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Madame, Monsieur,
That an Arab revolutionary should be tried by this Western “special” court is perfectly normal. That he be deemed a criminal and a delinquent is nothing new: the “bandits of the Aurès,” [1] the “terrorists” of Palestine, and the “vile zealots” in Ansar and Khiam [2] have already received such honorable epithets. They are stark reminders for all amnesiacs about the actual heritage of your so-called Western justice system and the legacy of your Judeo-Christian civilization. Yet, when the real criminal, the Yankee––exterminator of all the wretched of the earth––is also a representative of the alleged victims before you, this is reason enough to abstain from commenting on the nature of your court and the task to which it is assigned.
If, at first glance, representatives of the Zionist entity seem to be absent from the stage, it’s not, of course, because of your modesty and discretion. This entity is simply a Western outpost, an operational base for imperialist attack dogs, a prototype of the strategies of annihilation and balkanization that your rulers have in store for us. It goes without saying that this entity is well-represented before your court: if not by its Yankee ruler, then by its counterpart, the Attorney General.
That I am abstaining to comment on the nature of your court by no means implies that I am endorsing its illegitimacy or obscuring its absolute legality, a perfect illustration of the gulf that separates your legal world from our real world, an authentic representation of the “peace” your system institutes and maintains through the annihilation of millions of people in the peripheries. Despite the suffering of all people everywhere on earth, your rulers impose their criminal system’s peace and legality of which war comprises an integral part. You are profoundly mistaken if you hope that war will never again spread beyond the borders of the peripheries.
40 years after the liberation of Paris, we still see all of your rulers––through mystifications, tears, and bluster––continue to pay obligatory homage to the years of the Nazi occupation. On the one hand, this conceals the cowardice of everyone who didn’t give a damn about those who bore the yellow star, everyone who found their virility by supporting the swindlers who exploit the memories of Auschwitz and the other terrible crimes of your system. On the other hand, it also masks the legitimate reasons for why those “vile terrorists” in Affiche Rouge [3] and their comrades took illegal action to save your country’s honor by fighting heroically against the system of criminals and their stooges. Here in France they fought and elsewhere. Wherever they could, they attacked, trampling any legality underfoot that hindered their legitimate struggle. The four years of the occupation have brought to light the criminal legality of your imperialist system and have given honor to everyone who was committed to the legitimacy of fighting it.
Certainly, these “vile terrorists” were not very numerous, and generals like “Massu” [4] were not exactly exceptional in their movement, but this doesn’t stop us from hoping to witness the emergence of a new era of “vile terrorists” in much greater number and whose movement, untainted by the presence of anyone like “Massu,” remains committed to the same struggle as the “terrorists” in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Central America, a struggle to bring an end to the legality of your peace that is upheld by your rulers’ strategy of annihilation in our peripheries. Fortunately, the present doesn’t contradict our hopes.
Of course, you are not here to talk politics. This is clear. You are here simply to judge actions that have disturbed your system’s peace. To know the meaning of this “apolitical” peace, one only has to refer to the words of Mitterrand, one of your wise rulers and institutional guardians. On the eve of one of your aggressions against our people, did he not declare, “This peace is better defended by the war that we are waging than by letting the present state continue unchanged. Peace is better preserved by our action than by our inaction[?]”
This is the peace, Messieurs––the peace of the graveyards––that is threatened by the actions you presume to judge. What is threatened is only the continuation of the war of extermination perpetrated by Reagan, the leader of your system. What your court has undertaken to put on trial is the imperialist war itself.
No, Messieurs, your court is far from being apolitical. No, Messieurs, your trial is far from being legitimate. This trial is the legal emblem of the imperialist war that is being waged against our people, and thereby any of the “good intentions” of those who play their part as mediators for your rulers are automatically abjured, as are any of the illusions of those who hypocritically believe that a viper can change its nature simply by shedding its skin.
With what grace and independence do you presume to judge acts of war by isolating them from the general process of imperialist aggression that is being perpetrated against our people? To what extent are you yourselves, you representatives of French imperialism, involved in this war? And how cynical must the representative of that criminal Reagan be to present the US as a victim and a civil party to the French government at the same moment as the US Navy is preparing its attack [5] on Beirut and other Arab cities?
One must be related to Goebbels by blood in order to accept such a charade. Who else but the imperialist authorities themselves are entitled to this trash heap of history and its infamous progenitor?
Our people have been subjected to aggressions of all kinds for well more than 40 years. There’s no weapon lacking among the testing ground in which our people are the lab rats. From the start of this century until the present day, your rulers have spared us nothing, from the most nefarious conspiracies to the most heinous massacres. The strategies of annihilation and balkanization coincide under the emblem of Western human rights. Annihilation is currently being perpetrated in the cruelest way possible by the Americans and their Zionist attack dogs. As for balkanization, it is you, you Europeans, who are its architects, the guardian angels of its continuation.
Our lands, Messieurs, are occupied. Our people have been uprooted. The occupiers, the aggressors, are blond-haired, blue-eyed Westerners.
Our people are not propaganda slogans. They are disemboweled women and men in the flesh-and-blood. They are children decapitated by the hundreds. Every day they are dying. Every day war planes are bombing and murdering them, war ships are sowing death and destruction upon them. Every day your settlers are taking new hostages. Our people in the occupied territory are hostages. Our people everywhere else are merely potential hostages, potential victims.
Admittedly, there are no gas chambers in Ansar or Ashkelon. But there are vacuum bombs and other jewels of your war industry that carry on their legacy, and your settlers are perfectly satisfied with them, at least for now. It all depends on how many new settlers you can provide. But it also all depends on our people’s attachment to the legitimacy of fighting the system that is providing the settlers: your criminal system. Of course, the edifice of balkanization is still doing its job to your satisfaction, and as long as your pimps still hold the strings of their prostitutes, there they’ll remain, rest assured, in the short term.
Messieurs, I’m not here to draw your attention to the cruelty of the massacres that are being perpetrated against our people. After all, you’re not entirely unfamiliar with them. Nor am I here to solicit condemnations of the executioners. The highest international organizations have already given us enough condemnations. Yet, alas, they are simply paper, and in the face of the flagship weapons of your murderous war industry, they have been of little use to us, not in 1982, not before, and not after.
I am here, Messieurs, simply to ask that, before you presume to judge us, you wash your hands of our our blood and the blood of our mothers and children that stain them, because anyone who disgraces the blood of the 25,000 people who died during the imperialist-Zionist invasion of Lebanon can only be direct accomplices to Reagan and Begin in their war of extermination against our people. 25,000 people dead in just three months of your so-called “peace.” 45,000 people wounded in honor of your justice. 90 days of Beirut as a testing ground for American-Israeli weapons, and yet the Reagan administration is named as a victim and civil party in your trial! Of course, this is perfectly normal, despite the flimsy illusions of those who presume to depict imperialist France and its courts as impartial.
This is the fundamental basis of your court. This is the essence of this trial and the accusations I am charged with that, incidentally, are merely honors that I haven’t yet deserved. Even if our people haven’t granted me the honor of participating in the anti-imperialist actions that you have attributed to me, at least I have the honor of being accused of them by your court and of defending their legitimacy against the criminal legality of the executioners, and I proclaim loudly and clearly: “Let us trample over any obstacle to the legitimacy of our struggle. Let us trample over the peace of any system that manifests itself in our country under the slogan of ‘Peace for Galilee.’”
[6]I know very well that this is the position that is being criminalized. I know very well that your court is being called to order by the Reagan administration to fulfill this task. You have obeyed this call in all “independence” and “impartiality,” and in all solemnity I will speak out on behalf of what I represent here today: either there will be peace for our Arab people and all of the Arab world or there will be peace for no one anywhere.
Of course, the Yankee criminals and their French social-democrat counterparts will denounce the “terrorist zealots.” After all, they broke the laws of imperialist peace and the elementary rules of Western “tolerance,” orchestrated to the rhythm of shells falling from the New Jersey and F-16s when they weren’t falling from the Super-Étendard and Jaguar war planes.
Of course, “tolerant” and “democratic” souls have every reason to be indignant about the rise of “zealotry” and “international terrorism”: they never fail to display their “humanitarian solidarity” with the resistance against the occupier on the sole condition that the victims obey the executioner’s laws, as long as they can rest easy with the knowledge that war will never extend past the borders of the periphery, will never disturb their criminal peace.
Just as comprehensible are the concerns and the outrage of those “civilized” knights of Western “human rights” and “freedom” in the face of the “vile barbarians” in the Middle East. How could we fail to comprehend their worry and frustration? Though everywhere in the Arab world all the masterpieces of your civilization are displayed under the benevolent gaze of your “human rights” and your statues of “liberty”––whether in Maarakah or Zrarieh, in Bir el Abed [7] or Sabra and Chatila, [8] in Benghazi or in Tripoli, [9] not to mention other names of other cities––you are confronted with the same obstinacy among these Middle Eastern “barbarians,” the same disappointment your ancestors received when, on the same “civilizing” mission, they went to Damascus and came back with nothing.
The imperialist Judeo-Christian West that you represent, Messieurs, has no reason to complain that its values are “misunderstood” in our Muslim peripheries in the East––endlessly accused and criminalized, attacked and dominated. Admittedly, we still haven’t yet managed to design a statue of liberty on par with the New Jersey and its cannons or F-16s and their bombs, but we must recognize that we have received them as they deserve to be received!
[10]Admittedly, we haven’t yet built statuettes of liberty in our cities like the one built in Bir el Abed (for example) and signed by Reagan’s hand, constructed with the modest number of 80 charred and mangled corpses, but I assure you that in this regard we would be quite capable of imitating you.
Of course, your indignation at our oriental Arab and Muslim “intolerance” is perfectly clear. This must mean that we have clearly understood what your “tolerance” means, as it was ideally expressed by Sharon and his hordes in Sabra and in Ansar, by Begin and Shamir in Kfar Kassem and Deir Yassin.
[11]And yet the Yankee is a victim and a civil party to the French government! Or rather, this is precisely why the Yankee can present itself as a civil party in Paris rather than being charged with war crimes in Nuremberg.
Of course, there is no reason that the executioner should be accused or charged. Its victims are ultimately nothing more than Arabs, Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans. Their extermination is neither an offense nor a crime in the eyes of Western courts.
This is the spirit in which the investigating court has established its allegedly irrefutable charges against me.
It is already evident to your court that I have no intention whatsoever of commenting on these alleged charges. I will simply point out that, if these charges were applied universally as they’ve been presented to you by the investigating court, they would be irrefutable against any average person in France.
I would also like to point out the following fact to those of you who have the legal right and legitimacy to judge me: I am accused of murder and attempted murder just because I was present in France before or after the attacks. Can the same be said about Monsieur Jean-Christophe Mitterrand who was present in occupied Palestine in Kfar Hanassi when Zionist soldiers were committing the worst atrocities? Can the same be said about the one [12] who traveled to Beirut atop Sharon’s tanks in 1982 during the invasion of Lebanon in order to express his support to the vanguards of your “free” world? Can the same be said about those who sold and are still selling the jewels of their weapons arsenals––from Jericho 2 thermonuclear warheads to F-16s––to the aggressors of our people? Of course, these comparisons won’t make sense to you. After all, they’re just blond-haired, blue-eyed Westerners who are acting in service to imperialist peace. But must we remind you that your legal argumentation will only be used to indict them by those who have the right and legitimacy to judge them?
I know that the struggle of our people does not advance according to the length of the trial statements of its imprisoned fighters, so I will thank my captors for allowing me to express what I have to say despite the solitary confinement regime under which I am imposed. I will address myself to you (and to my father from whom I haven’t yet heard) and repeat the words of an African revolutionary: “Wotta Sitta,” which in French means, “le temps est juste,” or rather “c’est juste le temps de. . .” [“The time is right,” “Now is the time to. . . ”] Now I will withdraw from this court and leave you the pleasure of listening to the representative of the executioners and its defense spew their hatred against all the wretched of the earth.
Down with imperialism and its lackeys!
Victory and glory to all people in struggle!
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
February 23, 1987
Paris
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1. A reference to the fighters in the FLN during the Algerian War, who were described as such in the French press at the time.
2. Ansar is an Israeli concentration camp. Khiam is a concentration and torture camp run by the Fascist Lebanese militia, South Lebanon Army, which was organized, armed, and financed by Israel.
3. A reference to a communist resistance group from the FTP-MOI (Francs-tireurs et partisans – main-d’œuvre immigrée) that comprised immigrant workers in France. Responsible for numerous attacks against the Nazis and their collaborators, they were arrested, tortured, and executed.
4. General Jacques Massu was a member of the Free French Force before distinguishing himself during the Algerian War at the head of the 10th Parachute Division, responsible for the counter-revolutionary torture and repression of the FLN during the Battle of Algiers.
5. At the time of the second trial of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the American Navy was bombing the outskirts of Beirut in the context of the conflict between the Lebanese resistance and the “International Peacekeeping Force” (The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon [UNIFIL]) deployed by the imperialist powers to Beirut after the Zionist’s withdrawal. US Navy fighter jets and Battleship New Jersey left dozens of victims. The French Navy’s Super-Étendard fighter jets also participated in these bombings.
6. “Operation Peace for Galilee” was the name of the Zionist entity’s military operation that began the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
7. A suburb south of Beirut where in response to American bombings a US Marine Corp barracks was attacked leaving over 300 US and French military forces dead.
8. A Palestinian refugee camp where the fascist Lebanese Phalangists massacred hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. Recall that the imperialists imposed Bachir Gemayel, leader of the Phalangists, as president of Lebanon in 1982.
9. The US Navy had just bombed these two Libyan cities at the time of the trial.
10. The “International Peacekeeping Force” (UNFIL) suffered a crushing defeat in Lebanon. Attacks had destroyed the headquarters of the American and French contingents, killing dozens of soldiers and provoking a retreat that amounted to a general routing of their forces.
11. Palestinian villages whose populations were massacred by the Zionists.
12. François Léotard, then France’s Minister of Defense.
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"For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza, with both societies directly – and differently – making it all possible. The
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His reasoning is that virtually all the keystone promises of the deal are phony or impossible to fulfill—this includes the $600B in European investment in the US, $750B in US LNG purchases, and the like. The headline 15% tariff deal likewise is disregarded as impotent for a clever reason: the percentage is not quite high enough to trigger production line relocations, for instance back to the US, but is just high enough to essentially saddle everyone with higher prices and more debt, without really affecting any desired structural economic changes for the benefit of the American people. Mr. Powell calls it “the worst of both worlds”
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As uneventful diplomatic talks in Istanbul wrapped up with little more than discussions of a prisoners-of-war swap and vague promises of further meetings, Volodymyr Zelensky found himself facing a crisis much closer to home: unprecedented protests erupting across major Ukrainian cities.
Thousands took to the streets to denounce a controversial law that, according to Zelensky, was designed to “curtail Russian influence” — but which would, in reality, compromise the independence of the country’s two leading anti-corruption agencies at a time when both were reportedly closing in on senior members of Zelensky’s own administration.
The law’s passage sparked not only mass protests within Ukraine but also widespread condemnation in Western capitals. Ursula von der Leyen was quick to issue a sharp rebuke: the legislation conflicted with Europe’s “respect for the rule of law”, and could jeopardise Ukraine’s EU accession prospects. The US government even went so far as to order Zelensky to withdraw the legislation. Meanwhile, Western media gave the protests ample coverage. For the first time since the Russian invasion, Zelensky’s domestic policies were openly criticised by outlets that had previously lionised him as a heroic defender of democracy.
Reeling from the backlash, Zelensky has sought to calm the storm by introducing a new anti-corruption bill that would re-establish the agencies’ independence. But several questions remain. Why did Ukrainians, who have tolerated far more unpopular government actions since the start of the war, choose to protest now? Why did the Western establishment so energetically back the demonstrations? And why did Zelensky even move against the agencies in the first place?
The scale and intensity of the protests were surprising in many respects. Since February 2022, Zelensky’s government has implemented deeply unpopular measures — from extending martial law to shuttering opposition parties and media outlets — without triggering comparable public unrest. These measures have been used not only to centralise power but also to neutralise any dissenting voices that might challenge his government’s “war‑at‑all‑costs” policy, by framing any questioning of the latter as unpatriotic or even treasonous. In this way, measures initially justified as temporary wartime necessities have been instrumentalised to entrench executive authority and suppress alternative perspectives on Ukraine’s future.
Corruption, long endemic in Ukraine, has only worsened during the war. Senior judges, politicians and officials have all faced corruption charges, with the Ministry of Defence repeatedly at the centre of major scandals. These have included the purchase of vastly overpriced eggs and winter jackets, the payment for 100,000 mortar shells that were never delivered, and bribes accepted from men seeking to evade conscription. Perhaps most worryingly, the Ukrainian company Opendatabot reported last year that more than 270,000 weapons had been lost or stolen since the beginning of the war.
Transparency International has ranked Ukraine 105th out of 180 countries in its 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index; extreme corruption is an “open secret”, as Almut Rochowanski, a researcher at the Quincy Institute, wrote. Yet, so far, this had not sparked significant protests, doubtless because over the past three and a half years, demonstrating against government policies or even voicing dissenting opinions has become deeply risky Opposition media and parties have been banned, government critics jailed or driven into exile, and “problematic” political figures — such as Kyiv’s former chief peace negotiator — have been assassinated under murky circumstances. As a former Zelenskyy minister put it: “This is the logical culmination of tightening the screws at home. The new narrative is simple: you’re either with Zelenskyy or you’re a Russian agent”.
The testimony of Ukrainian dissident journalist Vasyl Muravytskyi, now living in exile, underscores this climate of fear. “There is no freedom of speech whatsoever in Ukraine. Everything is being censored… The situation in [the country] is far, far worse than people in the West might think,” he said in an interview last year. Consider, too, historian Dr Marta Havryshko, who has long warned about the rise of ultra-nationalism and neo-Nazism in Ukraine. For this, she has sustained antisemitic abuse, death and rape threats directed at her and her child by neo-Nazi paramilitary groups. Recently, she was dismissed from the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies under the pretext of “absence from the workplace”, despite being on approved unpaid leave in the United States.
“Corruption, long endemic in Ukraine, has only worsened during the war.”
Another troubling case is that of Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen who had lived in Ukraine for several years and was a prolific blogger. Following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Lira began criticising the policies of the Ukrainian government. In 2023, he was arrested by Ukrainian authorities for allegedly spreading propaganda and he died in custody soon thereafter — amid the deafening silence of Western governments, including that of Lira’s own country.
These stories reflect a broader pattern. The Council of Europe has recently condemned Ukraine for “reported instances of alleged intimidation and other forms of harassment of Ukrainian journalists, lawyers, civil society, political and opinion leaders critical of the government”. In several cases, the Ukrainian authorities have imposed so-called “personal sanctions” on over 80 individuals — including Oleksiy Arestovych, Zelensky’s former advisor — severely restricting their freedom of movement, expression and property rights.
Forced mobilisation, or gang-pressing, has also become widespread. Every day, Ukrainian social media is flooded with videos showing men being violently seized by recruitment officers on the streets — often bundled into unmarked vans and in some cases even threatened at gunpoint. These scenes suggest a state struggling to meet its mobilisation targets and resorting to increasingly coercive measures. This reality stands in sharp contrast to the official narrative of a nation united behind the war effort. Instead, it suggests mounting resistance among Ukrainians who see conscription not as a patriotic duty but as a potential death sentence.
Given such widespread repression, it is hardly surprising that Ukrainians have refrained from protesting until now. The anti-corruption issue, however, was different. It could not easily be framed as unpatriotic or “pro-Russian” because, if anything, the agencies are the antithesis of Russian influence. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) were established in 2015 as part of Ukraine’s post-Maidan reform commitments. Western governments tied financial aid, debt relief and EU visa liberalisation to the creation of these “independent” anti-corruption bodies insulated from Ukraine’s notoriously politicised Prosecutor General’s Office.
NABU’s creation was heavily financed by Western donors, particularly USAID and the EU, while Western advisers provided training and infrastructure. SAPO prosecutors were selected with significant input from Western-backed “civil society” groups and international experts, in a clear sidelining of Ukrainian sovereignty. Former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin even went so far as to assert that NABU was effectively created at the behest of then-US Vice President Joe Biden in order to “steal the investigation powers from the State Bureau of Investigation to NABU and put there emissaries who listen to the United States”.
In short, NABU and SAPO are widely perceived as Western-aligned institutions. By rallying behind them, protesters likely believed they were shielded from accusations of disloyalty. As Rochowanski noted, the bill arguably served as a “strawman”: a safe justification for Ukrainians to express “pent-up anger at Zelensky, his team and daily grotesque, in-your-face corruption”, and broader frustration with the government and its handling of the war, without fear of reprisal.
This also helps explain the vehemence of the Western response. The issue was arguably less about concern for Ukraine’s endemic corruption — which has long been tolerated — than about Zelensky’s attack on institutions of Western influence.
Could there be more at play? Zelensky’s move against NABU and SAPO came hard on the heels of several attacks, launched via various Western mainstream media outlets that had previously lauded him. Until recently, anyone who voiced opposition in the West regarding Ukraine’s appalling human rights situation and the growing public resentment there would have been ignored, smeared or threatened. So why is the Zelensky narrative changing?
One possible explanation is that Western governments, or at the very least the US administration, have decided it is time to throw Zelensky under the bus, and they are preparing the ground. The delegitimising of Zelensky is something that Donald Trump was very vocal about after their falling out in the White House. Certainly, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently reported that government officials were already discussing potential successors, possibly General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the former commander-in-chief ousted by Zelensky in 2023.
Aware of Washington’s increasing mistrust, Zelensky’s instinct for political survival has the potential to drive him toward increasingly heavy-handed measures — such as further repression of dissent — which could undermine US strategic flexibility. From a realpolitik perspective, the US might have concluded that a new leader would better manage the optics of a frozen conflict or eventual negotiated settlement, however unlikely those scenarios may seem at the moment.
Could this explain Zelensky’s pre-emptive strike against NABU and SAPO, for fear that these Western-backed agencies could be used to undermine him? Some Ukrainian sources have reported that NABU and SAPO tapped conversations involving Zelensky’s close friend and business partner, Timur Mindich — conversations in which Zelensky himself allegedly participated. In that case, this would suggest that the anti-corruption bodies were already circling dangerously close to the President.
Whether or not Zelensky’s fears were justified, the attempt to bring NABU and SAPO under his control has clearly backfired. Instead of consolidating power, he has triggered the first major wave of domestic opposition since the war began and drawn unprecedented criticism from his Western backers. Even if he survives this crisis, the president’s political position appears weaker than at any time since February 2022. The protests have exposed rising public discontent with his government, and they have revealed the limits of his previously unquestioned Western support.
Western governments face their own dilemma. Having invested heavily in portraying Zelensky as a Churchillian figure, openly moving to replace him could undermine public support for the war effort at home. For ordinary Ukrainians, however, these elite power struggles offer little hope: their political leadership remains forever bound to the competing agendas of its foreign patrons — agendas that bear little relation to the interests of Ukrainians.
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First Apple, now the UK government has seemingly ordered a backdoor into Google’s encrypted services.
To access anyone’s data, files and photos, they’re happy to break everyone’s security 😵💫
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US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of wind energy during a visit to Scotland, calling turbines ugly, costly, and harmful to wildlife.Euronews.com
The #Tsunami proving Twitter is truly dead for breaking news, especially for disaster preparedness and relief.
No reliable source of information, everyone is a bluecheck grifter uploading old/fake videos for some cash.
Almost no boost to gov accounts across the globe dedicated to earthquakes, or mostly drowned under a tsunami of fakes.
What a total sh*tshow.
The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along, says Guardian columnist Owen JonesOwen Jones (The Guardian)
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I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future!
The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not just on a protocol level, but on an organisational level as well.
I joined Matrix at FOSDEM - the largest gathering of open source nerds in Europe. We were all encouraged to use it - every talk had its own channel, all the official comms came from there, I was even invited to a top-secret private channel for speakers. This was going to be epic! Viva la rèvölūçïón, right? Wrong.
It was dead. Even among the most seasoned geeks on the planet, most people preferred to use other services like Signal, Telegram, and Slack. Why? Because those other tools actually work.
Matrix has two official Android apps - one of which is old and unsupported, the other is new and doesn't work with many of the basic chat features.
I want to be absolutely clear about this - the company behind Matrix have put out an app which doesn't work with their own product! Lest you think I'm exaggerating, here's a typical view of the official FOSDEM speaker room, using the official Matrix app:
It was embarrassing. People would pipe up in channels and say "this doesn't work" only to be told they were using the wrong app and should go back to the one marked unsupported. So they left, never to return. Even in the large talks, where people were encouraged to use the official Matrix chat, most of the conversation happened on other platforms. It was just too hard to use Matrix.
A few thousands geeks, all used to recompiling their own kernels and participating in the Fediverse, and most thought that Matrix was too much of a faff.
After FOSDEM, I kept the Matrix app on my phone. Occasionally receiving a ping from some long-forgotten channel.
And then, one day, I got hit with the most vile spam. A dozen notifications suddenly appeared on my phone with abuse, torture, and transphobic slurs in them.
You can view the screenshot - but, fair warning, it is grim.
This shouldn't be possible. It doesn't take an expensive team of moderators to add some keyword monitoring. It doesn't take a massive AI model to work out that a stranger shouldn't be able to bombard users with multiple notifications. You don't have to sacrifice your dream of a decentralised future - you just need to care about your users.
This stuff is basic.
I moaned about it on Mastdon and was surprised to receive a private reply from the official Matrix account.
Please do not encourage the spammer by giving them a platform and propagating their spam; you may want to consider deleting your post.
This is classic victim blaming. It is my fault for giving the spammer attention. I am the one who needs to take responsibility and delete the evidence. I shouldn't warn people that Matrix is actively dangerous to use.
Bullshit.
Here's what I expected them to say:
"We're sorry you had such a bad experience on Matrix. Rest assured we're working hard to block these spammers - here's a link to show what we're doing. You can protect your account further by doing x, y and z. Once again, sorry and we hope we can win back your trust."
I'm not saying scrappy open source projects have to hire anodyne corporate communications specialists; they just need to have a little empathy.
But, no, just constant whining about how it isn't their fault and how I am the one who needs to change my behaviour.
This is pretty typical behaviour from the team. Find any post complaining about some aspect of Matrix and you'll see their instant woe-is-me replies.
So I deleted the app. I would have liked to have nuked my account but apparently that's not possible.
I'm not the only one who feels like this. Here's an epic post by Marius, which concludes:
Between the slow performance, the increasing amount of spam, the miserable web client, and the unfinished state of Element X, the Matrix.org network is not something I am willing to continue to recommend, especially to non-technical users. Normal people are simply tolerating it to communicate with idealistic nerds like myself who insist(ed) on using it.
Matrix just isn't focussed on users. I'm not talking about user-experience tweaks like which shade of cornflower blue to use - I mean basic user needs like apps that work and a way to combat spam.
There's a long list of ways the protocol contributes to a poor user experience. It almost seems designed without regard for how it will actually be used.
While the protocol may be conceptually interesting and their intentions noble, I'm not prepared to suffer abuse in the name of technical purity.
Open Source and Open Standards nerds like me ought to know by now that the protocol is the least compelling thing about a service. Who cares if your home is built using only Stallman-blessed tools, when the walls are full of rats?
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You make several good points. The protocol is complicated, there is as yet not app for phones that does everything you want/need and you will run into problems every now and then.
But... No new technology is without its problems and growing pains. If you have followed the discussions of the past few years, you know why development may not go as quick as we'd want, and why some issues aren't Element.io's highest priority.
The servers I've created and used in the past 7 years, including my own private server that's been online for those 7 years and in daily use, work. It takes some effort to configure the whole kit-n-kaboodle, but I think it's worth it.
Non-techies may want to wait a while before venturing into the world of Matrix, although they could do really well if someone with a decent level of knowledge helps them. I try to fulfill that role, both private and professionally.
i totally agree, but I also have to hop on on the last part, that it is an interesting idea.
I use the tuwunnel implementation together with cinny and fluffychat apps and just don't care about synapse and element anymore and it helped me.
I have a stable discord bridge in the backend, which will get the messages for me on my phone, so that I don't have to use the heavy discord app. I have to admit my server is not federated and more for private use, but this made it work.
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REMEMBER. When they come out with excuses when did they actually realise this was a genocide? How many innocents had to die before it clicked?
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Auch knapp drei Monate nach seinem Amtsantritt kann ich es immer noch nicht realisieren, dass Friedrich Merz wirklich Bundeskanzler ist und hoffe, aus einem bösen Traum aufzuwachen. Was seit seiner Ernennung politisch abgegangen ist, erhärtet den Eindruck eines dystopischen Albtraums.
Wenn Julia Klöckner sich jetzt beim Feiern mit dem ehemaligen Kanzler Österreichs Sebastian Kurz ablichten lässt, ist das ein neuer Peak. Vor dieser Frau habe ich seit ihrem Wirken in RLP Angst. Ihr Drang und schon pathologisch wirkender Wille nach Macht dringt ihr seit damals aus allen Poren. Konsequenzen wird dieses Bild, bzw. das Verhalten sicher keine haben. Vermutlich wird es gelöscht und die Aufmerksamkeit auf etwas anderes gelenkt.
Teile der aktuellen Regierung sind so verkommen, dass ich erstmals wirklich Bedenken haben, wo wir am Ende dieser Amtszeit stehen werden.
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Und was macht die zweithöchste Repräsentantin des Landes so in diesen Tagen? Julia #Klöckner, im Nebenberuf #Bundestagspräsidentin , feiert mit dem Lobbyisten und ehemaligen Österreich-Kanzler #Kurz bei dessen Elite-Party „Schinken-Fleckerl & Gin Tonic” in Salzburg. Kurz arbeitet heute für Milliardär Peter #Thiel, ist an einem Start-Up mit ehemaligen Geheimdienstlern aus Israel beteiligt und hat die Geschäftsführerin seiner Firma jüngst als Geschäftsführerin zu NIUS entsandt.
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I'm installing a second disk in my desktop, and I'm going to install Linux.
I've had dual boot on all my machines since forever. As in decades. I'm an old hand. Perfectly happy in a terminal.
I have Mint in (on?) my laptop because lazy.
I'm asking about QOL. The only "Gaming" I do are flight Sims, and although I haven't tried, I believe X-plane is Linux native. However, I do use some apps which are not Linux native, so I'd need some form of wine or performant VMs.
The PC is a Ryzen 9+64Gb, so it should handle a lot of things quite well.
I've been playing with both in VMs, but I can't get a feel for what my virtualization and wine use would be.
BTW, I might do an install of both, maybe side to side, without commitment to either, and then decide. It's going to be a blank slate install anyway.
From my trials, both seem comfortable enough.
I've heard good things about both.
Opinions?
A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)
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For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least.neilzone.co.uk
Australia bans YouTube accounts for children under 16 in reversal of previous stance
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Pope Leo XIV surprises Catholic youth festival with unexpected popemobile salute
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