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I would point out that attacking civilian water supply is a war crime, but we've spent the past 20 years pretending that poisoning wells and cutting off water to civilian populations is not a war crime, so I don't believe that we will start paying attention to that now.🤷🏿‍♂️

The refugee crisis will lead to increased legal and undocumented Middle Eastern migration to Europe.

It will also cause the 3 million+ African immigrants working in the Middle East, to need a new place to live and work. Europe!

Which will all increase anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe.🤡

Which will push many European voters further to the right and Trumpier.
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They will forget that Trump was threatening to invade their countries just a few months ago, and that the refugee crisis was entirely unnecessary, and was all created by him.

They will instead blame economic hardship on the refugees.

And the far-right racist spiral will accelerate, and continue to collapse in on itself. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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🧙🏿‍♂️🔮 Prediction that only I, Blackstradamus, am wise and learned enough to see!*

Iran can't defend its desalination plants! Other nations can't defend their desalination plants! Mutually assured thirst! Cities don't work without water! Refugee crisis!

(*Of course I'm not special. Literally everyone sees this).

I would point out that attacking civilian water supply is a war crime, but we've spent the past 20 years pretending that poisoning wells and cutting off water to civilian populations is not a war crime, so I don't believe that we will start paying attention to that now.🤷🏿‍♂️

The refugee crisis will lead to increased legal and undocumented Middle Eastern migration to Europe.

It will also cause the 3 million+ African immigrants working in the Middle East, to need a new place to live and work. Europe!

Which will all increase anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe.🤡

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With the recent heavy rains around here, the spring peepers are going nuts today with the warm weather we're enjoying. I don't know why -- maybe it's because their little froggy peeps are some of the first hopeful signs of Spring -- but hearing them sing in unison this early makes me unreasonably happy.

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I am loathe to tell people what not do without giving them some useful advice for what they should do instead. If you are relying on Proton for "secure email" please read my security 101 guide for what to do instead and the limitations of all these tools hashman.ca/security-101/

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The current round of grief protonmail is getting is the well deserved result of their own marketing.

Marketing that has always strongly implied when not outright saying that their product is more private/secure because it is not hosted in the United States.

Yes they were just complying with a legal warrant and that is the cost of doing business in a jurisdiction.

If they hadn't complied they'd probably just get popped by the NSA.

They've still spent decades overselling the privacy capabilities of GPG+Switzerland.

Also you should probably assume they've been popped by the NSA.

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I am loathe to tell people what not do without giving them some useful advice for what they should do instead. If you are relying on Proton for "secure email" please read my security 101 guide for what to do instead and the limitations of all these tools hashman.ca/security-101/

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On this Wednesday, March 11, we will ship the 273rd release ever. We call it curl 8.19.0.

It contains over 250 bugfixes, done by the help from over 75 contributors during the 63 days since the previous release.

We will also announce at least four CVEs in sync with this.

Amusingly, the 273rd release supports 273 command line options.

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Pollution et gestion de l'eau : le massacre macroniste

Un sujet passe étrangement sous les radars ces dernières semaines : le gouvernement est en train de totalement démanteler 40 ans de politiques progressives (et transpartisanes) de protection des ressources en eau.

C'est un monstrueux scandale sanitaire, écologique et démocratique, juste pour plaire à l'agro-industrie. Les conséquences sont gigantesques et multiples, ça devrait faire la "une" de tous les journaux.

lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/

Edit [09 mars 20026 à 9h20] pour préciser :

Comme l'article se concentre sur le blocage gouvernemental du SAGE "Vilaine", j'ajoute que mon commentaire générique renvoie plus largement à des reculs structurels extrêmement préoccupants, récents ou en préparation :

👉 abaissement des seuils de pollution de l'eau (pour garder "potables" des eaux qui ne devraient plus être distribuées),

👉 réforme des CLE ("commissions locales de l'eau", instances remarquables de démocratie locale et de concertation constructive) pour augmenter la représentation agricole et industrielle, et en faire des lieux de conflit et de rapport de force au profit de l'agro-industrie,

👉 réduction de la protection des aires de captages d'eau potable,

👉 réduction de la protection des zones humides,

👉 abandon des fondements principaux de la directive européenne "Nitrates" (qui est l'un des seuls règlements protecteurs de l'eau depuis 40 ans, même si son application très imparfaite en France est pointée du doigt par les instances de contrôle de l'UE).

Sur la directive Nitrates comme sur d'autres dossiers européens de pollution de l'eau par les pesticides (règles d'évaluation) ou de protection de la biodiversité (dans la PAC), la France est l'un des pays les plus actifs en faveur du démantèlement.

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@fooneAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ I know from past posts of yours that you're a keyboard guru so I figured I'd ask you: I'm trying to find a bulletproof way to let an AI agent emulate keystrokes. Every software-based attempt I've made has failed. Could a USB dongle be made that's indistinguishable from a keyboard to the machine, and which accepts AI input via some sort of MCP? Does such a beast already exist?

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