All of this fuss over various non-aligned messaging services is solely to further entrench imperial surveillance capabilities.

If it had anything to do with their usual excuses of counter-terrorism or child abuse they could just use the resources at their disposal and deal with most of it. Even when people use encrypted messaging the rest of their opsec is sloppy enough to find a way in if you’re so motivated.

Given the detention in France I think the broader context of encryption policy in the EU is relevant as well.

The EU parliament has had multiple draft laws proposed over the past few years that intend to break private communication for everyday citizens. The proposals are varied, from the inclusion of backdoors to a requirement that service providers scan all messages for “CSM” (I put this in quotes because the content they actually want to track has nothing to do with minors and everything to do with class power). IIRC the current proposal is to just break SSL entirely by forcing browsers to accept certificates issued by the EU itself.

With seemingly random “terror” attacks occurring within the EU recently I can imagine that this will once again be used as the causus belli to go after private messaging and working class access to encryption. The politically motivated detention of the founder of Telegram is almost certainly part of the broader strategy to be able to surveil the thoughts of European citizens, residents, and guests. It’s also worth noting that the founder of Telegram was already detained by some US alphabet agencies (FBI maybe?) years ago.

As if.

There’s a better chance of anti-trust legislation being changed to allow a larger degree of monopoly.

Same goes for cable. Of course you can do the minimum, but then you’re missing out on things which are heavily advertised, things your friends are talking about, etc. Of course you don’t have to but a lot of people are swayed by that.

Streaming is expensive if you want to watch all the things. Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, HBO, Disney, Apple, and who knows what else I’m missing all have original series and if you want to see something from each service you would have to subscribe to each service.

Some BIOSes have a built-in update function that can update from a BIOS file stored on a connected flash drive.

Doesn’t matter which team nominated him. A spook is a spook, anything they touch is gonna get spookified (not that any product from Silicon Valley isn’t already a fancy surveillance and propaganda system).

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

I usually look through a few reviews, both on computer journalism sites and forums for real world experiences.

This one seems perfectly sufficient, especially for the price. Won’t break any records, but it’s not supposed to. It’s better suited as a secondary storage drive though, there are better options out there in terms of an SSD to install your OS to, specifically ones with some DRAM cache and a higher TBW.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p3-ssd-review

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/crucial-p3

Ok so they’re not allowed to use Azure OpenAI, but there’s certainly a secret Microsoft department called Thin-Blue-Line ClosedAI which provides support to cops using AI for facial recognition and pre-crime.

So they’ll just start shoveling wood into coal power plants in 2030 and unfurl the “Mission Accomplished” banner.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.

Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvLsifMZIE

In this case “national security” means ensuring US intelligence affiliated companies have full access to control over everything people do with internet connected devices.

To be fair, it’s not hard to beat expectations when the expectation of the western press is “imminent collapse!!!”

Forgejo is foss fork. Gitea, while being free and open source as well for the time being, is run by a for-profit corporation now.

“Forge-yo” difficult to say?

Private property.

This reminds me in broad strokes of the thesis of Sakai’s Settlers, which is roughly contemporary. In the introduction Sakai similarly calls out social sciences like “African American studies” and “Asian American studies” for what they are, the societal position and historiography of these peoples from the perspective of the white settler. Settlers thus aims to discuss the white settler in similar terms, ie. as the subject of such “science.”