"The planned amendments to the Swiss Ordinance on the Surveillance of Postal and Telecommunications Traffic (VÜPF) and the associated implementing provisions continue to make waves. "

The headlines states it as a law - it’s a proposed law. Yes it may well go through, and yes Proton are moving beforehand to ensure it doesn’t impact them, but it’s not yet in place.

AsteroidOS is a linux based replacement for wearOS (android for watches) which is FOSS and removes all the google privacy issues.

https://asteroidos.org/

How do you attack a large number of individuals engaging in stochastic violence unconnected from each other?

The same way every oppressive regime has.

Look to history and there have been some succesful insurgencies, there’s also been a LOT of oppressed populations ground down into compliance. Random individuals operating on their own have never to the best of my knowledge achieved significant change. Groups of people working in cells to minimise infiltration and quisling risks however have.

I am glad you are optimistic, and I wish you luck in your endeavours. I certainly would like to see your fascist regime fall.

So…those with a monopoly on violence will use it ruthlessly against any disorganised violence. Have a look at Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

The only way individual citizens with small arms will have any impact on organised groups with automatic weapons, armoured vehicles artillery and air support is if they one get seriously organised in an underground fashion and two convert some of the military groups to their side.

If they don’t do both those it’ll just be massacres and wholesale internment in concentration camps. The MSM have already shown they’re happy to whitewash whats going on, so you’ll never hear about the majority of extra-judicial killings until years later if ever.

The US has about 3 months left to raise a serious resistance, otherwise the show is over and the fat lady is singing.

Because they think they have the vast majority of those institutions with the ability to inflict violence on their side.

And from where I’m sitting, it looks like they’re right

Particularly if there’s a ballot box around

Kick the can down the road and download the MASgrave Win10 script (I think that’s it, I don’t use windows) that puts you on the Long Term support - iirc that gives you until Jan 2027. That’s enough time to get through the zero parental sleep phase and be able to think clearly…

If that’s of interest I’ll dig the correct details out (ping me) or I’m sure someone else knows what I’m waffling about & will drop the link

Yes but don’t use it for anything valuable. USBs have a high failure rate when used for heavy read writes.

You can get USB enclosures for M2 drives if you want to go that route a bit more reliably. Ensure you use USB3 (which will still be slow but not as boneachingly bad as USB2)

It is there, I saw it there before I saw it here

Trump has always been a hypocrite, this is nothing new

If you want to purchase ethically then buy European owned and made as far as possible.

If not, then European made by foreign companies that weren’t actively working against the transition to EVs (yes I’m looking at you Toyota) such as Nissan Volvo and Stellantis (the latter 2 are part Euro but not fully).

Only if you can’t do that buy Toyota or Korean. Chinese as a last resort.

EU governments migrating off Amazon/Microsoft/Google and onto EU providers would go a long way towards supporting them…

If you google Tankard-Reist you’ll find it’s not a conspiracy theory - she has actively tried to block queer representation at every level in every way for decades

Seconded. I really dislike Gnome and use KDE or Cinnamon for myself and family, but for a user who has been on Macs and using it on a tablet…

Use Gnome.

TL;DR meme is wrong. It’s not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it

Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.

Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.

If you’d said “computers” it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.

Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation

Yeah. Don’t do that.

It sounds great in theory but you’ll run into issues. I put a lot of people on mint but use arch+kde for myself.

I’ve done KDE on Mint in VMs 3 times now and every time something goes wrong.

I’m no fan of ubuntu but just run up kubuntu or fedora kde. KDE neon might be a bit cutting edge. Endeavour is arch on easy mode and comes in KDE. First two for beginners, second two for those with some tech experience.

Mint out of the box rocks for new linux users, never a problem. Once you start putting it in unsupported configs you’re ditching the primary reason to recommend it (stability in the reliability sense)

Yep VZV or HSV is most likely culprit (although there’s a few others)

Edit Not likely toxoplasmosis because it’s not usually necrotising, it’s retinitising and lesions, but also not an opthamologist so what do I know either lol :-)

You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.

Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it

https://eyewiki.org/Acute_Retinal_Necrosis

Biden had a week. Trump has had 6 months. Trump campaigned on releasing it, Biden was hurriedly trying to get too much done in too little time.

If there’s Democrats on the list they should rot in hell with Trump and Epstein.

But pointing the finger at Biden is straight up deflection to protect Trump. There is no other way to view it.

Trump & Bondi have the primary culpability here. Whataboutism really only protects the Fanta Felon

There’s a clash between the tweet saying jan 2024, and the reddit post saying jan 9th 2025.

Will have to confirm