Surely it's a misunderstanding and it has nothing to do with his politics? He's MAGA in case anyone was wondering, a huge Trump defender. Anyway, whenever I tell Grandpa (who I live with) that I want to see the world or go to Germany or Norway on a school trip, or see Norway when I get older with my dad perhaps, he says "Why can't you just stay here?" or "Why can't you visit this country first?"

Then he goes on about how people speak English in America and in Germany and Norway, they speak other languages when I want to learn another language. I want to be fluent in my second and heritage language Norwegian and in German, which I will hopefully become a polyglot in English, Spanish, German, Norwegian and Toki Pona by 2029.

Also, I've told him that I know several monolingual English speakers who went to other non-English speaking countries like Mexico, but he still won't listen and help me save up. (I don't have a job yet and I'm only 15).

Not only this, as much as I love him due to him being family, I don't love his views. He doesn't really like immigrants due to his thinking they all can't speak English. If they speak accented English, he still tells them to "speak English". Maybe he doesn't want to "BECOME the immigrant" (in quotes, because well... we're not Native). Also, I will forever not understand people's hatred towards immigrants and their desire to embrace their home culture in a better country.

The tech giant says the new features are designed to alert users before they engage with something suspicious.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/meta-rolls-out-new-scam-detection-tools-to-facebook-whatsapp-and-messenger/

• Jack Skellingoon, the Pumpin' King, when he touch his peener

why don't the gestapo ever notice me?

The German chancellor expressed concern that there’s no “common plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing conclusion.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that he is increasingly worried about the apparent lack of a strategy by the U.S. and Israel for winding down their war on Iran.

“With each day of war, more questions arise. What concerns us most is that there is clearly no common plan for bringing this war to a swift and convincing conclusion,” Merz said, speaking alongside Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in Berlin. “We have no interest in an endless war,” the chancellor added.

Merz’s comments come as the U.S. and Israel continue to strike Iran, while Tehran has responded by striking Arab Gulf countries. The spiraling regional conflict is roiling global energy markets, raising concerns across Europe of the kind of inflationary spiral seen after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The right to use Swiss franc banknotes and coins will be enshrined in Switzerland’s constitution after voters on Sunday backed a measure designed to safeguard the use of cash in society.

Onionphone is a native Android application for anonymous, end-to-end encrypted push-to-talk voice and text communication over the Tor network. No servers, no accounts, no phone numbers — your .onion address is your identity.

Cross-platform compatible with Terminalphone — call between Android and Linux/Termux using the same protocol.

Optionally use your connection as a relay for ephermeral group channels.

Find the release page for version 1.0.2 which supports custom bridges for accessing censored networks.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60552836

Drone strikes operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 in Haiti, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports.

Since March last year, Haitian security forces with support from Vectus Global, a United States-licensed private military firm, have carried out antigang operations using quadcopter drones strapped with explosives, often in densely populated parts of the ⁠capital, Port-au-Prince.

Europe’s largest automaker, Volkswagen, is to shed 50,000 jobs by the end of the decade, as it faces falling sales in China and North America and punitive US tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.

The 10-brand group, whose luxury subsidiaries Porsche and Audi are also under pressure, said the jobs would go in Germany, affecting the entire group, as part of a restructuring drive in light of the darkening global business climate.

The group had already struck a deal with German trade unions at the end of 2024 to slash 35,000 jobs by 2030, in part by natural attrition through retirement and other staff departures.

In short: A man who declared himself as "far right" allegedly threw abuse and punches at a dinner run by a Muslim community in Ballarat.

A Ballarat man who was at the dinner says the incident has left his children too traumatised to sleep in their own beds.

What's next? Police say the man was told to move on and no charges have been laid.

What is ironic is that the number of jobs that have been lost due to blocking progress in solar cell research and production, wind energy, modern electrical infrastructure technology like high-voltage long distance lines, is larger than the number of jobs that have been protected this way.

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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.

It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43224320

• A persistent failure to adequately treat inmates’ health issues with medicine beyond a single dose of Ibuprofen

• A proliferation of diagnoses for serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia that inmates had never suffered from before

• An overall lack of sufficient calories and vegetables

• Verbal and physical abuse by guards

• Extreme temperatures

• Forced labor

• "the us is saving iran from evil government!!"
• the us, having a history of fucking over literally every state they've dealt with, bombing hospitals and schools

Recently, I did some research about elections in socialist countries. I found good sources about Cuba, Vietnam, and the People's Republic of China (unfortunately, I couldn't find anything reliable on the DPRK).

I would really like to know how elections worked in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1953 before Kruschev.

I know there was a Constituent Assembly in January 1918, but I must confess I am quite ignorant about this period.

Looking forward to your answers.

• Lobsters;
• Hacker News.

Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question of LLM-generated contributions; the latest debate stared in mid-February, after Lucas Nussbaum opened a discussion with a draft general resolution (GR) on whether Debian should accept AI-assisted contributions. It seems to have, mostly, subsided without a GR being put forward or any decisions being made, but the conversation was illuminating nonetheless.

Nussbaum said that Debian probably needed to have a discussion "to understand where we stand regarding AI-assisted contributions to Debian" based on some recent discussions, though it was not clear what discussions he was referring to. Whatever the spark was, Nussbaum put forward the draft GR to clarify Debian's stance on allowing AI-assisted contributions. He said that he would wait a couple of days to collect feedback before formally submitting the GR.

His proposal would allow "AI-assisted contributions (partially or fully generated by an LLM)" if a number of conditions were met. For example, it would require explicit disclosure if "a significant portion of the contribution is taken from a tool without manual modification", and labeling of such contributions with "a clear disclaimer or a machine-readable tag like '[AI-Generated]'." It also spells out that contributors should "fully understand" their submissions and would be accountable for the contributions, "including vouching for the technical merit, security, license compliance, and utility of their submissions". The GR would also prohibit using generative-AI tools with non-public or sensitive project information, including private mailing lists or embargoed security reports.