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bigbugbag··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
the EU is. but their verification age process shows the design flaw that preserving privacy means the system can be easily circumvented with a mitm allowing to circumvent the age verification process.
bigbugbag··on From Gaza With Love (1h49 documentary)
This documentary is how the meeting of a Palestinian filming as much he can on site in Gaza with an independant French journalist unable to go in Gaza to show the world what's happening managed to hack the israeli lockdown together.

For those who are not familiar with him, Charles Villa is an independant french field reporter and war journalist who covered many conflicts, consequences of war and managed to get interview with elusive people such as mexican sicario, members of the mexican gang of sinaloa documenting how they make cocaine pass the US border, drug cartel members documenting how they make heroin in forest kitchen, children working in rare earth mine, children soldiers in Congo, drones pilots and makers in Ukraine, neonazis group in Ukraine, European undergound fight clubs, produced a documentary on fixers (people who make field journalists able to work), investigated daech and islamic state, and much more.

This time it's a full length documentary on inside Gaza over 2 years with a focus on children, the biggest project of his career according to him. despite his field experience and what he has seen during his presence in conflict zones, he says he has never seen such a scale as what is happening in Gaza and has been working with Suhail Nassar, a Palestinian who filmed everything he could, to provide this documentary for free to the world thanks to crowdfunding.

bigbugbag··on Trump tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped
> Did Trump Try to Use Nuclear Codes? No Evidence to Back Viral Claim

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nuclear-codes-11857229

bigbugbag··on EU Age Verification Hacked in 2 Minutes: What Happened
one has to understand that the point is not to protect kids, it never is, but to control online activities. also this is not an organic law, this is the result of intense lobbying by transnational corporations such as facebook, pushing hard for this and there are reports from inside the parliament that this is rushed to be release ASAP despite not being ready or properly tested.
bigbugbag··on Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?
it's probably flagged because it rubs some people in the wrong direction.
bigbugbag··on EU Age Verification Hacked in 2 Minutes: What Happened
How Paul Moore broke the EU age verification app in 2 minutes, the 8 confirmed vulnerabilities and the emergency patch 24 hours later. Full analysis.
bigbugbag··on SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
same with solar panels, they can be reversed to emit light.
bigbugbag··on State of Kdenlive
it's been 3 years since I completely gave up on kdenlive.

I put time and effort to get around the dated and unintuitive UI/UX, but it is too convoluted to do even some basic stuff. and the repeated crashes are too much of a pain to be ready for everyday use.

I tried alternatives such as openshot and shotcut, but they too have a lot of room for improvement. it seems there always a flaw of some kind and a lack of usability for this kind of software.

not taking anything for the time, efforts ad good will the devs put into these software, and many thanks to them for everything. but commercial software benefits from the years of having team of full time employees giving them a serious edge on opensource software for video editing.

bigbugbag··on Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
you may have missed that all those have been happening for months and are tightly tied to the trump administration ?

same administration who has a son sitting on the board and a father president who has lifted all sanctions and investigations.

we even have video of representatives placing their bets or buying stock during session, right before voting on the matter.

bigbugbag··on Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
when exactly did that happen ?

cause up until now I have observed the exact opposite which is coherent with expectations: https://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-compu...

bigbugbag··on Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026
really no: https://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-compu...
bigbugbag··on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
I clicked and instantly gave up on Zellij due to the horrible design fails on the first page supposed to introduce the software to the user.

upfront breaking the basic expectation of having a clickable link is enough for me to know that this piece of software is badly designed and is not worth my time.

bigbugbag··on Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
it is good that hacker news is the place where I saw the most people using their brains and noticing that there is no proof of removal in this claim as there is no before image showing they were there in the first place.

but it is concerning that there is still a lot of people who totally miss this obvious flaw in the claim.

it takes a couple minutes to test the claim and notice that the issue in affecting all Lebanon and not only the Southern region where israel is invading and leveling entire villages to the ground as they did in Gaza.

zooming in around the Lebanon border you notice instantly that a lot of information is missing as the background become white: https://i.imgur.com/L2p1j15.png

and following this clue, you soon notice that the same issue of missing labels is also happening in Syria: https://i.imgur.com/8p1ANAZ.png

there is no evidence supporting the claim and evidence actually tends to disprove it.

bigbugbag··on Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
and you can easily verify that this issue is not only in South Lebanon as it is also the case in Syria: https://imgur.com/8p1ANAZ and everywhere in Lebanon

so the verification process you suggest actually disproves the claim.

bigbugbag··on Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
> If you look at the Apple Maps satellite layer, you see thousands of structures spread across the area.

and if stop fixating on South Lebanon and go to other places where israel is not invading and destroying villages, let's say Syria, you'll notice the exact same issue: https://imgur.com/8p1ANAZ

so your argument actually go against what you attempt to demonstrate.

now why is apple bad at maps in this area and possibly other areas elsewhere in the world is a different matter.

bigbugbag··on Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
more like some bugs are shallow and others are pieced together false-positives from an automated tool reliable in its unreliability.
bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
you seem to have all the data but failing to sort them out to see the direct causal link between the point of origin and the current situation.

also I would argue that we should not confuse Iran and the islamists ruling the country. as a reminder the Iranian people suffered thousands if not tens of thousands death recently during violent repression of social unrest. so it seems the Iranian people may disagree with the choices of the people in power. at least until the US joined the israel led war crimes against Iran.

bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
you may have missed that there are places where shortages have already happened and rationing is already underway.
bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
FWIW israel did the same to iran also via proxy, for decades too.

and the starting point of all this is the US coup in Iran that eventually lead to the islamists seizing power in Iran.

bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
who do you call "the west", please leave us out of the nonsense from israel and the usa, we have nothing to do with this madness and refuse to be a part of it.
bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
not sure what you find funny about children being massively killed at an unprecedented rate by an army that deems itself the most ethical or why you conflate children killed with total estimated death.

in september 2025 the number was at least ~20000, for the obvious reason that we do not the actual toll and that it is without a doubt much more. and let's forget the injured and permanently disabled, the consequences of disease, lack of food and clean water, living in permanent fear, being traumatized and so on.

this is not a laughing matter.

https://onu.delegfrance.org/the-conflict-in-gaza-has-been-pa...

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

bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Iran already has won on this matter, which is a major concern considering it is an islamist dictatorship that recently killed thousands if not ten of thousands of its own population.

yet israel and the US both come out are infinitely worse in comparison, committing massive war crimes, lead by incompetent far-right extremists blinded by ideology and motivated by greed, personal gain and attempting to evade legal issues.

bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
to have POW, you first need to have a W, but to have a W you need to go through appropriate legal channels which trump has specifically avoided to be able to launch this collection of war crimes assaulting foreign countries along israel and causing havoc on a global scale.
bigbugbag··on F-15E jet shot down over Iran
not sure you are aware that you pass for the ignorant who's stuck in denial of reality.

you are arguing against official annoucements from the IDF explaning why the civilian alert system now only gives short notice and will do so from now on, and you argue on the basis of fallacious rhetoric.

bigbugbag··on I decompiled the White House's new app
no problem here using librewolf on arch linux on a 2012 thinkpad.
bigbugbag··on I decompiled the White House's new app
yes, unzip it.
bigbugbag··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
considering it sends your unique ID (or download token) during installation, when you disable settings after installation, it's already too late.

it seems there's actually a way to turn it off before installation using enterprise policies, but I have not tried it as I left mozilla's firefox long ago first for waterfox and now librewolf.

bigbugbag··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
I tried that, and it is a time consuming and tedious process which I eventually failed.
bigbugbag··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
this: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html

this: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/app/trac...

also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...

then this: https://teddit.net/r/FoamList/comments/q4z5js/brave_browser_...

bigbugbag··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
I've been using librewolf for a while after experiencing issue with waterfox.

it is not really a full fork of firefox, it's firefox with a few patches applied and sane default configuration.

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