Trump has claimed at the press conference now under way in Florida that the United States is going to run Venezuela for the time being -- although it’s unclear how that would be done.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.
He has given no details.
He just called Maduro a dictator and a drug kingpin

Trump said his secretary of state, #Marco #Rubio, has talked with the Venezuelan vice president, #Delcy #Rodriguez, today and mentions that she agreed to work with the US.

The US president said 👉 she has already been sworn in as president.

A few hours ago there were reports that she was in Russia,
so the situation remains unclear at this moment and the press conference question and answer session with Trump is now bouncing around various semi-related topics.

As fragments of fact, as opposed to pure rhetoric and vague statements, come through we’ll piece them together.

“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,”
Trump just said, of Rodriguez.

theguardian.com/world/live/202…

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Mis panas venezolan@s, en este momento el objetivo principal del enemigo es romper el tejido social del país para allanar el camino a la intervención militar, que ya tuvo sus primeras incursiones. Precisamente por eso, para quienes no formen parte activa de ningún plan de resistencia, lo más sensato y responsable es:

1. Mantener la calma. Si no vives cerca de un objetivo militar o estratégico, lo recomendable es permanecer en casa y evitar desplazamientos innecesarios.

1/?

#Venezuela

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Tuta ⚡ Proton comparison made by Lucentir: lucentir.xyz/companies

✅ Tuta stores less data about you
✅ Tuta tracks less
✅ Tuta shares less
✅ Proton is more transparent

Bottom line: Both are good, but Tuta is better. Check all the details:
➡️ tuta.com/best-protonmail-alter…

@staff Hi, I haven't received a specific post created last Thursday by a bot I follow. Can you investigate why, please?
the account that posted it is:
@www.youtube.com.channel.ucha3dwydrqgbihbkldj3cpw
and the post I haven't received starts with the following phrase, in Portuguese:
Lançamentos internacionais no Brasil em Dezembro de 1980
when I go to my mastodon.social home timeline, the post isn't there as well.

for over 500 years, imperial forces have humiliated, kidnapped, and murdered our local leaders to crush resistance and enable the systematic looting of our lands. gold, silver, pearls, coffee, bananas; today, oil: the main fuel of the insatiable monster they created, capitalism

despite massacres, betrayals, and setbacks, we have resisted and we will continue to resist for another 500 years if necessary. for the forest, for biodiversity, for collective life, and for our right to joy

#Venezuela

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"Billionaires raised fortunes against him. The president threatened to strip his citizenship. Mainstream synagogues slandered him as the spawn of Osama bin Laden and Chairman Mao. But today, Zohran Mamdani became the first socialist mayor of New York City.

For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.

In some cases, the link is direct. Bruce Vladeck, a member of one of Mamdani’s transition committees, is a well-respected expert on Medicare, but for the sake of this article, his credentials matter less than his surname.

Vladeck is the grandson of Baruch Charney Vladeck, a Marxist troublemaker from the Pale of Settlement, a tract of land in the Russian empire where Jews were permitted to live at a time of rampant antisemitic oppression. Baruch showed up in New York after the failed Russian revolution of 1905 with a Cossack’s saber scars all over his face. He later became a socialist alderman and member of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s housing administration. Vladeck was not actually his birth name. It was rather a nom de guerre, adopted when he joined the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist, secular and defiantly anti-Zionist movement whose slogan, “here where we live is our country,” would make an apt tagline for Mamdani’s New York."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USA #NewYork #NYC #Mamdani #AntiZionism

When you think that things like turning off #Bluetooth as a precaution are overkill, security researchers drop a bomb like this. (long, but interesting read)

insinuator.net/2025/12/bluetoo…

#CVE #security #cyberSecurity

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I had to make a decision. If curl estimates time left to transfer a file is 4398046511103 seconds. How do we display that in - 7 bytes?

I decided that if the time exceeds 99,999 years we show it as ">99999y" even though a 63bit epoch *can* hold up to 292 billion years.

7 bytes because I need the entire curl progress meter to fit within 79 bytes.

What's a better thing to do on a Saturday? 😁

github.com/curl/curl/pull/2017…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

When you write 7 or 79 "bytes" do you mean [ASCII] characters or is there some technical limit of storage??

Not meant to nitpick, actually confused. Maybe because I'm not a C programmer but Perl very well knows about byte length and string length🤔

Edit: missed the PR link before posting. The PR makes it all clear. My bad!

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Ich bin auch immer noch total hyped für Gnu Taler. Bargeld ist einfach total unpraktisch, aber die US Zahlungsdienstleister Visa, Mastercard bzw Google und Apple Pay sind aus offensichtlichen Gründen sehr kritisch zu betrachten.

Gnu Taler ist einfach die perfekte Alternative zu beidem. Können wir das bitte in Zukunft auf jedem Chaos Event haben?

#GnuTaler #CCC #39C3

in reply to Daniel Gultsch

@radasbona Also das wäre das realtische deployment wie wir es *jetzt* selber umsetzen können und wie es zB auf den @datenspuren auch schon gemacht wurde.

Unabhängig davon gibt es wohl Pläne der GLS Bank sowas auch Deutschlandweit quasi als PayPal Alternative zu deployen. Sprich du würdest dann bei der GLS Bank diese 'Bons' kaufen und könntest damit dann in online Shops die das Unterstützen damit bezahlen.

Aber im Context von einem Event ist es natürlich umsetzbarer und tatsächlich nützlich.

V0.2.9 of the Natural Voice SAPI Adapter is available with the following fixes:
Voice events are not triggered correctly.
An x86 TtsApplication.exe is incorrectly placed in the ARM64 folder.
github.com/gexgd0419/NaturalVo…

🧵 My sense of justice was triggered by #Palantir corporate gaslighting two Swiss investigative journalists on LinkedIn.

This is something most people won’t even see, but I was angry, so I looked while my kid was still asleep.

Here’s what it looks like when tech bros attack journalists while you and I have too much food over Christmas.

Two Swiss journalists spent a year filing 59 #FOIA requests to document Palantir’s 7-year campaign to sell surveillance software to Swiss authorities (army and health services in particular).

📄: republik.ch/2025/12/09/warum-p…

The Swiss army’s internal report concluded they couldn’t rule out US intelligence accessing data through Palantir systems, despite reassurances.

Their story hit The Guardian, and #UK MPs are now questioning £825M in Palantir contracts.

📄: theguardian.com/technology/202…

The journalists were rejoicing on LinkedIn. It’s a big deal to have your story picked up by mainstream UK media, especially after a year of hard work.

This is where it gets ugly.

in reply to Andreea

#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
UK MPs have raised concerns about the government’s contracts with Palantir after an investigation published in Switzerland highlighted allegations about the suitability and security of its products.

The investigation by the Zurich-based research collective WAV and the Swiss online magazine Republik details Palantir’s efforts, over the course of seven years, to sell its products to Swiss federal agencies.

in reply to Alexa Fontanilla

Palantir is a US company that provides software to integrate and analyse data scattered across different systems, such as in the health service. It also provides artificial intelligence-enabled military targeting systems.

The investigation cites an expert report, internal to the Swiss army, that assessed Palantir’s status as a US company meant there was a possibility sensitive data shared with it could be accessed by the US government and intelligence services.

Калькирование синтаксиса иврита творит чудеса.
В библейском иврите огромное количество предложений начинается с союза «и» (буква Вав), который связывает повествование в единый непрерывный поток. И если это делать намеренно, сразу появляется эпичность.