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cft··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
>Yeah it's really hard to block tally count of five IPs.

They blocked 16m IPs, to the extent that it started affecting the entire Russian's internet stability, and Telegram was still available there: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/russia-blocks-...

>Wake up

Is that a demand? A slogan? I wonder how much your own wokeness affects your ability to absorb facts.

cft··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
Telegram has private chats. I don't pay attention to his words, indeed. Way before the Ukrainian war, Russia had a massive campaign trying to block Telegram and they failed on a technical level. This has never happened with WhatsApp.
cft··on US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
I trust Telegram more: Putin never had any problems with Whatsapp, only with Telegram.
cft··on Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews
Mirrors https://open-slum.org/
cft··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
American expat here in Spain. I do 11 pull-ups every two days and run 7 miles uphill. Ready to go! Salud!
cft··on High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
latest: https://www-elmundo-es.translate.goog/economia/2026/01/19/69...

looks like it's a rail welding failure.

cft··on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
If insiders trade, the market becomes more accurate, which is good for society. Like WikiLeaks. Thus the MSN panic, the legacy establishment wants Polymarket to follow Assange's path.
cft··on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning
Goodbye all small independent forums with no AI budgets. An attacker posts a nude picture, 18m fine from OfCom ("whichever is larger", not proportional to revenue)
cft··on [dead]
Moving sofa problem is finally solved
cft··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
All ePub and PDF downloads are here: https://open-slum.org/
cft··on Elevated errors across many models
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
cft··on Elevated errors across many models
That's the only future of open source that I can see.
cft··on F-35 Fighter Jet's C++ Coding Standards [pdf]
Rust did not exist back then. I hope they are now using it in drone codebases.
cft··on The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal
Basic US immigration law: once a permanent resident or a citizen, a former H1B holder can bring his relatives, like any US citizen
cft··on Google Antigravity
The fact that they released this IDE means that they may cut Cursor out of their API in the future. Google has both the organizational history (Google Maps) and the invincibility of cutting clients out of their API.
cft··on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Subpoena from the FBI to Tucows to disclose identity of archive.today(is) operator: https://pdflink.to/1e0e0ecd/
cft··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
And hell, put Bank of Zimbabwe on the bills.
cft··on YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account
X needs to launch a rival service.
cft··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Most American banking apps run on Graphene https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
cft··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
BFU inside the table cells means:

"BFU extraction can only pull the small amount of "Device Encrypted" (DE) data that is accessible. This is mostly system logs, some app settings, and other non-personal data. It does not get messages, photos, or detailed app data." It basically gets them the list of apps, when the phone has been powered on and off and perhaps some cell geo location history.

FFS means Full Filesystem Search.

What this implies in practice:

All locked stock Android Pixels (including 10 I am almost sure) are vulnerable to FFS after the first unlock, even in the locked state. If you want to protect your data (crossing a border, or when you are about to be interrogated by Russian FSB), turn off your stock Android Pixel.

cft··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
Ad absurdum, if the video was banned outright upon upload, it wouldn't be considered censorship under your definition, since upload and storage are also "free."

However, the contrast between a 70% average recommendation rate and a 0.1% recommendation rate for this video shows the algorithm's bias, fitting the definition of suppression of dissemination. According to Merriam-Webster, censorship includes "suppressing" content by restraining its usual course or inhibiting its reach.

cft··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
"to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censoring

cft··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
Means for example, that this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnR4Xw74_is had only <0.1% of YouTube algorithmic views (like 7 total), all the rest were "direct" link. All other videos in the same channel had >70% of the algorithmic views (YouTube "suggestions" or "related content").

They did not ban it outright, so you cannot complain or rigorously prove their bias, but they algorithmically suppress dissenting content.

cft··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
Tried to upload a large video, "processing" failed after 1 hour. Repeated three times and did not succeed in the end.
cft··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
We need a politically uncensored version (within the law) of YouTube. Things like Rumble do not work well, they are not technically polished. It's a good side project for X.
cft··on We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable
"No US citizen was extradited for an alleged crime while the person was based in the US"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...

cft··on We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable
In these games involving companies with no physical presence in the UK, OfCom has only two realistic enforcement strategies:

1. Arrest the founders or officers at the UK border if they attempt to enter.

2. Direct UK ISPs to block access to their services.

Let's see if they are so PR-insensitive that they will want to actually do that.

cft··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
4chan is well, moderated, but it's outlived Facebook with real names.
cft··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
Can probably arrest the founder in Heathrow, like Durov's arrest in France.
cft··on OpenAI is good at deals
It looks like Ilya Sutskever wasn't as indispensable as he thought. SSI, Inc. is nowhere near the scale of OpenAI.
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