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Stanning for bigtech, threads, bsky, cryptocurrency = Block.

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Wrote some things for #QubesOS

"There is no sanctum or honor among technophiles."

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I2P 🔴 🟡 🟢2d ago

Mapping Russia’s Internet blackouts The Russian authorities keep shutting down mobile Internet. Here’s where it happens most, and how the outages are spreading.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/07/mapping-russia-s-internet-blackouts

Mapping Russia’s Internet blackouts

The Russian authorities keep shutting down mobile Internet. Here’s where it happens most, and how the outages are spreading.

Meduza
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦1d ago
"It is very impressive. A whole generation has **forgotten** that you can run software on servers instead of on clouds. Even though this can be an order of magnitude cheaper." - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-situation/
The European Cloud/Computing Situation - Bert Hubert's writings

A brief addition to the 50000 words I wrote earlier on the cloud: what is the European situation? Software Initially, companies and governments would buy licenses to software. You’d typically have a piece of software in your office, on one of your computers, to calculate payroll with. Most other computers would have copies of WordPerfect installed. This software would function for years without updates or maintenance. If WordPerfect-the-company would disappear, you would not even notice.

Bert Hubert's writings
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Clive Thompson1d ago

Speaking of Wired's excellent coverage:

They just reported on a Department of Homeland Security memo that went out to local police forces ...

... urging them to consider even the most innocuous and bog-standard protest activity as dangerous ...

... like skateboarding, or walkigng around "on foot"

no joke

The story: https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/4Dgw5

An excerpt:

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Omega   1d ago

alright, i am sending this from my brand new fairphone 6 running e/os/ by default as it is pre-installed on the version that i picked, and if anyone has any question, i will try my best to answer them (except anything concerning the camera quality because i can't be bothered). 

#fairphone6 #fairphone #fairphonegen6 #murena #murenaos #eos

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David Gerard1d ago

using the most trivial VPN ever:

ssh -D 8080 user@host-not-in-uk

to use bsky without giving epic my passport

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GeriAQuin1d ago
#ClimateChange #hurricane #wildfires #heatwave
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The New Oil23h ago

#German court rules #Meta tracking technology violates European #privacy laws

https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

#Europe #politics

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

The court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits.

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Randahl Fink1d ago
"Is this 911? Yes, hello officer, I would like to report a murder."
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God 1d ago
Poverty isn’t a problem in America, it’s a business model.
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CCC1d ago
Israeli spyware company #Paragon was caught using its tools to hack the phones of 2 journalists. But will Paragon supply its spyware also to ICE? https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/can-an-ethical-spyware-maker-provide-its-tech-to-ice/ #Staatstrojaner
Can an ‘ethical’ spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE? | TechCrunch

Analysis: In calling itself an ethical spyware vendor, Paragon has opened itself up to scrutiny of its government customers.

TechCrunch
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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽3d ago
I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.
Show thread(❍ᴥ❍ʋ) ᚦᛟᚱᚾ3d ago
@georgetakei Can this be a really bad joke, please.
Show threadbposi3d ago
@georgetakei As a German I was grown with the phrase "never again". But I would have never believed that the US really one day would fall to the Nazis.
The "Free world" lost its biggest member.
I really hope you can turn it around - my fear still is very big.
Seen a lot on how it starts 33.
And it is still too silent - too many think still they are not at target. You all will be. Believe me.
Show threadKid Mania3d ago
@bposi @georgetakei
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️ ⬆️ ☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
Show threadelenlaw3d ago
@bposi @georgetakei What about Palestine?
Show threadbposi3d ago
@elenlaw @georgetakei ??? Don't get it. Not the topic of this thread.
Show threadelenlaw3d ago
@bposi @georgetakei Never Again. You were supposed to grow up with this, weren't you? Hypocrite.
Show threadbposi3d ago
@elenlaw @georgetakei I would not discuss this here under this thread. It distracts from the current topic and implies it is not important. I do not follow this path.
If there is a thread on Palestine - I am happy to answer.
I will not weight one bad against the other.
Really. This is the main issue on why all bad is coming together at the same time.
Show thread0x1de2d ago

@bposi @elenlaw @georgetakei

IMHO this is the thing to do. Cancelling your experience because you have not mentionned other atrocities is, at best, awkward.
Don't get distracted by trolls 👍

Show thread⠠⠵ avuko3d ago
@elenlaw @bposi @georgetakei not being pedantic here: Gaza is no longer a concentration camp. It has become what is called a Vernichtungslager. That’s the German word for extermination camp.
Show threadbws2d ago
@elenlaw whataboutismnman to the rescue!
Show threadPablo Martini (Geezer)3d ago

@bposi @georgetakei

I fear it's too deep now, apart from the weakling kid starver & Vietnam all the rest haven't got anywhere near cow towing to the Orangino one!

Show threadMemento Mori 💃🏽🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦2d ago

@bposi

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 German, too!

@georgetakei

Show threadUlrich Popp 3d ago
@georgetakei Wow! There you can see the true face of these "Conservatives" - they are acting like Nazis - as predicted in "Project 2025" - inclusive acting against Christians.
Do all the evangelist Trump-voters know that? I think they don't believe it, it seems to woke for them, right?
90 years ago we had a similar acting in Germany.
Show threadLuna chan3d ago
@HoSnoopy @georgetakei The Heritage Foundation the people behind all this are basically discount SPECTRE.
Show threadLuna chan3d ago
@georgetakei MAGAts are rolling around in their food?
Show threadElon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺3d ago
@georgetakei https://mastodon.world/@paninid/114814716435622131
Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid@mastodon.world)

They came for them. It’s happening. https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/mass-grave-complex-mgc-identification-and-analysis-of-grave-site-candidates-gsc-1-2-at-cecot

Mastodon
Show threadElon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺21h ago
@georgetakei https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/mass-grave-complex-mgc-identification-and-analysis-of-grave-site-candidates-gsc-1-2-at-cecot
Mass Grave Complex (MGC) identification and analysis of Grave Site Candidates (GSC) #1 & #2 at CECOT.

Textbook case of a very poorly hidden genocide site.I am a former mass grave complex and genocide site investigator with real-world experience. My expertise is in analyzing satellite and spy plane imagery for the identification of very specific features and identifying landmarks to locate sites of genocide.I have worked in multiple undisclosed areas and have experience in not only the identification & reporting, but also the boots-on-the-ground investigations.I unequivocally stand by the analysi

Lemkin Institute
Show threadSteveB3d ago
@georgetakei just so crazy
Show threadAriaflame3d ago
@georgetakei Something that is so bad it is forbidden in warfare should not be used on civilians in peacetime.
Show threadCoolRider3d ago

@georgetakei

Land of the free ! Forget it, it's over. 😞

Show threadMyOpinion3d ago
@georgetakei This is the world that MAGAts wish to create. They are scum.
Show threadSpiritual Annie ☮️3d ago

@georgetakei

🫂❤️

Show threadSpoons Forever3d ago
@georgetakei
Why, why are we all letting this shit happen. It all needs to STOP before it is to late.😡 😩
Show threadoscarfalcon3d ago

@SpoonsForever @georgetakei

I'm afraid that time has come and gone...

Show threadAaron2d ago

@oscarfalcon @SpoonsForever @georgetakei

Don't throw your hands up. We can't stop it all, but we can still stop some of it. #resist

Show threadKarsten Johansson3d ago

@georgetakei That sucks. I'm not particularly religious since my younger days, but I have a Bible that has been with me since I was in my single-digit ages.

I would hate to have the only thing I have from that far back in my personal history taken from me. It even has all kinds of little skeptic notes I wrote when discovering questionable or contradictory passages.

Show threadDavid3d ago

@georgetakei

You hoped? Was not enough clue that for your whole adult life, Democrats and Republican WERE/ARE the same fascist shit?

Show threadnachtet3d ago
@georgetakei 🫂
Show threadBlueBeachSong™3d ago
@georgetakei Thank you for speaking up Mr. Takei, as you always do. It does make a difference.
Show threadDavid Hopeward3d ago
@georgetakei ❤️‍🩹
Show threadShufei 🧮3d ago
@georgetakei Madness, and indeed sorrowing. Thank you for highlighting these things, Uncle George.
Show threadjustbob3d ago

@georgetakei

The silence about the homeless concentration camps is deafning. California and Oregon has had them for several years but no one even cares that Americans live in the streets, over 600,000-700,000 of us are totally ignored and we are being rounded up too

Show thread🌱@ambiguous_yelp:ahimsa.chat3d ago
@georgetakei Pls link to original sources: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/ at a time when it is easier than ever to spread #misinformation and #disinformation it is more important than ever to know where you information comes from #fascism #AlligatorAuschwitz #maga #trump #desantis #xenophobia #racism #noborders #anarchism
Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege inhumane conditions at immigration detention center

Detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water, inadequate food and denial of religious rights.

Show threadobscurestar3d ago
@georgetakei But the fascists are so proud of Alligator Auschwitz.
Show threadFionor3d ago

@georgetakei After this (United States) inevitably ends, there will be extended trials, and plenty of people will say they just followed orders and didn't know what'sreally hoing on.
In other words, they will lie and should receive no mercy from their judges.

This cannot be fixed with midterms of impeachment - this is USA rotten to the core & beyond saving.
If US were house, it would be burned down and build from the ground anew.

Show threadDanny Boling ☮️3d ago
It's funny that you mention not seeing something when, at the same time, you continue to ignore and hurt your followers that have low/no eyesight themselves. I'll keep asking you to make sure your social media people understand how important #AltText is to you and your followers, but nothing changes. I've lost (and continue to lose) a lot of respect for you, @georgetakei. It shouldn't take months of begging for you to do the right thing. Surely you're better than this.
Show threadWilliam B Peckham3d ago
@georgetakei I saw it referred to as Alligator Auschwitz. Sounds about right.
Show threadSassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽3d ago

@georgetakei

They're not the wight kind of Christian

That thing is a provocation.

These people are absolutely not afraid of war. They are certain they can win.

It doesn't mean that's true. It just Hubris.

But they will kill you every way they can, slow or fast.

Don't OBEY.

America has to decide now.

Show threadSpaceLifeForm2d ago

@georgetakei

Hyprocisy writ large. They say no right to religion, yet they practice it daily in their cult.

They are insane, that is all.

So many insane people, with no room to store them.

Show threadmossyrua2d ago

@georgetakei

If there is one, there are more.

Find them.

Show threadmonkee 2d ago
@georgetakei do your thing @altbot ​​
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Show threadKilla Koala2d ago
@georgetakei Looks like Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't so deranged after all. It's the people who *didn't* have TDS that caused this.
Show threadStargeezer Smith2d ago
@georgetakei
I doubt most of us can't entirely imagine how you feel.
Show threadRuth2d ago
@georgetakei there is no good concentration camps, it's a very sad time in our history, when we have strayed so far from what's right.
Show threadMark Kahl 🚲🐻🦁🇺🇦🇮🇱2d ago
@georgetakei I'm quite sure the camps you had to grow up in were bad, however these death traps seem to be much worse.
Show threadDuncan Bayne2d ago

@georgetakei And yet people will still take the time to, in this one thread, scold you for not using alt-text, claim that these concentration camps are worse than the ones in which you grew up, and complain that you didn't link to a primary source.

Gotta get those deckchairs arranged neatly, folks.

Show threadJay 🇺🇦2d ago

@georgetakei

As a German, observing our own history happen in real time helps me understand how it happened.
I've always been a great fan of Hannah Arendt and her theory of the banality of evil.
But it's just one part of the puzzle that explains the hundreds of thousands of nazis.
Pure monsters do exist after all and they're the ringleaders.

Show threadNemethon2d ago
People need to stand up and stop this shit in the US. Because it's going to get worse, you can count on it.
Show threadPaul-wellrocks2d ago
@georgetakei
Show threadHelga Secures All the Things2d ago
@georgetakei Americans need to go there, en masse, and physically free those detainees. Physically dismantle the camp. They can't arrest all of you. It's a concentration camp. In America.
Show threadElizabeth Eiler2d ago
@georgetakei I think everyone with a soul is heartbroken. The rest gave their souls to Donald Trump in exchange for red hats and front-row seats to the atrocities. #magacult #inhumane #AlligatorAuschwitz #fascism