“President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive Administration in history…"

Why do they have to talk like this? Why make an absurd claim instead of any of the more plausible positive things to could say? Are they trying to out-compete each other for the dictator’s favor?

Also, why do they all capitalize like Trump? Hold on, did Trump write this statement?

Deduct. And the USA is taking the world in completely the opposite direction from where it needs to go.

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The Infinite Mac site linked from this story is also impressive, and runs the actual OSes.

I think it’s just one guy who has some paranoid tendencies. But it’s still significant if the French media are starting to characterize GrapheneOS as the operating system of terrorists and criminals, because we know from many years of experience now how governments attack and undermine the tools that give people digital privacy, and this kind of media coverage is one of the techniques they use to influence popular opinion.

The NYT has evidently decided its task is to undermine Mamdani steadily and gradually through the spin it puts on daily reports.

Lol, I’ve corrected that now. An OCR Freudian slip.

The OS is still good and GrapheneOS remains the best option for relative privacy on a phone. The personality of the lead developer is unfortunate. I worry that it could have an impact on their reported upcoming partnership with an OEM, if this guy is impossible to work with. But I’m still using it on my phone because it does stand out as the best option for a fully functional phone OS with good security and privacy.

Shame about the black ones.

What are you referring to here?

Kelly told troops “you can refuse illegal orders,” and other lawmakers said they needed troops to “stand up for our laws … our Constitution.”

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“Kelly’s conduct brings discredit upon the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately,” Hegseth added.

Days after the video was released, President Donald Trump accused the lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” in a social media post.

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Troops, especially uniformed commanders, do have a specific obligations to reject orders that are unlawful, if they make that determination.

So he told the troops to do things everyone agrees they are sworn to do, and Republicans complain he’s bringing the military into disrepute and call for his imprisonment and execution, and the Dept of Defense (War?) then pursues ways to achieve this. I guess the USA isn’t doing that whole constitution thing any more.

Wtf? How did they arrive at that number? Did someone senior at Meta get caught 16 times?

Just for convenience (since it’s hard to read the screenshot on a phone), here’s the text:

GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won’t include backdoors for law enforcement access. They’re conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They’ve made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we’re leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we’re sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

“Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs,” Trump complained in the Oct. 25 post. “Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD.”

The “fraud” was showing what Reagan said that today’s Republicans wish he hadn’t.

It pays badly and it can be disorganized, but no one I work with is that bad of a person, what we do is more useful to real people than a lot of tech companies and there’s no nasty politics to speak of. So yes, it has its upsides.

I’ve become quite good at paying just enough attention that I can jump in if anything important comes up, and meanwhile continuing to work. I don’t turn my camera on.

We stick to that format with minor variations:

1. Recap of the morning’s school run and dog walks
2. Update on everyone’s pets’ health
3. Update on peoples’ kids’ behaviour
4. Update on team members’ health and their families
5. Miscellaneous gripes
6. All the sports: what happened, what people think will happen, and details of particular players
7. Sports statistics in depth
8. Mutual accusations of breaking things
9. Defence against said accusations
10. Gripes about boss’s emails
11. Long, in-depth accounts from two team members of their last day’s work, minute by minute, with digressions into big-picture frustrations and grumbles about management, customers, etc.
12. Recounting of the history of these issues over the last 15 years or so.
13. Each person tells us that they’re working on the thing the kanban board says they’re working on, and that it will take them as long as it says on the board.
14. Holiday plans or accounts of past holidays
15. Goodbye
16. One guy jumps in with a 15-minute anecdote about taking his dog to the vet
17. Goodbye
18. Any further anecdotes about things people’s dogs ate, etc.
19. Goodbye.

Its supposed to take 10-15 minutes but it takes up to an hour, sometimes more. I usually tune in late and sometimes pretend I lost my internet connection halfway through.

As expected, they’re making sure the focus is on Epstein associates on the left, while right-wing associations are swept under the rug. They probably expect this to be some kind of gotcha for left-wingers, but it isn’t. It just makes people disappointed in Noam Chomsky.

exasterbating

An exasperating wank.

Not a very funny one.

If that guy could win a presidential election, the trouble began much earlier.