French far right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement of EU funds, and sentenced to 4 years in prison of (2 will be served).
Not that the situation is exactly the same, but embezzlement of EU funds was part of what started the downfall of the Danish far right as well, ending with Kristian Thulesen Dahl leaving politics altogether.
Congratulations to France. 🇫🇷
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Are Marine Le Pen's presidential ambitions finished after embezzlement conviction? | DW News
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for public office for five years after being found guilty of misappropriating European Uni...YouTube
Almost every other country makes fraud and treason look easy to handle.
I’m sure Le Oen is “very Nov people,” though. America is. 🙃
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Oracle attempt to hide serious cybersecurity incident from customers in Oracle SaaS service
Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open. The moment where this is tested at Oracle has…Kevin Beaumont (DoublePulsar)
When showmanship and the black arts meet, the results can be rather gruesome.
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Here's Why The TurboGrafx-16 Is So Much Bigger Than The PC Engine
"They believed that if it’s small it should cost less, not more"Damien McFerran (Time Extension)
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If Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt in 1994, we might have had an AmigaPhone in our pockets. 🥲
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The image is a four-panel meme. The first panel shows an animated character with long blue hair, smiling widely, with the text "Playing D&D". The second panel continues with the same character, now with a more contemplative expression, and the text "PROCEEDS TO TALK ABOUT CONSISTENT BAD DICE ROLLS". The third panel features the same character with a thoughtful expression, and the text "Man, isn't it funny how dice are like the symbol of the conflict between spiritual and material ideas?" The fourth panel shows a real-life person sitting on the floor in a restroom, surrounded by broken pieces of a clipboard, with the text "4 HOURS LATER". The final text reads "DEEP EXISTENTIAL CRISIS ABOUT THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, THE AFTERLIFE, AND WHETHER RANDOMNESS IS JUST A COSMIC ILLUSION OR IS IT OURSELVES". The meme humorously depicts the progression from a simple game to a deep existential crisis.
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J'ai installé la dernière version de @thunderbird (la version 136.0, canal release). Le module conversations a été désactivé car il n'est pas encore mis à jour... 😭 addons.thunderbird.net/fr/thun…
Thunderbird Conversations
Cette extension vous sert sur un plateau une vue en conversation pour Thunderbird, avec les infobulles des contacts, des vignettes pour les fichiers joints, la réponse rapide, l'intégration avec les autres modules, et bien d'autres astuces encore.addons.thunderbird.net
Thunderbird Release Channel Update - The Thunderbird Blog
Do you want new features in Thunderbird sooner? Learn how to switch from annual to monthly updates with the Release channel.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Trump calls the day he starts taxing US consumers 25 percent on their cars "Liberation Day".
That is 25 percent national wide Trump tariffs, before the state sales taxes are added.
If Bernie Sanders had suggested this, Republicans would have called it communism, but now the idea comes from The God King, so… "Liberation Day" it is.
The agreed delivery term is DAP, which means the customer is responsible for all costs associated with import.
I'm not yet sure whether the tariffs will apply to our equipment but I'm kind of hoping yes.
The boss of that company is a gun toting maga heap of shite.
I tvivl før kong Frederiks tale: 'Vi må vente i spænding'
Kong Frederik har før høstet både stor kritik og store roser for at tale på andre sprog end dansk – så mon vores flersprogede konge vælger at holde tale på fransk i aften?Lykke Buhl (B.T.)
Otto Waalkes - Dänen lügen nicht
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One of the most overlooked but useful features on Mastodon is "Notes". These let you add private info to profiles which only you can see:
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A lot of people use notes for keeping track of why they blocked or muted someone, but there are also lots of other purposes.
Notes can be created on the web interface and some third party apps. Just click on the "Add note" section of a profile and type what you want.
What are notes on Mastodon? What does “Click to add note” mean on Mastodon profiles? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Requiring "double consent" for user tracking is too much, French agency says.
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France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking
Requiring “double consent” for user tracking is too much, French agency says.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
“Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. I’m an optimist; I believe people are smart, and some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time.
Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of your asking them. Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data.”
Doctor shortages have hobbled health care for decades − and the trend could be worsening
Doctor shortages affect rural communities the most, leading to a rise in chronic health conditions.The Conversation
Rassemblement National & Marine Le Pen : le devoir d'exemplarité en action.
Tolérance Zéro, mais pour les autres !
Pour soutenir la lutte dessinée, engagée et indépendante :
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A legal challenge to the Jet Zero strategy | Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport takes the government to the High Court over its flawed aviation emissions reduction strategy | Nick Hodgkinson
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FunHouse Radio
Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
"Hegseth is an incompetent drunkard who must go!“
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Transcript: Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Knives Come Out for Hegseth
As Trump's allies start turning on his defense secretary, Jennifer Rubin of The Contrarian explains how Pete Hegseth's tenure will get much worse—and why it will become untenable for Trump and the GOP.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
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Israeli military orders evacuation of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah @palestine
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Israeli military orders evacuation of Gaza's southern city of Rafah
Israel ended its ceasefire with the Hamas militant group and renewed its air and ground war earlier this month.PBS News
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN @palestine @israel@a.gu.pe
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian officeLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Did you want to see how fast your ancient computer was? Because now you can!
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Certainly better retro-ability than most Internet speed tests I’ve tried, which can’t handle dial-up connections at all.
Usually they complain that their server is down, seeing no response, since it takes a while for packets to get transmitted at 4 kilobytes per second. If they were smarter, they’d start with some short probes rather than megabytes of data. Simple to do, not as much trouble as writing a benchmark for old OSes, but they can’t do it.
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“And I am tentatively of the mind that we have actually lost something by the absolute availability of everything if you can be bothered to click it.”
Also his thought on social media is something I’ve been thinking about for a while.
“The reason I’m not on social media is because I know what I would be doing, and I thank God that I happened to be old enough that I had sorted out, broadly, who I was before it came along”
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As always, China Mieville says interesting and thought-provoking things about science fiction, politics, tech, and the world in general in this interview. Definitely worth reading! https://techcrunch.hcommons.social
Good News for Billionaires: FAA to Let Them Block Tracking of Their Private Jets
Private aircraft owners like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Taylor Swift can now submit a request to the FAA to hide their personal details on flight-tracking documents from public view.Jibin Joseph (PCMag)
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Weather tracker: Arctic winter sea ice at record low in 2025, scientists say
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Weather tracker: Arctic winter sea ice at record low in 2025, scientists say
Annual peak is lowest on record, covering 5.53m sq miles – about 30,000 sq miles below the previous low in 2017Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
The Bank That Won't Let You Withdraw
A massive banking failure has frozen users funds for almost a year. Nobody has accepted blame, lawsuits are flying--I decided to investigate but what I found...YouTube
BMW has been making M5s for 40 years, but the latest one has lost its way somewhat.
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This is a total game changer. Think of all the places you can now bring your beloved monitor with you. The movie theater. Church. Your uncle's funeral.
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Older viewers are turning to YouTube. It's recently led me back to some favorite shows
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Zink is Zero Ink — Sort Of
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Zink Is Zero Ink — Sort Of
When you think of printing on paper, you probably think of an ink jet or a laser printer. If you happen to think of a thermal printer, we bet you think of something like a receipt printer: fast and…Hackaday
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