"Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/israel-unlawfully-used-white-phosphorus-in-lebanon-hrw

#whitephosphorus #israel #lebanon #humanrightswatch #hrw

@bruce @tillybridges @YKantRachelRead

The period before the rise of Hitler was really interesting.
The punitive allied reperations for WW1 really destroyed the economy.
Communist armed rebellions were common, I could be wrong about the cities, but Berlin was totally Governed by a Communist Government for 2 weeks before Army defeated them. They were waiting for russia help, I think Hamburg was communist for a week.

When Nazis took power, they used 'socialist' in their name because of its popularity.

@mttaggart @maxleibman Yeah the framing from 404 was pretty bad, this is an issue with how payment methods in general work, Proton does accept crypto and anyone can buy pre-paid gift cards with cash to use to pay for services like that, this should be a teachable moment about those things rather then an attack on proton.

It’s mostly the users fault for not taking better care about their opsec given the work they do, but I do think proton constantly advertising them selves as more “private” then they really are leads to people making assumptions that they would be protected in some way against state level actions or court orders. It’s foolish to expect ANY for profit corporation to stand up for you on principles, sure they might have great policies and PR, but at the end of the day no one is gonna risk jail or fines by a court, or do what Lavabit did back in the day…

Remember Lavabit? now that was a company that absolutely respected privacy above all… and we see where it got them.

Listen,

It is possible to criticize something without abjectly despising it. 404 can have bad takes; I'm still paying for their journalism because it's usually very good.

Proton's marketing and social team are kind of yutzes, but the service is very good for what it is, and much better than the normative choice.

Seeking infallibility will eat all your time and get you nowhere.

Is it War?

this feels very computer illiterate of me, but what's up w meshtastic??

it looks interesting and I'm v intrigued by the idea of a decentralized network, and the versatility of it, but I'm not totally convinced. with the amt of posts and videos ive seen abt it here and elsewhere, and by the very nature of decentralized systems, it requires a lot of users, and so it's hard to feel like this isn't all some marketing tactic for a new and interesting but ultimately niche and unhelpful gadget.

does anyone here have any experience using meshtastic stuff to improve the community around them? I want to believe but I don't want another gadget collecting dust 😅

@femmepraytell I discovered Meshtastic a little over a year ago and got setup with some radios and gadgets to use with it, convinced a few friends to also check it out. Its really neat but not all too practical compared to some other standards that use the same tech. Meshcore uses the same LoRa devices but is built in a way that allows for much larger reach and works more efficiently in general (not to say its “better” then meshtastic, but its more practical at the moment)

Here in the pacific north west we have regular comms on meshcore across all of oregon and a good part of washington consistantly, with seattle and even futher away to BC, Canada coming in too on a good day.

As to the improving the community part: Its useful during protests and for operations where you need comms but wouldn’t want to use a cell phone or have access to wifi. There’s a #Icewatch channel that gets used occasionally to report on activity locally, another benefit being that there is no way to censor or shut down a meshcore (or meshtastic) channel in the way they could with something like a discord or website.

It’s perhaps still niche at the moment, but the potential is pretty huge. The gadgets are also incredibly versatile, if meshcore or meshtastic dont end up being your jam, there is also chatterbox, and reticulum.

404 Media reports that Swiss authorities turned over some identifying info about a user of an account associated with Defend the Forest/Stop Cop City. This video is a brief summary. (Note: there is no defend the forest "group" as this video suggests.)

@defendatlforest pretty huge opsec fail to not pay with crypto, I get that a group with a name like “defend the forest” might not be that into crypto-currency, but this is like the one “legitimate” use case for such a thing, or pay with cash in the mail which is an option a some like mullvad offer.

I accidentally launched Nautilus as a file manager and almost vomited, how tf do people use gnome… Gross.

It has a not all too different vibe from the “fisher price” style of windows xp, not quite as clownish but still pretty bad… like wtf is this a PC or a phablet?

I’m sure it works great for some people, I’m just surprised its still sorta kinda the default, in as much as anything can be a “default option” on linux.

Maybe it looks less bad when its all together and you know how to use it, i’d imagine my system would probably feel pretty terrible to most anyone but me so to each their own of course.

I decided to record mew’s purring while he was laying on me a couple weeks ago, I didn’t know it at the time but it was the last time I’d hear him purring so strongly and happily. I’m glad i decided to record it.

It was hard to lose him so quickly after the diagnosis, but It was also nice to be able to plan for it.

@dps910 @hobbs Today was the first I heard of it, I can imagine there is a large overlab between “people who want to call out others behavior” and “people who create drama” (and GOS does seem to have its share of drama)

Looking at the actual conversation and user, they do seem to be concern trolling, and it does read like an LLM, so they aren’t wrong to be calling it out, just silly to use a rather generic hashtag instead of something like #concerntroll

@hobbs @dps910 A Hashtag to point out bad actors and harassers in the fediverse.

https://joinfediverse.wiki/FediBlock

Said goodbye to my orange buddy yesterday. This is the last pic of him and one of the first pics of him.

He had the most wonderful smile.

a lot of the time when i'm troubleshooting a computer at work i usually end up having to ask the age old question: Is The Computer Fucked Or Is It Just Because Windows Really Fucking Sucks

I just beat the Guinness world record for speed-picking by 4 seconds!

Single-pin-picking, 8 differently-keyed, 4-pin, standard¹ padlocks, in 56 seconds.

And I did it while wearing a fluffy bear suit.

¹ the current record holder used laminated Master locks with no security pins, but I didn't want all the comments on my video to be "Master lock sucks" jokes, so I used Brinks instead.

#AlicePics #Locksport #Lockpicking #GuinnessWorldRecord

When people come to the aid of weak ass Dems with the defense of “What do you expect them to do in the minority?”, reply sharply,

“Call for a general strike.”

The pedophile traitor party is going to call you “radical leftists” no matter what you do, so why not earn the title? Just call for a general strike.

Call for a general strike.

Call for a general strike.

Do it.

#GeneralStrike

Talarico is ahead with 35% in.

Fixed a few nagging issues with Ngnix Proxy logs today.

Mr. Hitler, Mr. Hitler
Tell me what are you going to do
Declared war on Uncle Sammy
Bit off more than you can chew

Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground
Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
We're gonna lay you fascists down

Once I seen them fascists
In a little Belgian town
There was trouble, there was sorrow
And the bombs were raining down

Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground
Dig a hole, dig a hole in thе meadow
We're gonna lay you fascists down

Mr. Hitlеr talked to Göring
And here's what he did say
"I can't figure out these goddamn snows
They're too damn hot for me"

Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
Dig a hole in the cold, cold ground
Dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
Gonna lay you fascists down

-Dropkick Murphys (Ft. Woody Guthrie)-