[-] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Partial results issued by the election commission seven hours after polls closed showed Kagame had surpassed the 98.79% of the vote he got in the previous election seven years ago.

The Democratic Green party candidate, Frank Habineza, mustered only 0.53% and the independent Philippe Mpayimana 0.32%, according to the results issued with 79% of ballots counted.

Clearly it was free and fair and he's just that popular.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 43 minutes ago

Which country?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 45 minutes ago

Because "real" news outlets prioritize their owners' short-term profits over the survival of humanity.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

To me "neoliberal" implies something more strongly and consciously right-leaning than "liberal", which includes all the wishy-washy centrists who think a little bit of tinkering around the edges and an appeal to decency and fairness can fix the problems of capitalism, without ever recognizing them as basic features of capitalism itself. So there's a purpose to using the term "liberal": it's broader, and includes ideological neoliberals as well as those who think they're leftish but actually cooperate with and facilitate all the exploitation around us.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Wouldn't LUCA by definition be the last common ancestor of every organism of which we have evidence? If so then by definition we wouldn't have evidence of those other lineages. Or is it just the last common ancestor of everything currently alive?

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago

Every Republican is an amoral self-serving hypocrite.

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cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/2121207

EU’s law enforcement agency Europol is another major entity that is setting its sights on breaking encryption.

This time, it’s about home routing and mobile encryption, and the justification is a well-known one: encryption supposedly stands in the way of the ability of law enforcement to investigate.

The overall rationale is that police and other agencies face serious challenges in doing their job (an argument repeatedly proven as false) and that destroying the internet’s currently best available security feature for all users – encryption – is the way to solve the problem.

Europol’s recent paper treats home routing not as a useful security feature, but, as “a serious challenge for lawful interception.” Home routing works by encrypting data from a phone through the home network while roaming.

We obtained a copy of the paper for you here.

Europol appears to want to operate on trust: the agency “swears” it needs access to this protected traffic simply to catch criminals. And if the feature was gone, then ISPs and Europol could have smooth access to traffic.

But if the past decade or so has taught law-abiding citizens anything, it is how, given the right tools, massive government and transnational organizations “seamlessly” slip from lawful to unlawful conduct, and secretive mass surveillance.

Not to mention that tampering with encryption – in this instance available in home routing as a part of the privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) – in security and privacy terms, means opening a can of worms.

It turns out, as ever, that agencies like Europol actually do have other mechanisms to go after criminals, some more controversial than others: one is “voluntary cooperation” by providers outside the EU (in which case Europol has to disclose information about “persons of interest” using foreign phone cards with other countries) as well as issuing an EIO – European Investigation Order.

But that barely compares to breaking encryption, in terms of setting up the infrastructure for effective mass surveillance. Europol’s complaint about the available procedures naturally doesn’t mention any of that – instead, they talk about “slow EIO replies” that hinder “urgent investigations.”

Europol presents two solutions to the home routing encryption “problem”: One, disable PET in home routing. The second is a cross-border mechanism inside the EU where “interception requests are quickly processed by service providers.”

[-] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In my part of Ontario we have near-intolerably hot summers already and people say they miss proper snowy winters. There's more worry about tornadoes and severe flooding these days, about crops failing, and about what happens to the Great Lakes, especially when the USA starts running out of water. I don't know who you've been talking to but there are also many Canadians who don't see climate change as at all welcome.

That said, people do keep voting Conservative or not voting at all, so they're not helping.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago

For context, Trump promised to do exactly this in exchange for a billion dollars

Thank goodness that's now entirely legal due to Trump's stooges on the Supreme Court.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

We all need to go there, or we'll lose the only independent cinema in the city.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

So Trump had Judge Cannon in his pocket, and he has many judges in his pocket including most of the Supreme Court. He may not be richest or most skillful crook in the country, but he certainly knows how to play the system to his advantage.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

That comes from the description in the page's HTML. Maybe their server uses an Intel processor.

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