cypherpunks

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cross-posting my comment from another thread:

Nice, 🍻 to the people who made this happen.

I couldn't make it through that interview with the former Google employee, though. A few minor fact checks from before I stopped reading:

I don’t know if you know this, Mike, but the word “boycott” was actually coined in Ireland. Boycott was an individual, an Irish person, and that person actually got boycotted.

Almost correct, except the part about Charles Boycott being an Irish person. (He was unsurprisingly actually English.)

I worked for Google. I worked for Google at a time when… I don’t think they were as evil as they are now. And I worked for Google at a time when they did not use their technology for warfare or for governments. I really enjoyed my time at Google. And I am personally heartbroken at the path that they have taken, and I fully support the boycott of Google in order to support the Palestinian people.

I wonder when it was that this person thinks Google "did not use their technology for warfare or for governments". I guess they probably think Google only turned evil in 2018, when Project Maven started getting more press? Anyway, such a time never existed; the project which became Google was created by and for US intelligence. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

And it’s sickening to think that an organization like Anthropic can come in here, be given tax breaks, being given great publicity, and yet go on to commit the murder of over 160 schoolgirls in Minab, in Iran, but the Irish government says, “Welcome, Anthropic.”

Fuck Anthropic for (among other things) their Department of War contracts, but them taking the blame for the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School massacre is some bullshit: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

I’m pretty sure f91w is not wasting money

An F-91W can actually cost millions of dollars per year

how?

https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/the-cost-of-guantanamo

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/al-qaida-s-watch-of-choice-wearing-a-casio-enough-to-become-terror-suspect-a-758913.html

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Check out the molotov ribbentrop pact

via this comment (which, if your request above for a serious rebuttal is sincere, you should read)

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

red alert klaxons, or something else from a star trek sound bank like this

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

i just imagined that, thank you for the suggestion

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

so hopefully there will be some local opposition present.

update: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/ ✨

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Nice, 🍻 to the people who made this happen.

I couldn't make it through that interview with the former Google employee, though. A few minor fact checks from before I stopped reading:

I don’t know if you know this, Mike, but the word “boycott” was actually coined in Ireland. Boycott was an individual, an Irish person, and that person actually got boycotted.

Almost correct, except the part about Charles Boycott being an Irish person. (He was unsurprisingly actually English.)

I worked for Google. I worked for Google at a time when… I don’t think they were as evil as they are now. And I worked for Google at a time when they did not use their technology for warfare or for governments. I really enjoyed my time at Google. And I am personally heartbroken at the path that they have taken, and I fully support the boycott of Google in order to support the Palestinian people.

I wonder when it was that this person thinks Google "did not use their technology for warfare or for governments". I guess they probably think Google only turned evil in 2018, when Project Maven started getting more press? Anyway, such a time never existed; the project which became Google was created by and for US intelligence. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

And it’s sickening to think that an organization like Anthropic can come in here, be given tax breaks, being given great publicity, and yet go on to commit the murder of over 160 schoolgirls in Minab, in Iran, but the Irish government says, “Welcome, Anthropic.”

Fuck Anthropic for (among other things) their Department of War contracts, but them taking the blame for the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School massacre is some bullshit: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

higher res here

spoiler

It's Once Upon a Time in China IV, the first of two in the series which starred Vincent Zhao instead of Jet Li.

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 2w ago

AUR is bad, actually

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 3w ago

this post currently has no link, i guess https://github.com/514-labs/dnsglobe is what it was supposed to link to?

shiny:

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 3w ago

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Their certificate was revoked (by their certificate authority, Actalis, part of the Aruba Group) on July 6. Presumably the CA was pressured to revoke it by the Italian and/or US government, and they will get a new certificate from someone else soon.

There is a hexbear thread here about it; afaict there doesn't appear to yet be any reporting about it. But in the CRL you can see it was revoked July 6:

    
$ curl -s http://crl15.actalis.it/Repository/tls-subca-rsa-dv-2025/getLastCRL | openssl crl -noout -text |grep -A 4 02295E6BB25717C4652321F4ED9D2B29
    Serial Number: 02295E6BB25717C4652321F4ED9D2B29
        Revocation Date: Jul  6 13:54:09 2026 GMT
        CRL entry extensions:
            X509v3 CRL Reason Code: 
                Privilege Withdrawn

The reason "Privilege Withdrawn" means it was the CA's decision rather than their own.

Because certificate revocation has never worked very well, many people can still access it (until their browser fetches the certificate revocation list, or checks OCSP, does some newfangled proprietary other thing i don't understand...).

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 4w ago

update: it is now working for me in tor browser again (it had stopped when i posted my previous comment; i've since relaunched it), but is revoked in another browser.

and yes they are seeing the same certificate (serial number 02:29:5E:6B:B2:57:17:C4:65:23:21:F4:ED:9D:2B:29, same as OP, with sha256 fingerprint D6:63:CA:4B:6A:48:54:D2:24:2B:E8:63:D7:37:CC:68:1B:B9:61:1A:86:81:55:F2:86:87:A9:DA:67:8A:4C:9A)

in that thread i posted (post-revocation) linking to a story on www.presstv.ir there are lots of comments and nobody there has mentioned it being revoked.

conclusions: (1) their CA definitely revoked their cert, (2) the revocation is not being evenly distributed.

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Weird. I saw this post and went to https://www.presstv.ir/ and it loaded fine; i read some things and made this post. Then i clicked another link and then i got the revocation error. Maybe my browser hadn't checked the revocation list yet when it was working? 🤔