Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You spread misinformation, gardylou@lemmy.world. Anyone who cares to do so can verify the info I give below.

Snowden stated from the start that he originally intended to go from Hong Kong to Ecuador, who had promised him asylum. He intentionally gave away all copies of his data, destroying his own, to the journalists who had met him in Hong Kong to evaluate his leaks (verify sources before believing those who claim 'he leaked info to Russia'). He fully intended to be 'clean' if he were interdicted on his way out of Hong Kong.

The US illegally (violating international law! It is illegal for a nation to render their own citizen stateless while abroad) revoked his US passport as he flew to Russia, which he meant to be a temporary stop only to obtain passage on a flight to Ecuador as Ecuadorian officials were to be there in order to receive him.

The President of Ecuador's own Presidential Plane, with the Ecuadorian President onboard was forcibly grounded over EU airspace, by fighter jets, at the USA's behest, on suspicioun that Snowden might be aboard. Snowden was trapped in a Russian airport, against his will, with no valid passport, essentially rendered Stateless -- again, a violation of international law perpetrated by the USA against one of its own citizens.

Imagine the USA's response if Airforce One were forcibly grounded to a foreign airport, by foreign fighter-jets, at the behest of another country.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's old is new again: "The Mechanical Turk".

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Nice. Is anyone working on bringing back console scrolling history? Last time I checked (admittedly long ago) there was something about it being insecure so the feature was dropped.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Individual does this -- CFPA indictment instantly.

MegaCorp does this -- Oh dear, we absolutely must meet to plan to implement a meeting to form a panel that will plan to meet to maybe ask nicely that MegaCorp stop what they're doing (or pay us lots of lobbying funds to make it go away, which it will do anyhow, just not quite as quietly as if they pay us $$$)

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I guess I'll end up doing that. I managed to get some other old games going under various versions of Proton or vanilla Wine but Myth seems really finicky. WinXP VM it is, I guess!

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now do Myth:TFL please! (And Soulblighter) These are painful to even barely get working on modern machines.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simple, cut the cables on one, if the crane malfunctions, ask supplier why?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I know this might sound naive, buy why don't more whistleblowers get "all their ducks in a row" before coming out by recording absolutely everything and mailing it out in triplicate to random (or carefully chosen) third parties with some sort pf deadman switch? And announcing they've done so only after it's all in place? If one knows one's life might be at risk, make sure the bastards are exposed, no matter what happens.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,

Thy micturations are to me

As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I have used Krita to edit 1-2 page PDFs, but it's clunky as each page is its own layer. If you're looking for something that lets you add notes to an entire book or something... probably not useful.

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