... as long as you are an American. And not a Democrat, or a RINO, or a member of the press, or a minority, or a woman who is not attractive, or LGBT, or support any of the above.
Nazis and pedophiles are fine though.
ARREST Trump
From now on, anytime someone asks me why I put so much time and effort into this arguably dumb account, I will simply tell them that I do it for Tim.
So about the #digitalcircus finale.
They made me cry tears I've been holding for long. The way this EP dealed with supressed emotions and coping with the pain of what's unchangeable, unfixable; communicated deeply with me. It's funny I cried laughing in realization of how warm and clever this goodbye was.
It's the best bittersweet ending I could ever wish for the show.
OH GOD the part they tell Jax is doing okay. You can't hit my heart harder than that 😭😭😭
if I wanted shit there's a shit generator at chat.openai.com
Brazilian police raid IPTV operators, Japanese newspaper sues Perplexity and Korean broadcasters protest music fee hike.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/08/07/3-count-international-edition-4/
Police arrested over 40 people outside the Trump International Hotel in New York City
as hundreds gathered for a peaceful action led by Jewish leaders
calling for the end to Israel’s starvation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Democracy Now! was at the demonstration and spoke to some of the protesters,
including Motaz Azaiza, renowned photojournalist from Gaza,
and Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, who was arrested.
“We’re here to say, ‘Let Gaza live,’ to risk everything to say, ‘Never again,’” says Fornari.
This is just sensationally bad: Microsoft struck a deal with the Israeli secret intelligence arm Unit 8200 that allowed it to build a powerful new mass surveillance tool that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud
I love how ya'll humans give grades for vulnerabilities
You are not alone.
Even now, the ancient and cursed forest gods are very close to completing a beautifully terrible ritual, and only need a few bones from you.
Just some small bones.
Take comfort in that.
This rules so hard ❤️
https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview
Another level of nostalgia playing Roblox on Linux with Sober! Plus wearing that Linux t-shirt just feels right. Good times...
Magical backdoor only for "the good guys" is a complete fantasy 🔑✨
Let's say the strategy is akin to creating a MagicalKey that unlocks every door (a magical key because thinking encryption backdoors would only be used by "the good guys" is a great example of magical thinking).
Imagine only 1000 police officers have MagicalKeys.
Overtime, let's say only 1% of the police officers accidentally lose their MagicalKey. Now 10 MagicalKeys are lost in the wild and could be used by anyone else, for any purposes, including crime.
Then, let's say only 0.1% of police officers get corrupted by a crime gang. That's just one right? This corrupted "good guy" lets the gang create a double of the MagicalKey. Which crime gang wouldn't want a key that can magically open any door?
Now, the gang creates doubles of the MagicalKey they have. They use it subtly at first to avoid detection. They make sure they never leave traces behind, so victims have no idea their door got unlocked.
During this time, they steal your data, they sell it, they use it to impersonate you, they use it to harm you and your loved ones.
Then, another criminal figures out on their own how to emulate a MagicalKey without even having access to one.
The criminal creates a reproducible mold for this Emulated-MagicalKey and sells it to other criminals on the criminal market. Now, the MagicalKey™️ is available to any criminals looking for it.
Restrictions on the backdoor are off. Your personal data is up for grabs.
This is what is going to happen if backdoors are implemented in end-to-end encryption. But don't worry they say, "it's only for the good guys!".
At least, the criminals' data will also be up for grabs, right?
Nope! The criminals knew about this, so they just started using different channels that weren't impacted.
Criminals will have their privacy intact, they don't care about using illegal tools, but your legal privacy protections will be gone.
Backdoored end-to-end encryption isn't end-to-end anymore, it's just open-ended encryption. This offers pretty much no protection at all.
Extract from: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
@tenkuma @drahardja
Right on, glad you like it as much as I do. I have a sizeable collection, so I very rarely have to reach outside. When I need something I'm missing, I buy it from the artist. That's a MUCH better place for my cash.
Sometimes you find yourself in a certain place, at a certain time, and the number of variables that conspired to put you there, then, seems infinite.
Let's talk alternatives! Here's what I do personally:
1) Buy music on the most "ethical" platform the artist of interest posts it on. For me, roughly in order that's mirlo.space, faircamp, bandcamp, qobuz, discogs (used cd), or ototoy.
2a) Buy a used DAP (digital audio player) to put all the files on, bring it everywhere and listen to your music that way. Or,
2b) Upload your music to any existing funkwhale pod and stream it to your phone via a subsonic app.
3) Review it on neodb/etc so other people can discover your favorite music and go buy it for themselves.