Olivier
@olbrew.me
Working with people in software. Passionate about privacy & security in technology.
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...
theonion.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
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Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.
July 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.
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Europe appears to just have given up on doing anything technical. Perhaps we should stop pretending & speed up getting to our eventual destiny of a full time holiday destination for American, Chinese & Russian tourists. And that is the best outcome I can see right now therecord.media/spain-awards...
Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps
Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.
therecord.media
July 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Europe appears to just have given up on doing anything technical. Perhaps we should stop pretending & speed up getting to our eventual destiny of a full time holiday destination for American, Chinese & Russian tourists. And that is the best outcome I can see right now therecord.media/spain-awards...
Gobsmacking read confirming how similar the current US political administration's path is to Hitler's Nazi Germany. It's like they took his whole playbook and are trying to rerun it step for step.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
www.theatlantic.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Gobsmacking read confirming how similar the current US political administration's path is to Hitler's Nazi Germany. It's like they took his whole playbook and are trying to rerun it step for step.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
April 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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boosting because good and we need more good
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
boosting because good and we need more good
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.
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If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph
Referencing what may be the best black comedy ever made
April 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Referencing what may be the best black comedy ever made
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Ok, look people: Signal as a *protocol* is excellent. As a service it’s excellent. But as an application running on your phone, it’s… an application running on your consumer-grade phone. The targeted attacks people use on those devices are well known.
March 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Ok, look people: Signal as a *protocol* is excellent. As a service it’s excellent. But as an application running on your phone, it’s… an application running on your consumer-grade phone. The targeted attacks people use on those devices are well known.
Absoluut noodzakelijk dat dit op onze politieke agenda komt. Typisch Belgie om het pas na Nederland door te hebben, maar beter laat dan nooit.
'Het is waanzin om als land je communicatie in handen te leggen van een buitenlandse organisatie.’
💻 Cyberexpert @berthub.eu waarschuwt in @knack.be voor Amerikaanse clouddiensten
💻 ‘We hebben ons hoofd collectief op een hakblok gelegd’.
💻 Microsoft reageert
www.knack.be/nieuws/techn...
💻 Cyberexpert @berthub.eu waarschuwt in @knack.be voor Amerikaanse clouddiensten
💻 ‘We hebben ons hoofd collectief op een hakblok gelegd’.
💻 Microsoft reageert
www.knack.be/nieuws/techn...
Cyberexpert waarschuwt voor Amerikaanse clouddiensten: ‘We hebben ons hoofd collectief op een hakblok gelegd’
IT-expert Bert Hubert (49), voormalig toezichthouder op de Nederlandse inlichtingendiensten
www.knack.be
March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absoluut noodzakelijk dat dit op onze politieke agenda komt. Typisch Belgie om het pas na Nederland door te hebben, maar beter laat dan nooit.
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Two $62 billion companies find way to generate 0.08% of combined valuation, but it’ll take five years to realize it.
Anthropic and Databricks ink a five-year deal, expected to jointly generate $100M in revenue, by selling AI tools to businesses developing their own AI agents (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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March 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Two $62 billion companies find way to generate 0.08% of combined valuation, but it’ll take five years to realize it.
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The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
March 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
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“Things might be bad for a little while, but we’re okay with that, because we know that in the end these policies will drive markets into a deadly tailspin and push the economy to a point of no return."
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
theonion.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“Things might be bad for a little while, but we’re okay with that, because we know that in the end these policies will drive markets into a deadly tailspin and push the economy to a point of no return."
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
theonion.com/trump-says-r...
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Privacy is echt een afterthought voor deze cowboys.
February 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Privacy is echt een afterthought voor deze cowboys.
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The great thing with Signal is that not only is it more secure and operated by better people, but it's also flat out the better product in terms of usability and aesthetics. Also no weird AI bots, solid desktop version, and great videoconferencing.
Whatsapp, like Facebook, is owned by Zuckerberg's Meta.
Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.
Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.
January 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The great thing with Signal is that not only is it more secure and operated by better people, but it's also flat out the better product in terms of usability and aesthetics. Also no weird AI bots, solid desktop version, and great videoconferencing.
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Yikes. A racist, drunken, sexual predator. "A different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
www.newyorker.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Yikes. A racist, drunken, sexual predator. "A different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀