@jmc

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Canada is joining the Eurovision Song Contest. Great; kick Israel out and we'll watch. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/01/canada-joins-eurovision-song-contest
Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027

Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’

The Guardian

🇬🇧🚨DOUBLE THREAT:
🏛️EP President betrays democracy to force through #ChatControl 1.0. https://www.politico.eu/article/president-vs-parliament-roberta-metsola-overrides-meps-bid-force-child-abuse-law/
👁️And Monday's trilogue threatens mass scanning & age checks!

🛡️Don't let them kill private chats! 💬🔒Email Govs & MEPs NOW: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

President vs Parliament: Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law

The European Parliament president’s power play is “without precedent,” diplomats wrote in a note seen by POLITICO.

POLITICO

I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.

I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.

Edit: Thanks for the help from @thomzane getting the server back online. It appears to have been Facebook attacking.

We already have abundance. It is not justly or rationally distributed.

The billionaires and trillionaires are not going to share. Ever. They are going to fixate on becoming quadrillionaires or robots or whatever.

The USAID cuts reveal the whole game. So much for "all lives matter."

Ok, just to sum it up for those following along at home:
NordVPN: confidence scam, the Raid: Shadow Legends of VPNs
Surfshark: owned by NordVPN
Mozilla VPN: reseller of Mullvad
Tailscale: partners with Mullvad
ExpressVPN: Israeli
Private Internet Access: ditto
ZenMate VPN: ditto
CyberGhost VPN: ditto
Windscribe: edgy branding, transphobic, uses slurs on social media
ProtonVPN: sponsors French fascists
MullvadVPN: donates millions to Swedish fascists

am I missing any?

e: if you are here looking for ones you SHOULD use, these were recommended to me and seem to check out:
https://vpn.ccrypto.org
https://njal.la
or self-host your own:
https://amnezia.org/self-hosted

CCrypto VPN

CCrypto VPN is an affordable, fast, anonymous and secure VPN service

Can't wait for this new release. 🎮
This Tuesday in Dublin... The latest & greatest C++ features talk : Jason Turner w. @lefticus https://www.meetup.com/cppdug/events/313984171/

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

UTC 149 Draft Minutes

Relatable.
@gknauss well, sounds like your organization could do away with the middle man