Babalugats

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Babalugats ,

I didn't take much from it, but one thing that surprised me is that they seem to think Europe is more pro Zionist than USA weirdly.

Not the governments, the people specifically.

Babalugats ,

Nothing to do with illegal, you want your privacy kept intact and your data to be your own. Data can be used in millions of ways to manipulate you, cheat you out of your hard earned cash and affect you psychologically.
Don't forget, many VPN's are owned by the same companies that own the review sites and are about as trustworthy as an Israeli ceasefire.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/3-companies-control-many-big-name-vpns-what-you-need-to-know/

https://cyberinsider.com/vpn-review-websites-owned-by-vpns/

https://cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/

Babalugats ,

Worried about the children while protecting thousands of paedophiles that raped children.
(The governments, not discord)

Regardless, fuck discord and instead of "threatening" an exodus, why doesn't everybody register with xmpp or mumble and figure it out from there.
Crazy staying on discord from here on.

Babalugats ,

The problem with steam is that it will eventually go the same way.

At the moment the internet is being used by big tech similar to a sheepdog rounding up sheep. Hopefully most will refuse this and move platform, that platform will eventually attempted to be broken down and register a few more users etc.
If you have younger siblings or kids, they're fucked.
Unless you educate them about their privacy and how important it is.

Babalugats ,

Yeah, but if accounts are made on mumble for example, the migration will happen there quicker.
Then if that doesn't suit many, others are an option.
I'm guessing whichever platform benefits from this will happily make any changes that are currently missing.

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I think Zulip and Kahla do, not sure about which others, but a quick visit to each site should let you know whatever you need.

Babalugats ,

A few mentioned here, with them recommending mumble

https://alternativeto.net/software/discord-app/?origin=eu

Babalugats ,

Seeing as everything else in the notification seems to be about money, I'm guessing 0.3 dollars.

Surprised they didn't suggest getting another delivery driver for half price to bring it the rest of the way.

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How much faith does anyone have in the EU Commission?

I have very little.

The very fact that these companies are allowed 'privileged access' to the commission disgusts me.

Lobbying in all of it's forms should be banned, it 100% goes against our supposed democracy.

Babalugats ,

Doubt it was most grandparents.
Somebody trying to keep the pot stirring.

Babalugats ,

What?

Babalugats OP ,

Thanks will give it a try

Babalugats OP ,

Thanks will look at regex

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They must love being paid monthly for it too.
Or is the ring doorbell a yearly sub? 🤷

Paying for the device to be spied upon is one thing, but paying a subscription to be continuously spied upon is another.

Carrying it around in our pockets and bringing it everywhere we go, is another thing altogether..

Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE deported him ( www.independent.co.uk )

Last month, federal officials allegedly deported one of the suspects in a massive 2022 jewelry heist in Southern California where thieves made off with $100 million in merchandise, in what prosecutors have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history. ...

Babalugats ,

"Anger as suspect in ＄100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE paid for and aided his getaway."

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I have no issues with Libretorrent, but I don't download a lot on Android.
What about Gopeed?

https://github.com/GopeedLab/gopeed

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John Carter.

I still hope for the sequel to be made.
I guess Disney were too busy securing the rights to star wars in the background that they didn't even market it in Europe. Never saw anything promoting it.

WhatsApp Clone... But Decentralized and P2P Encrypted Without Install or Signup

NOTE: This is still a work-in-progress and far from finished. It is free to use and not sold or monetized in any way. It has NOT been audited or reviewed. For testing purposes only, not a replacement for your current messaging app. I have open source examples of various part of the app and im sure more investigation needs to be ...

Babalugats ,

I think this got buried under a lot of Trump/Greenland/ICE posts, hopefully it gains some traction.
It looks great.

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Just keep using it. Ask questions, post solutions, as time goes on they will be more relevant.

Post everything here.

Today I Learned is a good one for old info, as people post repetitive stuff all of the time, so when people look up an unusual fact etc.. They get brought straight to one of those.

DIY, Woodworking, hobbies etc. and all the main things that people want to look up.

Babalugats ,

"increase all the prices citing inflation"

"Brag about record profits"

While governments do nothing to limit it and help the people.

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But.
Are you saying fuck Israel because they refer to Palestinians as animals and uneducated - and slaughtered them.

Or are you saying fuck Israel because they claim to be educated and civilised, but the only way that they could deduce a solution was to slaughter them.

Or are you saying fuck Israel because they assumed both but instead of trying to educate what they perceived as uneducated animals with their educated knowledge, they decided to slaughter them.

I mean.. it's very possible (and seems like) Israel is just run by stone age fucks and can only see one solution.

Or, finally, are you saying fuck Israel because they didn't care anyway, and just decided to slaughter tens of thousands of innocent people?

Babalugats ,

It's more likely that it's based out of Israels decision to be cunts or savages.

I don't think we need to argue or even discuss which one.

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This community: Europe needs to wake up and break free from depending on others and keep as much as possible in house and become self reliant.

(Europe brokers a trade deal with Latin America)

This community: OMG this is terrible for our farming sector and not great for the rainforests that the world depends on.

Babalugats ,

Most of their headphones are made in China.
You can search by country, brand or product HERE

For example Sennheiser Products made in China (69)

Sennheiser Products sorted by category and by country they are made in

Sennheiser Products made in Germany
 (38) and Ireland (3) and Romania (14) and United Kingdom (4)

Take the site with allowances for discrepancies and some issues on the site itself, or example searching product type and then digging deeper to find more info.

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But then where will all of the backhanders come from?
For example, privacy is not a God given right, it's something that we should have to fight tooth and nail for - according to these same people that are currently fighting to monetise our privacy and 'eyeing' the freezing of a trade deal that they have probably already been paid half for, for agreeing to it in principal.
Many of them, themselves fighting to clear their names of taking payments for agreements or contracts be they Pfizer, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other mainly US company. They, nor their children or grandchildren will be held accountable or even have to deal with whatever comes as a result of this. So realistically don't care.
Denmark citizens might get lucky with some deal that exempts them from all sorts of bullshit coming down the line that we won't know about until it's far too late.

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They 'captured' the crap out of her.

Babalugats ,

dbzero0 breaks rule 7.

Maybe Im Missing Something, But What Does Kidnapping Maduro Accomplish?

This isnt chess. The government and military are still intact, the VP seems vehemently against rolling over, it just pisses off America's enemies more and lets them know that kidnapping a head of state is now on the table and they'd better close the Kidnapping Gap and be more ready for that possibility and look into how to do it ...

Babalugats ,

Trumps plan is to legally takeover much of the oil reserves, with Maduro out of the way he thought it would be easier to bribe the remaining government to go along with it.
Trump also thinks that the rest of the world won't really care - in the long run - about this. He may be right in that one, people have short memories, and that once it's done the ramifications will be minimal. Again, he may be correct on that.

The problem now for him in the present, is whether or not he can convince the rest of the world that the president of the country with the most oil reserves in the world ($303bn worth) is more into organising drug runs instead of oil.
If he can't convince everyone of that, he'll probably still run with it.
He was president when Epstein was found dead and probably still claims it was suicide, regardless that nobody on the planet believes that.

Babalugats ,

No, when I say 'Trump ' I am referring to the US government. I intertwined the two with the reference to Epstein but there were enough involved in that anyway.
The main thing is that they will get away with it because people have short memories and don't really care enough to begin with.

This is from 2019 - https://streamff.com/v/626db426

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Hopefully within 2026 we can start to refer to phones as 'Android/Google Phones', 'iPhones' and 'FOSS Phones' -
No longer referring to them as 'DeGoogled'.

But I am 100% understanding why we use the term now, it came from a Reddit sub. I think (and hope) if we start using the alternative term - FOSS Phones or Open Source or Sailfish/Jolla or whatever else they are.. that people will start looking at that option quicker.

DeGoogled sounds to many like it is a bit of work to get rid of google (Buying a google phone and having to remove it). At one stage that was true, custom roms etc.

But I am hoping at this stage anyone buying any of these phones will already know why they are choosing them over other brands.

Spotify subscriptions should be boycotted as if it were a US-based company

I was shocked to learn that Spotify was headquartered in Sweden. Until I read about Spotify and their CEO I had assumed they were based in America because to me they were just like all the other big tech companies in terms of lack of morals and ethics. ...

Babalugats ,

Would we call Apple an Irish company because they evade taxes in Ireland?

You've lost me there. I won't disagree with your points, but I am curious...

Spotify was created and built in Sweden by Swedish people. I know nothing about what you are referring to regarding the far right and Joe Rogan etc. - I have heard of him, but I do not know anything about him, what he looks like or what he has actually said about anything. I do know that (I think) he is very far right in his opinion.

But...
Can the far left or whoever are the opposite of these extreme politics not just pay for advertisements or produce popular content etc. on the same platform, would spotify take their money, allow their content for profit?

Or

Are spotify exclusively working and promoting the far right?

I don't agree with shutting down somebody or something because you don't agree with them or it.
I believe it could be far more effective and better for everyone if you explain why you think somebody is wrong in what they are saying, and what way you think it would be better to do something that they are talking about.

The Irish government allowing Apple, Google, Amazon and other big tech to not pay any taxes whilst not really helping the country as a whole is a good reason for the Irish to dislike them, but they (the government) believe that the employment - and more importantly the money that they bring to them is more important than their countries future. It will not be 20 years before they have all pulled out and left Ireland like one of the barren states in the U.S., devoid of employment, with both Dublin and Cork falling into Urban decay.

It is possible to agree with a little bit of one and little bit of the other, and a lot of neither.
No point in silencing one to make your voice louder. Just make your points better.

Babalugats ,

I do thank platforms should take a stance against disinformation.

Definitely. That should be enforced more. Companies should be fined every time they allow their platform to be used to spread disinformation. €1 for every person believed to have read/listened/viewed something.
If 500,000 people viewed it and it spread to millions, then obviously the larger effect should have a deeper reach into their pockets.

Babalugats ,

Christ, Badenoch doesn't do too badly on that. It must pay to be stupid.

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Get this on F-Droid is one solution.

https://abertschi.github.io/ad-free/landing/