I recommend TeleSUR’s english-language live stream, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nN3vtMzxTo

Oddly it has only 45 people watching currently, and was under 200 viewers every time I was watching it yesterday 🤔

did the US, just conquer a whole nation overnight?

if you only listen to US media you might think so; at the press conference today Trump said “we’ll run it” as if they already control it, and he also claimed that Vice President (now acting president) Delcy Rodríguez told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that “we’ll do whatever you need”. However, a few hours later:

The Vice President of Venezuela demanded the release of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores during the National Defense Council, reaffirming Maduro as the sole president and at the same time announcing the activation of the Citizen Security Agency and national power to defend independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, which they denounce as attacked.

so, no, although the US has kidnapped their president, at this point in time they have not actually conquered the nation.

Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.

Thanks. I’ve edited the post to link to the same source’s text article instead (and linked the corresponding video this post originally linked to in the post body)

i thought the photo in this thumbnail looked familiar, and then realized it’s because I just saw a post from her a minute ago - one of many linking to a very old video of a large crowd in Venezuela falsely claiming that it shows people celebrating the US kidnapping Maduro today.

i added some links in my crosspost of this in !emoji@lemmy.ml:

• https://mefi.social/@HarryRutherford/109935858214218911
• https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19307-crow-emoji.pdf
• https://emojipedia.org/black-bird

Cut off from several instances

which instances?

But you can turn off sealed sender messages from anyone, so they’d have to already be a trusted contact

The setting to mitigate this attack (so that only people who know your username can do it, instead of anybody who knows your number) is called Who Can Find Me By Number. According to the docs, setting it to nobody requires also setting Who Can See My Number to nobody. Those two settings are both entirely unrelated to Signal’s “sealed sender” thing, which incidentally is itself cryptography theater, btw.

15 minutes of it are available here: https://archive.org/details/insidececot

You can literally turn off read receipts in signal

But you can’t turn off delivery receipts, which is what this attack uses.

those best practices don’t mitigate the attack in this paper

look at their responses in the .ml cross-post,

that post is now deleted, but you can see their modlog here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_advertising#Regulations billboards are banned in several cities and, surprisingly, in four entire states of the US.

the correct spelling is zealand

fair point, i’ll try to refrain from it next time

I doubt it; it would be odd if they were named after a fictional Dutch-American :)

1 reason it’s wrong to me: https://nosystemd.org/

Under “Notable bugs and security issues” there is a big list of issues which were all (afaict) fixed many years ago.

There have been reasonable philosophical objections to systemd, some of which are still relevant, and as that site shows there are still many distros without it, but for the vast majority of desktop users who want something that JustWorks… using a mainstream distro with systemd is the way to go.

This blog post from pmOS covers some of the pain of trying to use KDE or GNOME without it.

Microchess was first commercially available in 1976, but chess software was being published long before that.

See also: https://www.chessprogramming.org/History#Famous_Historic_Computers_and_Programs