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A massively under appreciated fact:
With the 2022 oil price shock:
-China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea sold $435 billion in US Treasuries
-England, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy sold $164 billion in US Treasuries
-Foreign equity holdings fell by more than $1.3 trillion
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
We have forgotten how bad 2022 crisis was. Commodity: price today (peak in 2022) Brent: $99 ($139) EU steel: $710 ($1,435) EU wheat: €200 (€438) US corn: $4.5 ($8.2) EU gas TTF: €51 (€339) Henry Hub gas: $2.9 ($9.7) German power: €95 (€984) Urea: $660 ($910)
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Age verification is a Trojan horse for total control over the internet, your devices, and your entire digital life.
Not a single child will be protected by this.
If people don't wake up and protest, your country is going to be next.
Debs@WindsorDebs
My iPhone just updated itself. I keep turning this off then get endless messages to update it and an irritating red circle on the screen. Now this has appeared. Since when is it law to prove your age to use your own phone???? Way beyond your remit now @GOVUK
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android spyware is largely embedded in the google play services
sensors, contacts, app info, hardware info, etcetc
it collects these with elevated privileges in stock android, it cannot be disabled and telemetry cannot be disabled no matter what you do
graphene ships without play services. if you're down for the friction you can direct install some apk's (signal does this), use f-droid for foss apps, and use progressive web apps (pwa's) to fill the gaps
if you want play store apps, you can sandbox the play store; giving it the same authority as any other app w tight controls over what it can access and when. apps installed thru sandboxed play store must request permission up the chain:
app -> play store -> graphene -> you
data flow starts and stops with you.
play wants your location? seethe.
play wants your hardware ids? mald.
play wants your contacts? pound sand.
is the pixel-only constraint problematic?
is immigration reform on stolen land problematic?
yea, it is.
you get the cards you get.
at least in the former case, graphene & motorola are partnering to further open access to an os that still gives a shit about privacy
do not let these ppl black pill you, friend
you dont have to live on the backfoot with your data on your device
Mads@MadsPosting
there is no escape from google
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@Bossman9633 @jtriley2p For Map, we've @MapmyIndia which is getting better. Just UI needs polish.
Thunderbird is available for Android?
Actually didn't use anything else apart from Gmail ever since created account.
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@JainendraNahata @jtriley2p Get thunderbird for an email client and use fdroid for maps that don't require google. Or, be like me and only enable it when you need audible directions via gmaps
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@Bossman9633 @jtriley2p I'd absolutely love to disable it and everything Google except maybe Gmail or Map.
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@JainendraNahata @jtriley2p Surprisingly little. There are of course notifications telling you apps need it but these too can be disabled.
Personally all my banking apps, despite explicitly saying they need it still function. Core phone functionality is still there. Depends on your tolerance.
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@Bossman9633 @jtriley2p Play Service can be disabled?
It'll break many things.
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The Arch Linux Core Dev Team is asking r/ArchLinux sub-reddit mods to censor people unhappy with Age Verification in Arch.
It appears that Arch Linux considers criticism of Age Verification to be a "Code of Conduct" violation.
From an r/ArchLinux moderator responding to a censored user:
"I got a DM from much higher up the chain asking me to remove it. Whilst I technically don't answer to them, I do respect their wishes. They don't like someone they consider as part of the core dev teams being called out like that. What you did broke the Arch Linux CoC."
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If the Houthi's enter the war this weekend and shut down the Red Sea, it's gonna be a black monday
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@RokoMijic The old world died with WWI in which Britain, due to an unreasonable fear of German hegemony, effectively ended its long-term capabilities to hold the Empire & turned itself into the Americans' lapdog, blowing up old Europe in the process. WWII was merely the final liquidation.
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Churchill single-handedly destroyed the British Empire and possibly European civilization as a whole
Historyland@HistorylandHQ
90-year-old Sir Winston Churchill with his wife Clementine at the window of their Hyde Park Gate home in London on his birthday, 30 November 1964, as crowds gathered outside to celebrate. It would be his last public appearance, as he died less than two months later on 24 Januar…
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Age verification and digital ID coming to Linux through systemd... lmao.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
The main program that starts and manages almost everything on modern Linux computers, “systemd”, recently added an optional "birthDate" field to its user database records. This stores a user's full birth date so apps can check age, for example, to comply with new age-verification laws in places like California, Colorado, and Brazil. It is not automatic age checking. Systemd only saves the date. Only admins can set or change it, but the user and some sandboxed apps can read it.
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It appears that Brazil is not allowed to download and install Linux through the traditional means anymore.
I guess Tor and/or bittorrents will have to be used as governments crack down.
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The Linux community has been digging into who’s pushing these ID verification laws
BrendanEich@BrendanEich
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so age verification was lobbied to basically kill open source projects huh
🐝🇬🇷@bee_fumo
someone traced the all the non profit grants for the age verification laws old.reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
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Yeah, so basically it turns out Meta has been heavily lobbying online age verification laws. They've lobbied over $2,000,000,000 to politicians in form of grants and donations.
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someone traced the all the non profit grants for the age verification laws old.reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
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@TW1NKD3STR0YER @thornewolf I could be talked into supporting this. Do you have a private way of getting in touch?
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@thornewolf yeah no thats gay. i need 4gb ram because im running a spacy model and bc i dont want to sacrifice speed. also i am a loyal aws customer because i trust their infra a lot more than whatever this is
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i made a website for learning ancient greek! it has a dictionary, a comprehensive corpus, and it integrates with all sorts of nice publicly available tools.
pls visit at ancientgreek.jean.land
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The incredible planing and foresight of the admin on full display
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️@mercoglianos
Everyone...there is no need to panic about mines. The US Navy has kept four mine countermeasure vessels in the Persian Gulf for the past 35 years. These ships and crews have trained for this very circumstance. WAIT...what is that? The minesweepers just arrived in Philadelphia yesterday to be decommissioned, but we have three Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) that took their place.
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There we go. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has categorically rejected all proposals and requests related to a ceasefire, and has affirmed that it is steadfast in pursuing the war until achieving the objectives it has set.”
إيران الآن@Irannow_
إيران الآن خاص | مصدر عسكري إيراني رفيع لشبكة إيران الآن - تصريحات ترمب حول قرب انتهاء الحرب ليست سوى وهم سياسي لا يستند إلى واقع الميدان - الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية رفضت بشكل قاطع جميع المقترحات والطلبات المتعلقة بوقف إطلاق النار، وأكدت أنها ماضية في الحرب حتى تحقيق الأهداف التي وضعتها - إن أي خطوة يقدم عليها ترمب أو الولايات المتحدة لمحاولة احتلال الجزر الإيرانية ستواجه بردٍ غير متوقع وقاسٍ، ليس فقط من إيران، بل أيضاً بتداعيات كبيرة على الدول التي تستضيف القواعد العسكرية الأمريكية في المنطقة
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