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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_with_evidence

Tunick’s attorneys accused the government of demanding access to his phone under the pretext of searching for child exploitation imagery, but without providing evidence to justify its suspicion.

Even if I had more information, I still wouldn’t have the law chops to predict where this may lead.

There are many, varied motivations for contributing to open source projects, and most of them aren’t a sense of altruism.

It’s great PR to market open source in utopian terms, but the reality is far more complicated.

The Apache web server wasn’t created out of the goodness of people’s hearts but out of mid-90s internet startups’ need for a reliable, scalable platform on which to profitably run services.

okey but orange bad man memes are such low-hanging fruit tho

I couldn’t say. Perhaps the dubvee version was from an earlier git commit. There’s no way to know without a copy of the deleted repo. It might be deducible from @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s fork, but it’s not worth the time & effort. https://github.com/db0/tesseract

Edit to add: He’s put it back up again 🤷

Wow. Guess what existed yesterday but not today?

• https://github.com/asimons04/Tesseract
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260426232724/https://github.com/asimons04/Tesseract/

I was about to show how the repo version and the dubvee version of the obfuscated banlists are somewhat different from each other, but it’s no longer possible now that the repo has been deleted.

git diff --no-index \
    <(curl -sL https://github.com/asimons04/tesseract/raw/refs/heads/main/static/data/policy.dat \
        | base64 -d | gunzip | gron) \
    <(curl -sL https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy \
        | base64 -d | gunzip | gron)

So largely performative. With enough pressure, Mullvad might say something negative about a bourgeois party, which won’t do anything.

There’s no reason to think Proton would be any different in this regard. Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party

Both lists are blocklists, it’s just that one is processed as literal matches and the other as regular expression matches.

I’m hard-coded into both Tesseract and Piefed.

Most of the regex bans are for those with user accounts on multiple instances under the same name. Extreme example: https://lemmy.ml/search?type=Users&q=cm0002

JSON isn’t especially greppable, which is why I often pipe them through gron.

Mullvad didn’t fund Õbrero; one of Mullvad’s owners did, and boycotting Mullvad won’t un-donate those funds, because there’s no return policy on political donations.

A cofounder donated to the Örebro Party, which has an eclectic platform. Mostly, progressive liberals of the imperial core are (justifiably) upset about its immigration/“remigration” policies and upset about its anti-NATO policies.

Companies are owned by the bourgeoisie, who are right wing[^1]. So “voting with your dollar” over this is largely performative, because the VPN you switch to will also be bourgeois-owned.

[^1]: With the rare exception of bourgeois class traitors.