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@pu Of course you need a firewall. But who doesn't?
My recommendation: buy a (used?) router that supports OpenWRT in its current version. Re-flash and set it up for your situation. You can re-use its configuration from one router to the next after you need to switch HW. (Never use the router's orignal firmware!)
This OpenWRT has all the bells and whistles to filter ads, connection (SmartTV), ...
If you don't know how to do that yourself, ask (and pay?) a friend who does. If you can't even do that, you may need to accept all the risks associated with it and life it it. 🤷
@pieq Non-nerds are able to learn about privacy and security. Then they either are able to learn how to implement methods or they care to ask experts to help them.
If non-nerds don't do either, they are just victims within the broad set of people in late capitalism.
Somebody who was clever once said that in the future, only a small tech-savvy minority is able to have privacy/security. I guess that is the reality by now.
I had difficulty finding a router that both supported OpenWRT and could handle the throughput my connection allowed, and I used to be an ISP datacenter engineer.
If I had a hard enough time I gave up on that for now, the Average Joe or Jane isn't going to have much luck.
(Also, retaining your customizations across OpenWRT upgrades remains a pain in the ass, especially if you try to use an external drive (overlay) for extra filesystem space.)
Sure, most people don't think of those things but I invest much effort to change that.
Etilist would be when I'd be happy that I can do those things and ignore the others who can't. I only ignore those, who don't care. Which is different.
@pu I’d say “don’t ever connect it to the internet or accept an EULA” is far better advice than “do these incredibly complicated things and if you can’t manage them, you’ll just need to accept the fact of being spied on.”
@pu They actually are still around, but I don't know how easy they are to obtain in Europe. My partner and I use 2 NEC P463 commercial signage displays that we bought from a fast food restaurant.
They're basically large computer monitors, and they *are* smart, but in a useful way. They've got onboard RS232 and LAN. The onboard LAN hosts a built in web server that can be used to fully control the device, as can the RS232. There's even a pseudo-API for integrating it with other devices (incl Home Assistant). There are no "smart" components that interfere with the device's usage as a television, just an extremely basic 90's-era OSD (than can be disabled).
Due to the extreme flexibility of the display, we have ours configured extremely unobtrusively. You never have to touch it, you simply turn on whatever device is attached to it and the display will automatically start up, and switch to the correct source.
It also has a DisplayPort input (and output, oddly enough, for tiling displays),
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@pu They actually are still around, but I don't know how easy they are to obtain in Europe. My partner and I use 2 NEC P463 commercial signage displays that we bought from a fast food restaurant.
They're basically large computer monitors, and they *are* smart, but in a useful way. They've got onboard RS232 and LAN. The onboard LAN hosts a built in web server that can be used to fully control the device, as can the RS232. There's even a pseudo-API for integrating it with other devices (incl Home Assistant). There are no "smart" components that interfere with the device's usage as a television, just an extremely basic 90's-era OSD (than can be disabled).
Due to the extreme flexibility of the display, we have ours configured extremely unobtrusively. You never have to touch it, you simply turn on whatever device is attached to it and the display will automatically start up, and switch to the correct source.
It also has a DisplayPort input (and output, oddly enough, for tiling displays), a slot to fit an entire PC module, and even a built-in amplifier that provides more than enough power to drive my (admittedly extremely sensitive @ 98db/W) Klipsch R-800F's.
Only thing I don't like about them is the somewhat crummy VA panel, but there are higher-end units floating around out there with IPS panels.
Anyways, It's literally everything I've ever wanted in a TV, and I highly recommend them if you can find a cheap one somewhere. Gonna use these 2 until they can no longer be repaired, and if I can't find a replacement, I simply won't buy another television set.
Hm... after the latest software upgrade on my now ~10 year old LG TV, I very much declined everything that was prompted upon restart. Was it this shit I sad no to?
De PL komt er weer aan! Waar moeten we posters door de bus frommelen? Drop het adres van jouw lokale social centre, anarchobieb of kraakkroeg ff in mijn DM's, of mail.naar PL@puscii.nl :)
Winst- en verliesrekening, het overzicht van inkomsten en uitgaven van een bedrijf. Ik zit in een van de ondernemingsraden van een multinational, daar hebben ze het altijd over de “PL”. Jouw feestje is leuker hoor
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (1 of 7)
Now that we are seeing real confirmation that #Bluesky has acceded to Turkish government pressure to block a user in Turkey (see mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…) we can begin to discuss why this is possible and, in fact, inevitable.
In spite of it's very effective marketing to the contrary, corporate social media platform Bluesky is not decentralized or distributed in any meaningful way. This makes it vulnerable.
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Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (1 of 7)
Now that we are seeing real confirmation that #Bluesky has acceded to Turkish government pressure to block a user in Turkey (see mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…) we can begin to discuss why this is possible and, in fact, inevitable.
In spite of it's very effective marketing to the contrary, corporate social media platform Bluesky is not decentralized or distributed in any meaningful way. This makes it vulnerable.
Confirmation: Bluesky Now Blocking User In Turkey In Response To Turkish Demands
Yesterday Arda Kılıçdağı @arda posted (micro.arda.pw/@arda/1143442610…) that #Bluesky had blocked a user in response to Turkish pressure, and published the purported notification.
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (2 of 7)
We need to back up a little bit here, and discuss the difference between protocols and platforms. Email is a protocol. Many different service platforms use the same protocol to exchange email. If you shut down one email platform, email still works. ActivityPub is the protocol which Mastodon uses. Thousands of Mastodon and Fediverse platforms all exchange information using this protocol. If you shut one down, Mastodon still works.
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (3 of 7)
#Bluesky uses a different protocol called AT Protocol. It gets a bit complicated, but for all intensive purposes there is only one platform on this protocol, Bluesky. So, if Bluesky gets shut down or blocks a user, that's it, there is no alternative for users. This is what seems to have happened.
Let's look at what might have transpired on truly decentralized Mastodon in the same scenario...
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (4 of 7)
The Turkish government could notify the user's Mastodon instance server admin that they wanted the user blocked. The admin could then decide whether to honor the request or not. If not, the user would not be blocked. If yes, the user could move to another instance server where they are not blocked or create their own server.
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (5 of 7)
Let's say the government was really intent upon blocking the user. Assuming they have control of their country's internet they could block all traffic from the instance server, however this would have the effect of blocking all the other users on that server too, and would be a much more drastic action than simply asking the platform to block the user.
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (6 of 7)
So, what we are seeing is a real life example of why truly distributed networks based on protocols and not platforms are inherently much more robust and defensible from external pressures and control.
In this case, #Bluesky has very few options. It can refuse the Turkish request and risk the myriad potential pressures a nation can bring down on a relatively small corporation, or they can accede to the demand. It's not even close.
Implications: Bluesky Blocking Turkish User (7 of 7)
As we go forward, we should take this case very seriously. Right now people all over the world are joining "decentralized" #Bluesky under some misguided belief that it is a digital safe haven. This episode clearly demonstrates that it is not.
the user could join mastodon and bridge and bluesky could tell all its users about what happened and tell them to bridge too :/
really hope we see some of the big names over there and in the tech media talk about this soon.
check the indy @mondoweiss server for how to leverage decentralized social media to ensure freedom of the press and the democracy of reach, in the face of massive pressure to shut down coverage of very important issues.
- There are multiple other applications now running on atproto - There are actually additional relays running on atprotocol at this time, with more currently in the process of being set up - The accounts in question were not banned from any relays or PDSes, nor the appview. Instead, a regional labeler applied the moderation - Many - if not all - third party clients do not enforce geo-labelers, so the accounts/posts are still accessible
- Additionally, the main application applies geo-labelers based on user location. Users who use a VPN from within Turkey would still see the posts and accounts in question.
This is all very interesting, but this thread is targeted at normal users, not Bluesky technology enthusiasts.The post qualifies the only one platform assertion with "for all intensive purposes." Right now normal users are blocked from seeing the subject account. Yes, there may be workarounds, like using VPNs, but the fact remains that #Bluesky is censoring the user.
Dus dankzij "feminist" JK Rowling heeft het Britse Hooggerechtshof besloten dat transgender vrouwen niet bestaan, en geen bescherming verdienen tegen discriminatie zoals ieder ander.
Deze afgrijselijke uitspraak zet de tijd 20 jaar terug, en dat TERFS het vieren als overwinning van feminisme is 🤢🤮
Het afnemen van mensenrechten, het creëren van uitzonderingen, het creëren van groepen waarvoor die mensenrechten niet gelden, is niet alleen onmenselijk en antifeministisch, het tast bovendien ieders mensenrecht aan.
God, als JK Voldemort dood is zullen we dansen op haar graf.
Ja, daar heb je gelijk in. Maar een alternatief zoals NUnl was nog slechter: daar beweerden ze zelfs dat transgender vrouwen meer rechten zouden hebben dan als vrouw geboren vrouwen...
Fucking hell. Ook advocatenkantoor op Amsterdamse Zuidas geeft toe aan Trump.
Samenwerken met een fascist, gratis zelfs. Samenwerken met een fascist die mensen laat ontvoeren en naar een concentratiekamp in El Salvador stuurt, omdat je een paar dollar extra winst denkt te kunnen maken.
Ongeloof onder Nederlandse advocaten over deal van Zuidas-kantoor met Trump: ‘Intens slechte stap’ „ondenkbaar dat je je als kantoor laat chanteren door de regering-Trump, die zegt: als je niet met ons werkt, heb je geen toegang meer tot federale klussen”. nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/04/15/ongel…nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/04/15/ongel…
Personeelsbeleid: Afgelopen week sloot Trump een deal met advocatenkantoren om zijn regering gratis juridisch bij te staan. Ook A&O Shearman, met een kantoor op de Zuidas, zwichtte onder de druk. Advocaten in Nederland maken zich zorgen.
Vijf miljoen demonstranten tegen Trump's fascistische coup. We zouden er hoop van moeten krijgen!
Maar Nederlandse media hadden het slechts over "duizenden" die iets tegen "bezuinigingen" zouden hebben, en begroeven het nieuws.
Dan Le Pen's demonstratie'tje tegen de wet die ze zelf aannam. Volgens de NOS was dat een hoofd item! Er waren ook daar "duizenden" (dwz 7k ipv 5 miljoen) en men demonstreerde volgens de NOS ter verdediging van... "de democratie".
Het absolute shitnieuws wordt juist weer begraven.
Dat het Hooggerechtshof Trump's illegale deportaties naar een concentratiekamp door laat gaan: niet belangrijk volgens veel Nederlandse media.
Dat ook in Nederland zowel extreemrechtse regering als dito parlement de aanval heeft geopend op kennis en onderwijs, universiteiten, NTR en onafhankelijke media... En op trans, precies zoals in de VS, precies volgens Project2025... Dat wordt nergens zo benoemd.
A favor request **RE: US Trans Asylum Info** Please boost for visibility
I'm working on a long piece about what you should understand about **asylum as a US trans person** because there are so many misconceptions and so much misinformation out there. Asylum, displacement, and forced migration are within the realm of my experience and expertise, so I want to offer as much clarification and useful information as possible.
There is a lot of ground I am able to cover, however, to be as useful as possible, I want to know from you:
- What questions do you have?
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I've had 37 boosts on this already, which is much appreciated!
However, no input.
I'm wondering if this is because on Mastodon that either a) people feel fairly confident of their understanding of asylum, the process, how it could affect them; or if b) the opposite is true, and people are so in the dark that they don't know what to ask or what is good or bad information that they've seen.
US Trans people (& spouses/parents of trans people):
*** Do you feel confident that if you or someone you know needed to flee the US, that you would understand what and how asylum works and if it was even possible? ***
I get that fleeing is not on everyone's mind, but depending on how bad it gets, it is for some, possibly people you know and care about.
Yes (8%, 3 votes)
No (91%, 34 votes)
I'm apathetic / not interested in knowing (0%, 0 votes)
B for me. All I think I know is that someone indicated Canada might be accepting USian trans asylum requests, but I’d have no idea how to confirm that, how to plan for it, what to bring (and NOT bring), and what that might mean for possible reentry into the US in future years, like, does asylum require renouncing citizenship, and would that mean I couldn’t return if the political climate changed?
off the top of my head: - where are the best places to go, wrt safety and likelihood of being accepted? - what's the "tipping point" that will get welcoming countries to start accepting people as refugees/asylum seekers? I'm under the impression that, as bad as things are, it's not being officially recognized yet. - what sort of relocation assistance is/will be available? Even if someone is accepted, they still have to physically get there and get their stuff there
'Goed nieuws', schrijft NUnl. 'Robots kunnen nu sociale interactie en emoties aan kinderen leren.'
Was dit maar een 1 april bericht... In welke dystopie proberen Neerincx en het Centrum voor Jeugd en Gezin ons te krijgen?
"Het zit op het randje van ethisch verantwoord", vindt Cock Heemskerk, lector robotica dan wel. Goh, zou je denken??
'We kunnen binnenkort 110.000 zorgmedewerkers ontslaan!' juicht een rapport.
Cool, grapt Heemskerk, want robots laten tenminste nergens "hun meningen [in] doorschijnen, want die hebben ze toch niet."
Heeft deze lector zijn vak misschien geleerd van ChatGPT tekstjes? Één van de vele problemen met AI en robots is nou juist dat mensen denken dat ze neutraal en objectief zijn, terwijl ze én de vooringenomenheid van hun programmeurs weerspiegelen, én hallucineren bij de vleet.
Maar nee hoor, fuck het milieu & de aanslag van AI op klimaat, fuck die zorgmedewerkers, fuck die kids. Laten we kids met emotionele problemen maar aan robots koppelen, want die snappen emoties zo goed.
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'Goed nieuws', schrijft NUnl. 'Robots kunnen nu sociale interactie en emoties aan kinderen leren.'
Was dit maar een 1 april bericht... In welke dystopie proberen Neerincx en het Centrum voor Jeugd en Gezin ons te krijgen?
"Het zit op het randje van ethisch verantwoord", vindt Cock Heemskerk, lector robotica dan wel. Goh, zou je denken??
'We kunnen binnenkort 110.000 zorgmedewerkers ontslaan!' juicht een rapport.
Cool, grapt Heemskerk, want robots laten tenminste nergens "hun meningen [in] doorschijnen, want die hebben ze toch niet."
Heeft deze lector zijn vak misschien geleerd van ChatGPT tekstjes? Één van de vele problemen met AI en robots is nou juist dat mensen denken dat ze neutraal en objectief zijn, terwijl ze én de vooringenomenheid van hun programmeurs weerspiegelen, én hallucineren bij de vleet.
Maar nee hoor, fuck het milieu & de aanslag van AI op klimaat, fuck die zorgmedewerkers, fuck die kids. Laten we kids met emotionele problemen maar aan robots koppelen, want die snappen emoties zo goed.
“From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines, often hundreds of miles away from the communities they affected.”
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.
@kozy138 There is no such thing as 'renewable' energy. That's another con trying to convince you that you can use as much energy as you want, once it's 'renewable'
14,000 football fields worth of tropical forest are cut down every year in Myanmar alone for the charcoal to make Chinese solar panels
Wind turbines use 300 tons of rare earths per GW of installed capacity. To mine 1 ton rare earth causes 2,000 ton toxic waste, much of it radioactive, etc. etc
BHAMO, Myanmar – A trader turns off his truck’s engine at yet another checkpoint and, again, the soldiers ask him for cash. His truck is filled with charcoal from Myanmar, destined for factories in China’s mountainous southwest province of Yunnan.
Corporate & corporate media did a great job for years diverting eyes from the process and focusing them on the end product.
That is how deeply we are embedded in consumerism. See it, touch it, feel it, buy it. Look at the product in front of you, not how it came to be there.
Every car, whether EV or ICE takes 28,000 gallons of water to make.
@TheEffekt @kozy138 @wackJackle I'd say it's worse because now we've been trained we don't need to see it, touch it, feel it, before we buy it. Just look at a picture of it, hope it's the same thing when it arrives, click a button.
@kozy138 @wackJackle Oh, you've been reading the Troszak paper. The one that is still in preprint, pending peer review. I have doubts about those numbers. For one, who uses charcoal to smelt silicon? The purity requirements are so great that you don't want charcoal even in the same building.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) secured its first criminal crypto tax evasion conviction focused solely on cryptocurrency transactions. Texas resident Frank Richard Ahlgren III was sentenced to two years in prison and restitution of $1,095,031.
A "cutting edge" technology that is still looking for an application beyond speculation and crime after 16 years was maybe not so cutting edge after all?
@veronica It has ultra low monetary inflation That's the application It's like gold with extra steps, but overall worth it
Entire countries have collapsed because of the introduction of new gold into their financial systems, like the Spanish after new Aztec gold came in or Egypt after Mansa Musa spent billions of dollars worth of gold there hundreds of years ago. Gold is used because while new gold is always being mined, overall its not a large amount of new gold. This low monetary inflation made it very appealing to people as a currency to this day. When a new influx of gold came in though, this system was thrown into disarray, causing major resessions in both countries I just mentioned. In the case of Bitcoin because the inflation rate is set and always decreasing, there is no such risk.
Also Bitcoin has the added benefit that it doesn't need to be stored physically, sometimes people remove it their hardware and simply memorize a 25 word passphrase that when use
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@veronica It has ultra low monetary inflation That's the application It's like gold with extra steps, but overall worth it
Entire countries have collapsed because of the introduction of new gold into their financial systems, like the Spanish after new Aztec gold came in or Egypt after Mansa Musa spent billions of dollars worth of gold there hundreds of years ago. Gold is used because while new gold is always being mined, overall its not a large amount of new gold. This low monetary inflation made it very appealing to people as a currency to this day. When a new influx of gold came in though, this system was thrown into disarray, causing major resessions in both countries I just mentioned. In the case of Bitcoin because the inflation rate is set and always decreasing, there is no such risk.
Also Bitcoin has the added benefit that it doesn't need to be stored physically, sometimes people remove it their hardware and simply memorize a 25 word passphrase that when used reopens their Bitcoin account
I'd much rather all these mining farms to be solar powered than fossil fuels but Bitcoin is far from useless
@untakenusername Yes, I'm aware of how Bitcoin works and what it claims to offer. It is still looking for an application in the real world beyond libertarian fantasies.
It is. Coin could be randomly provided to everyone. There is no need to mine. The rationale that "mining" equals "work" is false. It is a drain on resources. It provides nothing of value. It is not work. It is a tool of politically-connected sociopaths. It is our destruction, and it is deliberate.
bitcoin is the submet of humanity. Monetizing the anthropy. More dissipating energy for more money without production of anything. As a nihilist man I love it. :)
In the US (and elsewhere) the bitcoin mining industry has much room to improve. But globally there exists ecologically sustainable mining and real utility in countries where currency is devalued, access to central banking and finance is limited or out of reach, and authoritarians rule. Bitcoin can help people facing these challenges.
From Bitcoin mining's societal and climate benefits to human rights and freedom promoting qualities, these are some of the reasons why we at the Progressive Bitcoiner are so passionate about Bitcoin
@Dave_Goldsmith Exactly. It's like gold. Something that has very little useful value but is used to gamble or accrue wealth. The damage bitcoin and gold mining does to the environment is equally huge. It takes 20 tons of earth that is poisoned with cyanide or mercury to make one gold ring. Bitcoin does the same type of damage, just in a different way.
@JessicatheVIArtist@kind.social @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green yeah it's extremely wasteful because these calculations are just pure guesses until the computer happens to stumble across a number that works and said calculations are very intensive operations requiring huge amounts of electricity.
@JessicatheVIArtist@kind.social @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green no, mining is just the term used for calculating a number which is a "block". people running the computers doing these calculations (or "mining") are rewarded bitcoins for the process. (explained in the MOST simple way possible. ofc there is more to it)
@Jamoteusz We're using more fossil fuels--and will continue to do so--because of growth and innovation. We will always find new ways to use energy, such as bitcoin and AI. Its all part of the Growth Death Cult that will end up in environmental and civilizational collapse. These sort of collapses have happened multiple times through history but the next one will be on a scale far greater than anything that came before.
@UlrichJunker You'd only understand it if you were a gambled, scammer or gangster. At the base, it's all about greed and getting rich quick. The 'American' dream.
the study seems to focus on electricity usage and the air pollution directly caused by that. In normal usage patterns for computer hardware (say using a server 5 years), the emissions related to producing the hardware easily cover 50% of all the emissions of a digital 'service'. Are you aware of studies that include that impact of mining, since crypto miners apparently throw away hardware at a much faster rate?
@david You're right. The actual mining for the materials to build these computers is huge. Typically, for a commercial server, 50% of the CO2 impact occurs during mining and manufacturing. This thus not account for the massive quantities of toxic mining waste left behind--millions of tons. Then, we have e-waste, the fastest growing and most toxic waste stream in the world. The whole thing is an absolute environmental nightmare.
Gold mining is just as devastating as bitcoin mining
"They (the miners) have destroyed everything... the canals, springs, swamps," said Vidal Britez, president of the Yerba Mate Producers' Association of the town of Paso Yobai, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of Paraguay's capital Asuncion.
"You can see the pollution from the dead fish. The water has changed color," the 56-year-old told AFP.
In a small town in Paraguay, a showdown is brewing between traditional producers of yerba mate, a bitter herbal tea popular across South America, and miners of a shinier treasure: gold.
I recognize that prohibitions can be iffy but I've watched the loosening of gambling restrictions over lifetime and there does seem to be a relationship between reckless resource exploitation and full throated embrace of gambling.
It seems to make it easier to create these "rush" situations where people are so desperate to gamble on a big win that they don't recognize that the house is winning but the little guy never will.
@clarablackink Unfortunately, the "free" Internet created a lot of the foundations for this new gambling infrastructure. Social media and search are "free" and one of their best ways to make money is by trapping addicts who then then sell to gambling dens, etc.
As you indicate, a lot of the design focus now is on creating "rush moments" so as to deepen the addictions. Silicon Valley is the Valley of Pimps and Pushers.
@Gerry McGovern The picture only shows miners in the U.S. Most of the Bitcoin mining power is actually installed in China (giving China the power to corrupt the blockchain via a majority vote if they want - someone should tell Trump that).
Those mega data storage places that Google , meta etc. use are just as bad environmentally using billions of gallons of drinking water to cool, and obscene amounts of energy to run
Een fraudeur die 3 miljoen euro achterover drukte is veroordeeld. 👍 Na 10 jaar gedegen onderzoek nota bene.
En zoals in de Franse wet staat, is de rechter VERPLICHT om dit soort daders hun passieve kiesrecht af te nemen, dus is dat ook gebeurd.
Maar omdat ze een fascist is, roepen Nederlandse media nu... moord en brand?? En dat haar veroordeling de fakking "dood van de democratie" is...?? 😳🤯😲
Als je ziet wie er door NUnl, AD, NOS, Volkskrant of ED wordt gevraagd om commentaar, dan denk ik dat het adressenboekje van Der Sturmer nog minder nazi's bevatte. Trouw noemt de veroordeling zelfs het "zwartste scenario".
Je bent zelf het zwartste scenario. Zonder jullie zaten we nu niet met een wereld vol zwarthemden.
If Elon Musk actually leaves DOGE in May, don’t celebrate. And don't let up. Escaping accountability is his whole game. He’s a Nazi, propping up fascism, wrecking lives, and laundering cruelty. Keep the pressure on. Torch his brand. Shatter his legacy. Make sure history spits on his name.
Musk has a history of leaving messes in his wake. Tesla. Twitter. Now the US Government. And he points to his next shiny squirrel in the sky, and his gullible investors all oooh and aah about an AI future where "everyone will have five robots and never want for anything". More fool them. Musk is a fascist, a fool and a fraud. #USPol #Musk #DOGE
@edhaswell That's my thinking, too. Why does it matter whether he's officially part of DOGE or not if those flunkies are going to do what he says regardless?
let's crowdfund that effort, not for the Sun, but for Mars, under ONE condition: he goes first, and he goes alone. And if it's viable to live there, he can tell us, and then we'll come... ;) @spyro
Why not just capture him, sequestrate him in a Righteous Repentance Cell, A righteous crowd of 5-10k can submerge anything and easily do that.
Seize his wealth and inject it in a Righteous Terror public fund that will redistribute it in various restored, enhanced and new public services after the cleansing ?
Set an example, do the same with the others ?
No need to make it bloody, keep it media friendly.
Step out of the daily meme fish tank for a moment and #JustDoIt ?
Additionally anyone you know still using #Twitter/ #X has been upgraded from "what the fuck is your problem" past "you stupid motherfucker" straight to "my dear friend, we shall hencewithforth terminate all social dalliances. slip on a banana peel and know the joy of sciatica"
In Star Trek Discovery (set in the 23rd century) one character mentions Elon in a list alongside the Wright brothers and Zefram Cochrane. However the big twist of the season is that the character comes from the fascist Mirror universe and I like to take that as an unintended clue.
Eh, I'll take my celebrations where I can get them. And continue fighting the day after.
That being said, having one tough guy in your government do all the unpopular stuff so you can appear merciful after disposing of them is authoritarian rulership 101 and certainly a PR angle one should watch out for.
@JA Westenberg Really one of his future enemies could be Trump. Both are too narcisists to tolerate one to the other and viceverse... then... Musk could end living among the streets, without house or with no place to sleep at all...except the streets.
Het is werkelijk totaal van de pot gerukt dat de Gezondheidsraad nu doet alsof corona minder gevaarlijk is dan de griep. En vaccinaties weigert aan mensen die ze nodig hebben.
Covid is nog altijd de grootste "mass disabling event ever known to history"; dat zegt niet alleen de wetenschap, het blijkt ook uit de cijfers. Vaccinatie verkleint je kans op Long Covid maandenlang met 50%. Is megawappie Robert Kennedy Jr nu ook hier de baas?
Mensen van 18 tot 49 jaar die elk jaar de griepprik krijgen, hoeven komend najaar in principe geen inenting te krijgen tegen het coronavirus. Dat adviseert de Gezondheidsraad.
ik werk in een instelling voor gehandicaptenzorg. Onze bewoners (velen jonger dan 50) kregen deze prik ieder jaar. Nu dus niet meer? Dat betekent dat zij veel meer risico lopen om ziek te worden. Evenals de medewerkers. Schijnbaar is iedereen de ellende die Covid veroorzaakte in de instellingen voor ouderenzorg en gehandicaptenzorg weer vergeten.
Onze bewoners zijn het trouwens nog niet vergeten! Nog steeds zijn ze angstig als ze horen dat iemand corona heeft. De lockdowns, de quarantaine, het heeft een immense impact gehad voor hen.
Nou, ze hebben gelijk dat ze niet in de buurt willen komen als iemand corona heeft. 5 a 10% van de besmettingen leidt tot long covid (je loopt die kans dus elke besmetting weer opnieuw, ook als het de vorige keren goed ging). En een kwart van de mensen met long covid krijgt zo'n zware vorm dat ze ME ontwikkelen, en vaak huis of zelfs bedgebonden raken. De meesten van hen voorgoed.
Dat Nederland en een groot deel van de wereld heeft besloten dat de economie door moet draaien en we covid daarom gaan negeren, wil niet zeggen dat het er niet meer is.
I have resigned as a reviewer for the Royal Society. I encourage others to do the same.
Dear editors,
Today I saw some news about the Royal Society which made me very uncomfortable. As a result, I am afraid I will withdraw my voluntary reviewing work for Royal Society. I will not after all be completing this review for Royal Society Open Science.
The #RoyalSociety is dead in the water. Three hundred and sixty-five years of history, and it's ended it as a beard for a facist. What an utterly utterly shameful end for a once-great society.
Good on you, it is clear the Royal Society, by cosying up to Musk, has lost all credibility. There are some excellent societies out there who I am sure will welcome your skills and expertise.
🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
Wenn Let’s Encrypt plötzlich nicht mehr klappt, wird das halbe Internet aus Zertifikatsfehlern bestehen. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Trump-Dekret-Kampf-um-US-Foerdermittel-fuer-Tor-F-Droid-und-Let-s-Encrypt-10328226.html
The main problem is the bureaucracy associated for this. Another issue is the ownership control of the organisation (DEP Cybersecurity), the organisation needs to be controlled by EU citizen and located in EU.
@a While I agree, given the amount of "hey could you please put a back door in the chat app?" bullshit that European governments have once again regressed to recently, I'm not particularly hopeful about the "political will" part
Fair enough. As long as the same private companies that benefit from LE pay their fair share of taxes too, we're roughly on the same page.
These companies and their users benefit from a more secure web, so they should pay for that, directly or indirectly.
In this case, I also doubt private companies would let LE be abandoned since it requires active maintenance costs in servers, etc. (vs. open source software they use which generally doesn't have public/expensive external infrastructure).
they can't. that'd completely go against their values. this is like asking them to refuse letsencrypt in Russia, they can't. it's an automated certificate system, they can't just prevent the issuing certificates simply because of their party.
even big websites, like the national security agency, and even whitehouse.gov use letsencrypt as well, so it wouldn't be a good sign for anyone.
I will agree letsencrypt absolutely needs money to keep the lights on. and if worst comes to worst, hopefully they will move to EU. what I don't agree with is removing certificates from politicians that are in a different party
also, this wouldn't prevent shit because the federal government can either use digicert (which is what some agencies use for certificate generation) or Google trust services PKI. google trust services also issues automated I believe. so simply doing that to letsencrypt wouldn't exactly, hurt, politicians. they have money we don't, so issuing digicert, sectigo or even entrust is something they can absolutely do
call me weird but the developments of @letsencrypt vs. @cacert shows everything wrong with the way #SSL works.
We would've had a superior alternative to #LetsEncrypt if #GAFAMs weren't able or even allowed to cockblock #CACert by refusing to import it's ROOT-CA, whilst every commercial #CA gets their keys imported, no matter how shit they are or that they are essentially a hostile state actor!
@kkarhan @cacert Yes, I’ve been yelling from the top of my lungs that core Internet infrastructure like domain names, DNS, and TLS certificates should be public infrastructure for as long as I can remember. These are perfect examples of manufactured scarcity.
I totally understand what you're saying and I'm behind it too. But you should still remember that before Letsencrypt there was already Internet and it wasn't broken. It just got prettier.
Also, the problem is not only the funding. Under US law, they can't issue certificates to anybody under US-sanctions. It's only by chance that the International Criminal Court (whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…) was not impacted.
These folks? They seem very commercial. What’s to stop them offering the free certs tomorrow? There’s value in having a noncommercial EU alternative funded with taxpayer money.
Let's Encrypt states they are protecting 550M websites with their certificates. Imagine everyone would donate 1 cent per certificate per year. Yeah I know, payment processor fees, but hear me out: If Let's Encrypt would end up with 1 cent per certificate... this would mean 5.5 million Dollars per year. For each one of us it's just a few cents plus fees. But for them it would be about 7 times the amount they are endangered to loose now.
OpenTechFund operated on budget committed by the US Congress. The US President cannot stop funding that the parliament has decided on. However, what he claims to be allowed to do is to reduce the staff of the agency in charge of administration of these funds so that it no longer can do its work. What do you expect when government is handed over to BigTech? Source (in German): netzpolitik.org/2025/projekte-…
Nun hat der Trumpsche Kahlschlag auch den Open Technology Fund erreicht. Das US-Projekt finanziert Projekte mit, die sich weltweit für die Internetfreiheit einsetzen. Damit ist vorerst Schluss, gab die OTF-Präsidentin Laura Cunningham bekannt.
Moving is highly non-viable - it would likely jeopardize at least some of their other funding, and it would be a physical and logistical nightmare. There are elaborate protocols for root key treatment involving recorded ceremonies and tamper-evident bags and such just for key signing - trying to move that all anywhere in the US would be stupidly hard, much less out of the country. It's a non-starter.
What is far more viable is for one or more new orgs to duplicate what Let's Encrypt did and set up a free trusted cert signing service - redundancy here would be welcome. The work of defining a protocol and mechanisms is already done. I just hand-waved away a ton of ugly - but it'd still be far faster and easier than trying to move Let's Encrypt physically out of the US.
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@Saupreiss Indeed. But nothing I would base a future system (e.g., the Small Web) on especially when there is a noncommercial alternative (I have no choice but to go commercial right now when it comes to DNS and VPS but the idea is to abstract that away as much as possible by supporting multiple. Easier said than done without standards but I guess that’s where it differs with ACME so, who knows, it might be an idea to support them. But still, we have an opportunity to build a not-for-profit EU ACME certificate provider and we should take it.) :)
There are European alternatives to letsencrypt. I switched to Zerossl, a German company I believe. All I had to do was add acme_ca https://acme.zerossl.com/v2/DV90 to my Caddyfile. Should be just as simple for other servers.
@paul AFAIK, they’re all commercial. Let’s Encrypt is a not for profit. That matters. We need a non-commercial ACME provider in the EU funded by taxpayer money.
Why move? They publish their tools, and the legal framework needs to be done again anyway. Let's set up a parallel one here.
There are 13 DNS root servers, I think we should have at least two free public certificate authorities. (Or, dun'no, maybe one per continent if the others want to do it too).
Giving a shitton of public money to technofascists 'because insert some bullshit about Artificial Stupidity" (according to people who don't know shit about computers but suddently decided "IA is the future/wijl improve everything cause marketing people said so") is actually one of the EU goals…
Today, at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilise €200 billion for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20 billion for AI gigaf…
So after listening to your feedback, I agree: let’s spend that money in the EU to create a publicly-owned, free and open ACME-compatible certificate authority.
See post quoted below, with links to Tom’s work as he’s already been thinking/working on this.
@ErikvanStraten te makkelijk en selectief. Ok, er zijn geen moties aangenomen die echt ingaan tegen de Israëlische genocide, maar er waren meerdere moties die wel door alle progressieven werden gesteund. Je zou ook kunnen stellen dat er teveel moties zijn ingediend. En soms is dan een minder extreem (hoe terecht ook) geluid kansrijker. Bovendien: wat helpt het om te benadrukken dat er verdeeldheid zou zijn?
@ErikvanStraten @cejjacobs Omdat Antisemitisme illegaal is, en het als een wapen wordt gebruikt, durft het nieuws nooit echt kritiek te zijn, omdat ze ook bang zijn om kijkcijfers te verliezen.
Ik vind die termologie maar moeilijk, kunnen ze niet gewoon zeggen: deze persoon of groep deed dit en dat tegen die andere groep, omdat ze ze ... vinden.
Hoef ik niet van die Griekse en latijnse termen te analyseren.
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Voetnoot: ik ben het met je eens dat er veel afleiding is om genocide te verbloemen.
@Noortjevee @ErikvanStraten @cejjacobs 'antisemitisme' door de journalistiek, is per definitie een vorm van smaad of laster. Dat wil zeggen dat je actief leugens over een persoon, instantie of groep verspreidt.
Kritisch zijn op iemand ≠ leugens verspreiden!
Dus kritiek tegen Israel of de Israelische regering is gewoon vrijheid v mening!
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the …
I don't really see why this would add to the scandal, other than as an example of why you don't use your personal phone/number/messenger for sensitive communication.
After all, (sigh, air quotes) "they're people too", who shop online, use services, and chat with their friends and families; all things that require normal contact info, and normal contact info gets leaked (hands up if you're not on haveibeenpwned) and sold.
Waar dit in feite toe leidt is "the winner takes it all".
Kleine partijen die landelijk genoeg stemmen halen voor een zetel (een honderdvijftigste van het totaal aantal stemmen), maken in een kiesdistrict geen enkele kans. Er zijn dan immers 12 kiesdistricten, die ieder gemiddeld maar een twaalfde van de zetels verdelen. Van 120 zetels zelfs maar. Een kiesdistrict verdeelt dus gemiddeld niet 150, maar 120 gedeeld door 12 districten = 10 zetels.
Dat wil zeggen dat er een kiesdrempel van 10 zetels komt.
Je kan van alles beweren over fragmentatie (waar om de één of andere reden links wel last van zou hebben, maar rechts totaal niet, hoewel er veel meer rechtse dan linkse partijen zijn). En ja, het zou fijn zijn dat we dan onmiddellijk van NSC verlost zijn. Maar vindt je de VS nou echt een goed voorbeeld momenteel?
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Waar dit in feite toe leidt is "the winner takes it all".
Kleine partijen die landelijk genoeg stemmen halen voor een zetel (een honderdvijftigste van het totaal aantal stemmen), maken in een kiesdistrict geen enkele kans. Er zijn dan immers 12 kiesdistricten, die ieder gemiddeld maar een twaalfde van de zetels verdelen. Van 120 zetels zelfs maar. Een kiesdistrict verdeelt dus gemiddeld niet 150, maar 120 gedeeld door 12 districten = 10 zetels.
Dat wil zeggen dat er een kiesdrempel van 10 zetels komt.
Je kan van alles beweren over fragmentatie (waar om de één of andere reden links wel last van zou hebben, maar rechts totaal niet, hoewel er veel meer rechtse dan linkse partijen zijn). En ja, het zou fijn zijn dat we dan onmiddellijk van NSC verlost zijn. Maar vindt je de VS nou echt een goed voorbeeld momenteel?
Los van het feit dat dit een absurd stom plan is, betekent dit ook dat de nieuwbouw voor de Tweede Kamer in Amersfoort gepleegd zou/had moeten worden. rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel…
Er moet een nieuw kiesstelsel komen: voortaan worden in totaal 125 van de 150 Tweede Kamerleden per provincie gekozen. Dat moet leiden tot meer Kamerleden die binding hebben met een regio.
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Unknown parent • • •@pu Of course. This limits the device choice dramatically.
You can also think of using a projector instead or not connecting your TV with the Internet.
I do have a projector as my main driver and for our guest room, an old smart TV without Internet.
Karl Voit
Unknown parent • • •@pu Yes and no.
digitalewelt.at/kagis-ein-smar… -> ka-gis.at
However, they went out of business.
KAGIS - Ein Smart TV ohne Tuner (GIS FREI) | Test - digitalewelt
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Unknown parent • • •@pu Of course you need a firewall. But who doesn't?
My recommendation: buy a (used?) router that supports OpenWRT in its current version. Re-flash and set it up for your situation. You can re-use its configuration from one router to the next after you need to switch HW. (Never use the router's orignal firmware!)
This OpenWRT has all the bells and whistles to filter ads, connection (SmartTV), ...
If you don't know how to do that yourself, ask (and pay?) a friend who does. If you can't even do that, you may need to accept all the risks associated with it and life it it. 🤷
Karl Voit
Unknown parent • • •@pieq Non-nerds are able to learn about privacy and security. Then they either are able to learn how to implement methods or they care to ask experts to help them.
If non-nerds don't do either, they are just victims within the broad set of people in late capitalism.
Somebody who was clever once said that in the future, only a small tech-savvy minority is able to have privacy/security. I guess that is the reality by now.
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in reply to The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖 • • •@Aminorjourney @pluralistic I don't know why you think that those people can't invest 30€ for a router that does all that ... 🤷
I always buy mine on the 2nd hand market because 2y-old router (with good OpenWRT support) don't cost much more than this.
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in reply to Karl Voit • • •I had difficulty finding a router that both supported OpenWRT and could handle the throughput my connection allowed, and I used to be an ISP datacenter engineer.
If I had a hard enough time I gave up on that for now, the Average Joe or Jane isn't going to have much luck.
(Also, retaining your customizations across OpenWRT upgrades remains a pain in the ass, especially if you try to use an external drive (overlay) for extra filesystem space.)
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Unknown parent • • •@pu Detached and etilist?
I'd say empowering!
Sure, most people don't think of those things but I invest much effort to change that.
Etilist would be when I'd be happy that I can do those things and ignore the others who can't. I only ignore those, who don't care. Which is different.
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Unknown parent • • •@pu They actually are still around, but I don't know how easy they are to obtain in Europe. My partner and I use 2 NEC P463 commercial signage displays that we bought from a fast food restaurant.
They're basically large computer monitors, and they *are* smart, but in a useful way. They've got onboard RS232 and LAN. The onboard LAN hosts a built in web server that can be used to fully control the device, as can the RS232. There's even a pseudo-API for integrating it with other devices (incl Home Assistant). There are no "smart" components that interfere with the device's usage as a television, just an extremely basic 90's-era OSD (than can be disabled).
Due to the extreme flexibility of the display, we have ours configured extremely unobtrusively. You never have to touch it, you simply turn on whatever device is attached to it and the display will automatically start up, and switch to the correct source.
It also has a DisplayPort input (and output, oddly enough, for tiling displays),
... show more@pu They actually are still around, but I don't know how easy they are to obtain in Europe. My partner and I use 2 NEC P463 commercial signage displays that we bought from a fast food restaurant.
They're basically large computer monitors, and they *are* smart, but in a useful way. They've got onboard RS232 and LAN. The onboard LAN hosts a built in web server that can be used to fully control the device, as can the RS232. There's even a pseudo-API for integrating it with other devices (incl Home Assistant). There are no "smart" components that interfere with the device's usage as a television, just an extremely basic 90's-era OSD (than can be disabled).
Due to the extreme flexibility of the display, we have ours configured extremely unobtrusively. You never have to touch it, you simply turn on whatever device is attached to it and the display will automatically start up, and switch to the correct source.
It also has a DisplayPort input (and output, oddly enough, for tiling displays), a slot to fit an entire PC module, and even a built-in amplifier that provides more than enough power to drive my (admittedly extremely sensitive @ 98db/W) Klipsch R-800F's.
Only thing I don't like about them is the somewhat crummy VA panel, but there are higher-end units floating around out there with IPS panels.
Anyways, It's literally everything I've ever wanted in a TV, and I highly recommend them if you can find a cheap one somewhere. Gonna use these 2 until they can no longer be repaired, and if I can't find a replacement, I simply won't buy another television set.
Karl Voit
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