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Jean-Luc Mélenchon est intervenu sur Al Jazeera pour un échange avec Rima Hassan qui est à bord de la Freedom Flotilla, aux côtés de Greta Thunberg, l’équipa...
Une évaluation des mois passés par Trump à la Maison Blanche par un éminent commentateur de CNN.
Stephen Collinson a déclaré :
Au cours de ses quatre mois à la Maison Blanche, Trump s’est livré à des menaces de droits de douane, à des déclarations sur son désir d’annexer le Canada et le Groenland et à la destruction de programmes humanitaires dans le monde entier.
Le résultat, selon lui, est :
« À l'heure actuelle, les dirigeants chinois, russes, israéliens, européens et canadiens ont constaté que Trump n'est plus aussi puissant qu'ils le pensent. Ils en concluent donc qu'il est possible de lui désobéir sans conséquences. » (E)
Seuls les Arabes prennent au sérieux ses bêtises quotidiennes, achètent ses faveurs et lui offrent des concessions, tout en soulignant nécessairement leur rejet de son plan de déplacement de Gaza, mais sans prendre de positions qui contrecarreraient son potentiel ultérieur.
Were the covid gene therapy injections selectively targeted at people of a non-Indian heritage? If you look at Mark Crispin Millers posts I don't recall seeing many Indians there. Could be wrong but majority by far of fatalities were people of European or African descent.
Have additionally been trying to understand for quite some time why I was being nagged via text messages during covidhoax to update my 'ethnicity' with my local general practitioners office. I got about six messages telling me to do so all of which I ignored. It was a high priority item for them for reasons I still don't quite understand.
There was also the paper that came out of India indicating that the novelty flu pathogen selectively biased certain 'ethnicities' toward poorer outcomes. Europeans and Africans came off worst I believe. RFKjr mentioned this paper which was reported on widely and immediately became controversial - so it was obviously meant to be seen by as many as possible.
Novelty pathogen with ethnicity bias coupled with novelty injections with an ethnicity bias. Would be so easy to conflate the two and thereby validate the conclusion of that paper from India.
And while all this was happening Africans and Europeans across the west were supposed be engaged in a terrible 'race war' thanks to Pierre Kory thereby depleting their ranks, assets and resources etc. Indians were fully exempt from this supposed whacky racer war aside from helping to stir it all up.
The timing of it all matches perfectly with the progression of the corona hoax. I actually think this very plausibly was the original plan which didn't meet expectations by quite some wide margin. Left everyone puzzled and confused more than anything else which was then followed by an awkward pause like it was now fully off-script so no one was really sure what to do next.
Then Ukraine happened and like right out of nowhere AI became the newest current thing. It just blew up exactly as you'd expect if someone had been sitting on it waiting for exactly the right moment.
It was going to change everything then didn't except get everyone talking about it. Perhaps the controllers of the corona hoax were a little too overconfident into its potential as a labor saving gimmick. Now we find out that a big AI project being run out of India was a giant hoax. So that stymied the AI takeover.
❗️Gaza hospital warns 50,000 pregnant and nursing women at serious risk
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza has warned that around 50,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers face life-threatening conditions amid severe shortages of food and medicine. 1/3
Hospital spokesperson Khalil al-Daqran told WAFA that miscarriage rates have increased six-fold since the war began, alongside a sharp rise in premature births, overwhelming Gaza’s already crippled neonatal units. 2/3
He said Israel’s repeated targeting of Gaza’s health system has pushed it to the brink of collapse, leaving over 23 hospitals non-operational and thousands of cancer and dialysis patients without care, resulting in an average of five cancer-related deaths per day. 3/3
Israel’s decision last week to create 22 new settlements in the West Bank was reported as somewhat uneventful news in the media. The reality is, however, that it’s the latest in a series of moves to cement Israeli control of the occupied territory.
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
"a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets [WebRTC]. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts."
similar to what ebay does. seems like facebook wants another maximum GDPR fine (which should be increased btw). these attacks should be mitigated by disabling (e.g. uBlockO), blocking tracking scripts (e.g. uBlockO), android without Android Advertising ID (GrapheneOS) and avoiding facebook and yandex sites and apps or better yet all proprietary spyware apps (f-droid.org)
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
The tracking technique described at https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/ is prevented by Vanadium's default "Disabled non-proxied UDP" value.
Seems to be a kind of online conference. For being open source focused it's opening is very salesy/buzzword salad-ish.
"Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.
After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.
FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web."
Autopsy results by forensics experts in Istanbul revealed that all nine of the men killed by Israeli commandoes aboard the humanitarian convoy that had planned to dock in Gaza died of gunshot wounds.
Edit: unexpectatly we are back online. Will share how we found a solution later. There might be still some federation issues though.
Alt account of poVoq@slrpnk.net here.
Our instance is currently down and I can't get remote access to the servers. It appears that there might have been a hardware failure of the main firewall, which is the one thing I can't work around remotely.
I am still trying a few things, but I am not very optimistic that I can get access.
The really unfortunate part is that just now I am on one of my rare work deployments abroad, so I also can't access it physically during the next few weeks and my usual back up that could restart it is not available either.
As something like that never happened in 3 years operating the servers, I thought I can risk it, but murphy's law seems inescapable 😓
I will try to keep you posted here on any updates, but probably there will not be much I can do for a while. Really bad timing 😥
Edit: we might use this "opportunity" to migrate the instance to Piefed, which has been an idea for quite some time now. I will keep you posted on that.
Very very bad timing. I just moved to that server and now it is just gone. I have moved to another server. I guess I am glad that it happened now so I know how poorly Slrpnk.net is managed.
Out of 3 years of reliable service, this is the one time the server has been down for any length of time, and only due to the admin not being able to be physically present for a wildly unlikely and unexpected problem.
I know, I'm the one who approved your application.
You happened to sign up right before we've had our first particularly bad issue in 3 years. Unlucky, yes, but it's a bit out of order (IMO) to say we're a poorly managed instance based on that, especially seeing as you lost nothing besides the time it took to write your application. :\
Alt of ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net chiming in, thanks for giving us the sitrep, poVoq!
This is an unusually unlucky set of circumstances, but for the Solarpunks who find their way here, let's try to make the best of it. If you don't already have an alternative account somewhere, you may want to create one to use until we're back up and running. lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, or lemmy.cafe are some solid choices to consider. After that, you may want to favorite poVoq's post here so you can check back on any news.
Even without our home base, we can still share the solarpunky stuff we find and create around the threadiverse (though as Tofu mentioned, maybe this could be a time to take a breather to be refreshed when we come back 😄).
Besides, if the past is any indication, time will fly by and we'll be back before you know it!
Well, on the plus side lots of lessons learned and I think I might move at least the xmpp server to an external vps to have a backup communication channel.
Not sure about your area, but a wireguard accessible OOB connection is a great piece of kit to keep handy. I use a cheap 768kbps SIM in an Ethernet connected switch into my personal systems. It's saved my skin numerous times.
I'm sure this is obvious, especially in hindsight, but just mentioning because the existence of IoT LTE data plans for a minimal fee ( $100/year for me in Midwest US) was NOT obvious to me until 2 years ago.
Yeah I had plans to set up something like that, but always other priorities and in this specific case I could maybe access other internal servers but i would need KVM access to reboot the firewall or some other way to cut physical power. And exfiltrating hundreds of GBs of lemmy database wouldn't work over such a small pipe either.
Might it also be possible/feasible to send an "email blast" to everyone with a slrpnk.net account? It would probably be quite complicated to send that many emails at once without getting blocked by the major email providers, but hypothetically we've all registered with emails...
Just spitballing ideas for the future. Everything's fine now. Gives me an excuse to spend a little more time on the Canadian end of the fediverse. 😀
As email in profile is an optional feature on our instance about 50% of the userbase opted to not share one so we would only reach some people. But yes, getting spam filtered would be another problem of mass-mailing.
But I found a way to put up a simple html error page and will add this later to inform our members and link to this thread.
Hey fellow slrpnk.net refugees... if you're looking to recreate your list of subscribed communities, here's a good place to start:
::: spoiler click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.
Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they're not the focus.
::: spoiler click here for a list of (mostly non-political) meme communities
MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR
Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that's not the sole focus.
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!196@pawb.social
!19684@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!2meirl4meirl@lemmy.world
!4chan@lemmy.world
!4chanFails@feddit.nl
!absoluteunit@sh.itjust.works
!ancientinternet@lemmy.world
!animemes@ani.social
!antimeme@lemmy.world *
!atbge@lemmy.world
!antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
!are_the_straights_ok@lemmy.blahaj.zone *
!atheistmemes@lemmy.world
!badrealestate@feddit.uk *
!bonehurtingjuice@lemmy.ca
!coaxedintoasnafu@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
!comedyheaven@lemmy.world
!Couplememes@sh.itjust.works
!crumbgrabber@lemm.ee *
!curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
!dankchristianmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!dankmemes@lemmy.world
!ehbuddyhoser@sh.itjust.works
!ExplainTheJoke@spaffel.social
!fbstolencontent@lemmy.ca *
!fediashitpost@fedia.io
!fedimemes@feddit.uk
!femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!funny@sh.itjust.works
!funny@lemmy.world
!furry_irl@pawb.social
!garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone *
!gifconversation@lemm.ee
!greentext@sh.itjust.works
!gunmemes@lemmy.world *
!high_quality_gifs@lemmy.sdf.org
!hq_memes@lemmy.world
!imgoingtohellforthis@lemm.ee
!internetfuneral@lemmy.world
!humor@beehaw.org *
!iamverybadass@lemmy.ca *
!justpost@lemmy.world
!kemper_loves_you@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works *
!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online
!mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!me_irl@lemmy.world
!memes@jlai.lu
!memes@lemmy.world
!memes@slrpnk.net
!memes@sopuli.xyz
!memes@lemmy.ml
!metalmemes@lemmy.world
!microblogmemes@lemmy.world
!MoldyMemes@spaffel.social
!NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz *
!nocontextpics@lemmy.world
!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk *
!nonsense@moist.catsweat.com *
!okmatewanker@feddit.uk
!potatoism@lemmy.world *
!pokemonmemes@lemmy.world *
!programmer_humor@programming.dev
!reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com *
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world *
!relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
!roughromanmemes@lemmy.world
!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
!RichardScarryPosting@sh.itjust.works
!shitty_million_dollar_ideas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!SighFi@quokk.au
!science_memes@mander.xyz
!shera@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world
!shitposting@lemmy.ml
!shittylifeprotips@lemmy.world
!shittytattoos@lemmy.ca
!spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
!surrealmemes@sh.itjust.works *
!tech_memes@lemmy.world *
!tantes_linksqueer@feddit.org
!the_pack@lemmy.world
!TwoGoobers@lemm.ee
!wholesomegreentext@sh.itjust.works *
!wholesomememes@lemmy.world *
!wizards@lemmy.world
!witchymemes@lemmy.world
!wlw_memes@lemmy.world
!yurimemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
!youtubeclassics@sh.itjust.works
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(luckily I was posting this to newcomers whenever I had the chance...)
I this it’s a law that servers run 100% perfect until the literal day one leaves town with zero way to return home. One of the many reasons I got all my services off of unraid.
Very cool to learn you’re running your own machines. Do you go into detail about this anywhere?
We have a small write up about the hardware on our wiki, but it is also down right now.
I think we will share a post-mortem write up of the actual improvements we will do to avoid this in the future.
One thing I will definitly do is to add a KVM remote management console to one of our server boards and move the main firewall into a VM with hardware passthrough of the NICs (this was anyways planned for a 10gbit network upgrade for the second half of 2025). This way I should be able to reboot and even reinstall the main ingress point remotely, so that only the fiber gateway remains as a failure point that requires physical access.
I am a slrpnk user. Oh well, shit happens. What makes me a bit sad was that a few months (?) ago something similar happened. Slrpnk.net was down for aa day or two? Don't remember the exact amount of time. What I do remember is asking if there was intention of adding a second admin and making the point that it would be good to create that sort of redundancy. I was ignored.
Mid of july is basically 1 and a half months from now. Hopefully a new solarpunk instance emerges, one that is safer from such scenarios.
Enjoy your vacation and don't stress too much! Shit happens.
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course.
WARNING: [youtube] KheSE_280a0:
Some tv client https formats have been skipped as they are DRM protected.
The current session may have an experiment that applies DRM to all videos on the tv client.
See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563 for more details.
Google is starting to use DRM on all it's videos so that only the official youtube clients on devices and big browser brands can play them. It also kills all the systems like invidious.
Tokyo (AFP) – The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.
The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 -- 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899.
Japan has the world's second-oldest population after tiny Monaco, according to the World Bank.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.
Wednesday's health ministry data showed that Japan's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman is expected to have -- also fell to a record low of 1.15.
The ministry said Japan saw 1.6 million deaths in 2024, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier.
Ishiba has called for the revitalisation of rural regions, where shrinking elderly villages are becoming increasingly isolated.
In more than 20,000 communities in Japan, the majority of residents are aged 65 and above, according to the internal affairs ministry.
The country of 123 million people is also facing increasingly severe worker shortages as its population ages, not helped by relatively strict immigration rules.
In neighbouring South Korea, the fertility rate in 2024 was even lower than Japan's, at 0.75 -- remaining one of the world's lowest but marking a small rise from the previous year on the back of a rise in marriages.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.
Nah dude it's over. Not just in Japan but in most developed countries. Changes were needed decades ago. The only way to survive it is to relax immigration, not by "maybe" cutting work hours.
How about giving families struggling to pay for child numero uno (like me) a stipend? Per child. Not even going to consider having more until Japan starts respecting full-time parenting as a legitimate occupation.
In the three and a half years my son has been alive, the Japanese government has given us a grand total of ¥120,000 ($834 USD). That covers about a month’s worth of childcare now thanks to soaring grocery prices.
- "Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star....News becomes sports."
- "In the name of rooting out corruption and supposed bias, fascist politicians attack and diminish the institutions that might otherwise check their power."
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.
Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.
Ukraine could attack Russian bombers like sitting ducks because the New START treaty. That's why US nuclear bombers (B-1Bs, B-2s, B-52s) are also parked visibly at Diego Garcia and elsewhere; China, who didn't sign the treaty, hides its bombers away in underground concrete shelters.
So of course the US must feign ignorance, else it would obviously constitute unilateral break of a treaty, that could call for thermonuclear retaliation. That's how close we come to global annihilation but, hey, "the good guys scored a point". Morons.
Me: I should get some shirts for my wife because she’s always wearing mine, I wonder what size she wears.
Also me: I don’t know Einstein, how could you possibly know the size of the person who wears your shirts? Don’t get a nosebleed thinking about that mystery.
The shop I preordered my Switch 2 from has this odd feature where they send you a photo of your package before it ships. Just got my photo. It’s happening! 😃📦🎮
The man thinks (or at least says) empathy is a bad thing. There's no guilt without a conscience, and no conscience without empathy. Obscenely unfathomable wealth takes care of the rest.
This talk by Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria (Thinkst) was given during VB2019 in London, 4 October 2019.Everybody decries the state of the industry. Everyon...
I'm a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I'm also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I'd like some practical advice.
All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the "topic-specific" network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.
"Nucléaire : la relance de l’atome rejetée en commission à l’Assemblée à la suite d’un imbroglio
Mais un amendement de la députée (Isère, Parti socialiste, PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel @BattistelMarie a déposé, semble-t-il d’abord par erreur, un amendement supprimant la construction de six nouveaux EPR2 d’ici à 2026 et de huit autres ainsi qu’un petit réacteur modulaire d’ici à 2030. Elle a finalement maintenu cet amendement, qui a été adopté. Le rapporteur du texte, le député (Haute-Savoie, Renaissance) et ancien ministre Antoine Armand @antoine_armand , lui a alors signifié son erreur, l’invitant à retirer son amendement, mais celle-ci a finalement décidé de le maintenir. Il a donc été adopté, supprimant les objectifs de relance pour les cinq prochaines années."
ouf ! une connerie de moins ! C'est criminel de vouloir construire des nouvelles centrales nucléaires alors qu'on ne sait que faire de leurs déchets et qu'on laisse se détériorer les anciennes !
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(I'm still on vacation; this is a hotfix for lemm.ee shutting down on June 30th, 2025.)
Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.
We take a look at some pieces of video footage where Jews talk and we hear exactly what they say, and how they act when they are together. Over many centuries in Europe, Whites confronted Jews many…
Public figures and activists in the #UK, including Steve Coogan, Juliet Stevenson, Chris O’Dowd and Misan Harriman, joined an 18-hour-long vigil in #London to read aloud the names of thousands of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s genocide in #Gaza.
Liberalism flourished after WW2 due to the US's unparalleled economic advantage, which was built on the massive expansion of its industrial base during the war while the rest of the world burned.
The economic supremacy that legitimized western system has now faded and liberal democracies face a crisis of confidence while China's model is emerging as a successful alternative.
'Indeed, the Soviet bloc, having started from a position of post-war devastation, was never able to close the economic development gap with the massive head start enjoyed by the United States.'
I beg to differ... the gap was closing, and had it not been for the subversion of the USSR, it most likely would have been closed by now.
@Arindam I'm not saying USSR economy was inferior in nature, merely that the US had a massive head start. The US leveraged this advantageous position during the Cold War to pull of the world economy into its orbit which further shifted the balance of power in its favor.
The problem USSR had was that it was stuck in an ideological struggle with the US where countries were forced to pick bloc allegiance. China managed to avoid falling into that trap.
(Not just Vietnam, but also the defeat of Pakistan by India in 1971 were indicative of declining American power).
The ideological struggle wasn't the problem - especially since the existence of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates that countries didn't have to pick sides. The problem was that the Soviets made a few critical mistakes (the Sino-Soviet split, the war in Afghanistan, the failure to push forward in IT, etc...) - and were subverted. The latter is of utmost importance.. and a key source on it is:
Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System
From its vantage point outside Earth’s atmosphere, more than 36 000 km above Earth’s surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail.
We are joined by veteran investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News who is closely monitoring the ceasefire talks and is in contact with Hamas...
This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Div as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age & saw things that no one should ever see. His unit made an assault river crossing across the Rhine River...
This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Division as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age and saw t...
in March of 1945. The Rhine River is the border of Germany & the Germans were determined to oppose & push back the Allies but thank GOD the Germans were defeated. Mr. Kongable took part in the liberation of the concentration camp Ohrdruf which was the first camp liberated by the Allies in the West in April 1945. Ohrdruf is a subcamp of the Buchenwald complex and used forces laborers to keep the German war machine going.
My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP. My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only
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(I'm still on vacation; this is a hotfix for lemm.ee shutting down on June 30th, 2025.)
Realistically that is never going to happen. The biggest issue the fediverse has is onboarding. People just looking to try out a reddit alternative aren't going to bother emailing their fucking MP just because the default settings of an app won't let them sign up. They'll just give up and go elsewhere.
If we want to encourage growth, adding additional barriers isn't the way to do it.
It’s not lemmy.zip that’s blocked in the UK, they (lemmy.zip) block every visitor from the UK as they don’t want to get in trouble for violating the UK’s Online Safety Act.
I'm not sure that the answer to a government's regulation of the Internet should be an individual's blocking of access for an entire country. Seems like 2 sides of the same coin to me.
This is them, to the best of their ability, complying with UK law. If more people tried to comply, perhaps the UK government would realize how foolish their Online Safety Act is and do something about it.
It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.
Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.
For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to exclude that potential market by default.
In der "aktuellen Stunde zur Lage der transatlantischen Beziehungen" erklärte E. Demuth (CDU) gerade, man befinde sich mit den USA in einer "Wertegemeinschaft", auch wenn "einzelne Kritikpunkte" bestünden.
Es bleibt etwas offen, ob diese Union die Summe aus Trumpschem Rechtspopulismus, Gerichts- & Demokratieverachtung, illegalen Deportationen & Umverteilung von arm zu reich als kleine Einzelheiten betrachtet, oder die Truppe um Merz, Frei, Spahn & Dobrindt darin die gemeinsamen Werte verortet.
L'institut allemand de sondage d'opinion Forsa déclare : 75 % des Allemands sont favorables à l’arrêt des livraisons d’armes à Israël en raison de sa guerre contre Gaza. En Europe, on s’intéresse aux sondages d’opinion et on en tient compte. L’arrêt de la fourniture d’armes européennes à Israël transforme l’armée israélienne en un tigre édenté.
I spoke to two former govt workers who helped create IRS's Direct File software, which is set to be killed by DOGE/Trump/Intuit but thankfully just got open sourced. Both of them seem optimistic about what people are going to be able to do with the codebase:
Christina Zeringue remembers being 10 years old, looking to the sky through her new telescope to view the Moon and planets on Christmas night. It opened her eyes to space and inspired her journey from the backyard to NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. “I became fascinated with astronomy and learning about […]
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son of sam harris
in reply to son of sam harris • • •And while all this was happening Africans and Europeans across the west were supposed be engaged in a terrible 'race war' thanks to Pierre Kory thereby depleting their ranks, assets and resources etc. Indians were fully exempt from this supposed whacky racer war aside from helping to stir it all up.
The timing of it all matches perfectly with the progression of the corona hoax. I actually think this very plausibly was the original plan which didn't meet expectations by quite some wide margin. Left everyone puzzled and confused more than anything else which was then followed by an awkward pause like it was now fully off-script so no one was really sure what to do next.
son of sam harris
in reply to son of sam harris • • •Then Ukraine happened and like right out of nowhere AI became the newest current thing. It just blew up exactly as you'd expect if someone had been sitting on it waiting for exactly the right moment.
It was going to change everything then didn't except get everyone talking about it. Perhaps the controllers of the corona hoax were a little too overconfident into its potential as a labor saving gimmick. Now we find out that a big AI project being run out of India was a giant hoax. So that stymied the AI takeover.
Current scorecard looks something like this.
Novelty pathogen takeover = failed
Novelty injection takeover = failed
vaxpass/digital id takeover = failed
Whacky racer takeover = failed
AI takeover = failed
US government takeover = succeeded (for now)