sure.

Remind me again the last time Canada invaded/attacked another country??

Sure. In the last couple of decades the Canadian Armed Forces have actively participated in the US’s attacks in (at least) Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Nigeria, and Yemen.

They also have troops stationed in many other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_military_operations

some kind of driver problem?

no, i think it is real and the person who made this report just assumed that it wasn’t.

my cross-post of it includes additional information i found while looking in to it.

🤔

the driver’s name is Han Junjia. here is an interview with him: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202012/28/WS5fe93034a31024ad0ba9ed9b.html

there are more photos of him in other trains here: http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/1205/c90000-9525433.html

see also the hexbear thread about this

It’s been 20 years since Microsoft cryptographer Niels Ferguson said “Over my dead body” about a BitLocker backdoor. But the very next line of that blog post was “Well, maybe not literally—I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet—but certainly not in any product I work on” and he doesn’t work there anymore 🤔

(Ferguson was also one of the cryptographers who pointed out the backdoor-enabling design of NIST’s Dual_EC_DRBG in 2007, six years before the Snowden disclosures confirmed that NIST did indeed backdoor it on behalf of the NSA.)

about their MDASH copilot model

that’s satire, right?

Ubique Media Daemon

Wat

but why should/would they give up any uranium, especially after the US has just demonstrated that they can’t actually take it from them?

see also https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/10/768371/how-iran-uses-nuclear-tech-prevent-metabolic-dosorders-newborns

some more coverage of this:

• https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/baftas-gaza-doctors-under-attack-speech-b2973944.html
• https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/11/768412/‘We-refuse-to-be-silenced’--Gaza-doctors-documentary-team-denounces-BBC-After-BAFTA-win
• excerpt of the acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq90Tzwmpxo

Okay it’s not fake-fake, just so awful you need a PhD in Chinese Language to understand it

You may enjoy fireflychinese.com: Translating the Chinese in Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity. With video clips of each scene, notes on word usage, and in-depth (over)analysis of Malcolm Reynolds’s heroic quest to butcher the Chinese language—one curse at a time.

see also https://gamerant.com/firefly-most-common-mandarin-phrases-translation-meaning/

amazing! it’s great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.

Yep, Fastly the CDN company (doing HTTPS mitm-as-a-service for millions of websites) which Apple also uses (along with CloudFlare) for their similar iCloud Private Relay feature.

Unlike Apple though, Firefox’s new “built-in VPN” does not claim (falsely) to use different providers for ingress and egress.

iiuc Firefox uses Mullvad for original paid VPN service but their new freemium one is through Fastly (?)

you could try renaming sideloading to “freedomloading” or maybe “freeloading”

freeloading is already a verb in english, and not the one you’re looking for