Gotta be an issue with proton, probably blocking ml domains. We don’t block any vpns on this server, or run any spying middlemen like cloudflare.

• Obama admitted to supporting and arming Neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalist groups like the Azov battalion in Ukraine to overthrow it’s former pro-Russia govt, 2. Ukraine now has a pro-US, nazi-glorifying government with ultranationalism, anti-semitism, neo-nazi pogroms, and attacks on LGBT groups.
  • Leaked transcripts show Victoria Nuland, a US diplomat in Ukraine, picking Yanukoviche’s replacement in the coup.
  • A leaked phone call of the Estonian foreign minister states that the famous Maidan sniper attack was actually ordered by the US-funded opposition. This means that Yanukovich’s government was not behind the sniper attack, but somebody in the US coalition.

The irresistable redditor urge to 🤓 abortion and defend legal institutions that criminalize it.

Please report racist comments like these.

Side point but it’s kinda crazy how the modern usage of paper tiger was coined by Mao an interview with one of the US’s greatest historians, and most US citizens have no idea who she is or have read anything by her. (Anna Louise Strong)

Solar now meets about 10% of the nation’s power needs, up from 3% at the beginning of last year, the government said.

That is impressive for under 2 years. Lets hope they can keep that pace up, or accelerate it.

Use audiobookshelf for audiobooks.

Shout out to both @nutomic for working on Ibis, a federated wiki alternative, and Prolewiki, the pro-worker-wiki.

Yes, the wmf has so many problems, especially its bloated administration. Also it’s run by US government regime-change agents like Katherine Maher, who steer the site to pro-US viewpoints.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia

It’s so difficult to keep up. There’s a complete reversal every two days now.

A lifetime ban is probably not enough here. He should get some charges because what he did was extremely dangerous.

I believe there are a few proposals of integrations of different open source review systems into OSM, but they haven’t been finalized yet.

Totally agree this is the number one thing missing from open source maps rn, and it should be top priority years ago.

Almost a million dollars, jesus. The US is a truly disgusting country.

Why are people downvoting this? Are they just now learning US socdems support their empire and imperial troops?

There are no pacts between lions and men.

Its kind of a bug; although the API for search can take in all those sort types, it actually can only use a few of them, so TopWeek gets turned into TopAll. This is because when searching for All types, many of them have no concept of TopWeek, like a search for users.

In lemmy 1.0 I’d like to fix this by showing a specific set of filters and sorts for the given searchable item type: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3995

You can’t simply say “we must assume” as evidence.

Okay yeah you definitely didn’t read it. Large sections in that doc just before that are on phone number identifiers, NSLs, and 5-eyes countries, the US goverment pushing signal in privacy spaces… literally the reasons why signal isn’t trustworthy. Unless you can tell me what an NSL is, then I’ll assume you didn’t read it.

While there may be other US government requests they are not alllwed to disclose, they were legally required to provide the same information to the courts, and we can see what they provided.

Did you ignore the large section on NSLs? These come with a gag order, meaning its illegal for signal to notify their users about them being spied on.

In fact, they implemented “Sealed sender” in 2018 where they are not able to see who the message is being sent to.

This is a “just trust me” from signal, since neither of us have access to their centralized DB, but you also ignored two paragraphs down, where it showed that with message timestamps and recipient information, this would be trivial to find the real sender of a message, regardless of sealed sender. Again, actually open source software can’t say “just trust me” like signal can, we actually have to show code to prove it, and let people run that code in a private manner.

And sure, while the US government funds Signal, you know who else endorses it? Edward fucking Snowden. If anyone knows about secure messaging, it’s the man that physically removes the microphone and camera from his phones before using them.

Elon musk and jack dorsey also endorse signal. An endorsement means nothing, especially for centralized software based in a 5-eyes country.

Read the linked doc, because it’s clear you didn’t.

Signal is a centralized, US-based service which requires your phone number (thus your real identity, IE name and address), has social networking graphs of everyone you talk to, and must forward that information to the US government when asked, as well as (by law) not tell you that they’ve been asked to do so. During the Obama era, 60 NSLs were issued for this private information every single day.

People overlook its privacy concerns for the same reason they do with apple: it has a shiny interface and is easy to use, and makes people very attached to it. Behind all that, is a surveillance network that its creators have explicitly said they do not want it to be able to run in a decentralized, private manner.

It has a long history of privacy offenses below (such as refusing to publish its server’s source code for years, its reliance on other US tech services (amazon, google), US-government funding, and a US-defense-tank friendly administration) which get ignored or shouted down by many of those above. See the article below.

Why not signal.

Pretty much any alternative is better, as long as its not hosted in a five-eyes country, and especially if it doesn’t require phone numbers or real identities like signal does.

I personally have been using SimpleX for friends and real life contacts, and Matrix for larger more anonymous group chats.

This is pretty sad. Oneplus phones, tablets, and watches have like double the battery of samsung / apple, at 1/3rd of the cost. Hopefully OPPO will make another branding for europe at least, because the EU still does allow chinese smartphones to be sold there. The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.

Xiaomi, vivo, and oppo(oneplus’s parent company) are growing pretty rapidly in market share at least.