Use this (if you have an iPhone) or this (if you have an Android) to locate your phone. And do report this to the police.

Moving past the obvious slurs in your comment, those migrants might actually get more of a red carpet treatment - sorry to spoil your vengeful dreams. In part because they are who they are, but also because of the spoken language making it easier to get higher paid jobs, probably at multinational corporations too (English is pretty commonly spoken as a foreign language, so it’s not so well paid and sought as other foreign languages, but if that’s your native language you’re definitely getting an edge over the locals).

Patriots (also called sovreignists here in Romania) will do what they do the best: label them as sexo-marxists invading our country and too snowflake to stay with Trump. But outside those pricks, people here are very open towards migrants.

We have an ongoing collective memory of us taking the road to the West after the fall of communism, along with all the hardships we faced, and the fair treatment of migrants is, from my experience, pretty well promoted publicly (at least so far).

If the far right gets in power in two years from now, which is highly likely given the current political situation, things might take a turn to the worse. But until then, the orchestra is singing on the Titanic.

And as a personal opinion, I think it’s wrong to put all the American migrants in the same pot. I think the people leaving the US behind are exactly those who saw the things coming, who understood what Project 2025 was about and did all they could to prevent this from happening. Throwing them in concentration camps similar to those in El Salvador, degrading them or being xenophobic to them in any way will teach them no lesson and will definitely teach the usual MAGA supporter no lesson, or at least not the lesson you’re looking for. I’m rather pro treating these people well, especially since (despite all the shortcomings), during these whole decades when America was truly free, it represented a safe haven for people looking to escape prosecution in their homeland, especially due to their etnicity or religion. So taking these people as they themselves flee from political prosecution is more of an acknowledgement of the role the free America had on making the world a better place, sometimes even helping make entire countries free and independent from other countries.

@calm_bomb yeah, I added a title to it, so Mastodon treated my post as being an article in itself. Here’s the actual link: edition.cnn.com/travel/central…

You’re welcome. Stay safe!

I think you’re in luck here. You can use XMPP or Matrix as the other person said, and pick from the myriad of different servers to let the authorities play whack-a-mole with them. If you’re picking XMPP, suggest them one of the clients that support OMEMO (it uses the protocol used by Signal too; edit: most apps that support it are modern and in active development). Briar is another good option, since it uses Tor, but you both need to be online in order to receive messages from each other since it uses no servers (unless they and you use something like this on a spare phone).

An option that would likely be a better fit for what you’re looking for, but which I haven’t tried yet is SimpleX.

Whatever you pick, I think it would be a great practice for you to teach them to use a panic button app such as Ripple (not sure if that’s maintained anymore though).

Hmmm, that’s true. Probably OP checked this, but now that you mentioned it, I would do the same 😁

Screw that, they were reading all the foreign mail coming through. And you could still be unable to see if they opened your envelope because they were either carefully opening it and close it back, or simply use another one.

What happens with ordinary email by the way?

I expect it was previously appealing based on the fact that only the vendor had access (of course, now it no longer applies).

Maybe another option is to use one of the private providers that do not track you and are less mainstream than Proton. Let’s say Tuta or Mailbox.org (if they are not blocked already too). Probably encrypt the emails with PGP too for more security.

Tbh I’d probably use snail mail letters for anything private on the theory that the RU govt doesn’t have the resources to open all the envelopes

Hahahaha!

I’m not a Russian, rather Romanian. But I heard stories how all the mail coming from the outside was checked and “vetted for anything suspicious” at the border during communism. Since we and USSR were on the same team I suppose they did the same. And how the way the public institutions work barely changed, nowadays, given the current situation, I expect them to return to that practice.

So yeah, I wouldn’t trust snail mail with anything sensitive.

XMPP is more niche but on the other side more established. It has been used by both Facebook (now Meta), Google and WhatsApp (now part of Meta) to develop their platforms on. Up until recently you could still communicate with someone on Hangouts through an XMPP client, despite only with someone that was also on Hangouts (that was until they pulled the plug on that app). It didn’t support all the features but hey, it was there.

XMPP does have some modern clients too, but indeed, Matrix has been more designed with the 2020s in mind.

Eh, they don’t mind that much, lol. It wasn’t their fault. And it’s been a while since. Now they’re pretty popular too. I’m glad that you enjoy it 😁

It’s a pocket one, and digital.

Oh, I see. Nice. Are you satisfied by how it takes the pictures? 😁

Oooh, I really like this song! It’s really good!

Yeah, I think it’s my favorite English language song from them. Their Romanian songs are even better. They’ve been singing for around 25 years, and they launched 6 studio albums so far. Most of the time they’re also adding a trumpet to the mix, and it sounds really cool. They also got some political-themed songs, and what’s funny is that they managed to get fined by the police for playing live a song against them, with no curses and no calls for violence whatsoever, lol (there were tougher times back then, but still, haha).

Sorry, I just fell asleep after I replied and then my server was down for a while 😁

Well, mostly post-rock/shoegaze and stoner/doom rock/metal; but I’m open to any other rock/metal genre/sub-genre, even to alternative and sometimes to electronic stuff as well.

Just yesterday evening I went to a concert of a band called “Luna Amară” (Bitter Moon). It sounds kinda like this: youtube.com/watch?v=kj7-NfWWJk…

I have a camera but I can’t remember what it is

Is it a DSLR/mirrorless? Or is it something like a small pocket one?

Mostly collecting music on all sorts of formats, mainly vinyl and CD (besides digital). I also like photography (even though I barely had any time as of late). I do have a Canon DSLR that I’m playing around with.

@unknowablenight eh, a bit of the opposite tbh. But still annoying when you don’t manage to keep track of your hangouts properly

@unknowablenight hi there! Don’t think it’s the wrong community 🙂 how are you?

damn…

Or with Lemmy. I view it perfectly fine in Friendica

A while ago, I was arguing with someone (if I’m not mistaken) about how AI is incompatible with politics, law and democracy due to the nature of the whole process involved in writing laws. Now I notice that this is exactly the point. AI’s purpose has never been democracy. Democracy, as Peter Thiel and his followers argued, is an obstacle in the front of tech’s development, in the front of profit, of capital. As such, the logic solution is to get rid of it - and that’s exactly what Trump is doing.

You had me at first half lmao

How else do you want it to reach mass audience? Especially on Apple.

There are a bunch of governmental servers for the countries as well - both France, Germany and the Netherlands have one afaik. But they’re in a similar situation - leaders and politicians prefer their accounts hosted on something else.