True, but it still gives the Malian government an ultimate authority over the domain, which just seems completely dumb to me. The also-semi-failed Libya has ultimate authority over ly domains (like bit.ly) and has actually used its power to shut down domains for being against Libyan law. Domain hacks are not just ugly, they’re dumb.

Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.

Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.

You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.

Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.

This seems to be missing Mali, the home of .ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate.

Just don’t tell 'em all that or they’ll never come.

Dans un univers médiatique régi par l’amnésie et les indulgences croisées, où une condamnation pénale n’a généralement aucune conséquence sur un harmonieux déroulement de carrière

C’est pire, aujourd’hui ça fait avancer la carrière ! Polémique pour rien.

if you’re not sure, try to use a VPN and HTTPS everywhere and use firewall to lock down all your exposed ports

If beginners are reading, don’t panic. This advice should be taken with a grain of salt. I remember being a beginner and getting this kind of advice and how it caused me a whole of lot of completely unnecessary anxiety.

VPN: all but unnecessary for security purposes (it’s useful for geo spoofing). If you really don’t trust your wifi, then start by manually setting your DNS (to 1.1.1.1 or whatever) as others have said.

HTTPS everywhere: sure, and this is now the default in your browser.

Firewall: totally unnecessary to fiddle with this on a home PC. It will be hard-set in your router anyway, there’s nothing to worry about.

Examples? Would have thought that this would apply more to the FDP. The SPD has zero incentive to roll over, given the ideological difference and the need to keep its identity intact for the next election.

Trying very hard not to come to the conclusion that if you waste 2000 bucks on a connected bed, you have only yourself to blame.

Seriously. Unlike dumb TVs, dumb beds are not going away. Buy one for 400 bucks and donate the remainder of your bed-buying fortune. Your body won’t notice and €1600 can do a lot of good.