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www.thejournal.ie US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications

The move has been heavily criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin who described it as “excessive”.

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications

This is in an Irish online news publication this evening.

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Have I any options with Huawei P20 Pro/P30 Pro?
  • Thanks, that looks good. It should work with the p20 pro, right? Maybe with a different WiFi chip, I'll look into it a bit more, but lineage and postmarketos being an option are way better than I was expecting 😀. Glad I asked now.

  • Have I any options with Huawei P20 Pro/P30 Pro?

    I have access to two phones that are no longer being used, a Huawei P20 Pro and a P30 Pro. Through a link on the PotatoNV git page I saw HCUClient which I believe makes it possible to unlock these phones and unlock the bootloader if I buy the software for €19 for 72 hours.

    If I unlock the bootloaders, are there any privacy oriented ROMs available for them, or any options at all?

    When I search, it seems that because of the bootloaders being locked, nobody had worked on anything, although some posts in random corners of the internet say that there are a couple of options, but without confirming anything.

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    WhatsApp won’t roll out ads in EU until 2026
  • Meta said in the announcement that the new features are built “in the most privacy-oriented way possible,” and has emphasized that sharing of data between WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook will only happen when users have opted in to having their accounts linked.

    So, not private at all.. "most privacy-oriented way" - The same way that users need to activate "advanced chat privacy" manually on every single chat while they roll out and embed their bug ridden AI.

  • Europe needs digital sovereignty - and Microsoft has just proven why.
    tuta.com Europe needs digital sovereignty - and Microsoft has just proven why. | Tuta

    Call to action: Businesses already offer great European alternatives for digital sovereignty, authorities must start adopting them now!

    Europe needs digital sovereignty - and Microsoft has just proven why. | Tuta

    A quiet but deeply unsettling moment just shook the foundations of international justice, proving why Europe needs digital sovereignty - and most Europeans not too interested in tech likely missed it: The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a court based in The Hague and central to Europe’s upholding of human rights, suddenly found that his email account was shut down. The service provider? Microsoft. The reason? Mr. Trump.....

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    How people react when you try to speak their language
  • Bwahhaaha hahaha yeah you do, you fucking clown. So you are just pretending to be obtuse?

    Yet you are arguing against yourself by using the same point I made initially. Fucking literally a genius.. Derp..

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • Jaysus. If I have to explain to you how stats work there's "literally" no hope for you. 🙄

    The official native language would be chosen by the majority as the official language, as per 2022 and 2016. Especially in the context of the visual used for this thread Your reply was nonsense crap, then You made the point that I had already made in my first post.

    At a guess, it would be the same as any person when a randomer walked up to them and started talking. However if they were to approach them and talk without any proper identity and start putting on a shitty accent, repeating things over to make the same point and saying things like "literally" to attempt to make a point, I guess they would see them as the simpleton they are and either give them a lollipop and a pat on the head, or walk away.

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • Asking somebody 'what percent would they put it at', is not how stats work.

    Irish is the native language. Majority of Ireland would agree that Irish is the language of Ireland, no matter.

    Also, your reply there is making the same point I made in the op. So now you are just posting shit for the sake of it.

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • What are you shiting on about, what% would I put it at? I'm pretty sure that's not how stats work. According to the official figures from the census in 2022..

    • Almost 1.9 million people (aged three years and over) stated they could speak Irish, an increase of more than 112,500 people since Census 2016 (+6%).

    Your last paragraph is a question that hasn't been asked. It's not relevant to this thread. Nobody asked about a minority language. While you and some others may dispute the existence or relevance of the Irish language, that is Irrelevant.

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • Yeah, keep coming with the bullshit. Okay hyperbole it is.

    But history isn't really relevant? 🤔🙄 I've read some twats in my time, but that...

    Your last paragraph would be a different thread. Fuck off and make that one if it makes you happy, but it's not the same as the OP.

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • It makes perfect sense, in fact more sense to use the native language that is still used, in a visual like this. Nobody raging about colonialism here, but some cunts are very easy to see when they try to dispute any native culture. Especially when it's for no other reason but to be a cunt. A stupid one at that. "Literally nobody speaks it" literally.. Yeah.. 🙄

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • Nobody said otherwise. The Irish language is the language of Ireland. As mentioned, only a certain creed would dispute that. Also as mentioned, it is used and dominant due to coercion. Of course history is relevant.

    It's Irrelevant how much you think people may remember what they learned.

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • It doesn't change that Irish is still our language. English is the language that we use due to coercion. The petty remark was in relation to the amount of people who "claim" to speak some of it. Considering it was compulsory in schools until fairly recently, I wouldn't find that unbelievable.

  • How people react when you try to speak their language
  • The map says "how people react when you try to speak their language" Irish is the native language of Ireland. No matter how many people try to say otherwise even with the petty "people claim to speak it"

    The Irish language is also in the middle of big revival after the British had criminalised it for centuries and tried to kill it. The fact that it still survives is a testament to the people. It is still considered Irelands language, and I know only a handful of a people of a certain creed that would say otherwise or try to dispute it, and they wouldn't be considered Irish imho.

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    Are there any good European crypto wallets? Hardware or otherwise. On Android or desktop or alternatives to Trezor or Ledger? I don't have a lot (€590 btc and €400 eth).

    Looking to build on them and for secure storage. Thanks.

    EDIT. Sorry, I also meant to add that I'm looking for a wallet with multichain support, so that for example I could convert my bitcoin to USDT or another stablecoin without having to go back an exchange.

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