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PoTayToes

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  • Switzerland freezes assets linked to Venezuela's Maduro after US arrest

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  • Because Maduro wasn't sanctioned by a body that Switzerland recognizes as binding.

    However now that he's fallen, they are freezing his money to give it back to the country when it asks for it.

  • Switzerland freezes assets linked to Venezuela's Maduro after US arrest

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  • You (and everyone upvoting) have no idea what Switzerland neutrality means. It's not like you could just read up an official Swiss government document about it (PDF warning)

    This is standard procedure, freezing the assets of toppled dictators so that the country can get them back. This is to help the Venezuelan people. Here, other examples of similar cases.

    Ever since the Marcos (Philippines) affair in 1986, the list of illicit potentate funds that have been seized in Swiss banks and later returned to the country has steadily grown to include Montesinos (Peru), Mobutu (former Zaire), Dos Santos (Angola), Abacha (Nigeria), Kazakhstan, Salinas (Mexico), Duvalier (Haiti), Ben Ali (Tunisia), and Mubarak (Egypt).

    https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/illicit-assets_switzerland-has-impressive-results-for-return-of-dictator-funds/42707888

    Edit: amazing, four people below proving my point.

  • I just wanted to compare FOSS Linux budgeting software

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  • Fighting AI with AI... Everyone lose, especially the planet :')

  • Are private email providers worth it?

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  • Their CEO did fuck up with that, so for me they are on thin ice, but I haven't seen anything else problematic since then.

  • “If a colonel couldn’t do anything, what could I do?”: A Belarusian border guard’s confession on how Belarus and Russia deliberately sparked a refugees crisis in Europe

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  • In 2024 alone, 17,000 people entered the EU illegally through Belarus — three times more than in the year before.

    I assume. But that's only a fraction of the total amount of migrants and refugees...

  • Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

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  • Digitalisation is a pretty large investment, and libraries typically have pretty tight budgets, so outside of governmental (or philantropic) intervention I assume it might happen very slowly or not at all. Old books are very fragile, so any intervention must be done very carefully.

    And outside of that... while the contents can be saved with digitalisation, there is value in the object itself, and that's what they are trying to protect. They won't just abandon the items they protected for centuries because the text has been moved to another format.

  • Samsung’s ‘Aura’: Israeli Spyware in Your Pocket

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  • You're right, it doesn't. What I'm saying is that is not a good argument to say it's "high-tech spyware" because run-of-the-mill data-stealing crap does the same thing.

  • Samsung’s ‘Aura’: Israeli Spyware in Your Pocket

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  • While it's true that people should be wary of such apps (just being a data thief is enough for it to be bad), and there's a decent chance that is indeed is spyware..

    Even those who manage to disable the app find it reappears automatically, confirming its nature as high-tech spyware.

    Isn't this actually common behaviour in the usual bloatware crap that gets installed?

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  • Thank you, this will take some time to go through haha. I'll come back at you if I get the chance.

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  • We have a mountain of evidence, that small hospitals are providing far worse outcomes, even if you factor in transport times to larger facilities.

    Do you per chance have interesting sources you recommend? I feel this must very much depend on the distance.

  • Disorder breaks out in Northern Ireland for third straight night

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  • Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod

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  • Oh boy, to discover OOTS all over again. Enjoy the ride!

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  • That's the worse part. They are already paid well, they're just greedy assholes.

    Actually the worse is that we keep getting them elected and letting them get away with it probably.

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  • Did you have higher expectations of western politicians or think those were non-western rates?

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  • What do you mean, finally? Even 5e, the edition with the smallest amount of lore so far, has some.

    Previous editions had a lot. The Forgotten Realms wiki is a pretty good place to go read through. And there's other settings too, even if they have less content. Greyhawk, Eberron, to only name those I have in my library.

  • When you're a completionist gamer.

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  • Kawaii Konsi??

  • Nubo as a Proton Replacement?

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  • It's obviously not impossible, but you'll find people calling every single private messaging platform honeypots. I don't recall seeing any convincing proof for Tuta, personally.