It is very common for buildings in Iran to be surrounded by high cement walls and fully enclosed courtyards, even private residences. This is partly due to their oppressive regime and a desire to keep having parties and generally normal private indoor lives.
What are the geopolitical implications of him striking Iran? Will any allies likely retaliate?
I would think Iran would be on its own, given it’s people are also attacking the regime from the inside.
This is some BS propaganda from the Iranian regime. It isn’t believable at all.
Everyone who knows an Iranian, knows that real Iranians want their regime outright assassinated by any country willing to do it.
What is the similarity? Just dead people?
This is a government killing its own people. Israel has been embroiled in a conflict with an outside nation, albeit a conflict of disproportionate forces.
Have you noticed what’s going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
There is a small wing of the extreme right wing that is kind of like that “tea party” movement after the last Bush administration that is starting to question whether Trump has their best interests in mind.
If that continues to grow, and I do not believe Marjorie can stop it now that she’s started it, then America really is on a bonafide track to violent uprising. That momentum is why there is urgency over the upcoming open enrollment period, because doubling annualized healthcare costs will activate a LOT of conservatives when they see the whole year’s bill in front of them.
As much as left-wing politics makes people mobilize to march peacefully, it’s usually been the extreme right that has the weapons to take it from protest to open murder in the streets.
I think that administration officials know this, and that is why they are afraid of the protests.
They fear their own supporters if they become disaffected and they know that a bunch of lefties peacefully marching is going to signal permission for one of their own to start shooting(stochastically, statistically, not intentional permission nor official support for violence).
Oligarchs in America have the dangerous desire to enjoy American society using their very mortal fleshy bodies. Unfortunately, that requires enough support of the populace to not get murdered.
Sorry if it was a weird phrase. I just didn’t know if other racial identities were allowed/wanted there. I didn’t want to presume what the intent of the community founders was.
Thank you for your answer(and thank you to the others too).
Is Blacksky a racially self-segregated competitor to Bluesky?
I read the article and watch one of the videos linked in it and that’s the impression I got, but I’m hoping someone can confirm/explain.
I’m not on either network, so I think I’m woefully ignorant on this. I apologize if it’s a silly question.
Yep, this is exactly the controversy I was referring to from two years ago. It only applies if you choose to upload video to their cloud, not your local storage hub.
If you read more about this, you’ll find that the vulnerability has been sensationalized by Gizmodo. A malicious actor would have to go to great lengths to obtain a very long hash string and then append that to a URL to get access to the unencrypted content. That hash string itself is not accessible, so it is highly unlikely.
With that being said, I wouldn’t recommend putting a security camera of any brand inside your home and pointing it somewhere you can’t risk being seen on the off chance of a breach, but how many people are really looking to do that anyway?
Eufy, by Anker, is a great choice imo. They keep data local by default, no subscription required. Very minor record of controversies.
Two party consent laws in California come down to a “reasonable expectation of privacy” and that has been worked out in the legal system over time to be pretty much any place with an open door or window, even a conference room inside a private business is fair game if the door is open to the hallway.
I’d recommend trying Ollama+OpenCode to DIY removals. It can at least help find the sites and their removal request pages, but then you’d need to solve captchas and do the requests.
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Some of these PII removal companies go to great lengths to request removals on your behalf without providing ANY additional information that the data broker does not already have.
The problem is that nobody can tell which PII removal companies act responsibly and which ones are merely data brokers themselves.
Even the ones trying their best to not distribute more information about you need only to screw that up once, and that single incident of human error leads to a neverending cycle of leaks between downstream data brokers.
It’s the perfect industry for local AI agents to replace, but the only way to know you’re properly requesting removals without making matters worse is to do it yourself.
I don’t understand why protestors would even show up in Washington DC during the fascist parade like is being implied in the article.
The union protests and social unrest currently underway are not really related to Trump’s authoritarian birthday bash except for how the media paints them as a “warm up”.
Protesters would be better served popping up all over the country except in Washington DC during their synchronized goose stepping contest.
During one of the mass exodus events from Reddit to Lemmy, a lot of people started using these tools they would install to automatically scrub and obfuscate their Reddit comments and posts history. Often these tools would replace posts with random letters and even nonsense links because there was suspicion that outright deleted posts could be detected and then programmatically restored if Reddit really wanted to get that user content back.
I suspect these tools probably exist for Lemmy as well and you are seeing users with long comment histories use them because those also happen to be the users who have a lot of previous content to cover up/obfuscate to maintain/ensure their own privacy.
Inject it with bleach! That’ll do the trick.
Iran’s government sucks, but this story really shows how the Iranian people are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Regular Iranians have more in common with western social values than those of the Iranian government or Russia - it’s been that way before, during, and after the Iranian revolution.
Not sure what the answer is, but they keep trying to protest and resist their government every few years and they get violently forced back into submission.
Of all the countries with screwed up regimes, Iran is one where I think it’s more appropriate to encourage more fluid immigration into western countries - a lot of their working age population is relatively better educated than many other countries too.
A lot of the work they do is aimed at thwarting the business models of cyber criminals, scam sites, etc.
Their reviews are probably from the people who had a good thing going using bots to scrape PII or take advantage of free trials/free tier SaaS products but were suddenly put out of business by cloudflares captcha tools.
No. Read closely. Both require it to be in the app.
It’s Apple Review Guideline 5.1.1:
(i) Privacy Policies: All apps must include a link to their privacy policy in the App Store Connect metadata field and within the app in an easily accessible manner…
For Android it’s in their User Data article:
Privacy Policy All apps must post a privacy policy link in the designated field within Play Console, and a privacy policy link or text within the app itself…
It is a requirement of both Android and iOS app stores to have a policy prominently displayed for users.
No, it often cannot. That’s what I mean by “fully enclosed”, and I can see how you might have thought I just meant walls and no roof. I should have been more clear, but I was trying to differentiate between just having walls vs having full private enclosure for recreational spaces, which is common in Iran and also in a good chunk of other countries.
Schools or gyms often do have roofs as well, with vents or small/high windows for air circulation but no way to actually see inside because physical privacy is especially valued in Iran - not just because of the government but also because of cultural and religious traditions.