The only question here is: why do European police chiefs want to help Russia and China intercept our communications?

Plus, free RSS!

(For the five of us that still care about that, anyway.)

The situation in Malaga is going to be a shitshow pretty soon. There's basically no water there anymore. This summer, hotels will be able to fill their swimming pools, but residential buildings will be banned from doing so. There are talks of bringing water in boats from Murcia. People that got rich planting avocados and mangos saw their crops fall 85 % last year. And of course there are already water consumption restrictions, with water flows restricted at night.

But at the same time there are talks of beating all previous tourism records. This is insanity.

Yes. I combine libgen with Anna's Archive and Z-Library and there's very, very little I can't find.

Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

In my experience, Yandex has always been better for piracy than any other search engine.

I wish I had known about Power Delete Suite. I nuked my posts / comments by hand :-(

In case it's useful to more people: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

Plus an account in a potential social.cbc.ca domain has the advantage that you know automatically that it's a legit CBC account.

With the new EU's interconnection laws I hope I can WhatsApp from Pidgin, or even from irssi!

But no, I don't use pidgin anymore. irssi, yes.

It's not yet proven that it was the US, no? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised at all, but I still don't know that's a fact.

I created an account a few months ago but I've barely used it. DDG provides pretty much everything I search for. This might be because I don't typically do very "esoteric" searches, but for now I don't see the need for a paid service. Most of the times, tweaking the query so that it looks for a specific source is good enough.

I'd love if DDG had a system to remove entire domains entirely from the results, though.

You can generate a code grid and remove SMS altogether.

We can't have nice things.

The full text describes clusterfuck after clusterfuck. It's worth registering (it's free to read) even just for this one.

Came here to post a similar comment zedeus made in another thread:

Nitter is dead.

I still checked some Twitter accounts from people that were interesting to me and didn't migrate to Mastodon. One less thing to worry about, I guess.

Yes. And on Microsoft Teams that triggers a chat call.

I trust there won't be a hack and all that will get leaked.

Yes, these things are never dead. They just come back under a different name / pretensions until they pass.

Damn. I knew this was a huge problem in Europe, but I didn't know this happened in Canada too.

Here's the Wikipedia article on this type of fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud

Also, some (most?) RSS readers don't need the path to the feed directly. You give them the regular URL and they'll figure it out. TinyTinyRSS does it.

I'm originally from Spain. I know very well these messages from our bubble (which exploded --sort of-- around 2007 - 2008). "House prices can only go up because X".

Then, for whatever reason, Y happens, and it turns out that Y >> X.

I know how this ends, and it's not pretty.

I don't even know what the "normal thing" is anymore.