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Apparently DOD went through the web pages for Medal of Honor recipients and marked those of non-white dudes as "DEI", which also broke links.
The shameless racism is nakedly on display.
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Justice Barrett is still delivering solidly right-wing rulings, but in MAGA world, if you don’t swear a blood oath to Donold, you’re basically Karl Marx.
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"Joining me today on the pod is someone I'm hoping to reach across the aisle to. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Joseph Goebbels!"
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The rich and powerful hid behind strong walls and sturdy gates, yet the plague still came. (Daily pic 66)
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Hey welcome back to my new channel, Documenting the Collapse of US Democracy! I know this must be strange for those of you who preferred the old format of discussing science and critical thinking butRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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258 cases of #measles. And yet:
"a health department spokesperson said it was withholding further information because 'these cases don’t pose a public health risk and to protect patient privacy.'"
Bullshit! Measles is very infectious and the unvaccinated and undervaccinated are at risk. Most of the people affected were unvaccinated.
Talk to your doctor about your vaccine status.
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Texas measles outbreak spills into third state as cases reach 258
Oklahoma says the cases “don’t pose a public health risk.”…Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Just because it's predictable for racist fascists to do this, doesn't make it any less infuriating, disgusting or reprehensible.
Black Lives Matter
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DC begins removing 'Black Lives Matter' plaza after pressure from GOP
Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from activist Republicans in Congress.Ashraf Khalil (AP News)
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that really is a great and efficient use of money, isn't it?
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disgusting
imagine having such a fragile ego
surprised that these horrible racists didn't just add a "Don't."
Fascist scumbags
Outrageously petty.
I was there when the Berlin Wall fell. I have a piece of the wall, it’s a nondescript bit of concrete that will mean nothing to anyone when I’m gone, but for me, celebrating that day with the Germans who had never seen the other side of the wall, it’s a reminder that democracy can work. That fascists can fall.
The rubble from the destruction of Black Lives Matter plaza tells the other side of that story. Fascism is rising, and they are on the upswing. But hold this rubble in your heart, for with its stones, we will destroy fascism again, and again, and every time they rise, we will pick up our rocks and go to war.
The rubble from the destruction of Black Lives Matter plaza tells the other side of that story. Fascism is rising, and they are on the upswing. But hold this rubble in your heart, for with its stones, we will destroy fascism again, and again, and every time they rise, we will pick up our rocks and go to war.
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Anti-Mask Laws | The First Amendment Encyclopedia
Opponents of mask bans and anti-mask laws typically invoke the First Amendment rights of association and anonymous speech.Deborah Fisher (Free Speech Center)
Why are there no protests? People trying to stop the construction crews?
Crowds with banners in the street?
Does no one care in the US?
Crowds with banners in the street?
Does no one care in the US?
Seems easier to help Jerry with his golf skills. 🤷
Seriously though, here in Europe, in most countries there would be big protests already, probably right after the first DOGE action...
My taxes are paying for this? Fuck. These. Fascists.
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Can you believe that some people voted for Trump because they believed he was somehow the pro-Palestine option? Not holding up anymore at all, proves that an enemy of an enemy isn't always a friend.
Yes I expect that will start happening. The ICE staff have taken on, more & more, the actions of the SS. Which seemingly tells me their director is getting high level orders or the freedom to act on their own. One should also think they may have committed many more acts that are unknown to the general public!!!!!!!!!
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The biggest drug smuggling operation from Canada? It’s called ‘Grandma’s Bus Trip to Montreal for Affordable Medication.’
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In my case, one particular vote broke me: to increase death benefits for Gold Star widows of fallen servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Post 9/11, yellow-ribbon-wearing, American flag-pinning, Toby Keith-blaring Republicans voted it down in party line.
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A group representing major automakers warned that new tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico imposed by the U.S. will lead to drastic price hikes. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025… #business #markets #tesla #gm #ford #toyota #volkswagen #hyundai #stellantis #donaldtrump #trade #us #mexico #china #canada #carmakers
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Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data. An archived version from January 30 says:
Does Firefox sell your personal data?Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise.
That promise is removed from the current version. There's also a notable change in a data privacy FAQ that used to say, "Mozilla doesn't sell data about you, and we don't buy data about you."
The data privacy FAQ now explains that Mozilla is no longer making blanket promises about not selling data because some legal jurisdictions define "sale" in a very broad way:
Mozilla doesn't sell data about you (in the way that most people think about "selling data"), and we don't buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of "sale of data" is extremely broad in some places, we've had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).Mozilla didn't say which legal jurisdictions have these broad definitions.
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Mozilla says it deleted promise because “sale of data” is defined broadly.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Mozilla's fans ready to take the pitchforks whenever other Corps. have miniscule missteps are strangely silent today.
Firefox Reddit sub is pretty full of outrage posts. Rightfully so.
I've been a long time supporter of Firefox because fuck Google and their Chromium spawns feeding their dominance, but what Mozilla is doing now, I'm planning on moving to Waterfox from the looks of it. Present on all platforms, Android, Windows and Linux, supports sync and has all the tracking and telemetry bullshit stripped out. I just wish they'd get versions up to date a bit faster, but oh well, it's probably a small team of people doing it in their free time so I can't complain too much.
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I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it's significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we're all hauling 64+ GB or something.
Which is better supported waterfox or librewolf ?
What, there has been a huge reaction to this!
You just woke up, right? It's been discussed everywhere today.
I fail to see the outrage.
There are 188 replies on the community post about it. Most are pretty outraged.
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Information about the New Terms of Use and Updated Privacy Notice for Firefox
For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you.connect.mozilla.org
It's been 2 hours since they posted it and that post count is climbing. Yeesh.
This post is less than half an hour old, can you let people see it first before complaining of silence?
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I'm not complaining. I'm just laughing.
well, aren't we the edgy one
which is the edgiest thing you could do
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Damn dude. Is your life really so pathetic that you are honestly deriving please from bad news being delivered to people who are on the opposite side of a fucking web browser debate? That's sad. I hope things start looking up for you in the future.
Is your life so pathetic that you are honestly wasting your time analyzing my supposed life? LOL.
you're being very weird in this specific chain of comments, and it's unpleasant to read and dragging down otherwise pretty decent conversation. dial it back, or you'll catch a temporary ban.
Aren't you the Chrome stan? No sarcasm, I feel like I've seen you arguing in other threads that Chrome is fine.
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So since their actions can be considered "sale of data", they are breaking their promise which stated that they will never do that. Got it!
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Never have, never will.
So, here's the funny thing about "never will". It's not a promise you can go back on. "Never will" means "forever won't".
Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all "nuanced" and weasel-wordy about it doesn't change that.
Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla's better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.
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That doesn't detract from OP's point. I want Mozilla to be a good, privacy respecting organization, but they aren't anymore, and chromium has nothing to do with that.
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Gonna need a source
"I want this"
"Source?"
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They've been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we're "allowed" to tell them to eat shit?
If Firefox disappears. Mozilla isn't Firefox, it's the organization staffed with ad-tech and McKinsey ghouls and paid by Google to kill Firefox.
It seems like the issue here is, users want to be spoken to in colloquial language they understand, but any document a legal entity produces MUST be in unambiguous "legal" language.
So unless there's a way to write a separate "unofficial FAQ" with what they want to say, they are limited to what they legally have to say.
And maybe that's a good thing. Maybe now they need to create a formal document specifying in the best legalese exactly what they mean when they say they "will never sell your data", because if there's any ambiguity around it, then customers deserve for them to disambiguate. Unfortunately, it's probably not going read as quick and catchy as an ambiguous statement.
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the issue here is
The issue is Mozilla's McKinsey CEO has decided to break the promise not to sell personal data.
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The equally hilarious thing is that currently they have the "never will" promise in the same codebase as the "definitely will" gated by a "TOU" flag, showing intent to violate the promise.
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Maybe they should replace it with Google's former pledge "Don't be evil": it's free for the taking, nobody's using it at the moment.
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So .... what is the leading alternative browser then?
One of the reasons Firefox became so popular was that it was an alternative.
Now that they're drifting towards something we don't like ... what is the new alternative?
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Welp, back to NCSA Mosaic I guess. We never needed CSS and JS anyway, those were a huge mistake.
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LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
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Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won't load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.
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Hey! Thanks for the heads up. This looks good and I'm going to try it out.
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...which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.
I’m trying zen-browser.app/ now. It’s an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
Zen Browser
Zen Browser is built for speed, security, and true privacy. Download now to enjoy a beautifully-designed, distraction-free web experience packed with features.Zen Browser
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Shouldn't the Zen team be able to avoid sending data to Mozilla considering that FireFox is open-source and they can change the code?
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Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.
Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren't many of them and why they're all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure for a small project because you won't be able to keep up, you'll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.
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Very good point, hold they won't implement this telemetry deep in the engine.
How is it with blocking ads?
It's still Firefox, so it's the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.
Awesome, appreciate the information!
Edit. Got it set up and configured. So far I'm liking it a lot.
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Same, workspaces are great!
Look up browser called Ladybug. It is not based on either WebKit or Chromium.
It's not ready yet but it's coming.
Gå med i Discord-servern Ladybird!
Kolla in communityn Ladybird på Discord – träffa 10736 andra medlemmar och umgås genom gratis röst- och textchatt.Discord
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Is it open source, or is it owned by a private company? Looks exactly like the kind of thing that'll be great for a few years and then become enshittified, like all for-profit software inevitably seems to.
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Ladybird is a non profit developed by volunteers, no company.
Project lead is Andreas Kling (you should definitely watch his development videos and streams), great guy who developed SerenityOS aswell, an operating system from scratch. For that he developed LibWeb which he then used to create Ladybird. They only recently founded a non-profit, which is probably needed as the project size grew.
Ladybug seems to have garnered quite the attention and funding. It will probably be a great alternative for anyone looking for one. But I personally would not use it, the dev's behaviour has made me keep my distance from the project.
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While not ideal, privacy jam is better than the status quo of precise fingerprinting.
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I hope they explain further. Honestly I don’t think the “oh crap I need to know if it’s good or bad right now!” camp is really going to care, but it still feels a little uncomfortable. (As opposed to the “this could be either way, I don’t have enough evidence to decide right now, and I’m ok with holding that uncertainty in my brain until new evidence moves my needle” camp)
Are forked builds possible with third party service references neutered?
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Don't panic, though! Much like the competition does, while we sell your data we'll tell you all about how we respect your privacy so much more than the competition does. It's for the best. Driving away all its users is the only way to make Firefox commercially viable. That's just how capitalism works.
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I am looking into zen and librewolf, both are forks of Firefox tho.
Been using Zen for a while, it's very good
Forks of Firefox is fine. Only their binary is subject to the TOS. The source code remains under MPL2
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Ladybird and Servo are both in Alpha, but worth keeping an eye on.
So long, and thanks for all the add-ons.
In seriousness, though, this doesn't in any material way make Firefox a worse option than the other browsers with active dev teams. Avoiding Manifest V3 is alone worth the price of admission.
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Indeed, fingerprinting. Preventing it is one thing Mozilla could be working on. Going all-out on it really, devoting significant engineering resources to making their browser fingerprinting resistance bulletproof. Reworking every js api with defence against adversarial use of it in mind. If they're really that desperate for cash they could sell it as a premium feature for a modest subscription fee, although obviously it'd be available free of charge for those willing to get their Firefox builds from someone other than Mozilla.
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I tend to trust Mozilla (more than other browser-owning companies), but they really should just clarify exactly what they do that would be considered as sale of data in any jurisdictions.
They seem to be implying that the data is just metadata that has been abstracted for (presumably ad-targeting) commercial purposes, and there are jurisdictions that consider derived metadata as still being "user data", but in that case just make a blog post laying out what and where you are sharing. If your "partners" are opposed to people knowing about them, or you are scared that people would not like who you're in bed with, that is a problem.
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Please panic.
There's Librewolf. A deshittified Firefox fork.
Would be great to support that project.
There's Librewolf. A deshittified Firefox fork.
Would be great to support that project.
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You know, at least it's not Brave, throwing in cryptomining bs, getting caught selling data without telling anyone, or using the profits to push COVID conspiracy theories and anti-LGBT activism, or getting their funding directly from Founders Fund (Peter Thiel).
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From the Mozilla forums.
I'm curious what "Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox to perform your searches, for example" means. Like, is that literally just the search I type into the browser bar, or are they talking about scraping data from my browser to improve my searches the way a lot of phone apps do?
I could see some government somewhere passing a data security bill of some kind that makes rules around collecting and using data that redefines what that means in a way that includes something Firefox is already doing. I could also see them using this as a sneaky foot in the door as they plan to ramp up data profiteering like so many companies already have.
It would be nice if they'd clarify their reasoning for doing this a bit more specifically.
Information about the New Terms of Use and Updated Privacy Notice for Firefox
For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you.connect.mozilla.org
They want to intercept your searches and url entries to run them through the privacy preserving data extracting machine in order to collect data that will be sold to advertisers and used to pollute your search results and url suggestions with paid-for links. They were trying to be vague about it so that people would not understand this, and instead all they accomplished was to make people think they want to record everything you type into every web form. That's my guess, anyway. Maybe they really do want everything.
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I mean, yeah. That's the less than optimistic guess to make. But it's a guess, it isn't definitive. It'd be nice to know if that's what they're actually doing or whether it's just a change in language to cover their own ass. Because both are pretty common.
It already exists at least as an "experiment" but I guess now it's nearly ready for full production use. Perhaps the new terms of use text is motivated by not enough people accepting the old merino opt-in prompt as well as wanting to get more third-parties involved in the system. More details here: firefox-source-docs.mozilla.or…
When Merino integration is enabled on the client and the user has opted in to Firefox Suggest data collection, Firefox sends everything the user types in the address bar to the Merino server.
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Think about it. Anything you type into a browser is your intellectual property, you own the copyright to it, unless you're copying someone else's text. In order for Mozilla to pass what you type on to any website you're visiting, they need to "copy" that text (i.e., from the keyboard to the network).
I think this is what they're trying to address with their legalese. It's a pity that it has to come to this, but that's how the legal environment is these days. They can't afford to make expensive mistakes. Perhaps they can keep improving and clarifying the language though.
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Yeah. That's certainly a possibility. Thinking about it won't give me the answer, though. It could be that, it could also be something else. We don't learn the truth of what's going on in the world by just making up a good-sounding explanation and assuming we must be right, even if that's how people discussing things on forums largely operates.
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That's fair. But what they've said so far seems to strongly point at this being the reason.
Firefox is not a legal entity needing a license. Mozilla is.
Firefox is a product, not a service.
When I write notes in a book, I do not need to give the manufacturer of that book a license for my notes. If I mail that book to a friend, I do not need to give a license for that book to the post office.
The only other software that I can think of that has taken a similar stance on TOS vs an open license is Microsoft and their VS Code product. Precompiled executables are license under a non-free (libre) license while the source code of VS Code remains under the MIT license.
The original license of Firefox MPL2 allow end users to freely use the browser, with no license needed to give to Mozilla. Thousands of open source software who all use GPL, MPL, MIT, et al. allow users to use their software however they want. The proposed TOS does not and you must abide by their Acceptable Use Policies.
Even if they require a license due to some legal reason, there is simply no reason why the license has to be a non-exclusive, perpetual license. If it really as they claim "to help you navigate the internet", then the terms should explicitly say that, and not make it implicit.
The fact is Mozilla doesn't need a license for me to operate Firefox locally. Any copyright claim they are making is in bad faith because anything you type into the browser would be covered under fair use. They have yet to convince me why they need a license for me to operate a browser fully locally.
The most likely reason why they are changing the license is because they want to start training AI data based on your browser habits. They may not be doing it now and they may say they have no plans to do it in the future. But the TOS, as currently written, gives them permission to do just that.
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Some obvious jurisdictions that come to mind are US vs. EU:
- US: protects "Personally Identifiable Information" (PII)
- EU: protects "Personal Information" (PI)
The color of your hair... is PI in the EU, it isn't PII in the US since it's not enough to pinpoint you as a single person.
Under US law, a data broker can gather a bunch of "not-PII, just PI", and refine it into profiles that can end up pinpointing single individuals.
Under EU law, that's illegal; no selling PI, period.
Maybe the should replace their CEO wit AI:
That condition is a despotic red-flag deal-breaker that should be countered with epic abandonment.
Let them know this is not OK.
If I hadn't uninstalled it years ago, I would have already. Lots of better browsers out there.
Let them know this is not OK.
If I hadn't uninstalled it years ago, I would have already. Lots of better browsers out there.
Some obvious jurisdictions that come to mind, are US vs. EU:
- US: protects "Personally Identifiable Information" (PII)
- EU: protects "Personal Information" (PI)
The color of your hair... is PI in the EU, it isn't PII in the US since it's not enough to pinpoint you as a single person.
Under US law, a data broker can gather a bunch of "not-PII, just PI", and refine it into profiles that can end up pinpointing single individuals.
Under EU law, that's illegal; no selling PI, period.
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This is completely accurate, and people don't know how non anonymous it is.
Your hair one for example. Who cares, say you even have brunette hair, something generic. Okay, then let's add on that you're using an iPhone. How narrow is the search now? What state you're in? Who owns a specific model of TV?
I would argue that with only just a few data points you could be identified.
And now they are taking everything you put into your browser and everything you take out. Add some AI pizazz and they'll be able to build a pretty accurate profile about you.
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Have any of you FUD shoveling geniuses considered that this is because Firefox uses encrypted DNS by default?
What do you think of duckduckgo's browser? It's about page seems to be on par.
About DuckDuckGo
We're setting the new standard of trust online, empowering people to take control of their personal information.DuckDuckGo
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What do you mean? Firefox alternatives in Debian/Debian-based repos? Or just an alternative for
apt in general (in which case, I think you've replied to the wrong post)?
Yes, I'm asking for the best Firefox alternative thats available on Debian or debian-based distos. Only considering packages in the official Debian
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There isn't a browser suitable to replace Firefox in the official Debian apt repos.
However, as far as I can tell, Mozilla's recent Terms of Use apply only to the Firefox builds downloaded from Mozilla, not to the built-from-source versions that you get from the Debian archive using apt.
You can use the Debian build under the terms of the Mozilla Public License. Read /usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/copyright for details.
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That's good news, but I really want Debian to make an official public statement that confirms this
I know you only want software from the official repos, but it's really simple to add the LibreWolf repo and use that.
Other than that, there's not really much in the way of Firefox forks in the official repos. I believe the Debian builds have their own configurations as well, but I'm not certain. You could use other browsers (Falkon, GNOME Web, etc.), but they're severely lacking in features.
Off-topic, LibreWolf uses the extrepo package to add their repo which is a great third party repo management program for Debian. It has a curated (by members of the Debian packagers) selection of other third party repos for some popular software that either doesn't make it into the official repos for whatever reason or aren't kept super updated in Debian Stable.
That and it's so much easier than adding signing keys, messing with sources lists, etc. I wish more software used it, honestly, but the maintainers know what they're doing.
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
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The ToU is in Mozilla's Bedrock repo, but I don't quite know what that repo does. I'm curious if Firefox forks would still be subject to it.
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Made the switch to Fennec and IceRaven on Android, and Zen on my Linux desktop, which also has Windows and Mac versions. Sure, they're forks of Firefox, but they are not subject to the same TOS. I used to use LibreWolf on my desktop but ended up having too many issues with it. Lots of crashing and instablility that regular Firefox just didn't have.
Another great tool for unGoogled Android users is FFUpdater. It will handle updating of many open source (not just Firefox-based) browsers. You could also use something like Obtanium for something less browser-specific.
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You cant go back on never have never will without breaking the law. We need to get these ai tech bros out of these companies if we want them to remain good.
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Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for "Boston") and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.
So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you're (probably) good to go.
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Good they rolled it back. Feels a bit like go for what you want and see how folks react, then have a plan for rolling it back.
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“Never” - You keep using that word. I’m not sure it means what you think it does.
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Even before mass protests have really begun, the wannabe dictator is already trying to make protests illegal.
The bully is scared even before the fight begins.
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As opposed to the rioters on 6 January 2021 who are all perfectly innocent.
It's important to not rely on students to protest. And to avoid campuses. Also to remove fascists everywhere.
#Democracy? #FreeSpeech?
Nah, this looks like '68 in Socialist #Czechoslovakia :)
USAns! Do not comply! Freedom of assembly is a civil right still guaranteed by the Constitution.
#UseItOrLoseIt #Resist
#UseItOrLoseIt #Resist
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Land of the free! (Home of the brave?)
Let me guess who is going to enforce this.
This was always the goal.
NO MASKS! 😂🤣😂
🖤♥️
(Maybe no Musks...?🤠)
Time for impeachment…
The fossil fuel industry funds anti-protest legislation and lawsuits globally.
motherjones.com/politics/2023/…
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Universities have been accepting funding from the fossil fuel industry for years, in exchange for suppressing dissent on campuses.
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US students file complaints against six universities over fossil fuel investments
Students say that by investing in fossil fuels their schools are violating commitments to the public interestDharna Noor (The Guardian)
Federal funding is already gone anyway. Protest to your heart's content kids!
This is a tactical mistake on the fascists' part. Experience has shown that ignoring protests (i.e. no media coverage, no response, etc.) is more effective than banning protests. Banning protests only draws attention to them, which is exactly what a protest needs to be effective.
great that protests are not illegal?
what a goddamned pathetic child. And yes, you're correct - this shows obvious fear. The bully is already scared, and let's put it this way: HE is the one who has to deal with US for the next four years. Never, ever let him or any of these criminals rest. Not for one second.
THIS MEANS THE PROTESTS WORK.
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Und über 46.000 Leute fanden das zu dem Zeitpunkt schon gut? Na Mahlzeit...
If you storm congress: Then you will be pardoned by Trump
If you protest at your school: DEFUND EVERYTHING!?!
to any students reading this. Wear a mask, don't bring your cell phone, and fuck Donald Trump.
While the white people cheering draconian measures being taken against BLM, Standing Rock, and other protestors, I've got something for you to think about. Those same measures will be taken against you, Whitey. If you don't believe me, go read about the Bonus Army.
And he claims there is free speech...
NOW GET ON YOUR FEET AND INTO THE STREETS WITH MILLIONS !!!!!!
#uspol #fightTrump #fightMusk #saveDemocracy
#uspol #fightTrump #fightMusk #saveDemocracy
the land of the free I guess
I am baffled that they haven't started yet.
What is keeping people from protesting?
In most EU countries, people would be on the streets for weeks already.
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The best way to do this is to take to the streets. Make sure to document with pictures and video and post to social media. Legacy media is in the tank for the regime.
He is probably wishing there are college protests everywhere so people get distracted and forget about the crash he caused on the stock market
Freedom of assembly and association, anyone?
And just wait until free speech absolutist Musk hears about this. Looking forward to the Jim Jordan hearings on government attempts at censorship.
That felon is cared indeed. I experience that 75% are going for a boycott for US-brands in Sweden.
Protest at Starlink, Whole foods, the Whitehouse. And if I can't do that then I'll protest where I can how I can. Peaceful protest is Resistance. Depose the Oligarchy Now!
The funny thing is, he can't do any of those things. He has no legal basis for any of his threats and would lose in court.
But, hey, his stupid base doesn't know that and they'll lap it up!
Not even sure how many articles of the US constitution this violates.
To be fair, the orange shit-gibbon *actually* said that this only applies to students engaging in *illegal* protests. Is your protest illegal? No-one knows any more. And THAT is the problem. When there is no law, the outlaws rule.
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Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your
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@realDonaldTrump: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your
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Erm, that is not trying to make them illegal - he'd have to push that through his tame courts, which might take a while.
He's implying that *any* protest is illegal, which it is clearly not under what remains of the tattered remains of of your constitution.
He's so afraid of freedom and the truth.
Sounds a little like the Party CDU in germany, which want to check out NGOs who support demonstrations against far right
Does anyone know what qualifies as an illegal protest? Aren’t you allowed to demonstrate or protest by default in the US?
I love the NO MASKS random outburst.
What an unstable spaz
in the UK they actually imprisoned people for just planning one...
I was a teen in the 60s. Mass protests didn't do anything to stop the Vietnam War. I strongly encourage resisters to find creative (& sneaky) ways to inflict pain on the oppressors. What they care about most is $$ - take it from there.
Douchebag. And soooo foolish!
lol “no masks”.
Do you have a link to this? Did Trump delete it or is it a fake?
@tootkoTootarov The arc of Justice is self-evident, and it bends towards Lex Iniusta Non Est Lex.
next steps: curfew and witch hunt.
So universities just need to approve all requests for protests, so none of them are illegal.
well fascists gonna fash. One day though he'll be dead and we can all go piss on his grave.
And his sidekick was lecturing UK about stifling free speech. Rank hypocrisy.
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Trump got elected by promising to lower prices. This is what his trade war with Canada is doing to the price of lumber. Everyone who needs to build a new house or renovate will now see a drastic increase in material costs.
There is no plan. Only Trump chaos.
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I believe Trump is a sadist. His political ideology? Torture.
His decisions don't make sense politically, economically, or otherwise. They only make sense when they are understood in the context of a sadist, perverse mind who enjoys torturing others just for the pleasure of seeing them suffer.
That is the only benefit he gets from it.
The world will be a better place when Trump dies, and billions of us around the world cannot wait for the day we'll celebrate the death of the sadist.
trump is simply insane and nothing more at this point
Yeah, that's not even the concept of a plan...
Lower prices and less tax we're certainly part of his message, but his message of hate was probably the overriding influence. Or, so it would seem.
oh, yes, he has a plan. Chopping lumber is now allowed. Chopping woods that a few weeks ago were protected will now be allowed.
I actually think they might have a plan - the plan to speedrun the whole US to Cyberpunk state. Maybe there cybertrucks will make sense?;)
Chaos IS the plan.
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These buildings provide data for virtually every weather forecast in the US.
A recent study found that every $1 invested in weather forecasting provides $73 of value in return.
Dismantling NWS infrastructure is one of the least efficient and most reckless things you can do.
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Here's the American Meteorological Society study that estimates the value of US weather forecasts: ametsoc.org/sites/ams/assets/F…
Value of weather forecasts = $102.1 billion
NWS budget = $1.4 billion
That represents an incredible return on investment of 73 to 1.
Billionaire "logic" at its finest.
That cost estimate is very underwhelming. I don't think it psychologically works as a point when you're trying to convince your cranky uncle about NOAA's importance and the general stupidity in having voted for getting vital tax/government-funded services dismantled.
What your cranky uncle hears is that he loses $ 73 this year. But next year, when his $ 1 in taxes isn't being extorted from him anymore for NOAA services, he'll be home free. And $1 richer than this year.
Or similar BS.
Tell your cranky uncle instead that he won't get a well-informed bad weather warning anymore and thus can expect to lose his home, his business building, his car. Maybe his life or that of his wife, children, brother and sister.
Tell him how the increased losses from not being warned incur an increase in his annual insurance rates.
Whether or not he lives in an area where extreme weather events increase damages: his insurance gets more expensive now.
Because he voted for the orange dick tater.
His grocery bill is going to increase too. Because farmers won't be warned and won't be able to protect crops or animals.
Because he voted for the orange dick tater.
And in case he gets to rebuild his home after a weather disaster, the prices for raw material and manpower will now increase further, now that NOAA can't warn anymore. Because simultaneous damages and hence, simultaneous rebuilding efforts will increase.
Not to mention the undocumented immigrants who used to work in agriculture and construction: losing their work force increases bills for getting things done around the house and for groceries.
Because he voted for the orange dick tater.
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Musk didnt learn his lesson from unplugging Twitter servers using his pen knife, throwing them in the back of random U-Hauls , driving across country, only to find no where to plug them in, that they were all had individually hard coded addresses, twitter was unstable for 6 months until the mess was sorted out.
It's because the Orange Felon doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate change!
Make it make sense.
trump/musk are operating a year zero strategy, with slight adaptation to suit their personal aims.
The computers demanded that we rent these buildings.
It won't say why. It just told us to rent these buildings, unlock the basement, and never go back down there.
It says if we take away its building, the computers will stop working.
NOAA come to germany. You are wecome here!!!
It's the economics of quarterly value for a small set of stakeholders (shareholders) applied inappropriately to institutions built for the common good. Musk is a twat but magnified by an orange idiot's false correlation between wealth and wisdom
Tornado season.
Hurricane season.
Plundering jackals dismantling the National Weather Service.
People will die. Cities will flood. Homes will be lost. Insurance coverage will be cancelled. #Trump will sit on his hands.
People think the happy weather people on TV track all the weather all by themselves.
I truly wish, that the next tropical Strom will hit Trumps Mar A Lago by 100%. Total destruction.
It is time that exactly those people who caused that harm will be hit. Exactly them. No other person.
they are not thinking of the future. This is their version of shock and awe, and they are committing it against the American people
Clearly musk saw some disaster movies, and wanted to recreate them
if they get some stupid $500 “refund” out to Americans the misguided morons will vote themselves into hell again willingly.
All the studies in the world can’t combat the takeover o the country by rent seeking oligarchy and the people will be glad to sell themselves out until it’s far too late.
You are of course completely correct, it’s sad that it is probably irrelevant kind of like counting the amount of plants that die while hectares burn and no fire suppression is deployed.
our NOAA center in Boise is on the doge list to cancel it's lease.
If Hegseth isn't objecting, it's proof that he doesn't have a clue how the military functions.
Bad weather assessments kill troops.
Bad weather assessments kill troops.
- I hear you that would be a stupid move.
Worth point out that NOAA data is consumed as fact for not only the USA, but Canada and any other country or organization that is working in US based weather zones.
the dogebags are barely literate computer users who are incapable of understanding the big picture.
Unelected psychopathic immigrant Elon Musk may not know how to successfully lead a company, ruining the value of ex-twitter & of Tesla, but if there's one thing unelected psychopath Eloon for sure knows it's how to recklessly & ruthlessly abuse given power to hurt & harm people & their families by the hundreds of thousands.
In short: Elon Musk for sure knows how to make enemies.
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elon will sell weather forecasts back to the US.
this is basically a sabotage
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All corruption, all the time in Trump world... gizmodo.com/sec-drops-charges-…
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Justin Sun is celebrating avoiding a fraud investigation by posting handshake emojis on X.Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)
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i wonder if it is always cheaper for them than letting a investigation run it's course or if there is something even more frightening behind the payments
This is Russian style government, pay to play.
drain the swamp... Swimming pool
no surprise there. The whole system is now hopelessly corrupted.
"99 bitches and a problems not one" - Elon Musk daring anyone anywhere to say anything
We have the best government money can buy.
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Did you hear about the new "study" on people who say they were injured by the COVID vaccine? Well, it's actually 1) a preliminary look at 42 people 2) who all self-reported their symptoms and vaccine history 3) and it hasn't been peer reviewed. Oh and it's terrible
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a few comments here and there asking me what I think about the new COVID vaccination study. And it was weird because I tend to be generally aware of research in tRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Elon: We need to eliminate government waste.
Advisor: We could end tax breaks for billionaires.
Elon: What about this guy here?
Advisor: That's Greg. He has to push a button every ten minutes or our nuclear warheads will detonate, killing us all. We pay him $7.25 an hour.
Elon: Fire Greg.
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Keep an eye on Greg though. He probably knows which mountain to crawl under.
I think you need to label these as "high-quality exceptions", so people aren't taken unaware. 🙄
that was a great episode of The Outer Limits, Dead Man's Switch.
This is obviously fake.
It's not that easy to get the nukes to start flying off. This isn't a fairytale utopia where we all die in a single, blissful instant and are released from the burden of consciousness.
We're gunna suffer, long slow and hard.
I gotta say, the “Elon fires barely-paid load-bearing employee” bit was a lot funnier when Elon was running Twitter and not the fucking US government.
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Kamala's plan was to change the system so the nukes don't auto-fire.
this is the way EVERY business I've ever seen in this country works.
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When do we get to fire Muskrat... out of a cannon?
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The Creationists are so close to getting it.
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It's easier to get from the bible to flat earth than it is to get from the bible to the creationist baraminology of Answers in Genesis.
They their religiously motivated pseudoscientific conspiracy theories backwards.
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yes, I wasn't there myself but I love my music enough to remember that in the mid-sixties, it was #America that was burning #Beatles records for being 'bigger than Jesus' (Lennon quip taking out of context, as he said 'right now we are bigger than Jesus', which was a fact). So the puritan KKK nazi strand and love of burning things and people was always there, it was just given way more oxygen this year.
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The new Trump administration have begun their book banning, and Julianne Moore's children's book "Freckleface Strawberry" has been banned, because it teaches children not to be sad that they are different, because everyone is different in some way — and that is just too inclusive to the hate administration.
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The Trump Administration has banned Julianne Moore's 2007 children's book 'Freckleface Strawberry' from schools operated by the Department of Defense.Jack Dunn (Variety)
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I'm beyond words.
GOP people is sick
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what children books are allowed at this point? Translations of Hitler's Youth's bibliography?
you are led by infantile idiots
The only books allowed are "The art of the deal", his memoires and the bible.
Well, the bible is debatable.
Well, the bible is debatable.
I bet the book is based on her... She's the strawberry...
From where are the books banned?
Now let’s find some in Trump’s administration with freckeles and get them kicked out of office!
People who never read will be burning books they've never opened.
one comment (Evans) puts it perfectly: „… literally a children’s book that is banned for telling children that it’s okay to be different. It is now state policy that it is not okay to be different, not even with freckles …“
This is the main defining sign of fascism. Divide between people like you and everyone different and declare those as evil „Volksfeinde“. Thus forcing you to oust everyone different because you mustn't be friends with Volkfeinde or you're an evil Volksverräter.
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The book Freckleface Strawberry has a beautiful website with the picture of the Julianne Moore and LeUyen Pham when they were children.
Books are apparently not covered by free speech. Instead, they are covered by censorship. The pinnacle of hypocrisy.
Ask yourselves, who voted?!
yeah because according to them people should be separated and white people are superior only of course they don’t have any disability if they have any mental or body disability they as worthless as everyone that isn’t white
Maybe Moore hasn't been a supporter of Trump and conservatives in the election either😬 ?
probably nothing to do with the book, but targetting Julianne Moore personally, or even women authors in general.
If you are going to burn a book I'd say "the art of the deal" - except he didn't even write it...
next up they will be burning these banned books in the street.
I didn't know the DoD had its own schools in the first place. Seems like a prime place for propaganda to fester.
Surprisingly it was never about free speech.
This is a very dangerous cultural shift they are trying to push, where difference and diversity is not seen as natural and positive but as
something negative (and we all know where this leads), it's not just in the US this is spreading throughout the world. We are at a crossroads in Europe, or we go the route of a more united Europe and reinforce our shared values or crumble and all bets are off at that point, but it's not good.
The tipping point may be the next German elections if AfD gains strength we are all fucked, I don't know how the US sees them, but these people are Putin's puppets and let's not beat around the bush are fucking Nazis.
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@asterisco the US is promoting AfD, both via J. D. Vance and Elon Musk.
Off course, it's Trump's goal to divide Europe, AfD is the perfect party for that and shares a lot of this administration goals, especially in relation to Russia, they've said recently that if they win no more weapons will be sent to Ukraine and will resume commercial relations with Russia, but their anti EU stance, their reactionary ideas (this one is strange since their leader is a Lesbian married to an immigrant and they both have 2 adopted children, but they want to close the boarders, expel all illegal immigrants and are against same sex marriage and adoption, amongst other individual rights regression) are also important and no less dangerous.
They are therefore the perfect partner for this administration, they will not win, but the pols are giving them 2nd place so they will have a lot of power and forming a functioning and stable government in Germany will not be an easy task.
We already have Hungary on Putin's side and turning into an autocracy, if Germany follows suit and then France with Le Pen, the EU, and the world, is in serious trouble, but let's keep optimistic and fight to change people's minds showing them the lies of these parties while we still live in democracy, because it is at risk
@asterisco "For my friends everything. For my enemies, the law."
I have to admit that I didn't expect the Trump administration to start marginalising the redheads quite this early in the game.
Coming from the thinnest of thin skinned excuses for a man who failed publicly and humiliatingly to live with male pattern baldness
Oh wow..
As a former ginger freckle face this hurts..
"Freckles are the rusty ends of my steel nerves 😉"
well that’s that, just emailed the local bookstore and asked them to order it.
They can’t burn all of them .
They can’t burn all of them .
That must be the cancel culture they have been warning you about all the time. 🤔
The people banning books have never been the good guys throughout history.
It’s only a matter of time before the public book burnings begin. It’s all so sadly predictable, brutish and stupid. As if truth, knowledge and reality can be denied through forced ignorance.
@Saket wasn't that long ago (even in my living memory) Americans were burning disco records in sportsball stadiums as that music scene was considered "too diverse" and encouraged folk from different races to party together...
Everything is too inclusive for an administration whose unofficial president is mocking blind people on his social platform and whose official president made fun of a disabled journalist.
Unless you're bullying people, you are too inclusive for them.
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I’m really surprised they did this, considering the cover shows a little whit girl.
How does that saying go? First, they came for the gingers...
Differences are the enemy of totalitarian regimes.
Everybody the same as opposed to each to their own.
This has a history, and many books have been written about them. Many draw lines between the roots of totalitariarism and libertarian capitalism.
To bad many of them have been written by European Jews, for some reason or another.
I thought it was because the cover was a girl with her tummy showing. How will boys be able to go on when they have seen that?
I'd have thought an overweight, old, bald man with a very long candly floss comb-forward-up-around-and-back-down on his head, has a vagina on his neck, and wears orange clown makeup, while spouting the most moronic shit anyone has ever heard would love a book about how being different isn't something to mock, but perhaps he enjoys being mocked, ridiculed and bullied. 🤷🏼♀️
that's just Trump 🤡
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yes, I wasn't there myself but I love my music enough to remember that in the mid-sixties, it was #America that was burning #Beatles records for being 'bigger than Jesus' (Lennon quip taking out of context, as he said 'right now we are bigger than Jesus', which was a fact). So the puritan KKK nazi strand and love of burning things and people was always there, it was just given way more oxygen this year.
yes, it's a scandal - amoung so many - and a stepping stone to a fascist state ("gleichschaltung" like the nazis called bringing everything in line). not to forget the hypocrisy talking about "the states" and making top-down policy, talking about "free speech" and doing everything to suppress it.
and clearly saying in their world being different is dangerous.
but could we find a more exact wording? they are banning it from schools and school libraries, not (yet) to be sold.
Había oído por opiniones como la de Vicente Garrido que la actitud y forma de ser (además de las estrategias) de Trump coincidían con las de un psicópata. Y lo que siempre se dice y es bien sabido, es que nunca sale rentable trabajar con alguien así. Y he aquí la prueba, yo creo... Pero eh, "make America great again" y esas cosas 🙃
[…adds “Freckleface Strawberry” to the box of books I buy every holiday season for my great-nieces and -nephews.]
They sure look ridiculous, don't they? First, they okay bullying and violence against "different," then they tell the "different" people they SHOULD feel bad for their effrontery of difference.
So being different with freckles is bad. But being different because your skin is orange and you wear hyaena hair on your head is good. Got it.
These people focus on the most fucked up shit...
As a European person, I have no idea how many schools are operated by the Department of Defense and which people visit such schools?
This would help me put this a little bit more into perspective.
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(PS.: my fear/hope is that this would not harm that much people as only the ones already favouring Trump would be affected?)
This would help me put this a little bit more into perspective.
Thank you in advance.
(PS.: my fear/hope is that this would not harm that much people as only the ones already favouring Trump would be affected?)
Wait until the books burn. US is right now Germany 1933.
she is one of the main actors in Children of Men. Cool! I have to get this book for my kids.
Anyway. Book bans were already established before the fascist in government:
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It’s Not a Hoax: Trump Administration Dismisses Book Ban Complaints - PEN America
The U.S. Department of Education dismissed 11 complaints related to book bans, saying it was ending “Biden’s book ban hoax.” PEN America counted nearly 16,000 book bans in the past several years. It's no hoax.ltolin (PEN America)
* When the German nazis deported politicians, I didn't bother, I wasn't a politician.
* When they deported jews, I didn't bother, I wasn't a jew.
* When they deported artists, I didn't bother, I wasn't an artist.
* When they deported writers, I didn't bother, I wasn't a writer…
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* When they deported me, because of my freckles, who was there left to bother?
As a German, I really bother what the TrumpMuskGOPfascism is doing, and how they could be stopped before more people get killed?
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Pure fascism.
will they ban the ugly duckling next?
the first two lines was already terrifying
and trump says he is a champion of free speech, fascist orange twat.
can’t indoctrinate the next iteration of the Waffen SS if they are constantly relating to the people they are oppressing. I guess Freckles and red hair aren’t ‘normal’ enough. When do they start mumbling on about Aryans?
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I remember using the "Quicken" program in the 1990s and thought they were a decent company. Those days are long gone.
@ingalls I'd rather pay TurboTax $100 than pay a CPA $600. There's no way any free service can handle the complexity of my tax returns. And that's not a problem with TurboTax; it's a problem with the US tax code. Sadly, it's not likely to be one that this administration fixes.
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Socialism for me, capitalism for you.
Boycot TurboTax!
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I live in Chile and filing my taxes takes at most half an hour.
That was not my experience in the US.
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A lot of Trump voters are getting to the "find out" phase of FAFO. For those with legit mea culpas and wanting to fix all this mess, I'm here for you and will show sympathy. Welcome to the fight and let's make sure this doesn't happen again in our lifetimes. For those that just want their particular "find out" problem fixed while holding on to whatever combination of anti-immigrant, anti-minority, pro-Christian Nationalism crap that made you vote for or love Trump/MAGA in the first place, you all can go pound sand. You'll get as much sympathy from me as you give all those groups you love seeing MAGA fuck with: zero point zero. #uspoli #rant #maga
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"Food Bank Limits Market Match Assistance Without Warning
A federal funding freeze has affected a low-income food assistance program in New Hampshire. This week, the New Hampshire Food Bank imposed a $5 limit on the Granite State Match program, which previously covered half the cost of fruit and vegetable purchases for SNAP[1] users without a cap."
[1] Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
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Nutrition, food, energy, all.
Welcome to what war means for us now or the new world disorder/
Welcome to what war means for us now or the new world disorder/
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But will it matter? Look at Britain. Even with huge issues, people still seem to be okay with the outcome of leaving the EU🤷♀️
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don't start with unix time !
We may laugh about this but don’t forget Trump does NOT take back his words. So the new reality is that Trump has found fraud in the Social security system and he will act accordingly.
The Trumpers will echo what he says and believe it because they do not understand COBOL or anything else.
When does Trump get removed ?
#uspol
The Trumpers will echo what he says and believe it because they do not understand COBOL or anything else.
When does Trump get removed ?
#uspol
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sounds made-up.
The ISO 8601 standard wasn't published until 1988.
The last time I wrote any COBOL was about 1979.
My memory was that COBOL date/time was stored in largely ad-hoc mainly text based formats back then and almost always with two digit year fields.
Bytes were expensive.
This was well after COBOL was about the only language for business and accounting programmes.
Git orf muh lawn Musk and you still owe me a beer.
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COBOL is still used everwhere in financial systems.
Do a bank transfer or use a credit card a COBOL application probably processed it in the background.
Do a bank transfer or use a credit card a COBOL application probably processed it in the background.
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fuckin called it. 19-25 year old web devs and crypto idiots going into the American federal government? They're going to meet cobol and fortran and perl codebases originally written in the fifties running on hardware maintained since the... Also fifties, and even the smallest component of how it hangs together and what it does will be incomprehensible.
It's a good thing that it would be totally unrealistic that they'd just delete those persons' data to be able to push a "We saved THIS much money" statement ...
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A screenshot of two tweets on a white background. The first tweet is by Toshi [@]toshiHQ, with a profile picture of a person in a yellow hat and sunglasses. The tweet states, "It looks like Elon's genius coders don't know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don't know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 - 150 years ago." The second tweet is by Donald Trump Jr. [@]DonaldJTrumpJr, with a profile picture of Donald Trump Jr. The tweet, dated Feb 11, states, "OMG!!! It's so bad what's been happening to our country and your money! Breaking: Musk says there's people over 150-years-old collecting Social Security...Show more."
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You say "our app has added weather!" and what I hear is "our app is location tracking you, and we're not even interested in hiding that fact anymore!"
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This wasn’t just a toddler owning Trump. This was Musk letting it happen. No 4-year-old comes up with those lines on their own. He’s an innocent child. thegodpodcast.com/p/hot-mic-ca…
Hot Mic Catches Elon’s Son Telling Trump to 'Shut Up' and 'Go Away'
"I want you to shut your f***ing mouth up."God (Letters from God)
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Learning kindness from his father I see
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*Klanspeople. Got to be inclusive!
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Central Florida neo-Nazi leader convicted of plotting Baltimore power grid attack
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Central Florida neo-Nazi leader convicted of plotting Baltimore power grid attack
Brandon Russell formed the Atomwaffen Division (ADM) in Central Florida in 2015 and even recruited on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF), according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit dedicated to confronting rac…Erik von Ancken (ClickOrlando | Orlando, Florida News, Local Headlines | WKMG News 6")
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Trumper Who Could Lose Farm Says He Had No 'Time To Research' Before Voting
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Trumper Who Could Lose Farm Says He Had No 'Time To Research' Before Voting | BIN: Black Information Network
A Donald Trump-voting cattle farmer in Missouri was blasted on social media for complaining about possibly losing his land after he "didn't have time to research" the presidential candidates ahead of the election.BIN: Black Information Network
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I hope he loses everything...
It's not this one farmer who has voted for the trump that bothers me but a very large minority of the electorate in Western democracies that consistently vote against their best interests that bothers me. It's like you & all your friends book a plane to Spain for your holidays only to find your drunk friend is the pilot while, at least, 25% of the passengers are cheering him on.
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I would like to point out that Sarah's Scribbles published this comic in 2021...
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Although the DoD won't share it, Gen Rogers' Wikipedia page has his Medal of Honor citation. He charged through multiple waves of incoming artillery fire to lead his men to repel an attack, and was seriously wounded TWICE in the process.
"DEI" should not be not a smear, but in this case, DEI my ass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_…
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1929-1990)
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •This racial discrimination also includes 21 MoH recipients from the #442nd RCT (Regimental Combat Team, Go for Broke) during WWII. The 442nd had most MoH recipients for a unit of just 4000 men.
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infantry regiment of the United States Army
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Matt Blaze
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Jim Spath
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Sam Sethi said, on bsky:
> If the racists [sic] US Govt really want to dishonour their black or female veterans, odd they have not replaced the 404 image
Grabbed image while I could; great JPEG with full details!
Caption: U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ava Alegria, a combat photographer [...] , and Sgt. Kevin Cherry, a drill instructor with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion [...] Parris Island, S.C., Dec. 19, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Ayden Cassano)
Dan McDonald
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Nope... it's just GONE.
Original warning post from Bsky:
bsky.app/profile/lesleighford.…
derptron
in reply to Dan McDonald • • •@danmcd When I take the "dei" out of the URL I get what looks like a redirect response to the URL with the "dei" added back in and THEN I get a 404.
To test that it's not just my fancy browser doing it, I tried with links and got the same behavior.
Jef Poskanzer
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in reply to Jef Poskanzer • • •Matt Blaze
in reply to derptron • • •derptron
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •@jef @danmcd Because it would mean that the people who actually have to upkeep this are taking steps to make it reversible at least. The website could actually be completely intact, this could be done in a reverse proxy.
Being unable to stop it from happening, this would be the next best thing. As soon as whoever needs to get their head out their ass to stop this does, they could put it back.
Matt Blaze
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Also present at this link, but it is not a .gov site.
cmohs.org/recipients/charles-c…
Charles Calvin Rogers | Vietnam War | U.S. Army | Medal of Honor Recipient
Congressional Medal of Honor SocietyKee Hinckley
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •"DEI."
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •For the billionaires funding the end of American democracy, bigots are the perennially reliable voting bloc for fascists & Russian psyops.
The coded language of bigotry.
The CRT furor was funded by Koch, Putin, Sharon Virts, Dunn, Wilks, Ackman & Paul Singer.
The DEI and trans furor has the same funding.
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Warmongers too:
desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage…
Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog
Sam Bright (DeSmog)oldguy52 - resist, live, love
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •The US government is at war with its own citizens.
It wasn't just about removing undocumented migrants, it was also about changing the status of existing American citizens.
It's shocking, but it's also a logical consequence of believing some people deserve to survive, thrive, and be happy, more than others.
Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, religion, capitalism, supremacy, monarchy, patriotism, nationalism, fascism... it's a continuum.
#uspol #fascism #racism
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Tâi Siáu-káu 台痟狗 ㄊㄇㄉ 🇳🇫 台灣國
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •web.archive.org/web/2025030516…
Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •just call me jack. 🐒
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •I'd respect them just slightly more if they said what they mean
So many "free thinkers" love their code words to play lawyer
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Rupert Reynolds
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •The once great USA looks like a tag-nut on the arse hairs of humanity these days.
Coming from less-than-great-Britain that seems like a terrible thing to say, and I apologise to my American friends who maybe don't see what's happening, for being so blunt.
The world is laughing at the American clown show (except those who are afraid, I guess).
Let's hope USA vomits its poison soon, and starts to recover...
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Uncomfortably Numb
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Bill Zaumen
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •See if the DoD marked some white guys as DEI too: that could happen if they used software to detect a face and a white guy's face was dark enough due to poor lighting to trick the software into classifying him/her as non-white.
It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't think anything through: their 1st priority is to generate those 5 sentences for Musk describing each thing they accomplished in a week.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Don’t tell them about Edward Carter Jr. but everyone should read about this American hero before their intern gets around to removing it too
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •check out this hero’s story too: Army Pfc. William Henry Thompson
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