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IratePirate

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  • CalyxOS or AOSP on Fairphone 5

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  • It's not exactly dead, it's "on hiatus" until they've sorted things out. The founder and lead dev left the project without any message to the community, taking the signing keys with them. Which, obviously raised a lot of questions.

    Your recommendation not to install it right now is perfectly valid. And even when the project comes back, I wouldn't use it until the question of what exactly happened to Nick and who is running the project right now has been sufficiently answered.

  • US | ‘Morale is going to be at an all-time low’: Iran war troops living on meager rations as Postal Service stops delivering

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  • Give a man to fish and you will have fed him for a day.

    Teach a man to shoot the sea mines and you will have fed him and his buddies for the duration of America's latest illegal war.

  • US | ‘Morale is going to be at an all-time low’: Iran war troops living on meager rations as Postal Service stops delivering

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  • "Starve at home or fight the wars of the ruling class abroad." Yay, another page from Russia's playbook implemented in the United Emirates of Ameristan!

  • The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire

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  • Good work, citizen! The tech bros need you to believe that their dumb digital parrots will eventually, magically metamorphose into AGI. It's the only thing that keeps that sweet VC money flowing and the AI bubble from popping.

  • Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

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  • uBlock blocks ads. It does not make visible what isn't transferred.

    This, however, does (the article, stripped of its paywall)

  • Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge

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  • Not the Onion?

  • More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote

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  • By making an example of the UK. The UK was the first country to leave the EU, and its economy got fucked big time in the process, making other countries think twice before considering the same manoeuvre. Case in point: the AfD, Germany's far-right populist party, used to promote an exit from the Euro and EU; seeing what happened to the UK, even those dipshits no longer do.

  • More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote

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  • At this point the UK is basically Europe's cat: unsure (and constantly changing opinion on) whether it wants to be inside or out.

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  • That is fantastic news! Thanks for the update!

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  • I've moved to Floccus (which can sync browser tabs and bookmarks via Nextcloud Bookmarks). Does the essential parts for me.

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  • Oh, is this a thing again? Two years ago, they were doing a Rust rewrite; the rewrite had hardly any documentation, so self-hosted FF sync was essentially dead. Is this the new thing?

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • To be fair, pissing on it was their only remedy after they had lit it on fire. All the water is reserved for putting out the dumpster fire that used to be the White House.

  • EU age verification app announced to protect children online

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  • I can't help but wonder if the empowerment LLMs may have to an individual is terrifying leaders into an authoritarian mindset

    LLMs are here to enrich the rich, not to "empower the individual". They require ridiculously expensive computing power, which makes them impractical or even impossible to self-host (with data centers buying up the market, the required hardware becomes unaffordable to the individual). Now you're at the mercy of renting out the compute from the oligarchs and their companies, and you're also relying on their censored and biased models (see Grok and his "Mecha-Hitler" antics if you want a taste of the future). Please don't expect that to empower you, or anyone else. It can't, and even if it could, it wouldn't be available to you.

    Unless we democratise LLMs, they'll just become yet another tool of enslavement in the clutches of the Epstein class.

  • JD Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology

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  • Strongly disagree. Previous administrations, yes. Bush, certainly. But not this one. For that, corruption and self-enrichment are too rampant and poorly camouflaged (if at all), disdain for democratic institutions too blatant, preparations for an authoritarian power grab too brazenly obvious. These guys know who they are and who they serve, and they don't even feel the need to hide it any more. The mask is off.

  • JD Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology

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  • “Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis? [...] I certainly think the answer is yes."

    So, if you assume God did not like fascists in the 1940s - what makes you think he has changed his mind to now support you and your ilk, couch boy? That's a mighty big plank to pull from that eye of yours.

  • DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More

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  • I've started several attempts to migrate to it, and they've all failed. The workflow just doesn't work for me. It's extremely click-heavy and (subjectively) unintuitive. (I want to delete a file. Why TF can't I just use Del to do that?)

    Lightroom is the single Windows application that I still haven't successfully replaced with a FOSS alternative. It's confined to a Windows VM with no internet access. That's fine for now.

  • Changing the state of privacy starts with changing how we talk about things. Stop using anti-privacy language, here's a guide 👇

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  • This is a joke... right? Right?

  • The daily heil is having a poll on brexit, and if the UK should rejoin. Currently at 48% yes.

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  • Username checks out.

  • The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

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  • "Had its backdoor opened" rather. It's the Epstein class we're dealing with here.