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NSO Group confirms it gave Police access to Malware to spy on Israelis:
#News #NSOGroup #Israel #Privacy #HumanRights #Policing #Rights #CivilLiberties #Liberty #Freedom #Pegasus #Surveillance
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I once got in trouble at work for saying publicly that the GOP is *clearly* a greater threat to American freedom and prosperity than the Democrats. Now with the GOP going QAnon, too, it's obvious I was correct, and attempts to pretend otherwise are naive.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/qanon-goes-mainstream/
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So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?
If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.
That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.
I’ve never liked the term “whataboutism.” It sounds like the kind of thing a journalist came up with to make it seem like they were presenting a clever new idea. Meanwhile, the concept of ‘tu quoque’ has been around for a very long time.
Am I now that guy who wants to correct people by quoting Latin at them? Send help…
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#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM
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Hey, so this is super cool.
Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf
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NFTs are Broken By Design https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/88bcd032-73de-47b9-be2f-3d3707424129
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I wrote and self-published a #book .
Please check it out, and get it for now, here: https://github.com/manuelcaeiro/mybook-vol.1
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Fox News when gas prices were low under Obama.
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rupol now and then
Political cartoon from 1968
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I think I’ve decided that I hate owning a house. I wish I’d know this 5 years ago when we were scraping money together for a down payment, but it really is just one giant pain in the ass.
On an unrelated note, anyone interested in buying a house in an overpriced neighborhood where the basements are prone to flooding?
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To be clear I’m not talking about NSFW stuff, and I haven’t seen any nudes or graphic violence going around anyway. At least no more than usual.
I’m seeing a good number of people demanding CWs on posts related to current events. Can someone help me understand why?
This is a serious question by the way. I’m not trying to be a dick. Everyone on Mastodon has the ability to filter their timelines, why is that suddenly not an option in this case?
What’s the real reason Gandalf didn’t just walk into Mordor and straight up murder Sauron along with his army of orcs, trolls, etc?
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