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After the IOC disqualified Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych, energy workers created their own memorial helmets bearing the names of colleagues who were killed by Russia.

It’s been said before and worth saying again. Fuck the IOC, and fuck the Olympics. I love that amateur athletes get to shine, but the overt corporatism and lack of respect for local communities makes it quite counter-productive.

When an athletic event is “brought to you by Coca Cola,” I mean, who are we even trying to fool?

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The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place. The wind blows so gloriously strong out here, and the more the merrier, so come back to your past to build a future together.

All these shitty streaming companies need to be collapsed. I’d rather make my hard earned cash walk the plank than give any of it to them.

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I mean, yeah

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Impressive to feel you understand a country of 1.4 billion people from a single picture, let alone call them “pathetic” and “amoral.” The world’s most populous country with dozens of languages and cultures. One single picture. Like I said, impressive…ignorance.

I lived in India for years, in multiple cities north and south, and I’ve traveled all over the country by train on my own as a foreigner. Easily some of the best experiences of my life.

India is dozens of nations posing as one single nation state. To generalize it is impossible. To generalize it from a single picture is a degree of simplistic thinking I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered from an adult.

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ChatGPT access to Apple Messages is dangerous and irresponsible

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From the article…

I want to make one technical point absolutely clear because several people have misunderstood my argument:

The encryption still works. OpenAl hasn't cracked or mathematically broken iMessage encryption. An iMessage remains encrypted between endpoints. The privacy problem occurs at the endpoint.

Once the message has been decrypted on the recipient's Mac, that recipient can authorise third party software to access the readable conversation. The encryption worked exactly as designed. It simply can't protect message content from software authorised to access it before or after decryption.

That's what I mean when I say this integration undermines the purpose of end to end encryption.

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It’s still YT based of course, but I’ve been using Nebula and Invidious for years to access vids coming from YT. Also watch Curiosity Stream.

I haven’t seen ads in a long long time. I even paid for a lifetime subscription to Nebula because I’d prefer to support through Nebula than through Google.

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Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives

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The Proton CEO Andy Yen tweeted support for Trump’s Department of Justice pick last year and a shitstorm suddenly appeared.

It was a pretty tone-deaf tweet, but it most certainly doesn’t mean that Proton or its CEO support the Trump regime.

Below is an article analyzing the entire episode, and before that a direct quote from the article if you want to get the basic idea with out reading the entire thing…

“However, being disillusioned with one party on one issue doesn’t mean that all of a sudden Andy Yen changed all of his stances and that now he’s actually pro-Republican or pro-MAGA. All of the evidence gathered suggests the exact opposite.”

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e