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US tech firm Palantir [A.K.A Total Information Awareness] extends deal with French intelligence agency
Oh fuuuuuuuck!
Fuuuuck! Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuuuuck!
People of France, don your yellow vests again!
Peuple français, enfilez à nouveau vos gilets jaunes !
Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
… Well how many have they counted?
What’s the number?
Librewolf, or Ladybird, or dillo, or links2 or lynx, or heck, even brave!
Luakit’s still a thing. Or vimb. Or qutebrowser. I miss uzbl. Uzbl was the best.
No need to use proprietary wrapped Vivaldi.
I was hopeful for thundermail.
Not any more, seeing that.
Spent the productive part of the day writing more precious things, inadequately backed up.
[Edit: But, at least it’s of my own choosing. Not a corporation doing it to me, with future-faking promises to be faithful to my needs, and so on.]
[Genuinely did tell myself that last night… this morning…: [2025-12-16 02:40:20] <Digit> rts do backups script… for tmro’s early hard thing. just make a start. it can grow later. rsync to BOTH bb6/bkps/ and ovhtoo:/home/digit/bkps/.]
That’s what I keep telling myself.
I’ll sort out my backup system, tomorrow.
And tomorrow never comes.
i guess we all should have fought back on internet censorship, rather than fallen back on “well i can still vpn”.
“I wouldn’t like to be caught without a second backup.” – Miles Edward O’Brian, Chief of Operations, Deep Space Nine. (“The O’Brian Principle”).
“<insert every good piece of Free Software advocacy reasoning>” – Every free software advocate who has been on about this during the entire past 20 years and up to twice that, warning us about these kind of things.
Either the user controls the…
or, OP article story.
Milk a bubble.