Futurology Today

Following up to this post https://lemmy.ml/post/31598540

A number of people asked for F-Droid support when I posted about my Lemmy client, and it’s here!

Get Blorp on F-Droid

I didn’t notice the scope of some of the app permissions until now, but half of those are unnecessary. I’ll be reducing the scope in the next release to avoid any confusion.

Caracas (AFP) – The Venezuelan government on Tuesday claimed that 66 Venezuelan children are being illegally held in the United States after being separated from their parents during deportation, as the White House cracks down on immigration.

Caracas is demanding the children be handed over to Venezuelan authorities so they can be repatriated.

"We have 66 children kidnapped in the United States. It's a number that grows each day... a cruel and inhumane policy," said Camila Fabri, president of the government's Return to the Homeland program that advocates for the voluntary return of people who left the country.

She spoke at a gathering at which women read out letters to US First Lady Melania Trump asking her to intercede on behalf of the children, who they said had been placed in foster care.

More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2014, the largest population exodus in Latin America's recent history, according to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

It blamed "rampant violence, inflation, gang-warfare, soaring crime rates as well as shortages of food, medicine and essential services."

In recent years Venezuelans in the United States had been granted temporary protected immigration status, allowing them to live and work there for a designated time period.

But President Donald Trump's administration revoked that protection as part of his aggressive campaign to deport millions of undocumented migrants from the United States.

The US Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to AFP requests for comment on the claim by Caracas.

To date, 21 stranded children have been returned to Venezuela, including a daughter of one of the 252 Venezuelans detained in Trump's immigration crackdown in March, who was accused without evidence of gang activity and deported to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison.

The men were freed in a prisoner swap in July and flown home to Venezuela, where four of them told AFP they suffered beatings, abuse and deprivation.

Fabri said that 10,631 Venezuelans have returned in 2025, both those deported frm the United States and others stranded in Mexico.

The White House has also squared off against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who faces federal drug trafficking charges, with the US placing a $50 million bounty on him.

Washington, which does not recognize Maduro's past two election victories, accuses the South American country's leader of leading a cocaine trafficking gang, and has launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean.

On Monday Maduro said he would deploy millions of militia members in the country in response to the US "threats."

How to access signal's db.sqlite,

I uploaded this to kingofras@lemmy.world "Look at the silent countries" post

I though it would be useful to know how to access what information signal stores.

So those privacy conscious individuals can check for themselves.

this is the basic difference between Molly and signal.

In Molly you can password protect db.sqlite, Signal removed this option a while ago.

On linux you can access your Signal messages in db.sqlite.

once you delete a message from signal, either through disappearing messages or manually, all those messages are deleted from the db.sqlite.

They are stored in an encrypted db.sqlite here:

/home/user/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite

you can also extract it from you phone:

only the messages that you can see when you open the Signal app are visible there.

to access the messages:

install:

signal-backup-tools-git

https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools

and

DB browser for sqlite

https://sqlitebrowser.org/

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The most straight forward way is to create an output file to html.

copy the db.sqlite to a new directory

signalbackup-tools --exportdesktophtml signal.html

this will create folders of all your contacts and messages and media.

easily acessible. open the signal.html files in your browser

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To open db.sqlite as a Sqlite database;

first you need to get the key:

copy the db.sqlite to a new directory

then run in terminal:

signalbackup-tools db.sqlite --showdesktopkey

OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024)

Signal Desktop key (hex):

58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7

copy the key to a text editor

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you must now add 0x to the beginning of that line:

0x58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7

then open db.sqlite with the sqlitebrowser

right click db.sqlite, select open with DB Browser for sqlite

select RAW from the dropdown menu

input the passphrase from above. make sure you added the 0x to the beginning.

The entire database opens.

you can view all the information that signal collects. phone numbers, messages, images, media etc

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Germans, find out all the people behind this company. Owners, workers, lawyers. They hate you. Give them a hearty welcome back.

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Georgia’s tumble toward autocracy has come with a most peculiar twist. As might be expected, Georgia has long existed in the shadow of Russia, that great colossus to its immediate north. Since gaining its independence in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union, Georgia has seen Russian-supported separatist forces carve out two mini-republics, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, amounting to nearly 20 percent of its national territory, through force of arms and murderous ethnic-cleansing campaigns. The wounds from those wars have never healed — tens of thousands of war refugees remain displaced today — nor have Russian protestations of innocence gained much traction.

The Wiktionary entry for "make out" for reference.

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It appears that the Gamers Nexus youtube video "THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments" is no longer available on YouTube.

Old links now show "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Bloomberg L.P." instead of the original video... :(