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Techrights Disconnected From the United States Two Years Ago

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 21, 2025

Recycling Insecurity: We are prone to recycling messages and feelings of insecurity, which is the basis of much needless human pain and suffering. Recognizing the forms these take as criticism of self and others is the first step to distancing ourselves from them.

Elon Musk vs Trump's Son; Certificate for Techrights revoked; When he realises Gemini doesn't have strict enforcement of centralised CAs

Yesterday I saw a foolish new comment which said: "The website is called tech rights but isn’t even secured with HTTPS".

Actually, we support both HTTPS and HTTP (and even more than those two), but people can choose. We don't impose HTTPS on people because HTTPS is an accessibility problem (not limited to access by older devices) and some bloggers explained this point only days/weeks ago. If you altogether shun HTTP, then you give a helluva lot of control to the Oval Office and its loyal facilitators. So please do not do that.

Did people really need to wait for the US government to become this hostile towards the media before recognising the threat? The term "free speech absolutist" is just a slogan of the archetype neo-fascist. Don't be so gullible.

Elon Musk caught following X account posting only Nazi content and soft-core porn

Anyway, our hosting company is now in the EU and the server is in the UK. We've not regretted this move, which goes 1.5 years back.

"Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress," says the host today. It started around 8AM this morning. Pages fetches are still relatively fast and traffic in the past two days was about 60% higher than usual (probably Streisand Effect). Today is also the day my laptop accomplishes 500+ days in uptime - an all-time record for me.

$ uptime
 12:54:36 up 500 days, 19:39, 41 users,  load average: 0.63, 0.65, 0.55

To be very clear, this site has nothing to do with MElon's administration. We left the US in 2023 and 'litigation tourists' have fantasies like the US being in control of Europe. If anything, politically, Europe distances itself even further from the US. Seeing the SLAPP culture, we welcome this transition. Keep the thugs away from us [1, 2]. Free software demands digital sovereignty.

Elon Musk cuddles his pet lap dog Trump: We cannot censor sites by revoking their certificates if they issue their own

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