You love to see it. These fucks are so used being world bully that they never bothered to consider that Iran would be able to meaningfully resist. I’m assuming that they started believing their own propaganda about the Middle East being “backwards” and other racist, orientalist drivel.
100%. If it weren’t them, it would be someone else. Plus, I’m fairly confident the whole “Track AIPAC” thing exists just to launder other Zionist bribes.
“Israel” needs to end. Pack up all the settlers and ship them back where they came from, and hand the land back to the Palestinians.
This. I don’t see why “no buttons” is supposed to be appealing? I’d much prefer only buttons, no touchscreen.
At that price you’re better off just buying a Kobo and installing KOReader. I like the idea of it being open source, but a 6" screen is pretty standard these days.
I think successful stylometry would require either a known target (whose writing can be compared to suspected accounts), or a public body of work to compare to. I think this poses the greatest risk to say, known authors writing something anonymously on the side. For the average individual, I think avoiding social media or posting anything written under your government name is probably sufficient. If you’re a known target, obviously your threat model changes drastically.
Half want to kill us and the other half don’t care if we die.
I’d been using Windows forever and always stuck to the “rule of two”: I skipped Vista and Windows 8, and was holding out to see if a Windows 12 was going to happen. When it didn’t, I jumped ship to Linux. 11 took everything I hated about 10 and made it all worse, and that’s without even considering all the telemetry. I’d already started using open source software, so that only made it easier to switch.
And for the record, my hardware was plenty new enough to install 11. But boy is it zippier with Linux! Just goes to show how much bloat Windows has. I have to use 11 on my work machine and I hate every minute of it.
It’s definitely all three, but I just want to point out that Cuba I believe has more doctors per capita than any other country and sends medical aid all over the world. They developed their own Covid vaccine because they had no access to the others thanks to the blockade. It’s not like they have nothing to offer.
I hope so. If they’d been able to keep the missiles the Soviets had stationed there, they wouldn’t be in this mess.
I’m really hoping I never have to do this, but congrats to you on figuring it out. I intend to keep my “dumb” appliances going as long as possible, but the unavoidable ones have me a little worried. I’ve seen HVAC filters with Bluetooth in them now for fuck’s sake!
It’s how it’s marketed to the public, though I do not disagree.
I’m really curious as to whether this will impact the build out of the surveillance state, particularly in regards to Flock and other ALPRs. Or is a phone’s location history somehow sacrosanct while an image on a camera is not?
Doubtful. All they have to do is cry “terrorism” and they’re allowed to do whatever they want.
I’m feeling pretty justified in sticking with Wacom. I only replaced my first tablet because it had a 4:3 aspect ratio and a serial port. (I could’ve lived with the latter, but the aspect ratio was making things skewed on a modern display.)
Google doing the CIA’s bidding as per usual. I’m glad it’s an option for people outside the US.
Yeah, I was pretty disgusted as well. If I was on the fence before, that definitely clinched it for me. I only wish I hadn’t renewed recently.
Emphasis on “over the internet”. Mullvad and others also accept cash via mail, though obviously that can take weeks depending on where you’re mailing it from.
I’ve been reading Finkelstein’s book about Gaza, and it’s really struck me pretty hard how the major difference between the situation 20 years ago and now is how the media landscape has changed. It’s pretty clear to me that all the bluster about children on social media and ID verification is just an attempt to return to those days.