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Leraje
Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Was anybody else just burned by the Tor Browser flatpak?

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  • On the face of it, that is a massive own goal. TOR project surely has a fediverse account or a blog or something to announce these things. This should be common knowledge.

    • The Secret History by Donna Tartt - thoughts

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  • For a book that contains zero likeable characters, its an absorbing read. I chose to interpret it as a study on how the lower/middle classes are desperate to emulate the upper class, despite their obvious lack of morality.

    • ‘He’s underwater on everything:’ Fox News host breaks down Trump approval polling

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  • There's a difference between being a populist and actually representing your constituents, which is after all the job they're paid to do.

    • More SEND pupils could go to mainstream schools as support shake-up is considered

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  • Like @icerunner_origin@startrek.website I speak from experience when I say this is nothing to do with whats best for kids and all about cutting costs. Forcing kids who need an EHCP into mainstream schools and/or denying them specialist support will help no one - not the pupils, not the staff and not the school.

    But its SOP for this red tory government - they've already said they're going to target disabled people claiming PIP and now they're going to target disabled people in education.

    You might think this is because the disabled population have an outlandishly large amount of money allocated to them and its fair that they are targeted. They don't. The reason the disabled are always the first targeted by any ruler is because that ruler knows that the general population don;t give two shits what happens to disabled people.

    There'll be no protests from society about this in the way we would see if this was an environmental issue or a race issue or a gender issue so for a politician this is a win-win.

    • Why Reddit, Inc. (RDDT) Crashed on Monday

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    1. Stop giving a shit about fake internet points, they literally mean nothing.
    2. "Its dead in here" says person who never contributes anything except to complain how dead it is.

    • Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That

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  • I might actually loathe him more than Musk.

    • The most upvoted post on lemmy

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  • At the moment, apart from Russia, you might've noticed the US is going through a bit of a sticky phase with its once-friends.

    • The most upvoted post on lemmy

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  • Which will only matter if those instances are hosted in the US, which a lot aren't.

    • How do I verify Lemmy on Mastodon? (and appears green link)

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  • <link rel="me" href="https://instance.tld/@username" /> in the <head> is probably a bit tidier :)

    • The American Christian Right Is Coming To The UK

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    • Shared from MeFi: "What the size of your book collection says about you"

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  • I love the aesthetics of hardback books, a beautiful Victorian-era library looks (and smells!) great but my own library is all ebooks. I don't have the space for over 2k physical books and as I get older and my eyesight worsens, the ability to adjust font size, line-height, borders, contrast etc becomes invaluable.

    I won't buy from Amazon at all, ever. I prefer to buy DRM free but if its not possible to buy DRM free then I buy a paperback copy from a local indie bookstore if possible which I immediately donate to a library or hospital or prison or whatever and, ahem, 'source' a DRM-free version from elsewhere. I do it this way because DRM is cancer but I also want to support small and/or new authors so buying and passing on a print copy is good for everyone and having a DRM free copy is good for me.

    As for subject matter, both fiction and non-fiction but more fiction than non. I like historical novels like the Aubrey/Maturin series, or the Shardlake series, Madeline Miller's greek retellings, Hilary Mantel's stuff, fantasy/sci-f- like Ursula K Leguinn, NK Jemisin, Margaret Attwood, Robin Hobb, Lois McMaster Bujold, Susannah Clarke, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Horror/Thrillers by writers like Peter Straub, Catriona Ward, Shirley Jackson. Non-fiction books tend to be popular science that are 'popular' enough I can grasp what they're on about but 'science' enough they're not just dumbed down crap.

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  • Built in, pre-launch enshittification. Novel.

    • Ex-ambassadors give warnings over [UK] intelligence-sharing with US

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  • “strange track records”

    They're obvious Russian assets...

    “problem on the intelligence front”

    ...who will pass on the names of all our spies and assignments to Putin...

    Intelligence sharing would continue “even if at the top level there might be things we might wish to be circumspect about”.

    ...so we're going to bullshit them and not tell them the important stuff.

    • Trump doesn’t seem to know why he launched a giant trade war

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  • Techbro led gvmt - move fast, break stuff. Chaos leads to opportunity to profit, by which I mean him and his class to profit.

    • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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    • Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment?

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  • In terms of data, put TailsOS on a USB drive, configure persistent storage, download VeraCrypt over TOR, install that, encrypt everything tutorial

    What you do with the drive (or drives if you make copies) really depends. If the climate is very wet and warm where you live then storing them outside is going to need very good protection to keep them relatively cool and dry. You'd also have to find somewhere that you can absolutely guarantee isn't going to get redeveloped or otherwise built on, or conversely, knocked down/demolished for as long as you're away.

    A long term self-storage company might be an idea, or a bank vault, where you've paid for (for example) 10 years in advance. Of course that means you have to be absolutely sure the company won't go bankrupt or be seized by the corrupt regime you're hiding the data from. You'd also have to have someone else set these up in their name or it could be seized along with you. You then have to hope they don't get seized, or get dementia or die.

    If you have comrades abroad in a safer country, maybe physically mail them the drives before the corrupt regime starts noticing you? Then of course you also have to hope they can return them and haven;t forgotten, died etc.

    • It's full of spam and I should really change it by now.

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  • seitch

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  • 'Better' is relative :) is it better than using something like SearXNG? No. But for those people who insist on using Google, its better to do a proxied search than a first-hand one. Mullvad are European, are one of the very few orgs I personally think are trustable and have shown no signs of enshittification, Leta has been audited by a 3rd party - for those looking for a private Google experience this is about the best there is.

    • Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak

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  • The MMR vaccine never contained thimerosal. There were two separate claims by antivaxxers. The first was Wakefield's money making scheme to invent an alternative MMR vaccine by claiming the existing MMR vaccine caused autism.

    The second, entirely separate, claim was that thimerosal in other vaccines was also causing autism.

    The two claims then got conflated into a general 'vaccines == bad' by idiots like Kennedy, Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and a whole quack industry of autism 'cures' such as chelation, HBOT etc.

    • Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery

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  • Leaving notes...committing genocide, yeah they're interchangeable really.