Big ED

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@Mrwhosetheboss Arun, in no universe would an 8GB RAM be stupidly good in 2026.
But yea, it's Apple.

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Is this the update that will screw me?

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Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace.

The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication.

What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required.

That is the democratic scandal.

When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick.

And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive.

This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause.

A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion.

Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters.

This is a dark day for Europe.

Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together.

Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this.

Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

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@PrinceOf_Darkns @grok Africa. North Africa. The Sahara Desert.

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This is not fair at all.

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OMG, I love Egypt.
Anti-establishment ❤️

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@bankertobuilder Enjoy your brand new boring misery

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@Real_Giilo That first landing must have hurt his knees.

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That penalty wouldn't have been given against a European team, I am 100% certain.
The Senegalese dude wasn't even looking at the guy that was "kicked".

In fact, Vinicius had the same situation and it wasn't called as a penalty.

I am sadly at the age where I see these little excusable injustices everywhere I look.

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I will never understand Europeans. I would never understand what they have against AC's. Maybe it's because I was born in the tropics. And I also understand thermodynamics.

[Esra @esraal]

Hollanda'da bi arkadaşım bundan almış evine ve pencereye boruyu taktığı an komşuları gelmiş, işte bu ne kadar elektrik yakacak, günde kaç saat çalışacak, binaya gürültü verecek mi vb 80 tane soru sormuşlar, sonunda izin vermemişler kullanmasına :(

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@Dhruvam987 Ironically, WindowServer and UI glitches when using with two monitors.

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@lucatac0 @weiking52095 30000, is 10,000 times 30. Which is the number of days in a month. So the original replyer is right. The premium plan is the same thing as the free plan only with a pay as you go ability.

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Some domains I hold but willing to give away for the right price:
-vouxstyle.com

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@wikidizzle Thank you. I will try. I am looking for something I can put on my television though

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This is really the worst world cup for people watching at home. I can't even find an English commentary channel on the France vs Senegal game plus the broadcast quality is so poor.

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@Morris_Monye I commented on one of your posts, and the number of foreign accounts liking it is suspicious. Is that why you had to make your posts private at some point?

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@Morris_Monye A lot of these are AI videos. The good old days of Sora

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Investing in SpaceX is an investment in man as an inter-planetary species.
Think about that deeply.

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@Onsogbu This man is a victim. He needs a criminal lawyer.

The real drug dealer is still free and out in the wild and should be arrested.

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Americans really believe that "they dont have an accent," and everyone else has one.