Can’t have that normal timeline returning

Ban private jets

They must have forgotten what social class gets to decide what politicians do.

Thanks for sharing, great article. Copied and pasted some bits below:

(…) Metrics are gathered day and night over all 200.000 internet domains, accross the massive total of 67.000 local governments. Nearly 200.000 seems like a high number, but in fact it is very low.

In reality, the true number of government domains is tenfold but finding those requires a lot of effort. We mostly are missing ‘project’ domains, targeted at tourism, housing, infrastructure, festivals, and anything else the government produces. Some governments, like the Netherlands, have multiple official registries for governmental websites. Yet our Dutch initiative has found thousands of additional domains missing from those registries.

Later in the article they share the 3 most worrying metrics:

3.081 European government sites place tracking cookies without consent. (…)

YouTube is the biggest source of tracking cookies, with 2077 cookies placed in total. Google Ads(!) follows with 842 tracking cookies. This might be a side effect of misconfiguration of Google Analytics, which should also not be used; however, that is measured in another metric not mentioned in this article. Then we see 293 Facebook cookies, probably for website analytics as well. Last but not least, we see 20 TikTok cookies.

We found a total of 1.070 phpMyAdmin portals on 3.529 different domains. Many domains share the same panel; they share the same service provider for example. phpMyAdmin is an open-source tool, yet we found no financial contributions from European governments to this software project. This means they are depending on software, yet are not willing or mandated to pay for it; we see this as an unwillingness to invest in their own online security. We urge governments to pay for open source for their own sake.

Two of these panels are present at addresses of Computer Security Incident Response Teams, which is a double offense. It might require some trickery to see these addresses in the browser.

Last but not least, the most shocking discovery of our research: the encryption quality of e-mail to European governments is poor. And not just any form of poor: as 99% does not follow up-to-date security practices. Only the Netherlands and Denmark show somewhat promising numbers.

Tl;dr from the vsquare url:

For the first time, more than 2,000 leaked internal documents expose how Bauman Moscow State Technical University feeds graduates directly into the units behind Russia’s cyberattacks, election interference, and the sabotage operations targeting NATO countries.

Israel commits war crimes.

They want to do a, but instead do b. Like a true politician.

the orange clown was elected TWICE by the American people.

The system made him the winner, but i believe he lost popular vote both times and also a huge portion of the nation didn’t vote at all. Sure that also says something about the people of the nation but i think it is fair to to distinguish between a ‘a regime and the people and companies that support that’ vs ‘a national entity including all it’s people and history’.

It’s not like anybody else is going to

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Didn’t he also say he is doing a cease fire?

I like how outside of Netherlands people think of Amsterdam as a city were everything is possible (drugs, sex, rock and roll) while inside the Netherlands people see it as a city where nothing is possible (you can’t afford a house, parking is hella expensive, you can’t drive over 30km/h, etc). For a dutchie, it makes total sense the amsterdam government bans stuff from time to time.

Credit card network is not a thing without traditional banks taking part, these kind of for-profit entities generally don’t play well with public good/open source things. Right now it looks both are being worked on (a for profit thing called Wero and a public good thing called the digital euro) and i suppose that it isn’t a bad thing we get both instead of either.

And it appears there one Spanish ex-banker - Navarrete - in the EPP sweating since years to slow it down.

He must be loaded by now.

Considering the amount of money they’re making, i’d argue their business model itself is actually a quality product.

How exactly is the client of the provider inferior? I don’t use my vpn for security reasons, what benefits would i get from downloading and importing the config?

Netanyahu & co should be tried for war crimes.

If something is worth doing then it’ll be worth doing regardless of amount of likes you get.

I agree 100%

My piece of cake? it’s not a lose-lose situation for them, but a win-lose situation. They win safety for children at the cost of freedom and privacy of the rest, and they are convinced this doesn’t hurt the good people. How come they believe such a different thing than the rest of us? It could be that they’re evil and want to stay in power at all costs, but i believe there is a also a huge lobby of companies that can earn money: for them it is a win-win, safety for their children and wealth for mommy and daddy. This is why vocal public protest is so important, because it can act as a counter balance to influencial individuals who whisper in the ears of politicians in private.

He’s not comparing the 2 platforms, he is pointing out a flaw in one of them. His message is not “i prefer mastadon for reason x” but “i dislike threads for reason y”.

Aside from whether these companies see simularities with the dot com bubble, nobody knows for sure when the bubble will burst nor what policies will help you get to the other side unharmed. If for example their shoe business is not performing well right now, they might already not survive the economic downturn that’d hit them if the bubble bursts. It is definitely possible that this company is run by blind idiots, but it could also be imperfect human beings trying to keep their workers employed.