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"About a year ago Elon Musk tweeted ... that many years ago Wired somehow went from being about technology to being an unreadable far left wing propaganda mouthpiece."

techpolicy.press/part-1-techno

Translation: Wired went from being an propaganda mouthpiece for whatever tech was being produced by corporations and VC-funded startups to doing somewhat uncritical reporting on the political-economic consequences of how that technology.

Today, my list of Digital Services Providers, outside US Jurisdiction, was featured in Wired Magazine.

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat

Hello, Wired. Thanks for helping bring knowledge and information to the people.

cc:
@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de This includes you too, by the way.

#Wired #WiredMagazine #UsJurisdiction #Foss #OpenSource #Development

WIRED · How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want ToBy Violet Blue

These seem really cool, and I've read that they feel like you're actually writing on paper. I have a convertible laptop and I've found that writing on it is difficult because there's no friction between the stylus and the screen.

For me, the deal breaker on the #Remarkable2 is that you can't search on the device (or the cloud) for what you've written. That doesn't make it any better than a big notebook.

Article on #Wired :

wired.com/review/remarkable-2/
#technology #gadgets #tablet #writing #notes

WIREDThis E Ink Tablet Takes Great Notes, but Its Tech Falls ShortScribbling handwritten notes on the reMarkable 2 feels just like using a pen and a pad of paper. But that's really all it does well.

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Ok, this is scary.

Went to pull up the article below, but
#Wired said I've already read the maximum number of articles I can read.

So then I open up
https://www.removepaywall.com and paste in the URL for this article.

And I immediately get redirected to
#RT (#RussiaToday) / https://rurtnews.com!

Would love it if someone else can confirm my findings here.

#security #privacy

RE:
https://infosec.exchange/users/nono2357/statuses/114236340733451801

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Via #WIRED @ 8:18pm ET on Mar 24, 2025

SCOOP:

Shortly after senior #Trump officials discussed the bombing of #Yemen in a #Signal group chat that just happened to include #TheAtlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join.

#Houthi #Hegseth #DNI #NSC

wired.com/story/trump-official

WIRED · Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating BombingBy Leah Feiger