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They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

La batalla de Menorca va ser tant important que fins i tot té pàgina a la Viquipèdia, i a pobles com Alaior es fan visites guiades pels túnels on s'explica més d'aquesta experiència!

A la resta del territori catalanoparlant mai se'n parla, tot i que va ser un punt estratègic i amb la seva artilleria van parar moltes forces italianes, i agrairia si ho comparteixes a aquesta pàgina, perquè més gent sapi què va passar. Merci! I gràcies per tot el que comparteixes

Molt interessant! Tens raó, no ho coneixia.

me: the concept of "european culture" is an artificial creation by people who wanted to claim they were the inheritors of greeks, who they considered as the pinnacle of culture

In Brazil, the Brazilian Forum of Public Safety between 2015 and 2018 showed that domestic gender-based violence rises 23.7% on the days the League is played. Reports for injuries rise 25.9% when clubs play in their own city, and 30% when the national Brazil team is playing.

In Colombia, the cases of domestic gender-based violence rose by between 38% and 25% when the national team played in both the 2014 Brazil World Cup and the 2018 in Russia. The cases rose by 50% during the 2015 America Cup.

In Mexico, there's a common phrase that says "if my team loses, my family loses" (si pierde mi equipo, pierde mi familia) precisely as a reference to how violence against women and children is normalized when the husband/father is in a bad mood.

Hotel Ritz, Barcelona’s most luxurious hotel, collectivised and turned into a soup kitchen during the Revolutionary Catalonia period.

On the 17th of July 1936, the fascists in the Spanish army started a coup against the democratically-elected Republic government in Melilla (one of the Spanish-controlled cities in the coast of Northern Africa). This coup spread to the Iberian peninsula the next day, July 18th. Catalonia was one of the places with a strongest resistance (together with the Valencian Country and Madrid city), which managed to stop the coup in their homelands thanks to the workers' antifascist organisations (anarchist, pro-Catalan, and communist unions, parties, social centres, and other grassroots organisations).

From the places where the coup had been successful, the fascists kept trying to expand their dictatorial rule through military invasion of everything they considered should be Spain, met with resistance. This is how the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was started.

With the emergencies of war, workers saw the need and opportunity to create an equal society based on the principles of anarchism. Factories and farms were collectivised, luxury hotels and restaurants were turned into shelters and community kitchens, and the mansions of the bourgeoisie and nobility who were fleeing to fascist-controlled areas were shared by working class families. The hope, cheerfulness, and conscience of collaborating with the creation of a better future for all is what explains why people look so happy in the photos taken in the earliest days of the war in Catalonia. Workers excitedly took up arms to go fight against fascism and assist the creation of the future.

The other European countries signed a pact of no intervention, saying that it was an "internal affair" and they would not assist the legitimate democratically-elected government against the army who wanted to impose a fascist dictatorship. Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy violated the pact and strongly helped Franco, trying out new weaponry (specially aerial bombing of civilian villages, towns, and cities) for the first time, techniques which some years later they used against the civilians of those same democratic countries who had refused to help fight fascism, during the Second World War (1939-1945). The only country who gave some help was the USSR, but with nowhere near as much involvement as the fascists. Still, thousands of antifascist volunteers came to join the International Brigades.

The war was very unequal when it comes to the resources, weaponry, and international support of its sides. In the end, the anarchist dream of an equal society with respect and dignity for all came to an end with the fascists' victory in the war, giving way to a nightmare 40-year-long fascist dictatorship that killed, jailed, and tortured the opposition, where speaking leftist ideas set a danger to your life, where speaking our languages (Catalan, Basque, Galician, Aranese, Asturian) was forbidden, where the imposition of Catholicism and women's control was absolute. A regime of terror and psychological control that has left many of our older relatives still unable to speak of parts of their life without breaking down.

We have never recovered from everything that was lost. The lives, the hopes and dreams that were cut short, the children that were stolen by the dictatorship and the Catholic Church, the interiorized self-hatred of national minorities where many have been left to believe we have no place in the modern world and must completely assimilate and abandon our culture for the supposedly superior Spanish one, the workers' organisations' buildings and libraries and budgets that were given to the Church or burned down, the records of our history and language and literature that were purposely destroyed, the trauma always present in the ones who were arrested, tortured, publicly humiliated, even the children beaten by the teachers for being heard speaking their mother tongue. The institutions that are still inheritors of the fascist ones: police, judicial system, the main Spanish political parties, the companies whose owners are as rich and powerful as they are because of their implication with the dictatorship. The way that Spain is, still, a fascist state.

And yet, the memory of the Social Revolution has lived on, same as our language has. Sometimes whispered at home or at clandestine meetings, sometimes shouted in the squares and recklessly at the police at the torture cells. It has inspired people all around the world. Now, with a global rise of the far-right again which has also reached here and many young men turning to it, it is a time to remember what happened, what can be done, and what we cannot ever let happen again.