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2 hours agoIs there any evidence that open source Ubuntu has ever been compromised by an intelligence agency (as opposed to things like that search marketing deal they had years ago)?
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3·2 hours agoMe neither.
- Browser: Zen (fork of Firefox)
- Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
- App: FreeTube
I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.
Every now and then, videos won’t play because of some change by Google, usually it’s just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.
2·14 hours agoTruly groundbreaking.
Let the songs begin!
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 1973 LIVE -4K- REMASTERED.(STEREO.) (19 minute set) https://youtu.be/UpUCJWlN0sE
My school (UK, 1980s) offered Mandarin as an extracurricular course. I signed up, showed up… and was the only student. One-on-one classes the rest of the year :)
(Just don’t try grilling me in Mandarin now, though.)
4·15 hours agoNot Kirk?
There was also the flag of the defunct Republic of VIetnam
https://vietnguyen.info/2021/theres-a-reason-the-south-vietnamese-flag-flew-during-the-capitol-riot
The depth of anti-communist feeling in the Vietnamese community, which includes many military veterans and former government officials, meant that it has always leaned strongly Republican. While Asian Americans as a whole voted 2 to 1 for Joe Biden over Trump, Vietnamese Americans supported Trump over Biden, 57 percent to 41 percent. A deep animus toward China, amplified by misinformation in Vietnamese-language media, bolsters the support for a president they see as tougher on foreign policy. This dovetailed with their anticommunism.
So you’ve decided to defame not just this specific person, but also a bunch of others you also know nothing about?
Not exactly what I was hoping for in c/Positive_News.
How did they feel about the constable being a changeling?
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… Bajorans.
102·2 days ago“While I stand by my support for him, I will call out harmful actions when necessary,” she said. “And finally, this isn’t about regrets; I have none.
Well…
Personally:
- https://freetubeapp.io/ (to watch)
- https://libredirect.github.io/ (to redirect YT links to FreeTube
3·2 days agoMadonna mia! Er Bimbo d’Oro!
7·2 days agobecause he “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE,”
Heartening to know ICE are going around arresting people based on general descriptions, not even specific ones.
221·2 days agoI’m fairly sure this is less “pro-Russia” and more “anti-large-new-devastated-member-causing-Poland-to-get-a-far-smaller-slice-of-the-EU-funds-pie”.
While Law & Justice’s [sic] tendencies overlap with Putin’s a lot, IIRC they’ve been consistently anti-Russia, especially as it’s a personal beef now since the party boss’s brother was killed in the Smolensk air disaster, which he seems to blame on Putin.
That day is closer than you think…
2·2 days agoDefinitely
Ooh, 'ark 'er with the bona fides on polari.
PS some polari-inflected comedy sketches, the infamous Julian and Sandy from Round the Horne.
50·3 days agoAre you sure this is not The Onion?
The important difference, though, it that Apple offer a service and release software that are black boxes that users and other interested parties cannot examine for backdoors and other issues.
Canonical release open source software, the vast majority of it actually put together by other parties (like volunteer Debian packagers) and whose checksums are verified, which the FLOSS community can go through with a fine tooth comb.
On a further note, while the Investigatory Powers Act and what the govt have been doing with it are very concerning, the very fact that we know about the Apple case and the recent XZ Utils backdoor have demonstrated/reminded us that large, well-funded, well-lawyered orgs in their jurisdiction are not the easiest target for intel agencies.
The true low-hanging fruit, the weakest links in the chain are small, understaffed, underresourced, underappreciated but crucial volunteer projects.
A. How many packages are there in a major Linux distro like Open SUSE? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
B. How many developers contribute to those programs and utilities?
C. How many people packages those programs and utilities?
D. How many people approve those packages for inclusion in the distro?
Add up A, B, C & D, and I suspect you end up with a very large number of people. Can Open SUSE (or any distro for that matter) guarantee that just because their distro’s HQ is in country X, that not one of those people is subject to the laws, pressures or inducements of country Y? E.g. how many packages in Open SUSE have some kind of involvement of someone in the UK subject to Investigatory Powers Act? It’s probably greater than zero.
So while there are benefits to the distro’s HQ being in Germany, I don’t think it’s a guarantee.
/TED talk