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The service is run by a French non‑profit organization, not the EU.


A french non-profit subject to the EU and France rules.

Which means they absolutely abide the DSA and must block 'illegal content' which is pretty extensive these days. Includes 'hate speech' which isnt well defined, but only when ordered by a court. Not to mention various "disinformation" orders they must abide by now.

They are also subject to orders from ARCOM? for copyright related stuff.

They are also obligated to record and store all dns queries by ip essentially forever.

This is literally why the title claims "safer". They are censoring.


Why would the French (or other) government not have agents planted in such a high-value place? It's almost without question that they do.


I make myself the same question every time I use US services. Which is why I want to drop them.


It seems rather unlikely to me that they do.


It seems unthinkable to me that someone wouldn't


So you believe the French secret service to be omnipotent.


What? Where did I say omnipotent? Governments put agents in places; this is a well known fact of life. DNS logs are a fantastic source of nefarious information-gathering.


You said "unthinkable" which implies omnipotence.


I said "it seems unthinkable to me". This means that I find it so unlikely that no reasonable person could ever think it to be the case.

"I find it so unlikely that governments don't have agents in the public DNS service that I can't believe anyone would ever believe it to be the case that they don't"


are you French? just interesting.


No I'm American, which is why I can't comprehend anyone trusting a government or a public service


Why would you prefer an external power brick?

The internal power supplies in Mac minis have been extremely reliable and the fewer cables the better, in my opinion.


There can be advantages to an external brick, but I see parent's comment mostly centered on having USB-C as input.

That gives a lot more options IMHO on how to handle power for this machine, including portability, even if it's supposed to be a desktop machine.

I thought the same for the minisforum machines which would be competitive to this, they have a 19V input that really should be USB-C at this point.


I bought a portable AC battery for my Mac mini for $65. Hard agree though that it would be a lot cooler if the conversion was in the cable so I could just do dc in.

The thing is, M chips run so efficiently that even with the power loss from conversion, it’s still pulling less power than a lot of PCs.

But yeah it running on a sleek dc battery would be a lot cooler


could you share the link to the portable AC battery?


Plus you would lose a USB-C port to power


They can surely add another USB-C port, it would take the space of the current power socket so space wise it shouldn't be an issue either.


I was wondering the same thing.

There might be other explanations than a cyberattack though. The pagers could have been prepared in some way before distribution.

From the videos, it looks like the explosions were quite sudden and remarkably violent for such a small device.

So in addition to people-hunting FPV drones, we now have the equivalent of exploding collars from science fiction movies like Running Man. I don't like where we're heading, but it was probably inevitable that technology would be used this way.


As mentioned in this thread by others, this is not a new attack vector and won’t be the last. The only difference is the scale. And technically speaking, anything can be weaponized.


Better quality (1080p with proper audio): https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyJAZnwZqLxb

Unfortunately, this requires being logged into X.

I also really wish there was a 4K stream or recording for these amazing events.


They'll usually upload an edited YouTube video for big events like this.


Full stream recording https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1834154037606056327


I noticed the same thing. For some reason, the video (player?) defaults to 1.2x speed. You can change it in the video controls at the bottom.


That's the default speed that Loom plays, unfortunately we can't update it.


My slack status at work is “please don’t use loom” and the emoji is the loom logo crossed out


A text file.


Hmm, interesting. Do you think a mobile app that works like this: https://sandbox-mvp.vercel.app/ would make any difference?


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Actually, the sale of raw milk in West Virginia will become legal in June 2024.

More details: https://wvpublic.org/raw-milk-sales-legal-in-w-va-as-avian-f...


Editorialized title. The article says that Russia is increasing arms production, aiming to double their military power. With that, an attack on NATO can _not be ruled out completely_.


Crypto scam, actually. Very well done though!

Fake AI voice of Elon Musk, embedded QR code with SpaceX branding, redirect to https://spacex-starship.com.

85,000 people watching this fake channel (which has 369,000 subscribers for some reason). $30,000 in BTC already deposited and more rolling in every minute.


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