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  • Mark Carney says he's begun the process of renouncing Irish, U.K. citizenship

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  • It's still the same thing as birthright citizenship. He has Canadian citizenship because his mother is Canadian.

    An online petition calling on the Canadian government to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship is on track to become one of the most popular in the history of the House of Commons.

    There's just one problem — Canada can't revoke Musk's citizenship.

    Immigration lawyer Gabriela Ramo says that under Canadian law, someone's citizenship can only be revoked if it can be proven that they committed fraud or misrepresentation to obtain it.

    "Before they could move to do this, they would need to introduce legislation, there would have to be amendments to the current Citizenship Act," said Ramo, former chair of the Canadian Bar Association's immigration section. "There's no provision that would allow them to pursue revocation of citizenship of a Canadian birth, by virtue of his birth to a Canadian mother."

  • Zelensky ordered to leave White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office clash with Trump

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  • Yes, I would want a source saying that Ukraine chose to cancel the other events and leave the White House.

    But it seems like you misinterpreted the article to mean they were ordered to leave on-camera. It happened well after the media availability.

  • Zelensky ordered to leave White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office clash with Trump

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  • I haven't seen that reported anywhere. Source?

  • New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla

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  • My original claim was that, in addition to gedaliyah's points, the TOS gives them permission to perform basic browser tasks. My last comment was about the same thing. The TOS is relevant because 1) it's the basis of this entire discussion and 2) the changes in the TOS conclusively prove my original claim.

    As to "data collection" in this context, those words do not appear in the TOS and are not rights Mozilla is asserting for use of their software. It's a fiction you invented. That was the point of me pointing out the use of the word "use" -- describing that term and distinguishing its meaning from the thing you made up.

  • New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla

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  • Maximum wrongness on your part.

    This is the original text that everyone flipped out about (OP: "WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA TO MAKE FIREFOX WORK???"):

    When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

    It has since been changed to:

    You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

    Use. When you input a url, that information is used to resolve an IP then fetch a webpage. You're granting a right to complete tasks you assign using information you input. They have permission to send your post content to a server, but they don't own that content. This should be very obvious in the revised text.

  • Ukrainians Blindsided by Deal’s Breakdown and by Trump’s Actions

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  • Bitchin' bonus quote:

    “It will be hard, but we will survive,” said Iryna Tsilyk, 42, a poet and film director in the capital, Kyiv, whose husband serves in the army. “Today, I was not ashamed of my president and my country. I am not sure that the Americans can say the same.”

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  • I suspect the whole thing was premeditated, so it wouldn't have mattered. Does the VP normally interrupt the president when talking to other world leaders? Zelensky smiling and tacitly agreeing to Putin's narrative was never going to happen. I also can't imagine any European leader going to the White House and saying, "Yes, we've treated you very unfairly. The European Union was just a conspiracy to screw over America and we're very sorry, Dear Leader..."

  • What exactly is the Fediverse?

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  • Wasn't the Twitter "bridge" just bot accounts though? It's a bit different with Bluesky because they've said that they completely support bridges between AT and AP but just don't have the resources to work on them themselves. Anyway, ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou gave an interview yesterday where he included Bluesky as part of the Fediverse because of the bridge.

    Personally, I consider them to be both part of and not part of the Fediverse, I guess. I wouldn't send someone there and I also kind of think they're a bunch of dicks for re-inventing the wheel instead of contributing improvements here.

  • ‘The insolent pig finally got a proper slap’: Russia celebrates Trump’s Zelenskyy takedown

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  • Thanks! Yeah, people are downvoting because the Russians are scumfucks. But being able to say "look how ecstatic the Russians are" is more powerful than saying "I bet the Russians are ecstatic." It's important to know even if it's a massive contribution to my current rage spiral.

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    Vance and Trump attacking Zelenskyy in the Oval Office

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  • Paraphrasing:

    Vance: Before now, no one's tried to diplomacy to end this war and we're going to do that.

    Zelensky: We've tried diplomacy over and over and Putin has repeatedly broken those agreements. What diplomacy are you talking about?

    Vance: I think it's disrespectful for you to come here and try to litigate this in front of the American media. 🤡

    ~~Vance is such a fucking clown.

  • Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting

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  • To be fair, he would've also deserved it for slapping that geriatric blowhard to the floor.

  • What exactly is the Fediverse?

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  • I think that ATP and nostr are sometimes included as part of the Fediverse because they both have bridges that allow connection. Without the bridges they're isolated.

  • Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting

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  • New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla

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  • Even writing a post, you're entering data through Firefox into the post box. We just don't consider that data. It would be pretty quiet around here if you couldn't do that...

  • 'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'

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  • The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his "terms" to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn't save him.

  • Measles is making a comeback in Canada. What’s driving the surge?

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  • I heard it was dummies. Is it dummies?

  • Utah poised to become the first state to ban fluoride from water systems

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  • An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

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  • Is that true of these Mennonites in West Texas? Mennonites are a pretty diverse group. I had a friend who was Mennonite and his parents were biker metalheads. He was a straightedge, vegan hardcore guy. You'd never confuse them for Amish.

  • Pixelfed ebbing

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  • new users haven't been checking it out as much -- a month ago this was driven by external events (mostly Zuck turning pro-Trump, I think.)

    A lot of users came over from TikTok too. There was a more organized TikTok campaign to get people to move to Pixelfed. Plus the ban and removal from stores gave people a bigger push to move.