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Namecheap suspended my account because they started requiring KYC, and I can't recover it. I'm definitely not going to KYC myself
College grads are the worst.
simple but not obvious
This case illustrates how European speech laws increasingly rely on financial pressure rather than territorial jurisdiction. By conditioning access to users on compliance with national speech controls, governments create incentives for platforms to preemptively restrict expression to avoid regulatory conflict.
The result is a system where legal exposure flows from audience size rather than conduct within a country.
Germany’s approach also reveals the paper trail behind modern censorship enforcement. The fine stems not from a specific post or statement, but from alleged failure to comply with aspects of NetzDG. That procedural hook enables broader regulatory reach, transforming administrative requirements into a mechanism for speech governance.
Source: reclaimthenet.org
You can just make your own highlight app for Android
hold my spaghetti
Nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything
Goycattle will literally try everything else before learning about Nostr
Small businesses face 41-57% rejection rates for basic trade finance while the same banks hold $192 trillion in derivatives positions. Basel III treats a letter of credit backing real goods as riskier than abstract financial instruments that produce nothing. The system works exactly as designed: extracting value from those who create it, denying credit to those who need it most.
not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown
Desire is a hidden form of debt that must be repaid before you get to feel any happiness
Dead phone batteries during emergencies are dangerous, but frozen windshields on winter mornings? Apparently that’s a luxury German authorities won’t let you solve anymore. Your Lexus remote start just got remotely murdered by regulators who decided warming up your car counts as environmental terrorism.
Source: autos.yahoo.com
Dercks also confirmed that the country is commencing a major process of deindustrialisation. Indeed, the report noted that 51 percent of companies based in Germany with at least 500 employees, as well as 45 percent of companies bearing high power costs, are either considering moving their operations out of the country and reducing domestic production or have already begun doing so.
Such figures are also, respectively, 8 percent and 7 percent higher than those in the same report published in 2023, thus reflecting the acuteness of the problems faced by German industry more recently. The companies cited the uncertain policy future in Germany as a key reason for their changing positions on domestic production, as they are increasingly uncompetitive in international markets and have less capital to invest in research and development (R&D) to improve their market positioning.
Source: internationalbanker.com
The algorithmic feeds on legacy social media (LSM) are going to continue to deteriorate over time, basically turning into reddit front page slop.
Being on LSM is proving to be such a waste of time man. You literally have to post like a slop influencer just for the elon algorithm to grant you the privilege of having any engagement. It sucks.
Gooner pornwatching faggots get so mad when women want to wear modest clothing
“Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honour except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.’ He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few people who were ill and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.”
Source: forthright.net
I normally charge 500 sats for chimney puns but this first one is on the house.
After the reduction of U.S. funding for programmes such as USAID, the Commission has announced it will double down to maintain this structure in Europe. Should we be worried?
The Commission does not know any other way of governing. When something fails, it does not rethink the model—it intensifies intervention. If its policies do not work, the conclusion is never “maybe we are wrong,” but “we haven’t changed people enough.”
That is why I do not expect a short-term shift. This approach—the idea that social problems are explained by individual behaviour and that the state must correct it—has been deeply entrenched in the political class for decades.
Source: europeanconservative.com
Increasingly, the EU stands for despotism, socialism, mass migration, the suppression of free speech and the destruction of national sovereignty. Many senior U.S. officials and Members of Congress rightly view the European Union as fundamentally undemocratic, run by power-hungry unelected bureaucrats with practically zero accountability.
Source: www.heritage.org
Отче наш, Който си на небесата!
Да се свети Твоето име,
да дойде Твоето Царство,
да бъде Твоята воля,
както на небето, тъй и на земята;
насъщния ни хляб дай ни днес,
и прости нам дълговете ни,
както и ние прощаваме на нашите длъжници,
и не въведи нас в изкушение,
но избави ни от лукавия;
защото Твое е царството,
и силата, и славата вовеки.
Амин.
Source: www.pravoslavieto.com
Deutschlands Rolle in der Ukraine seit 2014 ist besonders beunruhigend. Berlin vermittelte gemeinsam mit Paris und Warschau das Abkommen vom 21. Februar 2014 zwischen Präsident Janukowitsch und der Opposition – ein Abkommen, das die Gewalt beenden und die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung wahren sollte. Innerhalb weniger Stunden scheiterte dieses Abkommen. Es folgte ein gewaltsamer Umsturz. Eine neue Regierung entstand auf verfassungswidrigem Wege. Deutschland erkannte das neue Regime umgehend an und unterstützte es. Das von Deutschland garantierte Abkommen wurde folgenlos aufgegeben.
Source: www.berliner-zeitung.de
Old revolutions were based on access to physical power because information was so easy to control. This is the 1st time the major battle front is over control of information, so it feels completely different and doesn’t fit the recognizable cycle theory of previous turnings
Now they are coming after Big Abuela
Maybe there are more than 1 gay cake
Code is the spec
definitely interested in the normie compromise at this moment
the new Police Act goes a step further: If remote installation of the spyware is technically not possible, paragraph 26 explicitly allows investigators to "secretly enter and search premises" in order to gain access to IT systems. In fact, Berlin is thus legalizing – as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did before – state intrusion into private apartments in order to physically install Trojans, for example via USB stick. IT security experts not only warn about leaving vulnerabilities open. They also see a constitutional violation in the combination of residential space violation and digital investigation.
Source: www.heise.de
Programming is new again
i’m anti goverment but
Intelligence is not scarce.
Courage is.
When something I’m doing doesn’t reach its intended audience or generate the intended response, I’m the first to admit it’s because other people are retarded. It’s not me, it’s you. You are retards, otherwise you would be reading my long-form content.
, in the Bible, Abraham owed his longevity and fecundity to yoghurtconsumption and known scientists in early ages, such as Hippocrates, recognized fermentedmilk as medicinal and they recommended it for stomach and bowel disorders
Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
De Bolle does herself no favors when she goes for the old and badly thought-through analogy of, “We need the key to the house when we know there is a criminal inside.”
The problem with this is that once the keys to your house are out of your hands, anyone can duplicate and use them.
It seems that entities like Europol (EU) don’t care much if their hunger to expand mass surveillance to encrypted personal messages also takes down not only people’s privacy but the security of their internet presence overall, including online transactions.
“Anonymity is not a fundamental right,” declares De Bolle – but breaking the internet allegedly to make investigators’ lives easier apparently is a “fundamental right.”
Source: reclaimthenet.org
Polish researcher Borys Musielak (@michuk) used ChatGPT-4o to generate a fake passport in just five minutes. The document is realistic enough to bypass automated Know Your Customer (KYC) checks, the expert states.
“You can now generate fake passports with GPT-4o. It took me 5 minutes to create a replica of my own passport that most automated KYC systems would likely accept without blinking.” Musielak wrote on X. “The implications are obvious –any verification flow relying on images as “proof” is now officially obsolete. The same applies to selfies. Static or video , it doesn’t matter. GenAI can fake them too. Photo-based KYC is done. Game over.”
Source: securityaffairs.com
I don't have enough time to build every awesome Nostr idea myself (even with AI), and my hope is that some other talented developer will read this and get inspired
AT LEAST ONE
highlights are cool
4 hours
VERY
How do you highlight a post in @damus
IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER
We can click our freedoms away by signaling Ok in the Microsoft or Macintosh window after squinting through their thirty pages of restrictions, or we can click Cancel, and see instead if there is a piece of free software that does what we need.
We should click Cancel when we can because that's the more ethical choice. This means we'll have to learn a new program, and sometimes the free program might not work as well. The ethical choice is not always the easy choice.
Source: www.fsf.org
Nostr is the final destination for your content.
Wikipedia’s “NPOV” is dead.1 The original policy long since forgotten, Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy. There is a rewritten policy, but it endorses the utterly bankrupt canard that journalists should avoid what they call “false balance.”2 The notion that we should avoid “false balance” is directly contradictory to the original neutrality policy. As a result, even as journalists turn to opinion and activism, Wikipedia now touts controversial points of view on politics, religion, and science.
Source: larrysanger.org
It’s still unclear which exact refrigerators are getting the ad infestation, but Samsung’s current Family Hub-equipped lineup in the US starts at $1,800 and goes all the way up to $3,500. It doesn’t seem like users can entirely turn off ads, which is a shame. Disconnecting the fridge from the internet might stop the ads, but you will also inevitably lose out on several smart features you paid for. If you have a Samsung refrigerator with a door display, let us know in the comments how your experience has been with them, and how you feel about ads coming to them.
Source: www.androidauthority.com
Capital Flight Already Underway
The ECB will attempt to choke these trends with an iron hand: digital euro wallets will allow it to monitor every transaction, set limits, and block capital movements deliberately. Anyone attempting to transfer capital abroad will require permission -- a control apparatus that paralyzes citizens in the Eurozone cage and makes any exit nearly impossible. The commercial banks? They will comply obediently, acting merely as transmission belts for ECB directives -- no ethics, no resistance, not the slightest hint of protest against this form of neo-feudalism.
The ECB finds itself in a self-perpetuating intervention spiral, which it triggered by beginning to monetize the Eurozone’s overflowing state debts and becoming part of the Brussels power apparatus.
Source: www.americanthinker.com
Valetudo only runs on the supported robots because security researcher Dennis Giese found ways to root them.
Rooting in this context means taking these locked-down IoT devices, finding and exploiting security flaws in their design and gaining permanent system administrator level access to them to allow for running additional custom software such as Valetudo and modifying the system to make the unclouding possible
Source: valetudo.cloud
No wonder Linus Torvalds gets so mad. Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights.
Source: www.thediff.co
ALLOW ME TO REPEAT
Macedonians are not related with geographically close Greeks, who do not belong to the "older" Mediterranenan substratum, 3) Greeks are found to have a substantial relatedness to sub-Saharan (Ethiopian) people, which separate them from other Mediterranean groups. Both Greeks and Ethiopians share quasi-specific DRB1 alleles, such as *0305, *0307, *0411, *0413, *0416, *0417, *0420, *1110, *1112, *1304 and *1310. Genetic distances are closer between Greeks and Ethiopian/sub-Saharan groups than to any other Mediterranean group and finally Greeks cluster with Ethiopians/sub-Saharans in both neighbour joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses. The time period when these relationships might have occurred was ancient but uncertain and might be related to the displacement of Egyptian-Ethiopian people living in pharaonic Egypt.
Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov