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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I'm moving house this week and unearthed my galaxy invader 1000 handheld. Had to play a couple rounds on the spot! Apparently from 1980.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

We're starting to argue about media bias and Venezuelan politics, which I don't think could possibly end. Surely I've outstayed my welcome on this lemmy community. I thank you for responding to and reading my links instead of just deleting them. Keep on fighting the fascists.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Have a read of the National Lawyers Guild full report, they go through the US's actions to discredit the election.

Just a few days before the election, on Friday, July 26, 2024, a who’s who of Latin American right-wing personalities sought to enter the country on a private jet. US mainstream media portrayed this as a benign action without recognition of their previous human rights violations and their efforts to undermine Venezuelan democracy. Former Colombian Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez, who was on the plane, has a long history of supporting campaigns to destabilize the duly elected Venezuelan government. While these individuals claim they sought to observe the election, it is unclear what training, framework, reporting mechanism, or authority they have to do so.

Just noticed your addition to a previous comment:

Funny how it seems like every one of these BRAVE ANTI-US NATIONS is utterly dependent on American trade to guarantee a basic standard of living for their people.

They are a petrostate, all of their money comes from oil, nearly everything else they have to buy from other countries. Their economy was fucked when oil prices went down in 2014. The biggest buyer in the region is the USA, so when they stopped buying they were double fucked. Certainly an argument can be made that playing ball with USA is the way to go when it's the easiest path to grow exports. Just a shame that the person to vote for that option is a CIA spy

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Let me know of any groups I missed, but as far as I can tell only the Carter Center and the opposition were on the ground and unhappy with the outcome.

The Carter Center seek disaggregated results by polling station to corroborate the results. The opposition took their own exit polls and claim 70% of the vote. All statements by nations are informed by one or both of these groups. That's why I said the Americans and losers are the ones claiming fraud. The opposition are clearly biased, while the Carter Center I would go on a limb and call USA aligned.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I would distinguish election observer groups reporting their first hand observations and politicians making statements. For South America:

Claim fraud:

  • Argentina
  • Chile
  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Panama
  • Peru
  • Uruguay

Seek verification:

  • Brazil
  • Bolivia
  • Colombia
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana
  • Mexico
  • Paraguay

Support:

  • Bolivia
  • Cuba
  • Nicaragua

You might be able to notice political leanings of the groups. Capitalists not liking an election result doesn't make it fraudulent. The same claims were made of previous elections and proven false after audit.

All of this is to ignore the 100 year history of U.S-backed coups in Venezuela and trade sanctions. It is hard to take American voices seriously when they claim to advocate for the people of Venezuela while enforcing sanctions that destroy their quality of life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only problem I run into is sites that use Bluetooth or USB APIs to talk to a local device. Both Firefox and Safari don't implement them due to security concerns.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My partner worked for a local council. They reset your password every 90 days which prevented you from logging in via the VPN remotely. To fix it you'd call IT and they'll demand you tell them your current password and new password so they can change it themselves on your behalf.

Even worse, requesting a work iphone meant filling out an IT support ticket. So that IT could set up your phone for you, the ticket demanded your work domain username and password, along with your personal apple account username and password.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It was meant in jest, I should have contrasted plain text / cipher text to be more clear. Though it's a similar kind of extenstion to email technology that they are advocating against.

These folks want to read their emails in their terminal email client, and for you to cater to their limitations. If you use tuta and send them an email, tuta just emails them a link to view the message on tuta's webapp. I'd say this anti-HTML group aren't fans of that.

Not to argue semantics, but I would consider encryption in general is a change in message formatting. The client needs to change how the bytes are interpreted. It adds complexity, and clients may not support it, their exact arguments against HTML.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Thank god we have crypto bros like Sigma G and Sina_21st to get the inside scoop on the Chinese rural bank loan crisis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

To be fair, these folks are advocating for plain text emails, not surprising they are against encrypted emails.

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