament. That's why I mentioned that I don't know if it went to court, but it's applicable as any other law. Let me add that we worked with the definition in the law. If someone breaks a technology that stops them from exercising copyright exceptions then that technology is not DRM, so they can still distribute it for those purposes to other people. Not sure if this is a good example, but knives can be used for illegal purposes, but anyone can still make them and sell them to cut vegetables or other food.
@paulasimoes @ansol The issue usually is that the DRM laws usually come with far-reaching side-rules, most importantly they make it illegal to reverse-engineer a DRM-lock. You need 3 pieces to work around a DRM-lock: first piece is a use case (this one can be either legal or not, depending on whether it is protected by copyright exceptions), second piece is a tool able to circumvent the lock (without which the first piece can't happen) and the third piece is the knowledge acquired by reverse-engineering of how to break the lock (without which you can't have the tool).
In the best case, the same person is involved in all three and the new law should make it legal and we're all very happy. In the worst case 3 separate and completely independent (set of) people are involved, and I'm not sure the law protects those who build the tool or who do the reverse-engineering. To be effective, the law needs to clearly protect all three sets of people, otherwise it's too risky for researchers to embark on reverse-engineering.
@monnier @ansol Sorry to get back to this only now. It's not lack of interest, but I wanted to ask a question and I've been thinking the best way to put it. The PT solution is: if the purpose is legal, then it's like there is no DRM law. My question is: considering European Union got its DRM law in 2001, would you say that before 2001, those people you cite in the process would be able to do legally what you describe?
Or simpler: if there was no DRM law, would the people you cite be able to legally do what you describe?
A second question: does the expresssion "reverse-engineering" encompasses all the ways to break DRM or are there other ways named differently to do it?
(If others in this thread want to give their input, please do)
Let me explain: the European Commission opened the copyright directive (approved in 2019), so we get some years before it opens it again, but when it does and if cites DRM (in 2019 because of TDM exception), associations like ANSOL and others will be able to ask members of the European Parliament to meke changes proposals. From my experience, our best chance is to present a ready-law-format proposal so we're getting as much info as we can get in order to make a law-text-format that would solve the problem and would be feasible to pass into law.
@paulasimoes @ansol Yes, before the digital copyright thingy, reverse-engineering and developing circumvention tools was definitely legal. "Reverse-engineering" just means to investigate how something works. It can be (and usually is) a necessary element to break some DRM locks, but not always, no, tho I guess you could call most other ways as forms of reverse-engineering. Also sometimes breaking DRM requires illegal acts (like going against an NDA or other contract).
@monnier @ansol thanks for pointing these two options, I'll check the procedures for the first one, but for the second (didn't make the connection or didn't know about #DigitalFairnessAct) it seems there's a public consultation on until 31st August so that could be a first step we can easily do to start with.
Recently I discovered my brick-and-mortar Whole Foods shopping shows up in my Amazon order history. I don't want this, I don't know how they do it, and I certainly didn't give my consent for it.
@anildash writes that big websites don't care about consent anymore:
Ah so in that sense of the term "free market" a free market and a regulated market are potentially the same thing. Assuming the regulations have as their goal the reduction in rents, as antitrust regs do.
"Free market" is a Wikipedia article I should update...
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