https://jlai.lu/ has definitely quite a few new joiners, curious to see how other instances are doing.

Summary

The FBI has provided the Justice Department with a list of 5,000–6,000 agents who worked on January 6 investigations, excluding names, after a weeklong standoff.

The move has sparked fears of retaliation if Donald Trump wins re-election. Two groups of agents sued to block the release of personal details, citing privacy concerns.

A court hearing is set for Friday to determine whether to extend a temporary order protecting agent identities.

Publicly releasing the names would amount to doxing.

im crying right now i never knew this why would he say such a silly thing

no more patriot award for him

Big means +10K online users

Preferably not FB or anything like tha

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-06-01

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Bonus panel

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also suggested that “there should be no negotiations with such a government,” but stopped short of issuing a direct order not to engage with Washington.

Khamenei's remarks upend months of signals from Tehran to the United States that it wanted to negotiate over its rapidly advancing nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of crushing economic sanctions worth billions of dollars.

Khamenei noted that Trump unilaterally withdrew from the earlier nuclear deal under which Iran drastically limited its enrichment of uranium and overall stockpile of the material, in exchange for crushing sanctions being removed.

“The Americans did not uphold their end of the deal,” Khamenei said. “The very person who is in office today tore up the agreement. He said he would, and he did.”

Paragon: come funziona lo spyware Graphite, scandalo di Stato

@informatica
Lo spyware Graphite sviluppato dall'israeliana Paragon è stato usato per sorvegliare un centinaio tra giornalisti e attivisti, tra questi anche diversi italiani. Tuttavia, anche se del caso specifico si sa ancora poco, il pericolo è attuale e reale, rendendo etica una questione che è soprattutto

UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)

Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.

ID: Is this a pigeon meme where the person is tagged "cis society", the butterfly in their hand is tagged "trans people having a backbone about anything at all", and they are asking "is this destroying my free speech?"

It was a burning question of mine for a while now:

I understand that dwarf planets like Pluto and Ceres aren't considered planets of the solar system, but why are they called 'dwarf PLANETS' if they aren't planets.

And no one really says, "the sun isn't a star, it's a Dwarf Star". Nor is it declassified as one because of it.

So, why are dwarf planets not planets, but dwarf stars are stars?

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/124827208

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.

I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I'm also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?