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OK, knowers of arcane and esoteric stuffs, here's your challenge: I have a presentation framework data grid, and I'm trying to make an ancient ADO recordset it's datasource. I'm trying now, because after months of working, it magically stopped working after somebody fiddled with the code, but I can't for the life of me figure out what they set wrong.

I've checked the structure and contents of the recordset 6 ways from Sunday, and I'm absolutely certain it contains a large amount of data, but when I set it as the datasource for the grid, the grid updates column names, but doesn't show any data!

I've rewritten the code three different ways now, and it's always the same failure.

Got any thoughts, "The Internet"?

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@Blaise yeah and I could not let it after hours of retaining myself... why do people call out mothers while I had none?
Me a mommy's boy crying while I just gave my opinion on a subject calling them all herd mentality people for a reason that stands.
I swear someone talks to m elike that IRL and he will be beaten to death.
I grab a stone or brick and destroy the guy, he never went trough where I went and deliberately takes out that sensitive touch .
Then he blocks me.
That feature is being abused overdue and must change, look I don't care to be here is just I have a friend here and try to be compassionate with all as much as possible and never start a fire.
Presents himself as some techno hacker with a 2nd account BUT he left an URL on his bio that I bookmarked for later SQL reference.
Also I was not talking to him at all the retarded skid that angered me af.
Also reporting was 1st thing I did in a sane condition but it fails.
So I blocked him, then unblocked to give the message to discover that he blocked me.
In that fashion people can insult at heart and walk away from it but I have to respect ToS?
I know there is worse going on for people and our admin and this is something he does not want, so I asked him to delete my account.
And let the trolls thrive.
I was rejected by my mom, so please do not talk to me as little mommy's boy whatever
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@potential hazardous bullshit with ape poks.. I'm sorry that your mom was a man, I had no mom so call me again mommy's son you fucking idiot skid wanting to make the show and now hides behind a block bar.
I saw your posts and they to be real skiddish af!! And you come talk to me??? Then block me so that I can't reply?
Son of a whore send ya sisters to blowjob me and ya mom to make food inglorious bastard.
I have your shit site there's URL btw.
Fucktard..
Skid
You do not talk about my mom you insect cockroach like shit fly.
In real life if I encounter you I killl you with punches only fucking retarded co pilot antenna retard.
The way you post is like one of 13 years old and you need to here me out and read all this.
Your mom is a whore. You are a bitch alike your sisters.
Try 2 hide but you can not and I will punish you for your post and then block me.
Whether is against Tos or not for this I do not care I may not be here but else with another account and your name is noted and will be hunted.
Fucking shit troll.
Why you hide behind a block after sending a message you truly coward piece of shit?
Is why your node is even excluded here you fucking idiot with your kiddish posts you piece of skid of my arse.
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3 F'35 Lightning and 1 falcon rest is all F-16 they did not used at all for the military defile but drones.
Better not do a military parade then if you are weak.
Not even 1 rocket. but much and hardened infantry is all I saw before civilian structure.
And if it is for having this and fucking under water drone sweeper alone I ask myself why get many people out of welfare?
Most aggravation to me is there was an Ukrainian detachment parading.
Such a shame and new vision revealed.
Talking bout Belgium..
Was a great show off with a scenario of attack by drones.
Thing that derange me is that a National parade has not to be present with some Ukrainian peasants. I stand not up for Ukraine but for my own homeland

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Got hammered in chess today I rage quit!
But had a few good dayz before so it makes up.
I deleted cookies of that site at all!
I swear, it's like they conspired against me all .
This is not possible and unacceptable! Such a shameful streak of losses in rapid, but the one in classic well above me offered a draw.
2 wins 9 fucking losses in rapid the one in classic was a draw.
Whole 2 -3 day progress wiped out in 1 day.
Tomorrow is another day.
7 losses, I need hard drugs.
Worse of it is it was my own fault.
One needs a beating full force no pity by having lost advantage with stupid moves so one learns from it.

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The "Revenge List"

The list was released alongside a statement by Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, vowing vengeance for the killing of his father, Ali Khamenei, in February 2026. Mojtaba stated: "These criminals, whose names appear on a list, will take to their graves the wish of a peaceful death in their beds."

Targeted Leaders The infographic, described as a "rogues' gallery," depicts 13 world leaders in orange prison uniforms with sniper targets on their foreheads
it appeared on hamshahrionline.ir/
While Hamshahri is a semi-official publication, there is no confirmation that this specific list represents an official operational directive from the Iranian government or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). However, the timing coincides with US intelligence reports indicating Iran had planned specific assassination plots against President Trump, prompting heightened security measures during his recent travel.

همشهری آنلاین، سایت خبری روزنامه همشهری | hamshahrionline

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@Unus Nemo It would call 911 even thinking it saves your life! A friend has one of those with AI, it hears everything and acts on its likings if it come to health as not every person is the same simply set it kinda enforces it and can be annoying I imagine.
But it's helpful for some things apart from the fact it knows all about your life.
With digital signature apps it knows it all.
You go to a medic, there will pop up a notification doctor wrote etc so your health as well.
You log in for your taxes it knows your economic situation etc etc
That annoying pop up I can confirm now it is Gemini as I usually just close it immediately. So you are correct it came with the updates.
Problem is really mine is not root-able or I went for Graphene or another OS
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Yeah, I do not use AI for such things, it is still to early for that in my opinion. I basically use well trained (ones I train) LLMs to give expert advice. I cannot remember everything. But I can train my LLMs on my man pages, info pages and system documentation of what I use to get quick results. It is like a search that retrieves useful information without all the extra BS humans tend to include in their answers online.

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

For instance when I needed to learn how to use g++ to compile code using modules for C++23 I just asked the AI and it gave me the details. Without me having to poor through the man and info pages myself. That saved a lot of time. You ask that question on line you will get dozens of answers and if one of them is right you will be lucky. But it will be buried in 20,000 lines of their opinions.

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@Unus Nemo Or say in my case Internet goes down.. I still can trouble shoot that one out. It works with router off-grid.
And spares indeed many time and even learn me tricks.
And yes, traditional web scraper search function AI kinds or API using LLM gives bullshit as answers even dangerous to use.
Because answers come mainly from reddit or one of those sites a Khan academy etc, not the official pages.
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@Unus Nemo I know you basicly told me the options to do just that and I have that one with a RAG system on localhost as you said. You dislike the bot method to scrape the manpages and official docs but mine does a single HTTP request to eg man7.org 1 manual per request.
I don't want this on my phone, so I keep refusing it.
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

I use the man pages on my system as well as the info pages on my system. The advantage to that is that man and info pages get altered from distro to distro to reflect their setup which can be significantly different from say Debian v Fedora. Web base man pages tend to be the generic pages that release with the software and will not have the nuances added by your distro. So it makes sense to me to use my local man and info and docs.

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Yes, everyone knows that OS X was based on NextStep due to Apple acquiring Next OS. What a lot of people do not realize is that was the GUI influence. Since Darwin and forward with OS X BSD is the basis of the core system.

The graphical user interface (GUI) and the underlying Darwin operating system meshed together through a layered, object-oriented architecture where Cocoa served as the primary bridge, translating Objective-C user interface elements into instructions that the low-level Mach kernel and BSD subsystems could execute.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| User Interface (Aqua / Application Windows / Finder)  |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Application Frameworks (Cocoa / Carbon / Java)           |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Graphics Engine (Quartz / Core Graphics / OpenGL)    |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Darwin Core (Mach Kernel, BSD System, I/O Kit)           |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Because their is a significant difference in many BSD base tools and Gnu/Linux base tools even though they achieve the same results. They often use different flags, arguments and conventions. So you would not want your AI to not be able to distinguish between your OS X man pages v Fedora man pages etc.

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The Theater of War: Unwrapping History from the Lies We’re Sold

We are living in an era where reality is not just reported; it is manufactured. When we scroll through our feeds, we aren’t seeing the world as it is; we are seeing a curated reflection of what powerful entities want us to believe. The greatest tragedy of our time isn’t just the conflicts themselves, but the collective amnesia regarding history and the selective outrage that defines our modern geopolitical discourse.

The Architecture of Illusion
What that is, is history is often described as a cycle, but today, it feels more like a script being rewritten in real-time. We are told that certain nations are existential threats while others are benevolent defenders of freedom. Yet, if you peel back the layers of state-sponsored narratives and corporate media consolidation, you find a consistent pattern: the "foe" is rarely a natural enemy. The foe is made by media. It is a construct designed to unify a domestic population against an external caricature, distracting from internal decay, economic inequality, and the erosion of civil liberties.

~/~ Propaganda in the 21st century doesn’t look like the crude posters of the past. It looks like breaking news banners, algorithmic suppression, and the subtle omission of context. It convinces us that complexity is dangerous and that binary choices are the only moral path.

The Paradox of Selective Solidarity

Perhaps the most glaring contradiction in today’s discourse is the selective alignment of public sentiment. We see individuals passionately choose a side in a specific war theater, citing sovereignty and the right to self-defense. Yet, these same voices often harbor deep-seated hatred toward nations or peoples who are, by all strategic and historical metrics, friends rather than foes.
How can one champion the sovereignty of one nation while demanding the subjugation or destruction of another? How can we decry the expansion of military alliances when they do it, but celebrate it as "stability" when we do it? This cognitive dissonance is the fuel that keeps the war machine running. We are tricked into hating those who share our struggles against hegemony, while embracing those who profit from our division is my question next.

The Reality Behind the Curtain

Yeps the reality mainstream herd typos.
The reality is that no modern conflicts are not about democracy or human rights; they are about resources, strategic positioning, and the maintenance of a unipolar world order that is rapidly fracturing. The "axis of evil" changes names every decade, but the function remains the same: to justify endless military spending and the surveillance of the populace.
When we allow media conglomerates to define our enemies, we lose the ability to see the common humanity that binds us across borders. The worker in a sanctioned nation is not our enemy; they are suffering under the same weight of elite manipulation as we are. The soldier on the other side of the front line is often just as trapped by propaganda and conscription as the one we are told to support..
To see the truth, we must be willing to uncomfortable questions: Who benefits from this conflict? Why was this history erased from our textbooks? Why do we hate a nation that has never attacked us, while ignoring the atrocities of our allies?

We must stop accepting the narrative that the world is simply divided into "good guys" and "bad guys." Geopolitics is a chessboard of interests, not morals. Until we recognize that the true foe is the machinery of war and the propaganda that sustains it, we will remain pawns in a game we didn’t agree to play.

It is time to unwrap history from the lies. It is time to recognize friends where we’ve been taught to see foes. And most importantly, it is time to demand a reality based on truth, not convenience.

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Many as I witnessed yesterday can not understand/comprehend this text, it is as well an alarming notice that each and all I see post stupid things that are unreal will be deleted in connection with me. You can express an opinion of which we can debate but not hatred or block's just because of all above this post.
Many are detached from reality and what really happens around them and it gets forgotten by the day. I do not forget, I forgive but you wont have a 2nd chance with me.
And one can not debate a stupid person as that makes two stupid persons.
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How can you hate this person and heil an ex Nazi nation, whilst condemning another but it's the best friend of the one that started the cycle? It is like I said mainstream media, and many here are indoctrinated simply set. 20 million people here and majority is just brainwashed af. And as such contradicting as well. In short they follow the majority's choice and be a herd type.

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@Melissa BearTrix You won! 😃
You see, even time can be an ally in chess.
lichess.org/LDxsqru5/black#17
There's a new one on and you are black, read chat there for your moves to learn you the ropes.

Correspondence Chess • MelissaBearTrix vs masterplan8

MelissaBearTrix (1500?) played masterplan8 (1447?) in a casual Correspondence game of chess. masterplan8 ran out of time after 9 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!
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@Melissa BearTrix As for those that use that queen early game to get that tower to move next in line , this is how to punish them.
lichess.org/0bi23NqW/black
This is the Caro-kann opening on my side, best as black up to 500 elo in rapid games.
I did 5 inaccuracies yes.
This is how I want you to play.
His queen had no chance to move out with his reckless gamble.
Such pins etc you learn them in puzzles there.
4 or 3 of the inaccuracies were in setting chess mate in one move instead I went to take material, I'll learn end game then and play end game puzzles.
Rapid is timed so better get him mate in time... hence the not viewing the best solution was rushing.

Rapid Chess • Espoirsdgj250 vs masterplan8

Espoirsdgj250 (787) played masterplan8 (742) in a rated Rapid (10+0) game of chess. masterplan8 won by checkmate after 26 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!
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The "14 Eyes" refers to the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR) alliance, an extension of the Five and Nine Eyes agreements, where member nations share mass surveillance intelligence. A significant portion of Tor exit nodes (estimated at ~70–80%) are located in these countries, raising concerns about traffic correlation and deanonymization if multiple nodes in a single circuit fall under these jurisdictions.

SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) is the practice of intercepting, decoding, and analyzing electronic signals to gather intelligence. It is the technical backbone of the 14 Eyes
SIGINT is an umbrella term covering three main disciplines:

COMINT (Communications Intelligence): Interception of human communications (phone calls, emails, chat logs, radio traffic). This is what agencies like the NSA (US) and GCHQ (UK) primarily use to monitor internet activity.

ELINT (Electronic Intelligence): Interception of non-communication signals, such as radar emissions, missile guidance systems, or drone control links.

FISINT (Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence): Telemetry data from foreign weapons testing (e.g., speed, altitude, and performance metrics of a missile during a test flight).

more so
Unlike human spies (HUMINT), SIGINT is automated and massive in scale. Collection: Agencies use undersea cable taps, satellite interceptors (like the ECHELON system), and ground stations to capture raw data.

Processing: Supercomputers filter noise and attempt to decrypt encrypted traffic. If decryption fails, they often analyze metadata (who called whom, when, and where) which is often unencrypted.

The "Loophole": As revealed by Edward Snowden, SIGINT alliances allow countries to bypass domestic spying laws. For example, if the NSA is legally barred from spying on a US citizen, it can request the GCHQ (UK) to spy on them and share the data legally.
This is the core function of the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR) or "14 Eyes" group.

When you use Tor, your traffic is encrypted, but SIGINT agencies can still perform traffic correlation attacks. By monitoring the entry node (via your ISP) and the exit node (via a server in a 14 Eyes country), they can match timing and packet sizes to deanonymize you, even without breaking the encryption. This is why excluding 14 Eyes countries from your exit nodes is a critical defense against SIGINT capabilities.
NSA XKeyscore SIGINT capabilities 2026

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Tor over VPN is a total waste of time and creates far too much latency. If you feel you have to mask your use of Tor then just use a bridge. People seriously do not understand what VPNs are, what they were really made for, and why they are not great for security. Though they can get you past some regional blocks on the internet that is about the extent of their usefulness. Unless you are setting up your own VPN (which requires a publicly available server such as my VPS) to use the VPN for what it was actually made for.

The VPN privacy thing is a scam even when most of the net was http and not https. The reason being is that just like when you leave a Tor exit for a http site the connection between the Tor exit and the site is not encrypted. The same applies to VPN. As soon as you connect to a site that is not encrypted from your VPN you lose encryption. Now, if you are connecting to a https site, then you do not need to the VPN for encryption and you are just subjecting yourself to unneeded latency for no reason.

So-called security experts that are really just trying to sell you a service have totally misrepresented what a VPN is and its uses. I have entire books on VPNs if you are interested. OpenVPN also has some great documentation. The VPN for privacy is just smoke and mirrors that knowledgeable users do not fall for. It is like Anti-Virus on Gnu/Linux which is a scam as well, just to sell a product. I am not talking about Anti-Virus on servers to protect against their spreading viruses to MS/Windows machines connected to them such as Clam. I am talking about the BS anti-virus programs that really do nothing on Gnu/Linux there are other ways to protect yourself on Gnu/Linux that does not exist on Older MS/Windows but they are starting to add some features since MS/Windows Vista. Though most users disable these features on MS/Windows because they are inconvenient so they do not benefit from them. I am not implying that there are no security vulnerabilities on Gnu/Linus as there certainly are. They are just managed very differently than on MS/Windows. With stricter ACL then most home MS/Windows users have turned on and SELinux or Apparmor. And by just practicing good OPSEC.

Keep in mind that most Anti-virus software is mostly required because of proprietary software. When source code is available and can be vetted you do not need Anti-virus to scan files looking for attacks. Because they are in a binary format you cannot vet. With Open Source Software you can just read the code, no scanners required.

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@Unus Nemo I do not use Anti Virus at all even on my XOS and there no VPN neither. I know it's scam, just for here to help access sites due to geolocation using a wireguard tunnel to all accessible servers in a set region which is Canada, also to cloak my real ISP when I browse the net or use internet for tools etc. The proxied DNS is just a feature in the browser I love to use. I know that all these are storefront or they sell your data. Mullvad stores no data and i use their Wireguard to encrypt my connection and cloack real location for browsing only. Well it's system wide but there is little latency without the hopping, DAITA whatevere they sell a person just 1 encrypted wireguard for here ( This OS) and that proxied DNS in browser really make me evade Youtube's captcha's, log in's and what have we not.
For AV only thing I need is the GUI site of VT$ Browsers to check URL's and it turns to be a good social engineering tool as well.
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Just keep in mind that the encryption you gain from VPS or Wireguard starts from your computer and ends at their server. As soon as you connect to anything besides their server (which is everything) the encryption is gone and the only encryption is provided by the https or e2e if your app supports that. This is the biggest BS part of VPN. A real VPN would have every node on the same VPS so everything would be encrypted on that VPN. But the way a VPN or Wireguard works with Mullvad and other paid for services is that you are the only node the VPN that is accessible on their network unless you have more than one device on it. Even other Mullvad users you cannot connect to via the VPN. As soon as you go to a website Mullvad turns into a proxy server. So anything beyond their server from your entry point is not encrypted at all unless another method of encryption is employed. Which means you will have dual encryption. It will cause latency even if you do not notice it and it may even be acceptable for you. Keep in mind that dual encryption offers absolutely no benefit to your security and only causes latency.

The reason that the early Web was all http was that machines were not powerful enough back then to deal with the encryption and the latency just became unbearable. So it was only used on government mainframes etc. Back then businesses used Dedicated Service lines that they paid mega bucks for. As machines got more powerful VPN became their answer (which is the true use of VPN). Now most of the net is https most browsers will throw a fit if you even try to connect to a http site unless you enable it, which it will warn you is not safe. So providing your own encryption, except for in the case of Tor, is really just a sugar pill. If it makes you feel better then do it but it has no gain with only cost.

Your machine and ISP may be fast enough that the latency does not effect you to a point were you notice it. Though you can be sure it is there and is costing you additional bandwidth with no benefit.

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@Unus Nemo I see it more as a privacy tool, but then again as chat controls roll out and as I mentioned earlier they can decrypt server side (CSS) , let us say it adds a little anonymity for browser scans e.g. and mostly as you say geo location restrictions. I pay 5$ just for that 1 WG tunnel.. which made me consider to make my own from scrap and free.
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The Glass House of Europe
They promised us a shield, a digital fortress built of laws, The EU AI Act rising like a wall against the storm. "No more scraping of our faces," the decree proclaimed in August, "No more machines that guess our souls, or categorize our form."
But read the fine print, citizen, where the shadows learn to dance, For while the real-time eye is banned, the retrospective gaze remains. They cannot watch the protest live, or so the headlines say, But they can save the footage deep, and parse it through their chains.
The "loophole" is a wide open door, dressed up as safety gear, "Missing children," "Terror threats," the justifications grow. And every member state holds keys to unlock the cage they built, Turning "high risk" into standard practice, quiet, soft, and slow.
And in our pockets, whispers spread of Chat Control's return, A regulation stalled in trilogues, yet scanning still persists. The voluntary became the norm, the encryption cracked by stealth, While algorithms hunt for "grooming" in the texts we thought existed.
They say the Digital Identity Wallet puts the power in your hand, "You choose what data shares," they claim, "You hold the master key." But anonymity is eroding, brick by digital brick, As "over-identification" becomes the price of being free.
It is not the iron fist of old, nor boot upon the neck, But a soft, algorithmic hum, a bureaucratic embrace. Where privacy is traded for convenience, and silence for "security," And we wake up in a glass house, with no curtains on the face.
The law was meant to ban the dark, to draw a line in sand, But lines blur when the exceptions eat the rule from inside out. So guard your keys, encrypt your words, and question every scan, For mass control in modern times wears a friendly, legal shout.
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Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Chat Control 1.0 has been reinstated** by the European Parliament despite 314 MEPs voting against it, because the required absolute majority of 361 votes to block the measure was not reached.

The legislation was revived through a controversial urgent procedure approved on July 7 by 331 MEPs, which shifted the voting threshold from a simple majority to an absolute majority of all 720 members.
Although 314 voted against the extension and only 276 voted in favor, the failure to gather 361 "no" votes resulted in the automatic adoption of the Council's position. This outcome allows online platforms to voluntarily scan private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) until at least 2028, overriding the earlier March rejection of the temporary derogation. Critics, including Pirate Party MEPs and privacy advocates, condemned the maneuver as a bypass of democratic norms and standard parliamentary rules.
euperspectives.eu/2026/07/parl…

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Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) communications are not directly scanned under Chat Control 1.0. The technology of encryption prevents providers from accessing the content of messages in transit or on their servers.
But there is a loophole there again> The regulation allows for client-side scanning (CSS). This means the scanning software would operate on your device before the message is encrypted or after it is decrypted.
And of course the voluntary nature of some Storefronts..
This was normal for gmail, outlook since 2021 fyi.
The concern is in chat control 2.0 which will be passed as well same way or another way you'll see and there is the permanent CSAR regulation.
This proposed law aims to make scanning mandatory.
It seeks to force providers to implement client-side scanning on encrypted services, effectively bypassing encryption protections.

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Do you think that when the Project management cult powers-that-be changed "Risk/Benefit Analysis" to "SWOT Analysis" (SWOT = Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), do you think that they were only looking for a way to repackage what everyone's been doing for a century as a new concept, or do you think that they were simply so poorly educated that they had never heard of "Risk/Benefit Analysis", so they just reinvented it?

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You had your top player back after a call between Infantino and Trump on the terrain and still lost 1 to 4. You are eliminated as guest land all 3 in fact we did he last one.
You have met the Belgians..
youtube.com/watch?v=QL3kCTgeVK…

Where was any luck here?
That Belgian team's players are all playing in top Clubs..
But we played you out as last remaining guest land here.
That is a defeat and I know how it feels.
You still suck in soccer
And now you gonna raise tariffs on Belgium or even declare a war.
I honestly even hope Belgium loses against Spain next match, I don't care.. what I care about is kicking USA out.

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0003 An Ode to Gemini and the Smallnet

Few weeks ago I accidentally stumbled upon Project Gemini—I think I was browsing some random links on Wiby.me—and it really surprised me. Not only was I not aware about other Internet protocols (yes, I am ashamed of myself (¬_¬"), but there is a whole culture of the #smallnet hidden in a plain sight. It was like discovering #Fediverse all over again! I quickly found a gemini-compatible browser—Lagrange—and my dive into a new, exciting thing began.

At first, finding things in #Geminispace was challenging. But it felt strangely liberating. The local community is mostly well-educated IT specialists and enthusiasts. One of them has jokingly called Gemini “a place where the old IT seniors come to die”. This comparison made me think of the Grey Wardens from Dragon Age games and their necessity to seek the Deep Roads when they feel like their time is coming to an end. I really liked that image: the IT seniors clad in shiny armour give their final words of wisdom and disappear into the uncharted depths. “They call them Greybeards”, the story tells, “the ever-watchful guardians of cyberspace and cyberfreedoms against the corrupted Big-tech spawns.” Only unlike the Deep Roads, Geminispace is quiet and safe, without a constant horde of trackers, adspawns and other abominations up your back. It has its many limitations, but through them it shall remain a place of sacred refuge from the Big Tech and the noise of modern internet. As long as there is at least one Greybeard to roam its depth. 𓀛

Gemini's obscurity and lack of utility means that there are no analytics, no metrics, no ways to go viral, to monetize people's attention, build a career or even a minimally-functional web platform. No sane business would build on top of Gemini, and that is exactly why it is capable of having the character that it does.
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“Gemini is Useless” by Alex at gemini://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi

P. S.: The word “Greybeard” is used as a unisex term, just for the connotation with Grey Wardens, and to link the old meme that deep knowledge of IT systems gets you a beard (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ). I fully acknowledge that many of the heroes have no beard. ᡣ𐭩ྀིྀི

Lagrange

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#fediverse #geminispace #smallnet

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I ran into Gemini randomly in its infancy in 2020. I was checking out browsers when I noticed Lagrange. The protocol is very limiting though that is its appeal. I was even working on a module for Gemini support for lynx, I am sure it is around in my archives somewhere 😉.

note: I just checked and I still have Lagrange installed, though it does not get much use these days.

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