Rarely. I would say that about 19/20 pages work as expected. I do keep a manually hardened Firefox install on my device for the rare site that I do want to visit but that doesn’t load in IronFox for some reason. In my experience, VPN breaks the internet more than IronFox does. And I still want to use VPN.
You could say that it was showing a reflection of the sky.
The EU will need to form a proper federal state or be torn apart in the persistent attacks of the other major world powers that actively try to prevent just that unification.
This is tragic and evil and another good reason to talk about intellectual property rights and ownership, but I am smirking a bit reading this article, as I can’t shake the feeling that Arnold Schwarzenegger paid for it. Two screenshots from Judgement Day, and a title card for the movie at the bottom of this article 🤭?
Edit: bemusement about the Governator aside, I think this should be really straight forward to regulate. I remember the EU passing regulation a few years back that it only counts as a purchase online when you have to click something that clearly says “Purchase” or “pay now” and not, for example, click a nondescript link or “continue” button. IANAL but I could see similar regulation saying “if it’s called ‘buy’ or another term that implies permanent ownership, it must be permanent and can’t be revoked. Otherwise, the company must call it ‘rent’ or sth along those lines”.
We’re moving to a world where the law requires you to be profiled in order to participate.
Chilling!
Another sad demonstration that Signal, while much preferable over non-encrypted messages, still hard-links your social graph to your phone number, which is often tied to your identity.
Le texte suivant est en anglais. Avertissement concernant le contenu: violence sexuelle.
In agreement with OOP that, sadly, this will almost certainly enable more prison rapes of trans women than it might prevent prison rapes of cis women… but isn’t this shifting back and forth the blame besides the point? The punitive system in most countries has a rape problem. The perpetrators are mostly men. However, most men have never raped anyone and most men never will. Protecting both cis and trans women is good, and I understand how it’s decently convenient to separate prisoners just by gender or sex, but this completely ignores prison rape by males of males. The following might be a super naive idea taken directly from cheater servers in online video games, but how about a dedicated ‘rapist prison’? Naive suggestion: When you are caught committing sexual or other severe violence against another fellow human in the punitive system two times, you serve the rest of your sentence in a dedicated ‘rapist prison’. Now, I’m not saying that this place should be unsupervised: Exactly the opposite! The ‘rapist prison’ could receive extra staff, both for direct (more guards) and indirect (more social workers) prevention. However, inmates will still perceive being sent to that place (where there’s always a bigger rapist than you) as a threat, which may discourage a lot of future prison rapists from becoming exactly that. As always, decisions can be disputed in court, e.g., if a prisoner feels like they have been wrongfully sent to that place.
I mean: Putting aside for a moment the bigger questions of 1) whether a punitive system heavily influenced by Abrahamic religions that prioritizes the atonement of an individual’s sins directed against a universal moral authority is a good system, instead of a system focusing on compensation of the victim, like in the earliest documented legal system, and 2) how we can move from a system of punishment towards a system of rehabilitation.
Thanks for the detailed timeline. I seem to remember that my watch stopped connecting to the server and I found a lot of mostly negative press about the acquisition, so I kinda stopped following it. I also didn’t really have the capacity to get into the weeds of it. Good to hear that it was not as bad as I perceived it at that time, after all.
Grundsätzlich wichtiges Thema. Bedrückend, wie das immer wieder gepusht wird!
Ich bekomme ein leichtes Störgefühl beim Wording von Punkt 2 des 5 Punkte Plans. Wie soll die Umsetzung aussehen?
Ansonsten top: Mehr Personal, crawler und proaktiv Material löschen lassen, mehr Aufklärung, Nicht-öffentliche Profile by default.
Pebble is back?! I used to have one, back in the day and was super happy with it. Then it was swallowed and shut down by Fitbit to reduce competition… Best thing about it was: it actually had watchglass, so it was impact proof and water resistant, while also looking elegant. I don’t need a touch screen on my wrist: Give me a versatile, intuitive button layout and a watch that I don’t need to replace every half year!
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They have physical buttons and promise a long battery life. The reason being, Migicovsky personally hates having to routinely remove his smartwatch to charge it.
I love this man.
Of course not. My head is spinning because I don’t want to accuse anyone here of not acknowledging Gaza at least as a Palestinian quasi-state. Hitler systematically killing Jews in the pre-1939 borders -> genocide NOT war. Hitler systematically killing Jews in Poland, France, Romania, etc., etc., etc., -> genocide AND war. That doesn’t change anything about genocide being terrible in both cases. Allied troops marching onto Berlin: War but definitely not genocide. I repeat: Are y’all saying that Israel is not violating a territorial border when marching troops into Gaza? Because it does feel like that’s what y’all’re saying. I don’t really know what we are discussing here. All I’m saying is: There can be war and genocide without taking away from the other somehow. What is the point of saying that there were no war in Gaza? If one accepts for a second that there were no war in Gaza - just genocide: Who benefits from mis labeling it as a war, independent of calling it a genocide?
As for your point about resistance in Nazi Germany: I acknowledge that the distinction between local resistance and a civil war is a threshold argument, which are infamously hard to resolve. Resistance in Nazi Germany certainly didn’t have enough broad public support to call it a civil war. However, even if your argument is that Palestinian resistance against Israel were inconsequential, not calling it a war feels dangerously close to not recognizing Gaza at least as a quasi-state. If not war then how is invasion? Returning to my point above.
Of course Hitler invading and occupying Poland was an act of war, which enabled the genocide there. He couldn’t have committed genocide in Poland without first conquering it. I’m not saying there is no genocide in Gaza, I’m saying: It can be a war and a genocide at the same time. While not always, genocide is often enabled by war. What’s lost by calling it a war, independently of calling it a genocide?
I don’t think the Armenian genocide would’ve occurred without the Balkan wars and WW1; in this terrifying scale, anyway. However, quite like the genocide of Jews, Sinti, Roma, and other minorities in Germany at the hand of the Nazis, the Ottoman forces didn’t need to invade anywhere to commit these atrocities within their own empire. Steep argument: Doesn’t it deny Palestinian statehood to say that Israel were not leading a war on Gaza?
Hmm. I still don’t quite catch that argument. While there have been far more casualties on the Palestinian side than on the Israeli side, I can’t see how there isn’t an “Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, …”. Even if you argue that the Palestinian people does not currently exert sufficient and organized government control over a territory to qualify as a state, then it would still be a revolutionary war or a war of independence. Just because such an endeavor has not been successful yet doesn’t imply the struggle isn’t real. Genuinely trying to understand how calling it a “war” is false. As one counterexample, were the acts of the French Résistance in WW2 not part of the war, because they lacked central organization?
Sry, I don’t understand the red boxing here: Are you saying the word “war” in the summary downplays the word “genocide” in the title? Both can be true: You can have a genocide during and as a part of a war. Also, if any, the title is more visible than the summary, no? Placing more emphasis on the “genocide” part than the “war” part. Are you arguing that whatever is going on in Gaza right now does not qualify as a war at all? I had always thought that referring to the situation as a “war” and not just as a “crisis” or whatever strengthened the Palestinian cause, because “war” implies two opposing nation states, which implicitly recognizes Palestinian statehood; a thing that some western states are quite candid about.
Is interactive cinema making a comeback?
5 lines in and it reads like slop.
Connections Puzzle #1110
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Concentration camps != Extermination camps. The nazis had both. They also did forced sterilization in those camps. But the latter camps also had gas chambers.
The US interned American Natives / American Indians and Japanese people in concentration camps. At least for the former group, they also carried out forced sterilization, settled and exploited their land, and stole their children away for “re-education”. They did not build gas chambers or any other means of industrial slaughter, but few people would deny that the US committed genocide against the Native population of that continent.
It’s well documented that contraception, sterilization, and possibly abortion, are forced upon the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. Uyghur people but not Han Chinese are being interned in concentration camps in, at the time, the “largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war” (Guardian, 2019). Uyghur children are being transfered to boarding schools against the will of their parents and guardians, or because those have been interned for having too many children in the first place. Multiple Chinese government officials have repeatedly affirmed the goal of reducing Uyghur fertility. At a minimum, this constitutes 3 out of the 5 possible criteria for a genocide, each of which alone is sufficient to make that accusation. We have not yet seen mass killing of Uyghurs, but that doesn’t mean there’s no genocide. As has been said in this discussion: “We know what genocide looks like.” Exactly: It commonly looks quite like this.
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There is LibreLynx Lite on F-Droid, but it is very bare bones. Do not recommend, especially while IronFox exists.