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As someone who came to the US as a refugee with political asylum I can't overstate how cruel this is. I was already terrified and had nightmares every day. And here they're telling you that you didn't get to safety after all that, that they will reverse your status on a whim, if they deem it safe for you to return. As Warsan Shire wrote, no one leaves home unless home becomes the mouth of a shark.


Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up – Anyone given refugee status in the UK will only be offered temporary protection, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced.

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We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps.

uattest.net/

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@neogoth @MrGR That video consists of targeting someone with bullying based on fabricating a false narrative about them and pushing tropes from the harassment/doxxing site where Rossmann is a member. Rossmann rants about people he dislikes on Kiwi Farms knowing they'll target thise people because they support him. Rossmann similarly knew the result of his incredibly dishonest video would be harassment and his phony justifications are thoroughly disproven at this point.

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@neogoth @MrGR Claims that anyone had their work suspended on GrapheneOS or left the project is false. The massive amount of harassment directed towards our project and particularly our founder resulted in a major drop in productivity and another developer had to take over doing code review and leading the development team. Spinning someone not being able to do their job anymore due to how much they were being harassed into that story is ridiculous. You should stop listening to the perpetrators.

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O, ze doen ook aan ondermijning, zie ik. Wellicht verklaart dat hoe de plaatselijke VVD ze kent.

Los daarvan: als ik op hun website lees «Met klantgerichte inlichtingen en specialistische diensten helpen wij organisaties bij het bestrijden van (wereldwijde) dreigingen en veiligheidsuitdagingen.», dan is dit niet een club die je inhuurt voor een neutraal oordeel. Deze zet je in als je een probleem hébt. Je vooronderstelt dus dat het AZC een veiligheidsrisico is.

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The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targ…
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no no instead lets focus on how Proton had to comply to a swiss court order to release payment data - somehow people here think a company can magically make charges to a US bank issued cc without storing PCI compliant data that can be ultimately traced back to personally identifiable information at the card issuer... paypal mafia must has been hiding this magical way from rest of us who work on payments.
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Worth repeating.

The Iranian warship that was sunk by a torpedo was returning from a joint exercise the U.S. pulled out of on the last moment.

Per protocol joining ships were unarmed. Ships had no option for defence. The U.S. knew.

The U.S. sank the ship and offered no help to the survivors.

#EU is this what we want to part of? Murder, also on murderers, remains murder.

"So much winning"?

Very truthful communication of former Indian foreign minister Kanwal Sibal.

#EU
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The question is not whether you can create software using LLMs - you can (most software is just boring CRUD shit).
But you do pay a hefty price: In lowering quality (security issues, less maintainable), in skill decay in the people "guiding" the stochastic parrots, etc.

It's not "can 'AI's create software" but "are we willing to accept worse software running more and more of our lives?"

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Horen jullie het ook eens van iemand anders, van @mathijsbouman in het FD namelijk: Juist de groene gekkies hadden gelijk. “We hadden veel sneller moeten elektrificeren, met zon, wind, waterstof en batterijen, precies zoals zij zeiden. Dan was Nederland nu minder kwetsbaar geweest.”
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@elziax @mathijsbouman Het is heel eenvoudig. De adviezen uit gedegen rapporten aan de overheid zijn bijna altijd uitstekend.

Maar als dat niet in het straatje past van gevestigde belangen komt er een industrielobby op gang die een gewillig oor bij de VVD vindt.

En dan gaat het niet door.

Daarom, stem niet op de VVD maar op iets ter linkerzijde ervan. CDA is een twijfelgeval, maar daar kan je nog met 'rentmeesterschap' argumenten aankloppen.

Geen Europese ICE! Help ons massadeportaties te stoppen.

We bouwen 100.000 stemmen op tegen massadeportaties in Europa. Teken nu. Laten we dit samen stoppen!

Binnen een paar dagen stemt het Europese Parlement over een wet die massadeportaties invoeren. Het is een kopietje van de ellende die we in de VS zien.
Al meer dan 100.000 mensen tekenden deze petitie.
Voeg je stem toe!

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Zo eens!

Gaandeweg de dag ga ik trouwens steeds meer denken dat de vragensteller het nog bij het goede eind heeft ook, dat dat dus inderdaad de gedachte erachter is. Anders doe je dit toch niet!

"En na het PAIS protest stond je nog te ouwehoeren dat je het zo erg vond voor ons??"

Dit! ⬆️ Het is zo schaamteloos inhoudsloos en doorzichtig allemaal, die zogenaamde empathie.

En jemig, wat hebben die zg wappies gewonnen zeg.

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😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

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one realizes he is no politician. At least here in Germany, when a journalist asks a question, a real politician starts to speak. But the - I will stretch the truth here by calling it - content has got nothing to do with anything in the question: neither with individual words nor its sentiment. But still, the microphone is not taken away nor is he bleeped out or something of the kind. Here, however, this is the case, so clearly: no politician!
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Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

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Cue absolutely zero consequences in 3… 2… 1…


The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications. Well, well, well.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
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#BankruptTesla #TeslaTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #USPol


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I am not the first person to point out that a “Luddite” isn’t someone who hates tech — they hated the EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE by capital through the use of tech. Too many of my peers are on the wrong side of that and a lot of us are watching and making notes and will remember.
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Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful

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A must read. The government's immigration proposals are immoral, expensive (falls in immigration already damaging our economy) and will not achieve the stated aims.


The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

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People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to:

* pay Google
* give government ID to Google
* agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

keepandroidopen.org/

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Our expectation is that it will remain possible to install the apps with developer options by using ADB and that they'll also likely provide a way to install them without ADB with a more complex warning flow. It's worth noting Play Protect already existed and was possible to bypass via ADB and the new API they added to AOSP for the more modern take on the planned feature can also be bypassed via ADB. They can likely implement it retroactively going back many years via a Google Play update.
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Just posted the following on Google's form. Please share and write:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"It is UNACCEPTABLE, monopolistic, intrusive & unnecessary. I only use apps from other stores and have disabled PlayServices & play store. I object to your data acquisitive practices and having bought my phone refuse your assertion that you should arbitrate my use of it through the lens of Google's commercial interest. Particularly your likely roadmap where you'll reject the software that keeps MY data and usage private and ad-free. If you refuse to acknowledge this need, I suspect I, and many like me will be moving to an Open OS. If the cost is that my bank app won't work, it'll be a pain but one I'll endure. "

Maar intussen laten de VS en Nederland de Koerden keihard vallen, en weigert Nederland ook maar iets te doen aan de terreur die wij naar Syrië exporteerden.


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The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

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At this point it would be crazy to develop any Free/Libre application for Android. Don't care what Google says tomorrow, we can NOT trust Big Tech. We need to be in control of our computing resources, both at software and hardware level.
PS: @EUCommission please take note.
#Google #Android #Freedom #GNU

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