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Mel Brooks is turning 100 years old tomorrow. Everyone knows and loves his comedy. Not everyone knows he served as a US Army combat engineer in WWII and was in the Battle of the Bulge.
Happiest of birthdays to the GOAT of mocking Nazis. ❤️
Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human rights groups and politicians across the European Union.
Did you know that Microsoft applied for a permit for a warehouse in southern Sweden - and once they had built the "warehouse" they declared they were going to host a datacenter there with diesel backup generators?
I mean, we hear this happening all the time and so let's hate on data centers, right?
The difference is that this is Sweden, and we don't accept that shit. They were not allowed to run their diesel generators, had to purchase battery power instead and in the end they closed the data center down since they couldn't win this fight.
That's how you deal with it.
(They are now using other datacenters in other locations in Sweden, fully compliant with the laws, with renewable energy and not using water for cooling as far as I can see)
@fname Once again: *never* buy DRM-encumbered media you cannot remove the DRM from.
I don't care what your excuse is: don't do it.
And if you do find yourself buying DRM-encumbered media, remove that DRM immediately, as you may find it impossible later.
(As I nearly found out recently, knowing I could strip the crap off Kindle books, but then discovered that I only had about a month to do so.)
Yes, this is probably illegal. I don't care. Do it anyway: they don't give a shit about you.
# Thousands march in Budapest's first Pride since Orban's fall
If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately
that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to
EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis.
If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again.
archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/20260627172939/https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681
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