chalk46

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‘You say you are a musician, they beat you more’: the Ukrainian sax player who survived Putin’s torture prisons (www.theguardian.com)
 

Yuriy Merkotan played in a military band and, after being caught up in the Mariupol siege, spent nearly two years in various jails

Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain in c/privacyguides@lemmy.one
[–] chalk46@kbin.social 58 points 5 months ago (9 children)

nothing I read about this group on Wikipedia points to terrorism, it repeatedly says they advocate nonviolence
I guess these days though it's become some kind of magic password to get whatever the hell you want

Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code! in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
Why do I have to agree with USA law when installing Fedora or openSUSE ? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] chalk46@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh yeah, I'm sure that'll work 👍
about as effective as a mystical incantation

Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] chalk46@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

and even then, Android is mostly open source.
I've personally updated the kernel to my Amazon Fire tablet (and believe me, the 3.18 branch doesn't contain as many security backports as they'd have you believe)

James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe in c/space@beehaw.org
[–] chalk46@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

I guess going by CMB radiation isn't that reliable, since the speed of light is a constant, but we don't know squat about dark energy
plus, something as big as the universe, gotta make allowances for the butterfly effect

Iran warns Israel, US of ‘severe response’ in case of retaliation in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] chalk46@kbin.social -2 points 6 months ago

it's like listening to a little yappy dog that thinks he's got all the power in the world