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IratePirate

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  • Your car is here.

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  • Still compiling.

  • SecureBit.chat - Enhanced Security Edition

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  • Hilarious bad-word filtering of the link right there! For anyone wondering: the link will only work if you replace the "removed" part with the word describing a female dog.

  • The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastating

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  • None of them looked into it because facts don't matter to far-right populists and the sheep voting for them. They just make up shit that fits their simple narrative of the moment and makes people angry. And when (not if) it is debunked as a blatant lie later on, they have already captured their audience with ten new lies, so the implosion of all the older lies won't register with them.

    I get that perverted 'logic'. What confounds me is that so many people seem to be falling for this shit. I had a more optimistic idea of people's intelligence on average. And: I don't like what this finding means for future-proofing our democracies, if we're going to save those.

  • Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.

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  • Yeah, it's a weird way of spelling "liberation".

  • Reviewing products rules

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  • Only cowards wash these things!

  • Hold on to Your Hardware - マリウス

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  • In fact, you’re already likely renting rather than owning in many different areas. Your means of communication are run by Meta, your music is provided by Spotify, your movies are streamed from Netflix, your data is stored in Google’s data centers and your office suite runs on Microsoft’s cloud.

    Not this one, no.

    This one has never had a single Meta-owned account because it values privacy.

    It has never subscribed to Spotify or Netflix because it values ownership and control.

    It has, since the Snowden revelations, successfully cut Google and Microsoft from its life and replaced them with AOSP and Linux.

    It has started to build servers from hardware old and new, running FOSS services that rival and replace most big tech solutions people feel they "need" nowadays.

    And it has started to help others take control of their data and computing, move to software and services that respect their rights, and to see value in privacy, ownership and freedom.

    It may not be much. It may not scale. And it may not provide "AI" capabilities. But it's a start. It's a lighthouse that shows this dystopia is not inevitable.

    We need to answer the push towards centralised consumption with a refusal to consume, and a counterpush towards decentralised cells of resilience. If datacentres aren't profitable, there is very little incentive to only build and sell hardware for them exclusively.

    This one has built its lighthouse.

    When will you?

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  • With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I'd say the odds of such a law have become even worse.

  • Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

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  • Naw. This is clearly just 1 monkey.

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  • This. Big tech is complicit in the fascist takeover of the U.S. Ditch their services where you can, and where you can't leech and starve them using tech like this.

  • The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastating

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  • The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastating

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  • *350

    Boris' Bus of Lies with the caption is even in the thumbnail

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • "Harvest" is such an ugly word, mister! We rather like to call it an involuntary donation...

  • UK: Ex-Prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct

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  • Many people say, it was the greatest arrest ever. They come to me and say: "Sir! We've never seen a more satisfying arrest in the history of this country!" And they're right! Bigly!

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  • Hannah Montana, Knoppix... a man of culture I see...

    I'll open a ticket with Mozilla.

    ...who wants to see the world burn!

  • VPN only with ID check in UK?

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  • Let's assume the UK (and others) take a fully-fascist approach and try to squash VPNs within their jurisdiction. What would they have to do to achieve this, and is it practical? The way I see it, they'd have to...

    1. keep track the IPs of any VPN entry node (to update blocklists, see step 2)
    2. have them blocked (e.g. by using mandatory DNS filtering, probably applied at the ISP level)
    3. make sure people do not just switch to DNS servers not under their / the ISPs' control.

    Can somebody chime in and check my reasoning? The way I see it, this will hold off non-technical folks, but to make it absolutely waterproof would be quite hard and require a game of constant whack-a-mole, wouldn't it?

  • Europe Has Received the Message

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  • Don't forget about globally organised (but mainly Russia- and US-funded) right-wing populism. Why risk military escalation when you can just funnel dark money to the enemies within European heartland and additionally support them by sowing misinformation through the billionaire-owned propaganda machines we call "social media"? That's how the U.S. government was captured, and that's what they'll be trying to export. If we're going to have a chance at picking up and carrying on the torch of the free world, we need to slam these backdoors shut asap.

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  • can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?

    I was assuming you'd just write GRUB onto the primary disk and set Hannah Montana Linux (lol, excellent choice of distro!) as the only boot option (because who needs os-prober and a selection timeout when you've got the best of distros on disk, amirite?).

    I suppose the most problematic part is the partitioning you handwaved as "ok". Afair, Windows does not allow for live-resizing of the system partition (as it should). But I suppose there are ways around that, particularly if you've got another drive or spare partition of adequate size. (OEM recovery partitions come to mind; as much as 10 GB can be enough for a viable Linux system partition.)

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  • Apologies. I've seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.

    As for "how would it work": on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.

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  • Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.