Wasn’t MATE forked from GNOME?

The left was saying that the PATRIOT Act was a bad idea from day one, just like we were with the Iraq War. People keep ignoring the left (or dismiss us as paranoid) and we keep getting proven right over and over and over again.

I would probably use the Wayback Machine for that. You can give it the page’s address and tell it to make a copy.

Democrats had the best intentions when it came to the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security as well,

How do you know what their intentions were?

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Also, as the name indicates, it downloads the page as a single file. Obviously, it doesn’t help for archiving the page for other people, though.

You don’t see how that applies? Honestly? It’s a helluva lot easier to find a way to play Roblox than it is to make antennae out of scrap metal.

It’s an actual letter. They just aren’t using it correctly.

We either have a free, open and anonymous internet… or a dystopian identity-required-at-every-point-of-access, heavily moderated, hellscape.

Is the implication here that this is a slippery slope to where I’m going to need ID in order to use DuckDuckGo or Lemmy or any other website? Because that just seems silly.

Which rights?

And nobody’s reporting on this? The only source is some rando on X?

…And I can’t read further because I don’t have an X account. And the source is “hackers”.

at least on Discord is literally being used to profile people criticizing the Trump administration and ICE.

Evidence?

teach kids to not trust strangers

That’s unrealistic. Teach kids about predators, and teach them about consent and bodily autonomy.

Or you could move away from legacy systems entirely by installing Linux.

Yeah, Linux is an afterthought, but I’m glad that they brought it up at all. They could’ve mentioned how Linux is more privacy-conscious than Windows, but that might’ve opened them up to a lawsuit.

You mean I couldn’t trust my private data with Big Balls?