Wow. Guess what existed yesterday but not today?

• https://github.com/asimons04/Tesseract
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260426232724/https://github.com/asimons04/Tesseract/

I was about to show how the repo version and the dubvee version of the obfuscated banlists are somewhat different from each other, but it’s no longer possible now that the repo has been deleted.

git diff --no-index \
    <(curl -sL https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract/raw/refs/heads/main/static/data/policy.dat \
        | base64 -d | gunzip | gron) \
    <(curl -sL https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy \
        | base64 -d | gunzip | gron)

So largely performative. With enough pressure, Mullvad might say something negative about a bourgeois party, which won’t do anything.

There’s no reason to think Proton would be any different in this regard. Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party

Both lists are blocklists, it’s just that one is processed as literal matches and the other as regular expression matches.

It was over destruction of evidence, not the OS.

When [the defendant] finally provided a passcode, “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart”, according to the motion.

I use a duress PIN to protect my data — here’s how it works and why everyone needs one

I’m hard-coded into both Tesseract and Piefed.

Most of the regex bans are for those with user accounts on multiple instances under the same name. Extreme example: https://lemmy.ml/search?type=Users&q=cm0002

JSON isn’t especially greppable, which is why I often pipe them through gron.

Mullvad didn’t fund Õbrero; one of Mullvad’s owners did, and boycotting Mullvad won’t un-donate those funds, because there’s no return policy on political donations.

A cofounder donated to the Örebro Party, which has an eclectic platform. Mostly, progressive liberals of the imperial core are (justifiably) upset about its immigration/“remigration” policies and upset about its anti-NATO policies.

Companies are owned by the bourgeoisie, who are right wing^[1]. So “voting with your dollar” over this is largely performative, because the VPN you switch to will also be bourgeois-owned.

I know how to add a picture

GIFs are no different. It’s a very size-intensive format, though, and Lemmy will reject files over a certain size.

David Lynch isn’t for the literarily ignorant.

It was intended to be so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_realism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective “Lynchian”. He is often credited with bringing surrealism and experimentalism to mainstream media in the late 20th century.

They’ll just get their payola through other Zionist PACs, like J Street PAC.

You’re thinking about thinking, aren’t you?

They can take my em dashes from my cold, dead typing fingers.

BE has some phenomenal takes, and some of his essays are exemplary. It’s easy for a Western baby leftist to assume the rest is equally good.

I assume eldavi understands this, but it never hurts to spell it out for bystanders.

I doubt there are very many, because most people don’t do these kinds of things, not even le evil tankies.

It’s past time to get a solid legal framework.

Perhaps the suit over Max Blumenthal’s recent experience will set some precedence. ADC sues DHS Secretary Mullin over illegal CBP seizure of Max Blumenthal’s devices

Edit to add: Perhaps not: DHS has returned his devices, probably because they did’t want this to go to court, probably because they know their legal position is weak.