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"This is not war, it is destruction that words are unable to express," said the father of two children killed in the Israeli strike.

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The longstanding effort to keep extremist forces out of government in Europe is officially over.

For decades, political parties of all kinds joined forces to keep the hard-right far from the levers of power. Today, this strategy — known in France as a cordon sanitaire(or firewall) — is falling apart, as populist and nationalist parties grow in strength across the Continent.

Six EU countries — Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and the Czech Republic — have hard-right parties in government. In Sweden, the survival of the executive relies on a confidence and supply agreement with the nationalist Sweden Democrats, the second-largest force in parliament. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islamic firebrand Geert Wilders is on the verge of power, having sealed a historic dealto form the most right-wing government in recent Dutch history.

Meanwhile, hard-right parties are dominating the polls across much of Europe. In France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is cruising at over 30 percent, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. Across the Rhine, Alternative for Germany, a party under police surveillance for its extremist views, is polling second, head-to-head with the Social Democrats.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 98 points 1 month ago

"Recall screenshots are only linked to a specific user profile and Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements. Screenshots are only available to the person whose profile was used to sign in to the device," Microsoft says.

It's conspicuous that this statement talks only about the raw screenshots, not any data derived from them (such as aggregated data, inferred data, or even just slightly reprocessed data). So Microsoft could do any minor reworking of the data and send it off to the cloud for their own purposes, while technically complying with the above.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 110 points 2 months ago

Giving raises? My employer quiet quit that more than a decade ago. Meanwhile inflation and price gouging march on.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 138 points 3 months ago

That does kind of admit what we all suspected about Microsoft's QA since they fired the whole testing team in 2014.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 108 points 4 months ago

They don't really believe they're shooting at Hamas. They believe they're shooting at subhuman animals. This is the genocidal mindset.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 99 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In my experience, every computer is faster with Linux than with Windows. But if this measures just the processor performance on similar tasks I guess it's news.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 116 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't know about Deezer, but Spotify is raising prices while telling artists they will no longer be paid at all unless they reach a certain threshold of popularity. So they're boiling the frogs on both ends.

The middlemen who neither create nor appreciate music will still do OK though.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 297 points 8 months ago

Ah yes, just like how free speech means corporations must be allowed to bribe politicians.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 130 points 8 months ago

Rolling coal is the practice of installing a tampering device to pump more diesel into a vehicle’s engine than it can handle, leading it to spew out sooty black clouds of exhaust that pollute the air.

The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest. Coal rollers, or the drivers who engage in the action, may intentionally target Teslas, Priuses or other electric or hybrid vehicles.

Some people's dedication to being an asshole is quite astonishing. Imagine paying money just to be able to spew soot at other people's electric cars.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 91 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's all about boiling the frog slowly. People will put up with almost anything if it creeps up on them slowly enough, and these companies know it, as do authoritarian governments. We always say we'll kick up a stink if the next step happens, but then hardly anyone else does, so we stay quiet too. And this happens again and again.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 106 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Conservative leader has called on Trudeau to “come clean” about the evidence behind the allegation against India, saying Canadians deserve more facts.

Singh said Tuesday he does not support that call.

“They’re matters of national security and so information cannot be released beyond the general statements that were released,” he said.

Oh look, Poilievre's taking childish populist shots while Singh is acting like a grown-up. What a surprise.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 169 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Brexit. As historical blunders go, this has a beautiful unambiguous purity.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 154 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tor exit node, public Lemmy instance.

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