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Re:A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:21AM (#50030527)
The Party that the Mullvad CEO donated to, and which Tor objects to, has this in their party program (https://web.archive.org/web/20260914062240/https://www.orebr...):

* Focus on more public surveillance

* Leverage the full intelligence capabilities of the state to detect and identify individuals involved in or associated with organized crime.

* Law enforcement authorities have the right to employ wiretapping, surveillance, extensive undercover operations, and preventive detention in cases involving an individual flagged as active within or around [organized crime].

* proactively blacklist and red-flag criminals, preventing them and their relatives from committing crimes altogether, restricting their ability to contact other criminals, access their assets and transfer/receive money (and a bunch of other things)

Does this seem compatible woth TOR and it's values?

(hilauriously the same party, as they're populists, are completely against Chat Control)

To me there'a a difference between claining citizens having a moral responsibilty for the actions of their government, and some other entity deciding that all of some countrys citizen deserve to be punished for the crimes of said government.

The US government has murdered a lot more civilians than Bin Laden ever did, but there's not really anyone arguing for broad collective punishment of its citizens (well, ecept for thr Bin Laden-likes)

To be clear, your position is that none of Pakistans 250M citizens deserve trustworthy healthcare, as some guys were harboring Bin Laden?
Re:ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:27AM (#49787027)
If the developer can't be bothered to not make it look vibecoded I assume there's a minimal amount of thought and effort put into it. And in that case I'm not going to bother using it.
Re:ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:23AM (#49786972)
Nearby Glasses has 100k downloads, while ZuckOff is sitting at 1k.
While the examples above just draws trolls pushing an immigration angle, consider these other countries:

Finland -45

Bulgaria -38

Malaysia -62

Israel -33

Serbia -44

Indonesia: -24

Full data is on Table 2.9, page 101 in the report: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volum...

...just buy some beans/lentils and learn to cook those? It's not a herculean effort or particularly expensive.
Re:A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:33AM (#49328391)
Isn't that mainly because the T-1000 had broken in and killed his foster parents at that point?
By this reasoning, abstinence-only sex education is a sure way to stop teen pregnancies and spread of STDs.
Re:Patreon laying off 20% of staff on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:31PM (#49039789)
That they should be so lucky to have such a present CEO! Why ours sits on the board of multiple companies in unrelated industries, and manages some entirely unrelated business side of another conglomerate all by himself. Thankfully he's been promised several 10s to 100s of millions of dollars to make our company better now
Ah, so it's okay to copy and distill all human-produced works evee, except for reinforcment-learning data generated by OpenAI/Anthropic etc
Any $200k+ SW engineering jobs?
Thanks, that link is a lot better
Re:International chess federation sanctions Kramnik on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:50AM (#48785061)
Seems weird to dismiss stuff as "nonsense" just because you're "pretty sure". Hikaru Nakamura (who's been the world #2 in classical rating) did an IQ test on stream and ended up with 102. I've not seen any other results for top players.

The first study of it I found (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...) notes that, while there is some correlation, "Full-scale IQ explained < 1% of the variance in chess skill."

And if you are a state agency who'd like to keep the undisclosed zero-days you rely on secret, spamming maintainers with reports makes sense.

As a bonus if you find any actual zero-days in your mass-generated ones you don't report it and get a new one to play with.

Look, I have exactly two options:

1) Me and my entire family starves to death

2) I make 600k per year building surveillance systems for whoever wants them (as long as they're aligned with Peter Thiels and/or government interests)

Yes, all those people Meta just laid off due to whistleblowing on the Glass privacy violations, and their content moderators and data labelers and so on have my full support.

No sympathies for anyone doing SW engineering or similar. Anyone working there can definitely get a different programming gig. It likely doesn't pay as much but that's how it goes when you sell your soul.

Do you think if there was a mass movement of students moving off Spotify and downloading MP3s, they would _not_ be charged today?

The hypocrisy is what has at least me upset

Philip K Dick wrote a short story similar to this, "The Defenders".
> workers should show more solidarity to one another, not because of “deserving it” or not, but simply because it’s the only way out of the pit they put us in.

In the same way we shouldn't have any solidarity with scabs, we should have no solidarity with the people who happily built the pit-pushing tools.

What do you mean "achieve very little"? A lot of American oligarchs made boatloads of money!
It's been a while since I saw that movie, how many sons, daughters and neighbours of those people does he kill, maim and abuse?

Assuming he kills several, how many hospital workers trying to help them and journalists documenting his rampage does he kill?

I would feel sorry for all of those people.

Re:Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:11AM (#47101014)
That's great, only like a generation of people having to suffer and struggle from say age 20 to 40 so that their masters can attempt to be a superpower.
Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:33AM (#47022368)
I'm all for banning social media as well as tracking in general, and will also happily work to those effects.

It's also prudent to shame those who allocate and greedily take that capital.

Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:59AM (#47015491)
Engaging in bad and immoral behaviour for capital is still bad and immoral behaviour, particularly when one has other choices.
Re:Oatly can no longer use term 'milk' in its marketing on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:19PM (#46979459)
>Following rulings in several courts, the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday said Oatly could neither trademark nor use the phrase "post-milk generation".

>The long-running dispute has centred on Dairy UK's argument that, under trademark law, the term "milk" can only be used to refer to products that come from an animal.

Next they should ban "zero sugar" and similar on packaging

Re:Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:45AM (#46884666)
Murder/homicide rate has been relatively consistent since 1990 https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/swe/swe...

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